Top of Witteklip Mt., Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13449 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015116
- Description: Southern Slope with Lady's Slipper Rock showing up well with heel & sole feature clearly exposed. In the distance Thornhill country once known as Galgenbosch leading to the Gamtoos River.
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- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13449 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015116
- Description: Southern Slope with Lady's Slipper Rock showing up well with heel & sole feature clearly exposed. In the distance Thornhill country once known as Galgenbosch leading to the Gamtoos River.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
Top of Witteklip Mt., Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13448 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015115
- Description: Showing east face of Lady's Slipper Rock, its heel and sole facing skyward.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13448 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015115
- Description: Showing east face of Lady's Slipper Rock, its heel and sole facing skyward.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
Top of Witteklip Mt., Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13450 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015118
- Description: Top of Witteklip Mt.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13450 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015118
- Description: Top of Witteklip Mt.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
Top of Witteklip Mt., Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13446 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015113
- Description: The Lady's Slipper Rock can be seen in the distance. Top of Witteklip Mt., PE. Looking westwards across the Van Staden's River to Thornhill (Galgenbosch) country with St. Francis Bay in the distance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-30
- Subjects: Witteklip Mountain (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13446 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015113
- Description: The Lady's Slipper Rock can be seen in the distance. Top of Witteklip Mt., PE. Looking westwards across the Van Staden's River to Thornhill (Galgenbosch) country with St. Francis Bay in the distance.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-30
86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-25
- Subjects: Haemanthus albiflora -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13379 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016891
- Description: Three flowering Haemanthus albiflora brought in from veld.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-25
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-25
- Subjects: Haemanthus albiflora -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13379 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016891
- Description: Three flowering Haemanthus albiflora brought in from veld.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-25
Amanzi, Uitenhage
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13306 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016984
- Description: Man's excavations immediately below (4.5 - 6m) sorping (sic) natural emergence, showing great depth of man's excavations to allow to gravitate before pumping installed.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-23
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13306 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016984
- Description: Man's excavations immediately below (4.5 - 6m) sorping (sic) natural emergence, showing great depth of man's excavations to allow to gravitate before pumping installed.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-23
Amanzi, Uitenhage
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13305 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016983
- Description: Excavated sit of spring which flowered originally from site under the tall bushes at right. Dry at time of photograph, water pumped electrically. The bracken-filled hollow shows man's excavations as the water slowly dropped when drawn for irrigation.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-23
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13305 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016983
- Description: Excavated sit of spring which flowered originally from site under the tall bushes at right. Dry at time of photograph, water pumped electrically. The bracken-filled hollow shows man's excavations as the water slowly dropped when drawn for irrigation.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-23
86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-13
- Subjects: Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Haemanthus albiflora -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13041 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016676
- Description: Haemanthus albiflora.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-13
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-13
- Subjects: Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Haemanthus albiflora -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13041 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016676
- Description: Haemanthus albiflora.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-13
Garden at 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-13
- Subjects: Carissa macrocarpa -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13378 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016890
- Description: Red fruits of Amatungulu shrub, Carissa macrocarpa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-13
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-13
- Subjects: Carissa macrocarpa -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13378 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016890
- Description: Red fruits of Amatungulu shrub, Carissa macrocarpa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-13
Garden at 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-13
- Subjects: Carissa macrocarpa -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13376 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016890
- Description: Red fruits of Amatungulu shrub, Carissa macrocarpa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-13
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-04-13
