Academic research
LitNet Akademies is LitNet's accredited academic journal. An extended English abstract is published with every article.
A closer look at the new affordability assessment regulations in terms of the National Credit Act 34 of 2005
2015-08-25"Credit providers are still free to use their own evaluative mechanisms etcetera, subject thereto that a fair and objective assessment is conducted. However, there is now the additional requirement that such mechanisms etcetera must not be inconsistent with the affordability assessment regulations made by the minister"
“Making columns” à la “rich, richer, Rykie” – Rykie van Reenen and some markers for blogger-columnists
2015-08-20This article sets out to map certain elements of columns as a guide for the blogosphere’s columnists, i.e., bloggers, by attempting to identify the elements that made legendary and virtuoso Afrikaans journalist Rykie van Reenen (1923–2003) stand out as a top columnist – or a person “making columns” (Van Reenen 1954), as she herself referred to column writing – as it attempts to lay down some markers for a current generation of blogger-columnists and what they can learn from the work of a columnist of a bygone era.
The parol evidence rule: Universal partnerships and the marriage out of community of property with the exclusion of profit and loss and accrual
2015-08-12A complete universal partnership agreement concluded after the marriage ceremony is always invalid, because its effect changes the matrimonial property system informally. A commercial universal partnership agreement is enforceable and valid unless the written antenuptial contract prohibits it.
The "assassin" and the "patriot": Hendrik van den Bergh, John Vorster, John Harris and the Johannesburg station bomb, 24 July 1964
2015-08-05"In this article historical criticism is used to prove beyond doubt that the allegations against Van den Bergh and Vorster are false."
A critical investigation of the function of biomusicological elements in Wilken Calitz’s 2092: God van Klank (2092: God of Sound)
2015-07-30"The biological evolutionary framework evoked in the play, with music as an inherent trait of humans, is undermined by the premise that the ability to make music can be completely suppressed in a society and can somehow vanish from the genetic make-up of humans. In Calitz’s dystopia there is no hope and music eventually have no power."
Adultery as actionable ground of action
2015-07-21"One can accept that since adultery is no longer wrongful, the interdict would also not be at the disposal of the innocent spouse, as wrongfulness is a requirement for the interdict."
It’s only a film: Bernard Stiegler’s techno-theological cinematic faith
2015-07-15In this article the broad argument of Bernard Stiegler’s main third book, volume three of his Technics and Time-trilogy (1994, 1998, 2001), translated into English as Cinematic time and the question of malaise, is analysed.
The application of the structured interdict in the South African legal order: a distinctive adjudication process
2015-07-15"This article examines the structural interdict as the appropriate process by which to develop suitable constitutional remedies."
The all-encompassing material dimension of existence: aspects of new materialism in Marié Heese’s Vuurklip
2015-07-07"Making use of the reading strategies rooted in new materialism, this study of Vuurklip seeks to establish what value or broadening of perspectives may be found in the specific ways landscape is portrayed in the novel."
A multilevel network analysis of the Afrikaans film industry and film actor network (1994-2014)
2015-07-01"Apart from studying these macrolevel topological features of the Afrikaans film industry, the article also conducts a node-level analysis using degree, betweenness, closeness and Eigenvector centrality in order to identify the key role players in the Afrikaans film actor network and the Afrikaans film industry as a whole."
Action for wrongful suffering through disability (wrongful life)
2015-06-29"We submit that the action for wrongful suffering through disability (wrongful life) should indeed be recognised within the sphere of the law of delict, as all the elements of a delict can comfortably be accommodated within the field of application of the action."
The effect of mentoring on art education in primary schools
2015-06-23The study on which this article is based researched the effect of an eighteen-month mentoring programme on the art education practice of teachers in primary schools.
Partial description of bacteria in the gastrointestinal track of Haliotis midae, with the focus on potential probiotics
2015-06-18The aim of this study was to isolate and identify bacteria in the gastrointestinal track of the South African abalone Haliotis midae and to evaluate the isolates' potential as a probiotic based on existing literature.
The basic structure doctrine: a basis for application in South Africa, or a violation of the separation of powers?
2015-06-17In this article it is suggested that there are certain textual and contextual differences between South Africa and India that hinder the application of the doctrine in South African law.
