Author:Gray, Eve; Czerniewicz, LauraDate:01 May 2018Any inquiry into how university students get the learning resources they need for their education in post-apartheid South Africa must deal with three interrelated subjects: the legacy of apartheid, which continues to structure educational ...Read morecbn
Author:Twala, Chitja; Seekings, JeremyDate:2010Chapter 14, Jeremy Seekings collaborates with Chitja Twala to examine activist networks and political protest in the Free State. The authors explain that although no regional UDF structure was ever formally launched in the area there were ...Read more
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylDate:28 Feb 2018Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution and against which use of OER might be evaluated. These challenges include: unequal access ...Read morecb
Author:Naidoo, VinothanDate:2008Efforts to make South Africa’s public service more representative were propelled by the introduction of a non-racial democracy in 1994. The racial profile of South Africa’s public service was integral to sustaining the policy of apartheid, ...Read more
Author:Letete, Thapelo; von Blottnitz, HarroDate:2012In 2007 the South African government released the country’s National Biofuels Industrial Strategy targeting a biofuels market penetration of 2% of liquid road transport fuels by 2013. Contrary to the international situation, the main driver ...Read more
Author:Reddy, ThivenDate:2009An ironic feature of contemporary South African politics is that while the organisations representing Black Consciousness (BC) ideas remain weak and fragmented, a revival in BC ideas, values and practices in official and civil society discourses ...Read more
Author:Butterworth, Doug SDate:2020This chapter presents a short case study of a particular field of science communication: scientific advice to decision-makers1 in fisheries management. Scientific advice to decision-makers is a special type of science communication, as it is ...Read morecb
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, MichaelDate:2011This chapter addresses a way of responding to one of the key challenges of OER contribution, namely academics' lack of time to re-purpose teaching materials originally intended for campus-based face-to-face lectures as stand-alone Open ...Read morecba