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Views from the frontline: a critical assessment of local risk governance in South Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
In 2005 the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction introduced the ‘Hyogo Framework for Action’ (HFA) aimed at mainstreaming disaster risk reduction. Subsequently, the ‘Global Network for Disaster ...
Addressing the spectre of cyber terrorism: a comparative perspective
(2012)
This article looks at the definition of cyber terrorism and terrorist use of the Internet.
The article evaluates cyber terrorist threats facing countries such as the United
States of America, the United Kingdom, India ...
Recent developments in the provision of pro bono legal services by attorneys in South Africa
(2013)
This paper focuses on legal service delivery for the indigent by attorneys in private practice acting pro bono in civil rather than criminal matters. In this regard there have been and continue to be considerable gaps ...
Prisoner transfer to South Africa: some of the likely challenges ahead
(2013)
Official and unofficial reports indicate that the South African government is in the process of entering into prisoner transfer agreements or making prisoner transfer arrangements. This comes after many years of reluctance ...
Improving access to justice through compulsory student work at university law clinics
(2013)
In this paper an analysis is offered of compulsory so-called "live client" clinical legal education as part of the LLB as a means of improving access to justice for the indigent. This study first explores the factors which ...
The Miracle Rising® as source for teaching History: Theoretical and practical considerations.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)
Twenty years ago, all South Africans – for the first time – had the privilege to
vote on an equal basis for the political party to govern the country in the years to
come. It was an extraordinary and a momentous phase ...
Thoughts about the historiography of veracity or “truthfulness” in understanding and teaching History in South Africa
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)
Debating the understanding and use of historical content as fact and/or fiction in
publications has come a long way in the science of History (historiography). Arthur
Marwick for example, in “The new nature of history, ...
Threats of Communist expansion in Apartheid South Africa: NP claims versus CIA intelligence perspectives in the years 1960 to 1990.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
There is a popular perception that the threat of Soviet expansionism
during the time of South Africa’s Border War (1966-1989) was a fabrication
by the National Party government to motivate young men to fight to
maintain ...
Early roots of “coloured” poverty: How much can 19th century censuses assist to explain the current situation?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
The coloured population comprises almost 10 per cent of the South African
population, earning only a slightly smaller proportion of national income.
The average income of this group hides, however, startlingly large ...
Translating disaster resilience into spatial planning practice in South Africa: challenges and champions
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
It is highly likely that hazards and extreme climatic events will occur more frequently in the future and will become more severe – increasing the vulnerability and risk of millions of poor urbanites in developing countries. ...