Absenteeism in the footwear industry in South Africa
- Authors: Townsend, A C
- Date: 1967
- Subjects: Absenteeism (Labor) -- South Africa , Footwear industry -- South Africa , Employees -- South Africa , South Africa -- Industries
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3384 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013408
- Description: From Introduction: During the past three decades or more, the study of absenteeism in industry has been carried on in many different ways, by numerous investigators and in a wide range of industries. The purpose of such studies has varied; sometimes they have been stimulated by purely academic interest and have sought to investigate the relationship between absenteeism and various other measurable factors in the work situation such as age, race, sex, length of service and wage rates. Most studies, however, have been prompted by the urgent necessity to determine whether an absence problem existed within a specific factory, community or industry and to discover some effective means of dealing with it. Most studies have been empirical and pragmatic as has befitted their intentions. Inevitably, those who have conducted studies of the latter type have asked two questions (a) how do the absence rates emerging from this investigation compare with those from other studies and (b) are they 'normal' or 'abnormal'? In other words, does the data which has been gathered indicate the existence of an absence problem? The main purpose of this monograph is to demonstrate that the Gross Absence Rate is not an effective basis for the discovery of answers to either of these questions. It will seek, in other words, to demonstrate the truth of the following fundamental postulate: THE GROSS ABSENCE RATE IS NOT, IN ITSELF, A SUFFICIENT BASIS FOR THE COMPARISON OF THE ABSENCE BEHAVIOUR OF ONE GROUP OF WORKERS WITH THAT OF ANOTHER OR WITH A PRE-ESTABLISHED NORM, NOR IS IT AN ADEQUATE INDICATOR OF THE PRESENCE OR OTHERWISE OF AN ABSENCE PROBLEM AMONG ANY GIVEN GROUP OF WORKERS. Although this study will include some account of investigations into the relationship between absence rates and various socio-economic factors, it will do so primarily in order to seek support for the above postulate.
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- Date Issued: 1967
A hermeneutical study of the Midrashic influences of biblical literature on the narrative modes, aesthetics, and ethical concerns in the novels of George Eliot
- Authors: Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn
- Date: 1993
- Subjects: Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Criticism and interpretation Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Language Eliot, George, 1819-1880 - Style Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Felix Holt Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Adam Bede Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Mill on the Floss Midrash -- History and criticism Midrash -- Hermeneutics Prophecy in literature Judaism in literature Jews in literature Symbolism in literature
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2236 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002279
- Description: The thesis will examine the influence of Biblical literature on some of the novels of George Eliot. In doing so it will consider the following aspects of Eliot criticism: current theoretical debate about the use of midrash; modes of discourse and narrative style; prophetic language and vision; the influence of Judaism and Jewish exegetical methods on Adam Bede, "The Lifted Veil", The Mill on the Floss, Felix Holt, and Daniel Deronda. Literary critics have, for a long time, been interested in the influence of the Bible and Biblical hermeneutics on literature and the extent to which Biblical narratives and themes are used typologically and allegorically in fiction has been well researched. In this regard, the concept of midrash is not a new one in literary theory. It refers both to a genre of writing and to an ancient Rabbinic method of exegesis. It has, however, been given new meaning by literary critics and theoriticians such as Frank Kermode, Harold Bloom, and Jacques Derrida. In The Genesis of Secrecy, Kermode gives a new nuance to the word and demonstrates how it may be used to read not only Biblical stories but secular literature as well. It is an innovative, self-reflexive, and intricate hermeneutic processs which has been used by scholars such as Geoffrey Hartman and Sanford Budick, editors of Midrash and Literature, a seminal work in this thesis. Eliot's interest in Judaism and her fascination with religion, religious writing, and religious characters are closely connected to her understanding of the novelist's role as an interpreter of stories. In this regard, the prophetic figure as poet, seer, and interpreter of the past, present, and future of society is of special significance. The thesis will investigate Eliot's reinterpretation of this important Biblical type as well as her retelling of Biblical stories. It will attempt to establish the extent to which Eliot's work may be called midrash, and enter the current debate on how and why literary works have been and can be interpreted. It will address the questions of why Eliot, who abjures normative religious faith, has such a profound interest in the Bible, how the Bible serves her creative purposes, why she is interested in Judaism, and to what extent the latter informs and permeates her novels.
