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"Historians must interpret with care these contributions, which have informed the way Shaka has been portrayed as a child born out of wedlock who grew up under difficult circumstances but nonetheless became the king and founder of the Zulu nation in 1817."

"Reading the oeuvre of Schoeman’s novels from the perspective of music and dancing commands the reader’s admiration. The three extracts, studied from different musical, dancing and textual viewpoints, demonstrate his unique virtuosity."

"Participants’ perceptions revealed that they prefer smaller language classes that would allow greater opportunity to get to know one another, which could lead to their feeling more comfortable speaking Afrikaans in the classroom."

"Examples of intrapersonal-behavioural skills provided by participants are that teachers are “congruent inside and outside school” and that they possess the “ability to evaluate the problems [that] learners have”. This intrapersonal skill becomes evident in how a teacher acts towards learners."

"Times of crisis always lead to re-evaluation and restructuring of priorities. Luke 21:24 interprets the catastrophe of 70 A.D. as the end of an era: the special position of Israel. But it is also the beginning of a new era: the time of the nations."

"Indications are that autocratic states rely heavily on ethnic sentiments and ideological loyalties to consolidate a political ruling class."

"All the Church Fathers believed that it was expected of Christians to work hard. Chrysostom denounced those who were idle or unwilling to work. He then referred to Paul who was even willing to be a tentmaker, and he added that people who were craftsmen did not have to be ashamed of their craft."

"Is the spectre of nuclear terrorism and, concurrently, the depiction of nuclear terrorism as an existential crisis by the media, government officials and nuclear experts, justified?"

"To encourage the participation of post level 1 teachers in an expanded SMT and decision-making in a school-based management model would require that the roles and responsibilities of these teachers be developed and expanded. It was found that, to achieve effective change, a heightened focus on skills and abilities is important so as to make effective decisions as a team and not as individuals."

"According to Boshoff this language is the Word, or rather words, spoken by God when the world was created and that as spoken words they are closely related to breath: 'Creation happened when the creator broke the silence with his sound [breath or spoken words].'"

"In this article the ideas of António Damásio, one of the most influential neuroscientists of our age, about the role of feelings in well-being is developed as a theoretical framework for a speculative inquiry into the evolutionary pressures that would lead to the development of this ability."

"In the light of knowledge gained about how the Old Testament in particular originated, current theories on biblical inspiration can no longer be upheld. The concept of inspiration should rather be broadened to include the entire process of the forming of the canon of Scripture, the translation, and even the proclamation of the message of the Bible."

"Storytelling must be carried out in such a way that it can achieve a specific purpose, namely to fill the gap left by the school curriculum and strategic role players. To this end, the family, the community and the school act in partnership because the education and teaching of an individual require the cooperation and involvement of teachers, parents and the community."

"In this article, we try to answer the following research question: How can language acquisition classes be adapted to accommodate the diverse needs of students with hearing loss? In this regard, we refer to classroom strategies as different tactics that can be incorporated by the lecturer or student to ease the language learning process."

"The 13-year longitudinal study measures the ethical predispositions of managers over time with regard to companies’ business decisions. This provides a trend of what managers deem ethical business behaviour to be, and consequently provide an insight into their business decisions as company representatives."

"If it is accepted that the estate as such simply takes over from the deceased and continues in his position, it would also mean that delictual claims caused by the deceased but only discovered after liquidation can still be settled with relative ease."

"Given recent insights into the social value of informal backyard rentals, the article primarily investigates the financial and economic values and secondarily the social values of informal backyard renting in a case study in Bridgton and Bongolethu, Oudtshoorn."

"This system allows that a political party can generate goals from promises made during elections to motivate voters to vote for the party. The political party’s own ideological goals may not necessarily be applied if they contradict the constitutional regulations. This may mean that the ruling political party has obtained a voter mandate that contradicts the current constitutional system."

"These positive posts also receive more likes on average than negative posts, although the difference between the number of likes for positive and negative posts is small. However, the number of hashtags used with each post does not play a role in the number of likes that the post receives."

"The article discusses the need to address the debilitating effects of COVID-19 with a pastoral care of hope and compassion that is grounded in principles of koinonia and ubuntu."