2024-03-29T08:14:02Zhttps://repository.nwu.ac.za:443/oai/requestoai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39612018-08-24T10:46:04Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3608
Legal issues concerning mine closure and social responsibility on the West Rand
Van Eeden, Elize S
Liefferink, M
Durand, J F
10065016 - Van Eeden, Elize Sonja
Environmental Acts
Legal environmental issues
Mining closure
West Rand
Environmental health
Wonderfonteinspruit
Tweelopiespruit
Mining and, especially, gold and uranium mining have played a major role in
the economy, history, and demography of South Africa. The contribution of the mines to
the economy of South Africa over the past century has been overvalued, while the social
injustices and negative environmental impacts that accompanied mining have been
underplayed or ignored by the mining houses and government. The environmental
situation has worsened significantly over the past few years due to the abandonment
and pending closure of most of these mines. A reluctance is perceived on the part of the
mining companies, and even government, to take responsibility for the damage caused
by pollution, ecological degradation, and impact on human health by mining. Instead,
the current informal policy appears to take smaller companies to court on minor
environmental injustices to, perhaps, impress the broader public, while one of the
biggest environmental concerns is stylishly treated. The inability of government to
address the damage by mines effectively is in conflict with the National Water Act, the
National Environmental Management Act, the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Act, the
National Nuclear Regulator Act, and the Constitution of South Africa. The authors
propose a multidisciplinary approach to address water-related environmental injustices
on the West Rand and Far West Rand. We also describe the application of the National
Environmental Management Act of South Africa (Act No. 107 of 1998) in the
Wonderfonteinspruit and Tweelopiespruit Catchments and the current water quality
situation.
2011-01-20T06:17:56Z
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2009
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VAN EEDEN, E.S., LIEFFERINK, M. & DURAND, J.F. 2009. Legal issues concerning mine closure and social responsibility on the West Rand. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1):51-71, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39582018-08-24T10:36:52Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3608
Some southern African entry points into global history
Parsons, N
Global history
Deep history
African history
Southern Africa
DNA research
Biography
Waq-Waq
Early
Middle and late Stone Age
Biography
So-called Global History has taken off in the Unites States to liberate
undergraduates from Big Power parochialism, and has been the topic of a major
conference held in London in May this year. The key element of Global Studies is to
demonstrate the connectedness between different peoples and lands and periods of
time. This paper is an attempt to crack the small-end of the egg by starting studies in
one familiar region of the world, rather than the big-end approach of starting with
general explanations or theory and then relating them back to particulars. It suggests
three ways in which Southern Africa could be used as the starting point to throw more
general light upon the world’s history. First, by taking cues from and asking questions
about the latest genetic research which suggests that modern human population dispersal
about 60 000 years ago began in Angola-Namibia frontier region. Second, by taking
cues and asking questions about Indonesian contact with Africa and coastal settlement
that may account for significant influences on southern African societies. Third, by
tracing the biographies of real individuals whose careers encompass not only southern
Africa but other parts of the world and in doing so demonstrate not only interconnectedness
of cultural, social, political and economic histories but also significant
points of comparison in the experience of global trends and events.
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2009
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PARSONS. N. 2009. Some southern African entry points into global history. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1):1-8, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39602018-08-24T10:41:19Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3608
Slow-onset disaster and sustainable livelihoods: the Vaal River in the vicinity of Parys
Van Riet, G
Tempelhoff, J W N
10224793 - Tempelhoff, Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas
20652739 - Van Riet, Gideon
Water service delivery
Ngwathe Local Municipality
Wastewater treatment
Potable water supplies
Vredefort Dome World Heritage Site
Vaal River
Barrage
Sustainable livelihoods
Slow-onset disaster
Fishing
Farming
Tourisim
Gideon van Riet is attached to the African Centre for Disaster Studies at North-
West University’s Potchefstroom campus. Johann Tempelhoff is head of NWU’s
Research Niche Area for the Cultural Dynamics of Water at the Vaal Triangle
Campus in Vanderbijlpark.
1 R Myburg, “Vaalrivier se water gevaarlik sê kundige” in Die Noord-Vrystaatse Gazette,
2008.03.06, p. 3; Anon., “Regering gaan help om rioolbesoedeling in Vaal reg te
stel” in Die Noord-Vrystaatse Gazette, 2008.03.13, p. 5; R Myburg, “Vaal se
besoedeling beskryf as ’n nasionale krisis” in Die Noord-Vrystaatse Gazette,
2008.03.27, p. 5; Anon., “Protesoptog teen waterbesoedeling: inwoners oorhandig
memorandum” in Die Noord-Vrystaatse Gazette, 2008.04.03, p. 5.
This article is based on data gathered during a research project commissioned
by the Fezile Dabi District Municipality in the northern part of South Africa’s Free State
Province. The research team (which included the authors) was asked to investigate
allegations of pollution of tap water, as well as sewage from the local wastewater treatment
plant flowing into the Vaal River in the town of Parys on the banks of the Vaal River. The
authors adopt a sustainable livelihoods approach in analysing data gathered by way of
unstructured interviews in and around Parys in June–July 2008. They argue that actual
and perceived levels of pollution are eroding various local livelihood assets and it is
posited that the situation constitutes an unfolding slow-onset disaster. It is imperative
that shocks such as sewerage spills and rumours of polluted potable water are addressed
to ensure that these do not become long-term negative trends.
