|
EVERYONE ELSE
2008
Inspired by Nature, the synthetic self-assembly of
complex noncovalent systems in both solution and the solid state is
becoming increasingly feasible.
…
Because of the critical need to investigate systematics and
conservation problems in a holistic sense, Chimimba’s research is
essentially technique-driven and multidisciplinary in nature. It
encompasses a wide range of taxa due to the fact that the techniques
are similar regardless of taxa and geographic scope and is based on the
utilisation of classical taxonomy and both conventional and current
geometric techniques.
…
Tshikudu designed nanoparticles displaying versatile surface chemistry
and which are useful tools for many applications. Importantly, he
developed a generic platform allowing the attachment of biomolecular
functionality of choice on nanoparticle shells where the attached
biomolecules retain their biological activities.
Unattributed editorial
copy in the Mail and Guardian, in a supplement on National Science and
Technology Forum awards. May 30 2008.
Annual auditing of performance information conducted as part of the
regularity audit also scrutinises strategy plans such as those of
municipalities, looking at strategies to reach targets and how
resources are planned to be implemented. This then works into the area
of service delivery, Nombembe said.
Journalist Ilse Ferreira in an article – admittedly, about the auditor general. Mail and Guardian, May 30 2008.
The redesign of the operations model is aimed at extracting market scale and maturity.
Telkom chief of operations Motlatsi Nzeku. Mail and Guardian, May 30 2008.
He has helped pioneer a modern culture of wine growing in South Africa
that embraces typicity of terroir, unrestricted by “estate”
appellation.
Fairview wine estate, on its website www.fairview.co.za, speaking of founder Charles Back. May 2008.
Focusing on current developments within South African art today, and
founded upon a commitment to transforming traditions, Between Meaning
and Matter brings together an exhibition of dynamic works which are
grounded in the tension inherent in the relationship between meaning
and matter.
Suzette Bell-Roberts,
director of Cape Town’s Bell-Roberts art gallery, in publicity
material for a new exhibition. May 19 2008.
I left the stadium in umbral hours, with a smell of open
drains and other odours, and my emotions shimmering in ambiguity
against the sinking sun, wondering if I was alone in hearing, amidst
the mirth, a ghostly disquiet, a spectral weirdness and a hint of
derision in the air.
Freelance writer Mphuthumi Ntabeni, reflecting on a rally addressed by Jacob Zuma. Cape Times May 16 2008.
Immortal. I am a practising immortal. Time is a man-made
concept – time is not linear – and there are amazing
natural laws of the universe, and I prefer to live by those.
Cape Town model Natalie Becker, asked in a newspaper interview what the best age to be was. Weekend Argus May 11 2008.
The project has sought to produce a civil society-based
assessment of the key challenges, debates and areas of progress with
regard to local governance and development in South Africa, and to
provide local government policy-makers and practitioners with practical
recommendations to improve policy, guidelines, systems and
interventions where necessary.
Media release by the Good Governance Learning Network, a group of NGOs. May 5 2008.
We are busy with a new implementation of our customer
relationship management system that will address this issue with some
really innovative solutions.
Cell C customer care manager Clint Payne, responding to a complaint. Cape Times, April 18 2008.
Indeed, who occupies “upstairs” or
“downstairs”, metaphorically and otherwise, sets the scene
for a clever debate. But purposeful intervention in gallery space needs
skilled navigation and the visual-spatial dialogue needs careful
management. In this effort, it is individual pieces that offer (mostly
one-line) arguments, with little cross-talk leading elsewhere.
Art critic Melvyn Minnaar, reviewing an exhibition. Cape Times, April 15 2008.
“We highly commend the leadership and commitment displayed by this
institution in entrenching its critical role in local governance and
service delivery,” he said. Mr Makwetla added that they will
continue to enhance the meaningful participation of traditional
leadership institutions in development planning within the democratic
system of local government. “It is important to nurture our
strong partnership to ensure that we advance development and the
quality of service delivery,” he said.
Nthambeleni Gabara, of BuaNews, reporting a speech by Mpumalanga premier Thabang Makwetla. March 26 2008.
