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Prayer and Response

- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Prayers and Response

- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Shalom Song

- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Unite us in your name oh Lord

- Composition Workshop Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Unite us in your name oh Lord

- Composition Workshop Choir, Peregrina, Sister, Dargie, Dave

Van die opgan van die Son

- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

We are marching in the light of God

- Church Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

'n Leesmoontlikheid van Jeanne Goosen se teks Louoond : die vrou as skrywer binne die Suid-Afrikaanse bestel

- Viljoen, Erika Valeska

  • Authors: Viljoen, Erika Valeska
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Goosen, Jeanne -- Criticism and interpretation , Goosen, Jeanne -- Louoond
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3573 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002096 , Goosen, Jeanne -- Criticism and interpretation , Goosen, Jeanne -- Louoond
  • Description: This thesis investigates the narrative strategies of Jeanne Goosen, as employed in her short novel, Louoond. I regard this text as an excellent example of modern Afrikaans prose, and particular reference was made to her previous novel: Om 'n mens na te boots which indicates similarities to the text under scrutiny. Chapter One is a close reading of the first chapter of the novel, in order to identify certain prominent codes, and also to determine what the text itself prescribes. My presumption is that the text determines how it should be read, that no single, predetermined strategy can be rigidly applied to it. Thus I formulated my own individual possible reading from the first chapter, and I view it throughout as mere "speculation", since this possible reading remains only a possibility. Chapter Two contains the theoretical background that is necessary for a scientific study of this kind. I followed mainly the strategies of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida, who are pioneers in the post -modernistic theory. It was particularly important to investigate the role of the narrator: the narrator in Louoond presents herself as a writer, therefore it is the process that is paramount. In Chapter Three the code of writing, as identified in Chapter ʺOneʺ of Louoond, is followed closely throughout the text. In Louoond, which is metatextual, violence is textually inherent, and also part of the process of writing. This violence is definitely also part of the South African situation as it is signified in the novel. Throughout the narrator is in a state of tension about her own role in the ʺrevolutionʺ - in which also her own text is a revolution in language, but always within the NOW of South Africa. Chapter Four concerns itself mainly with the role of the woman as narrator, as muse, as primary protagonist. I discuss the code of woman in relation to prominent feminist writers, but it remains in context of the text. Each issue is in the first place determined by the text, the text therefore determines which feminist issues will be investigated. The South African situation, and specifically the Afrikaner situation, serves throughout as intertext for Louoond, as with the code of writing. Other intertextual references are important, because the text is never independent from anything outside itself, and could not exist in such independence. Music plays an important role, with Callas as muse and as fellow female artist, while George Sand functions as fellow writer. Woman, independent of man, is put forward as creator. In my reading, the text remains in the first place a fabrication/imitation of the South African reality, and the fInal scene reaffirms the ʺfinal catastropheʺ that is indicated in the motto as a ʺcondition of controlled hysteriaʺ
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'n Marxisties-feministiese ondersoek van Wilma Stockenström se roman, Die kremetartekspedisie

