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"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."

"Sports federations should do more to promote the safety of players so that they can avoid claims by retired or current players. Some sports federations, such as Athletics South Africa and the National Football League in the USA, have already felt the brunt of such claims. It is time that all sporting codes got their houses in order."

This is a continuation of a previous article, which focuses on ways in which representations of a radical human brokenness can deepen and enrich relationships between art and religion.

"Romans 13:1–7 is a controversial text which continues to generate a wide spectrum of pro- and contra-readings. The passage raises (among others) questions regarding power and the origin of power, church and state, submission to authorities, civil disobedience and the pursuit of the common good."

"Ricoeur’s understanding of the narrative structure of human temporality involves a dialectical notion of the transcendence of time, a notion beyond customary dichotomies between transcendence and immanence."

"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"

This 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.

A 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.