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In defence of freedom

- NUM

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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Date Issued: 1995

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A hand to mouth existence: hurdles emanating from the COVID 19 Pandemic for Women Survivalist Entrepreneurs in Johannesburg, South Africa

- Mapuranga, Miston, Maziriri, Eugine Tafadzwa, Rukuni, Tarisai Fritz

Authors: Mapuranga, Miston , Maziriri, Eugine Tafadzwa , Rukuni, Tarisai Fritz
Date: 2021-09-13
Subjects: Covid-19 (Disease) , Women-owned business enterprises , Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/7460 , vital:53960 , https://doi.org/10.31920/2634-3622/2021/v10n3a6
Description: There are many women survivalist entrepreneurs in South Africa, many of whom work in the informal sector. The emergence of theCOVID-19 pandemic has a devastating effect on their entrepreneurial projects. While both the public and private sectors have initiated various measures to ease the blow, obstacles continue to confront them. This study sought to examine the challenges faced by women survivalist entrepreneurs in South Africa’s Johannesburg metropolitan area. The researchers gathered qualitative data using a qualitative research approach by conducting semi-structured face-to-face interviews. The data was analysed using thematic analyses. The themes that emerged from the findings include; a lack of capital for reinvestment, no government grant support, a decline in the demand for products by the market, rotting agricultural produce or stock, a battle for strategic selling points and numerous confrontations with police as a result of not meeting the regulatory rules relating to COVID-19. The present research provides theoretical implications for academics in entrepreneurship by enhancing the understanding of the hurdles that these entrepreneurs have experienced because of COVID-19. On the practitioners’ side, this work offers avenues for women survivalist entrepreneurs to improve their entrepreneurial ventures and eventually eliminate the challenges they face when running their ventures. This study also offers policy implications. For example, existing government policies can be amended to make the working conditions of women survivalist entrepreneurs better or make the rules under which they operate simpler. This study contributes to entrepreneurship literature by uncovering the difficulties faced by women survivalist entrepreneurs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It will assist other scholars in further developing this research field. As such, this research is important for women survivalist entrepreneurs because most of them endeavour to enhance entrepreneurial performance for the betterment of their lives. Governments may also use the study to develop interventions aimed at facilitating the growth and development of women survivalist entrepreneurs.
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Date Issued: 2021-09-13

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Creating a virtual classroom: evaluating the use of online discussion forums to increase teaching and learning activities in an introductory accounting class

- Bezuidenhout, L Peta

Authors: Bezuidenhout, L Peta
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: Conference paper
Identifier: vital:6082 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008586
Description: In teaching large classes, the educationally beneficial informal interaction between students and between lecturer and students is generally reduced, while effective use of both students' and lecturer's time is often a challenge. During student consultations, especially over the already stressful test and examination periods, many of the questions asked by the students are the same or similar. The lecturer needs to respond to each query by providing the same detailed explanation for the problem, resulting in ineffective use of time for the lecturer, while students waste time waiting for an appointment, or more often, simply don't bother to follow up on any queries they may have. Having a social presence is important for students' cognitive development, but in a large class posing questions or interrogating issues during a lecture appears to be challenging for many students. It is often not easy for students to initiate discussions or establish relationships with peers or the lecturer due to feelings of vulnerability and due to the size and impersonal atmosphere of the lecture theatre. This paper deals with the introduction of online discussion forums in an introductory accounting course and the benefits and problems experienced by the students, tutors and lecturer as a result thereof. Feedback received from these participants is discussed. The introduction and use of these forums resulted in a virtual classroom being created, where significantly more teaching and learning activities took place, to the benefit of all participants. Participation could have been peripheral - in the form of simply reading discussions; or active – through posting questions, or responding to questions.
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Date Issued: 2008

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Stop privatisation - Join the campaign

