Izwe Lenja Bulo
- Sibanda, George, Composer not Specified, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Sibanda, George , Composer not Specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1954-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe City not Specified f-sa
- Language: Ndebele
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218062 , vital:48353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR1330 , ABC12342
- Description: Traditional song accompanied by guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954-00-00
- Authors: Sibanda, George , Composer not Specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1954-00-00
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Dance music , Dance music--Caribbean Area , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zimbabwe City not Specified f-sa
- Language: Ndebele
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/218062 , vital:48353 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR1330 , ABC12342
- Description: Traditional song accompanied by guitar
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1954-00-00
Wataya mwana Telekunde
- Mesiyasi Chulu, performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mesiyasi Chulu , performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi city not specified f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/392383 , vital:68751 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0830-C5C7
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Mesiyasi Chulu , performer not specified , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi city not specified f-mw
- Language: Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/392383 , vital:68751 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , AC0830-C5C7
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949
Murder of Retief
- Subjects: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- History -- 1824-1842
- Type: Image
- Identifier: vital:14208 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018132 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
- Description: Piet Retief and about 100 others were murdered by the Zulu warriors of Dingaan on 6 February 1838. , Image taken from the 1916 silent film ‘De Voortrekkers’, directed by Howard Shaw, which was a dramatization of the Great Trek and it’s aftermath.
- Full Text: false
- Subjects: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) -- History -- 1824-1842
- Type: Image
- Identifier: vital:14208 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018132 , MS 10 542 , CD 55
- Description: Piet Retief and about 100 others were murdered by the Zulu warriors of Dingaan on 6 February 1838. , Image taken from the 1916 silent film ‘De Voortrekkers’, directed by Howard Shaw, which was a dramatization of the Great Trek and it’s aftermath.
- Full Text: false
Madi a Koana
- Authors: Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-05-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Epukiro f-sx
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/258249 , vital:52953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD022-01
- Description: Church music, church hyms, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-05-02
- Authors: Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1981-05-02
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Epukiro f-sx
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/258249 , vital:52953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD022-01
- Description: Church music, church hyms, Choral music.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1981-05-02
Title not specified
- Goliath Kawiwi and Kavango man, Tracey, Andrew T N
- Authors: Goliath Kawiwi and Kavango man , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Diriku (African people) -- Namibia , Folk music -- Namibia , Xylophone (percussion instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa Namibia Okavango f-sx
- Language: Diu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74299 , vital:30284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC013b-07
- Description: Traditional Siyamboka tune with Silimba xylophone accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
- Authors: Goliath Kawiwi and Kavango man , Tracey, Andrew T N
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Diriku (African people) -- Namibia , Folk music -- Namibia , Xylophone (percussion instruments) , Sub-Saharan African music , Africa Namibia Okavango f-sx
- Language: Diu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74299 , vital:30284 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , ATC013b-07
- Description: Traditional Siyamboka tune with Silimba xylophone accompaniment.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
Kangale Part I
- Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by), Thiba and Mashandule (Performer), Composer unknown
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Thiba and Mashandule (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Tshanda village , Vhembe district , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Traditional music , Xylophone , Duet performance , Instrumental
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:16086 , JKC14a-05 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009275 , Tape number: JKC14 , Original tape number: 14 , Track number: 05
- Description: Part I of duet performance of traditional Venda song about a fast runner with 21 key xylophone accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 144
- Full Text: false
- Authors: Kruger, Jaco (Recorded by) , Thiba and Mashandule (Performer) , Composer unknown
- Subjects: Tshanda village , Vhembe district , Transvaal (Limpopo) , South Africa , Traditional music , Xylophone , Duet performance , Instrumental
- Type: Music , Sound
- Identifier: vital:16086 , JKC14a-05 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009275 , Tape number: JKC14 , Original tape number: 14 , Track number: 05
- Description: Part I of duet performance of traditional Venda song about a fast runner with 21 key xylophone accompaniment , For further details refer to Jaco Kruger recording card: 144
- Full Text: false
