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"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."

"This article, which is based on a qualitative empirical study conducted in Gauteng, South Africa, aims to assess the effectiveness of the multidisciplinary approach to investigating corruption in the public service followed by the Anti-Corruption Task Team of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation."

"Historians call the acceptance and formation of a society in the central Free State in 1837 a turning point in the history of Boer republics in the 19th century. It was, however, not a turning point, but just another step in this history."

"The findings reveal that the BRI has the potential to develop Africa as an emerging market, but China’s opaqueness and Africa’s financial debt are burdens in the effective management and coordination of the initiative."

"This article discusses the role of two approaches to the teaching of reading comprehension strategies that may be conducive to the development of reading comprehension in South African schools."

"The reluctance of detectives to exchange information with one another and with crime intelligence officers is often mentioned in the literature. Detectives and crime analysts have different views on crime, and sometimes detectives do not communicate with crime analysts about crime problems unless instructed to do so."

"While South Africa has high juvenile crime rates, and England’s criminal system for child offenders is regarded as among the strictest in the world, this comparative study suggests that we might be better off not following the English example."

"Participants in the empirical study were mostly of the opinion that the lockdown had a negative effect on human rights. They referred to police brutality, corruption and the restrictions on funerals."

"New paradigms of autonomy which include female protagonists are illustrated by illuminating the theoretical discussion of relational autonomy by means of autobiographical poems from the oeuvres of Elisabeth Eybers, Ingrid Jonker, Antjie Krog and Ronelda S. Kamfer."

"The conclusion of the explorative study is that the political tipping point has already been reached and that we are faced with a bad-case scenario. Indeed, evidence indicates that a bad-case scenario is the most probable. It has far-reaching implications for our future over the short term as well as the long term."

"The author Elsa Joubert wrestled with the mystery regarding the core of life and the meta-physical realm of soulfulness and transcendence. This was triggered in her youth by the deaths of her sister and father. While facing the ailments of old age, she reflected on the meaning of life and the destiny of our being human."

"A legislative provision in itself is not enough to give effect to a legal duty. It is necessary to look at a multiplicity of factors to establish whether or not there is a legal duty to prevent harm."