- COSATU

Authors: COSATU
Date: June 1991
Subjects: COSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135389 , vital:37263
Description: Privatisation is when government hands over the management or assets of government services to private interests. Privatised services don't provide well for the poor, who can't pay, because private interests must make profits. Government says it will ensure the poor get good services through contracts and regulations - but it doesn't have capacity to enforce them. Privatisation makes it harder to maintain cross subsidies. Cross subsidies mean rich communities or industry pay more, so that poor households can pay less. Getting rid of cross-subsidies tends to make the prices for services for the poor go up. Privatised companies don't take the broader economic needs of the country into account, for instance by buying goods locally as a way to create jobs, and providing affordable services in remote regions.
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Date Issued: June 1991

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Constructing a cardinal measure of democratic development in a transition polity: the Nigerian example

- Dinneya, Godson E, Tsegaye, Asrat

Authors: Dinneya, Godson E , Tsegaye, Asrat
Date: 2004
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6076 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003837
Description: Existing measures of the level of democracy present in a given state treat democracy as a product and therefore place undue emphasis on actual freedoms enjoyed by the citizens of the country. In transition polities where the actual levels of freedom are low despite continuing efforts to democratize, democracy should be seen as a process rather than a product. A measure that dilutes the end product to capture today's struggles against undemocratic structures and policies does so in order to recognize the foundations these inputs lay for future democratic development. Nigeria exemplifies the many polities in transition on the African continent. This essay looks at the major political events that typify the processes of power change, quality of governance, political environment and democratic dividends, and uses them to construct democratization indices to determine the pattern and level of democratization in Nigeria since political independence. This exercise sets the stage for assessing the impacts of various dimensions of democratization on the performance of the Nigerian economy.
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Date Issued: 2004

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NUM press cutting service

- NUM

Authors: NUM
Date: 1987
Subjects: NUM
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/168592 , vital:41628
Description: The African National Congress, 75 years old tomorrow, is no longer being written off in South Africa as “the world’s least successful terrorist organisation.” The black nationalist movement, which turned to violence after it was banned in 1960, is nowhere near a classic guerilla' victory in its fight for majority rule. But after three years of unprecedented black revolt in South Africa's townships, it has won recognition from the Government as its main enemy and a major security threat. Political analysts say this has in turn helped the outlawed ANC boost its overt political support in the townships — an increasingly important goal since it accepted how South African conditions impede conventional guerilla warfare. South African Government sources used to pour scorn on the ANC’s guerilla operations and it justified crackdowns on dissent by speaking in general terms of an international, communist-backed' "total onslaught" against its rule.
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Date Issued: 1987

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Infecting the city: site-situational performance and ambulatory hermeneutics

- Simbao, Ruth K

Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
Date: 2016
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146156 , vital:38500 , DOI: 10.1080/09528822.2016.1266776
Description: This article proposes the term ‘site-situational’ art or performance as a meaningful shift beyond ‘site-specificity’ and as a way to develop forward-moving and relational understandings of place. While place falls prey to Western, modernist stereotypes of closed, territorial geographic systems, site-situational readings, radical forms of ‘recognition’ and ambulatory hermeneutics enable an understanding of place as a wandering signifier, a trickster figure, and an in-the-moment conversation between environments and living beings. Through an analysis of the 2009 Infecting the City performing arts festival in South Africa, the article links site-situational performance to situational understandings of identification in the context of migration and xenophobia. It connects the participatory creative resistance aspired to by the Situationists that transforms situations rather than just recognises them, to the potential mutuality that can be experienced when one recognises oneself in the face of a ‘foreigner’ as well as the potential culpability that accompanies pro-active recognition-on-the-run.
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Date Issued: 2016

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The dialogue between the bench and the bar: implications for adjudicative impartiality

