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This is a slightly revised version of the text of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa's annual Shakespeare Birthday Lecture, delivered at Rhodes University in Grahamstown (now Makhanda) on 23 April 2018. It pays tribute to Guy Butler as Shakespeare scholar and teacher; the author shares his personal experience as a student before turning his attention to Butler's work on King Lear., It would be culpably parochial not to acknowledge that 2018 also marks the centenary of the birth of one of South Africa's greatest sons: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. But it would [...]

The extracts which we print and annotate below are from eight diaries formerly in the possession of the National English Literary Museum (NELM) and written by Olive Schreiner's husband, Samuel [...]

The World's Great Question: Olive Schreiner's South African Letters 18891920. Edited and introduced by Liz Stanley and Andrea Salter. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 2014. 423pp. ISBN 978-0-9814264-5-7. Every effort [...]

Readers of biographies of Olive Schreiner--except for the pioneering work of Vera Buchanan-Gould (see 1948, 198-99)--could be forgiven for doubting whether Olive Schreiner ever was in Rhodesia. Although her husband's [...]

The original edition of Cronwright's The Reinterment on Buffelskop (1983) was produced by Guy Butler and Nick Visser to commemorate the centenary of the1883 publication of The Story of an [...]

Depression in primary care is common and a major public health problem. It has been estimated that depressive disorders affect 1 5 per cent of the population at some level [...]

Rotationally induced (motion sickness) taste aversions (TAs) were studied within strains of rats that had been selectively bred as efficient or inefficient learners of cyclophosphamide induced TAs to a saccharin solution. As hypothesized, rotation following saccharin ingestion produced reliable TAs within the TA prone strain, but had no comparable effect on TA resistant rats. Pseudo-conditioning- and restraint-control procedures supported a conditioning (associative) based interpretation of strain differences in TA acquisition. These results confirm that strain differences in TA conditionability are not restricted to the cyclophosphamide-induced TAs that were the selection bases of strain development. The rotational stimulation was delivered via a multisubject rotational apparatus that fulfills the design objectives of providing an efficient and inexpensive nonpharmacological approach to TA conditioning.

The new MCMI-III Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) scale was validated on 104 combat veterans who were divided into two groups, PTSD Treatment Group and Non-PTSD Treatment Group. PTSD status was carefully determined by clinical interview and therapists' reports. The Combat Exposure Scale, the Mississippi Scale for Combat-related PTSD, and the Impact of Events Scale were also given. Analysis showed that the MCMI-III PTSD scale had a low internal consistency, but that it significantly differentiated the two groups and significantly correlated to those on other PTSD self-report scales. This scale appeared to be influenced by an acquiescent response style. Further validation studies are needed.

Schreiner, Olive Words in Season: The Public Writings with her Own Remembrances Collected for the First Time. Olive Schreiner. Ed. Stephen Gray. Johannesburg: Penguin, 2005. 217 pp. R125. Reproduced in [...]