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Unpacking “progressive realisation”, its relation to resources, minimum core and reasonableness, and some methodological considerations for assessing compliance*
No full text“Toenemende verwesenliking” is een van die beperkings waaraan die implementering van sosio-ekonomiese regte in verskeie grondwette, sowel as internasionale standaarde, onderwerp is. Die beperking kan deur state gebruik word om implementering te vertraag indien hulle die betekenis van die beperking nie korrek verstaan nie of dit misken. Hierdie artikel poog om te verduidelik wat die beperking behels. Die artikel oorweeg of ’n benadering van toenemende verwesenliking tot die afdwinging van sosio-ekonomiese regte inhou dat die verwesenliking van die regte van armes, benadeeldes, verstotenes of die mees miskendes in die samelewing, uitgestel word en of dit waarde toevoeg tot die begrippe “dwingende nood” of “redelikheid” soos deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Konstitusionele Hof ontwikkel. Laastens oorweeg die artikel metodes wat benut word om voldoening aan die toenemende verwesenliking-vereiste te toets
Jerrier v Outsurance Insurance Company Ltd 2013 JDR 0562 (KZP): The duty to disclose: An ongoing problem?
No full textLegal issues involving student cyber speech in the United States: Regskwessies met Betrekking op Kuber-Spraak in die Verenigde State
No full textSake wat oor leerders se vryheid van uitdrukking handel het oor die afgelope vier dekades die federale- en staatshowe se aandag geëis. Tot en met die laaste dekade was hierdie kwessies se fokus op leerder-uitdrukking by skole of by skoolaktiwiteite. Meer onlangs het die howe egter ’n stryd begin voer met leerder-uitdrukking wat nie op die skoolperseel geskep of gelewer is nie, liewer, kuber-spraak wat buite die skoolterrein geskep is maar toegang daarna word by die skool verkry. ’n Uitdaging vir die aanspreek van kuber-spraak is dat die persoon wat toegang tot die kuber-spraak verkry iemand anders kan wees as die persoon wat die inhoud daarvan geskep het. staats- en federale howe moes hierdie kuber-spraak uitdaging met konstitusionele vryheid van uitdrukking toetse aanspreek wat vir uitdrukking direk op die skoolperseel of by skoolaktiwiteite ontwerp is. Die gevolglike vonnise het tot ’n verwarrende waterval van interpretasie gelei, waar die uitkoms kan afhang van watter Hoogeregshof leerder-uitdrukking sake op gesteun word as presedent. Die implikasies van interpretasies van grondwetlikereg aangaande vrye spraak het ’n impak op die gesag van skooldistrikte om gedragskodes neer te lê en af te dwing, leerder-uitdrukking regte, en die reg van ouers om hul kinders se opvoeding rigting te gee
When does an application for business rescue proceedings suspend liquidation proceedings?
No full textStudents’ extracurricular activities programmes: Prospects and challenges in Arabian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)universities
No full textAbstract
This paper introduces the prospects enjoyed and anticipated challenges faced by the student extracurricular activities programs in some of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) universities. Limited data and relatively little research on such programs exist, and little reliable information is available on the websites of some of the national universities in the GCC region. For this reason, the study restricted itself to examining two institutions—Qatar University and Sultan Qaboos University in Sultanate of Oman—as case studies. These two universities were chosen due to their significant engagement in student extracurricular activities and their substantial students enrollment numbers. Indeed, the student extracurricular activities program is a growing section in some GCC universities, with different orientations, concentrations on, and comparative advantages to be found among them. Nonetheless, these programs may face several expected challenges within the GCC setting due to the disparities in rules, practices, and objectives across different universities. Quest. 1: In what ways are Qatar University and Sultan Qaboos University in the GCC region effectively integrating their extracurricular activities programs as essential components of educational and developmental policy? Quest. 2: What motivates Qatar University and Sultan Qaboos University to engage in student extracurricular activities programs? Quest 3: What challenges are expected to confront these programs at the two universities?
Addressing these study concerns necessitates an explanation of the policies and practices that are forming and impacting the development of the student extracurricular activities program as a valuable initiative.