- Okpaluba, Chuks, Juma, Laurence

Authors: Okpaluba, Chuks , Juma, Laurence
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/129078 , vital:36215 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC53998
Description: What is the role of the judge in the conduct of a trial? Can he or she engage counsel in legal argument and ask questions on legal issues without breaking the brittle bond of justice or be said to have 'descended into the arena'? Assuming that these actions are permissible, at what point will the judge's dialogue with counsel or line of questioning go beyond permissible limits? These are the questions with which this article grapples. Based on an analysis of the Constitutional Court decisions in State v Basson (2) 2007 (1) SACR 566 (CC) and Bernert v ABSA Bank Ltd 2011 (3) SA 92 (CC), and several Supreme Court of Appeal and other Commonwealth decisions, the article explores the circumstances in which the recusal of judges has been sought, or judicial decisions have been challenged on appeal on the basis of an allegation that there have been violations of the principle of fair hearing as enshrined in the Constitution. The article draws on the 'apprehension of bias' jurisprudence to establish the utility of the presumption of impartiality and the hybrid test of double-reasonableness in contexts where a judge's conduct is in question. The article concludes that the dialogue between the bench and bar is a useful component of adjudication in our adversarial system and should be limited by the rules of impartiality only in very exceptional circumstances.
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Date Issued: 2011

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Three important principles for trade unionism: unity, independence and democratic methods

Date: 19--?
Subjects: Labour unions -- South Africa , Quality of work life
Language: English
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/111235 , vital:33418
Description: The first principle of trade unionism is unity: the unity of workers, or put another way, solidarity, “one for all, all for one. With solid unity, many things can be achieved by the workers. Without unity, nothing of significance can be achieved by an individual worker. What this means in practice is: the organizational objective of a union is 100 percent membership.The strength and influence of a trade union in its relationship to employers depend on the extent the employees of the company concerned are unionized. The higher the proportion of unionized workers to non-unionized workers, the greater the strength. Apart from numbers, strength also come from organizing the key, skilled workers in the enterprise. Depending on what the basis of organization of the union is—whether it be craft occupation, a specific industry, an undertaking, a common employer or general labor —all workers should be united into one union, irrespective of race, religion, creed, sex, skill, etc. All are equal in the eyes of the organization. Trade unions should also operate nationally because local or regional unions cannot develop sufficient bargaining power or competence over a whole range of issues to adequately safeguard the interest of workers. Trade unions should not be considered as closed societies. They should not be an instrument of privileged or elite workers, jealously guarding member’s privileges against nonmember workers who receive lower wages and are unorganized. They should be open to all workers, otherwise, these same underprivileged workers could be used as scabs against organized workers in the event of a serious conflict. If an organization is to serve the needs of its members, it must be controlled by the members themselves, for who but they themselves can best define and guard their own interests? If a union intends to truly achieve the principles and objectives upon which it was founded, it should not allow itself to be dominated or controlled by external interests, be it government, employers, political parties, religious, communal or fraternal organizations, or individual persons. A government may or may not be well disposed to trade unions, but in general, it is very responsive to the interests of the powerful groups in society, usually the employers. Moreover, if a government can control the operation and policies of a trade union, it becomes an instrument of the government rather than of the workers for whom it was originally set up. There are cases where a so-called “union” is organized by the employer for the employees. This kind of union is a “yellow union” (company dominated union). It is dominated by the management or its stooges. It is usually a local union (or a one-shop union), which means that only employees of that undertaking are allowed to join it. Needless to say, this kind of union is totally useless because its basic purpose is not to promote the workers’ interest but to prevent them from setting up a genuine one. When management starts to pressure employees to join a local union, the signals are clear: it is a yellow union. Equally, the union should resist any attempt by any political party to control and dominate it. The interests of the political party are not necessarily the same as those of the union. Even if there are some areas of shared interests, the ultimate aim of a trade union is to serve its members. This aim may be distorted under the domination of a political party whose basic aim is to obtain support from all sectors to secure power.
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Date Issued: 19--?

