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The phenomenology of experiencing poverty – an exploration

Van der Merwe, Karen (2006)

There is a plethora of research on poverty. Definitions of poverty are provided from various perspectives, reasons and causes for poverty are analysed, and descriptions are provided of the impact of poverty on adults and ...
On this continent one is well advised to practice the methodology of listening

Hofmeyr, Murray (2006)
Food for thought in the realm of conservation and heritage

Gouws, C (2006)
Matsulu: A community in developmental fermentation and fusion

Visser, Johan; Terblanche, Rian (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), ...
Community knowledge and sustainable natural resources management: learning from the Monpa of Arunachal Pradesh

Singh, Ranjay K; Sureja, Amish K (2006)

Community knowledge and local institutions play a significant role in sustainable comanagement, use and conservation of natural resources. Looking to the importance of these resources, a project, funded by the National ...
The world of spirits and the respect for nature: towards a new appreciation of animism

Kimmerle, Heinz (2006)

The belief in spirits has diminished in Western thought since Enlightenment. But it has not disappeared totally. In the subconscious of people and in different subcultures and also in literature and art it is still alive. ...
Hominisation and humanisation: a perspective from the sociology of technics

Wolff, Ernst (Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, 2006)

This essay will present a few challenges to a new Humanism from the perspective of the sociology of technics. For this purpose Humanism will be described as an effort to intervene in the process of human formation or ...
Would it be inconvenient to ask: ‘What if ... ’?

Tempelhoff, J W N (2006)
Die benutting van direkte bemarking op ’n geïntegreerde promosiestrategie

Venter, Fred (2006)

Hedendaagse ondernemings bevind hulself in ’n hoogs kompeterende en dinamiese omgewing. Die onderneming wat egter bo die res gaan uitstyg, is die wat vir hul kliënte omgee en die waarde en voordele van hul produkte en ...
The fantastically natural world of George Saunders

Finbow, Steve (2006)
How to make sense of the past – salient issues of Metahistory

Rüsen, Jörn (2007)

This aerticle provides an overview of current issues in metahistoty. Basic categories of historical thinking, such as memory and historical culture, or historical consciousness, are outlined and contextualised in the ...
History, historians & Afrikaner nationalism; essays on the history department of the University of Pretoria, 1909-1985

De Klerk, Pieter (2007)
Editorial comment: a new era

Tempelhoff, J W N (2007)
‘When we are tired we shall rest’: bus boycotts in the United States of America and South Africa and prospects for comparative prospects history

Catsam, Derek Charles (2007)

This article looks at some of the practical, methodological, and disciplinary issues connected to comparative and transnational history through the lens of bus boycotts in South Africa and the United States in the 1950s. ...
Hidden benefits of public private partnerships: the case of water pressure management in Sebokeng

Mckenzie, R S; Wegelin, W; Mohajaneand, P; Shabalala, S (2007)

Many water distribution systems in South Africa are deteriorating due to many years of neglect resulting in a serious maintenance backlog. Recent government legislation has introduced free basic water to all South Africans ...
The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation

Tempelhoff, J W N; Munnik, Victor; Viljoen, Morné (2007)

South Africa’s Vaal River is the country’s hardest working rivers. It has been instrumental in securing valuable water supplies in the development of the country’s economic hub – the Gauteng Province. Since the mid-twentieth ...
HIV/AIDS awareness among first year pharmacy students and the role of the university

Bezuidenhout, S; Summers, R S (2007)

As HIV/AIDS continues to spread and affect the lives of millions of people, a sense of urgency has developed about the imperative need to stop the epidemic. Education is the key to change knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. ...
Unskilled blue collar workers: Bourgeois and/or authoritarian? Results from a small scale survey in Belgium

De Witte, H (2007)

In this article, two contrasting theories on the attitudes of unskilled blue collar workers are confronted: the ‘embourgeoisement’ thesis and the hypothesis of the ‘authoritarianism of the working class’. The ‘embourgeoisement’ ...
Transdisciplinary research in the cooperation between intercultural philosophy and empirical sciences

Kimmerle, Heinz (2007)

This article will examine how philosophy and empirical sciences can cooperate in research. It is presupposed that in philosophy and in the empirical sciences different types of discourses are used. This difference causes ...
The role of technology in the economic growth of South Africa: The case of frequency allocations to cellular operators

Mellet, A (2007)

Economists associate long-term economic growth with technological progress. Earlier growth literature, as well as modern literature, states to sustain a positive growth rate of output per capita in the long run, there ...