COSATU Executive committee press statement - 20 AUGUST 1998
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Aug 1998
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109688 , vital:33169
- Description: The Executive Committee met in its normal session on 18 - 19 August 1998. It received reports on a range of socio-economic and political issues. As is always the case, discussions were conducted in a true tradition of the federation - comradeship, frankness, robust and constructive. A number of decisions were taken by the meeting, some of which are contained in this statement. The meeting received a report on meetings held with Old Mutual and Sanlam respectively. The meeting reaffirmed COSATU’s opposition to demutualisation on political and economic grounds and regretted the fact that the portfolio committee had gone ahead to finalise the bills dealing with demutualisation inspite of being informed about discussions currently taking place with the two mutual companies. We remain of the view that it would help the parliamentary process had this process been allowed to proceed to its final conclusion.
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- Date Issued: Aug 1998
Diet of two Antarctic dragonfish (Pisces: Bathydraconidae) from the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean
- Authors: Pakhomov, E A
- Date: 1998
- Subjects: Antarctica Bathydraconidae
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6943 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011970 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095410209800008X
- Description: The diet of Cygnodraco mawsoni Waite 1916 and Gymnodraco acuticeps Boulenger 1902 (Pisces: Bathydraconidae) was studied in the Cooperation and Cosmonaut seas in the depth range 200–400 m during the summer 1988. Stomach content analysis showed that both species are piscivorous predators but with different feeding habits. Cygnodraco mawsoni fed mostly on young notothenioid fish, regularly complementing these with pelagic, Euphausia superba, and benthic crustaceans, such as amphipod gammarids and mysids. In contrast, G. acuticeps relied mostly on mesopelagic fish of the family Myctophidae. Although C. mawsoni and G. acuticeps occupy similar depths in the Cosmonaut Sea, different feeding habits appear to limit the probability of interspecific competition for food.
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- Date Issued: 1998
Press alert on the COSATU recruitment drive campaign
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Mar 1998
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112684 , vital:33638
- Description: Members of the Press are invited to a high profile public launch of the COSATU Autumn Offensive Recruitment campaign that will be held on Monday 23 March 1998 at CNR Old Verneeniging and Jacobs Street, Alrode in Alberton - Gauteng at 12noon. In attendance will be members of the COSATU Executive Committee led by President John Gomomo, the ANC and SACP leadership. An invitation has been extended to comrades Thabo Mbeki and Charles Nqakula to speak at the launch.
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- Date Issued: Mar 1998
FAWU - Response to the White Paper On A Marine Fisheries Policy For South Africa
- Authors: FAWU
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: FAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118385 , vital:34625
- Description: This document has been written to inform Deputy President Thabo Mbeki of FAWU’s objections to the above-mentioned White Paper. It also includes FAWU’s recommendations for changing the policy. The fishing industry in South Africa is an Apartheid creation. Like other aspects of our society, it needs to be completely transformed and restructured. Currently, the industry is marked by: Monopolised control of every aspect of the fishing value-chain: from production to processing to marketing to distribution; Highly restricted access to the resource by historically disadvantaged members of our society; and Disempowered communities who originally had unrestricted access to marine resources. The above conditions have been created by a process of systematically violating the human rights of fishers and fishing communities. A new White Paper on Fisheries has the potential to change this in a sustainable economic and environmental way. Unfortunately, the 1997 White Paper on Fisheries does not adequately address the legacy of history. In fact, there are more similarities in this Paper to the 1988 Sea Fisheries Act than there is to any framework of transformation. One such framework was put forward by the Fishing Policy Development Committee (FPDC). However, it seems that key aspects of the FPDC’s recommendations were ignored. This is unacceptable.