Being at Home: Race, Institutional Culture and Transformation at South African Higher Education Institutions
- Tabensky, Pedro, Matthews, Sally
- Authors: Tabensky, Pedro , Matthews, Sally
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142084 , vital:38048 , ISBN 9781869142902 , https://books.google.co.za/books?id=49o8rgEACAAJanddq=Being+at+home:+Race,+institutional+culture+and+transformation+at+South+African+higher+education+institutionandhl=enandsa=Xandved=0ahUKEwiPgsa6mpjjAhXNN8AKHbNwAtoQ6AEIKDAA
- Description: This edited work has gathered together contributions on how to transform universities in South Africa; as many are struggling to shift their institutional culture. In a South African context, transformation means to attempt to change higher education institutions such that they no longer reflect the values promoted by apartheid but rather reflect the values embodied in South Africa's 1996 Constitution. Institutional culture is the main subject for discussion in this book. In order to transform South Africa's universities, the contributors begin by analyzing the idea of what a university is, and relatedly, what its ideal aims are. A second theme is to understand what institutional culture is and how it functions. Moreover, transformation cannot occur without transforming the broader cultures of which they are a part. Related to this theme is a general concern about how contemporary moves towards the instrumentalization of higher education affect the ability to transform institutions. These institutions are being pushed to conform to goals that are outside the traditional idea of a university, such as concerns that universities are being 'bureaucratized' and becoming corporations, instead of a place of learning open to all. In conclusion it can be said that the contemporary South African academic community has an opportunity to recreate itself as the end of apartheid created space for engaging in transformative epistemic projects. The transformation of the tertiary sector entails a transformation of institutional cultures.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Tabensky, Pedro , Matthews, Sally
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142084 , vital:38048 , ISBN 9781869142902 , https://books.google.co.za/books?id=49o8rgEACAAJanddq=Being+at+home:+Race,+institutional+culture+and+transformation+at+South+African+higher+education+institutionandhl=enandsa=Xandved=0ahUKEwiPgsa6mpjjAhXNN8AKHbNwAtoQ6AEIKDAA
- Description: This edited work has gathered together contributions on how to transform universities in South Africa; as many are struggling to shift their institutional culture. In a South African context, transformation means to attempt to change higher education institutions such that they no longer reflect the values promoted by apartheid but rather reflect the values embodied in South Africa's 1996 Constitution. Institutional culture is the main subject for discussion in this book. In order to transform South Africa's universities, the contributors begin by analyzing the idea of what a university is, and relatedly, what its ideal aims are. A second theme is to understand what institutional culture is and how it functions. Moreover, transformation cannot occur without transforming the broader cultures of which they are a part. Related to this theme is a general concern about how contemporary moves towards the instrumentalization of higher education affect the ability to transform institutions. These institutions are being pushed to conform to goals that are outside the traditional idea of a university, such as concerns that universities are being 'bureaucratized' and becoming corporations, instead of a place of learning open to all. In conclusion it can be said that the contemporary South African academic community has an opportunity to recreate itself as the end of apartheid created space for engaging in transformative epistemic projects. The transformation of the tertiary sector entails a transformation of institutional cultures.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2015
Accounting Method; PGCE & BED Programme: MAC 412
- Authors: Luggya, S.K , Sathorar, H
- Date: 2011-05
- Subjects: Accounting Method
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17422 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1009791
- Description: Accounting Method; PGCE & BED Programme: MAC 412, examination May/June 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-05
- Authors: Luggya, S.K , Sathorar, H
- Date: 2011-05
- Subjects: Accounting Method
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17422 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1009791
- Description: Accounting Method; PGCE & BED Programme: MAC 412, examination May/June 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-05
Siyanibingelela
- Lumko music workshop participants, Tsabetse, Themba Thomas, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Lumko music workshop participants , Tsabetse, Themba Thomas , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko sa
- Language: isiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/390974 , vital:68604 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC092a-03
- Description: Zulu church choral hymn accompanied by drumming.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
- Authors: Lumko music workshop participants , Tsabetse, Themba Thomas , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Lumko sa
- Language: isiZulu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/390974 , vital:68604 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC092a-03
- Description: Zulu church choral hymn accompanied by drumming.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
Title not specified
- Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Gobabis sx
- Language: Language not specified
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/340914 , vital:62707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC337a-05
- Description: Indigenous Ovambo music unaccompanied
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
- Authors: Performer not specified , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Gobabis sx
