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"The British policy direction to promote English at the expense of Dutch, which according to historians gained momentum from 1814, interestingly enough did not manifest in KSC/CTG immediately."

"[T]his study served as an archetype that could be used in the quest to find solutions to violence against educators at schools, and to school violence in general, while the findings of this study may prove valuable for provincial education managers, circuit managers, school principals, educators at schools, and any other persons or organisations studying the concept of school violence."

"In this article the relation between social acceptance and ethical acceptability is reconsidered through the inclusion of local systems of moral thought, in this case, that of ubuntu."

"This article finds that between the two translators, Ferreira’s transformative hand in the translation is the lightest, although her alteration of the title and her translation of especially gendered pejoratives conveys a subtle yet pertinent feminist reading of the source text. In Egan’s editing of the text, he slightly accentuates the misogyny of the male characters, especially through a prolific addition of sexist pejoratives."

"A positive teaching approach acknowledges learners for who they are, as they feel appreciated and develop a sense of belonging in the classroom, which, in turn, leads to an improvement in their involvement in classroom activities."

"[It] is shown that primitivism is not an exclusively Western phenomenon – many of the indigenous societies encountered in the Americas and elsewhere by early European discoverers and travellers and duly cast in the mould of the 'primitive' or the 'noble savage' themselves had primitivist myths of a lost primordial age of idyllic innocence and harmony."

"In this literary frame of reference the psalm, especially the third stanza, refers to the problem of human despair. A universal open contextualisation is given to the psalm, inviting the reader to reapply and reconceptualise its contents for different circumstances."

"The focus of this qualitative study was to explore with mothers of a particular high-risk community the resources and needs of their community by means of participatory action research towards transformation as a process of empowerment."

"On a parallel level, this metaphoric body may be regarded in the South African apartheid legal history as an abhorrent indulgence (consumption) of political power and dominance, just as Jan Rabie’s 'Drie kaalkoppe eet tesame' suggests."

"The fact that the individual is no longer indebted to others for salvation follows from the conception of the essential freedom of the person around which modernity has formed its institutions."

"Material imagination does not necessarily refer only to fictitiousness, to something which in material terms is non-existent, but also to an idea that humans are simply unable to understand spatial layers and their connections to society and the environment without imagination."

"Against the backdrop of sweeping technological developments in ASW, how vulnerable are SSBNs as the cornerstone of the second-strike forces of nuclear states really and what are the implications for nuclear deterrence that follow from this?"

"Courts rely on what is presented and if the process of presentation of evidence is flawed, the courts need to draw value judgements on what is essentially an inaccurate account of events."

"It was also found that musicians sequentially and sometimes simultaneously had to play different roles within the cultural field due to their being personally responsible for the production of their musical performances during the greater part of the lockdown."

"The mistakes made in education in the ethical-moral-pedagogical field have gradually been corrected. This offers hope that going forward, the pandemic will be dealt with successfully."

"I argue that although Hutton, as a white person, is undoubtedly privileged in present-day South Africa compared with the majority of black people, such racial privilege is somewhat hampered by Hutton’s marginalised, non-binary gender positioning in a predominantly heteronormative, patriarchal culture shared by all racial communities."

"Juxtaposing relevant passages in the mystical works of several female mystics from the 12th and 13th centuries, bodily fragmentation is described as an innovative form of gender subjectivity, produced by the instigation of female sexual desire within a radically spiritualised context and culturally mediated by the cosmological and medical conventions of the time."

"Identity thus offers a space in which alternatives for the self and for the world can be imagined, designed and tested. However, in order to achieve this, a third form of expansion is needed, namely of the role of identity itself."

"The strategic competition creates new models based on regional trade groupings which can lead to deglobalisation and a new international economic and political order: on the one side the current American liberal international order and on the other side the establishment of a China-centred international system."

"The aim of the present study is to determine the extent to which an interest in the Germanic world manifests itself on the social media platform Instagram, whether an increase in interest can be found, and what concepts are associated with the Germanic world."