Southern African Journal of Gerontology, volume 3, number 1, April 1994
- Authors: Ferreira, Monica (editor) , Møller, Valerie (editor) , HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: Gerontology -- South Africa , Older people -- Care -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:8068 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012860
- Description: A typical case, culled from the author's own experience in the Third World, points towards a major crisis in ageing in the near future for many developing countries. Whilst the increase in numbers of elderly, both gross and proportionate, is well-known, it is not so widely realised that the increase in developing countries will far outstrip that in industrialized nations. Although the elderly were historically cared for within the traditional extended family structure, that system is now breaking down before the advance of migration and easy divorce. Many elderly persons are left alone in depopulated communities. Others fail to adapt in the rural-to-urban transition. Most developing countries have no firmly established services for the elderly. However, as awareness of the impending crisis increases, community groups assist the elderly in developing their own initiatives to avoid the local effects of the crisis.
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- Date Issued: 1994
The selection and use of natural and synthetic membranes for in vitro diffusion experiments
- Authors: Haigh, John M , Smith, Eric W
- Date: 1994
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6379 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006297
- Description: The following membranes are discussed: human skin; animal models (including mouse, hairless mouse, rat, guinea pig, rabbit, monkey, pig, shed snake skin, egg-shell membrane, and synthetic stratum corneum); and synthetic membranes (including cellulose media, filter membranes, and synthetic polymers). Membrane integrity and diffusive characteristics are also considered.
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- Date Issued: 1994
Scientific and common names of southern African freshwater fishes
- Authors: Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey) , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1993-11
- Subjects: Freshwater fishes -- Africa, Southern -- Nomenclature , Freshwater fishes -- Africa, Southern -- Nomenclature (Popular) , Fishes -- Africa, Southern -- Nomenclature , Fishes -- Africa, Southern -- Nomenclature (Popular)
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70946 , vital:29765 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 56 , A list of the scientific and recommended English and Afrikaans common names of fishes found in freshwater habitats of southern Africa is presented. Notes explaining the additions and changes made to the list of Jackson (1975) are provided. The list includes 259 species of which 201 (78%) are indigenous primary and secondary freshwater fishes, 34 (13%) are of marine origin and 4 (2%) are diadromous. Twenty alien species (8%) are also included. The number of species has increased by 47 (22%). Of these 47 species, 32 are strictly freshwater fishes and 15 are marine species. Two new alien species are added to the list.
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- Date Issued: 1993-11
Transport and General Workers Union: bi-annual congress 24-26 May 1991, Johannesburg: progress report Dec 1989-May 1991
- Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
- Date: 1991-05-24/26
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: eng
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103294 , vital:32230
- Description: We have entered the period of the 90's in our poitical, economic and social lives. We are facing the challenge of transfer of power into the hands of the people. The working class is part of the challenge that everyone will have to meet which is striving for a National Democratic Revolution. The working class must also shape political content by advancing its own class perspective through waging class struggle. TGWU is part of the broader liberation forces in South Africa. The political and economic crisis which we face challenges us to develop strategies with more determination and commitment than ever. In order to achieve what we stand for, it becomes an urgent necessity to look at ourselves openly and honestly and assess what we have done and achieved in the last sixteen months.
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- Date Issued: 1991-05-24/26
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1990
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8124 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005707
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Friday, 6 April 1990 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 7 April 1990 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday; 12 May 1990 at 11.30 a.m. in the Guild Theatre.
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- Date Issued: 1990
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1989
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1989
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8123 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005706
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Friday, 7 April 1989 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 8 April 1989 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday; 13 May 1989 at 11.30 a.m. in the Guild Theatre.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Politics and communication in the Ciskei, an African Homeland in South Africa
- Authors: Switzer, Les
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Mass media -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Ciskei Communication -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Ciskei Ciskei (South Africa) -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2724 , vital:20320 , ISBN 094998096X
- Description: The Ciskei was gradually ‘consolidated’ by a process of geo-political gerrymandering that included the incorporation of black dormitory townships dependent on ‘white’ cities outside the homeland for survival. By 1973, the Ciskei homeland’s de facto population was estimated at 602 000.4 Since then, the overcrowded rural population has been forced to absorb thousands of refugees removed from South Africa’s ‘white’ areas — including several ‘black spots’ now outside the boundaries of the homeland — and migrants from two districts (Herschel and Glen Grey) formerly in the Ciskei which were ceded by the South African government to Transkei. Any attempt at measuring the extent to which communication affects the political credibility of the present Ciskei homeland in the eyes of its inhabitants must be weighed against these historical realities. This monograph is divided into three parts: 1. An outline of the political system in the Ciskei. 2. The role of the mass media in determining attitudes towards homeland news. 3. Some observations on the status accorded oral channels of communication in the transmission and validation of political news in selected rural and urban areas of the Ciskei. In obtaining data for this study, five surveys were conducted in two rural villages, the biggest urban area in the Ciskei and the Ciskei Legislative Assembly. The villages of Gobozana (or Xengxe) and Nyaniso formed the basis of the rural surveys conducted in April — June 1976. Fifty heads of homesteads in each village, in a universe of about 500 homesteads, were selected at random. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1979
Constitution of COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154382 , vital:39693
- Description: We the Trade Union representatives here present firmly commit ourselves to a unified democratic South Africa, free of oppression and economic exploitation. We believe that this can only be achieved under the leadership of a united working class. Our history has taught us that to achieve this goal we will have to carry out the following tasks: To organise the unorganised workers and build effective trade unions based on the democratic organisation of workers in the factories, mines, shops, farms and other workplaces. Organise national industrial trade unions, financed and controlled by their worker members through democratically elected committees.
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Imperialism. Profit, Plunder and Poverty.
- Subjects: Imperialism
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33928 , vital:33130 , Bulk File 7
- Description: This is one of many individual publications put out by the New Unity Movement.
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