Author: Reverend Jan Scholtz (Reverend Jan Scholtz )

Technology can be considered as all the processes that are adopted in transforming inputs into finished products. Various processes can be used to transform the same type of inputs into finished products.

Back in the day, during my studies at the University of Zambia (UNZA), we had one discussion on what it is to be a male.

Two of the spiritual giants of the early church were Tertullian and Augustine. Tertullian was regarded as one of the best Christian thinkers of his day (c.160 – c225), just as Augustine was for his (354 – 430).

Today is tomorrow’s yesterday. I took a walk down memory lane at a concert celebrating the music of the Swedish supergroup of the 1970 – 80s. I came away dripping with nostalgia and a maudlin longing for those days when I was half as old as now.

On September 1985, the Institute for Contextual Theology (ICT) in Johannesburg produced the Kairos Document to give a theological response to the moral and spiritual crisis caused by the brutal repression, which characterised the Apartheid state of South Africa.

We are at a time when many people in the Third World and outside are raising fundamental questions about the pattern of development, which has taken place in the last three decades.

The economic and other relations between developed and developing countries established and maintained over centuries can be fully comprehended within the metropole – satellite pattern. The developed countries are the metropole, while the developing countries are satellites orbiting around the metropole. 

Traditionally, there are two alternative industrialisation strategies viz export promotion and import substitution industrialisation strategies. 

It is a broad concept with singular interpretation and literary refers to any structural adjustment loans and SALs provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank to countries that experience economic crises. 

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