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340 leaves printed on single pages, preliminary pages i-xvii and numbered pages 1-322. Includes bibliography, table of contents, list of figures, list of tables, list of abbreviations. / Dissertation (PhD)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study represents a descriptive analysis of the tensions that drive the need for an educated military in South Africa and, more specifically the role of the South African Military Academy in the provision thereof. The purpose of the research was to demarcate the proper role of the South African Military Academy in the academic and professional preparation of officers for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). This purpose necessitated, firstly, an analysis of the need for education in armed forces in general and in South Africa in particular, with specific reference to the tensions underpinning military education and training. It secondly called for a broad assessment of the nature of professional military education in the SANDF at large to contextualise the role and function of the South African Military Academy. These discussions are based on a literature overview, document analysis and unstructured interviews with decision makers. In the first part of the study, a framework is developed for the education of officers. The framework is based on the assumption that modern military professionalism is rooted in a need for training to develop military skills, education to understand and develop the military body of knowledge and experience as the application of skills and knowledge. It is also based on the identification of four knowledge clusters that need to be the focus of officer education, namely the external security environment within which armed forces operate, the nature of armed forces as organisations, the professional employment of armed force(s), and the physical environment within which armed forces operate. The framework highlights three levels of officer development: the making of lieutenants, the making of colonels, and the making of generals. This framework is used for the analysis of education, training and development in the SANDF. Both the positive and negative attributes as well as trends in training and education in the SANDF are discussed. The discussion serves as the departing point for an outline of the debate about the role of the Military Academy since democratisation in 1994. It is argued that there is no clarity about the role and function of the Military Academy. Critical questions are also asked about the nature of the academic programmes offered to officers at the Military Academy. The departmental level agreement between the Department of Defence and the University of Stellenbosch is pointed out as the raison d'être for many of the problems with which the Military Academy is confronted. The study finally highlights the need for education as a requirement for officership in the SANDF, a reconsideration of military socialisation at the Military Academy, the difficult position of the Faculty of Military Science, the need for a core academic programme, and structural changes that are needed at the Military Academy. It is recommended that, like many foreign military academies, the future existence of the Military Academy be assured through national legislation. The involvement of the University of Stellenbosch in the education of young officers at the Military Academy should not be terminated. However, the existence, functioning, organisation and structure of the Military Academy should not be based on a “goodwill-approach” between the University and the Department of Defence. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie bied beskrywende analise van die spannings wat die behoefte aan opgevoede weermag in Suid-Afrika onderlê en, meer spesifiek, die rol van die Militêre Akademie in die voorsiening van opvoeding in dié verband. Die besondere oogmerk van die navorsing is die afbakening van die werklike rol van die Suid-Afrikaanse Militêre Akademie in die akademiese en professionele voorbereiding van offisiere vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag (SANW). Hierdie oogmerk vereis, eerstens, ontleding van die noodsaaklikheid vir die opvoeding van weermagte in die algemeen en in Suid-Afrika in die besonder, met spesifieke verwysing na die spannings wat militêre opvoeding en opleiding onderlê. Dit noodsaak, tweedens, breë waardering van die aard van professionele militêre opvoeding in die SANW om die rol en funksie van die Suid-Afrikaanse Militêre Akademie te kontekstualiseer. Die besprekings is gebaseer op literatuuroorsig, dokumentontleding en ongestruktureerde onderhoude. In die eerste deel van die studie word raamwerk vir die opvoeding van offisiere ontwikkel. Dié raamwerk is gebaseer op die aanname dat moderne militêre professionalisme gebaseer is op militêre opleiding om vaardighede te ontwikkel, opvoeding om die militêre kennisliggaam te verstaan en ontwikkel, asook ervaring as toepassing van vaardighede en kennis. Die raamwerk omvat ook die identifisering van vier fokus kennisareas, naamlik die eksterne omgewing waarin weermagte opereer, die organisatoriese aard van krygsmagte, die professionele aanwending van krygsmag(te), en die fisiese omgewing waarin krygsmagte opereer. Die raamwerk beklemtoon voorts drie vlakke van offisiersopvoeding: die ontwikkeling van luitenante, die ontwikkeling van kolonels, en die ontwikkeling van generaals. Die raamwerk word