48 research outputs found
Rehabilitation for Cas Labuschagne : good enough, timely enough?
No full textDATA BESKIKBAARHEIDSVERKLARING : Datadeling is nie van toepassing nie, aangesien geen nuwe
data in die studie geskep of ontleed is nie.This research is part of the project, ‘Contextualized Reformed Theology in South Africa’, directed by Dr Andre Ungerer of the Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.Special Collection: Wim Dreyer Dedication, sub-edited by Jaco Beyers (University of Pretoria, South Africa).During the General
Church Assembly of 2010, the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa (NRCA) confessed her
previous justification of apartheid as wrongdoing. It led to serious dissatisfaction in the more
conservative part of the Church, eventually ending in the painful church schism of 2011.
Afterwards, the leadership had to handle several related issues. And then, out of the blue, an
outstanding matter arose from the past’s nebulae – unfinished business between the Church
and prof. Cas Labuschagne. He was a dissident with prof. Albert Geyser who acted against
the church’s justification of apartheid during the sixties. After a fierce struggle and much
desperation, he left South Africa for the Netherlands in 1967. Almost 40 years later, in 2008,
correspondence occurred between the NRCA and Labuschagne to see if reconciliation was possible,
but without any positive results. Labuschagne distrusted the Church’s motives and argued that
only a public excuse would settle matters. Due to the run-up to the decision in 2010 and the
church schism in 2011, the case gathered some cyber dust. Professors A.G. van Aarde, J.
Buitendag and W.A. Dreyer played a prominent role in bringing the outstanding matter of Cas
Labuschagne to the attention of the author of this article. It led to a visit in 2017 and more
correspondence to clarify issues. Eventually, reconciliation had occurred only a few months
before he died in 2019.
CONTRIBUTION : This article contributes to revealing an untold story in which different leaders
of the NRCA played a prominent role. It is about a struggle for reconciliation, events behind
the scenes, and a story with a good end – events the church and the academic community
should know about.http://www.hts.org.zaam2024Reformed Theological CollegeNon
The basics of prescribing infant formulas
No full textCITATION: Owens, C. J. W., Labuschagne, I. L. & Lombard, M. J. 2012. The basics of prescribing infant formulas. South African Family Practice, 54(1):25-30.The original publication is available at http://www.safpj.co.zaAll infant formulas must support the normal growth and development of infants, and this needs to be scientifically demonstrated. Formulas have to contain sufficient amounts of basic nutrients, and so are nutritionally interchangeable, with no evidence indicating that one brand is superior to another.http://www.safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/2235Publisher's versio
Infant formula for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease
No full textCITATION: Owens, C. J. W., Labuschagne, I. L. & Lombard, M. J. 2012. Infant formula for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. South African Family Practice, 54(2):106-110.The original publication is available at http://www.safpj.co.zaThickened infant formula is widely used as a first-line treatment for gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) in infants. The use thereof remains controversial, and conflicting evidence exists with regards to its efficiency. The safety of anti-reflux formula has been proven, with only a few adverse effects reported, making it safe for infants with mild symptoms of reflux.http://www.safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/2337Publisher's versio
Introducing solid foods
No full textThere are recommendations to guide parents to help their infants make the transition from milk to weaning foods, but they differ in their focus in developed or developing countries and on the physiological and behavioural reasons that underlie the introduction of weaning foods. According to recommendations, ideally, term infants should begin weaning at six months, while breastfeeding should continue for two years. The recommendations on nutrients in complementary foods are based on the nutrient gap between the composition and volume of breast milk after approximately six months of exclusive breastfeeding and the physiology of infant nutritional requirements
The basics of prescribing infant formulas
No full textAll infant formulas must support the normal growth and development of infants, and this needs to be scientifically demonstrated. Formulas have to contain sufficient amounts of basic nutrients, and so are nutritionally interchangeable, with no evidence indicating that one brand is superior to another.1,
The use of prebiotics and probiotics in infant formula
No full textThe original publication is available at http://www.safpj.co.za/index.php/safpj/article/view/2726Gastrointestinal flora influences health, but the composition of flora can be changed with prebiotics or probiotics. The
addition of probiotics to powdered infant formula has not been demonstrated to be harmful to healthy term infants. However,
evidence of clinical efficacy regarding their addition is insufficient to recommend the routine use of such formula. The
administration of probiotic (single or in combination) supplementation in infant or follow-on formula, and given beyond
early infancy, may be associated with some clinical benefits, such as a reduction in the risk of nonspecific gastrointestinal
