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Relevant knowledge: content analysis of research conducted by South African psychology masters students (2008-2012

  • Authors: Whitehead, Tracey
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: Psychology -- Research -- South Africa , Psychology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- South Africa , Psychology students -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167683 , vital:41503
  • Description: In South Africa, Psychology has had a chequered past mainly due to its role in the justification of apartheid policies. Due to apartheid's socio-economic injustices, confidence in the applicability of psychological knowledge to South Africa's social problems was insufficient. Psychologists attempted to raise consciousness of the social relevance of psychology by contributing relevant knowledge and being reactive to social inequalities and related psychosocial issues affecting South Africa. This study aimed to conduct a content analysis of trends in research produced by Psychology Masters' students in the fields of Clinical, Counselling and Research psychology over a period of 5 years (2008-2012). The corpus of data was then compared with the key issues raised in the United Nations Development Programme's South Africa human development report (2003), along with a focus on articles published by Macleod (2004) and Macleod and Howell (2013). It emerged that Empirical Qualitative studies, based on post-modern frameworks, as well as HIV/AIDS, Knowledge Production, Assessment and Measurement and Programme development and evaluation, dominated psychological research. Participants were mainly urban, middle class adults living in the 3 wealthiest provinces. University students were the most popular participant group. While it is encouraging that students were attempting to engage with psychosocial issues, the limited number of key social issues addressed, the under-representation of certain sectors of the South African population, as well as the impact of socioeconomic status on well-being requires greater attention at Masters' level to ensure Psychology's psychosocial relevance.
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  • Date Issued: 2020

William Plomer’s Turbott Wolfe: An Anatomy

  • Authors: Cornwell, Gareth D N
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458233 , vital:75725 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-f74f98d81
  • Description: Turbott Wolfe (1925) was indubitably the most controversial South African novel of its day, and – whatever their opinion of its merits – contemporary reviewers were unanimous in recording the excitement, shock or at least discomfort of a revelatory experience.1 Almost a century later, the novel’s stylistic exuberance and formal eccentricity, its grammatica jocosa, seem as fresh as ever. And while we cannot hope to recover an adequate sense of its original iconoclastic impact, historical distance offers us the compensation of perspective: specifically, a perspective in which Turbott Wolfe appears less politically radical than at first supposed, and one that may help us to understand the explosions of recidivist racism that continue to undermine social relations in South Africa, almost a quarter of a century after the advent of democracy.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

New Unity Movement Bulletin

NUMSA Bulletin - Time to face the bosses

  • Authors: NUMSA
  • Date: Mar 2007
  • Subjects: NUMSA
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116122 , vital:34308
  • Description: It is often said that it is not enough to be busy in the trade union movement or even in the corporate environment nowadays. The big question is: what is it you are busy with? What to do about countless scheduled or impromptu meetings, political sessions, mass campaigns, workshops, relationship and capacity- building consultations in the regions and nationally, has become another matter of daily debates in our structures. Everyone in the labour movement has a view on why this and that meeting or the other campaign has to be taken up with urgency. Many of us are regarded as experts on labour activities. And this results in time pressures and internal hurly-burly. It is because the organization must achieve its ultimate goals in the end. Ultimate goals inform our major organizational objectives ranked by their highest priority. These include progress on the motor recruitment campaign. the white-collar workers recruitment drive, monitoring major bargaining, food prices, fuel price increases and the latest CPI-X and regional policy workshops, culminating in the National Bargaining Conference in April 2007. Charles Schwab, the world's greatest industrialist. with great ability and perspicacity, is known as a most efficient, fabulously rich steel worker who led and transformed the Bethlehem Steel plant into the largest independent global steel producer. But, that did not immunize him from pressures and time-wasting interruptions. He once issued a challenge to a management consultant to show him the way to get more things done with his time and promised to "pay any fee within reason.” The consultant, without hesitation gave him a pad of blank paper and wrote on it: “Each night write down the things you have to do tomorrow, number them in the order of their importance. Start working on priority item number one and continue until finished. Then start item number two, then three, and do not worry if you have not managed to finish them.” The consultant was paid handsomely within seconds of dispensing this discreet advice. She was probably paid a million dollars or more. Some extremely important considerations arise in relation to this big question, as we intensify our 2007 programme of confronting the class logic of capital through collective bargaining. We have to look at them carefully, if we are to realize the objectives we have set for the giant metalworkers’ union this year.
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  • Date Issued: Mar 2007

