scholarly journals The South African Families Database

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Cilliers
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Event History ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Primary Reason ◽  
The South ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
The Rich ◽  
African Families ◽  
Adequate Data

Very little is known about what family life looked like for settlers in colonial South Africa during the 18th or 19th century, nor how events over these centuries might have affected demographic change. The primary reason for this lacuna is a shortage of adequate data. Historians and genealogists have, over the last century, worked to combine the rich administrative records that are available in the Cape Archives in Cape Town and beyond, into a single genealogical volume of all settlers living in the 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Until recently, this valuable resource was not in a format that would enable its use for the type of event-history analyses that have come to dominate the field of contemporary historical demography. This is now changing with the introduction of the South African Families database (SAF). SAF is one of very few databases known to document a full population of immigrants and their families over several generations. This article introduces provides a brief background to, and technical overview of, the construction of the SAF. It discusses both the merits and limitations of its use in longitudinal demographic studies and offers a look into the types of studies it can enable.

Family policy for all South African families

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1189-1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlize Rabe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Family Diversity ◽  
Vulnerable Families ◽  
African Families

The ‘White Paper of Families in South Africa’ is critically analysed in this article. It is shown that although family diversity is acknowledged in the aforementioned document, certain implications of the document undermine such professed diversity, not all caretakers of children are acknowledged and supported, and financially vulnerable families are not strengthened. Instead, narrow ideals of family life are at times promoted, suggesting middle-class heterosexual values. It is argued here that the realities of family life should be accepted as such and family in different forms should be supported consistently, not subtly pushed to conform to restricted interpretations of what families should be like.

Aligning the ideals of free software and free knowledge with the South African Freedom Charter

First Monday ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Jolliffe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Free Software ◽  
Short Paper ◽  
The South ◽  
The People ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
African Soil ◽  
The Rich

When Amartya Sen visited South Africa in 2004 he made the observation that Nelson Mandela’s long walk to freedom began on African soil. He implicitly recognised that we have in South Africa a long tradition of interpreting, articulating and striving for an ideal of freedom, which reflects the aspiration of the broad masses of our people. The clearest articulation of this struggle was the Freedom Charter, adopted by the congress of the people in Kliptown in 1955. The free software movement (and related efforts in the fields of science and culture) draws upon a tradition of freedom rooted in an American libertarian tradition. In this short paper, I underline the importance of aligning efforts to promote free software and free culture with the rich existing tradition embodied in the South African Freedom Charter. Doing so may require a reinterpretation, re–imagining and even perhaps a re–vocabularising of the digital commons if it is to succeed as as a social, technical and political project in South Africa.

PART I. Students’ Conversations with Dante

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-93
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
The South ◽  
African Experience ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Political Landscapes ◽  
African Writers

The creative pieces in this volume reveal the complex relationship that young South African writers have with Dante and his Commedia. Notable for their personal response to the poet, they engage in a process of rewriting Dante, who appears variously as a mirror and as a remote presence against which to measure themselves. Their stories are drawn to the rich implications of Dante’s allegory, as it inscribes itself into their personal and political landscapes, offering them an alternative narrative—a new Purgatorial language of change, despair, and hope—in which to frame the South African experience.

The World's First Biometric Money: Ghana's E-Zwich and the Contemporary Influence of South African Biometrics

Africa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 642-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Breckenridge
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
South African ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
The South ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Civil Registration ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTIn January 2008 the Ghanaian Central Bank announced that it had introduced a new centralized mechanism for the settlement of transactions between the Ghanaian banks. This interbank switch, as it was called, was purchased from, and managed by, the South African company Net 1 UEPS, and it had a unique central organizing principle. The switch was indexed biometrically, using a key derived from the ten fingerprints of account holders. This new interbank switch and a smartcard encoded in the same way has equipped Ghana with the world's first biometric money supply. This article is an effort to explain the development and significance of this biometric money, which Ghanaians call the e-Zwich. It traces the way in which biometric registration in Ghana (as in other African countries) has leaked from the mundane, difficult, and mostly unrewarding, task of civil registration into the more properly remunerated domain of monetary transactions. Viewed in the light of the rich historical anthropology of money in West Africa, what is at stake in Ghana may be much more significant than any of the current participants fully realize. Perhaps the most interesting finding of this study is that the e-Zwich system might actually succeed.

The Social Economy and Role of Government in South Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 943-955
Author(s):  
O. E. Okeke-Uzodike ◽  
Mogie Subban
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Impact

Social economy, as a relatively new concept, is considered the ‘third sector' of the economy in government discourse. It plays significant roles in socio-economic and political spheres of any nation. Emphasis on social economy has been as a result of the global recession which caused economic depression in several countries all over the world. In South Africa, the impact of the economic recession has reflected mostly in increased unemployment and poverty levels resulting in maximization of discrepancies between the rich and poor with inequalities, creating disenabling environments for foreign investments. These social problems have called for an examination of the role of the social economy in liberating the South African economy from its current dire state. This chapter on tracing the developmental agenda of the South African government, will examine how the social economy has fed into the National Development Plan and the impact of implementation of government policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure achievement of various national imperatives aligned to the Millennium Development Goals in the context of the social economy. The authors state that whilst there is a growing trend towards the social economy in the current context of government, multi-faceted effects of poverty needs to be targeted through robust entrepreneurial opportunities for growth and development of the economy.

