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J.C. Steyn Collection index
No full textThis index describes the J. C. Steyn collection which includes background material for 3 biographies by J.C. (Jaap) Steyn namely N.P. van Wyk Louw, P.J. Cillié and MER (M.E. Rothman). Prof. J.C. Steyn (1939-) is an educationist, linguist and author. Correspondence ; clippings ; photographs ; book reviews ; articles ; speeches ; varia compiled in 23 pamphlet boxes
L. C. Steyn Collection index
No full textThis index describes the L. C. Steyn collection and consists of poems written by L.C. Steyn. Lucas Cornelius Steyn
was chief justice of the RSA and retired in 1971. Donated by L.C. Steyn's son in 1978
Das Liede von dem || Bentzenawer im Bayerland/|| wie es jm zů Kopff=||steyn ergangen || ist/ #[et]c.||
No full textDAS LIEDE VON DEM || BENTZENAWER IM BAYERLAND/|| WIE ES JM ZŮ KOPFF=||STEYN ERGANGEN || IST/ #[ET]C.||
Das Liede von dem || Bentzenawer im Bayerland/|| wie es jm zů Kopff=||steyn ergangen || ist/ #[et]c.|| ([1]r)
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Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Mary T. Steyn of The Readers Digest to Daniel W. Kempner providing some information on the author of an article he was asking about
Murapi wedu : lewensverhaal van dokter Tommie Steyn van Morgenster /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (pages 105-109).Olivier, Fani
The Implementation of a Flexible Learning Model at Technikon South Africa
No full textPCF2 // Working paper presented by JMC Steyn at the Second Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF2) in Durban, South Africa. /
A piezoelectric microvalve for compact high frequency high differential pressure micropumping systems
No full textA piezoelectrically driven hydraulic amplification microvalve for use in compact high-performance hydraulic pumping systems was designed, fabricated, and experimentally characterized. High-frequency, high-force actuation capabilities were enabled through the incorporation of bulk piezoelectric material elements beneath a micromachined annular tethered-piston structure. Large valve stroke at the microscale was achieved with an hydraulic amplification mechanism that amplified (40/spl times/-50/spl times/) the limited stroke of the piezoelectric material into a significantly larger motion of a micromachined valve membrane with attached valve cap. These design features enabled the valve to meet simultaneously a set of high frequency (/spl ges/1 kHz), high pressure(/spl ges/300 kPa), and large stroke (20-30 /spl mu/m) requirements not previously satisfied by other hydraulic flow regulation microvalves. This paper details the design, modeling, fabrication, assembly, and experimental characterization of this valve device. Fabrication challenges are detailed
Religious Responses to Environmental Crises in the Orange Free State Republic, C. 1896-C. 1898
No full textThe purpose of this article is to explore the religious responses within the Orange Free State republic to the environmental crises in the period c. 1896 to c. 1898. During this time the state was subjected to severe drought, flooding, and the outbreak of various diseases. The article examines the way in which these afflictions where interpreted by the Christian and wider community in terms of God's wrath for unrepented sins. The persistence of synchronistic elements of folk religion was seen to have brought plagues like those found in Exodus which were visited upon the Pharaoh and his kingdom. This interruptive frame work led to calls for national repentance, but also a resistance to scientific and medical resolutions to the crises. It also reinforced racial divisions. Black Africans were perceived as the carriers of the disease so their movement was prohibited. The article goes on to show how the effect of this biblical frame of reference protected the concept of God as the ever-present active God in every aspect of life against the scientific rationalism of the age, while at the same time ironically hindering the work of mission and the life of the churc
Oil Exploration in Colonial Nigeria, c. 1903-58
No full textThis article explores the history of oil exploration in colonial Nigerian between c.1903 and 1958 when the first shipment of Nigerian crude oil arrived in Rotterdam. It debunks the two most persistent myths in Nigerian oil historiography namely that oil exploration dates back to 1908 when the German oil company, the Nigeria Bitumen Corporation started operations. An examination of contemporary sources show that oil exploration activities date back to at least 1903, and that Nigeria Bitumen was indeed a British oil company with a listing on the West African Market of the stock exchange in London. The paper argues that the challenging Nigerian environment, which required sophisticated technology, and the limited support from the British government ensured the failure of early oil exploration activities by small British oil concerns. Consequently, over time, the exploration of the oil possibilities of colonial Nigeria became the domain of large, integrated oil companies, in particular Royal Dutch/Shell and British Petroleum, who had the financial resources to fun the expensive search for oil in the colony, and the technological expertise and equipment to achieve success over the long term. This dominance by the majors remained a characteristic of the Nigerian oil industry well into the 1990s. The colonial roots of two additional characteristics of the modern oil industry in Nigeria are further traced, namely the enclave nature of the industry within the broader Nigerian economy, and the establishment of oil as a national concern, which concern in general overruled the oil-related problems and concerns of local oil producing communities until the emergence of oil-related minority struggles in the 1990s
Whose story is it anyway? The ethics of narration and the narration of ethics in Summertime and Die Sneeuslaper
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This dissertation analyses and compares the narrative strategies in J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime and Marlene van Niekerk’s Die sneeuslaper and considers the implications of these strategies for the authors’ exploration of the ethics of writing. Much has been written about the literary oeuvres of both Coetzee and Van Niekerk, including studies of the translations of Van Niekerk’s Afrikaans novels into English. There are few “interlingual” comparative studies of contemporary works in Afrikaans and English, however, and certainly none to my knowledge which compares the work of Coetzee and Van Niekerk. My contribution to the conversation about Coetzee’s and Van Niekerk’s work, but also to an increasingly multilingual and interconnected South African literary criticism, will be a comparison of one recent work by each of these two authors, written in English and Afrikaans respectively. I draw on the theories of Bakhtin, Barthes and Levinas to consider the ethical dimension of texts in which “double-voicedness”, a questioning not only of existence, but of the self is fore grounded in the content and narrative structure; where there is a shift in focus from the author to the reader (“the birth of the reader”) and “utterances” are made with the response of “the other” in mind
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