6th National Congress Resolutions
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152499 , vital:39284
- Description: COSATU must intervene in affiliates where it has identified problems, where problems have been brought to its attention and / or has been requested to do so. The CEC should draw guidelines on how and under which circumstances the federation and its structures may intervene taking into account clauses 3.9 and 3.10 of the constitution. Such intervention should not undermine affiliates where such problems exist. COSATU leadership must be visible during major disputes between affiliates and employers and co-ordinate solidarity with workers involved in such disputes.
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- Date Issued: 1996
6th National Congress Resolutions
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110205 , vital:33247
- Description: COSATU must intervene in affiliates where it has identified problems, where problems have been brought to its attention and / or has been requested to do so. The CEC should draw guidelines on how and under which circumstances the federation and its structures may intervene taking into account clauses 3.9 and 3.10 of the constitution. Such intervention should not undermine affiliates where such problems exist. COSATU leadership must be visible during major disputes between affiliates and employers and co-ordinate solidarity with workers involved in such disputes.
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- Date Issued: 1996
SACCAWU Medical Aid Plan
- Authors: SACCAWU
- Date: Dec 1997
- Subjects: SACCAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113700 , vital:33821
- Description: THE South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) launched a medical aid fund yesterday which the union said would be used as a springboard for the establishment of its own medical aid scheme. Saccawu assistant general secretary Herbet Mkhize said the fund would operate under Medscheme’s Meddent Medical Scheme for about nine months while the union conducted further research into establishing its own medical aid scheme. Mkhize said trade unions were no longer only competing with one another but also with legal firms that were now offering their services to workers. “Now a trade union has to convince potential members that it offers the best services, “Mkhize said. “When you try to recruit a member, they would like to know what they will get out of it. You tell them about getting legal representation when they are unfairly dismissed and they are members of Legalwise. “If you do not offer more than just representation, then you have lost those members,” he said. Mkhize said just as banks were now under threat from retail outlets which were now offering banking facilities, unions were under pressure to improve their benefits for members and also broaden the scope of benefits. The new fund was put together' by Medscheme’s Negotiated Benefits Unit (NBU) and follows three years of research by Saccawu. NBU head John Eagles said the fund was unique in that it enabled members to register parents as dependants and that it had a range of benefit options.
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- Date Issued: Dec 1997
The National minimum wage reader
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173584 , vital:42386
- Description: Low wages are a cause of poverty. They are unjust and they lead to economic inefficiency. Low pay is not the result of "market forces" or of individual productivity. It is the result of the vulnerability of certain sectors of the workforce and the cost structure of low-wage industries. A National Minimum Wage is a practical solution that has been adopted in many countries. It is one of the demands of the Freedom Charter. The National Minimum Wage can be developed by COSATU as a powerful campaign tool in the fight for a living wage . The National Campaigns Conference, held in May 1990, asked the Living Wage Working Croup "to establish what National Minimum Wage should be suggested to develop a program of action to achieve a National Minimum Wage". The conference agreed that the level of the National Minimum Wage will be decided at the second National Campaigns Conference in August 1990. This reader pulls together all the documents and resolutions that have guided the Living Wage Working Group in its work on the National Minimum Wage.
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- Date Issued: 1990
The Personal Wellbeing Index in the South African isiXhosa translation: a qualitative focus group study
- Authors: Moller, Valerie , Roberts, Benjamin J , Zani, Dalindyebo
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67125 , vital:29034 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-014-0820-6
- Description: publisher version , International scholars who rely on the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) to compare cross-cultural quality of life have often been confronted with the problems of nuances getting ‘lost in translation’. This qualitative study explored the meaning of the isiXhosa version of the PWI in focus group discussions with native speakers. Participants in the study discussed how they understood and rated their lives on each item in the index. The discourse conveyed the different shades of meaning associated with the PWI items of life satisfaction and eight domains of life. The study found that PWI items related to material well-being, living standards, achievements in life and future (financial) security were best understood. The PWI items referring to personal relationships and community connectedness were seen as nearly identical in meaning. Both translation and cultural factors may be responsible for the conflation of these two items. Noteworthy is that the PWI item on religion and spirituality was seen to embrace both Christian and traditional African beliefs and practice, without prejudice. A new item on daily activities was piloted with good results. The focus group study also showcased the manner in which discussants worked with the rating scale and drew on social comparisons when evaluating global and domain satisfactions. It is concluded that cognitive testing of PWI items in different translations will serve not only to appraise the validity of PWI ratings across cultures, but importantly also opens a window on what makes for a life of quality in a particular social setting.