- Gardner, Judy Hilary

  • Authors: Gardner, Judy Hilary
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Stockenström, Wilma -- Criticism and interpretation , Stockenström, Wilma. Kremetartekspedisie
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3568 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002091
  • Description: Chapter is an exploration of the meanings which may underly the title of this novel. I have tried initially to establish what kind of "expedition" is undertaken, and have come to the conclusion that "expedition" has a multidimensional meaning, that it implies a search, an expedition into different things: an expedition to the city of rose-quartz; the slave woman's expeditions from the baobab tree and back; an inner expedition to gain self-knowledge; an expedition into womanhood; an expedition into the history of Africa, into religion, into language. The second part of the chapter examines the nature of "baobab", since this tree, like the "Tree of Life", is regarded as one growing upside-down. It is this upside-down nature of the tree which led me to believe that many existing stereotypes and myths are turned upside-down in the novel: about slaves, about woman, language, the Afrikaans literary tradition, the "traditional" structure of the novel, culture transcending nature, the slave woman's language. In chapter 2 I have examined only one of these expeditions, viz. the slave woman's inner expeditions consisting of her experiences as a slave and her journeys of reminiscence. These journeys at the same time embrace all the other expeditions. Her inner expeditions are signified by a number of codes, which fulfil literally the function of processes of knowledge, of self- knowledge, as well as of systems in which meaning is contained. By undertaking this inner expedition, the woman gains greater clarity of vision concerning her own existence and the existence of man/woman in general. Chapter 3 deals mainly with the concept of possession/ownership, which results in two diametrically opposed groups: the owner class and the owned class. The peculiar institution of slavery has given rise to these two irreconcilable groups, and therefore a brief history of slavery is included in this chapter. The slave woman is initially one of the owned class, but through indoctrination, she too aspires to become a member of the owner class. In the second half of the chapter, then, the woman is discussed as owner. Her position becomes a reflection of the position of her owners, to illustrate the peculiarity of the capitalist system in which there will always be the rulers and the subjects, the oppressor and the oppressed, the owner and the owned.
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Aspekte van die prosa van Boerneef met spesifieke verwysing na die bundel Boplaas

- Meintjes, William Godfrey

  • Authors: Meintjes, William Godfrey
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Boerneef, 1897-1967 , Boplaas
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:3570 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002093
  • Description: This thesis is a report on a "rereading" (in the sense in which Roland Barthes uses the word) of the short texts of Boerneef (Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe 1897-1967) published under the title Boplaas in 1938. Boerneef's prose is explored with specific reference to this one volume. The unity of the volume of texts is examined and textual indications of relations with other texts in the oeuvre are explored. In this way the thesis indicates how transtextuality determines meaning both in the individual texts as well as in the volume as a whole. The process of (re)reading in this thesis traces how, as a result of the exploration of the textual elements, a Boplaas code is generated. This Boplaas code signifies both the space and the ethos of Boplaas. Paternalism, feudalism and racism manifest themselves as important aspects of the ethos. The social disintegration which is endemic in this ethos is not caused, but merely accelerated by external impulses. The analysis indicates how, as a result of the specific organization of the narrative material, the text questions the feudal status quo. A process of demythologising of the vroegre boere-paradijs is therefore already present in the earliest Boerneef texts. However, the examination of Boerneef's prose also indicates that these texts go beyond the socio-politico-economic aspects by encoding the existential aspects of man's existence. , Hierdie proefskrif is die vers lag van 'n "rereading" (in die Barthesiaanse sin) van Boerneef (Izak Wi lhelmus van der Merwe 1897- 1967) se bundel Boplaas (1938). Die prosa van Boerneef word verken met spesifieke toespitsing op die een bundel . Die bundel-eenheid word ondersoek en tekstuele leidrade wat geledinge met ander tekste in die oeuvre aandui , word gevolg. Hierdeur word aangetoon hoe die betekenis en die be-tekenisprosesse van die tekste onderling, en die bundel as 'n geheel, op transtekstuele samehang berus. In hierdie leesproses word nagegaan hoe, deur middel van die ontginning van die tekstuele elemente, 'n Boplaas-kode in die narratiewe proses tot stand kom. Hierdie Boplaas-kode beteken 'n Boplaas-ruimte asook 'n Boplaas-etos. Paternalisme, feodalisme en rassisme word as belangrike aspekte van hierdie bestel geenkodeer en die tekste toon aan dat sosiale versplintering endemies aan die betrokke orde is en slegs deur impulse van buite verhaas word. In die bundel-analise word aangetoon hoe, as gevolg van die organisasie van die vertel stof, hierdie bundel bevraagtekenend ten opsigte van die feodale status quo staan. As gevolg hiervan is daar dus alreeds in die vroegste prosa van Boerneef 'n demitologisering van die "vroegre boere- paradijs" ingebed. Die ondersoek toon egter ook aan dat die Boplaas-tekste by die sosiopolitiko- ekonomiese dimensies verby óók die eksistensële aspekte van die mens se betstaan be-teken.
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Die begrip verganklikheid as komplekse kode in enkele werke van Hennie Aucamp

