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The use of public ICTs to empower and enhance citizens’ participation in the North West Province
(2016)Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are broadly recognized as being of paramount importance in empowering and enhancing citizen’s participation. The government and non-governmental organizations as well as ... -
Marriage dynamics and fertility in the era of HIV and AIDS in Mahikeng Local Municipality of the North West Province, South Africa
(2016)Marriage as one of the proximate determinants of fertility is in transition globally. In South Africa, age at marriage is increasing, marriage rate is declining, the prevalence of cohabitants and marriage dissolution is ... -
Ramifications of change management initiative: case study of First National Bank
(2016)The purpose of the study is to interrogate and assess change reception by Hogan Technology Quality Assurance (HTQA) employees and determine the extent of and reasons for the HTQA employee exodus that resulted from a change ... -
Psychosocial effects on victims of father-daughter incest in Ngaka Modiri Molema District
(2016)Father-daughter incest, one of the most prohibited sexual acts, is increasingly becoming a widespread problem in South Africa. This study sought to investigate the psychosocial effects of incest on the victims, offenders ... -
Khoi en Oosgrensafrikaans
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)Den Besten se studies oor die invloed van Khoi op Afrikaans, oor ʼn tydperk van 25 jaar, het ʼn impetus gegee vir opvolgondersoeke oor temas waarvan hy in sy werk aanduidings gegee het. In hierdie studie word daar, in ... -
Reconciling science and faith: dialogues with Anton van Nierkerk
(Vereniging vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys, 2015)In this article the views of the South African philosopher Anton van Niekerk on the relationship between (Christian) faith and science are explored from a reformational point of view. First we pay attention to the specific ... -
Afrikaans and Dutch as closely-related languages: a comparison to West Germanic languages and Dutch dialects
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)Following Den Besten s (2009) desiderata for historical linguistics of Afrikaans, this article" aims to contribute some modern evidence to the debate regarding the founding dialects of "Afrikaans. From an applied perspective ... -
Municipal Employees' Perceptions of Service Delivery in Limpopo–South Africa: A Critical Need for Good Governance
(Kamla Raj Enterprises, 2015)Public service delivery protests in post-apatheid South Africa has come to characterize community life at the local sphere of government. Negative consequences of corruption, maladministration, mismanagement of public ... -
‘Die hand aan die wieg regeer die land [The hand that rocks the cradle rules the land]’: Exploring the Agency and Identity of Women in the Ossewa- Brandwag, 1939–1954
(Unisa Press, 2015)The Ossewa-Brandwag (Oxwagon Sentinal) was an Afrikaner nationalist organisation strongly influenced by the dominant Fascist ideologies between the two world wars. Within a few years the organization became a mass movement ... -
Gestorwe geliefdes, die herkonstruksie van die selfnarratief in doodsbloei met verwysing na die rol van die mite van Orfeus en Euridike daarin
(Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging (ALV), 2015)Trauma shatters a person's existing self-narrative, especially trauma experienced after the loss of a loved one. "Turning one's life into a narrative is a vital way of finding meaning" (Van der Merwe & Gobodo-Madikizela, ... -
Liminality in J.M. Coetzee s later experimental texts
(AOSIS, 2015)Postcoloniality, which is essentially concerned with the transition and transgression of boundaries and borders, contextualises and defines liminality as an ephemeral concept that eludes pinning down. Liminality is continually ... -
Sin van plek, ingeplaastheid en bioregionaliteit in ’n kunstenaarsboek-installasie,Mooirivier: weerspieëling en weerklank
(LitNet, 2015)Hierdie artikel bespreek n praktykgebaseerde navorsingsprojek: n kunstenaarsboek–installasie met die Mooirivier in die Potchefstroom–omgewing as tema. Die bespreking is n retrospektiewe besinning vanuit die perspektief ... -
De/acculturation of identity: diaspora in selected photo installations by Searle and Farber
(AHWG, 2015)This article investigates the de/acculturation of identity (as brought forth specifically by diaspora) as visually represented by contemporary South African artists Berni Searle and Leora Farber. Specific focus is placed ... -
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 ... -
Die Kerkbode en die viering van Geloftedag, 1910-2010
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust in association with Christelike Lektuurfonds (CLF), 2015)The commemoration of the former Day of the Covenant was crucial in the development of Afrikaner nationalism and the apartheid ideology, providing theological grounding for twentieth century Afrikaner political philosophy. ... -
Afrikaanse slaapdeuntjies : eenstemmig, tweestemmig en vierstemmige liedere
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The Kalam cosmological argument and the Infinite God Objection
(Springer, 2015)In this article, we evaluate various responses to a noteworthy objection, namely, the infinite God objection to the kalām cosmological argument. As regards this objection, the proponents of the kalām argument face a ... -
Identity, construction and memory in Joanne Leonard's Being in pictures : an intimate photo memoir (2008)
(AOSIS, 2015)When Joanne Leonard's photo collage Romanticism is ultimately fatal (1972) appeared in H.W. Janson's History of art, the image brought her recognition as an artist. It gave her the confidence to further develop her technique ... -
A minor character in C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength
(Oxford Univ Press, 2015)C. S. LEWIS’s That Hideous Strength, first published in 1945 in London and in 1946 in New York, is a novel in which Lewis allows his plot to develop as his characters present themselves in speech and action.1 Most of the ...