- Language: Language not specified
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/340914 , vital:62707 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC337a-05
- Description: Indigenous Ovambo music unaccompanied
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
Mvana baThixo esus' izono zethu
- Church music workshop participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Church music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bulawayo sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/369699 , vital:66249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC062b-05
- Description: Catholic mass hymn, accompanied by the drum. Angus Dei
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
- Authors: Church music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1979
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bulawayo sa
- Language: isiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/369699 , vital:66249 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC062b-05
- Description: Catholic mass hymn, accompanied by the drum. Angus Dei
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1979
Analysis of Msitso wombidi 2nd orchestral introduction, 1955
- Ngodo of Repulo Filipe Banyuza, Komukomu, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Ngodo of Repulo Filipe Banyuza , Komukomu , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-10-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Portuguese East Africa f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225476 , vital:49227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT356-J5 , Research no. H1L3
- Description: Ngodo of Repulo Filipe Banguza 2nd orchestral introduction 1955, played on xylophone and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-10-03
- Authors: Ngodo of Repulo Filipe Banyuza , Komukomu , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1955-10-03
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Mozambique Portuguese East Africa f-mz
- Language: Chopi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225476 , vital:49227 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT356-J5 , Research no. H1L3
- Description: Ngodo of Repulo Filipe Banguza 2nd orchestral introduction 1955, played on xylophone and rattle.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1955-10-03
Black Workers housing 1984
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes University -- Employees , Rhodes University -- Employees -- Housing
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/39552 , vital:24896 , PIC/M 5507 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1984
- Date: 1984
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes University -- Employees , Rhodes University -- Employees -- Housing
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/39552 , vital:24896 , PIC/M 5507 , 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.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1984
Transkei College of Education students' perceptions of fieldwork in geographical education
- Authors: Ngquba, Tokozile
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: Geography -- Fieldwork -- Study and teaching Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1806 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003691
- Description: The understanding of geographical concepts and the development of skills requires the use of appropriate teaching strategies. Modern school geography incorporates a wealth of techniques and embraces a wide range of strategies which are directly suited to achieve the aims which are central to current geographical education. Techniques which directly involve the learner are perceived to be the most valuable. Of the many participatory strategies suited to the teaching of geography, fieldwork is accepted as the most worthwhile. This study investigates student teachers' perceptions of fieldwork in their college studies and as a teaching strategy. Extensive literature on fieldwork in geographical education was analysed. A survey was conducted to assess the student teachers' fieldwork experiences. The results reveal that fieldwork is neglected in Transkeian schools and Colleges of Education, despite the fact that it is required by school syllabuses, and the fact that in many areas suitable sites are readily accessible. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations made for the inclusion of fieldwork in geography courses at Transkei Colleges of Education.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1992
- Authors: Ngquba, Tokozile
- Date: 1992
- Subjects: Geography -- Fieldwork -- Study and teaching Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa -- Transkei
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1806 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003691
- Description: The understanding of geographical concepts and the development of skills requires the use of appropriate teaching strategies. Modern school geography incorporates a wealth of techniques and embraces a wide range of strategies which are directly suited to achieve the aims which are central to current geographical education. Techniques which directly involve the learner are perceived to be the most valuable. Of the many participatory strategies suited to the teaching of geography, fieldwork is accepted as the most worthwhile. This study investigates student teachers' perceptions of fieldwork in their college studies and as a teaching strategy. Extensive literature on fieldwork in geographical education was analysed. A survey was conducted to assess the student teachers' fieldwork experiences. The results reveal that fieldwork is neglected in Transkeian schools and Colleges of Education, despite the fact that it is required by school syllabuses, and the fact that in many areas suitable sites are readily accessible. Conclusions are drawn and recommendations made for the inclusion of fieldwork in geography courses at Transkei Colleges of Education.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1992
Sanctus from the Missa Zimbabwe