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- Date Issued: 1997
National Bi-annual Conference - President's address
- Authors: FAWU
- Date: July 1997
- Subjects: FAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119031 , vital:34695
- Description: Comrade, General Secretary : Mandla Gxanyana , the acting Office Bearers Lucky Nsizwana , Thomas Basson and Christopher Plaatjies . Leaders of COSATU , SACP , ANC and the present Ministries , Distinguished Guests fraternal forces in the labour movement. I will start by saying we have come a long way as FAWU and we have survived through thick and thin. This was only because of our political understanding and ideological belief on the interconnection of economic struggles with the broad national question. The national liberation has been in the heart of this organisation from its inception in 1941 in the form of African Food and Food and Canning Workers Union. It is both a pleasure and an honour to share the same platform once again with so many leadership of FAWU from all the provinces of our country . Furthermore one feels especially fortunate to be part of this Bi-annual conference . Two years ago in 1995 , we came together in Bloemfontein for a week long Bi-annual Conference . A programme was produced and adopted by the conference and furthermore a action plan to implement the Programme was discussed by the NEC and also endorsed . If we have to be honest not all the aims and objectives we set for ourselves we have manage to achieve them as expected per the mandate of our last Conference , there are number of reasons for that, the G .S report will deal with some of them . Nevertheless we manage to implement some of the areas e.g. setting the tone for Super Bargaining Council which has to put a process of standardise wages in the Food and Beverage Sector and come up with clear industrial policy on the following areas training and grading , industrial provident fund and other benefits. We have reached this date not without problems internally as leaders of the organisation and as the broad membership . Let us lead this organisation and the masses of workers in theory but also in practice. The prospects of achieving a revolutionary break through in South Africa are greater today than ever before in our history. The 27th of April was just a confirmation of the long standing vision of transforming the country from the ashes of Apartheid monopoly Capitalism to Apartheid free South Africa. We owe the workers of this country an answer, the landless rural masses, students , women and all peace loving people. Because it is through the mobilisation , organisation and unity in action of this large front of forces who made it possible from every corner of our country Apartheid to be unworkable.
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- Date Issued: July 1997
A programme for the Alliance
- Authors: Congress of South African Trade Unions
- Date: 1996-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105785 , vital:32568
- Description: BACKGROUND TO THE ALLIANCE From Cosatu’s inception in 1985, the federation developed a close association with the Congress movement. Conditions in the country dictated the need to go beyond bread and butter issues to embrace national and class struggle. This perspective was formally endorsed with Cosatu’s adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1987. The 1987 Congress agreed Cosatu should build alliances with mass-based organisations with a track record of struggle and whose principles did not conflict with those of Cosatu. After the unbanning of the liberation movement, Cosatu’s 1991 Congress resolved that the Federation should join the ANC and SACP in alliance in place of Sactu, thus becoming part of the Tripartite Alliance as we know it today. It was understood that this Alliance , 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: 1996-11
An extended version of Linda for Transputer systems
- Authors: Wells, George C , Clayton, Peter G , Chalmer, A G
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/430512 , vital:72696 , https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/270088.270117
- Description: This paper discusses the associative matching mechanism used in the Linda coordination language for the retrieval of data. There are a number of problems with this mechanism which are discussed in the light of the requirements of applications using Linda. A number of solutions to these problems have been proposed. These are discussed and compared with a new approach to solving these problems. The benefits and the limitations of the new approach are considered, showing how it provides a considerable improvement in this area.
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- Date Issued: 1996
Role of percutaneous penetration enhancers
- Authors: Walker, Roderick B , Smith, Eric W
- Date: 1996
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6446 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006633
- Description: It is clear that scientists are now only beginning to comprehend the complexity of transdermal drug delivery. Elucidation of the biochemical composition and functioning of the intrinsic diffusional barrier of the stratum corneum has prompted investigation of chemical and physical means of enhancing the percutaneous penetration of poorly absorbed drugs. Chemical enhancers that aid absorption of co-administered moieties are currently believed to improve solubility within the stratum corneum or increase lipid fluidity of the intracellular bilayers. Alternatively,the use of ionto- or phonophoresis may facilitate the absorption of some drug molecules by physical alteration of the barrier. The role of penetration enhancer inclusion in topical formulations has been well documented and will undoubtedly, in the future, permit the delivery of broader classes of drugs through the stratum corneum.