- Garbers, Marius Wolhuter

  • Authors: Garbers, Marius Wolhuter
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Aucamp, Hennie -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3567 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002090
  • Description: Mortality has always been a popular theme in literature. By means of a semiological and narratological approach, it has been endeavoured in this study to prove that transience comprises a complex code constituted by a whole series of codes. In each of the chosen volumes one specific short story is analysed and all the codes related to transience are defined and described. Then these codes are discussed within the context of the volume as a whole. The following codes have been identified and analysed: death and death related codes, decay, distress, frustration, emptiness, loneliness observe, look and see, reproduction, the code of ageing, youth/ageing, lost love, time. The following texts of Aucamp have been used as the object of study: Die Hartseerwals, Spitsuur and 'n Bruidsbed vir Tant Nonnie. The reason these texts were selected, is twofold: They represent the early works of the author. The continuity is essential for making meaningful deductions. The final conclusions are: Man's bond with an environment which is characterised by continual change, influences his existence and makes his life a tentative experience. Transience involves more than merely ageing, obsolescence and death. Transience is a complex experience, related to the physical and mental in man. Besides ageing, sexuality contributes to man's downfall. Loneliness, isolation and frustration determine his actions and stress his experience of transience. The result is a painful experience of life.
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  • Date Issued: 1989

Op hom die groot hosannas : enkele aspekte van die modern Christelike poësie in Afrikaans

- Bosman, Maria Elizabeth

  • Authors: Bosman, Maria Elizabeth
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Afrikaans poetry -- History and criticism , Religious poetry, Afrikaans -- History and criticism , Christian poetry, Afrikaans , Calvinism in literature , Blum, Peter, 1925-1990 , Rousseau, Ina , Cussons, Sheila , De Villiers, I. L., 1936-2009 , Cloete, T. T. (Theunis Theodorus), 1924-2015 , Spies, Lina , Müller, Petra, 1935-
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:3566 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002089 , Afrikaans poetry -- History and criticism , Religious poetry, Afrikaans -- History and criticism
  • Description: This study is concerned with modern Christian poetry in Afrikaans. Afrikaans poetry, which initially carried the clear stamp of the Afrikaner's Calvinistic view of life, gradually assumed a new image to the extent that it could no longer be recognised as religious and specifically Calvinistic poetry. To the contrary, modern Afrikaans Christian poetry is the expression of a contemporary conceptualisation of the very same gospel. The occasional violent reaction especially of conservative institutions to so called "unchristian" modern poetry in Afrikaans during the past three decades, has prompted this study which attempts to illustrate that modern Afrikaans poetry still exhibits a strong Christian element. The essential qualities of contemporary Christian poetry in Afrikaans are illustrated in the discussion of the works of particular leading Afrikaans poets. Chapter 3 attempts to indicate a transitional stage between traditional and modern Christian poetry by means of an overview of the latest tendencies and approaches, with brief references to the recent poetry of the Louws, the poetry of Peter Blum as the initial exponent of the poetry of the Sixties, and the poetry of Ina Rousseau. The work of Sheila Cussons, eminent Roman Catholic (and thus also Christian) poet who is probably the most impressive contemporary exponent of metaphysical/mystic poetry in Afrikaans, is discussed in chapter 4. Chapter 5 illustrates the traditional Calvinistic Christian point of view and Christian experience as represented in the poetry of I.L. de Villiers. The poetification of the ministry adds new dimension to religions poetry in Afrikaans. Chapter 6 constitutes a discussion of the works of T.T . Cloete, the most significant contemporary Reformed poet in Afrikaans indicating the extent to which the many related facets embodied in his poetry consistently reflect a Christian attitude and are unified in and encompassed by the principle of Soli Deo Gloria. Chapter 7, by way of conclusion, reviews the religious poetry of Lina Spies and Petra Müller who write accessible popular poetry, nevertheless exploring interesting references. In conjunction with the poetry of Ina Rosseau, this poetry represents a contribution to modern Afrikaans religious poetry from a feminine point of view
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Primêre leerlinge se geskiedenispotentiaal: 'n empiriese ondersoek na senior primêre leerlinge en onderwysers se vermoë om indringende vrae oor 'n historiese gebeurtenis met begrip en insig te beantwoord

