Crowd of 1 600 packs hall to hear Slabbert

Newspaper clipping reporting on the address by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert (IDASA Executive Director), at the Feather Market Hall in Port Elizabeth. Dr. Slabbert addressed a crowd of 1600 interested parties, with the message of the address focussing on the outcomes of the political discussions held in Dakar, Senegal, between the 9th and 12th of July 1987, between members of IDASA and the ANC

Jona: Die rekonstruksie van 'n karakter

Jonah: The reconstruction of a characterThe purpose of this article is twofold: (i) first to present a useful model of characterization postulated by De Beus, expanded by Brink, and, on narratological grounds, corrected by the present author; (ii) this model is accordingly applied to reconstruct the character of Jonah in the Septuagint version of this Biblical narrative

The strophic structure of the eulogy of Ephesians 1:3-14

Since Eduard Norden’s (1913) statement concerning the awkward length and construction of Ephesians 1:3-14, a flood of studies have been devoted to the analysis of this Greek sentence. In this paper I have firstly given an overview of those studies representative of the structure of the eulogy of Ephesians 1:3-14, and secondly presented a new reconstruction of this passage based on principles of form and content

A discourse analysis of young adults' discussions of intimate partner violence in dating relationships

Research on intimate partner violence (IPV) has focused predominantly on the married or cohabiting adult population in South Africa;; however, IPV also occurs in young adults' dating relationships. The purpose of this research was to explore the discourses young adults at a South African university collectively drew upon in peer-group discussions on the topic of IPV in dating relationships. Six focus groups were conducted with a total of 31 students between the ages of 18 and 26 who were recruited through the distribution of flyers and posters advertising the study at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Foucauldian discourse analysis was used to identify 3 main discourses in participants' talk on IPV in dating relationships, namely the discourse of 'othering', the discourse of men's authority, and the discourse of women's responsibility. Related sub-discourses were also unearthed, which included the discourse of women as abusive, the discourse of men's sexual entitlement, explanatory discourses on IPV, and the discourse of love and violence. The identified discourses enabled students to simultaneously obfuscate and demonstrate the existence of IPV in the UCT context;; - to talk about IPV as a normal, acceptable and inevitable part of men's authoritative and sexually entitled behaviour in dating relationships and to talk about IPV as women's responsibility bound by constructions of love. Overall, this study has shown how dominant discourses of IPV and gender power inequity amongst young adults might encourage male violence and dominance, and women's victimisation and passivity

HUMAN FATE AND DIVINE WILL IN THE THEOGNIDEA

The term "Theognidea" or Corpus Jheognideum represents the 1389 lines ascribed to the poet Theognis, although we know that not all of these Jines come from the hand of Theognis himself. For this reason I will constantly refer to the poems in this corpus as "Theognidea" rather than "the poems of Theognis" (cf. West 1974:40-45; 65-71; Adkins 1985: 133)

Shortcomings of the written survey questionnaire for discovering language learner perceptions: reflections of a researcher

In this article I describe my reflections on using a written survey questionnaire to investigate, on a large-scale, students' perceptions of studying Xhosa as a first language in high schools. I describe the aims of the project, how the questionnaire was designed, and the problems I encountered with the analysis of the data. The problems can be categorised as follows: poor survey design; not doing enough with the responses; questions which only scratch the surface; and, respondents not knowing how to answer questions appropriately. Example questions from the questionnaire are given to illustrate these shortcomings. Recommendations for avoiding similar problems are given. The focus in this article is on the problem questions only; most of the questions on the 80-item questionnaire were successful in capturing the desired responses. The study as a whole, therefore, was a success. (Journal for Language Teaching: 2002 36(3-4): 259-272

So, what's it like to be a language teacher?: hearing our voices: inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes UniversityRhodes University Libraries (Digitisation

Transformatoriese leer by skoolhoofde

Transformative learning in school principals. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the meaning making process involved in transformative learning as experienced by school principals within a changing socio-cultural context. We argued that the political changes in the post-apartheid South Africa would cause a disparate experience for and challenge the perspectives of many Afrikaner school principals. This experience could trigger perspective transformation - the transformation of an individual's meaning structures, resulting in a new perspective. The study revealed a transformative learning process similar to that proposed by Mezirow, beginning with a disorienting dilemma, followed by varied reactions, catalyst events, exploring and trying out of new roles and the integration of the new perspective into the participants' lives. The actual meaning the school principals attached to the changes in their perspectives is linked to a sense of increased personal empowerment as well as to a belief that the changes were in line with their religious beliefs and that the changes would be beneficial to their cultural group. This study contributes to a growing empirical exploration of transformative learning by exploring transformative learning within a changing socio-cultural context. (South African Journal of Education: 2001 21(4): 264-267

The Reciprocal Relationship Between Human Resource Management Professionalism And A Diverse South African Workplace Context

The main objective of this research was to determine the interactive relationship between human resource management (HRM) professional competencies and background variables of employees in diverse South African work place context. A Human Resource professional competency measure was administered among HR practitioners and managers (N=483) from a variety of South African organisations. The results showed that significant differences exist between the respondent’s perceptions of the importance of HRM competencies based on their age, educational qualifications years of work experience and management level. Respondents aged 20-29 years viewed the leadership- and personal credibility, solution creation, HR metrics, HR service delivery and HR technology as less important than older employees. Respondents with a higher level qualification viewed the HRM competencies of Leadership- and personal credibility, talent management, HR risk, HR service delivery, Strategic impact, HR business knowledge, Business acumen and HR technology as more important than respondents with a lower level qualification. Respondents with 11 to 15 years of work experience regarded the solution creation competency as more importance that did those with 0 to five years of work experience. Respondents employed on middle management level viewed the competency of being able to perform metrics as more important than did those employed on operational level. Recommendations are made.

Pre-emigration reflections : Afrikaans speakers moving to New Zealand

This article reports on the pre-emigration reflections of 15 Afrikaans speakers, all of whom were in the final stages of preparing to emigrate to New Zealand. The study explores the linguistic histories of the participants, their attitudes to their mother tongue (Afrikaans) and to English, and their views on South Africa's language policy and how it has influenced their decisions to leave the country. The paper also offers a view on possible long-term linguistic outcomes for these families