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Die geskiedenis van Afrikanerbetrokkenheid in die Rhodesiese tabakbedryf (1890-1980)
(The Historical Association of South Africa, 2011-11)Die tabakbedryf in Rhodesië (vandag Zimbabwe) het ongetwyfeld 'n kardinale rol in die ekonomiese ontwikkeling van Rhodesië gespeel. Sedert die Britse kolonialisering van Rhodesië gedurende die 1890's het die klem van ...
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Boer-uitbeeldings in Franse jeugliteratuur tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog
(AOSIS Publishing, 2010-07-13)Voorstellings van die “ander” of die “vreemde” word grootliks beïnvloed deur die voorsteller se eie historiese konteks. Wanneer hierdie konteks verander, gebeur dit dikwels dat die voorstelling van die “ander” ook aangepas ...
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Die verband tussen vroee apartheidsintellektualisering, Afrikanermusiekhistoriografie en die ontluiking van 'n apartheidsestetika in die toonkuns
(LitNet, 2011-12)Epistemologiese afhanklikheid van Europese verwysingspunte kenmerk dikwels analitiese modelle van Suid-Afrikaanse kunsmusiek en kunsmusiekhistoriografie. ’n Tipiese voorbeeld is die beskrywing van Stefans Grové se musikale ...
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"When everything starts to flow" : Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2015)A more explicit, comprehensive and sustained dialogue between the African philosophical and western feminist traditions would yield insights at once rich and useful to both traditions, and beyond. Here, I place the work ...
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"Ek is ..." : oor die problematiek van enkelvoudige en meervoudige identiteit
(LitNet, 2014-08)Enkelvoudige identiteitsvorming vervul ’n noodsaaklike funksie in die individuele ontwikkeling en sosiale interaksie van mense. Hierdie soort identiteitsvorming gaan egter met inherente beperkinge gepaard wat dit as ...
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Seks, ras en boeremusiek : agter die retoriek van gebrekkige sanglus by die 1938-Voortrekkereeufees
(LitNet, 2014-08)In 20ste-eeuse besinnings oor die “kultuuraard” van die Afrikaner word daar meermale melding gemaak van wit Afrikaners se sogenaamde gebrek aan sanglus. In 1938 – die jaar van die Voortrekkereeufees – het hierdie gesprek ...
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Populere filosofie en die Nuwe Testament
(LitNet, 2014-03)Onlangse navorsing het bevestig dat Paulus en ander Nuwe-Testamentiese skrywers van idees en praktyke gebruik gemaak het soortgelyk aan dié wat in tydgenootlike filosofiese tradisies aanwesig was. Dit is egter problematies ...
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Minimum vereistes vir professionele vertalers : vertaalvermoe volgens die teorie en in die praktyk
(LitNet, 2014-08)Een van die beste metodes om die gehalte van ’n vertaalproduk te verseker, is om ’n geskikte vertaler vir ’n spesifieke vertaalopdrag te vind. Die vertaalberoep is egter ongereguleerd, wat beteken dat minimum vereistes vir ...
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Die verwerkingsproses ten opsigte van toneelkeuse met verwysing na die rolprent Roepman
(LitNet, 2014-08)Die herskrywing van literêre romans na draaiboeke vir verfilming is ’n populêre keuse onder filmmakers. Afrikaanse films beleef tans ’n opbloei, tog is die aantal filmherskrywings van Afrikaanse romans min in vergelyking ...
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Tussen tale : 'n stereoskopiese lees van Breyten Breytenbach se oorblyfsel/voice over aan die hand van literere teorie
(LitNet, 2014-08)In die tweetalige digbundel oorblyfsel/voice over gebruik Breyten Breytenbach (2009) ’n ongewone vertaalstrategie wat nie geredelik deur die meeste vertaalteoretiese benaderings beskryf kan word nie. Dié strategie, oortekening ...
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'n Verskuiwing na 'n oper en meer "pragmatiese" lees van Romeine 13:1–7?
(LitNet, 2015-08)Romeine 13:1–7 bly ’n omstrede teks wat voortgaan om ’n groot verskeidenheid (dikwels botsende) interpretasies op te lewer. Die gedeelte roep vrae op oor mag, die verhouding tussen kerk en staat, onderwerping aan wat as ...
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Van doekvoet na eendvoet : die vertaling van Afrikaanse romans in Frans
(LitNet, 2015-04)Deur die eeue heen is en word vertalings van vertalings, of abbavertalings, gedoen, hoewel hierdie praktyk ongewens is en vertalers afgeraai word om vertalings te vertaal. Abbavertaling word meestal deur vertaalkenners ...
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Protreptiek en paranese : perspektiewe op die wending in boek 10 van Augustinus se Confessiones
(LitNet, 2015-12)Die artikel vorm deel van ’n groter projek om die eienskappe van aansporende tekste te bestudeer en spesifiek ook om die aansporende eienskappe van Augustinus se Confessiones op ’n meer genuanseerde wyse te beskryf. Die ...