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- Date Issued: 1996
AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.3
- Authors: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: AIA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169401 , vital:41746
- Description: Machipanda, February 3,1995 (AIA/Brian Latham)—Many Zimbabwean peasants have quietly found the solution to land shortages by crossing into neighbouring Mozambique where it is plentiful. For as little as US$ 10 a field, they are acquiring land and a place to live — probably illegally — from chiefs and headmen across the border. Information on how to get land is easily accessible in Machipanda, the Mozambique border town at the head of the Beira Corridor from Zimbabwe to the Indian Ocean. Confusion reigns in Mozambique in the aftermath of the devastating civil war. And in a country reputed to be the poorest on earth, the government can do little to control the flood of border jumpers in both directions: Mozambicans enter Zimbabwe to sell everything from guns to clothes donated by aid agencies and Zimbabweans enter Mozambique in search of land to till.
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- Date Issued: 1995
Building a firm base for policy consensus statement
- Authors: NEDLAC
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: NEDLAC
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151641 , vital:39156
- Description: We have arrived at a very important stage in the development of our country - one that will be most testing and challenging for all of us. Our second revolution, so to speak, is only beginning. The Government of National Unity, has come a long way in addressing the key political questions. Advancement from here lies in our economic prerogative. We are all concerned with the major economic challenge that lies ahead. Sustainable economic growth, the creation of wealth and equity, the provision of jobs and basic needs underpin the need to provide mechanisms which will facilitate growth, development and delivery. But our concern is not limited to our domestic economy.
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- Date Issued: 1995
An evaluation of different methods of preparation of quartz grains for study of their surface features by scanning electron microscopy
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A , Armstrong, Glynis A S
- Date: 1994
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6705 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006741
- Description: Sediments from periglacial and glacial environments were subjected to initial preparation and portions were subsequently further prepared using either the dichromate or the hydrogen peroxide method before being examined by scanning electron microscopy. Statistically significant differences did not occur in the results obtained for samples subjected only to initial or to initial and either of the two further preparations: it is concluded that initial preparation is satisfactory and further preparation unnecessary.
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- Date Issued: 1994
Promotion of the Etendeka Formation to Group status: a new integrated stratigraphy
- Authors: Milner, Simon C , Duncan, Andrew R , Ewart, A , Marsh, Julian S
- Date: 1994
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145482 , vital:38442
- Description: The Etendeka volcanic rocks of northwestem Namibia are currently defined as the upper part of the Karoo Sequence in Namibia and have thus been represented as stratigraphically equivalent to the volcanic rocks of the Karoo Sequence in South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. However, the Etendeka volcanic rocks (130-135 Ma) are considerably younger than those of the Karoo Sequence (180-190 Ma) in the areas mentioned above. They are compositionally distinct from Karoo volcanic rocks, and constitute an eastern portion of the Parana Igneous Province of Brazil. Stratigraphic studies have shown the Etendeka Formation to be made up of several definable volcanic successions and it is suggested that these successions now be formally recognized as Formations within an Etendeka Group which itself should no longer be part of the Karoo Sequence. Prominent quartz latite units and sequences of basalt flows are defined as Members within the new Formations.
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- Date Issued: 1994
The ultrastructure and computer-enhanced digital image analysis of plasmodesmata at the Kranz mesophyll-bundle sheath interface of Themeda triandra var. imberbis (Retz) A. Camus in conventionally-fixed leaf blades
- Authors: Botha, Christiaan E J , Hartley, B J , Cross, Robin H M
- Date: 1993
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6502 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005925
- Description: The ultrastructure of the plasmodesmata at the Kranz mesophyll-bundle sheath (KMS-BS) interface in Themeda triandra, and the substructures within the plasmodesmata were investigated, using conventionally fixed leaf-blade material, enhanced by the addition of 0.1% tannic acid to the primary fixative. Examination of high-resolution electronmicrographs, and computer-enhanced digital images suggests that these plasmodesmata are complex structures, comprised of helically-arranged particulate material. The electron-dense particles are between 2.5 and 3.0nm in diameter. These particles are specifically associated with the inner face of the inner plasmalemma membrane leaflet, and the outer region of the desmotubule wall. The electron-dense particles are presumably proteinaceous and embedded in a lipid matrix. In the constricted median portion of the KMS-BS plasmodesmata, the space between the desmotubule and the inner plasmalemma membrane leaflet and areas surrounding the proteinaceous particles thereof (the cytoplasmic sleeve) is about 3nm in cross-section, and constitutes what we believe to be the space through which intercellular transport takes place.
