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Introducing a multi-cultural dimension into the study of literature at secondary school level

- Vogel, Sonja

  • Authors: Vogel, Sonja
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: English literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa Multicultural education -- South Africa Culture in literature Ethnicity in literature
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1584 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003466
  • Description: The first aim of teaching English literature has always been for the student to gain enjoyment from, and acquire skill in, reading. Further goals point to the affective development of pupils involving such qualities as critical thinking and expressing views, empathetic understanding of other people, moral awareness and increased self-knowledge and self-understanding. These are indeed laudable aims, but examiners have always had difficulties in examining them adequately to satisfy the critics. Teachers often doubt that they achieve such lofty aims. These very aims have the sceptics sneering at the discipline because such qualities cannot be measured and the pupil's worth for the workplace cannot be satisfactorily assessed. This has resulted in the merit of the study of literature being questioned and usually found wanting. Therefore, on the one hand, this research looks for a method of studying literature which will ensure that the study will be neccesary and desirable today and into the foreseeable future. On the other hand, the socio-political changes in South Africa, particularly since 1992, have offered a possible area of research to complement the first. During the past few years, South Africans have been forced to recognise the fact that a multitude of different races and people live and work together more closely in this country and yet they know nothing, or very little, of one another. Thus this research also investigates the addition of a cultural component to literature study to help young people gain empathetic understanding of different cultures and of their own cultures as well, to be able to live together in harmony. With this approach, pupils may conceivably be educated through literature, to become well-adjusted, critical, effective adults so that they may play their role as citizens and shapers of their increasingly complex, multi-cultural society. Because of the context of literature study, in which this personal growth takes place, the aims identified above may be measured and assessed to suit both the sceptics and the devotees of literature study.
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isiZukulwane

- Hogsback festival participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Just below Perseverance, Port Elizabeth

- Vanderplank, Helen J

Karoo and Etendeks flood basalt provinces, southern Africa and the tectonic development of their adjacent margins:

- Marsh, Julian S, Watkeys, M K

  • Authors: Marsh, Julian S , Watkeys, M K
  • Date: 1996
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144868 , vital:38386
  • Description: Southern Africa hosts remnants of two continental flood basalt provinces emplaced in association with fragmentation of Gondwana. The earliest is the 183 Ma Karoo Province whose relationship to continental breakup and sea floor spreading is complex. Geochemical stratigraphy, Ar-Ar Dating and palaeomagnetism indicate that Karoo mafic igneous rocks throughout Southern Africa were emplaced over a very short interval at 183 Ma.
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L'image du peuple dans Le premier homme d'Albert Camus

- Heynderickx, Nathalie Marcel Madeleine

Latshon' Ilanga

- Ngqoko music ensemble participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Lectotype designation and a new synonym of Cloeodes inzingae (Crass, 1947)(Ephemeroptera: Baetidae)

- de Moor, Ferdy C, McCafferty, W P

  • Authors: de Moor, Ferdy C , McCafferty, W P
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/452143 , vital:75107 , https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA10213589_209
  • Description: The description of Pseudocloeon inzingae Crass, 1947, was based on nymphs and reared adults collected from several rivers in KwaZulu-Natal in 1944 and 1945. The species was redescribed by Waltz and McCafferty (1994) and transferred to Cloeodes Traver, a genus previously known only from the Neotropical Region and southeast Asia. Pseudocloeon saxophilum Agnew, 1961, from the Western Cape Province of South Africa was also transferred to Cloeodes by Waltz and McCafferty (1994), and both species were listed under this genus in the recent checklist of South African Ephemeroptera by McCafferty and de Moor (1995). We have studied nymphs and adults of C. inzingae in the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, which clearly represent at least part of the original rnaterial studied by Crass, and may thus be considered syntypes.
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Lecturer and student perceptions of an academic writing task