NUMSA Bulletin 18 - Time to face the Bosses

  • Authors: NUMSA
  • Date: Mar 2007
  • Subjects: NUMSA
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117411 , vital:34512
  • Description: Numsa's National Bargaining Conference is almost upon us. Wage negotiations in all Numsa's sectors will start from May. Bargaining is the focus of this Bulletin (pages 12-28). We give you some basic facts and figures to arm yourselves for centralised bargaining. We also include information on the new black economic empowerment (BEE) codes as well as employee share ownership schemes (esops). You will need this information to negotiate in your own companies. Division rocked the Cosatu congress last year. Woody Aroun summarises a paper of Joel Netshitenzhe on the issue of factions within organisations while Alex Mashilo gives his own views on how to deal with them. Cosatu's recent Central Executive Committee analysed the current political conjuncture. See if you agree with it and prepare yourself for the challenges that face you in a year in which both the SACP and the ANC will be holding key conferences. What do you think of Desai's challenges to Cosatu? Are you up to them? Take yourself through Enver Motala's piece on education. Did your schooling give you these critical skills? Are your children getting these skills from their schools? Are Numsa's education courses helping you to grasp those skills that you didn't get at school? And what about education and training at work - are these filling the gaps in your education?
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  • Date Issued: Mar 2007

Economic justice in South Africa: a pastoral statement

  • Authors: Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference
  • Date: 1999-09
  • Subjects: Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity , South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1991- , Economic conditions -- Catholic Church , Social justice -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68823 , vital:29328 , ISBN 1874838275
  • Description: The Introduction to the statement explains that its aim is to contribute to the search for a more just, equitable and sustainable economic dispensation. It reminds people that, as a nation, we have overcome the horrors of apartheid and made significant progress towards peace and stability. However, we are sitting on an economic time-bomb; if we do not strive for economic justice we must expect a deepening of our social problems such as crime, lawlessness, poverty and unemployment. The second section considers the Church's Prophetic Duty to speak out and to bring Gospel values to bear on political, economic and social matters. A second transformation is needed: massive, and overwhelmingly positive, political change has occurred, but the same has not yet happened in the economy, with the result that the majority of our people still have little chance of fulfilling their reasonable hopes for a better life. Section three turns to the question of Discerning Economic Justice. It is asserted that every economy has a moral quality which makes it possible for us to pass judgements as to whether or not it is a just economy. In order to make such judgements the presence or absence of various factors must be assessed, including poverty, unemployment, discrimination, materialism and environmental degradation. Next, the statement deals briefly with Economic Structure. The fact that economies are complex, and that most people are unfamiliar with economic terminology, results in many people feeling powerless. They believe that, as individuals, they have no influence over, or responsibility for, the way an economy operates. Some of the negative consequences of such a belief are mentioned, and it is pointed out that we have a moral duty to make the correct choices, even in complex matters. Section four, Christian Economic Values, offers some guidelines for those striving to make these choices. The section summarises some of the main concepts and principles developed by the Church as ways of making concrete the commandment to 'love your neighbour as yourself'. These include the common good, solidarity, the option for the poor, the common destiny of goods, and the integrity of creation. The South African Economy is analysed in section six, according to the criteria mentioned in section three. Poverty, unemployment, materialism, greed, the lack of women's economic empowerment, debt and corruption are among the features identified as contributing to economic injustice in our country. But the gap between rich and poor is singled out as the defining characteristic of our economy, with millions of South Africans surviving, like Lazarus, on crumbs from the rich man's table. No country's economy exists in isolation, free from outside influences. Therefore, in section seven, some attention is given to The World Economy, especially to aspects which affect South Africa. The point is made that international factors can act as powerful constraints on moves towards economic justice at home, without their being, however, an excuse for a lack of effort in this direction. When statements such as the present one are published, people have a right to expect the authors to make specific and practical recommendations. This is attempted in section eight, What Can Be Done? The major role-players in the economy are identified and various steps are suggested for each of them; these range from fiscal initiatives to encourage job-creation, through changes to personal taxation and measures to improve productivity and training, to the promotion of the interests of the unemployed. However, it is conceded that even the most enlightened economic measures will not be able to withstand selfish and destructive attitudes. The question of people's attitudes to each other and to economic choices is therefore addressed, with particular emphasis being placed on the role of the religious community in this regard. By way of Conclusion the statement points out that economic justice is demanded not just by the poor and by forthcoming generations, but by God. In striving for a just economy we are carrying forward Jesus' great task of bringing fullness of life to all people. , 2nd ed
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  • Date Issued: 1999-09

