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The Argus: Mandela, the road to freedom

- Cruywagen, Dennis, Drysdale, Andrew

Authors: Cruywagen, Dennis , Drysdale, Andrew
Date: 1990-02-06
Subjects: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994 , Apartheid -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76128 , vital:30509
Description: Months were spent researching and preparing this four-part series on the dramatic events surrounding NELSON MANDELA, the life-term prisoner who has cast a larger than life shadow on South African politics. Staff writer DENNIS CRUYWAGEN travelled extensively to interview at first hand — or by other means, where necessary — those stalwart ANC veterans who were convicted in the Rivonia Treason Trial and jailed with Mandela. He talked, too, to members of the Mandela family, politicians, lawyers and many others who were close to or knowledgeable about the ANC leader. Official records and other sources on the life and times of Nelson Mandela were also consulted. Compiling the vast amount of information sometimes led to unusual situations. For instance, Mrs Winnie Mandela, always pressed for time, was interviewed — not in her home in Diepkloof, Soweto, as arranged but in a hired car in a Johannesburg traffic jam while following a vehicle driven by her driver. She was late for another appointment. Drawn from various sources this series sets out to reconstruct an overview of 25 years and more of political and personal drama, passion and poignancy. , Supplement to The Argus, Tuesday February 6 1990 , Exclusive Part 1
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Date Issued: 1990-02-06

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Oxygen isotope geochemistry of the Mesozoic volcanics of the Etendeka Formation, Namibia

- Harris, Chris, Smith, H Stuart, Milner, Simon C, Erlank, Anthony J, Duncan, Andrew R, Marsh, Julian S, Ikin, Nicholas P

Authors: Harris, Chris , Smith, H Stuart , Milner, Simon C , Erlank, Anthony J , Duncan, Andrew R , Marsh, Julian S , Ikin, Nicholas P
Date: 1989
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143272 , vital:38219 , https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00371087
Description: The Etendeka Formation volcanics consist of a bimodal association of basalts and quartz latites. Forty three new whole rock oxygen isotope analyses are reported for all the major magma types. All the rocks except a minor suite of dolerites have higher δ18O values than normal mantle. The basic rocks (average of 29=8.8‰) have significantly different δ18O to the acid rocks (average of 10=14.4‰). These data are apparently consistent with previously published petrogenetic models, which propose that the basalts were affected by crustal contamination and that the quartz latites are crustally derived.
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Date Issued: 1989

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The IMSSA Review Number 8

- INDEPENDENT MEDIATION SERVICE OF SOUTH AFRICA (IMSSA)

Authors: INDEPENDENT MEDIATION SERVICE OF SOUTH AFRICA (IMSSA)
Date: 1989
Subjects: IMSSA
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176085 , vital:42658
Description: The first six months of 1989 has proved to be as busy as predicted, and the demand for mediation and arbitration services has increased steadily during this period. Year on year, whereas there were some 120 mediations and 75 arbitrations during the first six months of 1988, there were 195 mediations and 117 arbitrations during the first six months of 1989. This increase in demand may be attributed to a number of factors. In the first place, with the ever increasing unionisation of workers in South Africa a wider range of parties are resorting to third party intervention to resolve disputes. Secondly, labour and management who have had experience of mediation and arbitration, have continued to use third party neutrals to assist them in the process of dispute resolution. And thirdly, given the current political climate and the attitude of the major trade union federations to the recent amendments to the Labour Relations Act, it is apparent that parties are turning with greater frequency to independent third party neutrals to assist them resolve conflict. There are, for example, an increasing number of recognition agreements which require that conflicts of right be adjudicated through private arbitration under the auspices of IMSSA. Some German multinationals have, in accordance with the IG Metaal Code of Conduct for German investors in South Africa, agreed to refer disputes of right to private arbitration. IMSSA has for some time now been cited in the disputes procedures of many recognition agreements as the source of mediators.
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Date Issued: 1989

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Pharmacokinetics of phenylpropanolamine in humans after a single dose study

- Dowse, Roslind, Haigh, John M, Kanfer, Isadore

Authors: Dowse, Roslind , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
Date: 1987
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6363 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006059
Description: The pharmacokinetics of phenylpropanolamine have been studied in healthy human volunteers following the oral administration of an aqueous solution of the drug (50 mg/200 ml). Blood and urine samples collected throughout the trial were assayed using HPLC with UV detection. The drug was shown to be rapidly absorbed with a mean tmax of 1.47 ± 0.49 h and a mean elimination half-life of 4.0 ± 0.5 h. Phenylpropanolamine is predominantly excreted via the kidney with a mean renal clearance of 0.646 ± 0.089 liter/kg/h and 90.2 ± 1.7% excreted unchanged in the urine. The data were not well described using conventional one or two body compartment models. However, the incorporation of a discontinuous absorption phase into the models resulted in an improved overall fit with better characterisation of the absorption phase.
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Date Issued: 1987