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'n Alledaagse andersheid : 'n ondersoek na Lauren Beukes se Zoo City as voorbeeld van heterotopiese literatuur
(LitNet, 2015-04)In hierdie artikel gebruik ek Foucault se begrip heterotopie as ’n instrument om die verskil tussen literatuur wat op ’n narratiewe vlak kompleks is en literatuur wat ’n dieperliggende kompleksiteit openbaar, te ondersoek. ...
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Pretorius v Dietrich 1872 : klinkende munt of papiergeld?
(LitNet, 2015-04)Daar was geen amptelike hofverslae in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) voor 1877 nie. Hierdie bydrae gee ’n rare blik op ’n regsdispuut wat uit die vroeë 1870’s dateer. Die feite van die dispuut is afgelei uit verwante ...
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Situating Somali piracy in Japanese security policy
(Stellenbosch University, Centre for Chinese Studies, 2016)This paper examines Tokyo’s engagement with Somali piracy and discusses what it reveals about Japan’s overall security posture. I argue that Japan’s response to Somali piracy highlights the continued salience of domestic ...
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Power and integrated health care : shifting from governance to governmentality
(Ubiquity Press, 2016)Integrated care occurs within micro, meso and macro levels of governance structures, which are shaped by complex power dynamics. Yet theoretically-led notions of power, and scrutiny of its meanings and its functioning, are ...
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Stakeholder engagement and biodiversity conservation challenges in social-ecological systems : some insights from biosphere reserves in western Africa and France
(Resilience Alliance, 2016)Biosphere reserves are an example of social-ecological systems that combine biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic development with knowledge generation and dissemination (both scientific and local). We review lessons ...
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Description and validation of some European forest syntaxa – a supplement to the EuroVegChecklist
(De Gruyter Open, 2016)In this paper we present nomenclatural adjustments and validations of syntaxa of the forest vegetation of Europe. We introduce a new, valid name of the class of nemoral coniferous or mixed forests (Asaro europaei-Abietetea ...
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The Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani − a new vegetation class of the High Arctic polar desert
(De Gruyter Open, 2016)A new class and a new order (Drabo corymbosae-Papaveretea dahliani and Saxifrago oppositifoliae-Papaveretalia dahliani) have been described, and the Papaverion dahliani validated. This is vegetation of zonal habitats in ...
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'A reflection of a reflection' : notes on representational and ethical possibilities in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka
(Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association, 2016)In January 2014, I published a Dutch poetry volume Mens Dier Ding (Man Animal Thing) in the Netherlands and Belgium. The book is partly based on research around the historical figure of Chaka, and especially Chaka’s ...
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Urban leisure and tourism-led redevelopment frontiers in central Cape Town since the 1990s
(Hrcak, 2016-12)In the Global North, urban redevelopment through leisure and tourism interventions has been a keenly investigated research interface. These types of interventions, whether public, private, or in various combinations, have ...
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Social-ecological resilience and biosphere-based sustainability science
(Resilience Alliance, 2016)Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere. The focus is shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as precondition for social justice, economic development, and sustainability. ...
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Africa's game changers and the catalysts of social and system innovation
(Resilience Alliance, 2016)It is widely recognized that many African economies are being transformed by rapid economic growth driven largely by rising demand for the abundant natural resources scattered across the African continent. I critically ...
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Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate–energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns
(Wiley Open Access, 2016)Broad-scale animal diversity patterns have been traditionally explained by hypotheses focused on climate–energy and habitat heterogeneity, without con- sidering the direct influence of vegetation structure and composition. ...
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Studentification in Bloemfontein, South Africa
(Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, 2016)Studentification is a global phenomenon that has been prominent in urban geographical discourse since the large-scale expansion of higher education in the early 1990s. In many developed and developing world countries, ...
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Making the case for biodiversity in South Africa : re-framing biodiversity communications
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Background: Biodiversity education and public awareness do not always contain the motivational messages that inspire action amongst decision-makers. Traditional messages from the biodiversity sector are often framed around ...
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Catering for large numbers of tourists : the McDonaldization of casual dining in Kruger National Park
(Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, 2016)Since 2002 Kruger National Park (KNP) has subjected to a commercialisation strategy. Regarding income generation, SANParks (1) sees KNP as the goose that lays the golden eggs. As part of SANParks’ commercialisation strategy ...
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When he’s up there he’s just happy and content : parents’ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Background: There is limited global and South African research on parents’ perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding (THR), as well as their perceptions of the effect of the activity on their children with disabilities ...
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South African child and family welfare services : changing times or business as usual?
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Social Work, 2017)South African welfare policy is influenced by global economic trends and has some indicators of neoliberal policy implementation. This paper discusses the indicators of neoliberalism before exploring the implications for ...
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