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Wealth and antenatal care utilization in Nigeria: policy implications
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Antenatal care (ANC) utilization is lower in Nigeria than the African average. We investigated the relationship between wealth and utilization of ANC and also assessed other determinants associated with ANC utilization in ... -
Weerlose weemoed: die poësie van Luuk Gruwez (1953-)
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), 2016)Luuk Gruwez is one of the best-known and anthologized poets in the Dutch language. A few years ago he was relatively unknown in the Afrikaans literary world, but this situation changed dramatically with his attendance of ... -
Weerskante van die slot: semiosfere in Etienne van Heerden se 'In stede van die liefde (2005)'
(University of the Free State, 2007)In this article the ending of In stede van die liefde by Etienne van Heerden is regarded as pivotal in the interpretation of the novel. It is argued that the main character, Christian, who is always travelling and crossing ... -
Weerstand teen huisvesting van swart studente deur die Potchefstroomse Universiteit vir CHO, 1987 tot 1990
(LitNet, 2016)Die Potchefstroomse Universiteit vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys (hierna PU, of die universiteit) het in 1984 swart studente tot na-uurse studie toegelaat en in 1988 was daar ’n vraag of sommige van hierdie studente se ... -
Welcoming Africa's children: the nature and implications of being a missional church
(AOSIS, 2016)This article presents a brief overview of the historical development of the missional church from the understanding of the missio Dei. From this perspective, it attends to the African context. With regard to African children, ... -
Well-being in times of task restructuring: The buffering potential of workplace learning
(Taylor &Francis, 2014)In this paper, we focus on task restructuring as one of the most frequently occurring types of change in our contemporary knowledge society. In spite of its evident prevalence, research on task restructuring and employee ... -
Wêreldwye belangstelling in Christelike wetenskapsbeoefening en Christelike hoër onderwys : Hoe Afrika daarby kan baat
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Wêreldwye belangstelling in die Kuyperiaanse Reformatoriese Lewensvisie - ook relevant vir Afrika
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What are statues good for? Winning the battle or losing the battleground?
(AOSIS, 2016)In South Africa the practice of toppling statues is as old as the practice of erecting them. The most recent episode in this history began in 2015 with the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at the University of Cape Town, from ... -
What can we learn from a narrative reinterpretation of a mission (hi)story? Reflecting on the mission history of the Dutch Reformed Church according to Willem Saayman
(Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2015)On 16 May 2015, the well-known missiologist, Willem Saayman, passed away. In this article, his overview of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) mission history, Being Missionary, Being Human (2007), is revisited from the ... -
What do you do when you can t accommodate? Managing and evaluating problematic interactions in a multilingual medical environment
(Elsevier, 2015)This study sought to better understand how speakers react, and what factors predict their evaluations of interaction, when a language barrier renders conventional verbal accommodation impossible. An analysis of conversation ... -
What French for Gabonese French Lexicography
(Buro van die Wat, 2016)This paper is a response to Mavoungou (2013a) who has pleaded for the production of a dictionary of Gabonese French as variant B of the French language. The paper intends to com-prehend the concept of "Gabonese French". ... -
What helps young care leavers to enter the world of work? Possible lessons learned from an exploratory study in Ireland and Catalonia
(Pergamon–Elsevier Science Ltd, 2015)Work is important for promoting social inclusion, especially for marginalized or economically vulnerable populations. There is also evidence that work is associated with stability and social integration for young people ... -
What inspires South African student teachers for their future profession?
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2012)The need for an inspired professional teacher corps to haul South African school education out of its current low level of quality was the driving force behind this project. Its aim was to determine what counted as sources ... -
What is a god like? Meta-theistic presuppositions in the letter of Jeremiah
(SASNES (Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies), 2016)In the apocryphal text of the Letter (Epistle) of Jeremiah (Ep Jer), a long list of reasons is given by the implied author as to why certain entities alleged to be gods are not in fact such. Brief summaries of the author's ... -
What is a line?
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Since the discovery of incommensurability in ancient Greece, arithmeticism and geometricism constantly switched roles. After ninetieth century arithmeticism Frege eventually returned to the view that mathematics is really ... -
What is in a language: essentialism in macro-sociolinguistic research on Afrikaans
(De Gruyter, 2017)Essentialist conceptions about language, and the relationship between language and other things, are still fairly common in society, and to some extent in linguistics. It is of particular relevance when working with specific ... -
What is it like to be a god? A philosophical clarification of instances of divine suffering in the Psalter
(AOSIS, 2012)There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. (Mark Twain) In philosophy of religion, there is a long history of belief that divine reality is immutable, although this has changed ... -
What is your God? a classic philosophical perspective on אלי -X theophory in the Hebrew Bible
(SASNES (Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies), 2016)What, according to the Hebrew Bible, was a god assumed to be? In this article the author looks at data potentially relevant to any attempt at answering this question within a sub-type of אל theophory in the Hebrew Bible. ...