vervolgens vir ontleding van opvoeding, opleiding en ontwikkeling in die SANW gebruik. Beide die positiewe en die negatiewe kenmerke sowel as tendense van opleiding en opvoeding in die SANW word bespreek. Dié bespreking dien as vertrekpunt vir ontleding van die debat oor die rol van die Militêre Akademie sedert demokratisering in 1994. Daar word aangevoer dat daar geen duidelikheid oor die rol en funksie van die Militêre Akademie bestaan nie. Kritiese vrae word gevra oor die aard van die akademiese programme wat aan offisiere by die Militêre Akademie gebied word. Die departementele ooreenkoms tussen die departement van Verdediging en die Universiteit Stellenbosch word voorgehou as die raison d'être van baie probleme waarmee die Akademie gekonfronteer word. Die studie beklemtoon die behoefte aan opvoeding as vereiste vir offisierskap in die SANW, die heroorweging van militêre sosialisering by die Militêre Akademie, die heroorweging van die posisie van die Fakulteit Krygskunde, die behoefte aan akademiese kernleerplan, en strukturele veranderinge wat by die Militêre Akademie vereis word. Daar word aanbeveel dat, soos in die geval van verskeie buitelandse militêre akademies, die toekoms van die Militêre Akademie deur nasionale wetgewing verseker word. Die betrokkenheid van die Universiteit Stellenbosch in die opvoeding van offisiere moenie daardeur beëindig word nie. Die bestaan, funksionering, organisering en struktuur van die Militêre Akademie moet egter nie op “welwillendheidsooreenkoms” tussen die Universiteit en die Departement van Verdediging gebaseer wees nie.

Thesis (DPhil)—-Stellenbosch University, 2008. / This dissertation investigates the role played by France in the supply of military equipment and the transfer of technology to South Africa from 1960. This Franco-South African defence cooperation was opportune for South Africa, as she faced escalating international criticism over the apartheid issue and, from December 1963, the first military embargo, one joined by her erstwhile arms suppliers. The accession of the National Party (NP) to power in South Africa in 1948 brought a range of legislation that gave substance to the nationalist policy of apartheid. The suffering of the South African black population and the refusal of the South African government to revise its domestic policy, despite the growing international pressure, induced the newly-independent, Afro-Asian countries to press the United Nations (UN) to take tougher actions against Pretoria. At the same time opposing Black Nationalist movements, the African National Congress (ANC) the South West African Peoples’ Organisation (SWAPO) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) adopted militant actions in response to increasingly repressive race legislation in South Africa and South West Africa/Namibia. Furthermore, when in 1961 South Africa left the British Commonwealth, she lost the long-term military commitment from London she had enjoyed for much of the twentieth century. South Africa would now have to satisfy her defence needs elsewhere. Pretoria knew that she needed a strong, well-equipped defence force in order to face the growing internal conflict as well as a possible military onslaught from outside the country. As a result, South Africa faced the first arms embargo in 1963 when her traditional arms suppliers, Britain and the USA elected to observe the voluntary terms of the embargo instituted by the UN. France, at the time under the leadership of General Charles de Gaulle, identified an opportunity to strengthen her relations with South Africa and acquire the much-needed strategic materials for her nuclear programme; he decided to fill the space in the military market vacated by Britain and the USA. From 1964, France became Pretoria’s most important arms supplier, a relationship that lasted throughout the Gaullist administration. De Gaulle’s decision to supply South Africa with French military equipment and the transfer of technological know-how was based mainly on political, military and economic considerations. In short, De Gaulle wanted to free France from a military dependency on the United States, which had come to dominate NATO, and, by extension, Western Europe. Feeling hemmed in by les anglo-saxons, France, facing a shortage of North American uranium for her nuclear programme from 1957, sought new partners to shore up her own strategic vulnerability and ensure a role for her in world politics. Moreover, in the early 1960s, Apartheid had not yet become an electoral issue in France, as it was in Britain and the USA, and, in any case, France herself was drawing negative comment for her actions in the Algerian war of national independence. The logical outcome was a comfortable rapprochement, for the moment at least, between Paris and Pretoria. This military cooperation was broad-fronted and sustained until France implemented her first partial military embargo in 1975 and voted for the UN mandatory arms embargo in 1977. But, by this time, the weapons industry in South Africa, home-grown with French assistance, was well-established and placed South Africa in a position to launch military campaigns against the frontline states, commencing with Operation Savannah in late 1975. This study analyses the content and impact of the military cooperation between Paris and Pretoria and creates a better understanding of political and economic dimensions that were the key in the conduct of Franco-South African defence relations between 1960 and 1990.

