Litnet

"This article compares the views of the church fathers Basil of Caesarea, John Chrysostom and Ambrosiaster on the treatment of slaves."

"The gradual rise of environmental constitutionalism in scholarly debates suggests a deliberate, albeit (still) hesitant attempt to view anew the human rights-environment debate through a constitutional lens."

"The nature of De Wee’s oral expression is rooted in her outstanding innate capacity for creative oral expression, her energetic and inquisitive personality, and her rural upbringing."

"This article concentrates on the adaptations that working-class learners make in order to develop and establish their learning practices. The key focus is on aspects of how these learners construct their learning identities in a specific rural town context in the Western Cape."

"In contradistinction to previous judgments of Brand JA, in this case he was willing to reconcile the traditional boni mores test for wrongfulness with the new test for wrongfulness as the reasonableness of holding the defendant liable."

"Lay readers often experience problems with the peculiarities of legal language [...]. The aim of this article is to identify the syntactic properties of Afrikaans legal language that cause processing problems for lay readers of legal texts."

"The existence of N.P. Van Wyk Louw’s struggle with God is well known."

"Public academic talk about the personal and emotional meanings of research, such as passion, is largely taboo."

Where does the name Christ come from?

"For Stiegler, the central crisis of Western modernity is of a theological nature, namely its loss of faith in its social order and in its future."

This article investigates the small world phenomenon in Afrikaans cultural networks, including the Afrikaans literary system and the Afrikaans film industry.

"Author identification in Afrikaans SMS messages has never been attempted. It is mainly for this reason that the current article, and the dissertation it is based on, is considered of value to the field of author identification."

"The aim of the article is to make knowledge and experience gained over years available to novices in the field of teacher training."

"Unfortunately it is a fact that the sexual abuse of children is not abating, and that the younger the child, the higher the risk of sexual abuse. Also, the younger the child, the more challenging it is to do a forensic assessment."

"Yet even though the major part of this musical appears to be set in and around the historical District Six, Kat and the Kings operates through the prism of memory."

"The research question posed by the article focuses on the degree to which programmatic and symbolic elements of storytelling in Little Portrait aid in highlighting the composer’s commitment to matters of an existential nature."

"The right affected by the suspension of the rule during litigation was the right of debtors to raise defences freely. The majority held that there are alternative ways in which delaying tactics of creditors who raise fictitious defences could be dealt with."

"The article deals with Johannesburg as an environment and how it affects and is affected by its inhabitants."

"This article investigates the possible contours and promise of a theology of future-oriented memory as part of the search for a responsible and constructive engagement with the past."

T"his article is an inquiry into the interactional nature of learning, and focuses on the ways in which participants in mentor settings use their talk for purposes of learning."