He has been consigned in – and – out of the hospital bed as a result of
the imperatives of nature. The General – Secretary is currently received
medical attention in a private hospital in South Africa. SSN believes
that the General – Secretary is a fighter and a revolutionary par
excellence and he will defy the imperatives of nature that are delaying
his revolutionary commitment and contribution to the liberation of
Swaziland.
The Swaziland Solidarity Network, in a statement on the hospitalisation of a prominent unionist. March 23 2008.
In this quite funky exhibition, he has orchestrated that
stratagem with great finesse. The paintings are presented not as
individual pieces as such, but as relentless, similarly sized and
executed pictures in a cool, collected “white cube”
installation. It becomes a loaded ambience thing, begging the
viewer’s attention.
Art critic Melvyn Minnaar. Cape Times, March 17 2008.
Intensified.
South African National Taxi Council general
secretary Philip Taaibosch’s description of what would happen to
fares in the wake of a fuel price hike. South African Press
Association, March 11 2008.
So getting into that agreement will you know limit the
chances of you know SACU engaging you know what with these emerging you
know economic giants. That’s why South Africa you know with its
global you know approach to economic development is saying that there
is a need to revisit the EPA.
Patrick Rankumise, researcher at the Africa Institute of South Africa. SAFM, March 4 2008.
The purpose of this event was to create the most
appropriate industry representative body which will provide the
requisite leadership in the successful development and implementation
of a credible industry-wide strategy capable of addressing key national
imperatives and industry objectives.
Johan van Rooyen, chief executive of the South
African Wine Industry Council. From the South African Wine Industry
Trust website. March 2008.
Think tanks have to be seen for what they are:
entrepreneurs intent on embedding particular policy outcomes at the
intersection of politics and management.
Politics professor Peter Vale, in the Mail and Guardian. February 29 2008.
It’s time for everyone to get the opportunity to utilise the benefits of our economic environment.
South African Post office, in a promotional supplement. Mail and Guardian, February 29 2008.
The city is the space of the imagining of an identity
and belonging that exits in the face of exclusionary practices
ideologised through an appeal to ethnic tradition.
…
The backdrops in these street photography are not dissimilar to the
painted backdrops in traditional studio photography, in the sense the
backdrops play an important role in the spatialisation of visual
meaning, and more specifically, the spatialisation of the personal
identities of the people being photographed.
Art critic Rory Bester, quoted in the Mail and Guardian, February 29 2008.
At the start of the workshop, Khanya-aicdd research
manager Stephen Greenberg said that traditional developmental
approaches are extractive in nature and the poor are treated as passive
subjects whose knowledge is drawn from them and then analysed and
distributed elsewhere, without making significant changes in their
lives.
Journalist Jane Kamau, writing in the Mail and Guardian, February 22 2008.
Blatter himself you know in that meeting where he was in
fact you know if ever it’s possible let me give you tomorrow the
clip of Blatter’s you know attendance in our last meeting
you know which is about you know two months ago, what he said in the
meeting. So that you know it’s always important that you know I
should not come here and pontificate you know and try and spin doctor
according to other people to give you the facts as to what Fifa thinks
of us. So I think maybe it’s also going to help you know the
people to understand that Fifa has got full confidence in what we are
doing. In fact the whole world and that is why you know I was humbled
and that’s why yesterday in the press conference you know when I
said you know what you know people said around the world about the
[indistinct].
Irvin Khoza, chairman of South Africa’s 2010 soccer world cup local organising committee. SAFM, February 19 2008.
Dumas’ art – the largest fragment from her
thoughts – displays itself like a smeared mirror focused on all
her obscurities.
Journalist Oliver Roberts. Sunday Times, February 17 2008.
His creative strategy is to explore the interplay of
observation and imagination and create a visualising strategy concerned
with making art a space where you can imagine and experience reality or
fiction differently and comprehensively.
Thembinkosi Goniwe in a catalogue essay on the work of fellow artist Kay Hassan. Quoted in the Cape Times February 12 2008.