The productivity and well-being of the SANDF are dependent on the effective functioning of its individual members, positive relationships amongst various groups of members and between members and the organization. Military social work, based on occupational social work, was established in order to support the well-being of the organization. Supervisors within the South African National Defence Force play a fundamental role in the management and assistance of employees and organizational units whose performance is affected by a range of problems. These supervisors are the key role players in the identification and effective referral of 'employees whose performance is affected by problem situations. The Supervisory Training Course was developed and implemented by military social workers as a training aid to equip supervisors in appropriate ways of managing and assisting employees and organizational units. The Supervisory Training Course (a very comprehensive package) is currently presented on a small scale amongst SANDF supervisors. These supervisors are not using acquired knowledge and skills effectively regarding the management of their subordinates. This situation motivated the researcher to undertake this study. / Thesis (M.A. (MW))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006.

Mme de Murat témoigne incontestablement d’un intérêt pour la défense des femmes : n’en annonce-t-elle pas clairement le projet dans l’« Avertissement » de ses Mémoires, projet auquel semble faire écho son Épître « aux fées modernes » ? Cette préoccupation parcourt l’ensemble d’une œuvre qui se place résolument dans une tradition littéraire féminine et qui entend réagir à la domination patriarcale de la société d’Ancien Régime. Cependant l’ambition de l’auteur se situe bien au-delà du projet initial : il s’agit moins de défendre les femmes que de conquérir, par cette défense, une place, indépendamment de toute caractérisation sexuée. La définition de cette place se fait par une écriture qui permet à l’auteur de se distinguer, de se montrer et de consacrer ce qu’elle veut être sa propre supériorité.La quête de soi passe donc essentiellement par autrui, par ses regards et ses discours sur un je qui ne cesse de se mettre en scène. Les discours deviennent ainsi le lieu d’affrontement des pouvoirs, et notamment ceux que la société impose au je. La comtesse de Murat l’a bien compris, et s’attache à dévoiler les mécanismes de la crédulité qui entretiennent la doxa sur les femmes et sur lesquels reposerait plus généralement l’autorité sociale. L’auteur forme alors le projet à son tour de parvenir à la maîtrise des discours qui lui permettrait de détruire les discours oppressifs et de parvenir par la parole à l’affirmation libératoire du je. / Madame de Murat is clearly interested in the defence of women: doesn’t she make her intent clear in the “Foreword” to her Mémoires, as echoed in her Epistle “to modern fairies”? This preoccupation runs throughout a body of work that resolutely belongs to the female literary tradition and that seeks to challenge patriarchal domination in Ancien Régime society. However, the writer’s ambition reaches far beyond her initial intent: it is not so much to defend women as to conquer a place in society through defending them, irrelevant of gender categories. The definition of this place is achieved through a writing that enables her to stand out, show herself to the world and promote what she sees as her own superiority. The quest for self is mediated essentially through the other and his or her looks and discourses as they impact the “I” being displayed. Discourses become the battlefields where the powers clash, especially those that society imposes on the “I”. The Comtesse de Murat is perfectly aware of this and endeavours to unveil the mechanisms of credulity that foster the doxa on women and which social authority supposedly rests on. Her goal is from then on to master the discourses that will help her destroy the oppressive discourses and achieve the liberating affirmation of the “I” through words.

The notion that we are voluntary agents who exercise power to choose and, in doing so, determine some of what happens in the world has been an important notion in certain theological accounts concerning our relationship with God (e.g. 'the freewill defence' for God's goodness and omnipotence in light of moral evil and accounts of human moral responsibility in relation to God). However, it has been claimed that the physicalism supported by contemporary neuroscience research calls into question human voluntary agency and, with it, human power to choose. Emergentist (or non-reductive physicalist) accounts of psychological phenomena have been presented as a way of reconciling the physicalism supported by contemporary neuroscience and the theologically important notion of human power to choose. But there are several issues that remain for the plausibility of the required kind of emergentist account; namely - Does recent neuroscience research show that voluntary agency is an illusion? and Is there evidence for neurophysiological causes which, along with neurophysiological conditions, determine all we do? In this dissertation I set out to address these issues and, in doing so, present an account of voluntary agency as power to choose in the state of being aware of alternatives. I argue that this account allows for the notion that human beings determine some of what happens in a way that is consistent with what contemporary neuroscience shows. Thus, contemporary neuroscience does not undermine this notion of human voluntary agency; or, then, the predominant theological view that we are morally responsible in our relationship with God.

