Ethics and Intergenerational Programming: A Critical Reflection on Historic Environment Education in South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Roos ◽  
Jacobus Hoffman ◽  
Vanessa van der Westhuizen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Environment Education ◽  
Intergenerational Programming

scholarly journals Parallel Planning Mechanisms as a "Recipe for Disaster"

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Jeannie Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Planning Law ◽  
Municipal Planning ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
The Republic

This note offers a critical reflection of the recent landmark decision in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Gauteng Development Tribunal which lay to rest the negative consequences of employing the DFA procedures of the Development Facilitation Act 67 of 1995 (DFA) alongside those of the provincial Ordinances to establish townships (or to use DFA parlance, “land development areas”). The welcome and timely decision in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Gauteng Development Tribunal has declared invalid chapters V and VI of the DFA. Moreover, it has formalised planning terminology in South Africa, delineated the boundaries of “municipal planning” and “urban planning and development” as listed in Schedules 4 and 5 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and, in the process, clarified the structure of planning law. This note examines the decision of the SCA and focus on the role it will clearly have in reforming some of the law relating to planning. It considers the facts of the case, uncertainties around terminology, the structure of planning in South Africa, the content of municipal planning, the role of the DFA and the consequences of the declaration of invalidity by the SCA.

An offender’s perspective of what motivates and deters white-collar criminals in the South African workplace

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Luigi Muto ◽  
Gavin Price
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
White Collar Crime ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Environment Education ◽  
White Collar Offenders

The aim of this study was to investigate the motives of white-collar criminals so as to gain a better understanding of white-collar crime and develop measures that can help to reduce it. The study involved face-to-face interviews with white-collar offenders imprisoned at a correctional centre in South Africa. The data collected provided evidence to support the existing theory relating to the motives for white-collar crime; however, a previously unreported theme of race emerged as a key motivator among the respondents. Race was further identified as a key justification for committing the crime. Suggestions from the respondents to employment relations practitioners on how best to mitigate the risks were also collected and reported. The deterrents that were identified as most effective by the respondents revolved around four themes, namely reports and signing authority, working environment, education and matching roles and responsibilities.

scholarly journals South African Reformed Baptists and contextualisation: Contemporary understanding, attitudes and praxis

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Koning ◽  
P.J. Buys
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Church Growth ◽  
South African ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
The West ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Christian Witness

Postmodernism and urbanisation pose significant challenges and opportunities to Christian witness in the West. In South Africa, Reformed Baptists as well as the Reformed Churches in South Africa (RCSA) seem to be battling to engage with and reach new generations in the cities with the gospel. While the reasons for this may be many and varied, one reason for our faltering and seemingly ineffective witness can be traced back to inadequate and unbiblical views of contextualisation. While South African Reformed Baptists are passionately committed to biblical truth and orthodoxy, they appear to be negligent in the matter of faithful biblical contextualisation. Reformed Baptist pastors appear to be slow to take cognisance of and adjust to the unique challenges and opportunities that Postmodernism and urbanisation presents to gospel ministry in South Africa. Some conservative Baptists are suspicious of, or even critical of contextualisation, considering it a compromise with liberal theology. This article provides an overview of the findings of an empirical research that was done among a selected group of Reformed Baptist pastors as well as a selected group of ministers of the RCSA concerning their views on and practice of contextualisation. The article also provides some critical reflection on the findings and some proposals for more effective outreach to postmodern urban people.Keywords: Contextualisation, Reformed, Baptists Reformed Churches in South Africa Church, growth, Postmodernism

scholarly journals Die kerk onderweg na die een en twintigste eeu: 'n Kritiese besinning oor kerkwees in 'n veranderende konteks in Suid-Afrika

1995 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. J.S Steenkamp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Underlying Reality ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Doors

The church on its way to the twenty-first century:  A critical reflection on being church in a changing context in South Africa. Reflection on the underlying reality of the church in South Africa on its way to the twenty-first century should take into account the  dynamic nature of a church. Being a church presupposes the church judging its situation before God. Transition to a new context accentuates the line between the world and the church, since Christianity has finally reached the stage where the world confronts each and every believer as he or she emerges from the doors of his or her church or home. To be a church in this changing context has profound implications for the life and commitment of both the church and the individual believer.

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