- Hattingh, Johannes Hendrik

  • Authors: Hattingh, Johannes Hendrik
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: History -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1362 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001428
  • Description: The main aim of this research was to determine the potential of senior primary pupils and serving teachers to understand a text that is concerned with a historical event. A test was written by 136 white standard 3, 4 and 5 pupils from a Cape Province primary school, as well as 32 serving teachers from various other Cape Province primary schools. The test consisted of a text and questions based upon it. The testees had 60 minutes at their disposal to study the text and give written answers to the questions. The historical event explained in the text dealt with the Peasant Uprising that occurred in England in 1381. Eight open-ended questions were asked. The questions were graded according to difficulty and based on the model of Merrit to test the following levels of thought: knowledge, application, inference and evaluation. In the dissertation attention is paid to the following aspects: 1. Background for the research. 2. The most important theoretical aspects that play a role in the process of historical understanding. 3. A statistlcal analysis of the results obtained from the pupils and teachers, with attention to those factors that may have influenced the results e.g. verbal IQ, age, interest, etc. 4. The quality of the teachers' and pupils' answers as well as examples from their work to illustrate certain aspects. 5. The most important conclusions that can be drawn from the research. Based on their answers to the graded questions the pupils were grouped into different levels to ascertain whether a significant pattern would emerge for each standard. It became clear, however, that irrespective of age or verbal IQ the pupils could not consistently be grouped into a specific level or category. The most important conclusions of the research are the following: 1. The ability of senior primary pupils to cope with intellectually stimulating material are underestimated. 2. A variety of factors influenced the results of the pupils, but not one of the factors studied in this research was found to be of significant importance. 3. The average primary teacher do have the potential ability to cope with more difficult historical material than the present factual approach would suggest.
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Die verhouding tussen literêre teorie en kritiek in die Afrikaanse literêre sisteem binne die sg. "nuwe paradigma" aan die hand van gekose figure Marianne de Jong, Joan Hambidge en Gerrit Olivier

- Mudzanani, Nndanduleni Bethuel

  • Authors: Mudzanani, Nndanduleni Bethuel
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: Olivier, Gerrit, 1954- , Hambidge, Joan, 1956- , De Jong, Marianne , Afrikaans literature -- History and criticism , Afrikaans literature -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3599 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002174 , Olivier, Gerrit, 1954- , Hambidge, Joan, 1956- , De Jong, Marianne , Afrikaans literature -- History and criticism , Afrikaans literature -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Description: Currently, in the period of Poststructualism literature is widely approached as a cultural and social phenomenon and the aims of literary studies as the illuminating of social codes, ideology etc. embedded in literature. This study evaluates the contribution of specific critics working within the so-called "New paradigm". The concept "New paradigm" is used as an umbrella term covering a number of distinct developments, referring to literature as a system of literary "actions" rather than as a canon of books. In recent years several Afrikaans critics have embraced or adapted current theories in the domains of Deconstruction, Ideology Criticism, Literary, Sociology, Recepticm Aesthetics, Semiotics and Feminism. This study explores and evaluates the application of such theoretical paradigms to their work in the field of practical criticism. This study also explores the relationship between current theories of literature and their antecedents. The notion of current literary theory and practice not only as a broadening of scope and content of the notion of the "literary" but on the other hand as a liberation of theory and practice from an over-deterministic thrust (i.e. the approach of literature as no more than a set of social documents) is also evaluated in this study. A twofold aim of this study can thus be defined: a. to determine the extent to which the shift from the "old" to "new" theories was made necessary by the developing literary and social scene; b. to examine the links beween theory and practice in the work of specific, key figures in Afrikaans. Is it possible for theory and practice to be separated? Is there an important consistence in the relationship between the two in the work of the figures chosen?
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Feministiese vertelstrategieë in 'n metafiksionele teks van Jeanne Goosen

