How to think about water for people and people for water: Some for all, forever
- Authors: Palmer, Carolyn G
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437922 , vital:73422 , ISBN 978-1 4312-0985-9 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/SP%20117-18%20web.pdf
- Description: Water for people and people for water. We need water and water needs us. That is what this book is about. Water is the basis of all life. No plant, animal or person on earth can survive without it. In fact, all organisms are mostly made up of water. Wa-ter shapes the earth’s surface. It is a fundamental part of climate processes. Out in the natural world, water is not found in taps, buckets and glasses but in rivers, wet-lands, lakes, dams, estuaries, groundwater and the sea. It falls from the sky as rain, runs off the landscape, filters into the soil, flows to the sea in rivers, is stored in dams, evaporates into the sky, and rains back onto the earth. This is the water cycle. People need water for all sorts of things, for drinking, washing, cooking, growing food, in industries, and to dilute and transport wastes. But in the process of using water, people can damage rivers, wetlands, lakes and other watery places. Dam-aged ecosystems do not work very well and may fail us when we need them most. The message of this book is – look after water in the places where it is naturally found – look after water and water ecosystems because you need them so much.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Allosteric modulation of conformational dynamics in human Hsp90α: a computational study
- Authors: Penkler, David L , Atilgan, Canan , Tastan Bishop, Özlem
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68531 , vital:29276 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/198341
- Description: Central to Hsp90’s biological function is its ability to interconvert between various conformational states. Drug targeting of Hsp90’s regulatory mechanisms, including its modulation by co-chaperone association, presents as an attractive therapeutic strategy for Hsp90 associated pathologies. Here, we utilize homology modeling techniques to calculate full-length structures of human Hsp90α in closed and partially-open conformations. Atomistic simulations of these structures demonstrated that bound ATP stabilizes the dimer by ‘tensing’ each protomer, while ADP and apo configurations ‘relax’ the complex by increasing global flexibility. Dynamic residue network analysis revealed regions of the protein involved in intra-protein communication, and identified several overlapping key communication hubs that correlate with known functional sites. Perturbation response scanning analysis identified several potential residue sites capable of modulating conformational change in favour of interstate conversion. For the ATP-bound open conformation, these sites were found to overlap with known Aha1 and client binding sites, demonstrating how naturally occurring forces associated with co-factor binding could allosterically modulate conformational dynamics.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Red cotton
- Authors: Gantsho, Vangile
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) South Africa , South African poetry (English) 21st century , South African poetry (English) Black authors , Lesbians, Black Poetry
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/7213 , vital:21229
- Description: My collection of poetry is a deeply personal exploration of what it means to be black, queer, and woman in modern-day South Africa. I interrogate being non-conformist in both a traditional-cultural upbringing and a more liberal yet equally-oppressive urban socialisation. I question what we are taught about the body and the feminine sexual space, while also addressing the mother-daughter relationship as the first and most constant reference of womanhood. The collection moves fluidly between the erotic, the uncomfortable and grotesque, what is painful, and what is beautiful and longed-for. Working promiscuously across forms, I employ prose poetry, interspersed with lyrical interludes, in an attempt at a narrative effect similar to what Claudia Rankine achieves in Don't Let Me Be Lonely. I also draw from writers such as Calixthe Beyala (Your Name Shall Be Tanga), and Janice Lee (Damnation), as well as sex guides, women's blogs, and feminist poetry.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Millennuim of struggle kicks off
- Date: 2000-02
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105688 , vital:32556
- Description: Wages have kicked off! SAMWU submitted a demand to the employer, which is a minimum wage of R1600 and a sliding scale increase of 15% for those earning R1600 per month down to 8% for those earning R20000. We are waiting on the employer to table their response. We need to talk about the 6% capping on municipal expenditure. The cap has meant that municipalities cannot offer wage increases above the 6% limit. If there is any cap on this year's budget to be announced in February, the union will challenge this very strongly , here put any information that you think is important but there is no field for it, if there isnt remove the field
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- Date Issued: 2000-02
Workers News - Millennium of struggle kicks off
- Authors: SAMWU
- Date: Feb 2000
- Subjects: SAMWU
- Language: English, Zulu, seSotho and Afrikaans
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113589 , vital:33804
