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Studies on the Zoarcidae, (Teleostei: Perciformes) of the Southern hemisphere. III. The Southwestern Pacific

- Anderson, M Eric, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Anderson, M Eric , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1990-07
Subjects: Zoarcidae , Fishes -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70348 , vital:29647 , 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. 50 , The eelpout fauna of the southwestern Pacific presently includes 6 species, one of which, Pachycara garricki, is described as new. Full species accounts and illustrations are also provided for Melanostigma inexpectatum, Ophthalmolycus campbellensis, and Lycenchelys maoriorum, known previously only from the meager type series. Two species, Melanostigma gelatinosum, and M. vitiazi were redescribed in the first part of this series, but expanded diagnoses are provided here. Lycenchelys maoriomm and O. campbellensis are expected to be endemic to the New Zealand Plateau and perhaps Lord Howe Rise.
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Date Issued: 1990-07

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Umabatha: global and local

- Wright, Laurence

Authors: Wright, Laurence
Date: 2004
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: vital:7032 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007364 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00138390408691324
Description: preprint , There can be few shows that test the dimensions and pitfalls of 'globalised' theatre as thoroughly as Welcome Msomi's Umabatha. The worldwide success of the show, in box-office terms, can hardly be argued with. And yet, in its very conception, the vehicle is so riven by intrinsic cultural, theatrical, class and 'nationist' tensions that different audiences cannot but reap utterly different experiences, depending on their own cultural and intellectual inheritance.The show is an instance where theatre practice (sometimes) obfuscates political and aesthetic discourse, showing how easily cultures miss each other and fail to connect, and how easily specific historical, geographical and imperial associations are swamped by shallow 'globalised' audience response.
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Date Issued: 2004

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STIP1/HOP regulates the actin cytoskeleton through interactions with actin and changes in actin-binding proteins cofilin and profilin:

- Beckley, Samantha Joy, Hunter, Morgan C, Kituyi, Sarah N, Wingate, Ianthe, Chakraborty, Abantika, Schwarz, Kelly, Makhubu, Matodzi P, Rousseau, Robert P, Ruck, Duncan K, de la Mare, Jo-Anne, Blatch, Gregory L, Edkins, Adrienne L

Authors: Beckley, Samantha Joy , Hunter, Morgan C , Kituyi, Sarah N , Wingate, Ianthe , Chakraborty, Abantika , Schwarz, Kelly , Makhubu, Matodzi P , Rousseau, Robert P , Ruck, Duncan K , de la Mare, Jo-Anne , Blatch, Gregory L , Edkins, Adrienne L
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165373 , vital:41238 , https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21093152
Description: Cell migration plays a vital role in both health and disease. It is driven by reorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, which is regulated by actin-binding proteins cofilin and profilin. Stress-inducible phosphoprotein 1 (STIP1) is a well-described co-chaperone of the Hsp90 chaperone system, and our findings identify a potential regulatory role of STIP1 in actin dynamics. We show that STIP1 can be isolated in complex with actin and Hsp90 from HEK293T cells and directly interacts with actin in vitro via the C-terminal TPR2AB-DP2 domain of STIP1, potentially due to a region spanning two putative actin-binding motifs. We found that STIP1 could stimulate the in vitro ATPase activity of actin, suggesting a potential role in the modulation of F-actin formation. Interestingly, while STIP1 depletion in HEK293T cells had no major effect on total actin levels, it led to increased nuclear accumulation of actin, disorganization of F-actin structures, and an increase and decrease in cofilin and profilin levels, respectively. This study suggests that STIP1 regulates the cytoskeleton by interacting with actin, or via regulating the ratio of proteins known to affect actin dynamics.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Industrial relations in Namibia since independence: between neo-liberalism and neo-corporatism?