The Social Economy and Role of Government in South Africa

2016 ◽  
pp. 227-239
Author(s):  
O. E. Okeke-Uzodike ◽  
Mogie Subban
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Recession ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Impact

Social economy, as a relatively new concept, is considered the ‘third sector' of the economy in government discourse. It plays significant roles in socio-economic and political spheres of any nation. Emphasis on social economy has been as a result of the global recession which caused economic depression in several countries all over the world. In South Africa, the impact of the economic recession has reflected mostly in increased unemployment and poverty levels resulting in maximization of discrepancies between the rich and poor with inequalities, creating disenabling environments for foreign investments. These social problems have called for an examination of the role of the social economy in liberating the South African economy from its current dire state. This chapter on tracing the developmental agenda of the South African government, will examine how the social economy has fed into the National Development Plan and the impact of implementation of government policies and regulatory frameworks to ensure achievement of various national imperatives aligned to the Millennium Development Goals in the context of the social economy. The authors state that whilst there is a growing trend towards the social economy in the current context of government, multi-faceted effects of poverty needs to be targeted through robust entrepreneurial opportunities for growth and development of the economy.

The relations between the South African fauna and the terrestrial and limnic animal life of the southern cold temperate zone

1960 ◽  
Vol 152 (949) ◽  
pp. 568-571 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Temperate Zone ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Pleistocene Glaciations ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
The Rich

In principle, the fauna of the southern temperate zone should present a general distribution pattern similar to that of the northern temperate zone. The rich invertebrate material preserved in the early Tertiary Baltic amber indicates that, at that time, the similarity was much closer than it is today. But during the Tertiary the cooling climate, in the north, resulted in the recession and extinction of many of those organisms which were rigidly fixed to a certain combination of environmental factors. The Pleistocene glaciations very effectively put a stop to the existence of many such invertebrate species and species groups whose relatives are now regarded as typical relicts. There is no doubt that the influence of the ice ages was comparatively small in the southern temperate zone of the Old World compared to what happened in the north. As regards the African continent it has been supposed that the highest areas in southern Africa, the Maluti Range in eastern Basutoland, at that time were covered with ice. But it was not so. On visiting that area we found that it has been free from ice, and moreover, that it is inhabited by an interesting, largely endemic fauna. Likewise, there is nothing indicating that the South Atlantic islands, the Tristan group and Gough Island, were capped with ice or carried isolated glaciers during the Pleistocene glaciations. Comparatively unchanged climatic conditions made the survival of the preglacial fauna possible.

scholarly journals NETWORK, HOW? Perceptions of business people on networking practices

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saskia De Klerk ◽  
Minrie Greeff
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
The South ◽  
Gauteng Province ◽  
Homogeneous Groups ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Rich

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to contribute to literature on networking from a South African perspective. Literature on networking is mainly concentrated on the European and American contexts with homogeneous groups and traditional divisions. The business landscape of South Africa thus requires more investigation. Problem investigated: Literature regarding networking in an South African context with its dynamic business environment is limited. This article addresses the concerns of how South African business owners and managers perceive networking in their businesses and specifically focus on the South African perspective. Therefore, the focus is on the perceptions of business owners and managers on current networking practices in South Africa. Methodology: A qualitative research design to uncover the rich underlying feelings of business owners and managers was used. The qualitative enquiry consisted of five focus group discussions (n=41 participants) among prominent business owners and managers in the Gauteng Province, South Africa. The Gauteng Province was selected since it is the economic and innovation hub of South Africa. Findings and implications: The main findings showed the following main themes of networking that emerged from the data, and included (1) networking as a skill versus a natural ability; (2) the motivation behind networking; (3) the loci of networking; (4) the type of relationships that determine the character of the network; and (5) the relationship characteristics of successful networking. The main contribution of this is that there seems to be different networking situations and applications for different circumstances. According to the participants, it seems that networking in the South African landscape appears to be either relationship or business based. Originality and value of the research: The value of these findings lies in the fact that they contribute to networking literature from a South African perspective and that networking skills form an important part of management and entrepreneurship. The conclusion is that this research supports the notion that networking skills are important and should be developed on a wider basis. Formal courses on networking or incorporation in existing management training and development courses need to be implemented on all levels by educational institutions and government.

scholarly journals I.—Notes on the Invertebrate Fauna of the Uitenhage Series in Cape Colony

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 289-295
Author(s):  
F. L. Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
The South ◽  
European Area ◽  
Divergence Of Opinion ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
The Rich

The rich invertebrate fauna of the Uitenhage Series has long attracted attention, owing to the conspicuous nature of some of its components and the divergence of opinion which has arisen in the various attempts to bring it into correlation with Secondary faunas in the European area. A recent examination of the fossils collected from the Uitenhage Beds by the Geological Survey of Cape Colony has afforded an opportunity of reconsidering, in the light of extended knowledge, the conclusions of those who have previously studied this question of correlation. A comparative study of the fauna, with an account of some new species, based principally upon the materials collected by the members of the Survey, will shortly be contributed to the fourth volume of the “Annals of the South African Museum”; but in the meantime, the following brief notes, in which are embodied some of the principal results, may be of interest to a wider circle of readers.

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