NUMSA CONGRESS: Destroy apartheid and build democracy for socialism
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: Sep 1991
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113037 , vital:33691
- Description: In this Bulletin we focus on the NUMSA and COSATU Congresses which were held in June and July this year. We also cover the National Peace Accord in some detail. In covering NUMSA’s Third National Congress we focus on the major points discussed and contributions from guest speakers. We report on NUMSA’s current membership and who the new Office Bearers are. We also produce in full the Resolutions that were adopted at the Congress. We report briefly on the discussions, debates and the resolutions that were finally passed at COSATU’s Fourth National Congress. Unfortunately for reasons of space, we have not been able to print the resolutions adopted at this Congress. Shop stewards are therefore advised to contact their NUMSA Regional Office for a copy of the Minutes, Speeches and Resolutions of the Congress, or to contact COSATU Head Office which is due to produce a resolutions booklet soon. Much has been achieved in the negotiations around a Peace Accord between the ANC Alliance, Inkatha Freedom Party and the National Party. The Accord is pages long and is very detailed. We have tried in this Bulletin to give an overview of its basic features. We hope the chart that goes with the article will help people understand the detail and complexity of it and why it goes much, much further than all previous Accords. The Accord has now been signed by most of the major parties on September 14. Watch the press for details of a new Act which is due to be passed within 30 days outlawing
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- Date Issued: Sep 1991
The National minimum wage reader
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/173584 , vital:42386
- Description: Low wages are a cause of poverty. They are unjust and they lead to economic inefficiency. Low pay is not the result of "market forces" or of individual productivity. It is the result of the vulnerability of certain sectors of the workforce and the cost structure of low-wage industries. A National Minimum Wage is a practical solution that has been adopted in many countries. It is one of the demands of the Freedom Charter. The National Minimum Wage can be developed by COSATU as a powerful campaign tool in the fight for a living wage . The National Campaigns Conference, held in May 1990, asked the Living Wage Working Croup "to establish what National Minimum Wage should be suggested to develop a program of action to achieve a National Minimum Wage". The conference agreed that the level of the National Minimum Wage will be decided at the second National Campaigns Conference in August 1990. This reader pulls together all the documents and resolutions that have guided the Living Wage Working Group in its work on the National Minimum Wage.
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- Date Issued: 1990
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1986
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1986
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005703
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Friday, 11 April 1986 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 12 April 1986 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument.
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- Date Issued: 1986
UIF - A battle for benefits
- Authors: FOSATU
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: FOSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155613 , vital:39899
- Description: Unemployment has always been and still is a tricky problem for capitalists. On the one hand lots of unemployed workers make it easier for employers to keep wages low. But if there are too many unemployed workers then they might support moves for immediate and fundamental change in the society. Employers and the governments of capitalist countries have tried to solve this in different ways and at different times. But in most countries some income has been given to the unemployed for part of the time they have been without jobs. They have usually done this by providing some kind of benefits paid to the unemployed for a certain limited period of time. 1 lie fund from which these benefits are paid is usually controlled and administered by the government. However, there are many different ways that these benefits can lie financed. Before looking at what happened here in South Africa let us look at the problem of unemployment benefits generally in a capitalist state.
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- Date Issued: 1985
Evolution of the continental lithosphere: evidence from volcanics and xenoliths in southern Africa
- Authors: Hawkesworth, C J , Erlank, Anthony J , Marsh, Julian S , Menzies, M A , Van Calsteren, Peter
- Date: 1983
- Language: English
- Type: text , conference paper
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133548 , vital:36989 , https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetailamp;idt=9641566
- Description: The geology of southern Africa offers a rare opportunity to study the evolution of a segment of continental lithosphere because its rocks range in age from 3.6 Ga to recent, and over the last 200 Ma both the upper mantle and the crust have been sampled by Karoo and Tertiary volcanism and as xenoliths in kimberlite pipes.
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- Date Issued: 1983
Qualified to exploit? : some thoughts on the social responsibility of business : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes Unversity
- Authors: Staude, G E
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Business ethics , Industries -- Social aspects
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:671 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020740 , ISBN 0868100331
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1980
Reading the signs : inaugural address delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: Seagrief, S C
- Date: 1976
- Subjects: Botany -- South Africa , Marine algae -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:667 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020736 , ISBN 0949980749
- Description: Inaugural address delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1976
An (auto)-biographical account of nursing transformation: 1970-2018
- Authors: Ricks, Esmeralda Jennifer
- Subjects: Nursing -- Study and teaching , Nursing -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , An (auto)-biographical account of nursing transformation: 1970-2018 , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21055 , vital:29434
- Description: This lecture provides a description of how nursing education and practice, research and technology has transformed over the past 48 years. The information provided in this lecture is based on personal experience and own research, and research of various other authors. The first part of the lecture provides an overview of the era in which I trained and is used as a benchmark to compare current day practices. The changes in nursing education and practice with regard to the Nursing Act and regulations over the past 48 years are highlighted, depicting the number of times that the different nursing acts and regulations were amended with regard to all basic nursing qualification programmes. This lecture also includes a brief discussion of the new nursing education programme that will be implemented soon, as well as its opportunities and challenges. A detailed description is provided with regard to how nursing research has evolved over the past 48 years because of the dedication and vision that nurse leaders have for the profession. A national nursing strategy has been developed to enhance collaborative, rigorous scientific enquiry that builds a significant body of knowledge in order to improve the health of the people of South Africa. It is envisaged that the research strategy will contribute significantly to directing future nursing research development in South Africa. It is evident in this lecture that the use of technology in nursing has truly evolved and can be seen as a major driver of changes in the nursing profession. There are huge shifts in how patient records are maintained, how medications are tracked and ordered, how care is passed from one provider to another, how blood and X-ray results are retrieved and how information is being accessed at the point of care in nursing. In today’s healthcare system technology is the foundation of the future. Today’s nurses must not only know how to care for patients, but how to use technology safely and appropriately in their day-to-day work. It is evident that nursing has transformed in many ways since 1970 and that nurses have always been the drivers of nursing transformation.
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Psychobiographical perspectives on the development and manifestation of extraordinary human achievements
- Authors: Van Niekerk, Roelf
- Subjects: Psychology -- Biographical methods , Social psychology , f-sa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Lectures
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/53211 , vital:45050
- Description: Psychobiographical research has several characteristic features. Firstly, it is an interdisciplinary approach that uses contributions and perspectives from several scientific disciplines (for example, business science, economics, psychology, political science) and the humanities (for example, history, philosophy, sociology, and religion/spirituality). Secondly, it typically approaches life stories from a longitudinal perspective. Thirdly, psychobiographical research comprises in-depth studies of extraordinary individuals in the contexts in which they made their contributions. Fourthly, psychobiographical research does not afford anonymity or 2 | P a g e confidentiality to participants. Instead, it requires that profiled leaders be identified by name. Fifthly, psychobiographical profiling employs indirect methods to analyse the development or characteristics of individuals. Usually, extensive use is made of biographical material available in the public domain and originally compiled by biographers, journalists, or researchers. This material is not collected primarily to solve a scientific problem, but rather to answer questions and describe phenomena that are inherently important, particularly from psychological and historical perspectives. Lastly, psychobiographical research often focuses on completed lives (Van Niekerk, 2007).
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