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Payment of taxes, refunds and SARS’ collection powers

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131264 , vital:36547 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: The Tax Administration Act and the various tax Acts administered by the Commissioner contain specific provisions dealing with the payment and recovery of tax, which are explained in this chapter.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

New Unity Movement Bulletin

Adventures with abalone : aquaculture, poaching, and fishery restoration

  • Authors: Britz, Peter Jacobus, 1959-
  • Date: 2011
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:583 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018943
  • Description: [From the text] Tonight I am going to tell you about my research on a another mollusc, the humble abalone. - In contrast with the highly evolved squid, this marine snail belonging to the ancient archeogastrod lineage which has a much simpler anatomy and lifestyle. It doesn’t posses a proper brain mass, only having 4 ganglia or nerves knots at the front end. Its two simple eye spots which detect light and dark, a tough shell and a large and extremely powerful foot muscle to adhere to rocks. This simple configuration has served well for over 100 million years.
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  • Date Issued: 2011

New Unity Movement Bulletinb

Towards a definition of SUBJECT in binding domains and subject-oriented anaphora

  • Authors: de Vos, Mark
  • Date: 2007
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6141 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011593
  • Description: The question of subjecthood has dogged linguistic science since ancient times. However, in current versions of Minimalism, subjects do not have primitive status and can only be defined in derived terms. However, subjects and the broader theoretical notion of SUBJECT remain important in linguistic description. This paper develops a definition of subjecthood in terms of set-theoretic notions of functional dependency: when a feature, say phi, determines the value of some other feature, say u-phi. This notion is used to describe various phenomena where subjecthood has been invoked: binding domains and subject-oriented anaphors.
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  • Date Issued: 2007

'n Evalueering van die implementering van die graad 9 natuurwetenskapkurrikulum in skole in die Noord-Kaap Provinsie

  • Authors: Van Schalkwyk, Daniël Jacobus
  • Date: 2006
  • Subjects: Curriculum evaluation -- South Africa -- Northern Cape , Biology -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa -- Northern Cape
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:9577 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019685
  • Description: Curriculum 2005 was originally implemented in grade 1 in 1998. In 2002 it was implemented in grade 9. Similar problems and questions, which arose during the initial implementation, arose again during the implementation in grade 9. Implementation gave rise to many questions and uncertainties. Only in October 2001 was it finally decided to implement the curriculum for grade 9 in 2002. The result was that publishers, the national as well as provincial education departments as well as schools were not ready for the implementation in January 2002. This treatise aims to determine the amount of support offered to educators and the degree of uncertainty still being experienced by them. Information regarding these unnecertainties and problems has been obtained from educators by means of questionnaires, circulated to 38 schools in the Northern Cape Province, offering Natural Science. This sampling of schools is representative of schools offering Natural Science in the region. Data regarding the uncertainties from educators have been obtained from the SOC (Stages of Concern) questionnaires of Hall, George and Rutherford. The rest of the questionnaire concerned the biographical information regarding the educators as well as the support that educators have received during the implementation of the learning area. It emerged from the questionnaire that educators understand the importance of a new Natural Science curriculum for SA. They are however sceptical regarding the hasty manner in which the learning area was implemented; the fact that no textbooks or educational teaching aids were available prior to implementation was of concern. Educators are similarly concerned about the inadequate training prior to implementation and lack of support during implementation. Educators are also concerned about the administrative liability that the new curriculum will bring about.
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  • Date Issued: 2006

The unfair labour practice relating to benefits

  • Authors: Tshiki, Pakamisa Washington
  • Date: 2005
  • Subjects: Employee fringe benefits -- Law and legislation -- South Africa , Unfair labour practices -- South Africa , Discrimination in employment -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , LLM
  • Identifier: vital:10189 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/386 , Employee fringe benefits -- Law and legislation -- South Africa , Unfair labour practices -- South Africa , Discrimination in employment -- South Africa
  • Description: At the outset of this treatise the development of the unfair labour practice is traced. The point is made that common law knows nothing about fairness and it is pointed out that the concept was introduced as a statutory concept in 1979. In 1995 the development of unfair labour practices since 1979 was relied upon to provide a list of unfair labour practices. The main thrust of the treatise concerns an evaluation of an unfair labour practice relating to benefits – listed presently in section 186(2) of the Labour Relations Act. Reference is made to Industrial Court cases and case law since 1996 is considered and commented upon. In particular, the issue of remuneration not being a benefit, and the fact that interest disputes are not justiciable as unfair labour practices for instance are canvassed.
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  • Date Issued: 2005