- Klerck, Gilton

Authors: Klerck, Gilton
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6320 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011314
Description: The paper seeks to examine the changes and continuities in industrial relations in post-independence Namibia. In particular, it aims to explore some of the key elements in the process through which the distribution of the costs and rewards of economic and industrial restructuring is institutionalised. The paper concentrates, through in-depth interviews with key role players, on how the attempts at sustaining a durable and redistributive trade-off between economic efficiency and social equality led to a contradictory fusion of neo-liberal and neo-corporatist forms of labour market regulation. The research reveals that changes in the regulation of the labour market since independence have created opportunities for advancement and participation by groups of more skilled and organised employees, while weaker and less skilled groups have generally experienced a decline in employment conditions and the absence of collective representation. These developments reflect and reproduce patterns of racial and gender discrimination, industrial structure, trade union membership and collective bargaining across the various sectors and occupations. The paper shows that a system of low-skill, low-wage and low-trust relations - with an emphasis on cost reduction and employment "flexibility" - is fast becoming embedded in industrial relations in Namibia. Given the prevailing economic policies, industrial strategies and labour market structures, Namibia's integration into the global economy will most likely involve the increasing dislocation and exclusion of vulnerable and "peripheral" workers from the formal economy. The paper highlights the ways in which the transformation of industrial relations in Namibia is shaped by the legacy of apartheid-colonialism and the pressures of globalisation. Specifically, the conjunction of increasingly deregulated product markets and increasingly regulated labour markets has driven a wedge between the pursuit of short-term objectives and the attainment of long-term transformational goals.
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Date Issued: 2008

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Creating learning and action space in South Africa’s post-apartheid land redistribution program:

- Kepe, Thembela, Hall, Ruth

Authors: Kepe, Thembela , Hall, Ruth
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/163842 , vital:41075 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1177/1476750317705966
Description: This paper uses the case of South Africa’s latest land redistribution strategy known as the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy, to explore whether, and how, research can have direct and positive impacts on beneficiaries of land reform. The study is situated within the practice of action research: to explore how it can generate knowledge that can be shared back and forth between stakeholders, as well as how it may ignite changes that the participants desire.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Soft believers and hard unbelievers in the Xhosa cattle-killing

- Peires, Jeffrey B

Authors: Peires, Jeffrey B
Date: 1986
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6153 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007064 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700023264
Description: A substantial minority, perhaps 15 per cent of all Xhosa, refused to obey the prophetess Nongqawuse's orders to kill their cattle and destroy their corn. This divided Xhosaland into two parties, the amathamba (‘soft’ ones, or believers) and the amagogotya (‘hard’ ones, or unbelievers). The affiliation of individuals was partly determined by a number of factors – lungsickness in cattle, political attitude towards the Cape Colony, religious beliefs, kinship, age and gender – but a systematic analysis of each of these factors in turn suggests that none of them was sufficiently important to constitute the basis of either party. The key to understanding the division lies in an analysis of the indigenous Xhosa terms ‘soft’ and ‘hard’. ‘Softness’ in Xhosa denotes the submissiveness of the individual to the common will of the community, whereas ‘hardness’ denotes the determination of the individual to pursue his own ends, even at communal expense. Translated into social terms, the ‘soft’ believers were those who remained committed to the mutual aid ethic of the declining precolonial society, whereas the ‘hard’ unbelievers were those who sought to seize advantage of the new opportunities offered by the colonial presence to increase their wealth and social prominence. The conflict between the social and personal imperatives was well expressed by Chief Smith Mhala, the unbelieving son of a believing father, when he said, ‘They say I am killing my father – so I would kill him before I would kill my cattle.’ Certainly, the division between amathamba and amagogotya ran much deeper than the division between belief and unbelief, and the Xhosa, in conferring these names, seem to have recognized the fact.
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Date Issued: 1986

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Tracing and erasure in Kathryn Smith's Psychogeographies: the washing away of wrongs

- de Jager, Maureen

Authors: de Jager, Maureen
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147413 , vital:38634 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC31057
Description: Kathryn Smith's Psychogeographies: The Washing Away of Wrongs is a series of twelve prints comprising photographs and handwritten text, wherein she records her 'pilgrimage' to the former homes of British serial killer Dennis Nilsen. As such, it utilises photographic and autographic traces to 'track' the elusive traces left by Nilsen. Given the lapse of two decades between Nilsen's arrest and Smith's visit, the traces of Nilsen's 'wrongs' seem all but erased by the banal façade of suburban living which has continued on, regardless. In taking this as a starting point, the following article considers the motif of absence that characterises Smith's work as intrinsic to traces per se.
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Date Issued: 2008

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SACTWU - Shop Stewards Bulletin Vol 1 No.1

