Van Niekerk Research Articles

Also sprach Treppie: Taal en verhaal as muurpapier in Marlene van Niekerk se <i>Triomf</i> (of 'It’s all in the mind')

Also sprach Treppie; Language and narrative as wall paper in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf (or, ‘it's all in the mind’) In Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf “wall paper" becomes a central metaphor for the Idea that language, narratives, ideologies, religion etc. are lies, because it leads to generalisations. These generalisations deny “reality” and are in Treppie’s words “all in the mind”. Treppie’s efforts to tear down the wall paper could be described in Nietzschean terms as resistance to Apollinian veils (especially the veils of Christian national ideology) in order to expose Dionysian chaos. It is a resistance to any form of generalisation and a distrust of language. In the end Treppie turns to language (poetic language) in order to make sense of life, to lay bare the particular In poetry (literature) an intersubjectivity is discovered which subverts the possibility to deny the specificity of individuals like the Benade’s of Triomf.

Experiences of A Siege: A Diary of The Siege of Kimberley, 21 September 1899 - 16 February 1900, edited by Vida Allen and F.B. van Niekerk Kimberley, the Historical Society of Kimberley and Northern Cape and McGregor Museum, 2000. viii, 180pp. ISBN 0-620-24767-3.

Experiences of A Siege: A Diary of The Siege of Kimberley, 21 September 1899 - 16 February 1900, edited by Vida Allen and F.B. van Niekerk Kimberley, the Historical Society of Kimberley and Northern Cape and McGregor Museum, 2000. viii, 180pp. ISBN 0-620-24767-3. - Volume 84

The Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Cape Town: a brief historical overview.

Neurosurgery as an independent discipline at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town commenced with the return of Hermann de Villiers Hammann from Munich in 1946. He developed the unit with Alex Gonski, J.P. Van Niekerk, P. Keet, and A.P. Rose-Innes. Jacquez (Kay) C. de Villiers followed in 1966, becoming the first Helen and Morris Mauerberger Professor and chairman of neurosurgery at Groote Schuur Hospital, the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, and Conradie Hospital. During that period, many contemporary South African neurosurgeons received their training, and the unit developed and expanded its reputation as a center of excellence in Africa. Since 1994, Jonathan C. Peter has been the Helen and Morris Mauerberger Professor and chairman of the department, which now consists of six full-time neurosurgeons, six part-time consultants, seven registrars, and two interns. Two to three thousand outpatients are treated each year, and approximately 1000 surgical procedures are performed. Sociopolitical changes in South Africa have resulted in a reduction in funding of tertiary academic health services, and this presents major challenges for the future.

Post Gondwana African landd surfaces and pedogenetic ferromanganese deposits on the Witwatersrand at the West Wits Gold Mine, South Africa : Beukes N.J., van Niekerk H.S. & Gutzmer J., South African Journal of Geology, 1999, 102/1 (65–82)

Post Gondwana African landd surfaces and pedogenetic ferromanganese deposits on the Witwatersrand at the West Wits Gold Mine, South Africa : Beukes N.J., van Niekerk H.S. & Gutzmer J., South African Journal of Geology, 1999, 102/1 (65–82)

KWU-werkersklasdramas in Afrikaans (ca. 1930 - ca. 1950)

GWU working class theatre in Afrikaans (ca. 1930 - ca. 1950)In 1984 Elsabé Brink drew attention to plays, prose and poetry written between 1930 and 1950 in Afrikaans by members of the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU). Scholars such as Stander and Willemse (1992), Van Niekerk (1996) and Van Wyk (1995, 1997) have also referred to GWU plays. Apart from these overviews, GWU plays as such have not yet received the attention they deserve. This article presents a revaluation, initially by providing an overview of their contents, followed by an examination of cultural, economic and political influences. It is argued that - retrospectively - the GWU plays reflected a unique cultural specificity from the framework established by Sitas (1986) for more contemporary working class theatre.

Penetration of cefpodoxime into middle ear fluid in pediatric patients with acute otitis media.

Penetration of cefpodoxime into middle ear fluid in pediatric patients with acute otitis media.

A first report on the morphology of the postantennal process inLernanthropus(Lernanthropidae: Copepoda) and its Possible Significance as a Taxonomic Feature

Notes on the postantennal process as a category of cuticular spines of parasitic Copepoda are given. Arguments on the status of the postantennal process as an appendage are briefly compared. It is concluded that these structures are cuticular outgrowths and not appendages. The morphology of this structure is concisely compared in the Caiigidae, Taeniacanthidae and Lernanthropidae. The structure of postantennal processes, based on light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies, of five species of Lernanthropus (L. capistroides Olivier & Van Niekerk, L, sarbae Kensley & Grindley, L. gisieri Van Beneden, L. sp.A and L. sp.B) is discussed and illustrated. Morphological differences of possible taxonomic value are highlighted.

