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The evolution of educational handwork in the U.S.A.
(Johannesburg College of Education, 1) Taylor, R.C.H.
Lenses from the margins: young schooling mothers' experiences in two high schools in Gauteng
(2-07-17) Kimani, Wacango
Listening to the voices of learners, also referred to as ‘student voice’, ‘pupil voice’ or ‘insider perspective’, is an aspect of inclusive education research that views learners as experts on their own lives, and provides insight into school subcultures that are relatively inaccessible to adults. This study listened to the voices of eleven young schooling mothers to find out the factors that help or hinder their successful completion of high school. A participatory methodology was used to listen to learners’ voices. The study’s model of inclusive research involved using a participatory approach in which the young schooling mothers assumed the role of co-researchers. The multiple data collection methods employed recognise the values of community, respect for diversity and belonging also enabled inclusive engagement by building on the participants' strengths and encouraged meaningful participation. I collected data using cellphone messaging, learners’ journals, interviews, focus group discussions and video interviews. The multiple opportunities provided to the learners to speak about their school experiences highlighted the efficacy of the methods and revealed the learners’ preferences. Data was analysed using phenomenography, an approach that identified the qualitatively different ways in which the experiences of the young schooling mothers could be understood. The study found that learner-managed methods (cell phone messaging, journaling and learners’ video interviews) provided unique and authentic perspectives into the young mothers’ private lives. The learners stated that they felt included in school by being involved in the research and by voicing their experiences of school as young schooling mothers. The young schooling mothers experienced school and schooling as rapidly changing experiences of inclusion, exclusion and marginalisation. The learners identified situations when they could be treated as both the same as, and different from other learners. Recommendations to ensure the learners successful completion of high school include a differentiated recognition of difference approach and a review of policy based on a non-judgmental construction of young motherhood.
Wits as an open university, 1922-1959
(14-02-14T12:49:58Z) Murray, B. K.
Sebatakgomo: Migrant organization, the ANC and the Sekhukhuneland Revolt
(197-?) Delius, P.
In the 1940s and 1950s in reserve and trust area from the Zoutpansberg to the Ciskei bitter battles were fought against first Betterment Schemes and then Bantu Authorities. Communities believed - with good reason - that these state initiatives posed a mortal threat to their residual, but cherished, economic and political autonomy. These episodes are usually treated under the rubric of rural or peasant resistance but the centrality of migrant labour to the South African political economy has always undermined simple divisions between town and countryside. A closer examination shows that in virtually every instance of resistance urban-based migrant organizations played vital roles. Yet this is difficult to explain for groups like the Zoutpansberg Cultural Association, the Bahurutshe Association or the Mpondo Association step almost entirely unheralded onto the stage. We have the barest idea of the long history of migrant organization which preceded their part in these events. It has also become commonplace in the literature on 'rural resistance' to suggest that the ANC, while not entirely insensitive to rural issues in the 194Os and 1950s, nonetheless failed to establish effective rural organization and played at best a marginal role in the various revolts. This conclusion is partly based on the sparseness of Congress branches in the countryside. But it has been arrived at without any systematic attempt to examine a crucial question. Did migrants and their organizations provide a partly unseen but effective bridge between the ANC, the SACP and rural politics? These gaps in our understanding of 'rural resistance' will not easily be filled . This article, however, attempts to provide some illumination of these issues by means of a study of the role of migrants in the Sekhukhuneland Revolt of 1957 — 1961. To give some indication of the destination of the argument, the evidence suggests that a movement established in 1954 from within the ANC and the SACP - Sebatakqqmg - won widespread migrant support and played a key role in organizing and sustaining the resistance in the eastern Transvaal. The journey to this conclusion will, however, be long and prone to detour - for in order to be able to explain the interaction between migrants, the ANC, and rural conflict in the 1950s it is necessary to trace the changing patterns of Pedi employment and association from at least the 1930s.
Wear Reduction and Media Density Optimization for the Single Stage Pipe Densifier at Sishen Iron Ore’s Beneficiation Plants
(University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 0202-02) Botha, Simone; Kabezya, Kitungwa
The depleting high-grade iron ore mining supply at Sishen Mine in the Northern Cape, South Africa, has given rise to its beneficiation plants operating at higher media densities to upgrade lower-grade ore. In this study, densification was numerically modelled using an MPPIC model and experimentally tested using a 200-mm diameter centrifugal densifier from two local suppliers – Multotec and HMA. Shear stress, wear rate, separation efficiency and media losses were measured at increasing operating densities and differing vortex finder sizes. Optimum operating conditions were established. It was found that a feed density of 3.60 t/m3 and a shear stress of 9.70 e-3 N/m3 at the inlet using a vortex finder diameter size of 30 mm exhibited favourable performance in terms of media densification and downstream recovery. The practical significance of this is proven in terms of wear rate and its predictability to provide a consistent overflow of below 1.20 t/m3 media to the recovery circuit. Furthermore, information about ideal operating conditions in terms of inlet pressure and controls to identify premature failures were established.