Taking employment equity forward at the workplace

  • Authors: Labour Research Services
  • Date: Oct 2002
  • Subjects: Labour Research Services
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139431 , vital:37737
  • Description: In 1998 the South African Parliament passed the Employment Equity Act. This law seeks to help establish equity in the workplace. It prohibits unfair discrimination in employment and requires employers to practice affirmative action. Employers who are designated by the Act must promote the employment of blacks, women, and disabled people in order to correct the discrimination of apartheid employment practices. The idea of producing an education booklet on Taking Employment Equity Forward at the Workplace came out of a series of workshops that were run in Gauteng, Kwazulu-Natal, and the Western Cape in September and October 2000. The workshop programme was designed by the Labour Research Service and run together with Khanya College and the Workers’ College (Kwazulu-Natal). Affiliates of the trade union federations COSATU, NACTU, and FEDUSA were represented at the workshops, as were some unaffiliated trade unions. Of the 70 participants, 80% were shop-stewards and 26% were women. The main task of the workshops was to help participants gain some understanding of the Employment Equity Act so that they could help their trade unions to develop policies and practices around this legislation. This also meant that the workshops needed to explore workers’ experiences of discrimination in the workplace and the broader legacy of inequality left by apartheid capitalism. Experiences of affirmative action practices in other countries were also discussed in the workshops.
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  • Date Issued: Oct 2002

Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 2001

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 2001
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:8146 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007296
  • Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies 1820 Settlers National Monument Friday, 6 April 2001 at 10:30; 18:00 [and] Saturday, 7 April 2001 at 10:30 , Graduation Ceremony Christian Centre, Wyse Street, East London Friday, 1 May 2001 at 18:00
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  • Date Issued: 2001

Ten years in defence and advancement of worker rights

  • Authors: SACTWU
  • Date: 2001
  • Subjects: SACTWU
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/111063 , vital:33369
  • Description: Whereas the SOUTHERN AFRICAN CLOTHING AND TEXTILE WORKERS' UNION is an association not for gain, non-racial registered trade union, unaffiliated to any political party and whereas the SOUTHERN AFRICAN CLOTHING AND TEXTILE WORKERS' UNION is dedicated and committed - irrespective of race, colour, creed or sex: to promote and maintain free democratic trade unionism for all workers in Southern Africa and to oppose the exploitation of cheap labour; to advance the dignity, rights, socio-economic and cultural well-being of all workers in Southern Africa through collective bargaining and free negotiation; to do all in our power to assist in fully developing the full potential of workers and their children in the economic, social, political and cultural fields; to oppose any forms of discrimination which could prevent all the people of this land from being able to trade, manufacture, practise all crafts, trades and professions and own land, live and be educated where and as they choose; to defend the right to equal status in the eyes of the law for all people and to support the rule of just law; to maintain the right to free compulsory and equal education for all children and the opportunity for all students to receive the highest specialised training; to promote the right to full employment for all people of Southern Africa; to promote the right for all people to live where they choose, to be properly and decently housed, and to raise their families in security and comfort; to promote a system whereby the aged and infirm are supported regardless of income or status; to pursuing an enlightened programme to assist unorganised workers, and to develop educational facilities within the trade union movement; to disseminate as widely as possible press democratic trade union principles among all workers in the industry; to promote the sharing of the fruits of the labour of all workers in the industry.
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  • Date Issued: 2001

Youth development in Grahamstown: a social map: a guide to organisations catering for youth development