The first chapter of the theoretical part of this master's thesis summarizes basic knowledge about crises. The second chapter deals with ways of protecting people from crises. It covers defence mechanisms, coping strategies and social support. Chapter 3 describes specialist help for people suffering crises, and provides a summary of basic information about crisis intervention. The next chapter deals with children in crisis situations, major types of stress situations for children, their manifestations and their consequences for the child's psyche and behaviour. The final chapter of the theoretical part of the master's thesis deals with ways of intervening in crises in the school environment. The practical part of the master's thesis is an empirical study in the form of semi-structured interviews with lower secondary stage teachers. The interviews investigate the experience and the preparedness of teachers for resolving crisis situations in the school environment. The research carried out in this project provides material for an analysis of the interviews. Keywords: crisis, crisis intervention, defence mechanisms, coping strategies, skills for crisis intervention.

The aim of the thesis entitled ''Education and training of staff in the MoD'' is to analyze the current staff activities in the examined sector and to determine their development. In the first part are analyzed structural and legislative terms of the Ministry of Defense. Further the staff and the requirements imposed on it are analyzed. In conclusion, analyzing the factors motivating the new incoming employees, are mentioned. The work contains recommended methods for solving the current situation and the methods oriented to the long-term development of personal function too.

Révolution dans l’ordre juridique international pénal, le mandat d’arrêt européen a été la traduction, concrète, d’un espace judiciaire européen en matière pénale. La création du mandat d’arrêt européen est né du constat d’un décalage, dont tirait profit la criminalité : alors que la liberté de circulation des biens, des services et des personnes était devenue une réalité au sein de l’Union européenne, l’effet des décisions de justice, expression de la souveraineté étatique, restait confiné aux limites frontalières nationales de chaque Etat membre. Visant à remplacer le système classique d’extradition au sein de l’Union européenne, en imposant à chaque autorité judiciaire nationale de reconnaître, moyennant un contrôle minimum, une demande de remise émanant de l’autorité judiciaire d’un autre Etat membre, le mandat d’arrêt européen est la conséquence d’une volonté de coopération efficace, visant à apporter une réponse pénale, forte, à la criminalité. L’ « euromandat » a été la première application concrète du principe de reconnaissance mutuelle des décisions de justice. Pierre angulaire de la coopération pénale européenne, ce principe repose sur le préalable nécessaire et fondamental de confiance mutuelle que doivent s’accorder, entre eux, les Etats membres, quant au fonctionnement de leur système juridique pénal interne et à la qualité des décisions rendues par leurs juridictions respectives. Théoriquement, le principe de reconnaissance mutuelle des décisions de justice implique l’existence de véritables standards communs des droits fondamentaux dans l’Union européenne, en ce sens que tous les Etats membres doivent assurer, de manière équivalente, le respect des libertés individuelles, des droits de l’homme et des garanties procédurales. Pourtant, en pratique, le mandat d’arrêt européen fait courir le risque, pour un Etat membre, de remettre une personne (y compris un national), aux autorités judiciaires d’un autre Etat membre, qui ne garantirait pas, effectivement, les droits fondamentaux, en général, et les droits de la défense, en particulier. / A Revolution in the international criminal legal order, the European arrest warrant was the concrete translation of a European judicial area for criminal issues. The European arrest warrant was created to close a loophole which benefitted criminals: while the free circulation of goods, services and people had become a reality within the European Union, the effect of legal decisions, the expression of a State’s sovereignty, remained confined to the national borders of each Member State. Aimed at replacing the classic extradition system within the European Union, by forcing each national judicial authority to recognise a request to surrender a suspect, from the judicial authority of another Member State, the European arrest warrant is the result of a desire for efficient cooperation, and is intended to send a strong message to criminals. The “Euro-warrant” was the first concrete application of the principal of mutual recognition of judicial decisions. The Cornerstone of the European criminal cooperation, this principal relies on the fundamental requirement of mutual trust between the Member States, with respect to the functioning of their internal criminal justice systems and the quality of the rulings made by their respective jurisdictions. Theoretically, the principal of mutual recognition of judicial decisions implies the existence of true common standards of fundamental rights in the European Union, in the sense that all the Member States must respect individual freedoms, human rights and procedural guarantees. However, in practice the European arrest warrant runs the risk of surrendering a person (including a national) to the judicial authorities of another Member State who do not effectively guarantee the fundamental rights in general and more specifically the right to defend oneself.

