scholarly journals Sonder verhale vaar niemand wel

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
I.J.J. Spangenberg
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Book Market ◽  
The South ◽  
Small Children ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Religious Book

Without stories the lifeboat sinksThe article addresses the issue of religious education for small children. These days the South African religious book market is flooded with publications from the USA. Some of these have been translated into Afrikaans. A large number of the publications meant for small children are written from a fundamentalistic viewpoint. In this article it is argued that parents should play a more prominent role in the education of their children. They need to tell their children stories so as to help them to become well-balanced adults. A child who grows up without stories – including religious stories – is all the poorer for it.

scholarly journals The competitive status of the South African Wheat Industry

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Van der Merwe ◽  
Philippus Cloete ◽  
Herman Van Schalkwyk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
South African ◽  
Wheat Flour ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
The South ◽  
Wheat Market ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Trade Partners

This article investigates the competitiveness of the South African wheat industry and compares it to its major trade partners. Since 1997, the wheat-to-bread value chain has been characterised by concentration of ownership and regulation. This led to concerns that the local wheat market is losing international competitiveness. The competitive status of the wheat industry, and its sub-sectors, is determined through the estimation of the relative trade advantage (RTA). The results revealed declining competitiveness of local wheat producers. Compared to the major global wheat producers, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany and the USA, South Africa’s unprocessed wheat industry is uncompetitive. At the same time, South Africa has a competitive advantage in semi-processed wheat, especially wheat flour. The institutional environment enables the importation of raw wheat at lower prices and exports processed wheat flour competitively to the rest of Africa.

Do White South African Managers Suffer from Exceptional Levels of Job Stress?

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 130-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.J.W. Strümpfer
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
South African ◽  
White Male ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Role Clarity ◽  
The South ◽  
The Usa ◽  
High Level ◽  
African Sample

A sample of 163 white, male, English-speaking managers from a diversity of disciplines, functional areas and kinds of business and industry completed self-report scales on job demands, role stressors and social support. Their scores were compared with those of comparable samples from elsewhere, mainly from the USA, for whom data were obtained from published sources. The South African mean of 48,9 hours worked per week was similar to those of comparable groups. On a variety of job demands the South African sample showed a trend towards higher demands, which was interpreted in terms of a shortage of high-level human resources, due to over-utilization of whites and under-utilization of blacks. The trend was towards greater role clarity in the South African sample and no greater role conflict was found. More social support was reported than in the case of Dutch samples but less than in USA samples. A generally positive interpretation was given, with an element of eustress also being present.

scholarly journals Vrouwees: perspektiewe in die meer onlangse Afrikaanse poësie en prosa

Literator ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
R. Marais
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
South African ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Creative Writings

This article investigates the views on woman and womanhood that are expressed in the poetry and prose of several contemporary women writers in Afrikaans. The study is conducted against the background of certain tendencies in feminist movements in Europe, Britain and the United States of America as well as views pronounced in the writings (both literary and feminist) of a number of feminist writers in Europe, Britain and the USA. For the purposes of this investigation a short exposition is given of what feminism entails, as well as of a number of the different views and approaches which it accommodates. Subsequently different views on womanhood as expressed in the creative writings of a number of women writers who have written extensively on this topic are discussed at the hand of their poetry and prose. Specific attention is paid to the South African woman’s views on men, marriage, her own sexuality and motherhood as revealed in the writings of these women.

scholarly journals Perspectives on preaching (in building up missional churches)

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Malan Nel
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Original Research ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
The Usa ◽  
African Context ◽  
Local Congregations ◽  
Missional Churches

Preaching is considered to be a core ministry in building up local congregations. Within the Reformed tradition this is even truer. The researcher has, over years, tried to discern certain core �qualities� of preachers and principles for preaching that will accomplish building local congregations into missional units. Assuming that preachers are serious about leading congregations towards true missionality, the article attempted to focus on a few of these core criteria for both preacher and preaching. In doing so, the article drew mainly on the wisdom of well-known preachers in the USA, wisdom that will be used to guide the researcher�s future empirical study of preaching in the South African context. Prof. M�ller, who is honoured in this Festschrift, wrote his DD thesis on preaching and I hope that this will reconnect his current work to his original research.

