The motor industry in South Africa has experienced exceptional growth during the past four years mainly due to a stable economy and exchange rates, economic growth and the low interest rates. However, the quality of management has not seen the same growth as the industry itself. This study sets out to investigate the quality of marketing management principles and its ability to influence the marketing assets that adds value to the business. A survey was carried out to support the investigation. It is concluded that quality management principles are interdependent with most of the correlation values being greater than 0.5, marketing assets are interdependent with correlation values ranging from 0.5 to 0.9 and that quality management principles influences the quality and value of marketing assets with the amount of variation in marketing assets explained by each of the quality management principles range between 24% to 78%. A problem in one of the quality management principles will have a snowball effect on the other marketing quality management principles as well as on the marketing assets. This study recommends the introduction of a quality management system as a management tool that will direct and facilitate the implementation of a marketing quality management improvement program. / Thesis (MBA)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.

Walter Whall Battiss is in 1906 in Somerset-Oos gebore en het in die Oranje Vrystaat groot geword waar hy in sy kinderjare met prehistoriese rotsgravures kennis gemaak het. Hieruit het sy groot bewondering vir die rotskuns gespruit, wat in later jare so 'n groot invloed op sy kuns sou hê. Battiss se kunsloopbaan het in erns op Rustenburg, Transvaal, waar hy in die landdroskantoor werksaam was, 'n aanvang geneem. Hier het hy bevriend geraak met Erich Mayer en ook sy eerste kunsuitstalling gehou van 26 tot 27 Augustus 1927. Battiss het weinig formele kunsopleiding ontvang en wel slegs in Suid-Afrika aan die Johannesburgse Kunsskool vir kort periodes gedurende 1929 tot 1933. Van 1930 tot 1933 was hy voltydse student aan die Johannesburg Teachers' Training College en het daarna vir die volgende dertig jaar onderwys gegee, eers aan die Park School Turffontein en toe aan die Pretoria Boys' High School. In 1938 het hy saam met enkele ander kunstenaars die Nuwe Groep gestig. Daarna het hy deurgaans 'n leidende rol in die kunsverenigingslewe in Suid-Afrika gespeel. In 1938 het hy ook sy eerste reis na Europa onderneem waar hy met die werke van Van Gogh en die destydse modernes soos Picasso, Matisse en Modigliani in aanraking kom. Deur die jare sou Battiss talle reise na Europa en verskillende dele van Afrika onderneem en telkens die indrukke wat hy so verkry het in sy kuns verwerk. Vanaf 1953-1958 was hy hoof van die Provinsiale Kunssentrum in Pretoria en in 1959 het hy vir ses maande as professor in Skone Kuns aan die Universiteit van Rhodes, Grahamstad, diens gedoen. Vanaf 1959 tot 1964 het hy onderwys gegee en in 1965 is hy as professor in Beeldende Kunste aan die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika aangestel. Sedert sy aftrede in 1971 is hy in Pretoria woonagtig. Battiss het verskeie toekennings ontvang: 'n diploma en brons medalje op die 14e Internasionale Olimpiese uitstalling (1948); Erepenning van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (1964) en 'n ere-doktorsgraad van die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika (1973). Battiss is die outeur van twaalf boeke en het reeds 241 uitstallings gehou, waarvan 64 eenmanuitstallings was. Deur middel van sy gebruik van kleur en die invloed van die inheemse kuns in sy werk, het hy Suid-Afrika bewus gemaak daarvan dat 'n Europese benadering nie summier op die Suid-Afrikaanse toneel oorgedra kan word nie. In sy grafiese kuns het Battiss feitlik alle moontlike tegnieke beoefen en veral in die houtsneë, houtgraverings, linosneë, syskermdrukke en litografie puik werk gelewer. Hy was waarskynlik die eerste om die syskermdruk as suiwer kunsvorm in Suid-Afrika te gebruik; hy is een van die weinige Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars om houtgraverings te doen en om Suid-Afrikaanse houtsoorte vir sy grafiese tegnieke te gebruik. Dit is nie moontlik om die kuns van Walter Battiss in tydperke of periodes in te deel nie. In die oorheersende styl wat hy in sy grafiese werk gebruik, skakel hy die derde dimensie uit en die meeste werke skep die indruk van plat vlakke. Walter Battiss het in sy grafiese werk die grootste bevestiging van sy aanvaarding as doyen van die Suid-Afrikaanse kunstenaars gelewer. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 1974. / gm2013 / Visual Arts / unrestricted