- Olivier-Shaw, Amanda

  • Authors: Olivier-Shaw, Amanda
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Education, Higher Communicative competence Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) Academic writing -- Study and teaching Philosophy -- Study and teaching (Higher) Language and education -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1665 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003548
  • Description: This research considers the perceptions of an academic writing task held by a lecturer and first year students in the Philosophy department at the University of Zululand. The research takes as its starting point the following premises: that language is inextricably linked to learning; that each academic discipline has a particular discourse which students have to acquire in order to participate as accepted members of the academic community; that learning proceeds most effectively when teaching starts with what is known and moves into the unknown; and that learning takes place through experience and involvement, rather than transmission. The research suggests that many first year students bring with them to university an understanding of the nature of learning and of knowledge which makes it difficult for them to understand the implicit rules of the discourse of analytical philosophy. My investigation uncovered several of these rules in the study guide written for the course, but it appears that students were not able to discover them and, as a result, experienced great difficulty in fulfilling the assignment task in a way which promoted their understanding of the content. The research also shows that the lecturer's expectations of the task were far removed from the manner in which the students implemented the task. It is argued that the students appear to have reverted to their established writing strategies which consisted of simply repeating what the 'authority' has said. From this it is argued that unless rules of the discourse are made explicit to students, and students understand the content of the course, they will revert to copying and relying on other sources to tell them what to write. One way of making these rules explicit and encouraging students to integrate new knowledge with previous knowledge which they bring with them to university is through providing well-structured writing tasks, and where necessary, developing clearly defined assessment procedures. Writing is the principal means of mediation between the lecturer, who is trying to offer students entry into the discipline, and the student apprentice trying to make sense of the discipline and find his or her own 'voice' within that discipline.
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Madoda Ndiyabaleka

- Ngqoko music ensemble participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Maguqela lendawo

- Hogsback festival participants, Nomeva, N., Dargie, Dave

Maguqela lendawo

- Hogsback festival participants, Nomeva, N., Dargie, Dave

Maguqela lendawo

- Hogsback festival participants, Nomeva, N., Dargie, Dave

Maqundeni

- Dywili, Nofinishi, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Marine algal remains from the Upper Devonian of South Africa

- Hiller, Norton, Gess, Robert W

  • Authors: Hiller, Norton , Gess, Robert W
  • Date: 1996
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72753 , vital:30107 , https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-6667(95)00062-3
  • Description: The remains of what are interpreted to be marine brown algae are described from Late Devonian clastic rocks in South Africa. Dichotomously-branched specimens with rounded terminations are placed in the new species Hungerfordia fionae and the closely related H. dichotoma Fry and Banks is placed in synonymy with Buthotrephis trichotoma Douglas and Jell. A large strap-like form is described as a new species, Yeaia africana.
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Memorandum on recommendations

- Federation of South African Trade Unions and Transport and General Union

  • Authors: Federation of South African Trade Unions and Transport and General Union
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Federation of South African Trade Unions and Transport and General Union
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110132 , vital:33233
  • Description: It is a welcome move that the Minister has ordered an investigation in the security services within 2 years of the last amendment which was in November 1977. Regular adjustment to minimum wages ere imperative in a situation of rising cost of living. In the past an interval of about 4 years have lapsed before a new investigation is begun. Another positive aspect of this investigation is that the conditions are being investigated simultaneously throughout the major industrial areas in South Africa. This will help in bringing about a uniformity in the conditions of a group of employee 3 who ail do basically the same type of work. It is regretted that the scope of the investigation only includes undertakings in which employers and employees ere associated for the purpose of guarding, protecting etc. In she past this has meant that a large group of security guards are left out completely from the purview of the investigation and are hence not covered by any industrial legislation especially in regards to hours of work.
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Mr Tony Long, Registrar (Finance) Picture 1

  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes University -- Employees , Arbor Day -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
  • Type: still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/52067 , vital:26154 , PIC/M 7424 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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Multivariate analysis of selected honeybee populations in Africa

