Power play and the changing face of English : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: De Klerk, Vivian A
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: Sociolinguistics , Linguistic change , Language and languages -- Political aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:616 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020685 , ISBN 0868102334
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1992
- Authors: De Klerk, Vivian A
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: Sociolinguistics , Linguistic change , Language and languages -- Political aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:616 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020685 , ISBN 0868102334
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1992
Port Elizabeth History: A Select Annotated Bibliography
- Authors: Baines, Gary F
- Date: 1998
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125742 , vital:35813 , https://doi.10.1080/02582479808671323
- Description: When I commenced my work on aspects of Port Elizabeth’s history in the late 1980s, there was no body of scholarly literature on which to draw. Since thena number of significant publications, both periodical articles and books, as well as theses have appeared, and something of a corpus of works on the city now exists. It seems appropriate to take stock of the current state of Port Elizabeth’s historiography by compiling a bibliography.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1998
- Authors: Baines, Gary F
- Date: 1998
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125742 , vital:35813 , https://doi.10.1080/02582479808671323
- Description: When I commenced my work on aspects of Port Elizabeth’s history in the late 1980s, there was no body of scholarly literature on which to draw. Since thena number of significant publications, both periodical articles and books, as well as theses have appeared, and something of a corpus of works on the city now exists. It seems appropriate to take stock of the current state of Port Elizabeth’s historiography by compiling a bibliography.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1998
Politics at a distance from the state: radical, South African and Zimbabwean praxis today
- Helliker, Kirk D, van der Walt, Lucien
- Authors: Helliker, Kirk D , van der Walt, Lucien
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71364 , vital:29837 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2016.1240792
- Description: For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical social transformation with the capture of state power. The collapse of supposedly enabling states led recently to a crisis of left and working class politics. But this has also opened space for the rediscovery of society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, labelled as ‘at a distance’ politics. These modes have registered important successes in practice, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and have involved strands of anarchism and syndicalism, and autonomist Marxism. This article, an introduction to a collection of papers emerging from a 2012 conference of academics and activists in South Africa, aims to help articulate an understanding of social transformation from below that has been analytically and politically side-lined not only in South Africa (and Zimbabwe), but globally. In doing so, it provides a preliminary attempt to map and create a dialogue between three major positions within the broad category of ‘at a distance’ politics.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Helliker, Kirk D , van der Walt, Lucien
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71364 , vital:29837 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2016.1240792
- Description: For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical social transformation with the capture of state power. The collapse of supposedly enabling states led recently to a crisis of left and working class politics. But this has also opened space for the rediscovery of society-centred, anti-capitalist modes of bottom-up change, labelled as ‘at a distance’ politics. These modes have registered important successes in practice, such as the Zapatistas in Mexico, and have involved strands of anarchism and syndicalism, and autonomist Marxism. This article, an introduction to a collection of papers emerging from a 2012 conference of academics and activists in South Africa, aims to help articulate an understanding of social transformation from below that has been analytically and politically side-lined not only in South Africa (and Zimbabwe), but globally. In doing so, it provides a preliminary attempt to map and create a dialogue between three major positions within the broad category of ‘at a distance’ politics.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2016
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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1982-08
- 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.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1982-08
Opening our eyes
- Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS)
- Authors: Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS)
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250511 , vital:52008
