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The role of technology in the economic growth of South Africa: The case of frequency allocations to cellular operators
(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 ...
Controlling the farmer: colonial and postcolonial irrigation interventions in Africa
(2008)
Aiming at full control over farmer actions was a shared characteristic of colonial irrigation
engineering approaches. However, the way control was sought in African irrigation
projects was different from Asian colonies. ...
The world of spirits and the respect for nature: towards a new appreciation of animism
(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
(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 ...