AA 2004 Volume 36 Issue 1
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An instrument for assessing the quality of local government translations
(University of the Free State, 2004)English: An instrument for assessing the quality of local government translations has been sorely needed within LOGTIS, a local government translation and interpreting service which has been instituted in several Free State ... -
Substantialisation and the plurality of the self
(University of the Free State, 2004)English: This paper focuses on two broad categories of amenders of the classical self, namely Kenneth Gergen’s abolition of the self and Charles Taylor’s transformation of the self. After the heyday of behaviourism it ... -
African diviner-healers and oral performance: a perspective on Sepedi divination
(University of the Free State, 2004)English: Divination is receiving ever more attention in the media. Communities, groups of people and individuals are asking questions, voicing opinions, and making judgements on the function of this important branch of ... -
Four critical causes of underachievement in township secondary schools
(University of the Free State, 2004)English: Underachievement is a problem that can affect every learner and no education institution is immune to it. Potential does not guarantee performance, therefore a student possessing the potential to achieve well in ... -
Theatre as social critique in the South African political context: the plays of Zakes Mda
(University of the Free State, 2004)English: In the past few years, especially after independence, South African theatre has not been as critical of the political process as one would have expected, given its critical attitude towards the apartheid system. ... -
The preservation of nineteenth century industrial buildings near historical city centres: the case of Ghent
(University of the Free State, 2004)English: Many nineteenth-century industrial buildings in Flanders in general and in Ghent in particular are still waiting for (permanent) users and functions. At the same time, renewed economic and residential interest ... -
The application of Inglehart’s materialism/postmaterialism index in non-industrialised countries: a critique
(University of the Free State, 2004)English:This article makes three central claims. The first is that the operationalisation of Ronald Inglehart’s “materialist/postmaterialist dimension” cannot be transported unchanged from the industrialised western context ... -
Mariama Ba’s So long a letter and the educational empowerment of Muslim women
(University of the Free State, 2004)English: A discussion of So long a letter by the West African woman writer, Mariama Ba, is used as a basis for highlighting the empowering and disempowering effects of particular types of education for women in the traditional ... -
Wat sê die swyende Kubaan vandag vir ons? Oor konflikliteratuur
(University of the Free State, 2004)English:The escalation of conflict and its representation in the media have an overwhelming effect on society. Re-reading Etienne van Heerden’s seminal short story, “My Kubaan”, may help rectify negative responses to ...
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