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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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1986 WAGE Negotiations

- The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees Union

Authors: The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees Union
Date: 1986
Subjects: The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees Union
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136306 , vital:37360
Description: The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees' Union have made big demands for higher wages and shorter working hours to the bosses of the hotels. This is because wages are far too low for hotel workers while working hours are very long. These demands will be discussed at the Industrial Council, where your union representatives will argue for big improvements in working conditions. But we can expect strong opposition from the bosses who have their own representatives on the Industrial Council. So the union campaign for higher wages will not be easy! But we must win it because workers and their families are suffering and the union campaign is our only hope. The fight will not be won at the Industrial Council, however - it will be won in the hotels. We have to build up the union's strength in each and every hotel so that the bosses see that we are determined to win our demands. This booklet will help you to build up the workers' organisation in your hotel. Use it to discuss the union campaign so that every worker knows what part he or she has to play.
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Date Issued: 1986

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A cultural magazine - eKapa

- Labour Research Service

Authors: Labour Research Service
Date: 1986
Subjects: LRS
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250684 , vital:52038
Description: These are bitter times in our lives. Crossroads have become a fountain of pain from which all are forced to drink. What do the vultures want with us? Our children cry day and night from hunger and the cold, and now, the ever falling rain. You see we have become a symbol. A symbol of defiance and of the courage of all our struggling people. This too is a part of our land, so why must we be moved? Some of the community have sold out for silver. They are now like cochcroaches in sour-milk. The police with all their guns, could not do their business here. I read of Ayanda Silika. He is dead now. The police took him away. They said that he shot a policeman from Pretoria. The police said that they had to do their business early in the morning. Why could they not come in the brightness of the sun, for all to see? Because, we had made this place for us. That is a reason why our houses are burnt and our lives are scattered. Ayanda Solika was 23 when they killed him. In 1976 he was 13 years old when Hector Petersen was killed. Like so many of these young comrades who battle without fear. I get strength from all this. The embers of Soweto 76 and the embers of Crossroads, are part of the same fire. And the Phoenix always rises from the ashes. Tomorrow we will still be here. And those who have gone will come back again. And we will live here like before. And the vultures can come, but those who run will be few. We the many will stand for we are gaining strength. Even now we are building again. Have they not heard our song of our people who fall, like leaves from a tree, but the tree still stands. That is a song of our lives.
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Date Issued: 1986

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A phenomenological analysis of the psychological manifestations of ontic conscience as derived from Heidegger's ontological conception of that phenomenon

- Parker, Michael Alan

Authors: Parker, Michael Alan
Date: 1986
Subjects: Conscience , Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2911 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002076
Description: The aim of this study was to investigate ontic conscience, as derived from Heidegger's ontological conception of conscience, as it is lived in concrete experience. Having established, through a close examination of Heidegger's writings on conscience, a question which would elicit actual experience of this phenomenon, the researcher collected sixty-four written accounts of these experiences. Of these he chose the four psychologically richest accounts and, having interviewed each of these four subjects on his situated experience, analysed in detail (using the phenomenological method) the resulting protocols comprising the written accounts and interviews. He then explicated the structure of conscience within its context of authenticity and inauthenticity. The context of conscience was discovered to be such that the person, having surrendered himself to others' experience and expectations of him, lives a pretence in the service of (inauthentically) being-for-others. He loses his sense of (bodily) self in the process, and it is at this point of his living at the extremes of inauthenticity, that he is forced to realise his own (authentic) reality which he has hitherto been concealing both from himself and from others. His primary attunement is reflected in feelings of betrayal, guilt, shame, dread and ambivalence. Through openly and resolutely living his authentic experience, he heals the rupture in his existence between what is revealed (his being-for-others) and what is concealed (his authentic experience), and feels liberated in so doing. This structure of conscience was dialogued with the writings of existential and psychoanalytic philosophers and psychologists in the context of discussing particular areas of psychological significance such as self, others, meaning, awareness and psychotherapy.
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Date Issued: 1986

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An analytical study of narrative techniques in Giono's Regain

