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Does the Christian worldview provide a place for the law of attraction? (Part 1): an apologetic evaluation of the roots of this doctrine
(AOSIS, 2016)This article investigates the roots of the so-called spiritual law of attraction that some Christian preachers today describe as an important biblical law. One of the proponents of this idea, Pastor At Boshoff of the ... -
Does the Christian worldview provide a place for the law of attraction? (Part 2): an apologetic evaluation of the way the Bible is used in promoting this idea
(AOSIS, 2016)This article investigates the biblical motivation that is given for the secular idea of the so-called spiritual law of attraction to become part of Christian doctrine. In 2010 Pastor At Boshoff of the Christian Revival ... -
Does the early adopter catch the worm or choke on it? A reflective journey of the challenges of technology adoption in a health sciences education institution
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Background: Early adoption of technology is a struggle well known to early adopters and now to me. Since the demand to use and implement technology in health professions' education has increased, I have been led to adopt ... -
Does the traditional healer have a modern medical identity in South Africa?
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: Research supports the view that the South African traditional healer does not hold a modern medical identity, but developed from the traditional African religions and cultural environment as a kind of caregiver. ... -
Does the traditional healer have a religious distinctiveness in Modern-day South Africa?
(WordPress, 2016)Research alludes that the South African traditional healer is not a medical identity, but origin from the old Traditional African Religious Culture as a traditional religious-healer; a spiritual remnant from a previous, ... -
Does virginity still matter in the modern world? Virginity and the denial of marriage in the Acts of Paul and Thecla
(2015)In the modern world where people are still fascinated by the idea of virginity, the expression 'being a Thecla' or being a 'disciple of Thecla' refers to the state of virginity. This is a reference to Thecla in the ancient ... -
Does visual participatory research have resilience-promoting value? Teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings
(Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)I report on a phenomenological investigation into teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings during their participation in the Resilient Educators (REds) intervention. All 18 teacher participants came ... -
Does visual participatory research have resilience–promoting value? Teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings
(Educational Asociation of SA (EASA), 2012)I report on a phenomenological investigation into teacher experiences of generating and interpreting drawings during their participation in the Resilient Educators (REds) intervention. All 18 teacher participants came from ... -
Doing gender is unavoidable: Women’s participation in the core activities of the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1938-1943
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013)Afrikaner women played a major role in the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) movement in South Africa from 1939 to 1954. Women participated in a range of activities as part of the OB Women's Division. As an organisation born out of ... -
'Doing' and 'using' sexual orientation: the role of gay male pornographic film in the identity construction of gay men
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)The taken-for-granted dominance of heteronormativity in contemporary society has been well documented and critiqued in several social science studies. Acutely aware of its fragility and vulnerability (Butler 1991), its ... -
Domestic manifestations of international law's right to water: a comparative analysis of emerging rights obligations in Finland and South Africa
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017)Against the backdrop of the content and specific obligations arising from the right to water in international law, this article compares how the legal regimes in Finland and South Africa protect the right to water. The ... -
Domestic workers lived realities of empowerment and disempowerment within the South African labour legislative context: two sides of the same coin
(2015)South Africa is heralded as a global ambassador for the rights of domestic workers. Empowerment, however, remains an elusive concept within the sector. Fear–based disempowerment still characterises the employment relationship, ... -
Dominant inheritance of field–evolved resistance to Bt corn in Busseola fusca
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Transgenic crops expressing Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxins have been adopted worldwide, notably in developing countries. In spite of their success in controlling target pests while allowing a substantial reduction of ... -
Don't touch my virtual property: justifications for the recognition of virtual property
(Juta, 2016)While there is growing consensus about the place and value of virtual property, both inside and outside of virtual worlds, the question of how to justify the acceptance of these new objects of property law needs to be ... -
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: Call for the continuation of the NPDE
(Unisa Press, 2014)In this data-informed position article, the authors describe the profile of unqualified and under-qualified teachers' workplace circumstances and experiences in terms of their personal and environmental attributes. By doing ... -
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: call for the continuation of the NPDE
(UNISA press, 2014)In this data-informed position article, the authors describe the profile of unqualified and under-qualified teachers’ workplace circumstances and experiences in terms of their personal and environmental attributes. By doing ... -
Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: call for the continuation of the NPDE
(Unisa, 2014)In this data-informed position article, the authors describe the profile of unqualified and under-qualified teachers' workplace circumstances and experiences in terms of their personal and environmental attributes. By doing ... -
Doob's optional sampling theorem in Reisz spaces
(Springer, 2011)The notions of stopping times and stopped processes for continuous stochastic processes are defined and studied in the framework of Riesz spaces. This leads to a formulation and proof of Doob’s optional sampling theorem. -
Dooyeweerd is watching you: using instant messaging to prepare for assessment
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2013)In an Information Technology course, learners are expected to learn about the use of technology. They need to be able to program, do mathematics and statistics, and should also have other technical subjects. Although ... -
Dooyeweerd's legal and political philosophy: a response to the challenge of historicism.
(University of the Orange Free State. Faculty of Law, 2014)A look at the penetrating and encompassing nature of Dooyeweerd's political and legal philosophy makes it understandable why Georgio Del Vecchio, a reputable Italian philosopher of law, appreciated Dooyeweerd as "the most ...