scholarly journals Performance Of South African Automotive Exports Under The African Growth And Opportunity Act From 2001 To 2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-142
Author(s):  
Norman Lamprecht ◽  
Aletta Sophia Tolmay
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Market Access ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Automotive Market ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Impact

The South African automotive industry is faced with the challenge of how to expand through exports in a saturated global automotive market, characterized by overcapacity. The vision of the South African automotive industry is to double its vehicle production to one million units per annum by 2020.  However, domestic market limitations impede the ability to achieve sufficient economies of scale.  Trade arrangements contribute towards increasing market access. The impact of the AGOA on automotive trade between the United States of America and South Africa was analyzed. It was found that the AGOA resulted in a substantial increase in two-way trade. Further research is encouraged with regard to the potential of regional integration in Africa for automotive exports from South African and the USA.

scholarly journals ‘a night where june and moon rhyme’

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaydeep Sarangi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
The South ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
The World ◽  
Questions And Answers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

Dr Raphael d’Abdon is a writer, scholar, spoken word poet, editor and translator. In 2007 he complied, translated and edited I nostri semi/Peo tsa rona, an anthology of contemporary South African poetry. In 2011 he translated into Italian (with Lorenzo Mari) Bless Me Father, the autobiography of South African poet Mario d’Offizi. In 2013, he compiled and edited the collection Marikana: A Moment in Time. He is the author of three collections of poems, sunnyside nightwalk (Johannesburg: Geko, 2013), salt water (Johannesburg: Poetree Publishing, 2016) and the bitter herb (East London: The Poets Printery, 2018), and he has read his poetry in South Africa, Nigeria, Somaliland, Italy, Sweden and the USA. His poems are published in journals, magazines and anthologies in South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi, Singapore, Palestine, India, Italy, Canada, USA and UK, he is South Africa’s representative of AHN (Africa Haiku Network), and he is a member of ZAPP (The South African Poetry Project) and IPP (International Poetry Project), two joint-projects of the University of Cambridge, UNISA and the University of the Witwatersrand, whose chief aims are to promote poetry in schools in South Africa, UK and beyond, and to instill knowledge, understanding and a love of poetry in young learners.This interview is conducted through e mails in the months of April-May 2020 when Corona virus ravished the world. We saw light through the wings of poesy. We reached out each other through questions and answers about poetry, life and the immediate.

scholarly journals Adventures of Emancipatory Labour Strategy as the New Global Movement Challenges International Unionism

2004 ◽  
pp. 217-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Waterman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
South African ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The South ◽  
World Social Forum ◽  
Solidarity Movement ◽  
The Usa ◽  
New Social Movement

First suggested in the Netherlands, in the late-1980s, the notion of “Social Movement Unionism” was ?rst applied in South Africa, where it had both political and academic impact. The South-African formulation combined the class and the popular: a response to this combined class and new social movement theory/practice. The “Class/Popular” understanding was, however, more widely adopted, and applied (to and/or in Brazil, the Philippines, the USA, internationally), receiving its most in?uential formulation in the work of Kim Moody (USA). A “Class/New Social Movement” response to this was restated in terms of the “New Social Unionism.” The continuing impact of globalization and neo-liberalism has had a disorienting e?ect on even the unions supposed by the South African/USschool to best exemplify SMU, whilst simultaneously increasing trade union need for some kind of such an alternative model. Use and discussion of the notion continues. The development of the “global justice and solidarity movement” (symbolized by Seattle, 1999), and in particular the World Social Forum process, since 2001, may be putting the matter on the international trade-union agenda. But is this matter a Class/Popular alliance, a Class/New Social Movement alliance? Or both? Or something else? And are there other ways of recreating an international/ist labour movement with emancipatory intentions and e?ect? What is the future of emancipatory or utopian labour strategy in the epoch of a globalized networked capitalism, and the challenge of the Global Justice and Solidarity Movement?

