We trace the history of the Durban Aquarium from its founding to the present. With reference to individuals such as Kelple the dolphin (Stenella euphrosyne), Sally the sawfish (Pristis pectinatus), ORI II the penguin ...
The novelty of the canonical approach is questioned and its fascination at least partly traced to the Reformation, as well as to the post-Reformation's need for a clear and authoritative canon to perform the function ...
When a child is diagnosed with cancer, parents enter unfamiliar terrain, where their basic childrearing tasks are challenged. Life changes from diagnosis onwards, through adjustment and then life beyond the illness. Provision ...
The growing popularity of caring is evident throughout the nursing profession. Research into the phenomenon caring, however, necessitates that caring as an ethic be distinguished from pseudo caring actions and experiences. ...
The combined coefficient alpha from studies reporting the reliability of scores using the Conceptions of Mathematics Questionnaire were computed. Five studies comprising 898 participants were evaluated. A test of differences ...
Written by one of David Bosch's long-time colleagues, this paper provides an informal, yet important personal view into the life and work of David Bosch, revealing not only an internationally recognized missiologist, but ...
An overview of the development of a dynamic test for the measurement of learning potential - the Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT) - is provided. The test was developed in South Africa with a view to ...
In this article, South African missiologist Willem Saayman outlines and reflects on four issues and challenges which arise from Africa and serve to define missiological thinking today. The first three are 'problems': (1) ...
We report on the small faunal assemblage from the Iron Age coastal trading station of Chibuene, situated on the coastal littoral of central Mozambique. The faunal assemblage was excavated in 1995 and contains bones from a ...
Experiments conducted during the 1990s investigated the feasibility of using fog water to supplement existing water supplies in the arid west coast region of South Africa. Based on these results, a project was initiated ...
Variability in the size of laminar (blade/bladelet) components has been used as a distinguishing feature between two archaeological signatures in the interior of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. These signatures ...
Proceeding from the importance of the concept of hebraica veritas in terms of both its original intention and of the opposing positions on Holy Scripture entertained by the Roman Catholic tradition and the emerging Protestant ...
The South African public service broadcaster (SABC) was transformed significantly by the Broadcasting Act 4 of 1999. Since the transformation, there have been many developments that have had an impact on the broadcasting ...
The Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus (IURD) is the most well-known manifestation of the Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal Movement and possibly the largest contemporary missionary export from a Third World country. This article ...
Teaching multicultural counseling to students is a challenging endeavor for most instructors. The traditional type of learning is an "Outside-in" approach where students are expected to absorb information in a passive ...
Kenya and Rwanda have experienced differing postcolonial ethno-political and multilingual scenarios. In the early 1990s, Kenya's peace was often punctuated by ethnolinguistically based tribal skirmishes. On the other hand, ...