At Zwartbas, about 10 km west of Vioolsdrif, southern Namibia, the Dwyka succession is composed of tillites and distal fossiliferous dropstone-bearing glacio-marine shales. The completely exposed Dwyka succession is interbedded with thin bentonites, altered distal pyroclastic deposits, which were derived from the magmatic arc at the southern rim of Gondwana. Dropstone-bearing and dropstonefree sequences intercalate with four diamictites, of which the two lowest were certainly recognised as tillites. Four events of deglaciation were proven at Zwartbas and thus consist with correlative deposits in southern Africa. Numerous fossilised fishes, trace fossils, and plant fragments appear frequently within the lower half of the Dwyka succession whereas trace fossils were principally found in the complete succession. Although the environmental determination is quite problematic, the fossil assemblage rather implies proximal, shallow water conditions with temporary restricted oxygenation. The hinterland was covered with considerable vegetation, which points to a moderate climate. Water salinity determinations based on shale geochemistry rectify contrary palaeontological results and point to rather brackish or non-marine conditions in comparison to present-day salinites. Geochemical analyses of the bentonites relate the pyroclastic deposits with acid to intermediate source magmas, as they are known from the magmatic arc in present-day Patagonia. Tectono-magmatic comparisons furthermore emphasise a syn-collision or volcanic-arc situation of the magma source. However, significant cyclicity in the production of the pyroclastic deposits was not observed. Radiometric age determinations of two tuff beds clearly date the onset of glacial activity into the Late Carboniferous.

Univ., Diss., 2009--Frankfurt (Main). / Engl. Übers. des Hauptsacht.: U-Pb geochronology, Hf isotopy and trace element geochemistry of detrital zircons from recent sediments of the Orange and Vaal river system in South Africa.

Orientadores: Gilson Paulo Manfio, Valeria Maia de Oliveira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia de Alimentos / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T23:38:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AbreuFilho_BenicioAlvesde_D.pdf: 6208226 bytes, checksum: e8676e4b88ce9781e64eda102999921b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005 / Resumo: Trinta linhagens de bactérias acidotermofílicas isoladas do processamento industrial de suco de laranja concentrado congelado (Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice, FCOJ) em diferentes regiões do estado de São Paulo foram estudadas, utilizando-se uma abordagem polifásica, a fim de se determinar a diversidade e potencial deteriogênico destas em processos de produção de FCOJ no país. A caracterização dos isolados envolveu a determinação da capacidade de crescimento e produção de odor em suco reconstituído, análises fenotípicas (padrão de utilização de carboidratos, sistema API 50 CH), quimiotaxonômicas (perfil de FAMES, sistema MIDI) e de caracterização molecular (ARDRA de região espaçadora DNAr 16S-23S com Hae III, Hha I e Msp I, e análise filogenética de DNAr 16S). Todos os isolados foram identificados como pertencentes ao gênero Alicyclobacillus pelos padrões característicos de ácidos graxos. Diferentemente de relatos de literatura, foi confirmada a presença de omega-ciclohexil-C17:0 e omega-ciclohexil-C19:0 em amostras identificadas como A. pomorum. Das 30 amostras ambientais de aliciclobacilos analisadas, 21 foram capazes de se multiplicar em suco de laranja reconstituído após 24 ou 48 h de incubação a 45 °C, mas apenas 10 produziram odor característico de biodeterioração. Seis ribotipos de ARDRA foram obtidos para os isolados, permitindo a alocação destes nas espécies