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"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."

"Through research it was established that gamification can most likely be used to succeed in learning the vocabulary of a foreign and/or second language. Finally, we concluded that gamification is a useful tool and teaching method, that it can be beneficial to university students by helping them to learn vocabulary, and that it assists and supports the language acquisition process."

"No costs were spared on the building of the Nico Malan Theatre where opulence abounded, while the government’s contribution to the cost of the Joseph Stone Auditorium was literally 1% of what they paid for the Nico Malan Theatre."

"The article clearly shows that although the OFS’s State Artillery was gradually expanded in the course of the second half of the 19th century and all the state’s presidents, including F.W. Reitz, took a keen interest in the defence of the OFS, it did not save the Boer republic from British conquest in 1900."

"Therefore, the Woordelys is a dictionary, and, more specifically, a monolingual, synchronic, standard, orthographic dictionary. The AWS is characterised as a monolingual, synchronic, standard, orthographic reference source."

"The song’s lyrics and music video are therefore explored by considering the nature and ethos of hip hop as oral practice rooted in a long history of black oppression, and as one that plays a role in the creation of agency within these oppressive circumstances."

"The central theme that emerged from this study confirmed that the acceptance of internal quality mechanisms and total quality management principles is essential for a private higher education institution. The three most important themes that emerged were compliance with the regulatory framework, institutional supply and quality management."

"Ultimately courts should in light of the importance of policy considerations underlying vicarious liability, develop the rules of the common law of contract in terms of section 39(2) of the Constitution."

"If learners know themselves and their communities, they can identify and use the necessary resources. It can be argued that these skills, abilities and knowledge can assist learners to hope and dream for a better future amid various challenges."

"The results of the granular poverty maps developed in this research study suggest that poverty in South Africa is spatially clustered and not randomly distributed. Locations with high and low poverty are generally not in close proximity."