- Composer not specified, Mbongolwane Convent church music workshop participants, Emerencia, Sister, Maria, Sister, Cicilia, Sister, Angel, Sister, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Composer not specified , Mbongolwane Convent church music workshop participants , Emerencia, Sister , Maria, Sister , Cicilia, Sister , Angel, Sister , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-06-25
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Eshowe f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/267387 , vital:54080 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC115a-05
- Description: Missa Zimbabwe hymn performed in Zulu, accompanied by the xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-06-25
- Authors: Composer not specified , Mbongolwane Convent church music workshop participants , Emerencia, Sister , Maria, Sister , Cicilia, Sister , Angel, Sister , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1980-06-25
- Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Eshowe f-sa
- Language: Southern Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/267387 , vital:54080 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC115a-05
- Description: Missa Zimbabwe hymn performed in Zulu, accompanied by the xylophone.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980-06-25
Peri-urban agriculture and population growth : the case of Asmara, Eritrea
- Authors: Fessahaie, Tesfamichael
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Urban agriculture -- Eritrea -- Asmara , Cities and towns -- Eritrea -- Asmara -- Growth
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:10668 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d109790
- Description: The aim of this thesis is to provide a differentiated view of peri-urban agriculture in the context of urban population growth in Asmara, Eritrea. Peri-urban agriculture is viewed as a distinct type of broader urban agriculture, and in this case is not as subsistence-orientated as other branches of it. Urban population growth is comprised of three elements, namely, natural population increase, rural-urban migration and outward movement of people to the urban periphery linked to urban expansion. Each receives extensive treatment. Asmara is the capital city of Eritrea and using Weeks (2004:473) phrase can be termed as a “primate city”. As such, it exerts a major influence on the political, economic and cultural life of the country, but has never been subjected to this type of research. The analytical framework that is adopted is that of urban population growth. In order to operationalize it, theoretical insights into each of its three branches were applied. For example, the informalisation of the economy in developing cities was used to explain the operation of peri-urban agriculture in the context of natural population growth. An adaption of the original Harris-Todaro Model by Fields (2004) was used for the migrants, and the Mosaic Model by Bryant and Johnson (1992) for those facing urban encroachment. Primary data were collected in the field by the author with the help of research assistants. This was supplemented by secondary data which involved reports commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Public Works. Focus Group discussions were also held to supplement the data with information, views and insights that do not emerge in one-to-one interviews. This thesis demonstrates that those respondents operating within the context of natural population growth make a viable living from peri-urban agriculture, but that they also recognise that there are considerable challenges to be faced. Three sub-groups of farmers are identified. Of these, poultry farmers are the most vulnerable because of the high costs of the inputs, the uncertainty associated with avian „flu and an undeveloped distribution network. The vegetable producers, on the other hand, have a sophisticated marketing network, but low levels of education, high household numbers and an impending shortage of land and water. The agriculturalists that have migrated to Asmara seem to have created sustainable occupations for themselves over a number of years. However, 75 percent of them felt that migration to Asmara was not worthwhile. This negative view is explained in terms of the struggle it has taken to maintain such a living and the growing shortage of land. This set of farmers achieves lower production levels than its city-reared counterparts, carries considerable expenses and has to hire its land. The farmers who have had to cope with urban encroachment fall into two classes. The first has chosen to remain in peri-urban agriculture despite feeling the pressure to scale down activities and thus have a lower income. The majority of this group are dairy farmers who have to trade off increasing costs of cattle feed against shrinking grazing land. They are unwilling to take the initiative to solve their land problems, but look to the authorities to do so. The second class of respondents in this category have abandoned their agricultural holdings. The majority of these agriculturalists are poultry farmers living in the Eastern side of the city. A shortage of agricultural land, high population densities and high costs of inputs make poultry farming difficult. This thesis, therefore, presents a multifaceted view of peri-urban agriculture. While each set of farmers has to cope with its own particular circumstances, there is a common factor. This is the tension between preserving agricultural land on the urban fringe and the need to expand the city to accommodate its inhabitants.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Fessahaie, Tesfamichael
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Urban agriculture -- Eritrea -- Asmara , Cities and towns -- Eritrea -- Asmara -- Growth
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:10668 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d109790