A. acidocaldarius e A. acidoterrestris, e em grupos relacionados a espécies válidas designados como A. acidocaldarius-like e A. pomorum-like / Abstract: Thirty strains isolated from industrial processing of frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) in different regions of the state of São Paulo were studied using a polyphasic approach with the goal of determining the diversity and deteriogenic potential of isolates from FCOJ production in Brazil. Characterization of isolates involved determining their ability to grow and produce odor in reconstituted orange juice, and phenotypic (carbohydrate utilization, API 50 CH), chemotaxonomic (FAMES, MIDI system) and molecular analyses (ARDRA of 16S-23S rDNA spacer region, Hae III, Hha I and Msp I, and 16S rDNA phylogenetic analysis). All isolates were identified as Alicyclobacillus spp. according to the characteristic fatty acid patterns. Contrary to literature data, omega-cyclohexyl-C17:0 and omega-cyclohexyl-C19:0 were confirmed in samples identified as A. pomorum. From the 30 environmental alicyclobacili samples analyzed, 21 were able to grow in reconstituted orange juice after 24 or 48 hs incubation at 45 °C, but only 10 isolates yielded a characteristic biodeterioration odor. Six ARDRA patterns were obtained for the isolates analyzed, enabling them to be assigned to A. acidocaldarius and A. acidoterrestris, and to groups related to valid species named A. acidocaldarius-like and A. pomorum-like / Doutorado / Doutor em Ciência de Alimentos

The locality of Zwartbas is situated at the border of Namibia and South Africa about 15 km west of Noordoewer. The mapped area is confined by the Tandjieskoppe Mountains in the north and the Orange River in the south. Outcropping rocks are predominantly sediments of the Nama Group and of the Karoo Supergroup. During the compilation of this paper doubts arose about the correct classification of the Nama rocks as it is found in literature. Since no certain clues were found to revise the classification of the Nama rocks, the original classification remains still valid. Thus the Kuibis and Schwarzrand Subgroup constitute the Nama succession and date it to Vendian age. A glacial unconformity represents a hiatus for about 260 Ma. This is covered by sediments of the Karoo Supergroup. Late Carboniferous and early Permian glacial deposits of diamictitic shale of the Dwyka and shales of the Ecca Group overlie the unconformity. The shales of the Dwyka Group contain fossiliferous units and volcanic ash-layers. A sill of the Jurassic Tandjiesberg Dolerite Complex (also Karoo Supergroup) intruded rocks at the Dwyka-Ecca-boundary. Finally fluvial and aeolian deposits and calcretes of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Kalahari Group and recent depositionary events cover the older rocks occasionally. / Die Lokalität Zwartbas liegt an der namibisch-südafrikanischen Grenze, etwa 15 km westlich von Noordoewer. Das Kartiergebiet wird durch die Tandjiesberge im Norden und den Oranje Fluß im Süden begrenzt. Die anstehenden Gesteine bestehen hauptsächlich aus Sedimenten der Nama Gruppe und der Karoo Supergruppe. Während der Erarbeitung dieser Abhandlung entstanden Zweifel an der Klassifikation der Nama Gesteine, so wie sie in der Literatur zu finden ist. Da keine sicheren Hinweise zur Revision der Klassifikation der Nama Gesteine gefunden wurden, bleibt die ursprünglich Klassifikation jedoch gültig. Die Kuibis und Schwarzrand Untergruppe bilden also die Nama Abfolge und datieren sie ins Vendian. Eine glaziale Diskontinuität repräsentiert einen Hiatus von etwa 260 Mio Jahren. Sie wird überlagert von Sedimenten der Karoo Supergruppe. Spät-karbone und früh-permische glaziale Ablagerungen von diamiktitischen Tonsteinen der Dwyka Gruppe und Tonsteine der Ecca Gruppe liegen über dieser Diskontinuität. Die Sedimente der Dwyka Gruppe sind fossilführend und enthalten Tufflagen. Ein Sill des jurassischen Tandjiesberg Dolerit Komplex (auch Karoo Supergruppe) intrudierte in die Gesteine an der Dwyka-Ecca Grenze. Schließlich bedecken lokal fluviatile und äolische Ablagerungen und Kalkkrusten der kretazischen und tertiären Kalahari Gruppe und jüngerer Ablagerungsereignisse die älteren Gesteine.

Zugl.: Mainz, Universiẗat, Diss.