- Subjects: Carissa macrocarpa -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13376 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016890
- Description: Red fruits of Amatungulu shrub, Carissa macrocarpa
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-04-13
Main thesis title: Onderwysers se belewing van multikulturele onderwys
- Authors: Strydom, Louise
- Date: 1999-04
- Subjects: Port Elizabeth (South Africa) , Eastern Cape (South Africa) , South Africa
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/60003 , vital:62732
- Description: The South African Schools’ Act of 1996 terminated segregated education in South Africa. Multi-cultural education has become a reality in the new democratic South Africa. As a result of this major shift in policy, the researcher probed for an answer to the following question: “How does the teacher, especially the teacher already in service, experience this new situation regarding multi-cultural education?” To find an answer to this question, a literature study and empirical research, making use of a representative sample of respondents in the Southern Cape, were undertaken. The researcher has personally experienced the challenges of having to adapt from a mono-cultural teaching environment to a multi-cultural teaching environment at school level, hence a further interest in this research problem. Relevant terminology was highlighted and a brief historical synopsis of the course that multi-cultural education took in Western societies such as the USA, Canada, Australia and Britain was studied. These sources were utilised to draw a comparison with the South African situation. A concise synopsis of the history of multi-cultural education in South Africa was also undertaken to highlight the complexity of the educational situation presently being experienced in South Africa. The empirical research, with a target group representing teachers in the Southern Cape, was undertaken by means of a self-compiled questionnaire to make an analysis of teachers’ attitudes, expectations and perceptions of multi-cultural education as experienced in the classroom. The information obtained from the respondents indicated a generally positive attitude towards multi-cultural education amongst teachers. A great need for in-service training also became evident. xvi The researcher has thus made recommendations regarding in-service training that she thinks is of utmost importance. The practical problems that were highlighted during the research, make a vital contribution towards the successful implementation of multi-cultural education in South Africa. , Thesis (DEd) -- Faculty of Education, 1999
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999-04
- Authors: Strydom, Louise
- Date: 1999-04
- Subjects: Port Elizabeth (South Africa) , Eastern Cape (South Africa) , South Africa
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Doctoral theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/60003 , vital:62732
- Description: The South African Schools’ Act of 1996 terminated segregated education in South Africa. Multi-cultural education has become a reality in the new democratic South Africa. As a result of this major shift in policy, the researcher probed for an answer to the following question: “How does the teacher, especially the teacher already in service, experience this new situation regarding multi-cultural education?” To find an answer to this question, a literature study and empirical research, making use of a representative sample of respondents in the Southern Cape, were undertaken. The researcher has personally experienced the challenges of having to adapt from a mono-cultural teaching environment to a multi-cultural teaching environment at school level, hence a further interest in this research problem. Relevant terminology was highlighted and a brief historical synopsis of the course that multi-cultural education took in Western societies such as the USA, Canada, Australia and Britain was studied. These sources were utilised to draw a comparison with the South African situation. A concise synopsis of the history of multi-cultural education in South Africa was also undertaken to highlight the complexity of the educational situation presently being experienced in South Africa. The empirical research, with a target group representing teachers in the Southern Cape, was undertaken by means of a self-compiled questionnaire to make an analysis of teachers’ attitudes, expectations and perceptions of multi-cultural education as experienced in the classroom. The information obtained from the respondents indicated a generally positive attitude towards multi-cultural education amongst teachers. A great need for in-service training also became evident. xvi The researcher has thus made recommendations regarding in-service training that she thinks is of utmost importance. The practical problems that were highlighted during the research, make a vital contribution towards the successful implementation of multi-cultural education in South Africa. , Thesis (DEd) -- Faculty of Education, 1999
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- Date Issued: 1999-04
Garden at 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-03-14
- Subjects: Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13040 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016675
- Description: Garden at 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-03-14
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-03-14
- Subjects: Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13040 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016675
- Description: Garden at 86 Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-03-14
Walton Park Retirement Village, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Collins, M J
- Date: 1999-03-01
- Subjects: Cyrtanthus sanguineus -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13412 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016924
- Description: Cyrtanthus sanguineus in pot at C.J. Skead's cottage. Second season of flowering. Four bulbs flowered this year, about same in 1998. This was last. Many new bulbs emerging. Originals from fine display at Miss HJ Vanderplank's potted specimens at Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth (her originals from Grahamstown). This shows how well the plant does in pots and gardens.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-03-01
- Authors: Collins, M J
- Date: 1999-03-01