- Description: This is a bold statement and a difficult one for people who regard] computers as a tool of the rich. Yes the computer is a tool or the rich. But more and more of these weird little machines are finding their way into our backyards and ghettos, into the backrooms of our community organisations and even into our classrooms. Each of these computers can do what only the rich with million rand typographic equipment could do 10 years ago . Today ordinary people can bring out media of a quality that only highly trained professionals using specialised equipment used to be able to produce. This edition of CECS NEWS is proof of this. Almost the entire newsletter was produced by High School student members of CECS trained on a 5-day camp in June. “Computers For All” is not just an empty slogan but a possible reality. We decided at the camp to devote an entire issue to just this topic: Media on Computers.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1989
- Authors: Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS)
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250511 , vital:52008
- Description: This is a bold statement and a difficult one for people who regard] computers as a tool of the rich. Yes the computer is a tool or the rich. But more and more of these weird little machines are finding their way into our backyards and ghettos, into the backrooms of our community organisations and even into our classrooms. Each of these computers can do what only the rich with million rand typographic equipment could do 10 years ago . Today ordinary people can bring out media of a quality that only highly trained professionals using specialised equipment used to be able to produce. This edition of CECS NEWS is proof of this. Almost the entire newsletter was produced by High School student members of CECS trained on a 5-day camp in June. “Computers For All” is not just an empty slogan but a possible reality. We decided at the camp to devote an entire issue to just this topic: Media on Computers.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1989
On the life history of the lesser gurnard (Scorpaeniformes: Triglidae) inhabiting the Agulhas Bank, South Africa
- Authors: Booth, Anthony J
- Date: 1997
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125434 , vital:35782 , https://doi.10.1111/j.1095-8649.1997.tb01133.x
- Description: Fishes of the genus Labeo are widely distributed throughout Africa and consist of at least 80 species which comprise 16.4% of the African cyprinid ichthyofauna (Reid 1985). Most labeo species are also commercially important throughout the African continent, having contributed significantly to various fisheries. Their roe (sensu caviar) is often harvested as an additional bycatch (Skelton et al. 1991). Despite their obvious importance, the few studies that have investigated aspects of their life history have been conducted on the larger commercial species (Lowe 1952, Mulder 1973, Balon et al. 1974, Potgieter 1974, Baird 1976, Tomasson et al. 1984, van Zyl et al. 1995).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1997
- Authors: Booth, Anthony J
- Date: 1997
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125434 , vital:35782 , https://doi.10.1111/j.1095-8649.1997.tb01133.x
- Description: Fishes of the genus Labeo are widely distributed throughout Africa and consist of at least 80 species which comprise 16.4% of the African cyprinid ichthyofauna (Reid 1985). Most labeo species are also commercially important throughout the African continent, having contributed significantly to various fisheries. Their roe (sensu caviar) is often harvested as an additional bycatch (Skelton et al. 1991). Despite their obvious importance, the few studies that have investigated aspects of their life history have been conducted on the larger commercial species (Lowe 1952, Mulder 1973, Balon et al. 1974, Potgieter 1974, Baird 1976, Tomasson et al. 1984, van Zyl et al. 1995).
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- Date Issued: 1997
On the fast track to land degradation? A case study of the impact of the Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Kadoma District, Zimbabwe
- Fox, Roddy C, Rowntree, Kate M, Chigumira, Easther C
- Authors: Fox, Roddy C , Rowntree, Kate M , Chigumira, Easther C
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper
- Identifier: vital:6663 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006668
- Description: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme is the defining instrument for Zimbabwe’s future development prospects. In the three year period from 2000 to 2002 300,000 families were resettled on 11 million hectares thus witnessing the end of the colonial division of land which had seen 15.5 million hectares still in European hands in 1980, the start of the post-colonial period. The process which displaced the commercial farm workers and farm owners was chaotic, violent and disorderly and so has been called jambanja. Subsequent legislation and government agricultural initiatives have attempted to impose, retroactively, technocratic order to the sweeping changes that have taken place. Our study shows that the dire macro-economic situation coupled with trends of HIV/AIDS prevalence means that developing sustainable land use practices is going to be a very difficult proposition. At the local scale, our case studies show that there have been multiple outcomes with low investment, very limited government support and resource extraction leading to land degradation and unsustainable farming practices. In some instances, however, individual households have benefitted in the short term from the process but this has only occurred where climatic and soil conditions have been particularly favourable.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2006
- Authors: Fox, Roddy C , Rowntree, Kate M , Chigumira, Easther C
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper
- Identifier: vital:6663 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006668
- Description: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme is the defining instrument for Zimbabwe’s future development prospects. In the three year period from 2000 to 2002 300,000 families were resettled on 11 million hectares thus witnessing the end of the colonial division of land which had seen 15.5 million hectares still in European hands in 1980, the start of the post-colonial period. The process which displaced the commercial farm workers and farm owners was chaotic, violent and disorderly and so has been called jambanja. Subsequent legislation and government agricultural initiatives have attempted to impose, retroactively, technocratic order to the sweeping changes that have taken place. Our study shows that the dire macro-economic situation coupled with trends of HIV/AIDS prevalence means that developing sustainable land use practices is going to be a very difficult proposition. At the local scale, our case studies show that there have been multiple outcomes with low investment, very limited government support and resource extraction leading to land degradation and unsustainable farming practices. In some instances, however, individual households have benefitted in the short term from the process but this has only occurred where climatic and soil conditions have been particularly favourable.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2006
News Congress
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135304 , vital:37256
- Description: Impelasonto kaNovember 29 kuya kuDecember 1 yabona ukuphakanyiswa kwefederation yezinyunyana zabasebenzi bezimboni enkulu kunazo zonke emlandweni wabasebenzi baseSouth Africa. ICongress of South African Trade Unions inamalunga akhokha kahle awu-449679 kuzo zonke izimboni ezisemqoka kulelizwe ngaphandle kwemboni yezolimo. Kodwa kulesikhashana esizayo izogqugquzelwa nemboni yezolimo, njengoba uCOSATU athatha isinqumo ekugcotshweni kweCongress sokwelekelela ngezimali ekuququzeleni izimboni zezolimo lezikahulumeni.
- Full Text:
- Authors: COSATU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135304 , vital:37256
- Description: Impelasonto kaNovember 29 kuya kuDecember 1 yabona ukuphakanyiswa kwefederation yezinyunyana zabasebenzi bezimboni enkulu kunazo zonke emlandweni wabasebenzi baseSouth Africa. ICongress of South African Trade Unions inamalunga akhokha kahle awu-449679 kuzo zonke izimboni ezisemqoka kulelizwe ngaphandle kwemboni yezolimo. Kodwa kulesikhashana esizayo izogqugquzelwa nemboni yezolimo, njengoba uCOSATU athatha isinqumo ekugcotshweni kweCongress sokwelekelela ngezimali ekuququzeleni izimboni zezolimo lezikahulumeni.
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New Unity Movement Presidential Address
- Date: 2004-03
- 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/10948/32492 , vital:32118 , Bulk File 7
- Description: Presidential Addresses were delivered at each Annual conference of the New Unity Movement. This collection, though incomplete, has 18 items ranging from 1989 to 2013.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2004-03
- Date: 2004-03
- 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/10948/32492 , vital:32118 , Bulk File 7
- Description: Presidential Addresses were delivered at each Annual conference of the New Unity Movement. This collection, though incomplete, has 18 items ranging from 1989 to 2013.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2004-03
New Unity Movement Bulletin
- Date: 2007-04
- 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/10948/31726 , vital:31740 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2007-04
- Date: 2007-04
- 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/10948/31726 , vital:31740 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2007-04
New and improved : Linda in Java
- Authors: Wells, George C
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6613 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011511 , http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167642305000869
- Description: This paper discusses the current resurgence of interest in the Linda coordination language for parallel and distributed programming. Particularly in the Java field, there have been a number of developments over the past few years. These developments are summarised together with the advantages of using Linda for programming concurrent systems. Some problems with the basic Linda approach are also discussed and a novel solution to these is presented. The power and flexibility of the proposed extensions to the Linda programming model are illustrated by considering a number of example applications, including a detailed case study of visual language parsing.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2006
- Authors: Wells, George C
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6613 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011511 , http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167642305000869
- Description: This paper discusses the current resurgence of interest in the Linda coordination language for parallel and distributed programming. Particularly in the Java field, there have been a number of developments over the past few years. These developments are summarised together with the advantages of using Linda for programming concurrent systems. Some problems with the basic Linda approach are also discussed and a novel solution to these is presented. The power and flexibility of the proposed extensions to the Linda programming model are illustrated by considering a number of example applications, including a detailed case study of visual language parsing.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2006