Workers News - Cape Town report backs

  • Authors: SAMWU
  • Date: Jun 1999
  • Subjects: SAMWU
  • Language: English, Zulu, Sotho and Afrikaans
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113313 , vital:33744
  • Description: I want to look at the most critical challenges we have to face as SAMWU in the coming period. Firstly, the wage campaign continues to serve as a unifying tool to all those who have to sell their labour in order to earn a living. This makes it possible for us to continue to champion the cause of millions of working people and more specifically thousands of municipal workers who still receive starvation wages. It must be seen as an appropriate springboard for the advancement of the broader objectives for social upliftment, the fight against poverty, homelessness and the realisation of our socialist goals. We have made victories such as agreement on minimum entry level. We hope the central issue of the huge wage differentials will now be addressed. A linked issue is that we must finalise Minimum Service Level agreements on essential services with all local authorities. The absence of these agreements impacts on our ability to exercise the right to strike. The need for us as leaders and members to ensure proper report backs are done and mandates given remains an area of work we need to strengthen. Secondly, the process of local government democratisation has to be pursued vigorously. As a union we face the most challenging period yet with various initiatives currently unfolding in many local authorities, such as the Igoli 2002 proposals for Greater Johannesburg, which are occupying centre stage. The framework agreement between Cosatu and Saiga is an important document that all leadership must understand. We must however take note that although the framework agreement does not specifically talk about waging anti-privatisation campaign, it does lay basis for engagement in furtherance of our public sector delivery option. We can therefore argue that it is anti privatisation in character. Although we have had setbacks at Nelspruit and Dolphin Coast, the fight is not yet over as we continue to pursue matter at the sectoral forum. There are important lessons we have to learn from these setbacks. The first is importance of building strong shopfloor structures. The second is that of maximising the collective strength of our members, organised labour and communities faced by effects of privatisation. The signing of the agreement does not mean a need to shift the emphasis in our campaign. We must strengthen our campaign and promote the public sector delivery option. Thirdly, the main challenge right now is ensuring a decisive ANC victory. The union has made resources available for the strengthening of the Alliance elections machinery through contribution to the fund controlled by the Federation; and seconding officials to work on elections fulltime. This will not be enough unless we all support programmes aimed at getting workers to vote for the ANC. These elections must not be viewed in isolation from our overall objectives of building a strong Samwu, Cosatu, SACP and ANC. The integration of election work in our daily programmes in this period leading to June 02 is very important. We must also prepare for post election challenges. The Cosatu Special Congress and programme to build the federation; the consolidation of Alliance's transformation agenda; the fight against job losses and retrenchments; HlV/Aids, defending the peoples manifesto etc. In SAMWU, the organisational strategic planning session in July is the platform we hope to utilise in strengthening internal organisation. A series of workshops will be convened before this national session. These would include Local Government Restructuring, Financial Administration etc. It will not look at campaigns or broad policy, but at how the organisation can be developed and how our structures are working. The main focus will be on how we strengthen our organisation and make it a better tool to implement policy. The above represents some of the important issues the union has to deal with. We must above all ensure that all union work serves to strengthen our organisation, build the federation and Alliance structures and raise working class consciousness around issues faced by us and the workers of the world.
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  • Date Issued: Jun 1999

Up Beat Issue Number 11 1994/5

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115981 , vital:34285
  • Description: It's the end of a big year for all South Africans. April saw all of us rejoice and celebrate as Nelson Mandela became the first president of a free South Africa. But it has also been a difficult year. 'What's the use of freedom if our daily lives are ruled by guns?' This issue is explored in our feature 'Guns - what's to be done?' on page 4. But the youth of our country continue to believe in the future. Read about how young people in Wattville, are using their talents to brighten up their own neighbourhood on page 30. Now it's holiday time and Upbeat is packed with fun reading, games and lots of information on great holiday reads. So put up your feet and enjoy your well earned break. We wish all of you a happy and peaceful holiday. Thank- you for your support in 1994.
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  • Date Issued: 1996

Southern African Journal of Gerontology, volume 3, number 2, October 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:8069 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012861
  • Description: Intergenerational relations is not a new focus area of study in Southern Africa. Trends in changing relationships between age cohorts have been traced in family, migration and urbanization studies. This special issue of the Southern African Journal of Gerontology presents a case for studying intergenerational relations from a gerontological perspective. The issue includes work from leading international gerontologists and experts in the field of intergenerational relations writing on the United States. Two further contributions come from other parts of Africa - Ghana and Kenya. The articles on intergenerational relations in South Africa, tellingly, come from outside the field of gerontology, a point to be picked up below.
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  • Date Issued: 1994

