Leadership of learning and change for successful learning outcome in History Education

Managing History learning and teaching in schools of South Africa over the years has been characterised by diverse opinions regarding the causes of learner underperformance, who is to be held responsible over learner performance and possible leadership influence on History learner performance. In addressing the problem of underperformance in History from a leadership point of view, the researchers were guided by the managerial leadership and humanism learning theories. The selected qualitative methodology adopted an ethnographic design to establish hidden inferences. A sample of thirty participants comprising the provincial coordinator for History, subject advisor, principals, departmental heads, teachers and learners was obtained based on the availability of History-offering schools in the study area. Data collection was mainly through interviews and meta-analysis of documents. Both deductive and inductive reasoning was applied using ATLAS.ti version 8.4 and thematic analysis in the data analyses process. The findings suggest several managerial leadership measures ranging from policy to practice. These amongst others include the recommendation that History as part of social science should be separated in totality from Geography

Die toepassing en invloed van slawewetgewing in die landdrosdistrik Tulbagh/Worcester, 1816-1830

Proefskrif (M.A.) -- Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 1988.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Slawerny in die Kaapkolonie bied 'n wye veld van ondersoek en bly daarom steeds 'n gewilde studieterrein wat deur sowel plaaslike as oorsese historici ontgin word. Om die een of ander rede is neentiende-eeuse studies, wat 'n deurlopende mikro-analitiese ondersoek na 'n faset van slawerny in een van die buitedistrikte van die kolonie as tema vereis, tot op hede jammerlik afgeskeep. Om hierdie rede en oak vanwee my groat belangstelling in mens like verhoudingstudies, het ek op hierdie studie besluit. Ten opsigte van hierdie onderwerp is geen histories-wetenskaplike studie tot dusver onderneem nie. As logiese vertrekpunt is die jaar 1816 gekies, toe goewerneur lord Charles Somerset begin het om die eerste van 'n reeks slawewetgewing ter verbetering van die lot van die slawebevolking in die Kaapkolonie uit te vaardig. Hierdie studie strek tot 26 Augustus 1830. Op hierdie datum het die Bevel-in-Rade van 2 Februarie 1830 wat verdere regte aan die slawebevolking in die Kaapkolonie verleen het, wet geword

Psychiatric genetics in South Africa: cutting a rough diamond

Psychiatric disorders place a considerable healthcare burden on South African society. Incorporating genetic technologies into future treatment plans offers a potential mechanism to reduce this burden. This review focuses on psychiatric genetic research that has been performed in South African populations with regards to obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Preliminary findings from these studies suggest that data obtained in developed countries cannot necessarily be extrapolated to South African population groups. Psychiatric genetic studies in South Africa seem to involve relatively low-cost methodologies and only a limited number of large national collaborative studies. Future research in South Africa should therefore aim to incorporate highthroughput technologies into large scale psychiatric studies through the development of collaborations. On a global level, the vast majority of psychiatric genetic studies have been performed in non-African populations. South Africa, as the leading contributor to scientific research in Africa, may provide a foundation for addressing this disparity and strengthening psychiatric genetic research on the continent. Although the elucidation of the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders has proved challenging, examining the unique genetic profiles found in South African populations could provide valuable insight into the genetics of psychiatric disorders.Keywords: Bipolar disorder; Obsessive-compulsive disorder; Pharmacogenetics; Psychiatric genetics; Schizophrenia; South African population

Utilizing a Historically Imbedded Source Based Analysis Model (HISBAM) in the history school classroom

This paper aims to elucidate upon a model that imbeds historical skills, concepts and categorizations into a source-based analysis approach utilizing levels of cognitive complexity by combining different types of sources into a coherent system. This model will focus on the South African school context. In this paper, concepts such as cause and effect and chronology will be explored, as well as historical categorizations of social, economic and political history. The taxonomy of source-based questioning will also be highlighted, as well as the variety of sources that could be used in a history classroom. Various theories and perspectives have emerged in the field of History, and these will also be explored to better understand the model in question. The paper will conclude with an in-depth explanation as to how this Historically Imbedded Source-Based Analysis Model could be used in the history classroom and the potential benefits that this model holds.https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/yesterday_and_today/article/view/3741pm202

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICA

This report provides the results of a survey of South African human resource management (HRM) practices in private and public organisations. The survey is part of a longitudinal, comparative study of human resource policies and practices, involving 35 countries worldwide. This is the third survey conducted in South Africa during 2014/2015, the previous two surveys were conducted in 1999/2000, and 2009/2010 respectively. This report provides an overview of the key findings of the South African survey. The basis of the survey was a questionnaire completed by human resource (HR) managers on behalf of their organisations. The research reflects policies current in 2014. This report affords organisations in South Africa an opportunity to benchmark themselves against other South African organisations, and to identify trends in HRM practices.Human Resource Managemen