Text in Afrikaans / After taking her severely incapacitated husband to Europe immediately after the cessation of hostilities to obtain specialist medical treatment, Mrs Rachel Isabella Steyn (Tibbie) in 1905 brought the partially recovered Pres Steyn back to South Africa. She joined forces with her husband to revive the defeated Afrikaner socially, spiritually and materially. Tibbie assisted her husband with establishing the Oranje School for Girls in 1906, and in 1907 the Oranje Association for Women (OVV) was formed with Tibbie as chairperson. Although she was English speaking by birth, she openly identified herself with efforts to promote Afrikaans as a cultural language. Alongside her husband she worked for the building of the National Women's Monument to commemorate those who had died during the war. During all these activities she conscientiously cared for the health and spiritual needs of Pres Steyn. After Pres Steyn's death in 1916 she emerged more forcefully in public life. After the First World War in co-operation with Emily Hobhouse she collected money for the needy in Central Europe. She was constantly occupied with alleviating the needs of people, e.g. by collecting small donations from her people who had been impoverished by the war. In this manner a home could be acquired for Emily Hobhouse and Mrs De Wet, widow of the famous war general, could be assisted in her need. In 1926 Tibbie also arranged the burial of Emily Hobhouse at the Women's Monument. As a leader among her people Tibbie experienced the tensions of the Rebellion and two world wars without becoming involved publicly. Despite sharp political differences between the two language groups and amongst members of her own fam~ly, she successfully maintained her role as binding force. She preferred acting behind the scenes. She was the patroness of many organisations, and while she was often involved in ceremonial situations she always performed her duties with grace. Among both English and Afrikaans speaking peoples she was held in high esteem and among Afrikaners she spontaneously became accepted as Volksmoeder. When she was 83 years of age the Government asked her to act as South Africa's official representative at the abdication of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. She was accorded a state funeral at the Women's Monument when she died on 3 January 1955. / Nadat sy haar ernstig ongestelde man na die einde van die Anglo-Boereoorlog vir gespesialiseerde mediese behandeling na Europa geneem het, het mev. Rachel Isabella Steyn (Tibbie) die gedeeltelik herstelde pres. M. T. Steyn in 1905 na Suid-Afrika terug gebring. Sy het haar saam met pres. Steyn beywer om die verslane Afrikanervolk op maatskaplike, geestelike en stoflike gebied weer op te hef. Tibbie het pres. Steyn bygestaan met die oprigting van die Meisieskool Oranje in 1906. In 1907 het die stigting van die Oranje-Vrouevereniging (OVV) onder haar voorsitsterskap geskied. Hoewel sy van afkoms Engelssprekend was, was sy een van die eerstes wat Afrikaans tot skryftaal verhef het. Aan die sy van haar eggenoot het sy gewerk vir die oprigting van die Nasionale Vrouemonument om die gestorwe vroue en kinders van die oorlog te gedenk. Te midde van dit alles het sy nougeset gewaak oor pres. Steyn se gesondheid en sy geestelike welsyn. Na pres. Steyn se dood in 1916 tree sy sterker na vore in die openbare lewe. In samewerking met Emily Hobhouse samel sy na die Eerste Wereldoorlog geld in vir noodlydendes van Sentraal-Europa. Sy het haar voortdurend beywer vir die verligting van die lot van haar mense, o.a. met die insameling van halfkrone by 'n oorlogsverarmde volk. So is o.a. 'n huis vir Emily Hobhouse bekom, en is die nood van genl. De Wet se weduwee verlig. Tibbie het ook in 1926 die leiding geneem met die begrafnis van Emily Hobhouse by die Vrouemonument. As leiersfiguur het sy die spanning van die Rebellie en die twee wereldoorloe sonder enige omstredenheid deurleef. Te midde van skerp politieke verskille tussen die taalgroepe en onder haar eie familie tree sy met sukses as saambindende krag op. Hoewel sy geweldige invloed gehad het, het sy by voorkeur agter die skerms opgetree. Sy was beskermvrou van verskeie organisasies en waar sy dikwels by seremoniele geleenthede betrek was, het sy haar pligte met groot grasie vervul. Onder sowel Engelse as Afrikaners is sy sonder voorbehoud geeer, en by die Afrikaners het sy spontaan die eretitel van Volksmoeder verwerf. Op drie-en-tagtigjarige ouderdom is sy in 1948 deur die Regering afgevaardig as Suid-Afrika se gesant tydens die plegtighede verbonde aan die abdikasie van koningin Wilhelmina van Nederland. Sy is 'n staatsbegrafnis by die Vrouemonument gegee toe sy op 3 Januarie 1955 oorlede is. / History / D. Litt. et Phil. (Geskiedenis)

