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Indigenous African language media: practices and processes: Phillip Mpofu, Israel Ayinla Fadipe and Thulani Tshabangu (eds). 2023: Book review

  • Authors: Aiseng, Kealeboga
  • Date: 2024
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455257 , vital:75416 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2024.2324032
  • Description: Research on indigenous African language media is ongoing (see Chibuwe and Salawu, 2020; Chikaipa and Gunde, 2020; Aiseng, 2022). Scholars constantly embark on this fascinating journey encompassing various topics, including lan-guage preservation, cultural representation, media policy and audience reception. Research has proven that media products in indigenous African languages are growing exponentially, with media creatives continuing to see the need to produce content in these languages. Films, songs, soap operas and digital media tools increasingly endorse African indigenous languages as their primary mode of de-livery, challenging and unsettling the monopoly that Indo-european languages have enjoyed in these spaces.
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  • Date Issued: 2024

The centralization and racialization of language policy: implications for the ‘below'

  • Authors: Khetoa, Soyiso , Aiseng, Kealeboga , Theledi, Kgomotso , Motinyane, Mantoa
  • Date: 2024
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455242 , vital:75415 , https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.1472674
  • Description: The significance of language policies cannot be overlooked, particularly in countries where political ideologies influence perceptions about the use of various languages in various domains. Due to political influence certain languages are regarded as ‘languages of the state’and others are perceived to be ‘languages in the state’. Language practices during apartheid in South Africa were very influential in deciding the plight of indigenous African languages. During this period, indigenous African languages were subjected to suppression, wherein an exoglossic lan-guage policy remained intact. Mekoa (2020) explicates that language was used as an instrument of domination or subjugation during apart-heid and colonization. Mekoa (2020) further indicates that in South Afri-ca, indigenous African languages were denigrated and marginalized through legislative structures of the apartheid government.
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  • Date Issued: 2024

New mythologies: violence and colonialism in Hollywood blockbusters

  • Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
  • Date: 2023
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455521 , vital:75436 , https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2023.2272500
  • Description: Countries create mythologies about themselves in their self-representations in film. This is nothing new. The United States of Amer-ica has done so with great success for over a hundred years through the Hollywood “machine.” 1 On the one hand, this mythology can serve as a form of propaganda that is accepted uncritically by many as “reali-ty.” On the other, it takes the form of wishful thinking which may in cer-tain ways be even more revealing than realism of the motivations be-hind a nation’s mythologizing. Here, Marvel comics present an apt ex-ample of how the United States’ selfimage takes shape in the public imagination: exceptional powers, huge muscles, dominion over man and nature through science. One of these heroes is even called Cap-tain America. In short, a fantasy of potential total control. We take for granted that this mythologizing concerns the country’s own powers, a form of public self-regard. This much is to be expected.
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  • Date Issued: 2023

Planetary Urgency, Researcher Reflexivity and ESE Research: Questions Arising from an Initial Exploration of Goethean-inspired Phenomenology

  • Authors: Olvitt, Lausanne L
  • Date: 2022
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437541 , vital:73392 , ISBN
  • Description: Many of the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are currently influential in Environment and Sustainability Education (ESE) research in South Africa foreground interventionist research, activism, causal explanation, critique, social-ecological transformation and decoloniality. These frameworks guide ESE researchers to design, implement and report on research in particular ways, hence influencing how social-ecological phenomena, learning and social change are understood and enacted. In this essay, I present some exploratory perspectives on the relevance and potential contribution of phenomenological approaches to ESE research, especially Goethean inspired observation.
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  • Date Issued: 2022

Barriers to access second-trimester abortion: A case report

  • Authors: Ramprakash, Kaswa
  • Date: 2021
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3330 , vital:43314 , https://doi.org/10.4102/safp.v63i1.5028
  • Description: Despite the implementation of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act, many women continue to procure illegal abortions in South Africa. A lack of knowledge of the CTOP Act and poor access to legal abortion in public health facilities is a big challenge. In the scope of the CTOP Act, the termination of pregnancy is a time-restricted health service, and women presented to a health care facility in the second trimester have encounter more obstacles to access the services. Keywords: Abortion; termination of pregnancy; CTOP Act; Illegal; Second Trimester.
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  • Date Issued: 2021

Essential medicine selection during the COVID-19 pandemic: Enabling access in uncharted territory

  • Authors: A G Parrish
  • Date: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3364 , vital:43319 , http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13086
  • Description: The COVID-19 pandemic requires urgent decisions regarding treatment policy in the face of rapidly evolving evidence. In response, the South African Essential Medicines List Committee established a subcommittee to systematically review and appraise emerging evidence, within very short timelines, in order to inform the National Department of Health COVID-19 treatment guidelines. To date, the subcommittee has reviewed 14 potential treatments, and made recommendations based on local context, feasibility, resource requirements and equity. Here we describe the rapid review and evidence-to-decision process, using remdesivir and dexamethasone as examples. Our experience is that conducting rapid reviews is a practical and efficient way to address medicine policy questions under pandemic conditions.
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  • Date Issued: 2020

Optical limiting properties, structure and simplified TD-DFT calculations of scandium tetra-15-crown-5 phthalocyaninates:

Pied Crows in the Eastern Cape: what bird club records reveal

  • Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K , Hulley, Patrick E
  • Date: 2020
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/449461 , vital:74823 , https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2020.1782498
  • Description: Published records by bird clubs in Port Elizabeth, Kenton-on-Sea and Grahamstown (Makhanda) show that until 1980 Pied Crows were seldom recorded in this sector of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Port Elizabeth, and apparently also East London, was colonised by Pied Crows in the 1980s, whereas the first records for Kenton-on- Sea and Port Alfred on the coast, and also inland in the Grahamstown (Makhanda) area, were after 1990. Since 2010, this species has been recorded more often both on the coast and in the adjacent inland regions. However, records of both Cape Crows and White-necked Ravens have also increased over the same period, suggesting that there has been no species replacement among the local corvids. Citizen-science data provide valuable information on changes in distribution and abundance of this bird species.
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  • Date Issued: 2020

Potential of soil seed bank and ungulate-mediated endozoochory in old field restoration:

  • Authors: Ruwanza, Sheunesu
  • Date: 2020
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150216 , vital:38950 , https://0-muse.jhu.edu.wam.seals.ac.za/article/750319/pdf
  • Description: Soil seed bank plays a key role in old field restoration because it provides information about plant species that may regenerate (Hopfensperger 2007). Most studies on old field restoration have concentrated on floristic similarities between soil seed bank and standing vegetation (Török et al. 2018). However, investigating the effects of proximity to natural/old field edge (habitat fragmentation border) on soil seed bank could yield better recovery predictions. Proximity to natural/old field edge may favour recruitment of a different plant community than that found in the old field interior. This due to favorable abiotic (e.g., soil moisture) and biotic (e.g., seed dispersal) microenvironments created near the edge. On the other hand, ungulate-mediated endozoochory has been shown to potentially facilitate ecological restoration in degraded systems, given that ungulates disperse diaspores across different landscapes (Baltzinger et al. 2019). However, ungulate-mediated endozoochory dispersal in degraded old fields is affected by several factors that include availability of nearby natural perches that attract dispersers, structural vegetation complexities, presence of food especially fruits, and feeding regimes (Baltzinger et al. 2019).
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  • Date Issued: 2020

But is it publishable? Mastering the MMed message

  • Authors: A G Parrish , E S Grossman,
  • Date: 202
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3353 , vital:43318 , http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/13033
  • Description: The research requirement for South African specialist registration offers opportunities and challenges. For some clinicians it may spark a lifelong interest in clinical investigation, while for many others it may provide a potential publication opportunity. Integrating the specific requirements of an MMed mini-dissertation with those of standard medical publications can be difficult for first-time authors and their supervisors; published guidance caters to full-length laboratory Master’s or doctoral research. We suggest that research is more likely to be publishable if it is locally relevant, has a clear clinical message and is coherently presented.
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  • Date Issued: 202

Book Review: Herman Wasserman, Media, Geopolitics and Power

  • Authors: Garman, Anthea
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158449 , vital:40187 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1177/0021909619851645
  • Description: The strength of this book is not only that Herman Wasserman gives us a comprehensive overview of the major changes in South Africa’s journalism industries since the transition to democracy, but that he does it through the theoretical lens of Global South thinking. In order to cover the terrain thoroughly Wasserman draws on years of careful observation of – and his previous writings on – the shifts in the institutions and practices of journalism.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

Intersecting Diasporas:

  • Authors: Naidu, Samantha
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158034 , vital:40141 , DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2019.1661597
  • Description: With increased mobility enabled by evolving technology, the world experiences higher rates of migration and globalisation than ever before. This phenomenon has led, in recent years, to a high volume of literature about migration and diaspora, i.e. literature which deals with the general theme of transnationalism. The term transnational, in its simplest guise, refers to the relations between citizens of different nation states and the networks which link them. It also refers to the complex subjectivity of those who migrate. Scholars emphasise that transnationalism, because of heterogeneity and diversity, gives rise to a site for dynamic social and cultural change. At the same time, continuity is a necessary feature of this site. The co-existence of change and continuity (a focused process of adaptation and assimilation which simultaneously considers the role of memory, the past, and ties to homeland) then is also a defining element of transnationalism.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

Mulling over Art with Andrew Mulenga:

  • Authors: Mulenga, Andrew
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146815 , vital:38560 , https://www.themastonline.com/2019/06/18/mulling-over-art/
  • Description: Life, which is the loosest translation of the Nyanja word “Umoyo”, an apt title for the ongoing exhibition that opened at the Henry Tayali Gallery last Friday has several visual morsels that are delightful to look at. The two-man show by schoolteachers based in the Eastern Province who are trying to break the mold from just being educators of art in their respective schools to wet their beaks in the contemporary art scene has several visual morsels that are delightful to look at.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

Mulling over Art with Andrew Mulenga: Vincentio solo yields mixed reviews from ZAOU students

