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Access to education in Africa : responding to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Chataika, Tsitsi Mckenzie, Judith Anne Swart, Estelle Lyner- Cleophas, Marcia (Taylor & Francis Routledge, 2012-05)

Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities mandates that disabled people should have full rights to education in inclusive settings. However, to ensure that educational polices ...

Afrikaans as an index of identity among Western Cape Coloured Communities

Thutloa, Alfred Mautsane Huddlestone, Kate (Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University, 2011)

In South Africa, reports on language shift have focused on instances of language shift from indigenous African languages to English. There is, however, also research that suggests that language shift is taking place from ...

The Afrikander Volunteer Corps and the participation of Afrikanders in conflicts in Rhodesia, 1893-1897

Hendrich, Gustav (Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University, 2012)

During the last decade of the nineteenth century, British colonisation in Southern Africa, in particular in Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe) had coincided with uneasy relations with the native black population. Partly because of ...

Alain Resnais et l engagement documentaire: Une affaire de morale en trois temps

Du Toit, Catherine (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2011-12)

Without history there can be no political engagement. But history can only surpass its analytical, abstract and factual dimensions by the operation of memory. From his first short documentaries, such as Guernica, Les ...

Alcohol consumption among HIV-positive pregnant women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa : prevalence and correlates

Desmond, Katherine Milburn, Norweeta Richter, Linda Tomlinson, Mark Greco, Erin Van Heerden, Alastair Van Rooyen, Heidi Comulada, W. Scott Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane (Elsevier, 2012)

Background: HIV-positive pregnant women who drink put their children at risk of both HIV and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has the highest prevalence of HIV in South Africa, but ...

Another look at the biblical Hebrew focus particle כּﬦ

Van Der Merwe, C. H. J. (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Despite the attention devoted to כּﬦ from various angles in recent years, there has been no exhaustive treatment in terms of all its occurrences in the Hebrew Bible. In this revision of the author's own detailed description ...

Ants, altitude and change in the northern Cape Floristic Region

Botes, A. McGeoch, M. A. Robertson, H. G. Van Niekerk, A. Davids, H. P. Chown, S. L. (Blackwell publishing Ltd, 2006)

Aim: Climate-modelling exercises have demonstrated that the Cape Floristic Region is highly sensitive to climate change and will apparently lose much of its northern limits over the next few decades. Because there is ...

Applying the nominal group technique in an employment relations conflict situation : a case study of a university maintenance section in South Africa

Van Der Waal, Cornelis S. Uys, Josephine M. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009-09)

After a breakdown in employment relations in the maintenance section of a higher education institution, the authors were asked to intervene in order to try and solve the employment relations conflict situation. It was ...

Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Nsibande, Duduzile Doherty, Tanya Ijumba, Petrida Tomlinson, Mark Jackson, Debra Sanders, David Lawn, Joy (BioMed Central, 2013-02)

Abstract Background Globally, 40% of the 7.6 million deaths of children under five every year occur in the neonatal period (first 28 days after birth). Increased and earlier recognition ...

Avian endemism in northeastern tropical Africa

Fjeldsa, Jon De Klerk, Helen (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 2001)

The avian endemism of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa was analyzed using a database where all bird distributions in Africa south of the Sahara are recorded in a one-degree grid. Applying a hierarchical classification ...

Barriers to the participation of people with psychosocial disability in mental health policy development in South Africa : a qualitative study of perspectives of policy makers, professionals, religious leaders and academics

Kleintjes, Sharon Lund, Crick Swartz, Leslie (BioMed Central, 2013-03)

Abstract Background This paper outlines stakeholder views on environmental barriers that prevent people who live with psychosocial disability from participating in mental health policy ...

The beasts of Berlin

Nasson, Bill (AOSIS Openjournals, 2011-04)

In the early stage of the First World War, the Union of South Africa invaded the neighbouring colony of German South West Africa at the request of the British War Cabinet. The assignment was to knock out a German coastal ...

’n Behoefte-analise as eerste fase in die ontwerp van ’n taakgebaseerde sillabus vir Afrikaanstweedetaalonderrig op universiteitsvlak

Adendorff, Elbie (LitNet Akademies, 2010-08)

Abstract: The implementation of a multilingual language policy in South Africa requires the teaching and learning of Afrikaans as a second or additional language and especially the teaching of Afrikaans for specific ...

Beyond the mask : Guy de Maupassant in Algeria

Du Toit, Catherine (Peter Lang, 2003-07)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The enlightened foreigner who travels to a distant land wears two masks : the mask woven of pre-conceptions when he considers the ‘other’ he encounters and a second, a mirror-mask in which he sees in the ...

The Bible in Afrikaans : a direct translation – a new type of church Bible

Van Der Merwe, Christo H. J. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012-07)

Translating the Bible so that target audiences can easily understand the meaning of the text has dominated the theory and practice of Bible translation since the 1960s. Source oriented translations that are typically ...

Biblical Hebrew lexicology : a cognitive linguistic perspective

Van Der Merwe, Christo H. J. (Waltrop, 2006)

Hebrew (=BH) and other Semitic languages, one seldom comes across explicit definitions of the term “lexicography”. An exception is O’Connor (2002). According to him, lexicography seeks to guide and describe the ...

Biblical Hebrew word order : the interface of information structure and formal features

Van Der Merwe, C. H. J. Talstra, Eep Bartelmus, Rudiger (ed) Jenni, Ernst (ed) Kedar-Kopfstein, Benjamin (ed) Lichtenberger, Hermann (ed) Lipinski, Edward (ed) Muller, Hans-Peter (ed) Renz, Johannes (ed) Segert, Stanislav (ed) Stuckenbruck, Loren T. (ed) (W. Kohlhammer, 2003)

In recent years different theoretical frames of reference were used in attempts to better understand the language(s) of the Hebrew Bible. While the 19th and first half of the 20th century were dominated by historical-comparative ...

A bibliometric analysis of South Africa’s scientific outputs : some trends and implications

Kahn, Micheal (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011-02)

The paper examines the change in volume of South African publications as indexed to the Web of Science over the periods 1990–1994 and 2004–2008. It was noted that publication volumes have increased sharply even while the ...

Biogeographical patterns of endemic terrestrial Afrotropical birds

De Klerk, H. M. Crowe, T. M. Fjeldsa, J. Burgess, N. D. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)

Biogeographical zones are described for terrestrial bird species endemic to the Afrotropics using up-to-date distributional data and multivariate statistical techniques. This provides an objective basis for a hierarchy ...

Biomedical ethics in South Africa : current challenges and institutional responses

Hattingh, Johan P. (Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, Eberhard-Karls-University of Tubingen, 2000)

The academic field of biomedical ethics in south Africa is fairly young and is currently going through a phase of properly establishing itself institutionally. At the same time it is confronted with the mulliple challenges ...

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