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It is a worrying phenomenon for the research community that research is apparently being put on hold to fund the World Cup, especially given the already dampened global economic climate.
An article by Cornia Pretorius in the July edition of the Mail and Gaurdian’s Higher Learning supplement, states: “The National Research Foundation (NRF) recently canned a [...]
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Ironically, even though South Africa will be hosting the 2010 Fifa World Cup in less than a year, physical education is deprioritised in schools across the country. The benefits of sport for one’s well-being are disregarded.
This was the opinion of guests at a colloquium hosted by the Social Transformation Programme of the Department of the Premier, on Thursday [...]
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More than a decade ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu defined Ubuntu as an ethic which is upheld by someone who ‘…has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.’ In short, he described [...]
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If you still think that FLOSS is just something you do after you have brushed your teeth, you have not yet joined the ranks of those realising the benefits and potencial of Free Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).
“Free” means the software gives you “freedom”, but it is not necessarily always cost free. With FLOSS [...]
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Conference On Memory, Narrative And Forgivenesss
Held on the 22-26 November 2006 At The University Of Cape Town, Co-hosted By Faculty Of Humanities And The African Ethics Initiative, University Of Natal.
Siphokazi (Spoki) Mlandu, a previous research intern at DEVELOPMENT WORKS, shares her experiences of the Conference ….
The session I attended was on the Power [...]
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Disappearances in South Africa
Narratives of Memory and Forgiveness Conference
(November 2006)
Speaker: Dr Ollie Mahongo – Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Can they be asked to forget about their loved ones? Where are they buried?
Yvonne Wabagatore, a researcher from DEVELOPMENT WORKS, attended this Conference and shares below the key points of Dr Mahongo’s presentation.
For the [...]
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