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Uitdagings en implikasies vir die implementering van selfgerigte leer tydens Covid-19
(South African Academy for Science and Arts, 2022)This article focuses on the influence of school closures due to Covid-19 and their impact on South Africa's future labour force (current school learners) and school stakeholders (such as teachers and parents, among others) ... -
Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolftrieksterverhale : strukturele en inhoudelike patroonmatighede Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories : patterning in the structure and general content
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories: Patterning in the structure and general content This article explores characteristic or repetitive pattern formations in the structure and general content of selected Afrikaans ... -
Transendensie, toeval en geluk
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)The question posed in this article is how happiness in life relates to transcendence and chance. This question is linked to questions about the core of our being as negation (something negative) and/or affirmation (something ... -
Hegemonie en mag : ’n normatiewe besinning in die lig van ’n gevallestudie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)Hegemony and power are overlapping concepts. Hegemony can be understood as a way of exercising power and as the consequences of exercising power. Limited studies attempted to use the relationship between the concepts to ... -
Relasionele ontologie en posthumanistiese subjektiwiteit in Pieter Odendaal se poësiedebuut
(African Journals online, 2022)In Pieter Odendaal’s debut, asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (as if no mountains ever lived here), the poet expands the complex question “re mang?” (who are we?) into an important theme and utilises it as a structural ... -
Local governance and Wetlands management : a tale of Harare City in Zimbabwe
(Springer, 2022)For years, urban scholars have underscored the value of pristine and functioning ecosystems, including urban wetlands, to human life. However, less well-understood is the role of local government (mainly urban municipalities) ... -
Legislative responses to the challenge of insufficient data on water service delivery in South African cities
(Springer, 2022)This article investigates the existing legal responses to the challenge of insufficient data on water service delivery in cities. The article finds that no explicit duty exists for cities to collect the data or information ... -
Protective immunity of plant-produced African horse sickness virus serotype 5 chimaeric virus-like particles (VLPs) and viral protein 2 (VP2) vaccines in IFNAR -/- mice
(Elsevier, 2022)Next generation vaccines have the capability to contribute to and revolutionise the veterinary vaccine industry. African horse sickness (AHS) is caused by an arbovirus infection and is characterised by respiratory distress ... -
Clergies and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic : a challenge to pastoral care
(AOSIS, 2022)On the 15th of March 2020, the current president of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, declared a National State of Disaster as a response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A range of regulations ... -
A critical assessment of Church and political engagement in Zimbabwe under the new dispensation
(AOSIS, 2022)Since the reign of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe has been seized by retrogressive puppetisation of partisan gospel ministers and churches, worsened by state victimisation of those who stand against political ... -
The Church as God’s agent in uniting immigrants and natives: A case from Ephesians 2:11–22
(AOSIS, 2022)As the number of people migrating from many different countries to South Africa constantly increases, there is bound to be immense tension between the immigrants and the citizens for many and different reasons. Within ... -
Development and the role of the church : exploring public pastoral care positioning within congregational ministry
(2022)Discussions on development have been ongoing for many decades. Within these discussions, approaches such as human and community-focused development have gained prominence in recent years. Churches are acknowledged as ... -
Evangelicalism’s identity crisis: The meaning and application of qōdhesh and hágios for Christian holiness and distinctiveness in a post-Christian South Africa
(2022)South African evangelicalism finds itself in the midst of an identity crisis. In many sections of evangelicalism, there seems to be a pervasive worldliness which has resulted in a lack of holiness and distinctiveness ... -
The ‘lived experiences’ of the love of God according to a prayer in the letter of Ephesians
(2022)The epistle to the Ephesians is regarded as a circular letter, yet it also contains two specific intercessory prayers (1:15–23; 3:14–21) in which the Trinity concept features persuasively. On the one side, this research ... -
The concept and activity of 'obedience' in the Gospel of John
(AOSIS, 2022)The concept and activity of obedience can be regarded as fundamental to human existence as well as to Christian religion. The focus of this study was to investigate the occurrence of this concept in the Gospel of John. ... -
Reimagining the future of the Sydney CBD : reflecting on Covid‐19‐driven changes in commercial and residential property trends
(Cogitatio Press, 2022)Covid‐19 has led to unprecedented changes in functional structures in our cities. Since the mid‐20th century, central busi‐ ness districts (CBDs) worldwide have hosted economic and employment activities, leaving suburbia ... -
Environmental attitudes among undergraduate students at a South African university
(ediPUCRS [University Publisher], 2022)Understanding environmental attitudes (EAs) has been viewed as prerequisite to changing environmental behaviour and is a particularly salient topic in the context of higher educational institutions which play an important ... -
An integrative taxonomic revision and redefinition of Gephyromantis (Laurentomantis) malagasius based on archival DNA analysis reveals four new mantellid frog species from Madagascar
(Pensoft Publishers [Commercial Publisher], 2022)The subgenus Laurentomantis in the genus Gephyromantis contains some of the least known amphibian species of Madagascar. The six currently valid nominal species are rainforest frogs known from few individuals, hampering a ... -
Bacterial pathogens identified from houseflies in different human and animal settings : a systematic review and meta‐analysis.
(Elsevier, 2022)Housefly (Musca domestica) is an excellent candidate for the distribution of susceptible and resistant bacterial strains that potentially threaten public health. To date, there is a paucity of information on the global ... -
Molecular survey for tick-borne pathogens and associated risk factors in sheep and goats in Kano Metropolis, Nigeria
(Elsevier, 2022)Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) pose an increased health and productivity risk to livestock in sub-Saharan Africa. Information regarding TBPs infecting small ruminants in Kano metropolis is scarce. Therefore, we investigated ...