  • Authors: Van Hees, Charlotte
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Arts -- Study and teaching Associations, institutions, etc. -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Directories Community development -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Community education -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Culture -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Mass media -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Public health -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Public welfare -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Schools -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Sports -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Unemployment -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Youth -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Youth -- South Africa Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Directories Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2420 , vital:20288 , ISBN 0868103640
  • Description: Grahamstown is a town in the Eastern Cape with a population of approximately 110 000 of which the vast majority live in the former black township, known as Grahamstown East. Unemployment, poor housing, a high crime rate and a lack of primary facilities like toilets, electricity and water are daily facts for a large number of the inhabitants of Grahamstown East. Every day government departments, non-government organisations (NGOs) and volunteers work to improve the lives of the people. Youth merit special attention, after all “youth make the future”. The spectrum of organisations catering for youth development is broad: from local schools providing basic education to organisations like the Grahamstown Foundation trying to involve youth in national art projects. They all have one thing in common. They are all aiming to give youth a grip on their lives, to give them a future by empowering them. But what do we actually know about the youth? Where do they come from? What are their expectations and aspirations in life? What kind of leisure activities do they have? What kind of organisations do they use to get ahead in life? And what do we actually know about these organisations? How do they form their policy and activities? Which role does the government play and which role is left for the non-governmental organisations? In what ways do they work together? How do youth participate in the policy making of these organisations? The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) of Rhodes University is working together with the Centre for Policy and Management of the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) to find answers to these questions. A sample survey was conducted in May 1999 to compile baseline information on youth from Grahamstown East in terms of social characteristics, motivations for personal and collective development, and expectations for the future. From January until July 1999 the project team has visited organisations in Grahamstown focusing on (youth) development to identify existing youth programmes and to see how these programmes are incorporated in the town’s context. This social map is a product of this research. The research defines youth as young people living in Grahamstown East in the age category of 14 to 25 years old. This social map however also includes organisations catering for younger children, by displaying the pre-schools and organisations like Child and Family Welfare Society that focus on children up to the age of 13. The National Youth Commission defines youth development in “Youth Policy 2000” (1997) as a process whereby young men and women are able to improve their skills, talents and abilities to extend their intellectual, physical and emotional capabilities to express themselves and to live full lives. This definition is used in this research. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 2000

Southern African Journal of Gerontology, volume 8, number 2, October 1999

  • Authors: Ferreira, Monica (editor) , Moller, Valerie , HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Gerontology -- South Africa , Older people -- Care -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:8079 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012913
  • Description: [From Editorial] The papers included in this special issue highlight some of the issues of elderliness and old age in Africa outlined above. Using different disciplinary approaches, the papers should appeal to age-old researchers in varied fields. In a discussion of old age and ageing in pre-industrial Africa, Sagner moves away from the rather simplistic images of old age which still beset many African gerontologists. Drawing on the Xhosa-speaking peoples in the 19th century he argues that the experience of later life was shaped by gender, kinship and "class" differences as well as by biographical factors, making for a variety of later-life experiences. He points out that old age was not a clear-cut period of life with unique demographic, economic or social characteristics/ conditions, set apart from earlier life phases. However, he notes that (deep) old age was firmly tied to religious and metaphysical beliefs. He argues that loss of bodily functions in (deep) old age was hardly stigmatizing as the loss was socially constructed as a sign of increasing other-worldliness. By linking old age with superhuman agency, the ideological hegemony of old age remained unbroken, despite bodily decline, even though the latter could herald loss of this-worldly status and, finally, abandonment in the bush. Moller and Sotshangaye discuss contemporary relations between Zulu grandmothers and grandchildren in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. Though the grandmothers whom the two authors interviewed expressed deep concern about losing the respect of their grandchildren, in the eyes of the latter old age is, surprisingly, not denigrated as a possible source of moral guidance. Moller and Sotshangaye point out that strains in the grandmothers-grandchildren relationship are located in the rapidly changing social context which easily tends to outdate the elders' teaching, rather than in the intergenerational politics of the family per se. Paradoxically, however, macro-social changes have also led to a re-strengthening of the grandmothers' moral authority. The paper also shows that successful ageing- in the sense of one's personal happiness in old age - is, at least partly, relational defined. , Moving northwards up the subcontinent to Mozambique, da Silva records the results of a case study on the situation of older people who had to cope with several long-standing wars and natural disasters in their lifetimes. She analyses the repercussions which endured displacements, forced migrations and other war-related life-course experiences had on the lives of today's elderly, both at the personal and social level. In detailing social policy propositions she reminds us that there is a fundamental divergence between how older people are represented in some authoritative discourses and the social reality of old age. To overcome the prevailing negative representations of old age is of utmost practical importance, as the problematicity image encourages non-participatory government approaches and hinders thus the empowerment of the elderly. Turning to a methodological plane, Mommersteeg details some of the problems - and advantages - which the use of interpreters in qualitative research settings entail. In keeping with a hermeneutic approach, he shows that the interpreter is in fact a culture broker, rather than a mere provider of a linguistically correct translation. Mommersteeg's paper illustrates very well that interviews which are mediated through interpreters are not dialogically but triologically constituted, as are their "products" - the storied voices of the interviewees. In her article, Coetzee reports on exploratory field research in an old-age centre outside Bloemfontein in South Africa's Free State province. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews she finds that elderly residents experience old age negatively. Though this subjective reality partly reflects the residents' difficulties in adjusting to their ageing bodies, it is mainly grounded in her subjects' difficulties to construct a framework within which their present position in the world could be instilled with personal/social meaning. Coetzee' s paper stresses both the relevance of a life course perspective and a gender-sensitive approach to the study of old-age experience.
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  • Date Issued: 1999

