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The Act on Subdivision of Agricultural Land (Act 70 of 1970) pronibits the subdivision of agricultural land in South Africa's commercial areas into "uneconomic" units. In a new dispensation optimal, rather than minimum farm sizes should be pursued. The optimal farm size is theoretically not the same for any two farmers. The better manager will have the larger farm over the long run. The above principle was empirically tested in the Vaalharts Irrigation area by means of cross sectional regression equations with gross income as dependent variable. The result confirms the following: i) If management is ignored, constant returns to size is encountered; and ii) when managerial quality is however included in the model as independent variable, increasing returns to scale is found. This result thus supports the theory and a general conclusion is that optimal farm size is a function of management.
Masters Dissertation
Die Teologie van JW de Gruchy - Kontekstueel Gereformeerd?1997 •
John Wesley de Gruchy comes from the background of the Congregational Union of South Africa during the heated discussions leading up to the formulation of A message to the people of South Africa in the 1960's. In this era, he continued the congregational ecumenical view and the tendency of criticism against the "boers", in favor of the black people in South Africa. As director of communications and study in the South African Council of Churches, he set out to define the church, in dialogue with Barth, Bonhoeffer, Hoekendijk, Moltman and Metz. His starting point was that theology can only be relevant if it is contextual. "Contextual" in this sense means in relation to the contemporary socio-political situation. The German Bekennende Kirche provided De Gruchy with an excellent example of the dynamic church, especially in the context of the confessing church movement under auspices of Beyers Naude. As the anti-apartheid church struggle became more articulate, De Gruchy moved into a new theological phase. During this era, his writing was marked by two issues- a) strong criticism against Afrikaner Calvinism, Afrikaner Nationalism and Christian Nationalism, and b) the need for a South African Biblical theology. During 1986, a year after the Kairos-document was published, De Gruchy's theology developed into a third phase: a paradigm shift in favor of liberation theology. This was necessary for his theology in order to be relevant (=contextual) in the South African situation. De Gruchy did not want to break with his reformed background and saw a useful link between reformed and liberation theology in the Belhar Confession. To him, this meant a reinterpretation of reformed theology from the perspective of the poor and oppressed. A new project started in service of the struggle for justice and reconciliation. In this process, De Gruchy stripped the reformed tradition until only one thing remained essential for reformed theology: reinterpretation in relation to the contemporary (socio-political) context. The only problem with this definition of reformed theology, is that it raised the question "can Afrikaner Calvinism not also be viewed as a reinterpretation and therefore reformed?" De Gruchy tries to prevent this by defining two impulses that has to be present in theology: the prophetic and the evangelical. These will prevent theology from being ideological or pietistic.
Journal of Contemporary History
Politieke verval as 'n patroon van politieke verandering : 'n teoreties-verkennende perspektief2003 •
Wereldwyd is politieke verandering en soms politieke transformasie (ingrypende sentraal-beplande politieke verandering van 'n progressiewe aard) aan die orde van die dag. Die aard en uitkoms van hierdie politieke verandering verskil van staat tot staat en van samelewing tot samelewing, wat daarop neerkom dat biljoene mense daagliks gekonfronteer word met die uiteenlopende en dikwels konflikterende eise van 'n veranderende politieke omgewing.
Spatial and Temporal Lexicographic Deictic Anchoring. In this contribution attention is given to deixis as it is known in the field of semantics. The transfer of deixis to lexicography is discussed and the concept of lexicographic deictic anchoring is brought to the fore. It is shown how this anchoring can be executed in different ways. Lexicographers need to decide how to employ this procedure in a specific dictionary. Different types of text segments can be used to enable deictic anchoring. These segments that include items, item symbols and item parts are briefly discussed. The main focus of this article is on spatial and temporal lexicographic deictic anchoring. Different deictic markers and anchoring procedures are discussed. In this regard it is shown that dictionaries do not only employ single items but also item complexes and that these item complexes can have a uniform or a hybrid format. It is suggested that successful deictic anchoring often demands that dictionaries shou...
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We can make of the landscape a photography or describe it with words. Yet, its moving character offers more complex sensations. The wish to go farther about the perception and fabrication of ambiances in action led the collective Rendez-vous to propose an artistic action in the city with a bias which mixes movements and atmospheres. This article re-questions the tensions between public places, architecture and dance in a retrospective glance allowed by the realization of a video edited in 2011.
Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Tegnologie
Die invloed van verdamping op die segregasieproses2013 •
South African Journal of Science and Technology
Learning via problem solving in mathematics education2009 •
Ciencia y Psique
EL MODELO DE PSICOTERAPIA BREVE ESTRATÉGICA DE GIORGIO NARDONE Giorgio Nardone's Brief Strategic Psychotherapy model2022 •
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ARMI E ARTIGLIERIE DELL’ESERCITO DI FRANCESCO I D’ESTE. INVENTARI, RELAZIONI E DOCUMENTI TRA IL 1642 E IL 16552024 •
Iron Metallurgy and the Formation of Complex Societies in the Western Mediterranean (1st Millennium BC)
Iron metallurgy in protohistoric Maghreb. The current state of research2020 •
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How will southern hemisphere subtropical anticyclones respond to global warming? Mechanisms and seasonality in CMIP5 and CMIP6 model projections2020 •
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Distinctive features of recognition for documents printed in the Romanian transitional alphabets2023 •
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