Text in Afrikaans / After taking her severely incapacitated husband to Europe immediately after the cessation of hostilities to obtain specialist medical treatment, Mrs Rachel Isabella Steyn (Tibbie) in 1905 brought the partially recovered Pres Steyn back to South Africa. She joined forces with her husband to revive the defeated Afrikaner socially, spiritually and materially. Tibbie assisted her husband with establishing the Oranje School for Girls in 1906, and in 1907 the Oranje Association for Women (OVV) was formed with Tibbie as chairperson. Although she was English speaking by birth, she openly identified herself with efforts to promote Afrikaans as a cultural language. Alongside her husband she worked for the building of the National Women's Monument to commemorate those who had died during the war. During all these activities she conscientiously cared for the health and spiritual needs of Pres Steyn. After Pres Steyn's death in 1916 she emerged more forcefully in public life. After the First World War in co-operation with Emily Hobhouse she collected money for the needy in Central Europe. She was constantly occupied with alleviating the needs of people, e.g. by collecting small donations from her people who had been impoverished by the war. In this manner a home could be acquired for Emily Hobhouse and Mrs De Wet, widow of the famous war general, could be assisted in her need. In 1926 Tibbie also arranged the burial of Emily Hobhouse at the Women's Monument. As a leader among her people Tibbie experienced the tensions of the Rebellion and two world wars without becoming involved publicly. Despite sharp political differences between the two language groups and amongst members of her own fam~ly, she successfully maintained her role as binding force. She preferred acting behind the scenes. She was the patroness of many organisations, and while she was often involved in ceremonial situations she always performed her duties with grace. Among both English and Afrikaans speaking peoples she was held in high esteem and among Afrikaners she spontaneously became accepted as Volksmoeder. When she was 83 years of age the Government asked her to act as South Africa's official representative at the abdication of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. She was accorded a state funeral at the Women's Monument when she died on 3 January 1955. / Nadat sy haar ernstig ongestelde man na die einde van die Anglo-Boereoorlog vir gespesialiseerde mediese behandeling na Europa geneem het, het mev. Rachel Isabella Steyn (Tibbie) die gedeeltelik herstelde pres. M. T. Steyn in 1905 na Suid-Afrika terug gebring. Sy het haar saam met pres. Steyn beywer om die verslane Afrikanervolk op maatskaplike, geestelike en stoflike gebied weer op te hef. Tibbie het pres. Steyn bygestaan met die oprigting van die Meisieskool Oranje in 1906. In 1907 het die stigting van die Oranje-Vrouevereniging (OVV) onder haar voorsitsterskap geskied. Hoewel sy van afkoms Engelssprekend was, was sy een van die eerstes wat Afrikaans tot skryftaal verhef het. Aan die sy van haar eggenoot het sy gewerk vir die oprigting van die Nasionale Vrouemonument om die gestorwe vroue en kinders van die oorlog te gedenk. Te midde van dit alles het sy nougeset gewaak oor pres. Steyn se gesondheid en sy geestelike welsyn. Na pres. Steyn se dood in 1916 tree sy sterker na vore in die openbare lewe. In samewerking met Emily Hobhouse samel sy na die Eerste Wereldoorlog geld in vir noodlydendes van Sentraal-Europa. Sy het haar voortdurend beywer vir die verligting van die lot van haar mense, o.a. met die insameling van halfkrone by 'n oorlogsverarmde volk. So is o.a. 'n huis vir Emily Hobhouse bekom, en is die nood van genl. De Wet se weduwee verlig. Tibbie het ook in 1926 die leiding geneem met die begrafnis van Emily Hobhouse by die Vrouemonument. As leiersfiguur het sy die spanning van die Rebellie en die twee wereldoorloe sonder enige omstredenheid deurleef. Te midde van skerp politieke verskille tussen die taalgroepe en onder haar eie familie tree sy met sukses as saambindende krag op. Hoewel sy geweldige invloed gehad het, het sy by voorkeur agter die skerms opgetree. Sy was beskermvrou van verskeie organisasies en waar sy dikwels by seremoniele geleenthede betrek was, het sy haar pligte met groot grasie vervul. Onder sowel Engelse as Afrikaners is sy sonder voorbehoud geeer, en by die Afrikaners het sy spontaan die eretitel van Volksmoeder verwerf. Op drie-en-tagtigjarige ouderdom is sy in 1948 deur die Regering afgevaardig as Suid-Afrika se gesant tydens die plegtighede verbonde aan die abdikasie van koningin Wilhelmina van Nederland. Sy is 'n staatsbegrafnis by die Vrouemonument gegee toe sy op 3 Januarie 1955 oorlede is. / History / D. Litt. et Phil. (Geskiedenis)