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- Date Issued: 1993
The impact of the broadcast legislative reforms on the newsroom staff's perceptions of the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC)'s editorial operations and news content
- Authors: Hamasaka, Clayson
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Public broadcasting -- Zambia Mass media -- Management -- Zambia Broadcasting -- Law and legislation -- Zambia Broadcasting -- Political aspects -- Zambia
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3432 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002886
- Description: The 1980s and 1990s saw major changes in the political landscape of the media in many countries that were either reverting or emerging from repressive nondemocratic regimes. Among the notable changes in media industry was the opening up of the national airwaves, which had been a state monopoly, to private sector and community participation. The democratic dispensation also put state broadcasters in the spot-light regarding their editorial content which was previously ‘institutionalised’ as belonging to the ruling regimes. This study set out to investigate the extent to which broadcasting reform legislation meant to address the unfair coverage of contending voices on Zambia’s public broadcaster has had an impact in reversing the situation in the newsroom. Using qualitative methods of investigation, the study established that while the ZNBC staff understand aspects of their role in their newsroom in relation to the principles of public service broadcasting and in line with the enacted legislation, they perceive that, in practice, they have to ensure that the news content still remains a reserve of a few voices in favour of the ruling regime. This was evidenced by testimonies from the news staff’s complaints of continued editorial interference in their work by government leaders and government appointed gatekeepers, as well as selfcensorship. The study recommends, among other things, the full implementation of the recently enacted laws on the operations of ZNBC in order to achieve some minimum levels of being a public broadcaster. It further recommends a serious re-orientation of the ZNBC newsroom and management staff to the current legislative requirements so as to shift their mindset away from their traditionally-held views of thinking that news at that station is only for the ruling regime.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Changes and continuities in the labour process on commercial farms in post-Apartheid South Africa : studies from Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces
- Authors: Kheswa, Nomzamo Sybil
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Rural conditions , KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Rural conditions , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Social conditions , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Social conditions , Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3366 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011978 , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Agricultural wages -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Rural conditions , KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- Rural conditions , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Social conditions , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Social conditions , Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Agricultural laborers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Description: This thesis examines the agricultural labour process on commercial farms in post-apartheid South Africa with a particular focus on systems of labour control on these farms. Considerable literature exists about the labour process in capitalist society but the capitalist labour process does not exist in any pure form. Rather, different labour processes exist and the specific form they take depends on spatial and temporal conditions. Additionally, labour processes are often economic sector-specific. Because of variation in capitalist labour processes, differences in systems of labour control (or labour control regimes) also arise. Historically, up until the end of apartheid in 1994, the labour control regime on commercial farms in South Africa was marked by a paternalistic despotism of a racialised kind. This in part reflected the fact that commercial farms were simultaneously sites of both economic production and social reproduction and, further, they were very privatised agrarian spaces largely unregulated (specifically with regard to labour) by the state. Since the end of apartheid, commercial farms have been subjected to multiple pressures. Notably, the South African state has strongly intervened in labour relations on commercial farms, and commercial farms have been subjected to ongoing neo-liberal restructuring. This has led to the prospects of changes in the prevailing labour control system on commercial farms. In this context, the thesis pursues the following key objective: to understand changes and continuities in the labour process on commercial farms – and particularly labour control systems – subsequent to the end of apartheid in South Africa. It does so with reference to four farms in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces.
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- Date Issued: 2014
Uphononongo ngokobunzululwazi bume-ntlalo befuthe lasentshona kule mihla kwiincwadi zedrama: ekaqangule esihloko sithi “amaza” nekatamsanqa ethi “buzani kubawo.”
