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  • Tutu in memory, Tutu on memory : strategies of remembering 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Southern African Missiological Society, 2019)
    This essay profiles the strategies and (theological) tactics used by Desmond Tutu in the management of painful memory in his own personal life, in his various leadership roles in church and society as well as in his role ...
  • Maarten de Wit 1947–2020 : an appreciation 
    Vale, Peter Christopher Julius (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2020-05)
    No abstract available.
  • Quality adjusting agricultural machinery in South Africa 
    Gandidzanwa, Colleta; Liebenberg, Frikkie; Meyer, Ferdinand; Conradie, Beatrice (Routledge, 2019)
    This paper quality adjusts machinery inputs for South African agriculture. It does this by treating different qualities of machinery as separate inputs. Thus, quality adjustment becomes quantity adjustment when there is ...
  • Of wounded killers and ‘failed men’ : broadening the quest for liberating African masculinities 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (University of the Western Cape, 2018-07)
    In order to broaden the search for liberating African masculinities, I engage with key and recent works on masculinity within the African context. I explore some of the reasons why scholarship on masculinity in Africa – ...
  • Integrating the edges : University of Pretoria's neighbourhood anchor strategy 
    Hendricks, D.J. (Denver); Flaherty, Jaime (Routledge, 2018)
    The traditionally inward focus of many higher education institutions in both the United States (US) and South Africa has often failed to address important urban issues beyond the university gates, confining most student ...
  • The making of Allan Aubrey Boesak : theologian and political activist 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2017)
    Although no conventional biography of Allan Boesak has been published, either by himself or others, as far as we are aware, we have enough data and information in various places to make small beginnings of the long overdue ...
  • Wrath from the Gods' : traditional institutions and electoral politics in Bali 
    Gwaibi, Numvi Wallace (Sage, 2017-05)
    This paper examines the 2013 municipal elections in Bali subdivision, North West Cameroon. The ethnography utilises participant observation, semi-structured interviews, document analyses and so forth to unearth strategies ...
  • Through the past into the future : Jean-François Bill - pastor, activist, theologian 8 July 1934 -12 March 2005 
    Duncan, Graham A.; Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2016)
    Jean- François Bill was a significant church leader of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born, raised and educated in South Africa, and he lived, worked and died in South Africa. He possessed a multi-cultural ...
  • How does justice smell? Reflections on space and place, justice and the body 
    Meiring, J.J.S. (Jacob Johannes Smit) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-14)
    Flowing from a joint consultation on Spatial Justice and Reconciliation on 21–22 September 2015, hosted by the Centre for Contextual Ministry and the Ubuntu Research Project of the University of Pretoria, this article ...
  • Shem, Ham, Japheth and Zuma – Genesis 9:25-27 and masculinities in South Africa 
    Meiring, J.J.S. (Jacob Johannes Smit) (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2016)
    The article explores the interpretation and reception of Genesis 9:25-27 and how the so-called ‘curse of Ham’ contributed to the construction of masculinities in South Africa. The impact of the Ham ideology on black ...
  • Between Pretoria and George Goch Hostel : God in South Africa in 2015 
    Maluleke, Tinyiko Sam (Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), 2015)
    Please read abstract in article.
  • Land, indigenisation and empowerment : narratives that made a difference in Zimbabwe's 2013 elections 
    Magure, Booker (EISA, 2014)
    The 2013 harmonised elections held in Zimbabwe after the termination of the SADC- facilitated Government of National Unity elicited unprecedented comment following another resounding ‘win’ by the Zimbabwe African National ...
  • Managing measurement: planning and steering research productivity 
    Burton, Stephanie G. (2014-05)
    The paper focuses on the iterative relationship between planning and review, and the use of performance indicators in annual cycles of research review and realignment. In a large, complex institution such as the University ...
  • All is Number 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie; Levendis, Demetrius C. (Springer, 2013)
    Rational numbers, which correctly describe many recognizable patterns in the physical world, are often seen to converge in the process to irrational limits or even singularities. As a common example, atomic numbers are ...
  • Calculation of atomic structure 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie (Springer, 2013)
    The Thomas–Fermi and Hartree–Fock calculations of non-hydrogen atomic structure rely on complicated numerical computations without a simple visualizable physical model. A new approach, based on a spherical wave structure ...
  • Covalent interaction 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie (Springer, 2013)
    Reviewed in historical context, bond order emerges as a vaguely defined concept without a clear theoretical basis. As an alternative, the spherical standingwave model of the extranuclear electronic distribution on an ...
  • Molecular shape 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie; Comba, Peter (Springer, 2013)
    Molecular shape is recognized as an emergent property that complements the projection fromfour-dimensional space-time to tangent Euclidean space. Projection from hypercomplex algebra to real algebra necessitates the ...
  • Chemistry in four dimensions 
    Boeyens, Jan Christoffel Antonie (Springer, 2013)
    Some chemical phenomena, awkward to rationalize, are argued to originate in the four-dimensional nature of matter in curved space-time. The problem is traced back to the separation of space and time variables in the ...
  • Memorial Service in Honour of Nelson Mandela 
    De la Rey, Cheryl (2014-02-05)
    The speech of Prof Cheryl De la Rey, Vice-Chancellor and Principal at the memorial of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, 11 December 2013.
  • Performance of Bawo by members of the University of Pretoria Camerata at the memorial service of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela 
    University of Pretoria Camerata (2013-12-11)
    Performance of Bawo (traditional isiXhoa song) by members of the University of Pretoria Camerata at the memorial service for Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, held 11 December 2013 in the University of Pretoria Musaion. The ...