A review of SADTU Congress
- Authors: SADTU
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: SADTU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134551 , vital:37177
- Description: The Third SADTU Congress, held at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, was attended by over 800 delegates, representing 100 000 teachers country-wide. Delegates were elected at Branch level, ensuring grass roots participation in the highest decision making body of the Union. The Congress served to confirm SADTU’s position as the largest teacher Union in the country, and demonstrated a strongly unified focus around the theme: “Unionise and Reconstruct for Teacher Empowerment”. The success of any Congress must be measured against the aims it sets itself. Our Congress had two aims: to elect new leadership for the next two years, and to adopt resolutions which would inform the direction and programmes of the Union in this period. While we successfully completed the former task, we could only make a start on the second aspect - confirming the fact that the period we are entering is far more complex than before, and in need of extensive analysis and debate. We therefore mandated the SADTU National Council to formalise the adoption of resolutions arising from the reports. A Special National Council was convened on 25/26 August, with extended participation by regions, and the Congress report can now be finalised.
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Addendum to the paper Landcare: New directions in professional development for environmental education
- Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438672 , vital:73488 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137475"
- Description: During 1994-1995, we received correspondence from Tania Sadler of the University of Tasmania and from Debbie Heck, about the latter's paper published in volume 14. In response we publish the following addendum, which includes a list of references inadvertently left out of her paper. Ms Heck did supply these references to the SAJEE originally, and we apologise for any inconvenience to readers as a result of the mistake. (Ed.)
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AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.1
- Authors: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: AIA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169377 , vital:41744
- Description: Sowa, January 3, 1994 (AIA/Caitlin Davies) — Mercy Manakedi Theetso is 29 and has four children. She breast-fed her first child for 18 months, her second for eight months, and she didn’t breast-feed her third child at all. “I was working and the baby stayed with my mother so we used a bottle for the first four months, then we used a cup,” explains Theetso. “Myself, I like to breast-feed but I don’t have the time.” In the 1960s Botswana’s medical practitioners began giving new-born babies the bottle. Now, 30 years later, there is a concerted effort by the Botswana government to promote a return to breast-feeding. But as women have gone out of the home to work, reversing the trend is not an easy task. However, breast-feeding does remain popular in Botswana. “It’s a culturally acceptable norm,” says Virkloti Morewane of UNICEF, and boys and girls are fed for the same amount of time.
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AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.2
- Authors: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: AIA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169389 , vital:41745
- Description: Windhoek, January 16,1995 (AIA/Joshua Amupadhi) — Many impoverished Namibians are demanding swifter change to better their lives following elections which restored the ruling SWAPO party to power for another five years. SWAPO, the former guerrilla organisation which fought for the independence of Namibia from apartheid South African rulers, won an easy victory in the first post independence elections in December. Those interviewed say five years were enough for the former liberation movement to have made a good start on improving the standards of living of many previously disadvantaged Namibians and dismantle apartheid structures established during 75 years of South African colonialism. One SWAPO supporter says independence has created only a black elite to join whites in the rich suburban areas but has not narrowed the gap between the rich and poor.
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AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.3
- Authors: Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: AIA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169401 , vital:41746
- Description: Machipanda, February 3,1995 (AIA/Brian Latham)—Many Zimbabwean peasants have quietly found the solution to land shortages by crossing into neighbouring Mozambique where it is plentiful. For as little as US$ 10 a field, they are acquiring land and a place to live — probably illegally — from chiefs and headmen across the border. Information on how to get land is easily accessible in Machipanda, the Mozambique border town at the head of the Beira Corridor from Zimbabwe to the Indian Ocean. Confusion reigns in Mozambique in the aftermath of the devastating civil war. And in a country reputed to be the poorest on earth, the government can do little to control the flood of border jumpers in both directions: Mozambicans enter Zimbabwe to sell everything from guns to clothes donated by aid agencies and Zimbabweans enter Mozambique in search of land to till.