- Authors: Somkebe, Pindo Cynthia
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Xhosa drama -- Criticism and interpretation Xhosa literature
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20844 , vital:29406
- Description: Umba wokuguquka kwamaxesha nefuthe laseNtshona kudale uqhankqalazo, ungquzulwano novukelwano oludale unxunguphalo phakathi komzali nomntwana wakhe. Olu phando lugxile kakhulu kwincwadi kaTamsanqa ethi ‘Buzani kubawo’ nekaQangule ethi ‘Amaza’. Kuyafumaniseka ukuba ungquzulwano kwezi Drama zimbini lwenziwe kukudibana kwenkcubeko yaseNtshona neyemveli, zangquzulana. Abalinganiswa bamacala omabini baye banezinye iingqondo ezingahambelaniyo nelinye icala. Abalinganiswa abaziintloko bezi Drama zombini (ulutsha) bakholelwa kwinkcubeko yaseNtshona, babe abazali babo bona bekholelwa kwinkcubeko yemveli. Naxa abantu benkcubeko yemveli babeqhubeka nenkcubeko yabo yemveli, babengayithandi inkcubeko yaseNtshona eyamkelwe ngabantwana babo, ebenza ukuba bayijongele phantsi inkcubeko yabo yemveli. Apha ndizama ukuveza ukuguquka kwamaxesha ngenxa yefuthe laseNtshona okudale uqhankqalazo, ungquzulwano novukelwano phakathi komzali nomntwana nendlela oku kudala ngayo iyantlukwano ekuhlaleni naphakathi kwesizwe siphela. Oku kuza kwenziwa ngokuthi kuphononongwe nzulu ezi ncwadi zimbini zeDrama nendlela aba babhali abawudalance ngayo lo mcimbi wolu qhankqalazo. Ezinye izinto endiza kuziveza ziindlela zokuthetha ezithi zisetyenziswe ngabalinganiswa. Oku kwenziwa ngokuthi kugxeleshwe kakhulu kumagama nesigama esisetyenziswe ngaba babhali ukuzama ukuphuhlisa umxholo wabo. Unobangela wolu ngquzulwano kukuba abantu abadala abakholelwa kwinkcubeko yemveli bafuna ukuqweqwedisa abantwana abakholelwa kwinkcubeko yaseNtshona ukuba mabatshate ngenkani nabantu abangabathandiyo, nto leyo edale isiphelo esingekho sihle nokuphalala kwegazi kwezi Drama zimbini. Ngokuthe ngqo, ngokokucinga kwam, inkcubeko yaseAfrika ibonakala ikhuthaza ukuba ootata babenamalungelo angentla kwawoomama abashiyeka bona becinezelekile. Intwazana enguThobeka kuBuzani kubawo noNamhla kuAmaza bavezwe njengamaxhoba engcinezelo yamadoda xa bezibona sele begaxeleka emitshatweni namadoda abangawathandiyo. UThobeka utshatiswa noGugulethu angamaziyo ngenkani kuBuzani kubawo kanti uNamhla yena utshatiswa noSidima angamfuniyo, yena ezifunela uLizo wakhe kuAmaza. UThobeka uzibona ethobela abazali bakhe ngokuhamba aye eMthatha kuGugulethu ongamfuniyo kanti uyokuzibulalisa ngale ndoda kunye nabantwana athi ngabakhe. UNamhla kwelinye icala uthandana noLizo amthandayo ngoku angumfazi kaSidima, utshata noSidima ngomsesane abesele ewunikwe nguLizo. Unesibindi sokungenisa uLizo entangeni engekatshati kanti nangoku sele etshatile akayekanga ukungenisa uLizo apha kwaSidima. Apha ndiza kuveza uluvo lweengcali malunga neenkcubeko ezahlukileyo, unobangela wolu ngquzulwano neendlela ezinokwenziwa ukuthintela oku kungquzulana kule mihla siphila kuyo. Ukuqukumbela, isiphelo esibi sabalinganiswa senziwe kukunganyamezelani kwabantu abadala nabantwana benyanzelwa ngenkcubeko yemveli abangayifuniyo. Kuyinyaniso kona ukuba ngenxa yeenguqulelo ezininzi ezenzekileyo kweli, nezithe zalitshintsha ngokupheleleyo eli lizwe, uphando olutsha ngale miba lunganegalelo elikhulu. Ngoko ke, esi sifundo sigxile ekuphandeni nzulu ngendlela ephuhliswe ngayo le miba kwezi ncwadi zeDrama zimbini. Ababhali beethiyori ezahlukileyo ezisetyenziswe ekuhlalutyeni kolu phando benze kwakwazeka ukuchaza ngale miba yongquzulwano ngokunxulumene noncwadi. Inkcubeko ibonakala ingunozala nonobangela wendlela ubuni nongquzulwano obuthatyathwa ngayo ngabantu kwiintlanga zonke.
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- Date Issued: 2017