Pharmacogenomic Research in South Africa: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities in the Rainbow Nation

South Africa, like many other developing countries, stands to benefit from novel diagnostics and drugs developed by pharmacogenomics guidance due to high prevalence of disease burden in the region. This includes both communicable (e.g., HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis) and non-communicable (e.g., diabetes and cardiovascular) diseases. For example, although only 0.7% of the world’s population lives in South Africa, the country carries 17% of the global HIV/AIDS burden and 5% of the global tuberculosis burden. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has coined the term Rainbow Nation, referring to a land of wealth in its many diverse peoples and cultures. It is now timely and necessary to reflect on how best to approach new genomics biotechnologies in a manner that carefully considers the public health needs and extant disease burden in the region. The aim of this paper is to document and review the advances in pharmacogenomics in South Africa and importantly, to evaluate the direction that future research should take. Previous research has shown that the populations in South Africa exhibit unique allele frequencies and novel genetic variation in pharmacogenetically relevant genes, often differing from other African and global populations. The high level of genetic diversity, low linkage disequilibrium and the presence of rare variants in these populations question the feasibility of the use of current commercially available genotyping platforms, and may partially account for genotype-phenotype discordance observed in past studies. However, the employment of high throughput technologies for genomic research, within the context of large clinical trials, combined with interdisciplinary studies and appropriate regulatory guidelines, should aid in acceleration of pharmacogenomic discoveries in high priority therapeutic areas in South Africa. Finally, we suggest that projects such as the H3Africa Initiative, the SAHGP and PGENI should play an integral role in the coordination of genomic research in South Africa, but also other African countries, by providing infrastructure and capital to local researchers, as well as providing aid in addressing the computational and statistical bottlenecks encountered at present

H3Africa and the African life sciences ecosystem: building sustainable innovation

Interest in genomics research in African populations is experiencing exponential growth. This enthusiasm stems in part from the recognition that the genomic diversity of African populations is a window of opportunity for innovations in postgenomics medicine, ecology, and evolutionary biology. The recently launched H3Africa initiative, for example, captures the energy and momentum of this interest. This interdisciplinary socio-technical analysis highlights the challenges that have beset previous genomics research activities in Africa, and looking ahead, suggests constructive ways H3Africa and similar large scale science efforts could usefully chart a new era of genomics and life sciences research in Africa that is locally productive and globally competitive. As independent African scholars and social scientists, we propose that any serious global omics science effort, including H3Africa, aiming to build genomics research capacity and capability in Africa, needs to fund the establishment of biobanks and the genomic analyses platforms within Africa. Equally they need to prioritize community engagement and bioinformatics capability an d the training of African scientists on these platform s. Historically , the financial, technological, and skills imbalance between Africa and developed countries has created exploitative frameworks of collaboration where African researchers have become merely facilitators of Western funded and conceived research agendas involving offshore expatriation of samples. Not surprisingly, very little funding was allocated to infrastructure and human capital development in the past. Moving forward, capacity building should materialize throughout the entire knowledge co-production trajectory: idea generation (e.g., brainstorming workshops for innovative hypotheses development by African scientists), data generation (e.g., genome sequencing), an d high-through put data analysis an d contextualization . Additionally, building skills for political science scholarship that questions the unchecked assumptions of the innovation performers be they funders, scientists, and social scientists, would enable collective innovation that is truly sustainable, ethical, and robust

Comparison of tyre rolling resistance for different mountain bike tyre diameters and surface conditions

Tyre-road rolling resistance is a major factor in the performance of a vehicle. By investigating the rolling resistance, a better understanding of the efficiency of different wheel diameters will develop. A major issue in the mountain biking world is the relative merits of using 26in. versus 29in. wheels and the resultant effect on cyclist performance. As rolling resistance is indicative of the behaviour of a vehicle over specific terrain, it can be viewed as an objective parameter to compare the relative performance of these two wheel sizes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the rolling resistance of four mountain bikes as affected by wheel diameter and terrain type, cyclist mass, tyre inflation pressure and suspension type using coast-down tests. The following major conclusions were drawn: average rolling resistance of the 26in. diameter wheel was higher than that of the 29in. diameter wheel; a sand surfacing had the highest rolling resistance coefficient; terrain surface showed the largest effect on rolling resistance coefficients measured, followed by the cyclist mass, wheel diameter and tyre inflation pressure; and the best combination for maintaining momentum after traversing over an obstacle was high tyre inflation pressure, low cyclist mass and full suspension 29in. wheel diameter option.http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajrshttp://academic.sun.ac.za/sajrsper/am201