REVISITING SOUTH AFRICAN EMPLOYMENT TRENDS IN THE 1990S

Employment contracts for South African doctors.

To the Editor: There has been concern about the loss of health care professionals from South Africa, and while there are multiple factors contributing to this, one of them, in my opinion, is that health care professionals work under poor employment terms and conditions. My brief experience with South African employment after a period of time in the UK led to an unfair dismissal (Commission for ...

Revisiting South African Journalism Education in the Post-apartheid Era

As elsewhere in the world (Frölich & Holtz-Bacha, 2003; Murray & Moore, 2003), journalism in South Africa is still, after decades, trying to find its niche within the university scholarly environment. Since the turn to democracy in 2004, journalism and journalism education have experienced profound changes. Technologically, reporting has moved from a position where conventional printed media, r...

Welfare and Employment Transitions in the 1990s

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

Fertility Trends in the South African Sugar Industry

Since the nutrient survey of the South African sugar industry in 1970 little use has been made of analytical data for determining trends in soil fertility and plant nutnent uptake in the regional extension areas of the industry. This became possible in 1980 following computerisation of fertilizer recommendations by the Fertilizer Advisory Service (FAS)of the Experiment Station. Since then a dat...