- Abel, Hermione

Authors: Abel, Hermione
Date: 1986
Subjects: French fiction , Novels , Criticism , Symbolism , Regain , Giono, Jean, 1895-1970 -- Criticism and interpretation
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:3561 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002008
Description: The dominant theme in Regain is that of death leading to rebirth. This dissertation attempts to explore Giono's narrative techniques within this context. No single chapter will be devoted to a specific technique; instead, the various devices used by the author are discussed as they emerge from the structure of the chapters. Justifying the field of study as defined in the "Introduction", the following three chapters outline the passage of life from death to eventual rebirth. With acknowledgement to Frank Kermode, who writes: "A concord of past, present and future three dreams which, as Augustine said, cross in our minds, as in the present of things past, the present of things present, and the present of things future" ¹, the first three chapters bear his terminology for their headings. Chapter One, "The Present of Things Past", deals with Mameche's loss of her husband and son. Chapter Two, "The Present of Things Present", focuses upon Mameche' s realization of Gaubert's departure, and the decision that she must do something to save the dying village of Aubignane. Chapter Three, "The Present of Things Future", sees Mameche setting out in search of a wife for Panturle, and succeeding. This brings to an end Part One of the novel. Interwoven throughout the chapters are paradigms from Greek mythology, rich in universal symbolism, and the author's belief in man's ability to fuse himself with his surroundings. The conclusion summarizes the findings of this study, attempting to show how an analysis of Giono's narrative technique provides an insight into such a novel as Regain. ¹The Sense of an Ending (London: Oxford University Press, 1966), rpt., 1970, p. 50.
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Date Issued: 1986

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An examination of Aristotelian modality

- Munshi, Salma

Authors: Munshi, Salma
Date: 1986
Subjects: Aristotle , Modality (Theory of knowledge)
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2703 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001978
Description: From introduction: A popular misconception regarding Aristotle's views on modality is that Aristotle adhered to the doctrine of no unrealized possibilities. According to this doctrine, all possibilities are realized in time; in other words, if it is possible that something could happen, then at some time it is the case that that happens. For example, if it is possible for Socrates to escape from prison, then there will be a time at which Socrates will actually escape from prison. On this view, the possible and the actual co-incide; whereas there is abundant evidence that Aristotle was careful to maintain a distinction between the possible and the actual.
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Date Issued: 1986

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An investigation into the possible causes of the difference between the boys' and girls' drop-out rate in mathematics at the end of the junior secondary phase of education

- Oberholster, E J

Authors: Oberholster, E J
Date: 1986
Subjects: Mathematical ability , Gender , Mathematics teaching , Drop-out rate , Junior secondary
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
Identifier: vital:1351 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001417
Description: In the past two decades much research in the field of Mathematics in Education has dealt with boy- girl differences. In the 1960's sex differences in mathematical achievement played an important role in research. The results of more recent and better controlled studies seem to indicate that overall boy-girl differences in mathematical achievement are probably negligible at the Primary stage and exist at the Secondary stage principally in areas involving spatial visualization and problem solving.
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Date Issued: 1986

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BTR SARMCOL Strike update Feb. 1986

- MAWU, COSATU

Authors: MAWU, COSATU
Date: Feb 1986
Subjects: MAWU, COSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/111225 , vital:33416
Description: CHRISTMAS Day 1985 in Howick/Mpophomeni marked the 34th week of the strike by Sarmcol workers over the recognition of trade union rights by the Company. While local white residents of HowicK planned their Christmas festivities the Sarmcol strikers still entirely dependant on the small weekly food parcels supplied by MAWU, planned to bring home to local Sanncol management their determination to secure their reinstatement at the factory and the recognition of MAWU. Accordingly on Christmas Day the strikers and their families dressed in black, took buses into the white CBD of Howick to attend the morning Christmas church service at the local Anglican Church — the church of Senior Sarmcol management. Most of the strikers were told to sit in a corner wing of the church while the others stood outside. However at Communion the white Anglicans including Mr. Sampson, the Sarmcol financial director, were joined by the Anglicans amongst the strikers. The morning service was sombre but peaceful. After the service the strikers who rwere unable to afford the transport fares decided to walk back to their homes which in terms of South Africa’s grand apartheid plans have been located over 20 kins from Howick. The march which was led by sympathetic priests from the area, was closely followed by the SA Police who waited until the strikers had gone beyond the white residential areas and then broke up the procession and forced the strikers to board buses from the nearby Merrivale bus rank. In order to keep Christmas a peaceful day the strikers did not resist and boarded the buses back to their township. In the township the strikers gathered outside the church for a brief discussion and prayer and reconfirmed their determination to continue their struggle against BTR irrespective of the cost.
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Date Issued: Feb 1986

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Competition and segmentation : an analysis of wage determination and labour adjustments in manufacturing industry

- McCartan, Patrick John

Authors: McCartan, Patrick John
Date: 1986
Subjects: Labour supply , Labour market , Competition , South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:927 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001453
Description: The thesis itself proceeds according to the following outline. Chapter One is concerned with the neoclassical theory of the labour market. Three particular models are surveyed all of which attempt to explain wage differentials and labour adjustments within a competitive equilibrium framework. The basic model of the labour market which rests upon the marginal productivity theory of labour demand, the utility-maximising approach to labour supply and the competitive theory of market equilibrium is dealt with first.This is followed by an outline of human capital theory which emphasises the crucial role played by education and training in determining individual earnings . Finally, attention is focused on disequilibrium wage models of adjustment which account for wage dispersion in terms of the amount and quality of information available to transactors in the labour market.(Introduction, p. 3-4)
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Date Issued: 1986