I found that Lewis’ “moral law”
argument for the existence of God was most helpful. Lewis says every
human being has an in-built sense of right and wrong even though what
is right and wrong for people may mean different things.
George Irvine, director of the Institute for Spirituality. Weekend Post, February 2 2008.
The failure of most secular thinkers is in the
understanding that the existence of God can never be a scientific
hypothesis that’s open to rational demonstration. It is
impossible for a Creator to be comprehensible to his creatures. The
knowledge of God is a human need that comes from divine generosity; but
it can never be comprehension.
Mphuthumi Ntabeni, columnist in the Catholic newspaper The Southern Cross. January 2 2008.
2007
At 18h06 NSRI Wilderness launched their rescue vessel
Serendipity and an NSRI 4x4 rescue vehicle and Netcare 911 Ambulance
Services responded to the West side of the Lagoon where a local male
had suffered a drowning accident. On arrival on-scene the male was
resuscitated, suffering drowning symptoms, and revived on-scene and
transported to hospital in a stable but serious condition by Netcare
911 Ambulance Services.
National Sea Rescue Institute spokesman Craig Lambinon, in a media statement. December 31 2007.
Visiting hours 06h00 – 20h00
Any visit beyond the above limitation will amount to trespass and will
subject both the host and the trespasser to prosecution.
Sign at a University of Limpopo students’ residence. December 2007.
By its character the ANC is itself the fulcrum of the
convergence of different ideological streams current amongst the
progressive forces within the Alliance and the highest concentration of
socio-political forces mobilized behind the Freedom Charter.
Fikile Majola, general secretary of the
National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union. In Amandla!
magazine, December 2007.
No smoking.
Any person who fails to comply with this notice shall be prosecuted and may be liable to a fine.
Sign at OR Tambo International Airport, put up by the Airports Company of South Africa. December 2007.
No cheques excepted
Sign in the Wimpy at the Zepetelia One-Stop on the Great North Road. December 2007.
Aligning from motor vehicles prohibited.
No person shall align outside a rest camp or outside the fenced area of
a picnic site or any other authorised place from any motor vehicle in
such a manner that he shall either no longer touch such vehicle at all,
or shall touch it by being either on the running board or the roof or
by projecting his head…
South African National Parks visitor regulations. November 2007.
We expect the focus to now turn to introduction of
packaged Self-Service solutions that allow banks to introduce new
functionality to their online portals. These will also lead to the
alignment of Self-Service channels such as IVR, mobile, Internet and
ATMS with each other.
John Ziniades, chief executive of self-service specialist company Consology. November 20 2007.
Nadel is committed to engaging with both the Judge
President and the Chief Justice in an ongoing effort to ensure that the
image of the legal profession in general and the Judiciary in
particular is not brought under a negative spot light as it has
happened in this matter.
Media statement by Max Boqwana, general secretary of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers. October 23 2007.
During this strategic review the operational aspects of
all benefit options were considered along with the various legislative
demands. There is no doubt that enormous changes continue to take place
in the management of healthcare and PUREheal[t]h remains committed to
maximising its contribution for the wellbeing of its members.
PUREhealth medical scheme letter to members. October 2007.
To enhance the quality and consistency of audits, the
International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB), an
independent standard-setting board under the auspices of the
International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), is continuing to
advance its project to clarify its auditing standards. At its meeting
in September 2007, the IAASB approved for public comment the following
exposure drafts of proposed International Standards on Auditing (ISA):
- ISA 505 (Revised and Redrafted), External Confirmations;
- ISA 620 (Revised and Redrafted), Using the Work of an Auditor's Expert.
The above standards have been revised and redrafted in
accordance with the IAASB's new drafting conventions designed to
enhance the clarity of its pronouncements.
Bernard Agulhas, director for standards at the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors. October 19 2007.
ISA 705 has been revised and redrafted from the exposure
draft ISA 705 issued in March 2005 and is exposed for comment in
accordance with the IAASB’s new drafting conventions designed to
enhance the clarity of its pronouncements.
Bernard Agulhas, director for standards at the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors. October 19 2007.
