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    • Women in mining: an assessment of workplace relations struggles 

      Botha, Doret (Kamla-Raj, 2016)
      In 1994, the newly elected democratic government of South Africa adopted a number of strategies to open up the mining sector to historically disadvantaged South Africans which include women, as part of its economic empowerment ...

    • Women in mining: engaging men in the dialogue 

      Botha, D. (Prof. Ansie Lessing, 2016)
      For decades women have battled for a place in the mining industry. In South Africa, the newly elected democratic government (1994) initiated a number of actions to redress injustices of the past. Among others, new mining ...

    • Women's empowerment status and exposure to maternal mortality risks in Nigeria 

      Akinlo, Ambrose; Idemudia, Erhabor Sunday; Ogunjuyigbe, Peter Olasupo; Solanke, Bola Lukman (IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2016)
      The statistics on maternal mortality clearly show that Nigeria is lagging in the struggle to significantly improve maternal health. Annually, an estimated 50,000 to 59,000 Nigeria women of reproductive age die because of ...

    • Woorde wat teken en be-teken - ikonisitein in die poësie 

      Du Plooy, Heiltje Johanna Gertruida (Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte = Bureau of Scholarly Journals, 2008)
      In this article aspects of iconicity in language and in poetic texts are discussed. The recent renewed interest in the anti-arbitrary debate is used as a point of departure in order to examine the iconic characteristics ...

    • Work design influences: a synthesis of multilevel factors that affect the design of jobs 

      Park, S.; Van den Broeck, Anja; Holman, David; Leuven, K.U. (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      High quality work design is a key determinant of employee well-being, positive work attitudes, and job/organizational performance. Yet many job incumbents continue to experience deskilled and demotivating work. We argue ...

    • Work engagement in the mining industry in South Africa: the role of tasks and relationships 

      Palo, Joe; Rothmann, Sebastiaan (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      The platinum mining sector in South Africa presents a significant context for the study of work engagement, given the major changes and turmoil experienced by employees in this sector. The aim of this study was to investigate ...

    • Work-based learning: Development and validation of a scale measuring the learning potential of the workplace (LPW) 

      Nikolova, Irina; Van Ruysseveldt, Joris; De Witte, Hans; Syroit, Jef (Elsevier, 2014)
      The current study presents a multi-dimensional scale measuring the learning potential of the workplace (LPW), which is applicable across various occupational settings. Based on a comprehensive literature review, we establish ...

    • Work-life balance among academics: do gender and personality traits really matter? 

      Akanni, Abimbola A.; Oduaran, Choja A. (IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2017)
      This study investigated the relationship between personality traits and work-life balance; and also examined gender differences on the capacity to balance work and life roles among academics. Data were collected from a ...

    • Work-related well-being of South African hospital pharmacists 

      Rothmann, Sebastiaan; Malan, Madeleine (AOSIS, 2011)
      Orientation: Hospital pharmacists in South Africa are experiencing increased stress because of the high demand for their services, a lack of resources in hospital pharmacies, and the shortage of pharmacists in South ...

    • Working hours mismatch, macroeconomic changes, and mental well-being in Europe 

      De Moortel, Deborah; Thévenon, Olivier; De Witte, Hans; Van Roelen, Christophe (Sage, 2017)
      This study explores the association between involuntarily working less or more than the standard workweek and poor mental well-being, and whether this relationship is dependent upon (changing) national-level unemployment ...

    • The world view of Khaketla's novel 'Mosadi a nkhola' 

      Seema, Johannes (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
      Khaketla emphasises the essential and inner qualities of the medium of his novel Mosadi a nkhola (‘The wife brought calamity upon me’) as based on his convictions of the supremacy of art over all other means of expression ...

    • The world view of Khaketla's novel mosadi a nkhola 

      Seema, Johannes (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
      Khaketla emphasises the essential and inner qualities of the medium of his novel Mosadi a nkhola (‘The wife brought calamity upon me’) as based on his convictions of the supremacy of art over all other means of expression ...

    • Wysgerige onderskeidinge relevant vir 'n besinning oor staat en samelewing met besondere verwysing na Koos Malan se politokrasie 

      Strauss, Danie (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)
      Recently reflections on state and society were enriched by the contributions of various authors in Afrikaans. Of particular interest in this regard is a work written by Koos Malan (professor in Constitutional Law). It ...

    • Yeats's manuscripts and authorial intention. 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
      The undermining of authorial intention through intertextuality and its consequent implications can sometimes lead to false assumptions about, not simply the meaning of texts, but the strategies used by authors in conveying ...

    • Yeats, Vendler, and Byzantium 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
      Helen Vendler, in her magisterial Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007), provides us with the tools with which to register the traditional formal elements of poetry, and she does so for the most part with her ...

    • Yeats’s manuscripts and authorial intention. 

      Meihuizen, Nicholas (Taylor & Francis, 2014)
      The undermining of authorial intention through intertextuality and its consequent implications can sometimes lead to false assumptions about, not simply the meaning of texts, but the strategies used by authors in conveying ...

    • Yes/No/Maybe: A Boolean attempt at feedback 

      Henk Louw; Bertus van Rooy ((SAALT/SAVTO) South African Association of Language Teaching / Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Taalonderrig // Sabinet, 2010)
      This paper describes an experiment in which Boolean feedback (a kind of checklist) was used to provide feedback on the paragraph structures of first year students in an Academic Literacy course. We begin by introducing the ...

    • Yes/No/Maybe: A boolean attempt at feedback 

      Louw, Henk; Van Rooy, Albertus Jacobus (Africa Journals Online, 2010)

    • Yes/No/Maybe: a boolean attempt at feedback 

      Louw, H.; Van Rooy, B. (South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2010)
      This paper describes an experiment in which Boolean feedback (a kind of checklist) was used to provide feedback on the paragraph structures of first year students in an Academic Literacy course. We begin by introducing the ...

    • YHWH'S personal identity – a philosophical perspective 

      Gericke, J.W. (Unisa Press/SASNES (South African Society for Near Eastern Studies) / Sabinet, 2012)
      In this article a new riddle for Hebrew Bible theologians is introduced. It concerns the philosophical problem of YHWH's personal identity within the world in the text. Given theological pluralism in the deity's profile, ...