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COSATU Resolutions

- COSATU

Authors: COSATU
Date: Feb 1986
Subjects: COSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135007 , vital:37226
Description: South Africa is going through its severest economic crisis ever with millions unemployed, retrenched and without any jobs and with no social security or benefits; the cost of which is measured in the loss of lives, through poverty and starvation, and massive degradation and demoralisation of the workers and all the oppressed people in SA. The economic crisis is part and parcel of a political crisis. The state is incapable of meeting even the minimum democratic demands of the people and has to instead resort to violent measures to stifle all opposition. The present state of emergency with its accompanying arrests of thousands of people, the killing of hundreds and banning of democratic organisations such as COSAS also affects workers.
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Date Issued: Feb 1986

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Elie Wiesel's fictional universe : the paradox of the mute narrator

- Berman, Mona

Authors: Berman, Mona
Date: 1986
Subjects: Wiesel, Elie, 1928- -- Criticism and interpretation , Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives , Auschwitz , Narration , Silence , English literature , Criticism
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2178 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001829
Description: The approach I have chosen for my study is to analyse the narrative techniques in Wiesel's fiction, with particular emphasis on the role of the narrator and listener in the narratives. This will not only highlight aspects of his authorial strategy involving the reader's response to various dimensions of the Holocaust, but will allow an appraisal of the literary merit of Wiesel's novels. The hushed reverence that tends to accompany allusions to Auschwitz and its literature has impeded certain theoretical investigations, with the result that most critical studies undertaken on Wiesel's works have dealt predominantly with themes and content rather than with form. A narrative approach, however, while it accounts for themes, does so within the narrative process of the work. Form and content are examined as interwoven entities in the particular context of an individual work. My decision to adopt this pursuit is based on the conviction that Wiesel's fiction is a significant contribution to the literature of testimony, not only because of its subject matter, but also because of the way in which his narrators unfold their stories with words suspended by silence in the text. The paradox of the mute narrator, the title of my study, is intended to convey the paradoxical quality of Wiesel's fiction and to show how silence, which is manifested in the themes of his work, is concretized by his strategy of entrusting the transmission of the tale to narrators, who, for various reasons have been silenced. A mute by definition cannot emit an articulate sound. A narrator, on the other hand, is a storyteller who is reliant on verbal articulation for communication. This contradiction in terms is dramatized in the novels and is symptomatic of the dilemma of Wiesel's narrators who are compelled to bear testimony through their silence. In my study of Wiesel's fiction, I will follow the chronological sequence in which the novels were written, although I will not be using a developmental approach, except to point out that the trilogy which marks the beginning of his exploration into narrative strategies, and The Testament, the last book I will be dealing with, are a culmination of his previous fictional techniques. While a developmental analysis of his fiction, particularly from a thematic point of view, enables the reader to gain insight into his background, which is important in a comprehensive study of his works, I feel that this avenue of investigation has been competently dealt with by other critics. Ellen Fine's Legacy of Night, one of the first book-length studies of Wiesel, puts forward a convincing argument for examining his fiction in chronological sequence as a kind of serialized journey from being a witness in l'univers concentrationnaire to bearing - witness in a post-Holocaust world. Furthermore, it is possible to trace the direction Wiesel's fiction follows, as in each book the seeds are sown for new ideas which are expanded upon in subsequent books. My discussion, however, will deal with the narrative process of each novel as an individual work in its own particular context. Apart from the trilogy which is examined in one chapter, and The Testament which serves as a conclusion to the study, I have not used cross references to Wiesel's other fiction when analysing specific books. Moreover, I have deliberately avoided including Wiesel's comments on his works and references to them in his essays, interviews and non-fiction writing. The reason for this approach is that I consider each novel to be a separate narrative work which merits an interpretative response that is independent of the comparative criteria that has up to now influenced the assessment of his fiction. (Introduction, p. 12-14)
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Date Issued: 1986

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Graphicacy and the third dimension: an investigation into the problem of poor performance in relief mapwork in South African secondary schools

