scholarly journals Reorganisation of the South African Nursing Association and the implications thereof

Curationis ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The South ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Is Value

There is value in taking an historical perspective — it helps to gauge the subject in the present day situation and provides information on how our nursing ancestors attempted to obtain solutions and answers to the problems of their times.

scholarly journals RR Telescopii

1982 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 215-216
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Whitelock ◽  
R.M. Catchpole ◽  
M. W. Feast
Keyword(s):  
Absorption Spectrum ◽  
South African ◽  
Emission Lines ◽  
The South ◽  
The Subject

In 1948 the South African amateur astronomers de Kock and Kirchhoff were the first to notice that RR Tel had brightened to 7th magnitude. Subsequent examination of the Harvard Patrol plates showed that it had in fact reached a maximum in 1944 after rapidly brightening 7 magnitudes (Mayall, 1949). Prior to 1944 the object showed variations with a period of 387 days and an amplitude of up to 2 magnitudes in the blue. After the outburst the spectrum evolved in a manner characteristic of very slow novae: an F5 supergiant absorption spectrum gave way to strong permitted and forbidden emission lines. The ionization levels characterising the emission increased with time. The spectral development has been extensively studied and has been well summarised for the period up to 1973 in the Thackeray's (1977) monograph on the subject.

scholarly journals (De)coloniality through Indigeneity:Deconstructing Calls to Decolonise in the South African and Canadian University Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana Almeida ◽  
Siseko H. Kumalo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The South ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Similar Vein ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
Land Space ◽  
Policies And Practices

The ways in which Africanisation and decolonisation in the South African academy have been framed and carried out have been called into question over the past several years, most notably in relation to modes of silencing and epistemic negation, which have been explicitly challenged through the student actions. In a similar vein, Canada’s commitments to decolonising its university spaces and pedagogies have been the subject of extensive critique, informed by (still unmet) claims to land, space, knowledge, and identity. Despite extensive critique, policies and practices in both South African and Canadian academic spaces remain largely unchanged, yet continue to stand as evidence that decolonisation is underway. In our paper, we begin to carefully articulate an understanding of decolonisation in the academy as one which continues to carry out historical relations of colonialism and race. Following the work of Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang (2012), we begin the process of “de-mythologising” decolonisation, by first exposing and tracing how decolonising claims both reinforce and recite the racial and colonial terms under which Indigeneity and Blackness are “integrated” in the academy. From our respective contexts, we trace how white, western ownership of space and knowledge in the academy is reaffirmed through processes of invitation, commodification, and erasure of Indigenous/Black bodies and identities. However, we also suggest that the invitation and presence of Indigenous and Black bodies and identities in both academic contexts are necessary to the reproduction and survival of decolonising claims, which allows us to begin to interrogate how, why, and under what terms bodies and identities come to be “included” in the academy. We conclude by proposing that the efficacy of decoloniality lies in paradigmatic and epistemic shifts which begin to unearth and then unsettle white supremacy in both contexts, in order to proceed with aims of reconciliation and reclamation.

scholarly journals PROPOSALS REGARDING A WEAPON REVIEW PROCESS IN SOUTH AFRICA (PART 1)

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Charles Moorhouse ◽  
David Abrahams
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
International Law ◽  
South African ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Review Process ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
National Implementation ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of this article is to put forward submissions regarding the implementation of a weapons review process in compliance of South Africa’s obligations under Additional Protocol I (hereinafter “API”) Article 36. Article 36 requires each state party to determine whether the employment of any new weapon, means or method of warfare that it studies, develops, acquires or adopts would, insome or all circumstances, be prohibited by international law. Article 36 does not specify how such a legal review should be implemented or conducted. Thus this article puts forward proposals regarding both the substantive and procedural aspectsof a review of the legality of weapons, means and methods of warfare that the authors submit best befits the South African context.A background regarding the legal limitations placed upon the use of certain weapons, means and methods of warfare and an explanation of South Africa’s obligations regarding national implementation of a weapons review process, is given in paragraph 1 so as to create an understanding as to why it is necessary for the Republic of South Africa to implement a process to review the legality of weapons, means and methods of warfare. Before the implementation of a weapons review process can be discussed, the subject matter of such a review must first be ascertained. Thus paragraph 2 contains a discussion regarding the definition of the term “weapons, means and methods of warfare” and a determination of which weapons shall form the subject matter of legal reviews. No specific manner of implementation is contained within API and thus it is at the discretion of the state in question, in this case South Africa, to adopt the necessary measures to implement this obligation. In this regard, paragraph 3 contains submissions regarding the status of the review body within the state hierarchy and its method of establishment. This paragraph also contains an explanation of the process by which South Africa acquires its weapons. The legal scope of the review process is dealt with in paragraph 4. Within thisparagraph, the place of both treaty-based law and customary international law (“CIL”) in the South African legal system is discussed. Furthermore, the treaty-law and customary international law rules binding upon South Africa regarding limitations of specific weapons and general weapons limitations are enumerated and the paragraph ends with a discussion of the Martens Clause. 