- Description: The aim of this thesis is to provide a differentiated view of peri-urban agriculture in the context of urban population growth in Asmara, Eritrea. Peri-urban agriculture is viewed as a distinct type of broader urban agriculture, and in this case is not as subsistence-orientated as other branches of it. Urban population growth is comprised of three elements, namely, natural population increase, rural-urban migration and outward movement of people to the urban periphery linked to urban expansion. Each receives extensive treatment. Asmara is the capital city of Eritrea and using Weeks (2004:473) phrase can be termed as a “primate city”. As such, it exerts a major influence on the political, economic and cultural life of the country, but has never been subjected to this type of research. The analytical framework that is adopted is that of urban population growth. In order to operationalize it, theoretical insights into each of its three branches were applied. For example, the informalisation of the economy in developing cities was used to explain the operation of peri-urban agriculture in the context of natural population growth. An adaption of the original Harris-Todaro Model by Fields (2004) was used for the migrants, and the Mosaic Model by Bryant and Johnson (1992) for those facing urban encroachment. Primary data were collected in the field by the author with the help of research assistants. This was supplemented by secondary data which involved reports commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Public Works. Focus Group discussions were also held to supplement the data with information, views and insights that do not emerge in one-to-one interviews. This thesis demonstrates that those respondents operating within the context of natural population growth make a viable living from peri-urban agriculture, but that they also recognise that there are considerable challenges to be faced. Three sub-groups of farmers are identified. Of these, poultry farmers are the most vulnerable because of the high costs of the inputs, the uncertainty associated with avian „flu and an undeveloped distribution network. The vegetable producers, on the other hand, have a sophisticated marketing network, but low levels of education, high household numbers and an impending shortage of land and water. The agriculturalists that have migrated to Asmara seem to have created sustainable occupations for themselves over a number of years. However, 75 percent of them felt that migration to Asmara was not worthwhile. This negative view is explained in terms of the struggle it has taken to maintain such a living and the growing shortage of land. This set of farmers achieves lower production levels than its city-reared counterparts, carries considerable expenses and has to hire its land. The farmers who have had to cope with urban encroachment fall into two classes. The first has chosen to remain in peri-urban agriculture despite feeling the pressure to scale down activities and thus have a lower income. The majority of this group are dairy farmers who have to trade off increasing costs of cattle feed against shrinking grazing land. They are unwilling to take the initiative to solve their land problems, but look to the authorities to do so. The second class of respondents in this category have abandoned their agricultural holdings. The majority of these agriculturalists are poultry farmers living in the Eastern side of the city. A shortage of agricultural land, high population densities and high costs of inputs make poultry farming difficult. This thesis, therefore, presents a multifaceted view of peri-urban agriculture. While each set of farmers has to cope with its own particular circumstances, there is a common factor. This is the tension between preserving agricultural land on the urban fringe and the need to expand the city to accommodate its inhabitants.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2012
Structural studies on yeast eIF5A using biomolecular NMR and molecular dynamics
- Authors: Sigauke, Lester Takunda
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Molecular dynamics , Reverse transcriptase , HIV (Viruses) , HIV infections , Eukaryotic cells , Yeast
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:4547 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017927
- Description: Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A, eIF5A, is a ubiquitous eukaryotic protein that has been shown to influence the translation initiation of a specific subset of mRNAs. It is the only protein known to undergo hypusination in a two-step post translational modification process involving deoxyhypusine synthase (DHS) and deoxyhypusine hydroxylase (DOHH) enzymes. Hypusination has been shown to influence translation of HIV-1 and HTLV-1 nuclear export signals, while the involvement of active hypusinated eIF5A in induction of IRES mediated processes that initiate pro-apoptotic process have inspired studies into the manipulation of eIF5A in anti-cancer and anti-diabetic therapies. eIF5A oligomerisation in eukaryotic systems has been shown to be influenced by hypusination and the mechanism of dimerisation is RNA dependent. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy approaches were proposed to solve the structure of the hypusinated eIF5A in solution in order to understand the influence of hypusination on the monomeric arrangement which enhances dimerisation and activates the protein. Cleavage of the 18 kDa protein monomer by introduction of thrombin cleavage site within the flexible domain was thought to give rise to 10 kDa fragments accessible to a 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. Heteronuclear single quantum correlation experiments of the mutated isotopically labelled protein expressed in E. coli showed that the eIF5A protein with a thrombin cleavage insert, eIF5AThr (eIF5A subscript Thr), was unfolded. In silico investigations of the behaviour of eIF5A and eIF5AThr (eIF5A subscript Thr) models in solution using molecular dynamics showed that the mutated model had different solution dynamics to the native model. Chemical shift predictors were used to extract atomic resolution data of solution dynamics and the introduction of rigidity in the flexible loop region of eIF5A affected solution behaviour consistent with lack of in vivo function of eIF5AThr (eIF5A subscript Thr) in yeast. Residual dipolar coupling and T₁ relaxation times were calculated in anticipation of the extraction of experimental data from RDC and relaxation dispersion experiments based on HSQC measurable restraints.