- Mackenzie, Leonore

  • Authors: Mackenzie, Leonore
  • Date: 1991
  • Subjects: Goosen, Jeanne Afrikaans fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Feminism and literature
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3576 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002100
  • Description: Die roman Ons is nie almal so nie (1990) deur Jeanne Goosen word aangebied in 'n realistiese (oftewel tradisionele) vertelvorm. Feministiese vakkundigheid verwys na die narratiewe tipe as patriargaal of fallosentries. As sodanig, is daar 'n ingrypende verskil tussen die vertelwyse van hierdie teks en die van die outeur se vroeere tekste. Hierdie verskuiwing dien as stimulus vir 'n evaluasie van bogenoemde teks binne 'n raamwerk van die feministiese literere teorie en kritiek. Genoemde verskuiwing beteken ook 'n behoefte na 'n ondersoek van die feministiese literatuur en vakkunde in verhouding tot die heersende manlike "stem" van tradisionele redevoering. Dit word beklemtoon dat elkeen van die feministiese teoretiese standpunte die onvoorwaardelike politieke doelstellings van alle feministiese tekste aan die lig bring. Daar word onder andere te kenne gegee dat patriargale mag nie net op persoonlike vlak voorkom nie, maar ook op die vlak van instellings en sosiale gebruike. Patriargale beheer is dus nie 'n onveranderliknatuurlike gegewe nie; dit is vatbaar vir teoretiese analise en praktiese wysiging. Vanwee die feministiese literere teoriee se preokkupasie met patriargale mag, word hierdie teoriee dikwels gekritiseer as synde onbetrokke by strydvrae ten opsigte van rassisme en klasseverdeling. Dit word erken dat die feministiese literere kritiek die geskil met betrekking tot seksisme moet transendeer; dat die toekoms van die feministiese literere teoriee gelee is in 'n deurdringende gesprekvoering met materialisme. Dit is die uitdruklike doelstelling van die marxisties-feministiese kritiese standpunt om rekening te hou, nie net met vraagpunte ten opsigte van taal en "gender" nie, maar ook van klas en ras. Goosen se teks is besonder ontvanklik vir 'n ondersoek van hierdie verwante probleme. * * * The novel Ons is nie almal so nie (1990) by Jeanne Goosen is presented in a realistic (or traditional) narrative form. In feminist terms this narrative form is referred to as patriarchal or phallocentric. As such, the text differs radically from the narrative mode in which the author's previous texts are presented. This shift invites an assessment of the text within a framework of feminist theory and criticism. Moreover, it indicates the need for an investigation into the relationship of feminist literature and scholarship to the dominant male voice of traditional discourse. It is stressed that each of the feminist theoretical positions reveals the unreservedly political purpose of all feminist writing. It is further suggested that patriarchal power exists in institutions and social practices, not merely in individual intentions. Patriarchal power is therefore not a part of immutable nature, but open to effective theoretical analyses and practical change. Due to their preoccupation with patriarchal power, feminist literary theories are often criticised as being blind to issues of race and/or class. It is recognised that feminist literary theory must transcend the issue of sexism; that its future lies in a far more articulated dialogue with materialism. The express purpose of the marxist-feminist critical position is to take into account questions not only of language and gender, but also of class and race. Goosen's text is particularly receptive to an exploration of these interrelated problems.
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Ons leer mekaar

