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A Societal Responsibility : The role of civil society organisations in prisoner support, rehabilitation and reintegration
(Institute for Security Studies and the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2008)
Civil society organisations play a key role in assisting prisoners and ex-prisoners to reintegrate into society and may at present render the bulk of such services. It is especially in respect of post-release support ...
An exploration of mata'a maintenance in anticipation of the recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa: (Re-)opening a veritable Pandora's box?
(Law Faculty, University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Introduction: In Muslim personal law, the husband on pronouncing a divorce has a number of legal obligations towards his wife including maintenance and payment of outstanding dower. While there is no dispute among Muslim ...
Secure contactless smart card transactions on mobile devices
(Telkom, 2009)
This paper presents work in progress to explore the utility of Near Field Communication technology to secure mobile financial services. The objective is to evaluate the potential of this approach as an upcoming technology ...
Redefining defence in the post-apartheid security imaginary: The politics of meaning-fixing
(University of the Free State, 2008)
This article traces the politics of meaning-fixing with respect to the role
of the defence force as apartheid declined from the mid-1980s, as it was negotiated
from a current to a past organising principle of the “security ...
Strengthening human resources for primary health care
(Health Systems Trust, 2008)
This chapter reviews the progress made in recent years to strengthen human
resources to deliver health care within a Primary Health Care approach. It focuses
specifically on the availability and preparedness of old and ...
Revolution in military affairs, missile defence and weapons in space: The US strategic triad
(Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, 2005)
American plans for Missile Defence (MD) and the weaponisation of space should be analysed in the larger framework of the contemporary Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA).1 Soviet military analysts have written about this ...
The Technological culture of war
(Sage, 2008)
The article proceeds from the argument that war is a social institution and not a historical inevitability of human interaction,
that is, war can be “unlearned.” This process involves deconstructing/dismantling war as an ...
The nonstructural protein 8 (nsp8) of the SARS coronavirus interacts with its ORF6 accessory protein
(Elsevier, 2007)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (SARS-CoV) caused a severe outbreak in several regions of the world in 2003. The
SARS-CoV genome is predicted to contain 14 functional open reading frames (ORFs). The ...
The politics of e-learning in South African higher education
(University of the West Indies, Distance Education Centre, 2007)
Introduction: The appearance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the intersection of
competing perspectives on higher education transformation in South Africa suggests that the
increasing use of ICTs ...
Over-expression of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 3b protein induces both apoptosis and necrosis in Vero E6 cells
(Elsevier, 2006)
The genome of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus encodes for eight accessory viral proteins with no known homologues in other
coronaviruses. One of these is the 3b protein, which is encoded by the second ...