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- Date Issued: 2015
- Authors: Sigauke, Lester Takunda
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Molecular dynamics , Reverse transcriptase , HIV (Viruses) , HIV infections , Eukaryotic cells , Yeast
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:4547 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017927
- Description: Eukaryotic initiation factor 5A, eIF5A, is a ubiquitous eukaryotic protein that has been shown to influence the translation initiation of a specific subset of mRNAs. It is the only protein known to undergo hypusination in a two-step post translational modification process involving deoxyhypusine synthase (DHS) and deoxyhypusine hydroxylase (DOHH) enzymes. Hypusination has been shown to influence translation of HIV-1 and HTLV-1 nuclear export signals, while the involvement of active hypusinated eIF5A in induction of IRES mediated processes that initiate pro-apoptotic process have inspired studies into the manipulation of eIF5A in anti-cancer and anti-diabetic therapies. eIF5A oligomerisation in eukaryotic systems has been shown to be influenced by hypusination and the mechanism of dimerisation is RNA dependent. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy approaches were proposed to solve the structure of the hypusinated eIF5A in solution in order to understand the influence of hypusination on the monomeric arrangement which enhances dimerisation and activates the protein. Cleavage of the 18 kDa protein monomer by introduction of thrombin cleavage site within the flexible domain was thought to give rise to 10 kDa fragments accessible to a 600 MHz NMR spectrometer. Heteronuclear single quantum correlation experiments of the mutated isotopically labelled protein expressed in E. coli showed that the eIF5A protein with a thrombin cleavage insert, eIF5AThr (eIF5A subscript Thr), was unfolded. In silico investigations of the behaviour of eIF5A and eIF5AThr (eIF5A subscript Thr) models in solution using molecular dynamics showed that the mutated model had different solution dynamics to the native model. Chemical shift predictors were used to extract atomic resolution data of solution dynamics and the introduction of rigidity in the flexible loop region of eIF5A affected solution behaviour consistent with lack of in vivo function of eIF5AThr (eIF5A subscript Thr) in yeast. Residual dipolar coupling and T₁ relaxation times were calculated in anticipation of the extraction of experimental data from RDC and relaxation dispersion experiments based on HSQC measurable restraints.
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- Date Issued: 2015
Jesus of Nazareth
- St Mary's Choir, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: St Mary's Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Gobabis f-sx
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/309327 , vital:59024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD117-78
- Description: Recording Session of Catholic Choirs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
- Authors: St Mary's Choir , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Namibia Gobabis f-sx
- Language: English
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/309327 , vital:59024 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD117-78
- Description: Recording Session of Catholic Choirs.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
Shambililenu mwaile mungongo
- Nanjeko, Longwani, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Nanjeko, Longwani , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-03
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/271053 , vital:54505 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0837-XYZ4146.2
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-03
- Authors: Nanjeko, Longwani , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1949-08-03
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Zambia City not specified f-za
- Language: Lozi
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/271053 , vital:54505 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP0837-XYZ4146.2
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1949-08-03
Ilizwi leNkosi yethu
- Xhosa Folk, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave
- Authors: Xhosa Folk , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1983-24-07
- Subjects: Folk music , Folk songs, Xhosa , Church music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Port Elizabeth f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/283748 , vital:55985 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD067-06
- Description: Sunday mass at St Don Bosco's, Kwazakhele.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1983-24-07
- Authors: Xhosa Folk , Composer Not Specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1983-24-07
- Subjects: Folk music , Folk songs, Xhosa , Church music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Port Elizabeth f-sa
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/283748 , vital:55985 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DD067-06
- Description: Sunday mass at St Don Bosco's, Kwazakhele.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1983-24-07