National Bi-annual Conference - Treasurer's address
- FAWU
- Authors: FAWU
- Date: July 1997
- Subjects: FAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119042 , vital:34696
- Description: Comrade President, Honorary President, General Secretary and delegates, I present this report on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC). Since the last Conference the Union has faced many challenges and difficulties, but has despite this managed to play its rightfull role as a social partner by entering into the national debate of socio-economic transformation. This Conference has to further this advances by debating the crucial issues that underpin our advance to the total socio-economic transformation of our country. We also need to revisit and re-assess the pillars on which our Union rest, and strenghten them through policy formulation - and here I specifically want to isolate the areas of finance and administration. Later in this report I will attempt to highlight some of the crucial areas. Comrade President, allow me to express the NEC's appreciation to the staff for their dedication, loyalty and commitment, to FAWU over the past two years. We want to give them the assurance that their loyalty does not go by unnoticed, and that we will attempt to reward them for this excellent service. May I furthermore use this opportunity to thank the comrades in the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the National Office Bearers for their support and commitment over the past few months. It is through this commitment and dedication that we are able to present this Conference with a report. Comrades, the Annual Audited Financial Statements for the financial year will be tabled tommorrow. To the best of my knowledge this statements represents the financial position of the Union for the year ended 31 March 1997.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: July 1997
- Authors: FAWU
- Date: July 1997
- Subjects: FAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119042 , vital:34696
- Description: Comrade President, Honorary President, General Secretary and delegates, I present this report on behalf of the National Executive Committee (NEC). Since the last Conference the Union has faced many challenges and difficulties, but has despite this managed to play its rightfull role as a social partner by entering into the national debate of socio-economic transformation. This Conference has to further this advances by debating the crucial issues that underpin our advance to the total socio-economic transformation of our country. We also need to revisit and re-assess the pillars on which our Union rest, and strenghten them through policy formulation - and here I specifically want to isolate the areas of finance and administration. Later in this report I will attempt to highlight some of the crucial areas. Comrade President, allow me to express the NEC's appreciation to the staff for their dedication, loyalty and commitment, to FAWU over the past two years. We want to give them the assurance that their loyalty does not go by unnoticed, and that we will attempt to reward them for this excellent service. May I furthermore use this opportunity to thank the comrades in the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the National Office Bearers for their support and commitment over the past few months. It is through this commitment and dedication that we are able to present this Conference with a report. Comrades, the Annual Audited Financial Statements for the financial year will be tabled tommorrow. To the best of my knowledge this statements represents the financial position of the Union for the year ended 31 March 1997.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: July 1997
Mulch tower treatment system Part I: Overall performance in greywater treatment
- Zuma, Bongumusa M, Tandlich, Roman, Whittington-Jones, Kevin J, Burgess, Jo E
- Authors: Zuma, Bongumusa M , Tandlich, Roman , Whittington-Jones, Kevin J , Burgess, Jo E
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71537 , vital:29862 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2008.03.030
- Description: A mulch tower (MT) system for greywater treatment is introduced in this paper. Materials used to assemble the MT system included mulch, coarse sand, fine and coarse gravel. Limited removal efficiency of the MT system was demonstrated for alkalinity, total hardness, pH, Cl–, PO43–, NH4+, and SO42–, with the estimated cumulative removals ranging from 7 to 12%. Intermediate removal efficiency was observed for chemical oxygen demand (COD), NO3–, and S2– with the estimated cumulative removals ranging from 24 to 28%. The highest removal efficiency was observed for the total suspended solids (TSS) with the estimated cumulative removal equal to 52%. Given the minute residence time in the MT system, the results obtained were promising and justify scale-up studies for potential on-site applications. The MT effluent did not meet hygienic norms with respect to the faecal coliform concentration (FC) and the total coliform concentration (TC), and further effluent treatment is required before any discharge or reuse of the treated greywater. Further research should focus on characterisation of the microbial community of the MT, and the fate of Cl–, PO43–, NH4+, and SO42–.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Zuma, Bongumusa M , Tandlich, Roman , Whittington-Jones, Kevin J , Burgess, Jo E
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71537 , vital:29862 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2008.03.030