- SACTWU

Authors: SACTWU
Date: May 1990
Subjects: SACTWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116907 , vital:34457
Description: SO wrote Bertolt Brecht, a German poet of the working people, in his famous poem “In Praise Of Learning”. Today, many years later, South Africa’s factories are filled with hungry persons, fighting for a living wage. One powerful weapon in that fight is knowledge. SACTWU hassetuptheEducationDep artm en t to meet the need for an educated worker leadership. This Bulletin is brought out to help arm worker leaders - with information, fresh ideas, new thoughts, skills - to fight the battle for a new South Africa. The Bulletin will carry articles on issues in the factory and outside of it. All issues which affect workers. Our lives are bigger than the factory only. It will carry stories on events in South Africa and also outside our country. The world today is small. Events in one country can affect people in another. Workers must take on interest in the whole world. It will seek to develop a thinking leadership, not one which follows blindly.
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Date Issued: May 1990

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JM Coetzee's Disgrace and the Task of the Imagination:

- Marais, Mike

Authors: Marais, Mike
Date: 2006
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144126 , vital:38313 , DOI: 10.2979/JML.2006.29.2.75
Description: In an early review of Disgrace, Jane Taylor first relates this novel's treatment of violence in post-apartheid South Africa to the European Enlightenment's legacy of the autonomy of the human subject (25), in terms of which each individual is conceived of as a living consciousness separated totally from every other consciousness, and then discusses J.M. Coetzee's postulation of the sympathetic imagination as a potential corrective to the violence attendant on monadic individuality. Taylor makes the telling point that, in the eighteenth century, the notions of sensibility, sympathy, and compassion, which the novel repeatedly invokes, were self-consciously developed as an ethical response to the instrumentalist logic of autonomous individuality and, in this regard, she cites Adam Smith's observation in The Theory of Moral Sentiments that "By the imagination we place ourselves in his situation, we conceive ourselves enduring all the same torments, we enter as it were into his body, and become in some measure the same person with him, and thence form some idea of his sensation" (qtd. in Taylor 25).
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Date Issued: 2006

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The effect of sulfide on -glucosidases: implications for starch degradation in anaerobic bioreactors

- Wutor, V C, Togo, C A

Authors: Wutor, V C , Togo, C A
Date: 2007
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6463 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005792 , dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.03.011
Description: Membrane associated α-glucosidase activity was investigated in a methanogenic bioreactor (MR) and a biosulfidogenic bioreactor (SR). Temperature and pH optima studies showed temperature optima of 50 °C and pH optima of 8.0 for the α-glucosidases from both the MR and SR. Sulfide (at a concentration of 150 mg l[superscript (−1)]) resulted in the complete loss of all α-glucosidase activity in both the MR and SR. β-Glucosidase activities in our bioreactors were previously shown to be stimulated in the presence of sulfide. α-Glucosidases, in contrast, are inhibited by sulfide. This differential effect of sulfide on α-glucosidase and β-glucosidase activities is highlighted and is of crucial consequence to the respective degradation and utilization of starch and cellulose substrates in natural anaerobic environments and anaerobic bioreactors specifically designed for the accelerated digestion of wastewater sludge under biosulfidogenic conditions.
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Date Issued: 2007

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Plotonus nkunga, a new species of catfish from South Africa, with a redescription of Plotosus limbatus Valenciennes and key to the species of Plotosus (Siluriformes: Plotosidae)

- Gomon, Janet R, Taylor, William Ralph, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Gomon, Janet R , Taylor, William Ralph , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1982-08
Subjects: Catfishes
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69871 , vital:29590 , 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. 22 , Plotosus nkunga sp. n., from the east coast of South Africa, possibly ranging as far north as Zanzibar, is most similar to Plotosus limbatus Valenciennes, from the coasts of India, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Aldabra. Plotosus nkunga differs most notably in having fewer total gill rakers on the anterior faces of the first two arches, 16 to 21 versus 20 to 25 first arch, 16 to 24 versus 23 to 27 second arch; in having modally one more precaudal vertebra and slight modal differences in number of ribs and branchiostegal rays; in the shapes of the mesethmoid and the parapophyses of the fourth and fifth centra of the anterior complex vertebra; in the length of the maxilla; and in certain body proportions. Descriptions, annotated synonymies and illustrations are given for both species. A key to the five known species of Plotosus is presented.
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Date Issued: 1982-08

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