scholarly journals Crustacea

1879 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 485-496 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
South African ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Special Study ◽  
The South ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
African Coast ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Subject

The Crustacea collected by Messrs. G. Gulliver and H. H. Slater amount in all to 189 specimens, representing 35 species. All of these are forms that are widely distributed throughout the Indo-Pacific or Oriental Region (which includes the eastern coast of Africa, the south and east of Asia and islands adjacent, Australia, and the islands of Polynesia), with the following exceptions:— Atergatopsis signatus (hitherto only known from the Mauritius), Caridina typus (original locality not known), Palœmon dispar (hitherto recorded only from the Malayan Archipelago), Palœmon hirtimanus (from Mauritius, Réunion, and the Indian Ocean), P. debilis (from Amboina and the Sandwich Islands), and the new species of Talitrus ( T. gulliver i), which is described below. With two exceptions all the species in the collection belong to the Podophthalmia . The following are the sub-tribes represented, with the number of species belonging to each :— The Crustacea inhabiting the Red Sea have been made the subject of special study by Rüppell and Heller, those of Madagascar and the islands adjacent by Hoffmann, of Mauritius and Réunion by Alphonse Milne-Edwards, and of the South African coast by M’Leay and Krauss. Valuable additions to our knowledge of the Crustacea of the East African coast have been published by Hilgendorf, in Van der Decken’s “Reisen in Ost-Afrika,” where will also be found a conspectus of all the known species of East African Crustacea by Von Martens. So far as I am aware, however, no species have hitherto been recorded as inhabiting the Island of Rodriguez.

scholarly journals Die invloed van die Christelike geloof op die Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
African History ◽  
African Society ◽  
The South ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Euro Pean ◽  
The World

The influence of Christianity on the South African society It was not the intention of the first Christians to change the world, but their behaviour soon influenced society. The Euro- pean settlers who came to South Africa brought calvinist Christianity to the region. For the next 340 years, Christianity was a very influential force in the South African society, usually taken for granted by Christians and not allowed to be ques- tioned, challenged or opposed by non-Christians. Today the society bears both the scars and medals of the Christian era in South African history although South Africa was never officially a Christian country. After 1994, South Africa became a neutral state, with religious freedom, and the privileged position of Christianity began to fade rapidly. More than ten years later, however, the influence that Christianity had on the country and its people is still visible. This article is an introductory investi- gation into the influence of Christianity on the South African society from an historical perspective.

scholarly journals To be or not to be? The Role of Private Enquiries in the South African Insolvency Law

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 935
Author(s):  
Yvette Joubert ◽  
Juanitta Calitz
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Wide Scope ◽  
Judicial Interpretation ◽  
The South ◽  
Insolvency Law ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Legislative Changes

This article analyses the role of the so-called private examinations in our South African insolvency law and deals with the question of whether or not section 417 of the Insolvency Act (Act 24 of 1936) is adequately and effectively framed in order to fulfil its intended purpose in South African law. The contribution also points out that although the scrutiny of private examinations is not novel; it is argued that further exploration of the subject is justified by virtue of the fact that robust and innovative legislative changes have been experienced in the South African corporate landscape. Although the section has already passed the test of lawfulness and constitutionality, the aim is to ascertain whether the section serves a legitimate purpose and is essential and relevant in a democratic society. This is done by considering the South African law relating to South African private examinations and includes academic texts and judicial interpretation. Both section 417 of the Companies Act (Act 61 of 1973) and the matter of Kebble v Gainsford in particular are discussed. A brief comparative analysis of a similar provision in the Insolvency Act of the United Kingdom (UK), namely section 236 of the Insolvency Act 1986 is also included.Finally recommendations are made on aspects where the section may be enhanced by reform which in part relies on the premise that South African insolvency law in toto is desperately in need of an overhaul. The article concludes that it is vital that section 417 be retained in a new insolvency regime as there is a greater awareness of the interdependence between companies and the society in which they function, and it is submitted that there should be an increased responsibility in the insolvency process on the reasons why companies have failed. The accessibility of the section to practitioners, the inquisitorial nature of the proceedings, the wide scope of the section and the effective sanctions should examinees not comply together combine to make a formula that has over the years proved impervious to circumvention and it therefore fulfils its function with prudent efficiency.

