Die wese, doel en belangrikheid van liggaamlike opvoeding in 'n moderne kulturele samelewing en die prinsipiële grondbeginsels waarop dit moet berus*

Om dat die begrip Liggaamlike Opvoeding in die alledaagsc taalgebruik ligtclik assosieer word o.a. m et sulke begrippe soos sport, liggaamsoefeninge, in Engels m et physical culture; in Duits m et kórpcrerziehung; in Grieks met gym nastiek en andcr moontlike m isleidende begrippe in aanverw ante tale, en om dat in die alledaagse spreek- taal daar wanopvattings ook kan bestaan i.v.m. so ’n begrip soos kultuur, wil ons dan ten einde m isverstand uit die weg te ruim , vir eers kortliks nagaan w at presies onder die begrippe K ultuur en Liggaamlike Opvoeding verstaan moet word voordat ’n poging aangewend w ord om bogenoemde onderwerp te ondersoek

The ecclesiological significance of the ‘African kraal’ metaphor in a context of urban poverty in Zimbabwe

CITATION: Banda, C. & Van der Merwe, I. J. 2017. The ecclesiological significance of the ‘African kraal’ metaphor in a context of urban poverty in Zimbabwe. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 3(2):243-267, doi:10.17570/stj.2017.v3n2.a11.The original publication is available at https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/stjThe essay considers how the communal and empowering nature of the African kraal can be a metaphor of a liberating and empowering church in a context of urban poverty in Zimbabwe. Africans generally experience urban centres as foreign and hostile places where they ideally only live temporarily during seasons of urban employment. In Zimbabwe, poverty alleviation strategies that pay attention to the unique context of urban centres are few. This heightens the African experience of urban centres as foreign places. Urban churches often struggle to respond to urban poverty meaningfully. The African kraal, although a rural oriented metaphor, can direct the church in the city to meaningfully respond to urban poverty.https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/stj/article/view/1741Publisher's versio

Hearsay evidence and the child witness

In terms of section 3(1)(c) of the Law of Evidence Amendment Act 45 of 1988 the court has, since 3 October 1988, been given a wide discretion to admit hearsay evidence if it would be in the interests of justice to do so. How this discretion is to be applied has given rise to difficulty. The question to be addressed here is whether it would be in the interests of justice to admit the hearsay statements of a child who is a complainant in a criminal matter and who is subsequently unable to testify. The courts are very wary of admitting hearsay statements emanating from children, due to issues of competency and the cautionary rule, and for this reason certain countries have created specific legistative provisions to regulate the admissibility of children’s hearsay statements. In Namibia, the Combating of Rape Act 8 of 2000 admits hearsay via the backdoor. It is submitted that not legislation, but a common sense approach is needed to determine whether hearsy statements from child victims should be admissible. The fact that evidence is hearsay is a factor which should go to weight and not the admissibility thereof

The sexual offences prosecutor: a new specialisation?

The South African Law Commission recognised the fact that victims of sexual violence  require treatment different to that of other crime victims, and that sexual offences are more difficult to prosecute than other crimes due to the nature of the crime itself. Sexual offences courts were created and require prosecutors who have become specialised in this field. This article analyses the role of the sexual offences prosecutor in relation to child witnesses and further discusses and comments on a study conducted with sexual offences prosecutors in order to investigate the nature of this new specialisation

Rural solid waste in the Western Cape

Solid waste as a management problem is mostly perceived to be an urban problem. This can be attributed to the concentration of industrial and human waste producers there, as well as to the fact that urban waste is managed. Rural waste is more often than not ignored, or at best is shoddily managed. The Western Cape offers a special challenge, with its aesthetically and agriculturally highly sensitive and valuable landscape accommodating a large rural population at fairly high density. In the virtual absence of public waste removal services, private waste management practice is bound to be marginal and to produce environmental and especially water pollution impacts. Questionnaire and field surveys of 350 land owners were therefore conducted to establish the extent of rural waste generation and to devise a management strategy for a study area covering the Stellenbosch district on the outskirts of Cape Town. The project is reported in full by Steyl (1996)

Efficacy of teachers in a number of selected schools in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa

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Empowering accounting students to enhance the self-determination skills demanded by the fourth industrial revolution

This article proffers consideration of multiple factors by higher education institutions to address the complex challenge of preparing students for the changing world of work. We argue that student support should be holistic, offering academic as well as non-academic support and suggest an intervention where 21st Century skills are offered to students, within the intricate context of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) with its multiple challenges and opportunities. We further argue that an integration of self-determination principles within such an intervention embedded in Self-Determination Theory (SDT) be considered within student education and support. Student integration research (Tinto 2003) underpinned a proposed strategy to answer important questions regarding student support, namely: “What is needed and when?” Complementary to this, the theory of Self-Determination offered a solid conceptual framework where 21st Century skills could practically be implemented and as such answer the question: “How can students be empowered?” The research followed a design-based process, positioned in the pragmatic paradigm. The methodology of Design Based Research (DBR) is known for creating knowledge to solve real-world problems in a practical manner. The study was conducted with students from a residential South African university and reports mainly on qualitative data from three consecutive cohorts of first-year Accounting students.This study proposes action to empower students with 21st Century skills through holistic support, embedded in the Self-Determination Theory, within the context of the 4IR

The Lord is in his holy temple – on the presence of God in worship

The original publication is available at http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication/ngttThe question on how God’s presence in the worship of the church can be discerned is once again on the theological table because of two contextual influences, namely postmodernism and the image-oriented culture in which we live. The author suggests a way of thinking about the presence of God which honours postmodernism’s criticism of traditional metaphysics on the one hand, and contemporary culture’s call for experiencing God’s presence through more than one sense (the auditory) alone. He contends that the presence of God in worship is something different from the omnipresence of God; that it is perceived in faith and that it interrupts the faithful’s everyday life by addressing him or her on the self-sacrificing love of Christ for the world in need. God is then present in worship as He is in everyday life, which is in the face of need, and his presence can be more appropriately depicted as a confrontation reelle than a praesentia realis.Publishers' versio

Effective management of a virtual workforce

The problem is that traditional jobs have been office-based, with close supervision. In the Virtual Office (VO) situation managers have a resistance towards the managing of the workforce because they do not know how to manage virtual workers off-site, workers that they cannot see. They feel that managing virtual workers off-site places a huge burden on them. The biggest difference is the shift in management style from direct control to management of results. The biggest challenge for most organisations is to manage the workforce of the VO. The objectives of this research project are to determine how managers can manage a virtual workforce, improve communication and control the workforce. Comprehensive research has been done on the topic VO that includes articles from magazines, newspapers, Internet and textbooks. As sufficient reference resources are not available in South Africa the research was especially based on USA reference resources, due to the reported successful implementation of Virtual Offices in that country. Managers can effective management a virtual workforce by making use of MBO and not by monitoring activities. They can improve communication with the workforce by staying connected and they can control the workforce through feedback and support. This research has proved that the paradigm shift in the corporate world of work, any time, anywhere, in real space or in cyberspace is here to stay. Virtual workers and managers working away from the office is now a reality, and will become more common in the future. Companies who wait for the future to allow the VO to effectively take shape may find themselves at a competitive disadvantage. Now is the time for companies to create the conditions for the VO to emerge.Business ManagementM. Tech. (Business Administration

An assessment of diet overlap of two mesocarnivores in the North-West Province, South Africa

We used scat analysis to study the diet of two sympatric medium-sized carnivores: brown hyaena and black-backed jackal, in the NorthWest Province of South Africa. Seven major dietary categories were identified from the scats, with mammal remains being most common for both species. Brown hyaena scats contained more large mammal remains, which together with the presence of invertebrates (in 50% of all brown hyaena scats), suggests that they mainly scavenged. Jackal scats contained a higher proportion of small mammal remains, suggesting that jackals actively hunted more often than brown hyaenas did. The diets differed significantly between the two species, even though diet overlap was fairly high (0.79). Further analysis, albeit based on small sample sizes, suggests that diet of these mesopredators differ between protected reserves with apex predators and unprotected areas without apex predators, thus confounding generalizations. Further studies are therefore required to investigate possible mesopredator release when apex predators are absent