- Description: Wages have kicked off! SAMWU submitted a demand to the employer, which is a minimum wage of R1600 and a sliding scale increase of 15% for those earning R1600 per month down to 8% for those earning R20 000. We are waiting on the employer to table their response. We need to talk about the 6% capping on municipal expenditure. The cap has meant that municipalities cannot offer wage increases above the 6% limit. If there is any cap on this year's budget to be announced in February, the union will challenge this very strongly. In Joburg the union is fighting the iGoli 2002 plan tooth and nail! This plan will sell most of the city's assests. Services will be run by private companies who are not accountable to the citizens of Johannesburg. SAMWU tried very hard to negotiate with the council. The union even went to mediation. But late in December, mediation collapsed. The Council was not prepared to listen to any proposals to transform the city, or to raise the money to extend services. The dispute has gone to NEDLAC, but is unlikely to be resolved here. iGoli 2002 affects workers across the country. It is being copied in Pretoria and Cape Town. All comrades must think about what course of action to take to defend our services and our jobs. Good news in this regard is that a few weeks ago, COSATU came out strongly in support of SAMWU in this case. Please read the article on page 17 and intensify the discussion about restructuring and privatisation in COSATU locals. SAMWU comrades must take responsibility for making sure that all COSATU members are prepared to fight for decent services that are affordable for all. The Framework Agreement was accepted at the Bargaining Council as a Bargaining Council Agreement. Shopstewards must demand this agreement from the offices. We need to be aware of restructuring issues especially now that employers are undermining these agreements.
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- Date Issued: Feb 2000
NEHAWU worker: magazine of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union: volume 5, No. 1
- Authors: NEHAWU
- Date: 1997-03
- Subjects: NEHAWU , Labor unions -- South Africa -- Periodicals , Industrial relations -- South Africa -- Periodicals
- Language: English
- Type: text , periodical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/106537 , vital:32671
- Description: As we promised, we held an interview with the Party's Jeremy. A small critique of our own conclusions is: The SACP has, and still fail to rise to expectations of what the Party of Hani and Slovo set. The leadership by the Party is not felt anymore, i.e. even located within the context of the current situation. We did confirm that Cde Jeremy was silenced, although the comrade indicated that the matter was taken up with the ANC and resolved. The point is: if the ANC can threaten in whatever way, a key leader of another Alliance partner - then our democratic revolution is in a serious danger. Cde Jeremy is silenced, Cde Charles is noticeably quiet (he silenced himself to survive), Oom Ray is strategically deployed to Uganda. The Party is gradually becoming another department of the ANC. It is well good for the Party to say, we have members in the Cabinet, MECs who hold office bearer positions, etc. But the question which remains is: what Party program are those comrades following, if they are accountable to the ANC first - how can they operate differently from the mainstream (which is dictated upon). The two caps debate need to be understood differently, an MEC who is a provincial secretary of the Party - can never be critical of the ANC and governance, without being silenced of conveniently using his/her Party position conveniently. We appeal to our members who are Party activists, to ensure that we dedicate our time and effort towards building the Party, signing the debit order and building the structures.
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- Date Issued: 1997-03
APDUSA Views
- Date: 1993-12
- Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32718 , vital:32314 , Bulk File 7
- Description: APDUSA Views was published by the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (Natal), an affiliate of the New Unity Movement.
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- Date Issued: 1993-12
Winning strikes - A guide to strike action
- Authors: CWIU
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: CWIU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155901 , vital:39929
- Description: In recent years, CWIU has been amongst the top six unions involved in strike activity in South Africa. The militancy of our members dates back to the early seventies when it was often impossible to get union recognition without strike action. Over and above plant strikes, the membership of CWIU have a rich history of participating in political mass actions such as the stayaway in the Transvaal in November 1984 against conditions in the schools and townships, and against the LRA Amendments in the late 1980's, and in 1990 and 1991 against VAT. Today, when the bosses are talking about retrenchment, rationalisation, inflation, privatisation, deregulation and productivity, the strike remains one of the most powerful and favoured weapons of the organised labour movement. But not all strikes have been successful. A number of heroic battles fought by workers were defeated. At times workers go on strikes without properly preparing. At other times the issue that they are fighting can be bettter resolved through other avenues of struggle. This booklet is a manual for strike action. We hope that it will assist workers in taking effective and planned action to avoid some of the pitfalls of the past. The booklet outlines some of the key questions that workers should answer before going on strike. It also discusses the most important elements of strike organisation.
