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Some human actions in the destruction and construction of culture and nature – the Merafong region as a case study

Van Eeden, Elize S (2006)

For at least the past 180 years the Merafong Municipal region in the Gauteng Province of South Africa, (of which the Wonderfontein Catchment forms a part) has strongly relied on the primary sector for its economic existence ...
Indonesia and Africa: questioning the origins of some of Africa’s most famous icons

Dick-Read, Robert (Thurlton Publishing, 2006)

In the author’s opinion there have been three far-reaching gaps in the study of Africa’s history: 1) Indonesian involvement in East and Central Africa; 2) Links between Madagascar and Eastern and South/Central Africa; and ...
Mapping cultural and natural landscape: metaphors in mapping human nature

Du Toit, Cornel W (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 ...
Would it be inconvenient to ask: ‘What if ... ’?

Tempelhoff, J W N (2006)
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. ...
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 ...
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), ...
Dr. Albert Hertzog se bemoeienis met die Mynwerkersunie

Visser, Wessel (2006)

In 1975 het Dan O’Meara die boek van L Naudé, Dr A. Hertzog, die Nasionale Party en die Mynwerkers, vir die South African Labour Bulletin geresenseer. Daarin bespreek O’Meara die stryd en motiewe van die Afrikaner politieke ...
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 ...
Humanism and nature – some reflections on a complex relationship

Rüsen, Jörn (2006)

The paper starts with a systematical analysis of the interrelationship of humanism and nature. It proceeds to a historical reconstruction of this relationship in the development of Western humanism from ancient Rome via ...
Editorial comment: transdisciplinary research, technology, science and civil society in the developing world

Tempelhoff, J W N (2007)
History, historians & Afrikaner nationalism; essays on the history department of the University of Pretoria, 1909-1985

De Klerk, Pieter (2007)
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 ...
Dignity and work: global market and self-sustenance

Venter, J J (2007)

It is argued here that market fundamentalistic theories ignore the issue of human agency in work, and the different types of work, because – focussing on the market mechanism, supply, demand, and price - they have lost ...
Editorial comment: a new era

Tempelhoff, J W N (2007)
Continuous performance improvement in the South African National Defence Force

Vermaak, Jan I C; Fourie, Leon de W (2007)

This article concentrates on the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), as a South African public sector department, its acceptance of the Batho Pele principles and the implementation of various organisational ...
From apathy to oblivion? The shameful history of heritage resource management in the Vaal Triangle

Prins, Marguerite (2007)

The Vaal Triangle is richly endowed with a prehistory that commenced c. 1.5 million years ago, when a succession of Stone Age cultures flourished in the fertile Vaal-Klip valley in the environs of the modern industrial ...
From hauntology to a new animism? Nature and culture in Heinz Kimmerle’s intercultural philosophy

Hofmeyr, Murray (2007)

Derrida has proposed a new spectrology in an attempt to deal with the ghost of Marx. Kimmerle shows that Marx has forgotten nature, and enquires about Derrida’s forgetting Marx’s forgetting. With specific reference to ...
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. ...
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 ...