Western Cape PEC Orientation Seminar/Workshop

  • Authors: POPCRU
  • Date: Sep 1999
  • Subjects: POPCRU
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134830 , vital:37208
  • Description: In every workplace there is a struggle. On the one side is the employer who seeks to make as much profit as possible, and on the other side are the workers who want a living wage and decent working conditions. For the employer’s pockets to be full, the workers must suffer. For workers to get what they deserve, profits would fall. The interests of bosses and workers are different. This struggle is the spirit of capitalism. It fills the walls of every factory, the shaft of every mine, and the fields of every farm. But this struggle between bosses and workers is not like a soccer match between two equal teams. The employer has much more power than the worker : The employer owns the company. The employer has a big store of wealth from profit making to rest on. The employer has the power to hire and fire workers. The employer has the power to make decisions and give orders. The employer has easy access to lawyers, politicians and technical resources. Workers have one thing that bosses want. Their ability to work. But although employers need labour, this does not give an individual worker much bargaining power. Bosses and workers do not meet as equals in the market place, as many capitalist economists would like us to believe.
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  • Date Issued: Sep 1999

Workers News - National Women's committe launched

  • Authors: SAMWU
  • Date: Mar 1999
  • Subjects: SAMWU
  • Language: English, Zulu, Sotho and Afrikaans
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113369 , vital:33753
  • Description: My regards to all SAMWU comrades and wishing all a Happy New Year! I hope this message will encourage women in all structures of SAMWU. President Mashishi, in the previous issue, wrote about the "Framework for Municipal Service Partnerships." Inside you will find a guideline as to how you can use this agreement in your municipality to stop privatisation. Comrades, let us take up the challenge of implementing the framework agreement with the vigour, attention, and dedication it deserves. The Sectoral Forum team will continue to stop any negative consequences from this agreement and make sure privatisation is only a last resort. Comrades must help the team by reporting any attempt to privatise to the Head Office immediately so that disputes can be lodged quickly. Comrade Women, we are entering the new millennium with a new National Women's Committee. This structure has been formed through womens' demands to our Union. There is no leader besides yourself and no one can walk in front of a woman, a mother and a child bearer. We know all the pains, the joys and the inner abilities we have as leaders. We lead on a daily basis, in our homes, with our children, and in our conversations. Never think that you are not a leader! Women should show their wisdom like our mothers have shown. South African women are considered very strong. We should not shy away from our responsibilities as leaders. Let's voice our opinions and always support one another. Shopsteward training is very important this year. The Education Department has developed excellent programmes and I hope everyone will get the best benefit from them. Shopstewards should keep themselves up to date of SAMWU policies and documents. These can all be found at your nearest branch office. No-one can defend a union member better than yourself with the knowledge of SAMWU Policies and Defence methods. Know your Union! Read and share with other comrades what you have learnt! We have heard Deputy President Mbeki announcing Zero Tolerance for corruption. Cdes, this is an issue we should never leave lying low. We should report all irregular matters that occur in our workplace and within SAMWU. We should not tolerate comrades that are in the struggle for enrichment rather than political advancement of the workers they serve. Members should be served with no extra gains to officials or shopstewards. Human Rights Day is coming and we must remember comrades whose suffering we've heard about in our TRC hearings and those in the rest of the world. Suppression of Women's Rights in other countries should be high on our "NO" lists. Comrades, many Bills have been passed in 1998 and some of those affect us as workers in local government. There will be education programs around the Employment Equity Act, and the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. Contact your branch office for more details. In the next issue we look at the Skills Development Bill. A political education programme starts at the end of March. It will be one evening per month in urban areas and one day every two months in the rural areas. Comrades, especially women, I urge you to participate. The first program will be about the Elections Manifesto. We want to see all of you on lists at the next election. Comrades, finally, thanks to those of you who have been helping with voter education and registration. Let us go out and move other comrades to register and vote for our Party. We cannot be ruled by confused people anymore.
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  • Date Issued: Mar 1999