- Subjects: Cyrtanthus sanguineus -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13412 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016924
- Description: Cyrtanthus sanguineus in pot at C.J. Skead's cottage. Second season of flowering. Four bulbs flowered this year, about same in 1998. This was last. Many new bulbs emerging. Originals from fine display at Miss HJ Vanderplank's potted specimens at Kruger Gardens, Summerstrand, Port Elizabeth (her originals from Grahamstown). This shows how well the plant does in pots and gardens.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-03-01
Activate: 1999 - March
- Date: 1999-03
- Subjects: Grahamstown -- Newspapers , Journalism, Students -- South Africa , Rhodes University -- Activate , Rhodes University -- Students , Student newspapers and periodicals -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14347 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019219
- Description: Activate is the Independent Student Newspaper of Rhodes University. Located in Grahamstown, Activate was established in 1947 as Rhodeo, and during apartheid became an active part of the struggle for freedom of expression as part of the now defunct South African Student Press Union. Currently Activate is committed to informing Rhodes University students, staff and community members about relevant issues, mainly on campus. These issues range from hard news to more creative journalism. While Activate acts as a news source, one of its main objectives it to be accessible as a training ground for student journalists. The newspaper is run entirely by the students and is published twice a term. Activate is a free newspaper which receives an annual grant from the Rhodes University Student Representative Council, however, majority of its revenue is generated through advertising.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999-03
- Date: 1999-03
- Subjects: Grahamstown -- Newspapers , Journalism, Students -- South Africa , Rhodes University -- Activate , Rhodes University -- Students , Student newspapers and periodicals -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14347 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019219
- Description: Activate is the Independent Student Newspaper of Rhodes University. Located in Grahamstown, Activate was established in 1947 as Rhodeo, and during apartheid became an active part of the struggle for freedom of expression as part of the now defunct South African Student Press Union. Currently Activate is committed to informing Rhodes University students, staff and community members about relevant issues, mainly on campus. These issues range from hard news to more creative journalism. While Activate acts as a news source, one of its main objectives it to be accessible as a training ground for student journalists. The newspaper is run entirely by the students and is published twice a term. Activate is a free newspaper which receives an annual grant from the Rhodes University Student Representative Council, however, majority of its revenue is generated through advertising.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999-03
The Educational Journal
- Date: 1999-03
- Subjects: Education –- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/38129 , vital:34403 , Bulk File 7
- Description: The Educational Journal was the official organ of the Teachers' League of South Africa and focussed on education within the context of a racialized South Africa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-03
- Date: 1999-03
- Subjects: Education –- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/38129 , vital:34403 , Bulk File 7
- Description: The Educational Journal was the official organ of the Teachers' League of South Africa and focussed on education within the context of a racialized South Africa.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-03
Women’s Leadership in COSATU: Research Report, March 1999
- Authors: Orr, Liesl
- Date: 1999-03
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112470 , vital:33585
- Description: The aim of this paper is to provide updated figures on women’s representation in leadership structures in COSATU. These figures enable the federation to review progress and to set targets for women’s leadership, as resolved in the 1997 COSATU Congress. The paper provides the most recent statistics (for 1998) on women’s leadership in COSATU at regional and national level. The intention of this report was to focus on collecting the actual figures and is therefore confined to a more quantitative (statistical) reflection on women’s leadership. It will be valuable to embark on further research that examines the qualitative aspects, in other words, women’s experiences of leadership.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999-03
- Authors: Orr, Liesl
- Date: 1999-03
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112470 , vital:33585
- Description: The aim of this paper is to provide updated figures on women’s representation in leadership structures in COSATU. These figures enable the federation to review progress and to set targets for women’s leadership, as resolved in the 1997 COSATU Congress. The paper provides the most recent statistics (for 1998) on women’s leadership in COSATU at regional and national level. The intention of this report was to focus on collecting the actual figures and is therefore confined to a more quantitative (statistical) reflection on women’s leadership. It will be valuable to embark on further research that examines the qualitative aspects, in other words, women’s experiences of leadership.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999-03
Amanzi, Uitenhage
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-02-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13303 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016981
- Description: Looking from spring area across bushveld to top of hill with trig. beacon giving some idea of spring's position near hilltop. 2 Km from Coega River below. Hill is 189 m above sea level (asl).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-02-23
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-02-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13303 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016981
- Description: Looking from spring area across bushveld to top of hill with trig. beacon giving some idea of spring's position near hilltop. 2 Km from Coega River below. Hill is 189 m above sea level (asl).