- Description: A mulch tower (MT) system for greywater treatment is introduced in this paper. Materials used to assemble the MT system included mulch, coarse sand, fine and coarse gravel. Limited removal efficiency of the MT system was demonstrated for alkalinity, total hardness, pH, Cl–, PO43–, NH4+, and SO42–, with the estimated cumulative removals ranging from 7 to 12%. Intermediate removal efficiency was observed for chemical oxygen demand (COD), NO3–, and S2– with the estimated cumulative removals ranging from 24 to 28%. The highest removal efficiency was observed for the total suspended solids (TSS) with the estimated cumulative removal equal to 52%. Given the minute residence time in the MT system, the results obtained were promising and justify scale-up studies for potential on-site applications. The MT effluent did not meet hygienic norms with respect to the faecal coliform concentration (FC) and the total coliform concentration (TC), and further effluent treatment is required before any discharge or reuse of the treated greywater. Further research should focus on characterisation of the microbial community of the MT, and the fate of Cl–, PO43–, NH4+, and SO42–.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009
Moving forward
- FEDUSA
- Authors: FEDUSA
- Subjects: FEDUSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175625 , vital:42600
- Description: The democratic South Africa was birthed through negotiation and dialogue, and a range of socio-economic policy matters continue to be determined on this basis. Social dialogue that focuses on policy, legislation and generally advancing the best interests of society takes place between organised labour, business and government on regular basis in a range of statutory and non-statutory tripartite forums.
- Full Text:
- Authors: FEDUSA
- Subjects: FEDUSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175625 , vital:42600
- Description: The democratic South Africa was birthed through negotiation and dialogue, and a range of socio-economic policy matters continue to be determined on this basis. Social dialogue that focuses on policy, legislation and generally advancing the best interests of society takes place between organised labour, business and government on regular basis in a range of statutory and non-statutory tripartite forums.
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Marginalisation and demographic change in the semi-arid Karoo, South Africa
- Nel, Etienne L, Hill, Trevor R
- Authors: Nel, Etienne L , Hill, Trevor R
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6719 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006792
- Description: Semi-arid areas are often considered to be environmentally and economically marginal, a situation which has been exacerbated by economic change, shifts in agricultural production and land use, and changing state policy. These themes are explored with reference to a semi-arid landscape, namely the Karoo, which covers some 40% of the geographic space of South Africa and is used primarily for extensive livestock farming. Despite long-term decline in agricultural output, the traditional mainstay of the region, and weakening small town economies, the Karoo's population and the economies of its largest service centres are growing. There are, real socio-economic needs and development backlogs, and the situation has been exacerbated by recent political marginalisation. In this study, the small towns of the region are focal points of investigation and provide a lens to investigate the changing demographic and economic dynamics of the Karoo. Most of the region's population lives in these centres which are service, collection, and distribution points for what traditionally has been an agriculture-based regional economy. This paper explores the concept of marginalisation with specific reference to historical, economic, and demographic change.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Nel, Etienne L , Hill, Trevor R
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6719 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006792
- Description: Semi-arid areas are often considered to be environmentally and economically marginal, a situation which has been exacerbated by economic change, shifts in agricultural production and land use, and changing state policy. These themes are explored with reference to a semi-arid landscape, namely the Karoo, which covers some 40% of the geographic space of South Africa and is used primarily for extensive livestock farming. Despite long-term decline in agricultural output, the traditional mainstay of the region, and weakening small town economies, the Karoo's population and the economies of its largest service centres are growing. There are, real socio-economic needs and development backlogs, and the situation has been exacerbated by recent political marginalisation. In this study, the small towns of the region are focal points of investigation and provide a lens to investigate the changing demographic and economic dynamics of the Karoo. Most of the region's population lives in these centres which are service, collection, and distribution points for what traditionally has been an agriculture-based regional economy. This paper explores the concept of marginalisation with specific reference to historical, economic, and demographic change.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2008
Lives "on hold": the Daily Sun and the South African identity document
- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143538 , vital:38255 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC195358