  • Date: 1991-08
  • Subjects: Community development -- South Africa -- Periodicals , South Africa -- Rural conditions -- Periodicals , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa -- Periodicals , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1989-1994 -- Periodicals
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76958 , vital:30649
  • Description: Op ’n sonnige Saterdag- oggend op Montagu kom daar ’n gekap en geraas uit ’n groot skuur. In die agter- grond sing ’n vrou ’n op- gewekte deuntjie. Wie werk so hard en so vrolik op ’n Saterdag? En waarom? Toe Ons Leer Mekaar onder- soek gaan instel, het ons die Montagu Skrynwerkers Ko- operatief leer ken - ’n be- sonderse groep mense wat op ’n besondere manier werk. Hulle is ’n span van tien, waar- van vier vroue is. En almal in die span is saam eienaars van die skrynwerkers-besigheid. Maandag-oggende besluit die span wat hulle target vir die week is. "En as ons nie target slaan nie, dan moet ons sit, al is dit Saterdag", vertel Leon de Koker, die produksie- koordineerder. "Jy werk vir jouself, so aan die einde van die dag kan jy nie ’n baas blameer, of se baas waar is my loon nie. Hier moet almal saamtrek. Elke lid deel in die winste van die ko-operatief, maar ook omgekeerd: as ons verliese maak, deel elkeen daar in." Die ko-operatief maak futon- beddens en ses-hoekiae tafels, wat landwyd verkoop word. Futon beddens lyk soos harde plat matrasse wat op die grond oop gegooi word. Die tafels word veral in kantore gebruik, omdat baie tafels in- mekaar pas om ’n groter tafel te maak. Dit word ook trapazoidal tafels genoem. Baie council huise op Montagu het nie elektrisiteit me. Die skrynwerkers verkoop hulle afval-houtjies teen R1 ’n sak vir brandhout. Die semels verkoop hulle aan die boere wat hoenders en perde aanhou. "In die somer noem ons dit die Coke-fonds, die geldjies wat so inkom", se Leon.
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'n Ondersoek na die aanwending van 'n enkele mikrorekenaar in die klaskamer as hulpmiddel vir die onderrig van wiskunde in die sekondere skool

- Mostert, Marthinus Petrus

  • Authors: Mostert, Marthinus Petrus
  • Date: 1992
  • Subjects: Education, Secondary -- South Africa -- Computer-assisted instruction Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Data processing Computer-assisted instruction -- South Africa Educational technology -- South Africa
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1679 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003562
  • Description: Suppes beweer dat "All teachers everywhere recognise the help that books give them in teaching students. The day is coming when computers will receive the same recognition. Teachers look on computers as a new and powerful tool for helping them to teach their students more effectively." In hierdie ondersoek word gepoog om op die voordele van die aanwending van een mikrorekenaar as hulpmiddel vir die onderwyser vir die onderrig van wiskunde, te wys. Die belangrikste oorwegings in die ondersoek was: 1. Efektiwiteit van die metode. 2. Bekostigbaarheid van die metode. Die effektiwiteit van hierdie metode van onderrig word hoofsaaklik bepaal deur die geskiktheid van die programmatuur. Programmeringsvaardighede aan die kant van onderwysopgeleide persone versterk hierdie oorweging. Deurdat slegs een mikrorekenaar gebruik word, word deels aan die tweede oorweging, naamllk bekostigbaarheld, voldoen. Programmeringsvaardighede, soos hierbo genoem, kan ook bydra tot die besparing van koste deurdat bogenoemde programmatuur 'intern' ontwikkel word. Die wens word uitgespreek dat hierdie metode van onderrig tot voordeel van die totale leerlingbevolking van die land aangewend sal kan word.
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Die sosio-ekonomiese opname as instrument vir die inisiëring van 'n ontwikkelingsproses in 'n landelike gemeenskap met spesifieke verwysing na Wartburg