The company has an ongoing research and development
programme in place, and future enhancements are will be [sic] announced
to clients and brokers shortly.
Ian Barton, managing director of First Property Acceptances, in an advertisement. Cape Argus September 27 2007.
Almost all properties are surveyed and clients are
informed of risk improvement recommendations, including fire prevention
and signage. They are also advised of compliance requirements relating
to fire extinguishing equipment. Product and service enhancement is an
ongoing process at First Property Acceptances.
Advertisement for First Property Acceptances. Cape Argus September 27 2007.
Taking the consolidation of passenger rail entities forward.
Slogan of a SA Rail Commuter Corporation campaign. September 7.
… Bundling as contemplated in paragraph 27 of the
Notice of Motion; save that bundling is not limited to issues of mixed
bundling and may, if
appropriate, include such matters as full line forcing.
Media statement by the Competition Tribunal, explaining the issues at stake in an appeal hearing. September 11 2007.
Matching and checking your income and expenditure helps you to determine how much you actually have on a monthly basis.
Alexander Forbes retirement fund quarterly newsletter. September 2007.
These attributable burdens are the independent
contributions and cannot be added together for risk factors that share
common causal pathways.
SA Medical Research Council, in an explanatory note appended to a media release. August 21 2007.
A comparative risk assessment (CRA) of the disease
burden is a systematic evaluation of the changes in population health
which would result from modifying the population distribution of
exposure to a particular risk factor or a group of risk factors.
SA Medical Research Council, in an explanatory note appended to a media release. August 21 2007.
Equities: Shares in a company…
Shares: see Equities.
From the glossary of an Alexander Forbes retirement fund
member booklet “written to help and empower you”. August
2007.
We have tried to make this guide as accurate and easy to
understand as possible. However, if there are any differences between
information in this booklet or the schedule and the Rules of the Fund
and/or the policies, the Rules and/or policies will apply.
From the glossary of an Alexander Forbes
retirement fund member booklet “written to help and empower
you”. August 2007.
By contracting our company, The City of Cape Town will have the benefit of:
It will highlight areas where greater or lesser investigation prevention is needed
It will assemble some of the facts needed for the development and the
justification of cost effective counter measures
It will serve to increase risk awareness by assessing the strengths and
weaknesses of security to all levels from management to operations
It will ultimately serve to reduce financial loss to persons investing
in schemes or tenders granted to parties without scrutinizing their
credibility.
Private investigators George Fivaz and Associates, Southern
Cape, in a quote to the City of Cape Town for a “threat
assessment”. June 11 2007.
The allegations in the report did not add any splash of colour in the
fabricated story more than taking sledgehammer to crack a nut. And why
did the distinctly African media institution chose to lie
unnecessarily, using the names of high-profile people presents a web of
uncertainties and complexities.
Mziwakhe Hlangani, spokesman for the National Union of
Mineworkers of South Africa, in a media statement challenging a news
report in City Press. May 28 2007.
Mission
The Commission on Gender Equality will fulfil its statutory mandate as an independent constitutional body by:
- Continuously engaging in co-operative and visible partnership with stakeholders.
- Supporting democratic processes in South Africa by
facilitating gender equality within the South African societal
structures as a whole.
Values
- Accountability: Honesty, transparency, being efficient by effective use of available resources and time.
- Professionalism: Communicate, behave and execute
duties in a manner that efficiently and effectively fulfils the mandate
and plan of action and enhances the positive image of the CGE.
Text on a Commission for Gender Equality folder. April 5 2007.
Values
- Professionalism -- Being efficient by effective use of resources available.
Website of the Commission for Gender Equality. April 5 2007.
Of course, for development activists and practitioners it is important to
make an impact, see a qualitative difference in the lives of people and
direct capacity, resources, effort and institutional frameworks to achieve
that purpose. It is also important to ensure that development practice -
be it through policy formulation, strategy design, programme
implementation - is informed by practical, theoretical and normative
insights. This raises a challenge to those involved in research: how to
ensure that research influences and, where necessary, challenges
development practice? And, equally important, how can research add
value to development practice by identifying the underlying assumptions,
critical issues and trends that warrant investigation to ensure that the
state and other development actors do not engage in 'bad' policy or
interventions that have detrimental outcomes?