Voices in Contemporary South African Narrative: An Exploration of Narrative Strategies for Engaging with Current Socio‐Political Issues

Summary The article comments on the depiction of socio‐political issues in a post‐apartheid society as reflected in specially selected novels by J.M. Coetzee, I. Vladislavic and M. van Niekerk. A comparative study reveals that the authors, while highlighting the plight of the destitute, the homeless and the socially unacceptable, are simultaneously pinpointing not only the decline, but also the reversal of institutionalized values. The hitherto unconventional approach to contemporary problems places the onus on the reader to come to terms with socio‐political issues he or she has, thus far, been hesitant to acknowledge or confront.

South Africa's Health: New South Africa's doctors: a state of flux

Over 25 000 doctors are registered in South Africa, and they serve a population of about 40 million. The doctor to population ratio in South Africa is higher than that in countries like Mozambique, Nigeria, and Chile but lower than that in other countries like Brazil, Greece, and Britain (table 1). The number of doctors who are actually in practice is probably fewer because of emigration. The exact number of doctors who have left South Africa is not known. Dr David Green, director of Profession Development for the Medical Association of South Africa, said that doctors who leave the country continue to be members of the association and often provide another South African address, making it difficult for the association to know if they have left. Some data are available for the period before 1989.1 In 1986, the number of doctors registered with the South African Medical and Dental Council dropped from 20477 to 20229, largely because of migration, and in 1987, 72 family practitioners and 21 specialists migrated. View this table: TABLE I Doctors per 1000 population (1988–92) White men dominate the profession, but this is changing. Data available for 1985 show that 94% of specialists and 83% of non-specialists were men, and that 88% of all doctors were white.1 The number of non-white students admitted to medical colleges has increased in the last few years. Professor J R van Dellen, dean of the faculty of medicine of the University of Natal, and Professor J P de V van Niekerk, dean of the University of Cape Town Medical School, provided data that show a definite increase in the numbers of non-white students admitted to their colleges (fig 1,2). Fig 1 Graduates from University of Natal Medical School, 1957-92 Fig 2 New admissions, University of Cape Town Medical School, 1981-94 The distribution of doctors is skewed …

Development and the mystification of ‘cultural factors’: One destiny: Our common future in Africa, by A S van Niekerk

In One destiny: Our common future in Africa the author relates, in popular fashion, a series of incidents which convinced him that the basic difference between black and white in South Africa is cultural deep‐seated and the cause of underdevelopment and conflict He develops a circular argument in which world‐view is taken as the root of perceptions, values and activities. The effects of experience and economic and political factors are given secondary importance. This argument cannot accommodate social change and differentiation, and the author tends to concentrate on perceptions and events which he finds morally unacceptable. He gives an unbalanced assessment and an ethnocentric interpretation of African life. Possible reasons for this type of argument are explored and an alternative which takes its departure from the interaction between experience and perception is offered

Nederland(s) en sy (Suid-) Afrikaanse metafore

Afrikaans metaphors for Dutch and the NetherlandsThere seems to be an irrepressible urge to metaphorize the relation between the Netherlands and South Africa in the Afrikaans popular imagination, perhaps in order to bridge the growing separation between the two countries. Four complexes of such metaphors, window, family relations, root and landscape, are briefly analysed, with most emphasis on the last category. From a handful of Afrikaans poems since 1950, and especially from poems by Elizabeth Eybers, Lina Spies and Marlene van Niekerk, it seems possible to reconstruct a descriptive system that underlies poems contrasting the Netherlands (represented by Amsterdam in particular) as a safe, protected space with the South African landscape as open and exposed. These poems also clearly show up the dialectic of abrogation and appropriation and the anxiety about land and identity so typical of postcolonial literatures.

Lesotho Highlands Scheme — compactability problems of crushed stone : Van Niekerk, G C; Weyers, A Proc Tenth Regional Conference for Africa on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and the Third International Conference on Tropical and Residual Soils, Maseru, 23–27 September 1991V1, P343–350. Publ Rotterdam: A A Balkema, 1991

Lesotho Highlands Scheme — compactability problems of crushed stone : Van Niekerk, G C; Weyers, A Proc Tenth Regional Conference for Africa on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and the Third International Conference on Tropical and Residual Soils, Maseru, 23–27 September 1991V1, P343–350. Publ Rotterdam: A A Balkema, 1991

Discussion of “ Routing of Heterogeneous Sediments over Movable Bed: Model Development ” by Andre van Niekerk, Koen R. Vogel, Rudy L. Slingerland, and John S. Bridge (February, 1992, Vol. 118, No. 2)

Discussion of “ <i>Routing of Heterogeneous Sediments over Movable Bed: Model Development</i> ” by Andre van Niekerk, Koen R. Vogel, Rudy L. Slingerland, and John S. Bridge (February, 1992, Vol. 118, No. 2)

Closure to “ Routing of Heterogeneous Sediments over Movable Bed: Model Development ” by Andre van Niekerk, Koen R. Vogel, Rudy L. Slingerland, and John S. Bridge (February, 1992, Vol. 118, No. 2)

Closure to “ <i>Routing of Heterogeneous Sediments over Movable Bed: Model Development</i> ” by Andre van Niekerk, Koen R. Vogel, Rudy L. Slingerland, and John S. Bridge (February, 1992, Vol. 118, No. 2)

Anton van Niekerk - Rasionaliteit en relaiivisme. Op soek na 'n rasionaliteitsmodel vir die menswetenskappe. 1992. Pretoria: RGN.