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Archaeopteris (Progymnospermopsida) from the Devonian of southern Africa
- Authors: Anderson, Heidi M , Hiller, Norton , Gess, Robert W
- Date: 1995
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72712 , vital:30102 , https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb02593.x
- Description: Archaeopteris notosaria sp. nov. based on one fertile and numerous sterile leafy branches is described from the Grahamstown By-Pass locality, Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group) Upper Devonian, and represents the first unequivocal record of the genus in southern Africa. This occurrence is used, in its palaeogeographical context, to support the suggestion that climatic gradients in Late Devonian times were less steep than they are at present.
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Background Information for Wage Bargaining
- Authors: NALEDI
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: NALEDI
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151343 , vital:39057
- Description: This booklet’contains information to assist unions in the coming wage round. It was prepared as an information package for a wage bargaining workshop. It begins with a section that reviews economic trends, including growth, unemployment and inflation. At the end of the booklet is a more detailed article on inflation taken from the South African Labour Bulletin, showing why the official inflation rate underestimates the level of inflation for the poor. The next section covers employer comments regarding the coming wage negotiations. It includes information on wage levels, the apartheid wage gap and estimates on labour as a proportion of costs. Lastly there is a calendar showing when Cosatu members, and their unions implement wage increases.
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Building a firm base for policy consensus statement
- Authors: NEDLAC
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: NEDLAC
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/151641 , vital:39156
- Description: We have arrived at a very important stage in the development of our country - one that will be most testing and challenging for all of us. Our second revolution, so to speak, is only beginning. The Government of National Unity, has come a long way in addressing the key political questions. Advancement from here lies in our economic prerogative. We are all concerned with the major economic challenge that lies ahead. Sustainable economic growth, the creation of wealth and equity, the provision of jobs and basic needs underpin the need to provide mechanisms which will facilitate growth, development and delivery. But our concern is not limited to our domestic economy.
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Constitution of the Building Workers Union
- Authors: Building Workers Union (BWU)
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: BWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178651 , vital:42971
- Description: This Trade Union shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession capable of entering into contractual and other relations and of suing and being sued in its own name and shall be an organisation not for gain.
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COSATU Press Release
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175651 , vital:42603
- Description: COSATU noting the unfolding education crisis within the Western Cape has called for a stayaway of all of its members and supporters in the Western Cape in support of its demand for measures that will guarantee quality public education, should the Provincial Government fail to meet the demands detailed.
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Description and identification of white grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) attacking pineapple crops in South Africa
- Authors: Smith, Tamara J , Petty, G , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 1995
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6853 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011134
- Description: Larvae of five species of scarabaeid beetles, Asthenopholis subfasciata Blanchard, Trochalus politus Moser, Macrophylla ciliata Herbst, Congela valida Peringuey and Adoretus ictericus Burmeister, and adults of a sixth species, Heteronychus arator (Fabricius), cause considerable economic damage to the root systems of pineapple plants. The biologies of the species differ, making reliable identification essential. Since no convenient method is available to identify them, both field and laboratory keys are provided for the identification of third instar larvae of the six species, and detailed, illustrated descriptions for confirming their identifications
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Editorial
- Authors: Janse van Rensburg, Eureta
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438706 , vital:73493 , xlink:href="https://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajee/article/view/137460"
- Description: This edition of the SAJEE focuses on EEASA' s conference-and-workshops held in July 1995, at Kearsney College in Kwazulu Natal, South Africa. ln the 1994 issue we invited readers to explore Progress and Paradox, as a conference theme reflecting a new perspective on education and environment. We received a very positive response and the conference featured an excellent range of papers. From amongst the many worthy contributions the reviewers selected those papers that addressed the theme most directly, for publication in this, arguably EEASA' s best journal yet.
