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From burning to learning: adaptive governance to wildfires in the North-West Province of South Africa
(Kamla-Raj, 2014)Wild fires are a recurring natural hazard on the African continent. Although wildfires are necessary for ecological management and regeneration of certain species, the risk posed transcends into impacts on sustainable ... -
From disaster relief to disaster risk reduction: a consideration of the evolving international relief mechanism
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From foreign to national: a review of the status of the French language in Gabon
(AOSIS, 2011)This article provides a review of the various statuses of the French language in Gabon, a French-speaking country in Central Africa. It reveals a process in which different generations of Gabonese people are increasingly ... -
From fund-raising to Freedom Day: the nature of women’s general activities in the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1939-1943.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) was a mass-movement that originated as a result of the euphoria created by the 1938 Centenary Celebrations of the Great Trek in South Africa. With far-reaching and very ambitious aims the OB was ... -
From happiness to flourishing at work: a Southern African perspective
(Springer, 2013)Organizations around the world recognize the importance of measuring subjective well-being and promoting it as part of a strategic approach to human resource management. The focus is increasingly shifting to multidimensional ... -
From inky pinky ponky to improving student understanding in assessment: exploring the value of supplemental instruction in a large first-year class
(African Minds, 2017)Large classes are a reality in many tertiary programmes in the South African context and this involves several challenges. One of these is the assessment process, including the provision of meaningful feedback and implementing ... -
From Makhaza to Rammulotsi: reflections on South Africa's "toilet election" of 2011
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2012)In the run-up to South Africa’s 2011 local election, the event was labelled the “toilet election” in the media. The message that struck a sensitive chord in the national newspapers was that some local authorities were ... -
From policy to projects: a public service value-chain network model
(Kamla-Raj, 2016)South Africa is characterised by an interdependent, three-sphere system of co-operative government. To foster coordination and co-operation in this system requires alignment of government programmes. Chain thinking provides ... -
From Song to Visual Art: Exploring Sehnsucht in the lived experiences of visual artists
(AOSIS, 2016)This article explored the experiences shared by four artists during their processes of creating an art work which represented a specific art song or Lied. During 2015, South African artists Marna de Wet, Kevin du Plessis, ... -
From South-West Africa to Namibia: Subjective Well-Being Twenty-One Years After Independence
(Springer, 2014)This chapter, endorsed by Martina Perstling (Namibia) and Ian Rothmann (South Africa), takes us to a historical and fascinating journey addressing the relationships between Namibia and South Africa. It brings the studies ... -
From the incompatible to the provisionally synthesised in the music of Robert Fokkens
(South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM), 2015)Tracing Lines, an album containing seven works written between 2001 and 2011 by the UK-based South African composer Robert Fokkens, was released in 2014. In this essay two works from this album, representing two important ... -
From tonality to atonality: the function of the trichord
(Department of Music, University of South Africa and UNISA Press, 2008) -
From trauma to well-being: how music and trauma can transform us
(2014)Traumatic events can have a profound influence on the way musicians experience “musicing” as well as on their actual performance. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of two case histories is presented here – one ... -
From Waarburg to Matjieskuil: investigating an old Cape Farm
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2012)Problems and misconceptions with regard to old Cape farms are often the result of assumptions made on the basis of the present names of those farms. The way farms are divided and added to and the crucial matter of which ... -
Frontal lobe brain damage and the lived piano-playing experiences of an older adult
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This paper presents an interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) of the lived piano-playing experiences of an older adult who suffered frontal lobe brain damage. Semi-structured interviews and diary reflections were ... -
Function laws and type laws-a significant link between philosophy and the special sciences
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)The difference between function concepts and entity concepts is found in all the special sciences. Philosophy initially, in ancient Greece and during the Middle Ages, gave primacy to the substance concept. Since the ... -
The function of Daniel 1 in a second century BCE historical context.
(North-West University, 2011)In the first chapter, the book of Daniel begins with an introduction of the main characters, and a short story about refraining from defilement by eating foreign food. From a literary perspective that focuses on form and ... -
The function of electoral communication in a developing democracy: the case of South Africa
(Wiley, 2011)This article investigates the unique challenges facing political parties in terms of their communicative responsibilities in a developing democracy as demonstrated by the electoral communication of political parties in the ... -
Functional multilingualism at the North-West University as part of the institution's transformation agenda
(NISC Pty Ltd, 2008)The aim of this article is to explore the link between language management and the sociopolitical environment in which institutions of higher learning, particularly the North-West University, operate. Along the lines set ...