Workers News - 1998 A fighting year for SAMWU

  • Authors: SAMWU
  • Date: Nov 1998
  • Subjects: SAMWU
  • Language: English, Zulu, Sotho and Afrikaans
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113347 , vital:33751
  • Description: You will all remember that in past editions of this magazine we have touched on the anti-privatisation campaign which all comrades have been active in. I must say it is a great pleasure for me to write this message, to thank all the NGO’s, international labour movement, individuals, COSATU and community organisations for all their support. The process of implementing the antiprivatisation campaign has not been an easy one. Just after we started with the campaign, the union was attacked and claims were made that SAMWU was counter-revolutionary. The attacks were clearly intended to shift the focus from the campaign to mud- slinging. They could not match us when it came to knowing the facts of privatisation and it’s terrible effects on the community, and the role politicians play once services are in the hands of the private sector. Despite these attacks, SAMWU still feels that the resolution we adopted to oppose privatisation was the correct one and we hope it will be the correct position for years to come. For a very long time we have campaigned against privatisation alone. Recently ESKOM was intending to privatise electricity. This led to the whole matter of privatisation being discussed at the first COSATU Central Committee meeting in August this year. A resolution was adopted to oppose the ESKOM move and also to oppose the privatisation of any municipal services. COSATU took this matter to NEDLAC, where it was clear that government was going ahead with the process of privatisation regardless of our concerns. A deadlock was reached after days of negotiations. COSATU was forced to call a national strike after realising that government was adamant about implementing their programme of privatisation - comrades might remember that this strike was scheduled for September 23rd, 1998. COSATU and SAMWU were again under attack and individuals within our ranks became labelled by those who are "pro-privatisation." This was a difficult time, but we kept our cool as a union and stuck to our position of anti-privatisation. COSATU stuck to their position that there should be strike action, because again the attack was to shift us to a different terrain of struggle contrary to the one we had prepared ourselves for.
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  • Date Issued: Nov 1998

Workers News - 1998 A fighting year for SAMWU

  • Authors: SAMWU
  • Date: Nov 1996
  • Subjects: SAMWU
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137970 , vital:37579
  • Description: You will all remember that in past editions of this magazine we have touched on the anti-privatisation campaign which all comrades have been active in. I must say it is a great pleasure for me to write this message, to thank all the NGO's, international labour movement, individuals, COSATU and community organisations for all their support. The process of implementing the antiprivatisation campaign has not been an easy one. Just after we started with the campaign, the union was attacked and claims were made that SAMWU was counter-revolutionary. The attacks were clearly intended to shift the focus from the campaign to mud- slinging. They could not match us when it came to knowing the facts of privatisation and it’s terrible effects on the community, and the role politicians play once services are in the hands of the private sector. Despite these attacks, SAMWU still feels that the resolution we adopted to oppose privatisation was the correct one and we hope it will be the correct position for years to come.
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  • Date Issued: Nov 1996

Southern African Journal of Gerontology, volume 4, number 2, October 1995

  • Authors: Ferreira, Monica (editor) , Moller, Valerie , HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology
  • Date: 1995
  • Subjects: Gerontology -- South Africa , Older people -- Care -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:8071 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012864
  • Description: This special issue of SAJG on "The family and ageing in Africa" marks yet another step in the annals of the African Gerontological Society (AGES). The first major step was taken in December 1993 when the society held its first workshop in Accra, Ghana to discuss an agenda on ageing. The results of the workshop were published under the title Effective responses to ageing in Africa by the year 2000 (Apt, Bester & Insley, 1995). Twenty years ago it would have been an impossible task to assemble African scientists and social welfare practitioners to discuss the subject of ageing. Very little researched information existed then and many African governments were likely to assert that ageing was no problem in their country. Even in the 1980s a great deal of scepticism existed in Africa about the need for African gerontology research. Today, and taking a cue from the deliberations of the first AGES workshop, there is no country in our region that is not confronted with the negative impacts of development and urbanization as their country charts its route towards modernization. Even though an ageing agenda still has a low profile on the economic desks of many African governments, the realisation that there are indeed difficulties to be overcome regarding the care of elderly people in Africa is widespread.
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  • Date Issued: 1995