This review article places Van Niekerk's book in the context of the current debate on rationality and relativism. The most important challenge which emerges from this debate is to develop a conception of rationality which neither reverts to an a-historical foundational ism nor succumbs to the temptation of relativism. Van Niekerk responds to this challenge by developing a hermeneutical model of rationality for the human sciences. My discussion of Van Niekerk’s book highlights his critique of relativism and his efforts to reconcile rationality and historicity. In evaluating his arguments for this reconciliation, I come to the conclusion that his efforts are beset by unresolved tensions.

Hendrik Albertus and his Ex-slave Mey: A Drama in Three Acts

This essay draws on documents relating to a single extraordinary episode, and on supporting materials, to illustrate aspects of the mentalités of slaves, slave-owners, and Protectors of Slaves in the British South African colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The narrative follows the story of a slave, Mey, who was harshly beaten twice within six days in 1832. Mey, and several other slaves who had been whipped for the same offence, accepted the first punishment; Mey complained about the second, which he alone suffered, to a colonial official called the Protector of Slaves. The Protector vigorously investigated the complaint. Mey's master, Hendrik Albertus van Niekerk, co-operated only reluctantly with the investigation. As the Protector pursued the case, van Niekerk suddenly brought it to an end by manumitting Mey, giving cash compensation to the other slaves he had whipped, and paying legal fines.The behaviour of each of the men fails to conform to the roles conventional wisdom has prepared for masters, slaves, and colonial officials. The essay demonstrates that the men were not eccentric, but that they were both rational and representative of their class. Mey acted as he did because the slaves had developed a ‘moral economy of the lash’ and because the second beating fell outside the boundaries of acceptable punishment by those standards. The Protector prosecuted van Niekerk with determination because he believed the punishment had been brutal and capricious and because Mey was a good slave who had been wronged. Hendrik Albertus freed Mey and compensated the other slaves because he refused to accept the legitimacy of the Protector. He settled the case before he was forced to visit the Protector's office or face Mey in court. To have honored the law and to have answered Mey's charge directly would have been to dishonor himself. He would have compromised the power and authority on which his honor as a slave-owner rested. Hendrik Albertus valued his honor more highly than one slave and a few pounds Sterling.

Serum Cortisol Concentrations in Children with Protein-Energy Malnutrition

ABSTRACT We measured basal Cortisol levels in 15 children with kwashiorkor, 15 children with marasmic kwashiorkor, and 21 children with marasmus, before and after nutritional rehabilitation, as wel...

The Cloistered Virtue: Freedom of Speech and the Administration of Justice in the Western World. By Barend van Niekerk. (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1987. xxxviii, 399p. $49.95).

Foreword by John Dugard Eulogy for Professor Barend Van Niekerk by Dr. Alan Paton Preface Introduction The Concept of Freedom of Speech in the Legal Domain and its Premises The Formal Restrictions on Legal Free Speech: The Protection of the Prestige and Standing of Legal Officers and of the Administration of Justice Trial Publicity Restrictions Informal Restrictions and Indirect Sanctions on Free Speech in the Legal Domain Conclusion: The Unending Struggle Notes Afterword: Freedom of Speech and the Administration of Justice--Recent Developments by Gilbert Marcus Index

Die rol van fokalisering as manipuleringstegniek in die produksie en resepsie van jeugverhale: die verhouding tussen volwasse outeur en jeugleser met spesiale verwysing na drie verhale van Dolf van Niekerk

A survey of the research done in literature written specifically for adolescents, shows that remarkably little has been done to analyse the reception and production of such works. Those works, which touch on the suitability of adolescent literature , are rarely based on the principles of a literary-scientific approach. The reasons for this may lie in the fairly abstract nature of any literary work. In this article an attempt is made to find some general guidelines which may be of relevance in the field of young adult reading. Using the works of a popular writer of Afrikaans books for adolescents, Dolf van Niekerk, the article focuses on the unique features of books for young readers, those aspects which distinguish this genre from adult literature, and the factors which make such works more acceptable to teenage readers,

The Cloistered Virtue: Freedom of Speech and the Administration of Justice in the Western World

Journal Article The Cloistered Virtue: Freedom of Speech and the Administration of Justice in the Western World Get access The Cloistered Virtue: Freedom of Speech and the Administration of Justice in the Western World. By Barend van Niekerk. New York: Praeger, 1987. Pp. xxviii, 399. Eric Barendt Eric Barendt *Fellow and Tutor in Law, St. Catherine's College, Oxford. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 36, Issue 2, Spring 1988, Pages 362–368, https://doi.org/10.2307/840415 Published: 01 April 1988