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A white South African born into racial discrimination, Anthony Hazlitt Heard became increasingly aware of the injustice, suffering and contradiction in his native land. Cape of Storms is his highly personal account of the segregationist National Party's rise to power in South Africa and of the human and political consequences of that nation's recent history. As the editor of the Cape Times newspaper for 16 years, he faced prosecution, threats, reader hostility, government pressure and...
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ABSTRACT Research on cross-cultural counselling and psychotherapy began to receive emphasis in the 1970‘s in the United States. In South Africa the need to devise relevant help for the majority black population and to contextualize psychological services is being increasingly addressed in the literature. In the present study differences in world view between black and white South African adolescent pupils (n = 200) were investigated. The use of a scale to assess world view across culture...
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There are 15 local authorities in Botswana; 10 District Councils and five City/Town Councils. There are also nine Land Boards responsible for the administration and of Tribal Land. These organisations are responsible for the decentralised provision of a variety of public services in this rapidly developing nation. The rate of development in this country is unprecedented and places enormous demands on the senior officers of the Unified Local Government Service administering these authorities....
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T he Milwaukee Public Schools educates more than 80 percent of the AfricanAmerican students in Wisconsin. Thus, the economic and social wellbeing of African Americans in the entire state is inextricably tied to the quality and vigor of the Milwaukee elementary and secondary schools. And, for African Americans in the Milwaukee Public Schools, the system has unraveled. Consider the following: Milwaukee Public Schools are third among cities in the nation in suspending more black than white...
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Medical and health educators in South Africa are facing many problems. These are caused by the diverse communication characteristics and socioeconomic, as well as educational, differences of its communities. Visual literacy is often ignored when audiovisual media are used in medical and health education. Consequently, communication and education fail because some target groups, e.g. illiterate patients from rural areas, are unable to interpret visual messages correctly. This study determined...
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The Migori segment is an 80 by 20 km portion of the Nyanza greenstone belt which forms the northern part of the Archean Tanzanian Craton in western Kenya, northern Tanzania and southeastern Uganda. It consists of two volcanic centres, each with central, proximal and distal volcanic facies, comprising the Migori Group, the Macalder and Lolgorien Subgroups, and eleven volcano-sedimentary formations. The centres are separated by a basin of tuffs and greywacke turbidites. The volcanics are...