Managing Human Tissue Transfer Across National Boundaries - An Approach from an Institution in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Safia Mahomed ◽  
Kevin Behrens ◽  
Melodie Slabbert ◽  
Ian Sanne
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Tissue ◽  
Tissue Transfer ◽  
National Boundaries

A study of naturally mummified human tissue from Historic Cave, Limpopo, South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Karodia ◽  
J.I. Phillips ◽  
A.B. Esterhuysen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Tissue

scholarly journals The legal position on the classification of human tissue in South Africa: Can tissues be owned?

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Safia Mahomed ◽  
Melodie Nöthling-Slabbert ◽  
Michael S Pepper
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Tissue ◽  
Legal Position

Forward to Johannesburg and hydro-solidarity

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 77-81
Author(s):  
R. Kasrils
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Common ◽  
Clean Drinking Water ◽  
National Boundaries

The provision of clean drinking water and adequate sanitation is one of the simplest and most effective steps to eradicating poverty. In South Africa a major programme is underway which will ensure all South Africans have a clean water supply within six years, and access to acceptable sanitation within ten years. Total basin management, transcending national boundaries, is essential to ensure the use of water for the common good of all. The term "hydro-solidarity" illustrates water as a catalyst for co-operation.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
David Finkelstein
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

This introduction explains the rationale for undertaking this sort of study, and offers a summary of the book. This is an interdisciplinary study of the ‘webs of empire’ that underpinned and enabled skilled print labour networks over the Victorian and Edwardian periods. It is a cultural history, with chapters incorporating original material linked to labour history, working-class literary culture, migration, social history, and print culture. Drawing on a range of unique primary and secondary sources covering Australia, Canada, the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States, it focuses on the ‘typographical web’ that encompassed print economies across these regions. It offers insights into how print culture structures translated across national boundaries, how print workers were mobilized and organized as the century progressed, and how shared craft identities, creative endeavours, and trade press publications created a sense of moral community linking the printing fraternity across space and time.

An Inquiry into the Green Disciplining of Capital

10.1068/a3428 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 827-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jody Emel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Environmental Management ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Irian Jaya ◽  
Institutional Practice ◽  
The Earth ◽  
West Papua ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Norm Change

‘Following the money’ has become a popular strategy for many NGOs trying to change corporate and institutional practice. Individual shareholders, pension funds, banks, and other investors capitalize projects that cause ecological degradation or social injustice. Pressuring shareholders to divest, invest responsibly, or encourage executives to alter undesirable practices has become de rigueur for civil-society groups working for social change. Such strategies produce value or norm change, greater accountability, activist networks across national boundaries, and improvements in environmental management. Disinvestment helped bring down apartheid in South Africa. But how far can these ‘disciplining’ strategies go in terms of significantly ameliorating ecological destruction and violations of human rights? I explore this question using the case study of the campaign by Friends of the Earth against the operations of Freeport – McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. in Irian Jaya (West Papua).

scholarly journals Use and usefulness of measures of marine endemicity in South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol Volume 112 (Number 3/4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Griffiths ◽  
Tamara B. Robinson ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Sampling Effort ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Marine Biota ◽  
Range Restriction ◽  
Political Boundaries ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
The Many

Abstract Numerous authors have cited numbers, or proportions, of endemic species within South(ern) African marine taxa, but comparisons between these statistics are confounded by differing definitions of regional boundaries and differences among data sets analysed. These have resulted in considerable variations in published endemicity data, even within the same taxonomic group. We tabulated and compared key endemicity statistics for regional marine taxa and explained biases in the data sets. The most comprehensive data sets available give overall marine endemicity within the national boundaries of South Africa as 28–33%, but estimates within individual taxa making up these totals vary enormously, from 0% (Aves, Mammalia) to over 90% (Polyplacophora). We also examined published data documenting localised endemicity patterns around the coastline. These consistently show the highest numbers of endemics occurring along the South Coast. There are logical biogeographical reasons to expect this trend, but endemicity rates are also inherently biased by distance from defined political boundaries and by differing sampling effort locally and in neighbouring countries. Range restriction is considered a better measure of conservation status than endemicity, although it is far less often used and yields very different patterns. Properly and consistently calculated measures of national endemicity do, however, retain significant conservation value, and the rates for South Africa marine biota are high relative to other regions globally, being exceeded only by New Zealand and Antarctica. It is important that when citing endemicity statistics, researchers and conservation managers understand the definitions used and the many constraints under which these measures are derived.

The Global Turn

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Burawoy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Global South ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Labor Studies ◽  
Labor Organizing ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Boundaries

For too long U.S. labor sociology has been reluctant to explore the world. By taking a global turn, we have much to learn from labor scholars and labor movements in the Global South—much to learn about our own peculiarities, about the possibilities and obstacles to building links across national boundaries, and about the implications of “globalization” for both labor organizing and labor studies. In particular, the public turn taken by scholars in the Global South toward their own labor movements holds lessons for a collaboration that is always fraught from both sides. These are just some of the issues raised by the essays in this issue that examine the history of labor sociologies and labor movements in Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and South Korea.

scholarly journals Re-Locating Memories: Transnational and Local Narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Town

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (8) ◽  
pp. 1065-1079
Author(s):  
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Transnational Memory ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Local Narratives

This article plays on the word re-location to examine the memories of Indians in South Africa through oral histories about relocation as a result of the Group Areas Act, to memories of parents and grandparents relocating to South Africa from India as told to interviewers and to their own memories of journeys to India and back. The narratives of mobilities traverse time and national boundaries and are counter-posed by narratives of local mobilities as well as stasis. The article identifies ways of narrating, themes of narration and the meaning of memories while noting the re-location of memory construction against the backdrop of South Africa’s democratic transition and the 150th commemoration of the arrival of indentured Indians to South Africa. It argues that the local and the national are important in narrations of transnational journeys, thus advancing a particular approach to transnational memory studies.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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