Keywords: University student extracurricular activities, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), student organization, theory of student involvemen
Navigating bounded agency in exercising climate action: Insights from Malawian and Zambian university students
No full textThe pressing issue of climate change has galvanized a global movement, with young people at the forefront as vocal advocates for environmental action. However, various structural and institutional factors often constrain the ability of university student environmentalists to translate their concerns into meaningful action. Using the concept of bounded agency within the capability approach, this qualitative study explored the perspectives of students from two universities, one in Malawi and one in Zambia, to better understand the challenges and opportunities they encounter in their efforts to translate their environmental concerns into tangible outcomes. The study reveals that while participants are deeply committed to environmental concerns, they encounter significant obstacles, including a lack of institutional support and resources, sociocultural norms, and university power structures that marginalize their voices. Despite these challenges, students employ strategies such as building cross-institutional collaborations with NGOs, leveraging social media, and engaging in grassroots advocacy to navigate their bounded agency. The findings of this study contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics that shape the landscape for climate action efforts of student environmentalists in the Global South, highlighting the resilience and resourcefulness of student environmentalists in overcoming barriers to drive environmental sustainability
Anthropocene terror in two girl-centred narratives: The leitmotifs of mythological time, colonisation and monstrosity in the films Whale Rider and Moana
No full textThe place of children in societies is a question that we have been grappling with in many forms, maybe nowhere more creatively and visibly than in the products of our imaginary complexes, such as films. Educational theorist and cultural critic Henry Giroux (2012) describes a contemporary crisis about youth and considers youth as potential cultural and pedagogical ‘border-crossers or outlaws’. Our complex contemporary engagement with the concept of youth coincides with an increasing awareness of, firstly, the genderedness of our world and, secondly, of anthropocene planetary ecological states of crises. In this article I consider two girl-centred films, both with young female protagonists, where the convergence of these discursive forces is depicted in the narrative context of the current renewed appreciation for indigenous cultures, particularly those of the global south. The films are New Zealand director Niki Caro’s Whale Rider (2002) and Disney’s animated film Moana (2016). There are clear similarities between the films, and the Disney creators have openly credited Whale Rider as influential in their creative process. I particularly consider how these two films, when read together, engage with ideas of cyclical mythological time, the leitmotifs of exploration, gender and colonisation, and with the trope of monstrousness or monstrosity as metaphors for paradoxical and complex living in an age of increasing complexity and anxiety
Special Section Editorial : Material Narratives
No full textWorks of art made from or involving textiles or cloth (or works that are sewn or woven) often depict events and histories of significance. These may be occurrences with social and political import to communities, groups or countries, but they may also be incidents or experiences only of consequence to those who made the works concerned. While many works in cloth represent events directly, others allude to public or personal histories through their inclusion of motifs with symbolic or metaphoric associations. And while they may involve activism or offer socio-political commentary, often with feminist under-pinnings, the act of narrating histories and representing events via cloth is also on many occasions a vehicle for self-reflection or the exploration of identities
Other stories: Asger Jorn’s and Pierre Wemaëre’s Le Long Voyage, 1959-1960: Material Narratives
No full textIn the autumn of 1958, the Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973) received a commission for a large, coloured tapestry to be installed at the Statsgymnasium in Aarhus, Denmark. Jorn drew in his friend, the French artist Pierre Wemaëre (1913-2010), as a collaborator in this initiative. In this article, I shed light on Jorn\u27s and Wemaëre\u27s effort to push boundaries when producing the work. These included a challenge to disciplinary boundaries – that is, between art, craft, design and architecture – as well as social hierarchies between the artist as the creator and the weavers as the executors. The attempt was also to challenge institutional boundaries between high art and popular art, as well as professional boundaries – that is, between a spontaneous production method versus one that is based on planning combined with a division of labour. But, as I reveal through an exploration of the making of the weaving, these ideals were of necessity compromised during the process of production and, while resulting in an impressive and memorable work, the project did not ultimately challenge existing norms of creating large-scale weavings
The material of mourning: Paul Emmanuel’s Lost Men as counter-memorials : Material Narratives
No full textPaul Emmanuel’s works to be discussed are site-specific, counter-memorial statements called The Lost Men. Each installation consists of semi-transparent cloth banners carrying photographic images of parts of the artist’s body, imprinted with the names of men who represent participants from both sides of each conflict memorialised. These are often men who went undocumented in official records and include those who were lost or killed in major conflicts, from the Frontier Wars in the Eastern Cape: The Lost Men Grahamstown (2004), to the civil war in Mozambique: The Lost Men Mozambique (2007) and from World War 1: The Lost Men France (2014). Emmanuel’s banners are fragile; some have been lost and some have deteriorated in situ. In all their iterations, they engage with memory, impermanence, vulnerability, death and an alternative view of masculine identity that undermines the macho aggression associated with warfare. I discuss the role a lack of material substance plays in enhancing the message of loss and grief. I argue that the very impermanence of cloth is essential to countering what Pierre Nora (1989:8) terms the ‘lieux de memoire’ – lasting physical memorials that enshrine and perpetuate “memories” when the lived experience of those memories have long been lost. Emmanuel’s Lost Men are truly in the process of being “lost” through disintegration, and I argue that this physical deterioration, in conjunction with the imagery Emmanuel uses, is the key to their success as counter-memorials