2011-01-19T10:11:40Z
2011-01-19T10:11:40Z
2009
Article
VAN RIET, G. & TEMPELHOFF, J.W.N. 2009. Slow-onset disaster and sustainable livelihoods: the Vaal River in the vicinity of Parys. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1):29-49, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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Vaal Triangle Faculty of Northwest University in South Africa
oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39652016-04-28T20:49:29Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3608
Passionate competitors: the foundation of competitive ballroom dancing in South Africa (1920s-1930s)
Green, A
Competitive ballroom dancing
Folk-dance
South African Dance Teachers Association (S.A.D.T.A.)
Amateurs Dancers Association (A.D.A.)
National Association of Teachers of Dancing (S.A.)
South African Dance Sport Federation (SADSF)
South African National Council for Amateur Dancers (SANCAD)
South African Amateur Ballroom Championships
Foxtrot
Quick step
Waltz and Tango
Jitterbug
By the turn of the nineteenth century ballroom dancing had become a popular
social pastime in Europe, North-America and South Africa. The years leading up to the
First World War saw a number of South African social dancers, like their Western
counterparts, striving to perfect the steps of these imported, ballroom dance routines.
Dancers danced partly out of a sheer passion for movement but, more importantly, to
maintain and increase their social status within society. Various international and later
local dancing organisations were formed to organise and control these dancing events.
The creation of these formal bodies unavoidably forced ballroom dancing into a competitive
phase that transformed it from a mere social past time to a highly competitive sporting
activity.
This article will focus on how the founding of prominent international ballroom dance
organizations influenced the creation of the South African Dance Teachers Association
(S.A.D.T.A.) and how both the British and South African organizations developed
competitive ballroom dancing during the 1920s and 1930s. It will also consider the
infrastructures required by these official organizations, the shortcomings as well as the
determining impact that this had on South Africa’s ballroom dance history. As a result of
a number of prerequisites, competitive ballroom dancing is not a sport for the masses,
and its formalization in the first half of the twentieth century saw an increased segregation
in the dancing halls based on race and class. However, the passion that the 1920
ballroom dancers had for competing laid a firm foundation for the development of dance
as a sport in South Africa.
2011-01-20T06:53:46Z
2011-01-20T06:53:46Z
2009
Article
GREEN, A. 2009. Passionate competitors: the foundation of competitive ballroom dancing in South Africa (1920s-1930s). TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1):123-143, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39642016-04-28T21:20:38Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3608
The domesticated Absurd
Lacroix, Fanny
Theatre of the absurd
Translation
Eugene Ionesco
In this article, translation, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies meet
in order to discuss the translation of Absurdist theatre. The aim of this discussion is to
determine whether the universal and philosophical message conveyed by most Absurdist
plays is accurately rendered in translation. Although the Theatre of the Absurd expresses
absurd thoughts through absurd language, it is not meaningless, but on the contrary
seeks to make people aware of the anguished purposelessness of human existence. It is
therefore essential that translations of Absurdist plays render this message in the target
language in an equally absurd, yet meaningful way. Since all Absurdist plays cannot be
taken into account in the scope of this article, a case study will be carried out, using
Eugene Ionesco’s play La Cantatrice Chauve as focus. An evaluation of its English
translation by Donald M. Allen, The Bald Soprano, is carried out in order to identify its
strengths and weaknesses. Suggestions are made where relevant to enhance the
translation or comment on its level of success.
2011-01-20T06:46:33Z
2011-01-20T06:46:33Z
2009
Article
LACROIX, F. 2009. The domesticated Absurd. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1):105-122, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39592018-08-24T10:38:19Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3608
The role of science in deepening democracy: the case for water in post-Apartheid South Africa
Turton, A
Heroic engineering phase
Cholera
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Water quality drivers: radiologica
Chemical and biological
National Nuclear Regulator (NNR)
Tooth Fairy Project
Acid Mine Drainage (AMD)
Heavy metals
Uranium
Eutrophication
Cyanobacteria
Xenophobia
South Africa is a water constrained country with a complex history of resource
capture and human rights abuses. Science, as practiced by the national science councils,
could play a significant role in deepening our democracy. This paper explores two
possible paradigms - one where science is divorced from the national constitution, and
the other where our science is embedded in the national constitution. The paper argues
that the latter approach would make our national science more relevant, but of necessity
would embroil it in issues of historic legacy and therefore become “messy”.
2011-01-19T09:57:46Z
2011-01-19T09:57:46Z
2009
Article
TURTON, A. 2009. The role of science in deepening democracy: the case for water in post-Apartheid South Africa. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1):9-28, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/69082018-08-24T10:34:40Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3608
Editorial comment
Tempelhoff, J W N
10224793 - Tempelhoff, Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas
2012-08-16T11:27:17Z
2012-08-16T11:27:17Z
2009
Article
Tempelhoff, J.W.N. 2009. Editorial comment. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1):iii-vi, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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