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- Date Issued: 1992
Conference for a democratic future
- Authors: Conference for A Democratic Future (CDF) Organising Committee
- Date: 1989-12
- Subjects: Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- Congresses , Apartheid -- South Africa -- Congresses , National liberation movements -- South Africa -- Congresses , South Africa -- Politics and government -- Congresses , Democracy -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66502 , vital:28956
- Description: This booklet is intended to serve as a report-back to those organisations which were party to the Conference for a Democratic Future (CDF) and to those who were unable to be present. It is also intended to act as a guide to action for 1990 and beyond. The CDF was a historic gathering of the forces for change represented by 4600 delegates from over 2100 organisations. These range form Bantustan parties on the one end of the political spectrum to ultra leftist groups on the other end. But perhaps the most significant presence was from organisations like Five Freedoms Forum, NAFCOC, the Hindu Seva Samaj, that of traditional leaders and the hundreds of other community organisations which are rapidly becoming an active component of the mass struggle for change. Also significant was the strong worker representation from a range of trade unions, including eight affiliates of NACTU whose leadership had turned down the invitation to be part of the Conference. The Conference for a Democratic Future was a major step in the overall process of building unity in action and maximising the isolation of the regime. It was, in this sense, not an isolated event. The year 1989 had taken unity in action to new heights with the Defiance Campaign and the mass marches. The process leading up to the CDF was intended td be more important then the Conference itself. Likewise, in the post-Conference period, the follow-up process should be given the importance it deserves. At the end of the day, it is this follow-up process which would determine the actual success or failure of the CDF exercise. The Declaration adopted at the Conference represents the strategic orientation of the broad forces for change. It calls for the intensification of the struggle and for the placing of the question of political power on the agenda of our united mass action. The Conference resolutions collectively contain the elements of a programme of action. Without exception, each resolution is a call to action. The task of all participants of the Conference is to translate these resolutions into Mass United Action. The adoption of the Harare Declaration should act as the starting point of a process which takes its content to the masses of our people in all comers of the country. The demand for the Constituent Assembly should become a popular demand of the people. By adopting the resolution on international pressure, the Conference sends an unambiguous signal to the world community on how the people of South Africa view their role in the struggle to end apartheid. The follow-up to the Conference should also be a continuing search for whatever common ground exists between the broad forces for change. This search must take place not only at a national level, but mere importantly at a regional and local level. Let us bear in mind the words of the Declaration: “The moral appeal of the Democratic Movement has never been greater”. by an MDM delegate on the CDF Convening Committee. , Includes the Harare Declaration: declaration of the OAU Ad-hoc Committee on Southern Africa on the Question of South Africa (Harare, Zimbabwe, August 21, 1989)
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- Date Issued: 1989-12
Work in Progress Issue no.20
- Authors: WIP
- Date: Oct 1981
- Subjects: WIP
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/111400 , vital:33448
- Description: THE WAGE BOARD attracts frequent criticism. TUCSA has in the past adopted resolutions attacking it for taking the side of employers and for 'showing little concern for the workers' case'. The recent Wage Board investigation into the work conditions of nightwatchmen and other employees in the security services industry has attracted a certain amount of publicity. This article will recount the process of the investigation and, hopefully, illustrate a number of features of the Wage Board's operation. THE WAGE BOARD THE official version of the Wage Board's function is that it investigates an industry and then makes recommendations to the hon. the Minister who in turn makes a determination. The Wage Board attempts to recommend fair wages and other conditions of service, taking into account ‘the industry's ability to pay and the cost of living in the area concerned. What occurs is that in industries where no form of collective bargaining exists, the Minister of Manpower requests the Wage Board to investigate working conditions in that industry. The Board invites all interested parties to submit evidence, and may hold hearings at which oral evidence may be presented. As a result of the investigation the Board makes recommendations to the Minister as to what the minimum wages and working conditions in the industry should be. If the Minister accepts the recommendations, they are published in the Government Gazette as a Wage Determination.
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- Date Issued: Oct 1981