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Author: Pieter Kok
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780796918796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Africa's transformation to democracy has highlighted the need for reliable socio-economic information and analysis to inform the process of meeting our numerous and complex development challenges.
Author: Weingart, Peter
Publisher: African Minds
Published: 2020-01-18
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1928502032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do we need to communicate science? Is science, with its highly specialised language and its arcane methods, too distant to be understood by the public? Is it really possible for citizens to participate meaningfully in scientific research projects and debate? Should scientists be mandated to engage with the public to facilitate better understanding of science? How can they best communicate their special knowledge to be intelligible? These and a plethora of related questions are being raised by researchers and politicians alike as they have become convinced that science and society need to draw nearer to one another. Once the persuasion took hold that science should open up to the public and these questions were raised, it became clear that coming up with satisfactory answers would be a complex challenge. The inaccessibility of scientific language and methods, due to ever increasing specialisation, is at the base of its very success. Thus, translating specialised knowledge to become understandable, interesting and relevant to various publics creates particular perils. This is exacerbated by the ongoing disruption of the public discourse through the digitisation of communication platforms. For example, the availability of medical knowledge on the internet and the immense opportunities to inform oneself about health risks via social media are undermined by the manipulable nature of this technology that does not allow its users to distinguish between credible content and misinformation. In countries around the world, scientists, policy-makers and the public have high hopes for science communication: that it may elevate its populations educationally, that it may raise the level of sound decision-making for people in their daily lives, and that it may contribute to innovation and economic well-being. This collection of current reflections gives an insight into the issues that have to be addressed by research to reach these noble goals, for South Africa and by South Africans in particular.
Author: Leslie Witz
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017-02-27
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0472053345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engrossing look at how history has been produced, contested, and unsettled in South Africa from Mandela's release to 2010.
Author: Helen E. Purkitt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005-05-11
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 025321730X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive history of the development and dismantling of South Africa's weapons of mass destruction program.
Author: Chatfield Legassick
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2010-12-29
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 3905758555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book publishes Martin Legassick's influential doctoral thesis on the preindustrial South African frontier zone of Transorangia. The impressive formation of the Griqua states in the first half of the nineteenth century outside the borders of the Cape Colony and their relations with Sotho-Tswana polities, frontiersmen, missionaries and the British administration of the Cape take centre stage in the analysis. The Griqua, of mixed settler and indigenous descent, secured hegemony in a frontier of complex partnerships and power struggles. The author's subsequent critique of the "frontier tradition" in South African historiography drew on the insights he had gained in writing this dissertation. It served to initiate the debate about the importance of the precolonial frontier situation in South Africa for the establishment of ideas of race, the development of racial prejudice and, implicitly, the creation of segregationist and apartheid systems. Today, the constructed histories of "Griqua" and other categories of indigeneity have re emerged in South Africa as influential tools of political mobilisation and claims on resources.
Author: Hendrik van Rensburg
Publisher: African Sun Media
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1928314732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to help the average hunter and sport shooter, who uses a bolt action rifle, to accurise his or her shooting system and to be able shoot more competitively and with more self-confidence. This aim led to the title of the manual – The Accurate Chain. The ‘accuracy chain’ consists of three main ‘links’ – the rifle, the ammunition and the human factor. These are joined together with many smaller links. If just one of the links is broken, you don’t have a chain. If you work through this manual attentively, you will find out how to accurise your rifle correctly and how to choose and use the correct equipment and tools for accurate reloading and load development for your rifle.
Author: Richard Elphick
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2014-01-15
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 0819573760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistory is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists – primarily the Dutch – merged with economic and demographic developments to create a society in which whites relegated all blacks – free blacks, Africans, imported slaves – to a systematic pattern of subordination and oppression that foreshadowed the apartheid of the twentieth century. From the beginning of the nineteenth century the new empire-builders, the British, reinforced the racial order. In the next century and a half the industrialized South Africa would become firmly integrated into the world economy. Published originally in South Africa in 1979 and updated and expanded now, a decade later, this book by twelve South African, British, Canadian, Dutch, and American scholars is the most comprehensive history of the early years of that troubled nation. The authors put South Africa in the comparative context of other colonial systems. Their social, political, and economic history is rich with empirical data and rests on a solid base of archival research. The story they tell is a complex drama of a racial structure that has resisted hostile impulses from without and rebellion from within.
Author: Valiani, Salimah
Publisher: MISTRA
Published: 2018-12-28
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0639923828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe future of mining in South Africa is hotly contested. Wide-ranging views from multiple quarters rarely seem to intersect, placing emphasis on different questions without engaging in holistic debate. This book aims to catalyse change by gathering together fragmented views into unifying conversations. It highlights the importance of debating the future of mining in South Africa and for reaching consensus in other countries across the mineral-dependent globe. It covers issues such as the potential of platinum to spur industrialisation, land and dispossession on the platinum belt, the roles of the state and capital in mineral development, mining in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the experiences of women in and affected by mining since the late 19th century and mine worker organising: history and lessons and how post-mine rehabilitation can be tackled. It was inspired not only by an appreciation of South Africa’s extensive mineral endowments, but also by a realisation that, while the South African mining industry performs relatively well on many technical indicators, its management of broader social issues leaves much to be desired. It needs to be deliberated whether the mining industry can play as critical a role going forward as it did in the evolution of the country’s economy.
Author: W. B. L.
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James J. Hentz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0253217210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines South Africa's role in regional political economy since its transition to democracy.