- Radloff, Sarah E

  • Authors: Radloff, Sarah E
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: Bees -- Africa Bees
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:5734 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005420
  • Description: Morphometric characters and sting pheromones of worker honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus were analysed by multivariate methods to characterise selected honeybee populations along five transects in Africa at a meso-scale level of sampling distance resolution. In some, but not all, areas pheromonal clusters were found to be coincident and concordant with the morphometric clusters, thus indicating that different honeybee traits have dispersed variably among populations. All transects were found to contain areas of significantly high variance. High intracolonial variance was taken to indicate localised genetic variation coupled with out-cross matings. Centroids of high intercolonial variance occured at and between cluster boundaries and were typical of transitions between, and rainfall-temperature discontinuities within, ecological-climatological zones, hence areas of ecological instability. Principal component and stepwise discriminant analysis yielded three morphometric clusters corresponding to A. m. sahariensis and A. m. intermissa in Morocco and to A. m. iberica (with three biometric populations) in Spain, but no pheromone clusters. The combined morphometric and pheromonal variance spectra indicated regions of natural hybridisation along a Sahara-Pyrenees transect. In the Horn of Africa, discrete and statistically homogeneous populations were identified: A. m. jemenitica, A. m. bandasii, A. m. sudanensis in Ethiopia and an unclassified group in southwestern Somalia. Areas of high intercolonial variance were interpreted as zones of hybridisation between the populations. Along a transect in west central Africa, three distinct homogeneous populations and two zones of hybridisation were found. These bees were designated as A. m. adansonii whose area of distribution was intruded by an un-named mountain group of bees and a third group, A. m. jemenitica. The delineation of the hybrid zones was supported by intercolonial variance spectra and these significant asymmetries were found to be coincident with transitions between the ecological-climatological zones. In southwestern Africa, two discrete homogeneous populations and a zone of hybridisation between them were identified: A. m. scutellata in northern South Africa and southern Namibia and A. m. adansonii in northern Namibia. Along a transect in the southeastern woodland savanna of Africa, three discrete populations were classified: A. m. litorea in Mozambique, A. m. scutellata in Zimbabwe and A. m. adansonii in northwestern Zambia. A zone of introgression between the last two subspecies occured in south-central Zambia and in the Zambezi valley.
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National liberation movement in the international political arena: a case study of the African National Congress at the United Nations (1960 to February 1990)

- Mopp, Adrian Carl

  • Authors: Mopp, Adrian Carl
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: United Nations -- South Africa , African National Congress -- History , Economic sanctions -- South Africa , Boycotts -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2808 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003018 , United Nations -- South Africa , African National Congress -- History , Economic sanctions -- South Africa , Boycotts -- South Africa
  • Description: The African National Congress (ANC) was the leading opponent of the South African Government's Apartheid policies. It was engaged in an Anti-Apartheid struggle and as part thereof called for South Africa's diplomatic isolation. In the course of its struggle, the ANC sought international support. Given the stature of the United Nations (UN) as the foremost international organisation, the ANC campaigned at the UN for South Africa's diplomatic isolation. This thesis focuses on the activities of African National Co~gress at the United Nations. It firstly outlines a brief history of the ANC and the UN and examines the relationship which developed between the two organisations. It then focuses on the activities of the ANC at the UN which were aimed at isolating South Africa diplomatically from the international community. Finally a brief assessment of the extent of South Africa's diplomatic isolation is provided.
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Ndiyenda

- Hogsback festival participants, Nomeva, N., Dargie, Dave

New Nation number 749 - Men of the year

- New Nation - SA's Biggest Independent Weekly

  • Authors: New Nation - SA's Biggest Independent Weekly
  • Date: 1996
  • Subjects: New Nation - SA's Biggest Independent Weekly
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112984 , vital:33683
  • Description: ANC general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa (top left), and constitutional affairs and communications minister, Roelf Meyer, (top right) have been chosen as joint winners of New Nation’s 'Man of the Year Award”. The New Nation Award for "Businessman of the Year” goes to National Sorghum Breweries (NSB) chairperson, Professor Mohale Mahanyele (right). This is the first time that both awards are being made. The awards will be given annually in future in recognition of individuals who are deemed to have made a contribution in providing leadership for the general uptiftment of the people of South Africa. Ramaphosa and Meyer have been chosen for their tireless efforts in holding the negotiations process together during very arduous and difficult times. The rapport the two have struck has made a crucial difference as to whether the negotiations process flounders or goes forward. The two leaders are young and are likely to provide continuity and the excellent leadership that the transition period requires. Prof Mahanyele has provided bold imaginative leadership in the business world. He has placed black economic empowerment firmly on the agenda and has set his own company as an example of this. New Nation believes that it is business leaders like Prof Mahanyele who will ensure that black people reclaim their rightful place in the economic life of the country. The awards will be officially presented to their winners early in 1993. Democratic Party (DP) leader, Dr Zach de Beer, said: “The two (Ramaphosa and Meyer) have given all they could to get the negotiations process back on track... they deserve it.” The newly-appointed chief of the Development Bank of South Africa Prof Wiseman Nkuhlu said Prof Manyelele’s achievement would “serve as a model to other black organisations involved in economic empowerment”.
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