Up Beat Issue Number 7 1995

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: Sep 1995
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115871 , vital:34248
  • Description: Upbeat is on the move. This month we visited the Northern Cape. It is a big, dry province with high unemployment. It is also the place where a group of conservative Afrikaners are trying to keep apartheid alive. But Northern Cape Premier, Manne Dipico, is a tolerant and clever leader. Find out how he handles the right-wingers in his province on page 8. There's been a lot of news lately about conditions in South Africa's jails. Even the Minister of Prisons was shocked when he saw the damp, dirty cells in some jails. Will something be done to improve the situation? Upbeat will keep readers informed. Meanwhile, where can young people who are awaiting trial, be held in safety? We visited Meritum near Krugers- dorp to find out. (page 28) Are you reading Upbeat's business economics articles? In Upbeat No 8, we will publish all the questions that you need, to enter our bumper money competition. And if you follow the Living Trees articles (page 20), you might win Upbeat's biggest-ever prize, a tennis court or soccer field for your school! Good luck!
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  • Date Issued: Sep 1995

Up Beat Issue Number 4 1994

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: 1994
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115656 , vital:34211
  • Description: Well, here we are, a month after the elections. Let us pray that everyone in our country will be able to put their differences behind them and work together to build a better South Africa. In this issue of Upbeat we speak to young people about the violence in Bophuthatswana before the elections. But there are also lots of fun stories for you to read. Meet Toni Braxton and find out more a sport that is taking over in South Africa - basketball. Finally there is a story about smoking and what it does to your body on page 12. If you are a beginner smoker, do the quiz at the end of the story and see if you really want to smoke.
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  • Date Issued: 1994

'Growing up tough': A national survey of South African youth

  • Authors: Everatt, David , Orkin, Mark
  • Date: 1993-03
  • Subjects: Youth -- South Africa -- Attitudes -- Congresses , Youth -- Research , Youth -- South Africa -- Social conditions , Social surveys -- South Africa -- Congresses , Marginality, Social -- South Africa Congresses
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65862 , vital:28849
  • Description: The Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE) was commissioned by the Joint Enrichment Project (JEP) to undertake research for the National Youth Development Conference. The research programme had three components:the compilation of a computerised and annotated youth database, comprising domestic research into youth, and the extraction of five policy papers covering the areas of education, employment-creation, AIDS, violence and social context, and historical context. an international comparative component, which focused on the youth brigades in Botswana, and the whole range of youth development initiatives taking place in Kenya and Uganda, covered in an additional two position papers. a national baseline and attitudinal survey into youth in South Africa. The results of all three components of the research project will be published in book form later this year. The summary reports of the local and international comparative policy papers are available in a separate booklet. This is the report of the national survey into youth in South Africa. Aims of the survey The survey has four main aims: demographic: to accurately describe how many youth are in the different parts of South Africa, how many are in or out of school or work, and so on. attitudinal: to allow youth to express their views on a range of social, economic, political and personal issues.to analyse youth marginalisation: to scientifically analyse and describe the marginalisation of youth within South African society. programmatic: to provide results which directly assist organisations designing programmes which target youth. Designing the survey The survey was designed by the CASE senior research team of Professor Mark Orkin, Director of C A S E; Dr David Everatt, Deputy Director of CASE and project co-ordinator; and Dr Ros Hirschowitz, Specialist Researcher at C A S E. The design process was lengthy and complex, because the aims of the survey were complicated. As a first step, CASE gathered together existing youth research and survey data, in order to see what we could learn from them. We then convened a design workshop to assist us. Participants in the C A S E national youth survey for JEP 1 workshop comprised people who had experience with youth, or with survey design. They included John Aitchison (CASE and the Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal), Debbie Budlender (CASE and the National Women's Coalition), Dr Jannie Hofmeyr (Research Surveys), Ms Vanessa Kruger and Professor Ari Sitas (University of Natal), Ms Anne Letsebe (SABSWA), Mr Steve Mokwena (JEP), Mr Rory Riordan (Human Rights Trust) and Dr Jeremy Seekings (University of Cape Town). We also needed input from the youth themselves. Discussion groups with youth (called 'focus groups') were held with youth from Alexandra and Soweto, from Ciskei and the eastern Cape, from Bophuthatswana and the northern transvaal, from Chatsworth and Claremont in Durban, and elsewhere. We reached youth from cities, squatter camps, towns and rural areas. The focus groups were organised by C A S E and Research Surveys, a professional market research company. The youth told us what their concerns were, what their aspirations and fears were, and what interventions they felt are necessary to improve their lives. CASE then designed a draft survey. We had to try it out (called 'piloting') to find out if the survey tapped the youth's actual views and experiences, and so give the JEP the information they sought. The survey was piloted on a representative sample of 100 youth (aged between 16 and 30) by Research Surveys. Using the results of the focus groups and the pilots, the CASE research team then produced the final questionnaire, which went into the field in November/December 1992.
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  • Date Issued: 1993-03
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