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Presidential address - Second National Congress

- COSATU

Authors: COSATU
Date: July 1987
Subjects: COSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135354 , vital:37259
Description: Comrade delegates International and local guests Friends and compatriots I wish to welcome you to COSATU's Second National Congress This Congress is taking place at a time when the conflict between the forces trying to maintain the system and the forces of social progress is hotter then ever; when masses of our people are in a state of near permanent upsurge and when nearly everyone is now realising that the apparent iron fortress of the ruling class is breaking down. As we are meeting today, we are doing so united by the deep-seated feeling that victory is certain. Because of that, we must be clear that our Congress is an important milestone in our march towards our total freedom. With unity and clarity of purpose, we must deliberate on all the issues that are put before this Congress and take such decisions as are necessary to take the struggles of the working class in particular, and of the mass democratic movement in general, forward.
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Date Issued: July 1987

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Briefing paper two: the National Security Management System

Date: 1986-06?
Subjects: National Security Management System (South Africa) , National security -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76903 , vital:30635
Description: The aim of the government' s state of emergency in June 1986 was to try and bring the country under control through the use of force. Tens of thousands of people were detained, and many were tilled. At the same time, the government has been building a National Security Management System (NSMS). This is a series of structures throughout South Africa, designed to defend apartheid. The main type of structure is called a Joint Management Centre (JHC). Before we explain what a JMC is and what it does, it is useful to know where the idea for a National Security Management System comes from.
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Date Issued: 1986-06?

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A stability-indicating HPLC assay with on-line clean-up for betamethasone 17-valerate in topical dosage forms

- Smith, Eric W, Haigh, John M, Kanfer, Isadore

Authors: Smith, Eric W , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
Date: 1985
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6421 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006556
Description: A stability-indicating high-performance liquid chromatographic method with on-line clean-up has been developed for the analysis of betamethasone 17-valerate in topical dosage forms. A short pre-column containing 10 μm octadecylsilane mounted into the sample loop position of an injection valve was used as the primary clean-up step. The utilization of a diode-array UV detector allowed the quantitative analysis of betamethasone 17-valerate together with its degradation product, betamethasone 21-valerate, as well as the qualitative analysis of these compounds, relevant internal standards and the preservatives chlorocresol and methyl hydroxybenzoate contained in the cream and lotion formulations, respectively. Typically, cream and lotion dosage forms were dissolved in acetonitrile and ointments in tetrahydrofuran, internal standards added and aliquots injected onto the analytical system. Dosage form excipients were retained on the loop column and back-flushed to waste with the aid of a second solvent pump while components of interest were allowed to transfer to the analytical column for quantitative analysis. The method is accurate, precise and stability indicating and permits the rapid on-line analysis of betamethasone 17-valerate from complex topical formulation matrices without prior extractions.
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Date Issued: 1985

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The distribution of the Pied Starling, and southern African biogeography

- Craig, Adrian J F K

Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K
Date: 1985
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447882 , vital:74681 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1985.9639580
Description: The Pied Starling is restricted to South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, but within this region it occupies a variety of habitats. Its modern distribution is certainly influenced by its association with man. However, a comparison with other vertebrate species, and with patterns of plant distribution, suggests that its geographical distribution has been determined primarily by its evolutionary history. A hypothesis for the origin of this species leads to several predictions concerning biogeography in southern Africa.
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Date Issued: 1985

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Workers News - Special Issue

- Cape Town Municipal Workers Association

Authors: Cape Town Municipal Workers Association
Date: Jan 1985
Subjects: Cape Town Municipal Workers Association
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135520 , vital:37273
Description: Members have shown tremendous interest in the Industrial Court Hearing relating to the Wage Dispute with the City Council. In addition to personal enquiries, we have received hundreds of telephone calls asking for progress reports. The calls are still coming in. It is in response to this clamour for information, as well as the Union’s commitment to keep members informed, that it was decided to bring out this SPECIAL ISSUE of WORKER NEWS. We hope that members will now be better informed on the latest developments.
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Date Issued: Jan 1985

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A new species of the triggerfish genus Xenobalistes matsuura (Tetradontiformes: Balistidae) from South Africa

- Heemstra, Phillip C, Smith, Margaret Mary, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Smith, Margaret Mary , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1983-01
Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa , Fishes -- Classification , Balistidae -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69968 , vital:29603 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 26 , Xenobalistes punctatus, the second species of the peculiar balistid genus Xenobalistes, is described from one specimen found on the beach at the mouth of the Van Stadens River, eastern Cape Province, South Africa. X. punctatus differs significantly from X. tumidipectoris Matsuura, 1981 in the number of body scale rows and spination of the anterolateral surface of the first dorsal-fin spine. The head and body of X. punctatus are dark brown, covered with numerous, small, evenly-spaced, silvery/white spots.
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Date Issued: 1983-01

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