- Rossouw, Anthonie Michael Müller

  • Authors: Rossouw, Anthonie Michael Müller
  • Date: 1992
  • Subjects: Community development -- South Africa -- Wartburg Social service -- South Africa -- Wartburg Social service -- Research Rural poor -- South Africa
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
  • Identifier: vital:3280 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006475
  • Description: Aim of this study. The problem of poverty, especially in rural S.A ., formed the basis for the questions and hypotheses posed in this study. Poverty stricken communities, with the accompanying suffering, the immobilizing effect of poverty and the present climate of urgent changes in S.A., were also apparent in Wartburg (study area). The problem was to initiate development in such a way that the chances of failure and therefore the wasting of already scarce resources is minimized. The manner in which development is initiated and what are viewed as desirable elements of development should culminate into achieving self-sustaining development in the long term. It became clear therefore that a complete data base needs to be established in order to initiate such a development process. In this study the aim was to investigate the role which research plays in the process of development. Method. This study can be divided into two sections, viz an investigation into the theoretical basis for achieving a self-sustaining process of development and how research should be done within such a process. Secondly, the practical application of such a theoretical basis was tested and forms the empirical section of this study. The first section was completed by undertaking a literature study. The conditions set for the development process guided the researcher increasingly to a holistic perspective, Community Development and the state of the art of Social Work Practice. The second part of this study was done through empirical research. The questionnaire method was utilized where structured interviews were conducted by properly trained field workers who were of similar cultural background as the community involved in the survey. The data was processed by using the B.M.D.P. programme and recorded in section B of this report. From section A and B of this report conclusions were drawn regarding the development process, the role research has in this process and the task of the Social Work Profession in this regard. Findings. From the theory it seemed that the state of the art regarding social Work Practice upholds a holistic perspective and views community practice and development as an important function within this perspective. It seems that a unitary approach to Social Work is increasingly becoming a reality in the pursuit of a holistic perspective as well as by stressing the importance of community practice. The integrated approach to Social Work Practice seems to collaborate with these views. The role of research is equally important to social Work Practice as it is to Community Development and should be viewed as an integral part of the Social Work Process/Practice. The empirical section of this study is a clear example of what can be achieved by a properly planned and executed research project which forms an integral part of a development process. Together with the community valuable data were drawn from the data base. These conclusions were directly employed to identify priorities and in planning specific projects. Conclusions. This study concludes, firstly, that Social Work Practice has an obvious task in the field of community development. This profession can contribute to a large extent toward making development more human and to acknowledge the importance of both man and his environment when considering development. The study also showed that research is an integral part of a development process, especially where the aim is that of a perpetuating, self-sustaining development process. In short, it seems that the Socio-economic research meets the requirements set by the aforementioned development process, but that refining seems necessary in order to make it more effective and useful as an instrument for initiating such a process of development as discussed in the above paragraphs.
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  • Date Issued: 1992

'n Perspektief op kommunikasie in 'n post-apartheidsera in Suid-Afrika met spesifieke verwysing na die rol van Afrikaans

