Faculty of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Estimated annual incomes of South African traditional healers as generated by their practices and sales of their pre-modern traditional health products for 2015/2016
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: In South Africa, it is an accepted fact that the main role players in the manufacturing and selling of so called traditional medicine (TAM) are traditional healers. The Traditional Health Practitioners Act No ... -
Does the traditional healer have a modern medical identity in South Africa?
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: Research supports the view that the South African traditional healer does not hold a modern medical identity, but developed from the traditional African religions and cultural environment as a kind of caregiver. ... -
The future registration of the White traditional healer in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) in South Africa: more bones to be thrown?
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: The dilemma of the White traditional healer is an unexpected outcome of the intent to use the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) to adhere to the ANC's cultural rights declaration of 1969, which ... -
The South African traditional health practitioner as a beneficiary of and provider to medical funds and schemes through the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007): a present-day perspective
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: Payments to traditional health practitioners for services rendered from medical funds and schemes, as envisaged by the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007), is controversial and a point of ... -
Are the fees that the traditional health practitioner charges generally lower than that of the medical practitioner?
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: The cost of healthcare is a matter of concern for the public and the authorities. When a new healthcare provider enters the healthcare market, specifically the private sector, it is crucial to know if the fees ... -
Challenges in reporting on predetermined objectives to the Auditor-General: the case of Limpopo provincial departments
(AOSIS, 2017)Limpopo provincial departments like all other South African government departments are required to report on performance against predetermined objectives in terms of Section 40 of the Public Finance Management Act 1 of ... -
South Africa's Economic Transformation Since 1994: what Influence has the National Democratic Revolution (NDR) Had?
(Springer, 2017)When the African National Congress (ANC) became the democratic government of South Africa in 1994, it faced the challenge of transforming the economy. How this was to be done, however, revolved around two divergent views ... -
Moments of agreement: the reformational worldview in dialogue with other Christian worldviews
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)The reformational worldview is often discussed by focusing on its diversity from other Christian worldviews. After a brief discussion concerning the reformed type of worldviews, this article tries to identify "moments of ... -
Meeting local community needs: the cases of iron ore mining in Sweden and South Africa
(Elsevier, 2017)This study compares contrasting models of how community concerns are addressed in two mining districts: in Sweden, a welfare state setting where social development concerns are the responsibility of the state, and South ... -
Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast and Islamic scholarship: a Calvinist appraisal
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2017)This article introduces and evaluates, from a Christian-Reformed point of view, the essential lines of Bagheri Noaparast's project concerning the establishment of an integral type of Islamic scholarship. After recommending ... -
A guideline for the strategic implementation of social media messaging within a marketing communication context
(University of Johannesburg, 2016)Marketing communication practitioners lack a guideline for implementing social media strategically. In the light of this, the authors of this article explored the strategic implementation of social media within a marketing ... -
Die samestelling en gebruik van vraelyste in kerklike opnames met verwysing na die Ned Geref Kerk se Kerkspieël-vraelyste
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, Stellenbosch, 2017)This article works from the premise that practical theology interprets the functioning of the church. Therefore, practical theologians should also be knowledgeable about empirical approaches to investigate these matters. ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Zambian mining sector: an overview of three distinctive operational eras
(AOSIS, 2017)Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within the extractive industry is a relevant and contentious issue globally. Issues pertaining to equality, human rights and sustainable development are pervasive throughout the economic, ... -
Thinking with Shakespeare': The Merchant of Venice - Shylock, Caliban and the dynamics of social scale
(Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), 2017)Contemporary criticism seldom acknowledges Shakespeare's sensitivity to longer-term historical trajectories. One such variable is social scale. If dramatic conflict in The Merchant of Venice is interpreted solely in terms ... -
Argitektoniese elemente en motiewe in Ou-Kaapse meubels
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2017)Most international authors on the art of furniture making or furniture styles mention that architecture has influenced furniture and not the other way round. Although limited information on furniture and articles in daily ... -
James Henry Greathead and the London Underground
(AOSIS, 2017)This article investigates the origins and early history of the device known as the 'Greathead Shield', an important innovation in Victorian engineering crucial to constructing the London Underground. The aim is to explore ... -
Theory before 'Theory': W.D. Terry and the semantics of Alfred Korzybski
(Taylor & Frances, 2017)Theoretical work undertaken by W.D. Terry in 1950, well before the 'theory wave' of the 70s and 80s reached South Africa, sets out to scrutinize the semantic presuppositions of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics, comparing ... -
Translatio interrupta in V. S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River
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"The World Is What It Is": Naipaul's quarrel with Conrad in a bend in the river
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)V. S. Naipaul's engagement with Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) in his 1979 novel, A Bend in the River, has elicited much comment, discussion often taking its cue from Naipaul's remark that Conrad "had been ... -
The status of tone in Sesotho: a production and perception study
(Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2017)Sesotho is generally described as a tonal language. This paper describes an investigation into the ability of a group of young speakers of Sesotho to perceive and produce tonal distinctions in Sesotho. In particular, it ...