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Equal opportunities for women
- Authors: Federation of Unions of South Africa
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: FEDUSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110109 , vital:33224
- Description: Over the last thirty years, there has been considerable evolution in the thinking about gender equality issues and the actions needed to achieve real changes in the position of women vis-a-vis men. Prior to the 1970s, women were defined mainly in terms of their conventional reproductive roles, and efforts to improve women's welfare focussed on such programmes as literacy courses, home economics, child care and family planning. Though no doubt valuable, such welfare and family-oriented programmes had the effect of reinforcing women's traditional role in the family. Since the 1970s, there has been a shift to the division of labour based on sex, and the impact of development and modernization strategies on women. It is important to understand that improvements in women's status require analysis of the relations between men and women, as well as the concurrence and cooperation of men. As illustrated in the Beijing document: "Achieving gender equality and empowerment of women requires redressing inequalities between women and men and girls and boys and ensuring their equal rights, responsibilities, opportunities and possibilities. Gender equality implies that women's as well as men's needs, interests, concerns, experiences and priorities are an integral dimension of the design, implementation, national monitoring and follow-up and evaluation, including at the international level, of all actions in all areas."
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Equilibrium and kinetic studies of the reaction between pyridine and cobalt (II) phthalocyanine in DMSO
- Authors: Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293380 , vital:57080 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-5387(95)00090-F"
- Description: Kinetics and equilibria for the reaction between pyridine and cobalt(II) phthalocyanine [CoPc] (H2Pc = phthalocyanine) in dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) were studied at 25°C. The complex, CoPc(py)2, is formed in two consecutive steps. The formation of the mono-substituted CoPc(py)(DMSO) occurs first with a pseudo-first-order rate constant of k1f = 7.7 ± 0.3 × 10−3 dm3 mol−1 s−1. The final disubstituted CoPc(py)2 complex is formed with k2f= 1.1 ± 0.1 × 10−4dm3mol−1−1. The equilibrium constants were found to be K1 = 160 ± 20dm3 mol−1 and K2 = 15 ± 3 dm3mol−1 for the formation of CoPc(py)(DMSO) and CoPc(py)2, respectively.
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In defence of freedom
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/149565 , vital:38864
- Description: This book was produced to respond to questions asked by our members during the president’s national RDP mass education tour. It covers our struggle history from as early as 1652 up until the time when Nelson Mandela was inaugurated the first president of a democratic South Africa. The book also attempts to assist comrades to understand what the RDP is and find ways of rebuilding our country after the hard years of apartheid. Workers, particularly from the mining industry will be able to use this book in understanding how their contribution will assist in creating jobs, building more houses etc. We would like you to read this book over and over again and discuss the content with comrades in your branch. The committee will appriaciate any suggestions that you may come up with.
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Late Devonian charophytes from the Witteberg Group, South Africa
- Authors: Gess, Robert W , Hiller, Norton
- Date: 1995
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72742 , vital:30106 , https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-6667(95)00007-8
- Description: The first record of Palaeozoic charophytes from southern Africa allows the establishment of two new genera to which are assigned four new species, Octochara crassa, O. gracilis. Hexachara setacea, and H. riniensis. Each species is represented by both vegetative and reproductive structures and suggested reconstructions are presented. Associated plant and animal remains, and the sedimentology and geochemistry of the containing rocks indicate that the charophytes probably grew in the shallow parts of a brackish coastal lagoon.
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NALEDI research report - Missing the target
- Authors: NALEDI
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: NALEDI
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174032 , vital:42433
- Description: The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was developed by the African National Congress (ANC) prior to entering government. The RDP was developed as an integrated and coherent socio-economic policy framework aimed at transforming South African society. Within this framework the ANC, as the majority party in the Government of National Unity (GNU), undertook to develop detailed policy positions and a legislative programme.
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NEDLAC and the goals of labour
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176145 , vital:42663
- Description: The launch of NEDLAC offers a unique opportunity to our country - a chance to rebuild the economy and society through a consensus forged among workers, investors, government and the community. The road to that consensus will, no doubt, be stormy and rocky. You cannot bring together Jabu Xulu, earning R200.00 per week, after working for 15 years, with a family of five to feed; and John Smith, the Chief Executive Officer of a major conglomerate, earning R20 000.00 per week, and expect that it will be a calm and easy process.
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