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-02-23
Amanzi, Uitenhage
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-02-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13304 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016982
- Description: Elaborate electric pumping arrangement drawing water from deeply-dug spring near top of hill. Spring emerged naturally just to left of photo. As pumping increased so the water table dropped forcing pumping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-02-23
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1999-02-23
- Subjects: Uitenhage (South Africa) , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13304 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016982
- Description: Elaborate electric pumping arrangement drawing water from deeply-dug spring near top of hill. Spring emerged naturally just to left of photo. As pumping increased so the water table dropped forcing pumping.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1999-02-23
"Making the News": a case study of East Cape News (ECN)
- Authors: Davidow, Audrey Beth
- Date: 1999
- Subjects: Reporters and reporting Reporters and reporting -- South Africa Attribution of news News agencies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3424 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002877
- Description: To fully comprehend the complex process of news making, we must first understand that the events we read about everyday in the newspaper are not merely a reflection of the world in which we live. News does not just happen. Rather, it is a socially constructed product in which events are “made to mean” (Hall, 1978). Thus, the news plays a fundamental role in shaping our interpretations of reality - our perceptions of the world as we know it. Informed by a structuralist approach to news making, this research provides a detailed ethnographic study of the determinants that shape and produce news in the South African print media. I provide examples of the influence various factors, operating at all levels, exert within the news making process. The research focuses on the news production process at East Cape News Pty. Ltd. (ECN) a small news agency operating in the peripheral news region of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. It considers the journalistic routines and interests of the ECN reporters; how these reporters select events and turn them into news, how they interpret their significance and how they formulate them as news stories. The research also considers the second stage of selection ECN news must pass before it is read by the public - the “gates” of external newspapers. In this section, the study is primarily concerned with which ECN news stories succeed past the gates of national newspapers as these are the newpapers that play an influential role in shaping national perceptions of the marginalised Eastern Cape region. A province burdened with devastating rural poverty, unstable government, and little economic growth, the Eastern Cape warrants little coverage from the national, Johannesburg-based news market. As a result, little news of the Eastern Cape is published nationally, further perpetuating the region’s perceived insignificance on a national level. This point also demonstrates the fact that news both shapes, and is shaped by, our ideologies. News, therefore is ideological (Fishman, 1977). My findings reinforce many of the observations of other media researchers informed by a structuralist approach in the field of news making. However, some elements of news making emerge which appear to be unique in terms of other studies of news making. These elements are primarily a result of ECN’s informal organisational structures which allow the journalists a greater level of autonomy than a larger more bureaucratic organisation might. Thus, in addition to considering the structures that shape the news, I also discuss the role of human agency in making the news.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999
- Authors: Davidow, Audrey Beth
- Date: 1999
- Subjects: Reporters and reporting Reporters and reporting -- South Africa Attribution of news News agencies -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3424 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002877
- Description: To fully comprehend the complex process of news making, we must first understand that the events we read about everyday in the newspaper are not merely a reflection of the world in which we live. News does not just happen. Rather, it is a socially constructed product in which events are “made to mean” (Hall, 1978). Thus, the news plays a fundamental role in shaping our interpretations of reality - our perceptions of the world as we know it. Informed by a structuralist approach to news making, this research provides a detailed ethnographic study of the determinants that shape and produce news in the South African print media. I provide examples of the influence various factors, operating at all levels, exert within the news making process. The research focuses on the news production process at East Cape News Pty. Ltd. (ECN) a small news agency operating in the peripheral news region of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. It considers the journalistic routines and interests of the ECN reporters; how these reporters select events and turn them into news, how they interpret their significance and how they formulate them as news stories. The research also considers the second stage of selection ECN news must pass before it is read by the public - the “gates” of external newspapers. In this section, the study is primarily concerned with which ECN news stories succeed past the gates of national newspapers as these are the newpapers that play an influential role in shaping national perceptions of the marginalised Eastern Cape region. A province burdened with devastating rural poverty, unstable government, and little economic growth, the Eastern Cape warrants little coverage from the national, Johannesburg-based news market. As a result, little news of the Eastern Cape is published nationally, further perpetuating the region’s perceived insignificance on a national level. This point also demonstrates the fact that news both shapes, and is shaped by, our ideologies. News, therefore is ideological (Fishman, 1977). My findings reinforce many of the observations of other media researchers informed by a structuralist approach in the field of news making. However, some elements of news making emerge which appear to be unique in terms of other studies of news making. These elements are primarily a result of ECN’s informal organisational structures which allow the journalists a greater level of autonomy than a larger more bureaucratic organisation might. Thus, in addition to considering the structures that shape the news, I also discuss the role of human agency in making the news.
