2024-03-28T18:19:10Zhttps://repository.nwu.ac.za:443/oai/requestoai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39072016-04-28T20:53:00Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
From apathy to oblivion? The shameful history of heritage resource management in the Vaal Triangle
Prins, Marguerite
Stone Age
Iron Age
Prehistoric culture remains
Rock engravings
Heritage resource management
South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA)
Intellectual property
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 city of Vereeniging. The
numerous stone artefacts scattered throughout the area, attest to these ancient
settlements. During the Iron Age, the sandstone outcrops in the valley provided a
durable surface for engraving – a manifestation of the burgeoning ability of humankind
to give pictorial form to experiences and ideas. Due to the efforts of a few concerned
individuals, the prehistoric sites in the Vaal-Klip valley received international acclaim
and recognition. In 1943 and 1944, the two most important Stone Age archaeological
reserves were officially declared national monuments, followed by the Redan rock
engraving site in 1971. Over an extended period of time the two bodies responsible for
their maintenance, the local government and the official heritage body of the day,
conducted extensive negotiations, but failed to save these sites. With the exception of
Redan, all the previously listed rock engraving sites, and the two Stone Age
archaeological reserves, have been completely obliterated. Redan has become
progressively neglected and abandoned. This paper examines the impasse presently
surrounding Redan, and the failure of the relevant bodies, to conserve and sustain the
non-renewable prehistoric culture remains of the Vaal Triangle.
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
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PRINS, M. 2007. From apathy to oblivion? The shameful history of heritage resource management in the Vaal Triangle. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):39-52., Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39062016-04-28T20:52:59Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
From hauntology to a new animism? Nature and culture in Heinz Kimmerle’s intercultural philosophy
Hofmeyr, Murray
Animism
Spectrology
Hauntology
Nature
Culture
Humanism
Environment
Philosophy
Intercultural Philosophy
Ethnophilosophy
Ecophilosophy and Environmental Ethics
Development Studies
Cultural Studies
Deep Ecology
Social Ecology
Anthropology
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 African culture he asks whether
a new animism should not be explored within the framework of a new spectrology.
Derrida uses the concept animism, but not in terms of the being of things in and of
themselves, which could positively be thought as animated. Kimmerle proposes a way
in which Western philosophy could be opened to African philosophy in order to
understand the problem of animated nature more adequately. African philosophy has
a concept of the universe of spiritual forces, in which nature and its powers are
completely integrated. This paper explores these issues in dialogue with a number of
African philosophers, while linking them to certain contestations within environmental
philosophy and ethics, especially Murray Bookchin’s critique of spirit-talk in Deep
Ecology. Kimmerle’s work on the relationship between Africa and Hegel sets the scene
for an elaboration of his re-evaluation of animism which is compared to the groundbreaking
hypothesis of Bird-David. A relational epistemology is understood in ethical
terms, and it is implied that such an epistemology would be more adequate for a new
humanism that would be new in going beyond the western tradition, and in the process
gain a more inclusive concept of “person” and “community”.
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2011-01-11
2007
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HOFMEYR, M. 2007. From hauntology to a new animism? Nature and culture in Heinz Kimmerle’s intercultural philosophy. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):1-38, Dec, [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39152018-08-24T13:18:59Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
History, historians & Afrikaner nationalism; essays on the history department of the University of Pretoria, 1909-1985
De Klerk, Pieter
10176845 - De Klerk, Pieter
Book review
Book review by Pieter de Klerk. F.A. Mouton (ed), Nicholas Southey & Albert van Jaarsveld. Kleio, Vanderbijlpark, 2007. 252 pp, ISBN 1-868225-04-6
2011-01-12
2011-01-12
2007
Article
DE KLERK, P. 2007. History, historians & Afrikaner nationalism; essays on the history department of the University of Pretoria, 1909-1985/ F.A. Mouton (ed), Nicholas Southey & Albert van Jaarsveld. Kleio, Vanderbijlpark, 2007, 252 pp, ISBN 1-868225-04-6. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):223-226, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/40142018-08-24T13:18:14Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
How to make sense of the past – salient issues of Metahistory
Rüsen, Jörn
13250493 - Rüsen, Jörg
Metahistory
Sense generation
Historical consciousness
Holocaust
Trauma
Mourning and forgiving
Globalisation
Intercultural communication
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 field of historical studies. The
leading question adresses the process of historical sense generation and its fundamental
principles and criteria. In respnse to the traumatic historical experiences of crimes
against humanitiy in the 20th century two culturally established procedures of sense
generation are applied to historical thinking: mourning and forgiving. The author tries
to widen the horizon of historical thinking into the dimension of intercultural
communication. In the process he responds to the challenge of globilization. There is
an accent on the need to pursue new approaches in history.