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Colony of Natal - Official programme of arrangements in connection with the visit of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York, 13th, 14th and 15th August, 1901

Date: 1901
Subjects: Royal visitors -- South Africa South Africa -- Royal Visit, 1901 Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. (South Africa) -- History -- Photographs
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/35113 , vital:24328 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , MS20 065
Description: Commemorative album of views and printed documents taken during the visit of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Natal, 13-15 August, 1901. Natal, 1901 , Gold Fields of South Africa Ltd. (donor)
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Date Issued: 1901

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Rhodes University 2018 Graduation Ceremony: 1820 Settlers' National Monument, Thursday, 5 April at 9:30

- Rhodes University

Authors: Rhodes University
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/64533 , vital:28556 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1nT--FXtBY , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUs1Jqredys , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay_ufZErTFA , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l31bTJ_M_Xo
Description: Rhodes University 2018 Graduation Programme, 5 April at 9:30: Bachelor’s: Bachelor of Journalism, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Education. Postgraduate Diplomas: Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism, Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management, Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Journalism, Postgraduate Diploma in International Studies,Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education. Honours: Bachelor of Education Honours. Master’s: Master of Music, Master of Education. Doctorate:PhD in Education.
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Date Issued: 2018

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Descriptions of two new species of Hetereleotris (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the western Indian Ocean, with discussion of related species

- Hoese, Douglass F, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Hoese, Douglass F , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1986-09
Subjects: Gobiidae -- Classification
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70228 , vital:29636 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 41 , Thirteen species of the genus Hetereleotris are recognized from the Indian Ocean. Two of the species are described as new. H. poecila (Fowler) is recorded for the first time from the Indian Ocean, and H. vulgaris (Klunzinger) is recorded from the Mediterranean. Specimens of H. zonata from India and Pakistan were found to differ in several features from specimens from South Africa. A key is given to the species from the western Indian Ocean. Diagnoses and a primary synonymy are given for each of the 11 previously described species.
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Date Issued: 1986-09

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Farmworker Research & Resource Project (DSRP): Press clips summary 3

- University of the Witwatersrand

Authors: University of the Witwatersrand
Date: 1989-06-30
Subjects: Agricultural labourers -- South Africa , Agricultural labourers -- South Africa -- Economic conditions , Agricultural labourers -- South Africa -- Social conditions
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68951 , vital:29342
Description: Thousands of farmers were saved from bankruptcy by the Department of Agriculture, says Minister Greyling Wentzel. He said in 1986/1987 2 741 farmers who would have been bankrupt were saved through the department’s production aid scheme. The Rill,7m they received as loans enabled them to get a crop in the ground, without which they would have gone under. The debt consolidation scheme likewise helped about 2 000 farmers escape bankruptcy for the period 1983/1984 to 1986/1987.
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Date Issued: 1989-06-30

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COSATU Constitution as amended at the 4th National Congress

- COSATU

Authors: COSATU
Date: 1991
Subjects: COSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135027 , vital:37228
Description: We the Trade Union representatives here present firmly commit ourselves to a unified democratic South Africa, free of oppression and economic exploitation. We believe that this could only be achieved under the leadership of a united working class. Our history has taught us that to achieve this goal we will have to carry out the following tasks : Organise the unorganised and build effective trade unions based on the democratic organisation of workers in the factories, mines, shops, farms and other workplaces. Organise national industrial trade unions, financed and controlled by their worker members through democratically committees. Unify these industrial unions into a national worker controlled federation. Combat the divisions amongst the workers of South Africa and unite them into a strong and confident working class. Encourage democratic worker organisation and leadership in all spheres of our society together with other progressive sectors of the community. Reinforce and encourage progressive international worker contact and solidarity so as to assist one another in our struggle. We call on all those who identify with this commitment to join us and the workers whom we represent, as comrades in the struggle ahead. We call on all trade unions to strive to unite their members in their ranks without discrimination and prejudice, and therefore resolve that this federation shall determinedly seek to further and protect the interests of all workers and that its guiding motto shall be the universal slogan of working class solidarity: "An injury to one is an injury to all".
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Date Issued: 1991

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