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Title: Carrying Von Bertalanffy’s baton: Systems, complexity and network science, Part 2
Author: Dr. Burgert Senekal, University of the Free State.
Ensovoort, volume 42 (2021), number 6: 1
Ludwig von Bertalanffy wrote extensively on General Systems Theory (GST) and …
Title: Carrying Von Bertalanffy’s baton: Systems, complexity and network science, Part 1
Author: Dr. Burgert Senekal, University of the Free State.
Ensovoort, volume 42 (2021), number 5: 3
Ludwig von Bertalanffy formulated his General Systems Theory (GST) shortly after …
Title: The blue-eyed devil rapists: An exploration of the discourse on Twitter around land thieves in a South African context
Author: Dr. Burgert Senekal, University of the Free State.
Ensovoort, volume 41 (2020), number 7: 1
In recent years, …
Title: #doomsdayprepper: Analysing the online prepper community on Instagram1
Prepping, the activity of preparing for large-scale disasters, has become a global phenomenon and received increasing attention in academic circles recently. Since online platforms play a key role in …
Dr. Burgert Senekal, Universiteit van die Vrystaat.
A lot has been written about whether the Afrikaner is white or of mixed origins. The current study uses big-data methods to investigate what the dominant idea currently is: is the Afrikaner …
Burgert Senekal
As individual preppers prepare for emergencies by stockpiling food, weapons and water, the National Party (NP) government of South Africa started preparing for extensive isolation in the 1960s because of its racial policies. This article examines the …