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- Date Issued: 2015
Reading the signs : inaugural address delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: Seagrief, S C
- Date: 1976
- Subjects: Botany -- South Africa , Marine algae -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:667 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020736 , ISBN 0949980749
- Description: Inaugural address delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1976
The test for duress in the South African law of contract
- Authors: Glover, Graham B
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70756 , vital:29726 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC53682
- Description: Although it is well-known that a contract induced by duress is voidable at the instance of an aggrieved party, little analysis of this cause of action has been undertaken in South Africa. The test for duress developed by Wessels, and adopted by the courts in Broodryk v Smuts NO 1942 TPD 47, has exercised a vice-grip over this area of contract law. In this article, all five elements of the traditional South African test are subjected to critical examination, and their deficiencies are exposed and discussed. It is argued that the test is neither logically nor conceptually satisfactory, and has hampered development of this area of law. Trends in other jurisdictions, belonging to both the civil-law and the common-law families, are analysed and compared to South African law. On this basis a more modern and coherent test is proposed. This test would be two-pronged, and involve an assessment, in turn, of the lawfulness of the threat made and of whether the party who in fact succumbed to an unlawful threat and entered into the contract was legally justified in doing so.
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- Date Issued: 2006
An attempt to constrain the age, duration, and eruptive history of the Karoo flood basalt: Naude's Nek section (South Africa)
- Authors: Moulin, Maud , Fluteau, Frédéric , Courtillot, Vincent , Marsh, Julian S , Delpech, Guillaume , Quidelleur, Xavier , Gérard, Martine , Jay, Anne E
- Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145022 , vital:38401 , https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JB008210
- Description: We have carried out paleomagnetic sampling of a ∼750 m sequence of the Karoo large igneous province (Naude's Nek Pass, South Africa). K‐Ar dating (Cassignol‐Gillot) has been performed on four samples from the 650 m upper unit (mean age 179.2 ± 1.8 Ma) and a sample from the lower unit (184.8 ± 2.6 Ma). A succession of two phases of volcanism is suggested. The lower 25 flows (115 m thick) have recorded a reversed polarity; the next 23 flows (135 m thick) are transitional and contribute a detailed record of the “Van Zijl” (1962) Jurassic reversal.
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- Date Issued: 2011
Workers News - The war against privatisation 1997
- Authors: SAMWU
- Date: June 1997
- Subjects: SAMWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113667 , vital:33818
- Description: SAMWU continues to fight against the privatisation of more and more services. Even’ region is facing different struggles, but let’s not forget that we are all fighting against one thing: the notion that services should be provided for profit and not to meet needs. Let’s learn about each other’s struggles so that we can prepare for united mass action! Local Authorities here are proposing to privatise the security departments of Duiwelskloof and Potgiet- ersrus TLC. In Naboom- spruit, it has been proposed that meter reading services be contracted out to private companies. Council has also spoken of putting out tenders for the maintenance of the Tzaneen cemetry. So comrades can see that we are fighting privatisation on many fronts! In Queenstown, council is attempting to privatise the refuse collection service. IMATU has joined SAMWU in rejecting this. At the moment we are trying to arrange a meeting with community structures in order to put our position forward to them. Umtata municipality proposed privatisation of the ambulance and fire departments, but noting union opposition, scheduled a meeting with SAMWU and IMATU to discuss this further. Our Aberdeen comrades are to be congratulated! We have heard that they have gone from door to door in their communities educating others about the dangers of privatisation!
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- Date Issued: June 1997
Constitution of the Building Workers Union
- Authors: Building Workers Union (BWU)
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: BWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178651 , vital:42971
- Description: This Trade Union shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession capable of entering into contractual and other relations and of suing and being sued in its own name and shall be an organisation not for gain.
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- Date Issued: 1995
A communication from the Alexandra joint negotiating forum
- Authors: Alexandra Civic Organisation (ACO)
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: Alexandra Civic Organisation (ACO)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174481 , vital:42481
- Description: The Transvaal Provincial Administration, the Alexandra Civic Organisation and the Alexandra City Council have signed an agreement called the Alexandra Accord. This agreement commits the parties to the development of Alexandra and ends the rent and services boycott. The Alexandra Accord also sets up a Joint Negotiating Forum (JNF) to find ways to solve the problems in Alexandra. The other members of the JNF are: the Central Witwatersrand Regional Services Council, the Sandton Town Council, the Randburg Town Council, Eskom, the Rand Water Board and the Development Bank of Southern Africa. This book explains the story behind the Accord and gives the residents of Alexandra information about the JNF. We hope that you will share this publication with other residents, discuss it with your friends and read it to those who cannot read. VIVA ALEXANDRA!
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- Date Issued: 1991
6th National Congress Resolutions
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116111 , vital:34298
- Description: COSATU must intervene in affiliates where it has identified problems, where problems have been brought to its attention and / or has been requested to do so. The CEC should draw guidelines on how and under which circumstances the federation and its structures may intervene taking into account clauses 3.9 and 3.10 of the constitution. Such intervention should not undermine affiliates where such problems exist. COSATU leadership must be visible during major disputes between affiliates and employers and co-ordinate solidarity with workers involved in such disputes.
