Browsing TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa by Title
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Managing diversity in schools: The place of democratic education and ubuntuism in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2021)South African classrooms were highly diversified. The problem, however, was that although democracy has been a critical characteristic of South Africa for over two decades, it is still a very vague concept to many. A ... -
Mapping cultural and natural landscape: metaphors in mapping human nature
(2006)The article uses the cartographic metaphor to describe the relations between culture and nature, science and life world, signifier and signified. Modernism may be defined as a project to map the whole of human reality ... -
Matsulu: A community in developmental fermentation and fusion
(2006)Since 2004, the Drama Department (University of Pretoria) has engaged in the development and execution of Theatre-for-Development projects in accordance with the mission statement of the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), ... -
The meaning of sense of place: The community of Vredefort Dome and Parys, Free State
(2015)The Vredefort Dome was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2005. This status has led to an increase in tourism to the adjacent town of Parys ... -
Meervoudige denke: Versmoor/vermoor instellings denke?
(2010)Multiple thinking: do institutions smother/kill thought? Thought is the most distinct ability of humans. For humans to be fully developed beings the full development of this ability is required. When this is neglected ... -
Michel Serres' multidisciplinary philosophy of information and knowledge
(2014)This paper is a tribute to the formidable multidisciplinary philosophy of information of the French philosopher, Michel Serres. His approach is to an extent based on his statement: “Let us nevertheless try to see on a ... -
The militarisation of the Platfontein San (!Xun and Khwe): The initial years 1966–1974
(2014)The resettlement of 372 San (Bushmen) soldiers with dependents from 31/201 and 203 Battalions in Namibia to Schmidtsdrift in the Northern Cape during March 1990 was the last chapter in the process of militarisation of ... -
Mobile financial services for bottom of pyramid users: Reality or pipe dream?
(AOSIS, 2020)Mobile financial services (MFSs) are perceived to be a potential solution in addressing emerging economies’ challenges. Through MFS, benefits associated with economic financial inclusion and economic growth and opportunities ... -
Monitoring and evaluation: the missing link in South African municipalities
(AOSIS, 2018)The Auditor-General of South Africa reports for the financial years 2012–2013, 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 paint a gloomy picture of local government performance in some provinces. Many municipalities in South Africa are not ... -
The Moravian heritage of community musicking
(AOSIS, 2019)In this article, the authors firstly provide a brief historical narrative of the origin of the Moravian Church and its hymnody. Secondly, they proceed to trace the origins of Moravian hymnals and their use in South Africa. ... -
Multiple, connective intellection: the condition for invention
(2015)Since this article involves invention, the conditions for inventiveness become the issue: assuming multiple reality; thinking in a special way; transgressing boundaries; acknowledging networks (in the terms of Michel ... -
Municipal demarcation process in the establishment of the Collins Chabane Local Municipality and reasons for the eruption of Vuwani, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2020)The demarcation of municipal boundaries in post-apartheid South Africa is characterised by objections from affected communities. Beyond polarising-affected communities, proposed redeterminations regularly elicit destruction ... -
Municipal engineers and local government in the Transvaal before 1910.
(North-West University, 2011)This paper examines the history of the first town engineers in the Transvaal before the Union. It will briefly examine the changes in local government in the Transvaal, focusing on municipal engineers. Examination is ... -
Municipal engineers in Johannesburg and Pretoria before 1910
(2009)This paper examines the history of the first town engineers in Johannesburg and Pretoria by looking at the selection process that was applied in their appointment; their responsibilities; and the circumstances at the ... -
Municipal governance and environmental crises: threats and thoughts
(Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa, 2009)Local government in South Africa (SA) has come a long way from the period when there were over 1200 racially segregated municipalities. From more than 800 municipalities after 1996, they have been merged to currently 284 ... -
Municipal management and geo-hydrological aspects of importance in the potable water supply of Lindley
(2014)When the South African Government in 1998 re-demarcated its 283 municipalities so that they completely cover the country in a “wall-to-wall” manner, their main focus was on growing local economies and maintaining the ... -
Music and well-being
(Vaal Triangle Faculty, North-West University, 2014)This paper scrutinizes how human beings relate to the wider cosmos in the thinking of the European Middle Ages. The re-invention of the ‘spiritual’ might liberate Western culture from Cartesian elements within Western ... -
‘Music is Life’ – The influence of transcendentalist philosophy on Ives’s Concord Sonata
(2007)Although the Concord Sonata is traditionally regarded as a sonata, it is atypical of the genre and is often considered as enigmatic. To understand this composition, a transdisciplinary approach is essential by, more ... -
Music, personhood, and eudaimonia: Implications for educative and ethical music education
(2014)This paper proposes that educative and ethical music making and teaching, which is based on a praxial philosophy of music education (Elliott and Silverman, 2014), can be carried out in a variety of ways that create places ...