  • Authors: Mulenga, Andrew
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146804 , vital:38559 , https://www.themastonline.com/2019/05/28/mulling-over-art-vincentio-solo-yields-mixed-reviews-from-zaou-students/
  • Description: Every semester, the Zambian Open University’s Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art residential programme and examination periods include several field trips that involve visits to museums, art galleries, private collections, public discussions as well as theatre and film production houses within Lusaka. Among the many tours this semester was a visit by a combined group of over thirty 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students from across the country to Zambian abstract maestro Vincentio Phiri’s solo exhibition entitled “Omission” that ran at the Zambia Ultra Gallery at Garden City Mall on Great East Road in Lusaka from 14th to 30th April.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

The Art of Life in South Africa by Daniel Magaziner: a review

  • Authors: Ijisakin, Eyitayo Tolulope
  • Date: 2019
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146101 , vital:38495 , https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/702008
  • Description: In The Art of Life in South Africa, Daniel Magaziner examines the history of art education under apartheid in South Africa. The book focuses on Ndaleni, an art school for black South Africans, and considers the travails and triumphs of its artists and their teachers under white supremacy. At Ndaleni, students and teachers were bound together in learning “the art of life”; due to lack of funds, they improvised materials for artistic production. While the school existed, between the 1950s and 1980s, about 1,000 students graduated; about 2,000 could not be admitted due to constraints of space. This shows how Ndaleni appealed to many black South Africans as one of the few places they could develop their art. According to the Bantu Education Act of 1953 (p. 3), the purpose of the school was to preserve white supremacy, the segregation between African and European education—what Oguibe (2004) refers to as “Play me the other.” The book is organized into seven chapters, with a prologue, an epilogue, and endnotes.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

Ugandan Bark Cloth: From Coffins to Handbags

  • Authors: Nakisanze, S , Pullanikkatil, Deepa
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433640 , vital:72989 , ISBN 978-3-319-75580-9 , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75580-9_23
  • Description: Bark cloth manufactured from the bark of the fig tree (Mutuba; Ficus natalensis) in Uganda is traditionally associated with death, because it was the fabric used for wrapping the dead before modern-day wooden coffins came about. Sarah Nakisanze’s story of building a successful enterprise in Uganda making crafts from bark cloth, is that of courage and determination to overcome mindsets and taboos, including the fear of death from touching bark cloth.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

"Our Voice of Africa": it is less than our voice without a woman's voice

  • Authors: Tumusiime, Amanda
  • Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145687 , vital:38458 , https://0-muse.jhu.edu.wam.seals.ac.za/article/695397/pdf
  • Description: In her poem Our Voice (Chipasula and Chipasula 1995: 166–67) Noémia de Sousa (1926–2002) speaks about “our voice of Africa” as that voice that is liberative; that voice which opens “up new ways” and “lights up remorse … and burns glimmers of hope in the dark souls of desperate people” who cry out for emancipation from “slavery.” That voice which creates new possibilities by awakening a “cyclone of knowledge.” That voice which can persistently and effectively represent the aspirations of “millions of voices that shout, shout and shout!” for freedom and self-actualization.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

A song for the South: also defining birdsong in global terms

  • Authors: Bonnevie, Bo T , Craig, Adrian J F K
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/448759 , vital:74758 , https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12627
  • Description: The article presents information on the importance of birdsongs, highlighting the structured vocalization required for mate attraction and defending of territory by male birds. Topics include the variations of themes in birdsongs during intraspecific communication, song acquisitions by the songbirds, and the impact of song learning by birds.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

Afrikanische Entwicklungsalternativen: Ubuntu und die Post-Development-Debatte

  • Authors: Matthews, Sally
  • Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142157 , vital:38054 , DOI: 10.3224/peripherie.v38i2.03
  • Description: In post-development theory, ubuntu is often cited as an example of an “alternative to development”. This article investigates whether ubuntu can play this role and what to think of the demand for alternatives to development in general. In order to do this, the paper fi rst deals with central aspects of postdevelopment theory and the debate about ubuntu. Although the concept fi ts well into a post-development perspective, the attempts to contrast ubuntu with Western ideas and ways of life are often fueled by the desire to rekindle an original, pre-colonial, authentic African philosophy. Yet discourses on Africa are always embedded in Western discourses, so this opposition reproduces precisely those dichotomies it aims to fi ght. More generally, this also holds true for the idea of “alternatives to development”, which postulate an essential opposition to “development”. This, however, denies claims for equal rights and participation at the root of demands for “development”. The struggle for these claims cannot be fought beyond the existing global order. Instead of engaging in romanticizing projections about an Africa beyond “development”, people’s views and needs should be taken as the starting point for the struggle against injustice and inequality.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

Literary cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee

  • Authors: Marais, Mike
  • Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144148 , vital:38315 , DOI: 10.1080/17533171.2018.1427849
  • Description: Samuel Beckett’s last few plays were all written by invitation and performed before specialist audiences who were familiar with his work and knew what they could expect from him. Arthur Rose quite rightly points out that such expectation is constitutive in nature, that these audiences approached the plays with the baggage of a “preconceived Beckett” (112–13). He is also right when he argues that Beckett, in the plays in question, evinces an awareness of his reification as an author and of the authority of reputation.
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  • Date Issued: 2018
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