infections, a reduced risk of antibiotic use and a lower frequency of colic and irritability. Confirmatory well-designed clinical
research studies are necessary
Crisis Periods, Contagion and Integration Effects in the Major African Equity Markets During the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis
No full textThe contribution of the first named author is based on research supported by the National Research Foundation, Grant Number 87502. We thank Antonie Kotzé for providing us with some of the data that we required in this paper.A number of studies assert that during critical events cross-market correlations change substantially. The main focus of this paper is to explicitly test two research hypotheses concerning the effect of increasing cross-market correlations in the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) compared to the pre-crisis period. These hypotheses state that there was no contagion and no integration effects among the U.S., the U.K., and selected African stock markets (South Africa, Namibia, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco and Kenya) during the GFC. The crisis periods are formally detected using a statistical method of dividing market states into bullish and bearish markets. 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Decentring the individual Subject: the perpetual recycling of the narrating “I” in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten
No full textAbstract: British author David Mitchell’s debut novel Ghostwritten, published in 1999, has been lauded for its innovative nine-part structure, in which each chapter is presented as a first-person narrative that involves, each time, a different narrator with a different story. Mitchell himself describes this arrangement as a way to “locate meaning in randomness [...] Each chapter offers a different reason why its events unfold as they do” (in Begley 2010: 5). Such a postmodern concern with randomness is evident when the ostensible self-sufficiency of the individual account is undermined by the arbitrary, often mysterious (re)appearance of one or the other narrator as character in another’s story. Interestingly, these surprise appearances, of what could be called the ‘experiencing other’, work to undermine the centrality of the narrator’s story – of what could be called the ‘master narrative’. This destabilisation is compounded in characteristic postmodern fashion by the continual displacement of the narrating ‘I’ from one chapter to the next. Thus, while the ‘I’ remains – or seems to remain – a constant throughout, the individual subject is ceaselessly recycled as the experiencing other in different guises; it is a process that apparently denies the formation of an individual identity, thus ratifying the postmodern anxiety about the end of individuality. However, as I argue in this paper, it is precisely this continual recycling that affords the decentred subject a chance at individuality. In a telling deconstructive gesture, Mitchell’s novel bypasses the transcendental Subject to allow a space in which the plural subject can claim its identity, paradoxically, as a singular entity
Ghostreading : retro-spectral interpretations in the novels of David Mitchell
No full textAbstract : In the course of the past nineteen years or so, the novels of British author David Mitchell have been steadily garnering critical scrutiny, with the focus of scholarly interest ranging from postmodernist narrative forms, the Bildungsroman, and discursive identity, to the Utopian, science fiction, and postcolonialism, among many others. Such diverse approaches hinge on the eclectic use of genre in these works, not only from one novel to the next, but more often than not also within a single text. By thus disrupting genre-compliant writing, these novels can be said to work deconstructively to destabilize conventional modes of reading and interpretation. As a result, the formation of the subject – be this the writer, the protagonist-narrator, and/or the reader – is fitfully traced in the interstices between ever-changing syntagmatic and paradigmatic levels of signification. Hence the figure of this composite subject is always in the process of becoming, never fully formed or fully present. One could speak here of the subject as a spectral shape that haunts the pages of the text, much as the plotlines of Mitchell’s novels are haunted by uncanny encounters, virtual personalities, return appearances, and supernatural. Within this framework, I aim to show in this study how Mitchell’s writing rehearses the vagaries of the reading process. In the process, I focus on the narrative structure of three specific novels – what I would call the inaugural trio consisting of ghostwritten, number9dream, and Cloud Atlas, insofar as they could be seen to lay the groundwork for the ever-expanding, endlessly shifting fictional world of what Mitchell himself thinks of as his “über-novel” (Huff Post Books, 9 June 2015). I pay close attention to certain, possibly less familiar aspects of narrativity, namely the uncanny, intertextuality, and singularity. Using these three schemes, respectively, in my reading of the three inaugural novels, I seek to demonstrate that Mitchell’s narrative innovations revoke our persistent compulsion to identify ‘the’ reader, but without doing away with the person doing the reading. In short, I aim to show how Mitchell’s writing invites what Valentine Cunningham calls “tactful” readings that would secure “the presence, the rights, the needs of the human subject” (2002: 143).Ph.D. (English