Local Councillors: scapegoats for a dysfunctional participatory democratic system? Lessons from practices of local democracy in Johannesburg.
(Critical Dialogue: Public Participation in Review., 208) Benit Gbaffou, Claire
This paper starts with the study of participation patterns in different neighbourhoods in Johannesburg, and demonstrates that institutional channels (be it representative democracy, or various participatory institutions and instruments) are currently not working in Johannesburg. Be it in low income or high-income areas, suburbs or townships, residents have to resort to other means, sidelining in particular their ward councillor, to be heard. We question the reasons for this lack of bottomup dialogue, focusing on the figure of the ward councillor as a supposedly key link between residents and local government, but however not able to play his/her role. We contest the dominant vision that the failure of participatory democracy in South Africa is the consequence of a lack of training, education or democratic culture, and we argue that both the limited power of ward councillors in Council, and the lack of incentive for fostering their accountability in front of voters, make local democracy institutions dysfunctional. More broadly, we question the lack of importance of participatory democracy in the ANC and in the government agenda, despite the political discourses claiming the contrary.
Debates of the First Session of the First Parliament of the House of Assembly 1910-1911
(Cape Town Government Printer, 1910) South Africa Parliament
Debates of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as reported in the Cape Times. South Africa Parliament House of Assembly.
South African architectural record
(Institutes of South African architects and the chapter of South African quantity surveyors, 1910-07)
South African architectural Record
African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects
(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1911)
African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects
Annual reports by the Commissioner for Native Affairs for the years ended 30th June 1903-31st May 1910
(Government Printing and Stationery Office, 1911) Transvaal. Native Affairs Department
The Transvaal Native Affairs Department annual reports for the period 1902/1903 to 1909/1910 are mainly concerned with the aftermath of the Second Anglo- Boer War. The War caused upheavals in Black communities, and unauthorized locations sprang up. According to the 1903 report, unscrupulous individuals had led Black people to believe that farms captured from the Boers would be redistributed among Black people. The 1904 report states that Native Commissioners were responsible for resettling the Black communities, and makes mention of the fact that Black people did not want to return to their old domiciles. They wanted land on which to live independently. There was unrest on farms, which was quelled when farmers were issued with guns. Officers from the Native Affairs Dept. tried to improve relations between Europeans and Black people, with limited success. The 1905 report makes mention of the Native Affairs Commission’s report of 1904, which stated that the time had come for the lands dedicated and set apart as locations to be defined, delimited and reserved for Black people by means of legislation. The 1906 report deals with the shortage of Black labour on the mines. It touches on unscrupulous methods used to recruit labour and the issue of fair wages for Black labourers. The Transvaal Government appointed a special Commission to look into the shortage of unskilled labour on the mines. As a result of this, the Labour Importation Ordnance was passed. Labourers were imported from German West Africa and China. The Portuguese government would not allow labourers to be imported from Mozambique. This changed in 1909. The report for that year states that the Government of the Transvaal and the Province of Mozambique entered into a treaty regarding the employment and status of Mozambican labourers employed on Transvaal mines. All of the reports for the 10 year period also deal with the issues of taxation of Black people, education, administration of deceased estates, marriages, tribal matters, health issues on the mines, compensation due to Black people for mining accidents and also compensation due to them for losses suffered during the War. The 1910 report states that on 31st May 1910, the control and administration of Native affairs passed from the Transvaal authorities to the Executive Government under the Union.
Union of South Africa. House of Assembly. Debates of the Second Session of the First Parliament 1912
(Cape Town Government Printer, 1912) South Africa Parliament
Debates of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as reported in the Cape Times. Debates / South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly.
African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects
(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1912)
African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects
African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects
(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1913)
African Architect; the Journal of the Association of Transvaal Architects
Union of South Africa. House of Assembly. Debates of the Third Session of the First Parliament 1913
(Cape Town Government Printer, 1913) South Africa Parliament
Debates of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as reported in the Cape Times. Debates / South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly.
Union of South Africa. House of Assembly. Debates of the Fourth Session First Parliament 1914
(Cape Town Government Printer, 1914) South Africa Parliament
Debates of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as reported in the Cape Times. Debates / South Africa. Parliament.
African Architect; a Journal devoted to the interests of the Architectural Profession in South Africa
(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1914)
African Architect; a Journal devoted to the interests of the Architectural Profession in South Africa
Country Life in South Africa with which is incorporated "The African Architect"
(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1915)
Country Life in South Africa with which is incorporated "The African Architect"
Union of South Africa. House of Assembly. Debates of the Sixth Session of the First Parliament 1915
(Cape Town Government Printer, 1915) South Africa Parliament
Debates of the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa as reported in the Cape Times. Debates of the House of Assembly / Union of South Africa. South Africa Politics and government.
South African Architectural Record
(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1916)
South African Architectural Record
South African Architectural Record
(Institutes of South African Architects and the Chapter of South African Quantity Surveyors, 1917)
South African Architectural Record