2011-03-28
2011-03-28
2007
Article
RÜSEN, J. 2007. How to make sense of the past – salient issues of Metahistory. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):169-221, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39092016-04-28T20:51:32Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
‘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
Protests
Boycotts
Civil rights
Anti-apartheid
Alexandra
Montgomery
Baton Rouge
Martin Luther King
Jr.
Comparative history
Historiography
Witwatersrand
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. Comparative history by
its very nature requires historians to transcend both the restrictive boundaries that
the profession sometimes imposes as well as a fundamentally interdisciplinary approach
to scholarship. Yet as the suggestive comparisons between boycotts in Montgomery,
Alabama, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Transvaal in the mid-1950s show, such
work can be rewarding in providing a transnational framework for understanding protest
movements that transcend national borders. Catsam argues in the end of his article
that “a deeper understanding of both [the American and South African] struggles
together may well help us better to grasp the significance of each separately.”
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
2007
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CATSAM, D.C. 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. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):79-94, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/69402018-08-24T13:14:14Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
Dignity and work: global market and self-sustenance
Venter, J J
10056076 - Venter, Johannes Jacob
Human dignity
Global market
Capitalism
Labour
Competitiveness
Society
Morality
Human agency and selfsustenance
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 track of that which
economic activities (work) are intended for, namely self-sustenance. They have also
minimised human agency in the economic theory, and therefore the understanding of
being-human is lost from both economic theory and practice. Thus they cannot explicate
the role of work for the individual and the community – namely care for self and others
– the significance quality work as part of human dignity is forgotten. I am arguing for
a restoring of meaningful self-sustenance as the norm for work, and the recognition of
the dignifying role of such self-sustenance – both for the community and the individual.
2012-08-20
2012-08-20
2007
Article
Venter, J.J. 2007. Dignity and work: global market and self-sustenance. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):133-168, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/69662018-08-24T13:07:09Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
Editorial comment: transdisciplinary research, technology, science and civil society in the developing world
Tempelhoff, J W N
10224793 - Tempelhoff, Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas
2012-08-22
2012-08-22
2007
Article
Tempelhoff, J.W.N. 2007. Editorial comment: transdisciplinary research, technology, science and civil society in the developing world. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):i-vi. Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39102016-04-28T20:51:47Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
Transdisciplinary research in the cooperation between intercultural philosophy and empirical sciences
Kimmerle, Heinz
Philosophy as a specific discourse
Empirical sciences
Intercultural philosophy
Dialogues between the philosophies of different cultures
Relations between empirical sciences
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 a large gap between them, which
has to be bridged. Intercultural philosophy is understood as a specific approach to
philosophy as a whole. It is necessary to make philosophy fit into a world in which
exchanges are happening on a global level in many fields. In the dialogues between the
philosophies of different cultures, support is needed from certain empirical sciences
for the understanding of the philosophy, which is based on the the participation of
philosophers in everyday life and everyday language. Therefore, in addition to the the
support by empirical sciences, living in a foreign culture, participating in its life, is necessary for intercultural philosophers.
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
2007
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KIMMERLE, H. 2007. Transdisciplinary research in the cooperation between intercultural philosophy and empirical sciences. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):95-103, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39112020-12-03T12:34:07Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation
Tempelhoff, J.W.N.
Munnik, Victor
Viljoen, Morné
10224793 - Tempelhoff, Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas
Vaal River Barrage
Rand Water
Water pollution
Wastewater treatment
river catchment forums
industrial development
Water infrastructure
Water management
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 century there have been
increasing indications of water pollution threatening the storage facility of the Vaal River
Barrage, built by the water utility, Rand Water, at the start of the twentieth century.
Currently, as a result of a variety of factors, untreated wastewater is posing a severe
environmental threat in the Vaal River Barrage Catchment area. In the article attention
is given to the origins of pollution and recent events that had the effect of mobilising
grassroots anger in civil society with the state of affairs. The article forms part of a
transdisciplinary research project that is currently conducted at North-West University’s Vaal Triangle campus in Vanderbijlpark.
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
2007
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TEMPELHOFF,J., MUNNIK, V. & VILJOEN, M. 2007. The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):107-133, Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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oai:repository.nwu.ac.za:10394/39082016-04-28T20:53:01Zcom_10394_3605com_10394_1149col_10394_3854
Continuous performance improvement in the South African National Defence Force
Vermaak, Jan I C
Fourie, Leon de W
South African national Defence Force (SANDF)
Public service delivery
Organisational change
Performance improvement
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 performance
improvement programmes. However, despite accepting the principles and the
programmes, it is uncertain whether the SANDF institutionalised them in order to
effect continuous performance improvement.
2011-01-11
2011-01-11
2007
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VERMAAK, J.I.C. & FOURIE, L.W. 2007. Continuous performance improvement in the South African National Defence Force. TD: The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1):53-78. Jul. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/3605]
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