Up Beat Issue Number 10 1994

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: Nov 1994
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115891 , vital:34251
  • Description: This month we decided that it is time to turn our attention to the male sex. In Talkshop we discover that boys do worry about their images and their bodies but not always in the same ways that girls do. For some light relief from exams read how Mbaqanga artist, Phuzekhemisi got his unusual name. And for something more serious, Upbeat looks at constructive ideas from unemployed youth groups. Flow can young people gain the skills needed to put their good ideas into action? When you've read the article on unemployed youth, write and tell us about your own ideas for projects in your areas. Upbeat plans publish articles about how our readers are helping with reconstruction and development. December 1 is World AIDS Day. The theme for this year is: AIDS and the family. This is a day for people to remember those who have died of AIDS. It is also a time to support people who have AIDS or who have lost a family member because of the disease. AIDS Day offers families who are supporting AIDS sufferers a chance to plan together. It is a time for them to work out how to support and help brothers, sisters, parents or others who have AIDS. The day is especially important for families who have been separated by migrant labour, violence and poverty. Look out for special events in your area on World AIDS Day.
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  • Date Issued: Nov 1994

Workers Tax - How to calculate your tax under the new SITE system

  • Authors: TURP
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: TURP
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135681 , vital:37288
  • Description: Through their organisations, workers have raised ill many problems with the tax system in South Africa. The main issue is that although everyone in South Africa pays tax, the majority of the people cannot choose their government and so they have no say in how their money is spent. Only 14% of South Africans can vote for the government. However, the government decides howto use everyones’ money. Clearly, then, the payment of tax is a political issue. Everyone should have an equal say in how their money is spent. Tax is also an issue that particularly concerns workers. Since the introduction, in 1988, of the Standard Income Tax on Employees (SITE), workers have had their tax assessed by their employers. How this happens and the problems that this can cause, are set out in this booklet. Many workers may have paid too much tax between March and July this year. They should be refunded the money. It is important to check and see if this has happened. The booklet will explain howtodo this and will teach people how to work out how much tax they should be paying. Tax is also being taken up as a womens' issue because married women pay more tax than anyone else.
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  • Date Issued: 1989

Perspectives on rural development in Ciskei, 1983

  • Authors: Bekker, S B , Hughes, C E B
  • Date: 1984
  • Subjects: Ciskei (South Africa) -- Rural conditions Community development -- South Africa -- Ciskei Rural development -- South Africa -- Ciskei
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2271 , vital:20271 , ISBN 0868101036
  • Description: Rural development comprises three components: production, consumption and organisation. PRODUCTION points to the activities rural people undertake to obtain goods (such as food) and services (such as transport) for themselves and others in their community. Production can be measured in terms of the amount of money a rural family earns, or in terms of the amount of food the family grows and consumes. CONSUMPTION points to the fulfilment of the needs—in the first place, the basic needs—of rural families. Primary examples are the availability of clean water and of wood as a fuel source, of health and adequate nutrition, of education, welfare and transport. These needs are met by the delivery of services to a rural community. Services are provided in the first place by the central state, often through its local authority (in Ciskei, the Tribal Authority). They may also be provided by voluntary associations active in the community, or by the household itself. ORGANISATION points simply to the ways in which productive activities (work) and consumption (receiving) are linked together in a rural community. The structure of the Tribal Authority and village councils, of schools, clinics, agricultural cooperatives, churches and women's groups are examples. All these institutions are designed to improve production and consumption in a given rural community. A rural development strategy then is a strategy aimed at improving production, consumption and the ways in which these two are linked. A rural development strategy moreover is initiated by the central government and can therefore be seen as a relationship between the central government and rural communities in Ciskei. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1984

Abasebenzi bempahla manyanani

  • Authors: Labour History Group
  • Date: 1983-08
  • Subjects: Uncatalogued
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/299946 , vital:57874
  • Description: Abantu abamnyama bahlupheka ngakumbi ngokuye kusanda kobungxowankulu emZantsi Afrika. Abamhlophe abaninzi bazuze kobubungxowa nkulu. Abamhlophe babanolawulo kwinkompani zemiGodi; belawula nefaraa ezinkulu kwanamizi Mvaliso ngo- kunjalo. Abasebenzi abamhlophe emigodini ba- sebenzisa uMona ukuzuza ngokuphindwe kalishumi kunabamnyama.Kodwa ayingabobonke abamhlophe ababanelo- thamsanqa. Abanye abamhlophe babehluphekule. Belahlekana nemihlaba yabo ngokungxothwa ngo- nofama abatyebileyo. Baya ezidolophini apho bahlala ngokuhlwempuzeka okukhulu njengabobonke abamnyama. Uninzi 1walamahlwempu amhlophe yayi- ngamaBulu.Lamahlwempu amaBulu ayengafundanga engenayo na- nqeqesho ngezoshishino bafumana kunzima uku- fumana imisebenzi. Babanokwenza umsebenzi aba- ngawuqeqeshelwanga kodwa abaqeshi babewunika abemnyama bona babehlawula phantsi. uRulumente wancedisana neqaqobana lalamahlwempu amhlophe angena ngqeqesho ngokuwafunela umsebenzi kwa- Loliwe.
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  • Date Issued: 1983-08
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