Isandla Institute, in a preview of a development conference. March 2007.
AM Live, upon SAFM
SAFM slogan. March 2007.
Hoosain alerts audit firms that the redrafting of the
ISAs according to the clarity conventions may require changes to their
audit methodologies. “However, these changes will most likely
result from the separation of requirements from application material,
without any changes to the principles to be applied in the
audit.”
Media release by Beachhead Media on behalf of
the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors. IRBA chief executive
Kariem Hoosain explains that the board is helping the International
Auditing and Assurance Board “with their Clarity Project to
rewrite in plain English the International Standards on
Auditing”. February 20 2007.
The auditor will still have to comply with every
requirement of the auditing standards as it applies to the audited
entity to provide the entity with the assurance it requires.
Kariem Hoosain, chief executive of the Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors. February 12 2007.
Analytical procedures – Evaluations of financial
information made by a study of plausible relationships among both
financial and non-financial data. Analytical procedures also encompass
the investigation of identified fluctuations and relationships that are
inconsistent with other relevant information or deviate significantly
from predicted amounts.
Glossary of auditing terms produced by the Auditor-General. Publication date unknown, but it was being distributed in 2007.
Comprehensive basis of accounting – A
comprehensive basis of accounting comprises a set of criteria used in
preparing financial statements which applies to all material items and
which has substantial support.
Glossary of auditing terms produced by the Auditor-General. Publication date unknown, but it was being distributed in 2007.
Qualified opinions – A qualified opinion is
expressed when the auditor concludes that an unqualified opinion cannot
be expressed but that the effect of any disagreement with management
regarding departures from financial reporting framework, or limitation
on scope is not so material and pervasive as to require an adverse
opinion or a disclaimer of opinion.
Glossary of auditing terms produced by the Auditor-General. Publication date unknown, but it was being distributed in 2007.
I am a Professional responsible for Competency
Assessment based at the Recruitment section. As my title suggests, I am
responsible for all aspects pertaining to competency assessments within
Stats SA. My tasks at this stage include: coordinating all competency
assessments; identifying gaps in the current competency assessment
system/practices and recommending necessary improvements; and to
develop and implement a competency assessment centre aimed at
identifying candidates with the relevant competencies to fulfill the
goals of the organisation.
Statistics SA employee Shailkumari Ramgoolam in the organisation’s in-house magazine Pulse. 2007
2006
Girding the Public Service with the Appropriate Capacity
for Effective Service Delivery and Adherence to the Values of the
Constitution.
Title of a report by the Public Service Commission. 2006.
Deferred tax liabilities are recognised for all taxable
temporary differences and deferred tax assets are recognised to the
extent that it is probable that taxable profit will be available
against which deductible temporary differences can be utilised. Such
assets and liabilities are not recognised if the temporary difference
arises from goodwill (or negative goodwill) or from the initial
recognition (other than a business combination) of other assets and
liabilities in a transaction, which does not affect either taxable
profit or accounting profit.
…
The total amount to be expensed on a straight line basis over the
vesting period is determined by reference to the fair value of the
awards determined at the grant date. Non-market vesting conditions are
included in assumptions about the number of awards that are expected to
become due, including taking into account the forfeiture of instruments
due to resignation and these assumptions are reviewed on an annual
basis. The fair value of the share-based payment is measured using a
binomial tree model and/or a Monte Carlo Simulation model, as is
appropriate for the various schemes.
Tongaat Hulett, in explanatory notes on its 2005 financial statements.
2002
Origins
deep in your cheeks
your specific laughter owns
all things south of the ghosts
we once were. straight ahead
the memory beckons from the future
you and I a tribe of colours
this song that dance
godlike rhythms to birth
footsteps of memory
the very soul aspires to. Songs
of origins songs of constant beginnings
what is this thing called
love
Poem by Keorapetse Kgositsile from his collection If I Could Sing.
|