- Description: The relationship between a personal identity and the state-issued Identity Document (ID) is the focus of this article, which examines stories published in the "Horror Affairs" column of the popular South African tabloid, the Daily Sun. These highly emotional stories tell of the despair and desperation felt by individuals at the lack of an ID book, which is blamed on the inefficiency of the state Department of Home Affairs. In order to explicate this relationship I make use of Agamben's notion of "bare life" and the camp in conjunction with Lacan's idea of the Symbolic Order to argue that if the Identity Document provides the means by which the individual is made to signify, the lack of an Identity Document threatens to reduce the individual to "bare life". By publishing the stories of those deprived of the visibility that the ID provides, the Daily Sun, I show, directly engages in this exchange, and, in contrast to Home Affairs, bestows its own even stronger gift of identity by the fact of appearance in its pages.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143538 , vital:38255 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC195358
- Description: The relationship between a personal identity and the state-issued Identity Document (ID) is the focus of this article, which examines stories published in the "Horror Affairs" column of the popular South African tabloid, the Daily Sun. These highly emotional stories tell of the despair and desperation felt by individuals at the lack of an ID book, which is blamed on the inefficiency of the state Department of Home Affairs. In order to explicate this relationship I make use of Agamben's notion of "bare life" and the camp in conjunction with Lacan's idea of the Symbolic Order to argue that if the Identity Document provides the means by which the individual is made to signify, the lack of an Identity Document threatens to reduce the individual to "bare life". By publishing the stories of those deprived of the visibility that the ID provides, the Daily Sun, I show, directly engages in this exchange, and, in contrast to Home Affairs, bestows its own even stronger gift of identity by the fact of appearance in its pages.
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- Date Issued: 2016
Lessons from the dead masters: Wordsworth and Byron in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace
- Authors: Beard, Margot
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6114 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003827
- Description: As one whose research interests lie in the field of Romanticism, most specifically Wordsworth and Byron, I was obviously intrigued by J. M. Coetzee's use of these poets in Disgrace. Subsequent readings of the work have convinced me that more attention needs to be paid to the deeper implications of their presence in the text. Certainly many scholars have explored the significance of David Lurie's professional interest in the Romantic poets and the novel's imbeddedness in what Jane Taylor has referred to as "the European Enlightenment's legacy of the autonomy of the individual" as well as a specifically "eighteenth century model of philosophical sympathy" (1999, 25). Yet I feel that insufficient attention has been paid to the significance of Romanticism, the Wordsworthian and the Byronic in the novel. Generally, the commentary ranges from seeing Lurie's academic interests as symptomatic of his white colonialist mentality to a more nuanced but insufficiently developed focus on the possibilities lying behind Coetzee's startling juxtaposition of two of the most famed and yet most overtly antagonistic of the Romantic poets. Zoë Wicomb is representative of the first approach. In her estimation, Lurie may be rejected since he "looks to Europe as the centre of reference" and "our feelings and experiences of nature need not be structured by poetic discourses from the metropolis".
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Beard, Margot
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6114 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003827
- Description: As one whose research interests lie in the field of Romanticism, most specifically Wordsworth and Byron, I was obviously intrigued by J. M. Coetzee's use of these poets in Disgrace. Subsequent readings of the work have convinced me that more attention needs to be paid to the deeper implications of their presence in the text. Certainly many scholars have explored the significance of David Lurie's professional interest in the Romantic poets and the novel's imbeddedness in what Jane Taylor has referred to as "the European Enlightenment's legacy of the autonomy of the individual" as well as a specifically "eighteenth century model of philosophical sympathy" (1999, 25). Yet I feel that insufficient attention has been paid to the significance of Romanticism, the Wordsworthian and the Byronic in the novel. Generally, the commentary ranges from seeing Lurie's academic interests as symptomatic of his white colonialist mentality to a more nuanced but insufficiently developed focus on the possibilities lying behind Coetzee's startling juxtaposition of two of the most famed and yet most overtly antagonistic of the Romantic poets. Zoë Wicomb is representative of the first approach. In her estimation, Lurie may be rejected since he "looks to Europe as the centre of reference" and "our feelings and experiences of nature need not be structured by poetic discourses from the metropolis".
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- Date Issued: 2007