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- Date Issued: 1996
Volcanic rocks of the Witwatersrand triad, South Africa I: description, classification and geochemical stratigraphy
- Authors: Bowen, Teral B , Marsh, Julian S , Bowen, Michael P , Eales, Hugh V
- Date: 2003
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138682 , vital:37663 , https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-9268(86)90038-0
- Description: The Witwatersrand triad contains thick volcanic sequences confined largely to the Dominion Group at the base and the Ventersdorp Supergroup at the top. These volcanic sequences are of late-Archaean to early-Proterozoic age and are amongst the oldest supracrustal volcanic sequences erupted onto the Archaean Kaapvaal craton. The volcanic rocks have suffered low-grade greenschist facies metamorphism but primary textures and, in some samples, primary mineralogies are well preserved.
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- Date Issued: 2003
Up Beat Number 1
- Authors: SACHED
- Date: NOv 1994
- Subjects: SACHED
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115589 , vital:34186
- Description: On April 27, all South Africans will vote for a new government. Change often brings both hope and fear. We hope that the elections will bring peace and justice. But we fear that violence and intimidation will make democratic change difficult. It's up to us all to build peace. In this issue find out what The Peace Pioneers are doing and discover how to resolve conflicts peacefully in our story Fighting fair or foul'. But that's not all you must do. Be involved in the decisions that your parents, teachers and the politicians are making. Keep yourself informed! Ask questions when you don't understand what the politicians are saying. Be critical of the promises that they make. It's your life that they will control. This is a year of great change in our country. Listen, think and don't be without Upbeat. We'll keep you informed, give you advice and put your views - the views of the youth of South Africa - first.
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- Date Issued: NOv 1994
Magma flow inferred from AMS fabrics in a layered mafic sill, Insizwa, South Africa
- Authors: Ferré, Eric C , Bordarier, Cecile , Marsh, Julian S
- Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6733 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007543
- Description: The Insizwa sill, is a 25-km-diameter, >1000-m-thick layered mafic intrusion, part of the Karoo Igneous Province in South Africa. The peridotitic and gabbronoritic rocks are undeformed and mineral fabrics demonstrably result from magma flow. A horizontal, centimeter-scale model layering is visible in numerous outcrops. Plagioclase crystals are both tabular and elongated. Their preferred orientation, parallel to the layering, forms a foliation and a NW–SE lineation, respectively interpreted as the magma flow plane and flow direction. Throughout the 78 stations of this study (699 specimens), magnetic susceptibilities (K[subscript m]) range from 750 to 10,000×10[superscript (−6)] SI. The magnetic anisotropy (P[subscript j]) ranges from 1.03 to 1.08. Magnetic ellipsoids are both prolate and oblate (average T[subscript j]≈0). Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) fabrics are dominated by multidomain to pseudo-single domain magnetite. High-field magnetic experiments indicate that the paramagnetic contribution from the mafic silicates is less than 50 percentage for low susceptibility rock types. The anisotropy results from magnetite grain shape solely as shown by no significant increase in P[subscript j] with increasing K[subscript m]. The magnetic lineation (305°, 05°) is consistent throughout the sill at various scales and coincides with the mineral lineation in average. In contrast, the magnetic foliation (125° NE 10°) is generally perpendicular to the mineral foliation and to the layering. Several explanations for this odd configuration are discussed. The variations of magnetic parameters across the layering and field observations point to a multiple injection. The magnetic lineation is consistent with the presence of a single feeder dike situated to the SE of the sill.
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- Date Issued: 2002
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1986
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1986
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005703
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Friday, 11 April 1986 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 12 April 1986 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument.
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- Date Issued: 1986
New Unity Movement Bulletin
- Date: 2005-09
- 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/10948/31776 , vital:31753 , Bulk File 7
- Description: The Bulletin was the official newsletter of the New Unity Movement. It was published about twice a year and contained articles reflecting the organisation's views on resistance to the Apartheid government.
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- Date Issued: 2005-09
Medical Aid plan
- Authors: SACCAWU
- Date: 1998
- Subjects: SACCAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/137694 , vital:37550
- Description: THE South African Commercial Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) launched a medical aid fund yesterday which the union said would be used as a springboard for the establishment of its own medical aid scheme. Saccawu assistant general secretary Herbet Mkhize said the fund would operate under Medscheme’s Meddent Medical Scheme for about nine months while the union conducted further research into establishing its own medical aid scheme. Mkhize said trade unions were no longer only competing with one another but also with legal firms that were now offering their services to workers. “Now a trade union has to convince potential members that it offers the best services, “Mkhize said.
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- Date Issued: 1998
New Unity Movement Bulletin
- Date: 2004-07
- 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/10948/32059 , vital:31944 , Bulk File 7
- Description: The Bulletin was the official newsletter of the New Unity Movement. It was published about twice a year and contained articles reflecting the organisation's views on resistance to the Apartheid government.
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- Date Issued: 2004-07
An African heritage of fishes : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey)
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa , Fishes -- Nomenclature (Popular) , Ichthyology -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:668 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020737 , ISBN 0868103284
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1997