scholarly journals Cointegration and stock market interdependence: Evidence from South Africa, India and the USA

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohanasundaram Thangamuthu ◽  
Karthikeyan Parthasarathy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
South African ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Series Data ◽  
The South ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Short Run

The purpose of this study is to explore the nature of the association and the possible existence of a shortrun and long-run relationship between the stock-market indices of South Africa, India and the USA. The idea behind this combination is to know how the stock markets of these three prominent countries are related to each other. The study employs monthly data from the stock indices, namely JALSH (South Africa), NIFTY (India) and NASDAQ (USA) composite from April 2004 to March 2014. After testing for the normality of the data distribution and the stationarity of the time series data, this paper discovered a strong correlation between the stock market indices of South Africa, India and the USA. The correlation among the stock markets is high, particularly between South Africa and India. In addition, the paper attempts to discover the presence of any predictive ability among these markets by applying the Granger causality test. The result indicates that the NASDAQ index has no predictive ability as far as the JALSH and NIFTY indices are concerned. However, the JALSH index has a predictive ability on the NIFTY index. After testing the Granger cause relationship, the existence of a long-run and short-run relationship is tested. The long-run relationships among the stock market indices are analysed, following the Johansen and Juselius multivariate cointegration approach. The result suggests the absence of a long-run relationship among the three stock market indices. Short-run relationship is investigated with the Vector Autoregression (VAR) model, and the outcome obtained shows that both the USA and the South African stock markets are predicted only by their own past lags. However, the Indian stock market is seen to be a function of its own past lags and the past lags of the South African stock index. 

“Wrestling with Apartheid”: South Africa–US Amateur Wrestling Relations, Rebel Tours, and the Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1960–1991

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Hendrik Snyders
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Far East ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
International Competition ◽  
The South ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Racial Lines

From the onset, South African amateur wrestling, under the auspices of the SA Amateur Wrestling Union and its successors, was organized along racial lines and, under apartheid, it continued to cater exclusively to white amateurs. By 1970, it was suspended from the International Amateur Wrestling Federation. Denied participation in international competition, it resorted to rebel and boycott-busting tours involving a number of sympathetic countries and individuals in Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. Organized mostly clandestinely, it succeeded in offering international competition to the South African national wrestling team for almost two decades. One program, the Oregon Wrestling Cultural Exchange, was particularly strong. This US-based program generated strong opposition from the Amateur Athletics Association, the International Wrestling Federation, and several anti-apartheid organizations. It survived until the end of the 1980s, when the USA Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act (1986) and the campaigns of the anti-apartheid movement closed it down.

Measuring Meaning in Life in South Africa: Validation of an Instrument Developed in the USA

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremias J. de Klerk ◽  
Adré B. Boshoff ◽  
René van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Covariance Structure ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Psychometric Instruments ◽  
The Usa ◽  
African Sample

Investigations into the construct of meaning in life is an important focus area of psychological research. Research has consistently shown a sense of meaning in life to be a significant correlate of mental health and well-being. Most of this research on meaning in life is conducted worldwide with instruments developed in North America. However, inter-cultural measurement of psychological constructs is a concern, as psychometric instruments in one culture are not necessarily transferable to different cultures. In this case study, we examine whether the Life Regard Index (LRI), developed in the USA and a popular scale for measuring meaning in life, is transferable to a sample from South Africa. The results confirm the construct validity of the LRI, but indicate that the LRI's factor structure has changed and two of the original 28 items were not part of the covariance structure. From these results, we conclude that the LRI is transferable to the South African sample, but not irrespectively and without adjustments. It should be used as a one-dimensional instrument with only 26 items before applying it to the South African sample. The study provides evidence that LRI, which was developed in the USA and became a popular instrument for measuring meaning in life, cannot be transferred indiscriminately to a South African sample. This insight contributes to the quality of future research studies in South Africa, not only on the important aspect of life meaning, but also when applying other psychometric instruments developed elsewhere.

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