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- Date Issued: 1993
Eskom 1989 Negotiations report back
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134893 , vital:37215
- Description: Eskom has paid wage increases to salaried staff backdated to 1 April 1989. The NUM has NOT agreed with these increases because they are too low. We are not allowed to go on strike at Eskom - we have to get an arbitrator to decide if the increases must be bigger.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Eskom wage negotiations for general workers 1989
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134916 , vital:37217
- Description: Eskom started the 1989 wage negotiations with an offer of 7% on average. They said this offer is ail they need to make to keep their relative position in the labour market. we believe that the Eskom offer is contrary to the substance and spirit of Arbitration Award which forced Eskom, in 1988, to grant a 14,8% average increase in place of the 10% average increase Eskom implemented unilaterally m July last year. Dr Dry, the Eskom personnel manager, read out from an NUM pamphlet issued after the arbitrators raised the wages. He read out this one sentence. Today, through unity, the minimum wage rates as Eskom are amongst the highest in the country for workers living in compounds.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Rainfall characteristics, rainfall reliability and the definition of drought : Baringo district, Kenya
- Authors: Rowntree, K M
- Date: 1989
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6724 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006802
- Description: Monthly rainfall data for Kabarnet District Office, together with comments taken from the Baringo District Annual Report, are used here to examine the relationship between rainfall characteristics and agricultural drought experienced over the period 1915 to 1943 in order to establish the meteorological criteria for a definition of drought applicable to the former Kerio Native Land Unit, Baringo District, Kenya. The concept of reliable rainfall as a drought threshold is also examined. The analysis shows that the occurrence of drought was related to both the rainfall total and to the seasonal distribution. The meteorological criteria for drought and for reliable rainfall were found to differ between the upland cultivators and the lowland pastoralists, the latter experiencing a higher frequency of drought.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Procedures for the resolution of labour disputes
- Authors: Bezuidenhout, G
- Date: 1988-08-04
- Subjects: Labour disputes -- South Africa , Labour movement -- South Africa , Labour unions -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76936 , vital:30643
- Description: After SACCOLA's expulsion from the International Organization of Employers in 1983 the committee decided to explore areas of domestic activity consistent with its objectives of discussing employer views on labour affairs, and representing these views where agreement amongst employers existed. As the National Manpower Commission had shortly afterwards published a lengthy report dealing, inter alia, with the role of the Industrial Court and the definition of the unfair labour practice concept, SACCOLA set up a working party to see if employer consensus could be achieved on these issues. SACCOLA succeeded in agreeing a 18 page document, which was submitted to the Department of Manpower on 28 August 1984. This was subsequently acknowledged by the Director General of Manpower to have been one of the most comprehensive reactions to this report. In his reaction to the report, however, Dr Van der Merwe noted that legislative change would be greatly facilitated by labour/employer agreement, and he therefore suggested that SACCOLA should discuss its proposals with union federations.
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- Date Issued: 1988-08-04
The late Archaean Dominion Group, South Africa: petrogenesis of flood-type basalts and their mantle sources
- Authors: Marsh, Julian S , Rogers, N W , Bowen, M P , Bowen, T B
- Date: 1988
- Language: English
- Type: text , abstracts
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131690 , vital:36721
- Description: The Dominion group has an age of 2.7 - 2.8 Ga and is the earliest of the cover sequences overlying the granite greenstone terrane in the western part of the Archaean Kaapvaal Craton, southern Africa. The Dominion group is largely built of volcanic rocks and is preserved over an area of 15,000 km² with a maximum thickness of 2.7 km.
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- Date Issued: 1988