The Family Romance of the South African Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-201
Author(s):  
Jon Soske
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
The Family

Assessment of lateral compression of the idiosoma in adult water mites as a taxonomic character and reclassification of Frontipodopsis Walter, Wettina Piersig and some other basal Hygrobatoidea (Acari : Hydrachnida)

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 433 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Cook ◽  
Ian M. Smith ◽  
Mark S. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Sister Group ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Water Mites ◽  
Lateral Compression ◽  
The South ◽  
The Family ◽  
Apparent Relationship ◽  
African Genus ◽  
Family Classification

Systematists have frequently interpreted lateral compression of the idiosoma in post-larval instars of water mites as a synapomorphy indicating common ancestry. This paper re-examines the evidence to support this assumption and concludes that lateral flattening has occurred independently several times during water mite evolution, and especially often in various basal clades of the superfamily Hygrobatoidea. Reassessment of the phylogenetic relationships of the genera attributed to these clades results in improved understanding of the early evolution and biogeography of hygrobatoid water mites and necessitates redefinition of several clades and significant revision of the family classification. The South African genus Karlvietsia K.O. Viets, 1962 is transferred from the subfamily Frontipodopsinae of the family Aturidae to the Hygrobatidae. The Australian genera Tasmanaxona Cook, 1986, Wheenyella Cook, 1986 and Wheenyoides Harvey, 1990 are also removed from Frontipodopsinae and placed with the genus Wettina Piersig, 1892, here removed from the family Pionidae, in the family Wettinidae Cook, stat. nov. Based on apparent relationship with members of Wettinidae, the South African genus Stormaxonella K.O. Viets, 1962 is transferred from the Aturidae and provisionally placed in the Wettinidae. The clade including the predominately Holarctic genus Lethaxona K.H. Viets, 1932 and the Western Hemisphere genus LethaxonellaCook, 1963 is recognised as the probable sister group of Wettinidae, and these genera are consequently removed from the Aturidae and placed in Lethaxonidae, fam. nov. The genus Frontipodopsis Walter is reassigned from Aturidae to the now monobasic family Frontipodopsidae K.H. Viets, stat. nov. Finally, five new species are described, including Frontipodopsis (Frontipodopsella) sudafricanus, sp. nov., Wettina occidentalis, sp. nov., Karlvietsia simplex, sp. nov., Hygrobates (Hygrobates) gereckei, sp. nov. and Hygrobates (Hygrobatides)frontipodoides, sp. nov., and both Karlvietsia brevipalpis K.O. Viets and K. angustipalpis K.O. Viets are redescribed.

scholarly journals Where the two logics of institutional theory and entrepreneurship merge: are family businesses caught in the past or stuck in the future?

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethel Brundin ◽  
Caroline Vigren-Kristoferson
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
The South ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
Practical Implications

The aim of this article is to investigate how owners of family businesses combine their traditional heritage with changes in a new competitive arena. This is done by allowing the owners and managers of six vineyards to give voice to their concerns about the past, present, and future. The findings suggest that family businesses in the South African wine industry are subject to a process of institutionalisation in which entrepreneurial activities, which are part of this process, may not be as entrepreneurial as they appear at first. It is found that the two forms of logic behind the institutionalisation of the family firm and entrepreneurial activities in the context of the post-apartheid era can be successfully merged. Theoretical and practical implications bring the article to a close. 

A new phylogenetic analysis of the Sphaerotheriida (Diplopoda) with a revision of the Australian giant pill-millipedes

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Wesener
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
South African ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Position ◽  
The South ◽  
Sem Images ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family

Cyliosoma Pocock, 1895, the oldest available genus name for Australian giant pill-millipedes, is revised with a redescription of its type species, Sphaerotherium angulatum Butler, 1878. All 16 species of Epicyliosoma Silvestri, 1917 are transferred to Cyliosoma, together with two species, Sphaerotherium fraternum Butler, 1872 and S. marginepunctatum Karsch, 1881, which are redescribed here. A new phylogenetic analysis of the Sphaerotheriida was conducted using 100 morphological characters and including two Cyliosoma species and four recently described or redescribed species of the family Zephroniidae. Most character states are illustrated for Cyliosoma, including the first SEM images of a member of the genus. Cyliosoma is neither closely related to the South African Sphaerotherium, nor to the other Australian genus, Procyliosoma, and is here placed in a new family, Cyliosomatidae. The monotypic Australian genus Cynotelopus Jeekel, 1986 is also referred to the Cyliosomatidae. The current position of the Cyliosomatidae is in a trichotomy including the South African Sphaerotheriidae and the Malagasy–Indian Arthrosphaeridae.