- Van Rensburg, Nicolaas Gerhardus Lourens

  • Authors: Van Rensburg, Nicolaas Gerhardus Lourens
  • Date: 1993
  • Subjects: Afrikaans language South Africa Languages
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:3575 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002099
  • Description: Chapter One is an historical review of the rejection of colonial domination in various states in Africa, before the spotlight was directed at the relationships between the "white" and "black" inhabitants of South Africa. The numerous problems which arise out of this inter-relationship can best be ascribed to the identity crisis which "white" and "black" experience in a multi-lingual country. The South African society needs to normalise its relations with cultural and language groups by means of communication. Chapter Two reviews the historical background, linguistic characteristics, the use, functions and the distribution of the ten most important languages of which the South African community consists. The diversity of these languages generates and complicates the debate which currently prevails concerning a language policy for a future non-racial South Africa. The geographical, social, historical and cultural factors which are conducive and non-conducive to language distribution are high-lighted in Chapter Three. In a changing South Africa, where affirmative actions are being insisted on, it is expected that the current privileged position of Afrikaans will be placed under political pressure. A painful process of self-examination by Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaners - one of the major role-players in the current controversy concerning the continued existence and status of Afrikaans in a "postApartheid era" - has been precipitated. Chapter Four looks at how the "white", "coloured", "black" and "Indian" Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaners' mother tongue has evolved to its present status. The arguments for and against, viewpoints of, and pleas for the re-unification of Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaners to a larger single power base is emphasized. The possible future status and functions of Afrikaans insofar as its present status, functions and attitudes are concerned, are extrapolated in Chapter Five. The viewpoint concerning a possible scenario for the above-mentioned matters as expressed by a wide spectrum of South African society - academics, cultural groupings, political leaders, non-mother-tongue speakers of Afrikaans - is evaluated. A scenario of the possible role of Afrikaans in a "post-Apartheid era" in South Africa is sketched in Chapter 6. The conclusion is that the Western culture as understood by the black man, differs in more than one way from the perception of the white man. First and foremost, the acceptance of and respect for the languages and cultures of all fellow South Africans is the first step towards seeing all South Africans as being Africans. , Opsomming: Hoofstuk Een is 'n historiese oorsig van hoe die verwerping van koloniale oorheersing elders in Afrika diekontaken verhouding tussen die "wit" en "swart" inwoners van Suid-Afrika onder die soeklig geplaas het. Die talle probleme wat uit die kontaksituasie spruit, kan gereduseer word tot die identiteitskrisis wat "wit" en "swart" in 'n multitalige land beleef. Die Suid-Afrikaanse gemeenskap het In dringende behoefte aan die normalisering van die verhoudings, vera! deur middel van kommunikasie, tussen die kulturele- en taleverskeidenheid. In Hoofstuk Twee word daar gekyk na die historiese agtergrond, linguistiese eienskappe, gebruik en funksies en die verspreiding van die tien vemaamste tale waaruit die Suid-Afrikaanse talegemeenskap bestaan. Die diversiteit van tale genereer en kompliseer die debat wat tans oor 'n taalbeleid vir 'n toekomstige nierassige Suid-Afrika gevoer word. Die geografiese, sosiale, historiese en kulturele faktore wat taalverspreiding bevorderof teenwerk, word in Hoofstuk Drie belig. In 'n veranderende Suid-Afrika, waar op regstellende aksies aangedring word, kan daar verwag word dat Afrikaans as gevolg van sy bevoorregte posisie onder politieke druk geplaas sal word. Vir die Afrikaanssprekende Afrikaners, as een van die hoofrolspelers in die polemiek oor die voortbestaan en status van Afrikaans in 'n "post-Apartheidsera", het dit 'n pynlike proses van selfondersoek gebring. In Hoofstuk Vier word daar gekyk hoe die "blanke", "anderskleurige", "swart" en "Asiatiese" Afrikaanssprekende Afrikaner sy moedertaal tot op hede ervaar het. Die argumente vir en teen, sienings van, en pleidooie vir 'n hereniging van Afrikaanssprekende Afrikaners tot 'n groter mags basis word belig. Die moontlike toekomstige status en funksies van Afrikaans word in Hoofstuk Vyfvanuit die huidige status, funksies en houdings geprojekteer. Die standpunte oor bogenoemde sake word vanuit 'n wye spektmm van akademici, kultuurgroeperinge, politieke leiers sowel as niemoedertaal-sprekers van Afrikaans van die talegemeenskap van die RSA op 'n moontlike scenario gefokus. ii 'n Scenario -oefening van die moontlike rol van Afrikaans in 'n "post-Apartheidsera" in Suid-Afrika word in Hoofstuk Ses geskets. Daar word tot die gevolgtrekking geraak. dat die Westerse kultuur, soos verinnerlik deur die swart man, in belangrike opsigte van die van die wit man verskil. Daarom is die aanvaarding van en respek vir aIle Afrikane as mede-Suid-Afrikaners die eerste stap om te verseker dat die Afrikaanssprekende Afrikaners se taal en kultuur gerespekteer sal word.
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  • Date Issued: 1993

Records of the inquest into the murder of Matthew Goniwe, Sparrow Mkonto, Fort Calata and Sicelo Mhlauli near Port Elizabeth on 27 June 1985

- Goniwe Inquest, Du Plessis, Lourens, Van Rensburg, Janse, South African Police, South Africa

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