L’utilisation de molécules stimulatrices des défenses des plantes (SDP), également appelées inducteurs de résistance, constitue une alternative potentielle aux traitements fongicides conventionnels pour combattre les maladies dues à des champignons phytopathogènes. Trois SDPs, le tréhalose (TR), l’acide salicylique (SA) et l’heptanoyl d’acide salicylique (HSA), un dérivé fonctionnel du SA, protègent le blé (Triticum aestivum L.) contre l’oïdium (Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici), lorsqu’ils sont utilisés de façon préventive. La protection obtenue n’est pas liée à un effet fongistatique direct sur la germination des spores du champignon, mais à l’induction chez le blé de défenses qui diminuent le développement de la maladie. Notre travail consistait à caractériser les mécanismes de défense mis en jeu après applications foliaires de TR, de HSA et de SA chez un cultivar de blé sensible à l’oïdium. Un suivi de l’expression de gènes marqueurs de défense, réalisé par RTqPCR, a été mené en cinétique,depuis le traitement par les SDPs jusqu'à 4 jours après infection. Les activités enzymatiques correspondantes ont été également mesurées, et l’influence indirecte des SPDs sur le processus infectieux a été observé en microscopie in planta. Ainsi, les réactions de défense déclenchées par le TR, le SA et le HSA ralentissent l’évolution de l’infection, jouant respectivement sur la germination des conidies, structures infectieuses de Bgt, sur la germination du tube germinatif appressorial (AGT) et sur la proportion d’AGTs qui parviennent à pénétrer dans les tissus foliaires. Le TR est à l’origine d’une augmentation de l’expression des gènes codant pour une lipoxygénase, une protéine de transfert des lipides et une phospholipase C, impliquées dans le métabolisme lipidique et la signalisation, et de gènes codant pour des protéines PR comme les chitinases et PR1, tous connus comme marqueurs de défense. Ainsi, les réactions déclenchées par le TR correspondent à un effet inducteur de défenseplutôt qu’à une réaction de stress osmotique. Le HSA modifie particulièrement le métabolisme lipidique, en induisant fortement et pendant toute la cinétique, l’expression du gène codant pour la LOX et l’activité correspondante, aussi bien hors contexte infectieux qu’en contexte infectieux. Cette augmentation de l’activité LOX n’est pas retrouvée chez des feuilles traitées au SA et caractérise donc le HSA. L’importance des réactions observées avec le TR, le SA et le HSA, hors contexte infectieux et en présence de Bgt amène à discuter les effets éliciteurs et potentialisateurs de ces 3 SDPs. / The use of plant elicitors, also known as resistance inducers, is an alternative to conventional fungicides to control diseases caused by phytopathogenic fungi. Three resistance inducers, trehalose (TR), salicylic acid (SA) and heptanoyl salicylic acid (HSA), a functional derivative of SA, protect wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) against powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f . sp. tritici) when applied prior to infection. The protection obtained is not linked to any direct fungistatic effect on the fungal spore germination, but to the induction of wheat defences that impair the development of the disease. Our work aimed at characterizing the defence mechanisms triggered after foliar applications of TR, HSA and SA in a wheat cultivar susceptible to powdery mildew. Monitoring of defence markers genes expression by RTqPCR was conducted during a time-course experiment from the treatment time until 4 days after infection. Corresponding enzyme activities were also measured, and the indirect influence of elicitors on the infectious process was observed by microscopy in planta. Thus, defence responses triggered by TR, SA and HSA slow the progression of the infection, respectively altering the germination of infectious structures such as conidia, the differentiation of appressorial germ tube (AGT) and the proportion of AGTs that manage to penetrate the epidermis. TR causes an increase in the expression of genes encoding a lipoxygenase, a lipid transfer protein and a phospholipase C, which are involved in lipid metabolism and signaling, and genes encoding for PR-proteins such as chitinases and PR1, all known as markers of defence. Thus, the reactions triggered by TR match with the ones triggered during induced defence rather than during osmotic stress response. HSA specifically targeted lipid metabolism, inducing strongly and throughout the time-course, the expression ofthe gene encoding LOX and the corresponding enzyme activity, both in infectious and non-infectious contexts. This increase in LOX activity was not found in leaves treated with SA and thus characterizes HSA mode of action. The importance of the reactions observed with TR, SA and HSA, in non-infectious conditions and in the presence of Bgt have to be considered regarding either elicitation or potentiation.