Protosuchus, Proterochampsa, and the origin of phytosaurs and crocodiles

1968 ◽  
Vol 105 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Walker
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
The South ◽  
The Family ◽  
Connecticut Valley ◽  
African Genus

SUMMARYStudy of casts of Stegomosuchus, a small reptile from the Upper Trias of the Connecticut Valley, hitherto regarded as a pseudosuchian thecodont, suggests that the skull of Protosuchus includes two pairs of supraorbital bones, and as a consequence the narrow interorbital region indicates a closer relationship to the South African genus Notochampsa than has previously been thought. These three genera of late Triassic crocodilians are placed in the family Stegomosuchidae von Huene, 1922. Proterochampsa, from the Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina, described by Reig (1959) and Sill (1967) as an ancestral crocodile, is considered to be an extremely primitive phytosaur.

(Un)sung Heroines

Matatu ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-279
Author(s):  
Christi van der Westhuizen
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The South ◽  
African Nation ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
South African War ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Face ◽  
Heroic Narrative

Abstract In the South African War (1899–1902), Boer women emerged as more heroic than their men folk. When Boer leaders succumbed to a truce, much discursive work ensued to domesticate Boer women anew in the face of their recalcitrance in accepting a peace deal with the British. But attempts to re-feminise Boer women and elevate Boer men to their ‘rightful’ position as patriarchs faltered in the topsy-turvy after the war. The figure of the volksmoeder, or mother of the nation, provided a nodal category that combined feminine care for the family and the volk, or fledgling Afrikaner nation, but the heroic narrative was increasingly displaced by the symbol of self-sacrificial, silent and passive motherhood, thereby obscuring women’s political activism. Today, a re-remembering of volksmoeder heroism, combined with feminist politics based on the democratic-era Constitution, opens up possibilities of Afrikaners breaking out of their white exclusivism to join the nascent democratic South African nation.

scholarly journals Experiences of parents during the hospitalisation of their child in a private paediatric unit

Curationis ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Verwey
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Parental Participation ◽  
South African Government ◽  
The South ◽  
African Government ◽  
Paediatric Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Per Se

A change in the health of a child is regarded as a major stressor for parents which further increases when the child is admitted to a hospital (Kaplan & Sadock, 1998:799). The role of the family in a child’s illness is slowly being recognised (Kibel & Wagstaff, 2001:544), but the South African government per se has not yet issued any formal reports on parental participation in the hospitalisation process.

scholarly journals An empirical investigation of job and family stressors amongst firefighters in the South African context

2007 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R M Oosthuizen ◽  
P Koortzen
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
South African Context ◽  
Work Situation ◽  
The South ◽  
Family Stressors ◽  
The Family ◽  
African Context

The general aim of the research was to theoretically and empirically study and evaluate job and family stressors amongst firefighters in the South African context. This also included an empirical evaluation of the stress symptoms of firefighters. The research was quantitative, consisting of a survey design. Three measuring instruments were used, namely the Experience of Work and Life Circumstances questionnaire, the Stress questionnaire as well as a biographical questionnaire. Task characteristics, organisational functioning, physical working conditions and job equipment, career and social matters, remuneration, fringe benefits and personnel policy were identified as causes of job stress originating within the work situation. Marital dysfunction and divorce, limited time with the family, problems with children, alcohol and drug abuse, lack of exercise, suicide, anger aimed at family members, physical and emotional exhaustion, lonely marital partners, unavailability to help the family when needed and depression were identified as causes of family stress arising outside the work situation.

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