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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.

 

 
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