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- Date Issued: 1999
A case study analysis of the role of resources in the teaching and learning of senior primary geography in the Northern Province
- Khubana, Christopher Shonisani
- Authors: Khubana, Christopher Shonisani
- Date: 1999
- Subjects: Geography -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- South Africa Geography -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- South Africa -- Northern Province
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1431 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003312
- Description: The dynamic nature of Geography has meant that over the years it has undergone many changes. These changes - for example, in curricula, approaches and methods - have had a great impact on how Geography is taught and learned in schools. Learning theories on how children learn Geography are changing from behaviourism, in terms of which learners are regarded as passive recipients of knowledge in the form of facts, to socially constructivist theory, where learners learn by constructing their own knowledge. In the South African context this has meant moving away from the positivistic tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, to constructivist practices embodied in the outcomes-based education envisaged for the 21st Century. These changes have impacted on the nature and use of resources. This research attempts to reveal teachers' and learners' perceptions of resources. In the previous curriculum, resources were largely limited to textbooks. In the new curriculum., our perception of resources has to become wider to encompass anything that can enhance teaching and learning. This study focuses on Grade 5 and 6 children in the Northern Province. In the intermediate phase, young children need a wide variety of resources. As we approach the 21 st Century, the information technology of media like computers and the Internet, together with traditional media and resources found in the environment, provide teachers and learners with great opportunities and a wide variety of choices. The study surveyed schools in the Northern Province, through a questionnaire. In order to understand the depth of the problem, three schools were selected for a case study. Data obtained from these studies were analysed and compared to determine trends and patterns regarding the availability or use of resources as teaching and learning aids. On the one hand the study highlights the severe lack of even basic infrastructure on which to develop a 'traditional' resource base and stresses the need for innovation and creativity (and dedication) among a teaching body which feels isolated and marginalised, while on the other hand this research has revealed teachers' desire and willingness to accept change and to adapt, given the necessary epistemological enforcement to effect change.
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- Date Issued: 1999
- Authors: Khubana, Christopher Shonisani
- Date: 1999
- Subjects: Geography -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- South Africa Geography -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- South Africa -- Northern Province
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1431 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003312
- Description: The dynamic nature of Geography has meant that over the years it has undergone many changes. These changes - for example, in curricula, approaches and methods - have had a great impact on how Geography is taught and learned in schools. Learning theories on how children learn Geography are changing from behaviourism, in terms of which learners are regarded as passive recipients of knowledge in the form of facts, to socially constructivist theory, where learners learn by constructing their own knowledge. In the South African context this has meant moving away from the positivistic tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, to constructivist practices embodied in the outcomes-based education envisaged for the 21st Century. These changes have impacted on the nature and use of resources. This research attempts to reveal teachers' and learners' perceptions of resources. In the previous curriculum, resources were largely limited to textbooks. In the new curriculum., our perception of resources has to become wider to encompass anything that can enhance teaching and learning. This study focuses on Grade 5 and 6 children in the Northern Province. In the intermediate phase, young children need a wide variety of resources. As we approach the 21 st Century, the information technology of media like computers and the Internet, together with traditional media and resources found in the environment, provide teachers and learners with great opportunities and a wide variety of choices. The study surveyed schools in the Northern Province, through a questionnaire. In order to understand the depth of the problem, three schools were selected for a case study. Data obtained from these studies were analysed and compared to determine trends and patterns regarding the availability or use of resources as teaching and learning aids. On the one hand the study highlights the severe lack of even basic infrastructure on which to develop a 'traditional' resource base and stresses the need for innovation and creativity (and dedication) among a teaching body which feels isolated and marginalised, while on the other hand this research has revealed teachers' desire and willingness to accept change and to adapt, given the necessary epistemological enforcement to effect change.
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- Date Issued: 1999