- Burton, Michael St. John Whitehead

Authors: Burton, Michael St. John Whitehead
Date: 1986
Subjects: Graphicacy , Maps , Map reading , Visualisation , Geography , Secondary education , South Africa , Pupils , Learners , Teachers
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
Identifier: vital:1358 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001424
Description: Three-dimensional graphicacy is the part of map work that appears to be the most problematIcal. Bartz (1970) says that thinking and visualising in three-dimensional space is difficult enough, but trying to derive notions in three-dimensions, when you have only seen them as they are represented in distorted two-dimensional fashion, is even more difficult. Yet pupils of geography are required to learn such three-dimensional concepts from the two-dimensional distorted map presentations. The geography teacher has an important educational role to play in promoting graphicacy and Balchin (1965), who coined the term, felt that it should be an essential underpinning of an integrated education. The problem is that children perform badly, teachers are not successfully imparting three-dimensional graphicacy skills and as Board and Taylor (1977) indicate, for some time now it has been fashionable to dismiss maps as being irrelevant or useless in geographical research. This thesis attempts to analyse this reported malady, the problems are exposed and solutions offered. Investigation of the literature, with the aim of clarifying the problems involved, follows four leads. These are the part played by the map as a mode of communication, the physical processes involved in mapwork revealed by work in the realm of neurophysiology, the process of visualisation in the field of perception and psychology, and finally the stage of conceptual development of the mapworker. The state of affairs in South Africa is disclosed by an analysis of teacher-directed literature, of examination syllabuses, of text-book treatment of three-dimensional mapwork in South Africa and overseas, of past examination questions, and finally of teachers' views. Experimental exercises have been executed in an attempt to link the key findings of published research to the local scene. Conclusions are then drawn, and recommendations made for improving three-dimensional graphicacy in South African secondary schools.
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Date Issued: 1986

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High performance liquid chromatographic analysis of oleandomycin in serum and urine

- Stubbs, Christopher, Haigh, John M, Kanfer, Isadore

Authors: Stubbs, Christopher , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
Date: 1986
Language: English
Type: text , Article
Identifier: vital:6429 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006590
Description: The determination of oleandomycin in serum and urine by high-performance liquid chromatography using erythromycin as internal standard is described. The separation was achieved on a reversed-phase C 1 s column employing acetonitrile-0.05 A4 phosphate buffer (30:70), adjusted to pH 7.0, as the mobile phase with UV detection at 200 nm. A solid-phase extraction procedure, combined with a simple phaseseparation step was used prior to chromatographic analysis. Linear calibration curves were obtained in the concentration ranges 0.25-5.0 pg/ml (serum) and 1 .O-25.0 pg/ml (urine). Precise quantitative analysis has been achieved at these levels with relative standard deviations of < 5%.
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Date Issued: 1986

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LACOM News issue 2 November 1986

- LACOM, SACHED

Authors: LACOM, SACHED
Date: Nov 1986
Subjects: LACOM, SACHED
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117787 , vital:34559
Description: On June 16th 1976 the youth of Soweto once again opened the struggle against Bantu Education. It is now 10 years later and COSATU has united the workers movement more than ever before. Workers must now become active in the struggle against Bantu Education. As we show in this booklet the struggles of the youth against Bantu Education are part of the struggle of the working class, part of the struggle against oppression and exploitation. On June 16th 1976, 20 000 students started a peaceful march through Soweto to protest against Afrikaans being used as the medium of instruction in schools The police opened fire and were shot and killed. 1976 was the year in which the bitter anger of the youth of our land spilt over. The reaction of the state was violent and direct. Hundreds of our youth were murdered or maimed, others tortured and tried and many more had to flee the borders of the land to avoid the cruel sjambok of the police state. It was the year of SOWETO. It was the year in which students once again saw the need to protest against the rot in their education system. It was a year of blood, fire and bullets . Ten long years of determined struggle have followed since then and there has been no peace. Hundreds - even thousands - of our youth have died in ongoing State violence in our country. The working class has been drawn directly into this bitter struggle. It has suffered the loss of its sons and daughters. It has mourned their deaths. Together with the students, thousands of workers have been brutalized and attacked by the State and its collaborators. Sadly, these events have often left some workers confused, powerless and even divided. As workers we must clearly understand what June 16th means for the working class in this sick and violent society.
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Date Issued: Nov 1986

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LACOM News issue 2 November 1986 - JUNE 16 AND THE WORKING CLASS

- SACHED

Authors: SACHED
Date: Nov 1986
Subjects: SACHED
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119178 , vital:34709
Description: On June 16th 1976 the youth of Soweto once again opened the struggle against Bantu Education. On June 16th 1976 the youth of Soweto once again opened the struggle against Bantu Education. As we show in this booklet the struggles of the youth against Bantu Education are part of the struggle of the working class, part of the struggle against oppression and exploitation. On June 16th 1976, 20 000 students started a peaceful march through Soweto to protest against Afrikaans being used as the medium of instruction in schools. The police opened fire and were shot and killed. 1976 was the year in which the bitter anger of the youth of our land spilt over. The reaction of the state was violent and direct. Hundreds of our youth were murdered or maimed, others tortured and tried and many more had to flee the borders of the land to avoid the cruel sjambok of the police state. It was the year of SOWETO.
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Date Issued: Nov 1986

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