scholarly journals A NEW ‘RAY OF LIGHT’ IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC RIGHTS JURISPRUDENCE? A NOTE ON COUGHLAN NO V ROAD ACCIDENT FUND (CENTRE FOR CHILD LAW AMICUS CURIAE) (CCT160/14) [2015] ZACC 9

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romy-Anne Templeton
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Road Accident ◽  
The Other ◽  
Amicus Curiae ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Dark Clouds ◽  
Substantive Content ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Academic Debate

The justiciability of socio-economic rights in the South African courts has been the subject of much academic debate. This issue of justiciability spans back to the drafting of the final Constitution — the question at the time concerned whether or not these rights should be included in Chapter II of the Constitution. The fact that the justiciability of socio-economic rights has been an on-going concern for the last two decades illuminates the difficulties faced by the courts in giving substantive content to these rights. The courts often respond to these situations by way of deference.1 Brand defines deference as ‘a strategy of the courts, when faced with difficult, technical or contested social questions…to leave the decision of those issues in different ways and to varying degrees, to the other branches of government.’2 The judgment of Coughlan NO v Road Accident Fund (Centre for Child Law Amicus Curiae) (CCT160/14) [2015] ZACC 9 is arguably described as a ray of light amongst the dark clouds that normally shroud socio-economic rights jurisprudence.

Neuroses in Native African Troops

1944 ◽  
Vol 90 (381) ◽  
pp. 862-868
Author(s):  
L. A. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
African Group ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Subject ◽  
East West

The patients forming the subject of the following paper were natives of East, West and South Africa. The South African group are mainly Basutos, mostly non-English speaking, and hence interviews had to be carried out with the aid of an interpreter. To obtain correct perspective of their types of illness it is of course necessary to know thoroughly their customs, beliefs and mode of living. For the sake of brevity illustrations are given only from the Basuto tribe, although it must be borne in mind that there is considerable difference between this and the other groups in this respect.

An Hypothesis

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Weiner ◽  
Chris Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
South African ◽  
Early Death ◽  
Natural History Museum ◽  
The South ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Polite Society ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Opposite View

Towards the end of July 1953 a congress of palaeontologists was held in London under the auspices of the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The problems of fossil man were the subject of its deliberations. Java man, Neanderthal man, Rhodesian man, the South African prehumans—all these were given close attention. But Piltdown man was not discussed. Not surprisingly. He had lost his place in polite society. What more could one usefully say about him? Yet, unofficially, the Dawn Man did manage an appearance. Most of those present had not seen the original fossil specimens, so on a tour of the Natural History Museum these were shown along with others housed there. The sight of the actual fragments provoked the familiar tail-chasing discussion. As always there were those who could not feel that the famous jaw really harmonized with the rest, but there were others who took the opposite view. The enigma remained. At the dinner that night Dr. Oakley remarked casually to Dr. Washburn of Chicago and myself that owing to Dawson’s early death in 1916 the Museum had no record of the exact spot where the remains of the second Piltdown had been found. They knew the place—Sheffield Park—but the actual spot or even the field had never been marked on a map. ‘The fact is’, said Oakley, ‘that all we know about site II is on a postcard sent in July 1915 by Dawson to Woodward, and an earlier letter in that year, from neither of which can one identify the position of Piltdown II.’ This was surprising. The second group of finds had done so much to convince many people that the first Piltdown man was by no means an isolated phenomenon. One had imagined that if it were ever thought worthwhile it would be possible to go and excavate the second site. Now it appeared that this had never been done because the second site could not be located, though Woodward had apparently visited it before the second find. This curious piece of information greatly puzzled me.

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