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Whose PARty was this? The dilemmas of a participatory action research process of evaluating a social enterprise.

- Lovell, Jacqueline, Akhurst, Jacqueline E

Authors: Lovell, Jacqueline , Akhurst, Jacqueline E
Date: 2018
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436926 , vital:73317 , ISBN 978-3-319-74721-7 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74721-7_24
Description: Participatory action research aims to reduce power differentials in research. In this chapter we problematise the blurred boundaries when a participant becomes a researcher. We re-flect on a PhD undertaken by the first author who was a mem-ber of a social enterprise in the UK that provided user-led re-search and training with a diversity of communities. Experienc-es of ten members of the collective were gathered through creative arts-based methodologies designed to be inclusive. We describe three tensions that arose when trialling participa-tory video production, when data analysis could not be under-taken collaboratively, and when reflecting on the solitary nature of PhD thesis writing. We outline the ways these tensions were worked through and explore ways of writing about participatory research in a PhD thesis.
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“Telling freedom” or “telling the spades back home how to behave”? re-examining Peter Abrahams’s writing in London

- Thorpe, Andrea

Authors: Thorpe, Andrea
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68412 , vital:29253 , https://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v45i1.3
Description: Publisher version , This article considers the notable dearth of recent scholarship on Peter Abrahams’s writing in the context of his exile and his complex, shifting ideological self-positioning throughout his career. To attempt to address this lacuna in South African literary criticism, and to partially explain why Abrahams has been under-researched, I look at key moments during his early career, including the publication of Dark Testament (1942), Song of the City (1945) and Return to Goli (1953). By focusing on texts by Abrahams that were published during his time in London, I also wish to address the significance of the city in the history of South African literature, and in African anti-colonial and anti-racist thinking more broadly.
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Date Issued: 2018

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Learning pathways and articulation: Early conceptual explorations and implications for research design (s)

- Lotz-Sisitka, Heila, Ramsarup, Preesha

Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila , Ramsarup, Preesha
Date: 2017
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , bulletin
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/436388 , vital:73268 , ISBN bulletin , https://www.saqa.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SAQA-Bulletin-2017-1.pdf#page=37
Description: This paper is an introductory, exploratory paper which opened up the ter-rain for a second phase of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA)-Rhodes University research partnership focusing on change-oriented workplace learning and sustainability practices, with an emphasis on learning pathways (the main period being 2011-2013, ongoing until 2016). The paper reviews early conceptual explorations of learning path-ways and articulation questions, as these relate to a transversal issue8 in the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), namely environment and sustainable development.
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Date Issued: 2017

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No evidence for association with APOL1 kidney disease risk alleles and Human African Trypanosomiasis in two Ugandan populations:

- Kimuda, Magambo Phillip, Noyes, Harry, Mulindwa, Julius, Enyaru, John, Alibu, Vincent Pius, Sidibe, Issa, Mumba, Dieuodonne, Hertz-Fowler, Christiane, MacLeod, Annette, Tastan Bishop, Özlem, Matovu, Enock

Authors: Kimuda, Magambo Phillip , Noyes, Harry , Mulindwa, Julius , Enyaru, John , Alibu, Vincent Pius , Sidibe, Issa , Mumba, Dieuodonne , Hertz-Fowler, Christiane , MacLeod, Annette , Tastan Bishop, Özlem , Matovu, Enock
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/148272 , vital:38725 , doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006300
Description: Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) manifests as an acute form caused by Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense (Tbr) and a chronic form caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (Tbg). Previous studies have suggested a host genetic role in infection outcomes, particularly for APOL1. We have undertaken a candidate gene association studies (CGAS) in a Ugandan Tbr and a Tbg HAT endemic area, to determine whether polymorphisms in IL10, IL8, IL4, HLAG, TNFA, TNX4LB, IL6, IFNG, MIF, APOL1, HLAA, IL1B, IL4R, IL12B, IL12R, HP, HPR, and CFH have a role in HAT.
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Date Issued: 2017

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Contesting masculinities: two border war memoirs

- Mason, Paul

Authors: Mason, Paul
Date: 2016
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458488 , vital:75748 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC193816
Description: This article begins by discussing what Christo Doherty in his article "Trauma and the Conscript Memoirs of the South African 'Border War'," published in English in Africa 42.2 (2015), calls the "explanatory schema" for the analysis of "anti-heroic" conscript memoirs. At the centre of Doherty's schema is the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), with its satellite concerns of "trauma narratives" and the "victim-perpetrator." In contrast, my analysis of two memoirs hinges upon a concern with the contest between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourses of masculinity that prevailed in the 1980s. The memoirs I focus upon are two that are briefly discussed by Doherty - Rick Andrew's Buried in the Sky (2001) and Anthony Feinstein's Battle Scarred: Hidden Costs of the Border War (1998/2011). The aim of the article is to apply to the memoirs an analytic framework that does justice to a wider range of intra- and inter-masculine dynamics than can be accommodated by a trauma-centred analysis.
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Date Issued: 2016

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Emergence of Environment and Sustainability Education (ESE) in teacher education contexts in Southern Africa : a common good concern

- Mandikonza, Caleb, Lotz-Sisitka, Heila

Authors: Mandikonza, Caleb , Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
Date: 2016
Subjects: Sustainable development -- Study and teaching -- South Africa , Environmental education -- South Africa , SADC Regional Environmental Education Programme
Language: English
Type: article , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59624 , vital:27632 , http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2221-4070/2016/v5i1a7
Description: Environmental and sustainability issues prevail in modern society. Southern Africa, where this study is based, is one of the regions most at risk from intersecting issues of climate health risk, and poverty-related ills. Education has the potential to facilitate catalytic transformation of society through development of understandings of these intersecting environment and sustainability concerns, and to support engagements in more sustainable social practices oriented towards the common good. This requires a rethinking of education within a wider common good frame. It also has implications for how quality education is considered. However, little is said of how this could be done, especially in teacher education. The paper shares two cases of teacher educators’ change project experiences, as they emerged via professional development support and the mediatory processes applied in courses conducted by the Southern African Development Community Regional Environmental Education Programme (SADC REEP) aimed at enhancing professional capacity of teacher educators and other environmental educators for mainstreaming environment and sustainability education (ESE)1. These courses are framed using a change project approach, and involve teacher educators as main participants. In-depth data were generated from interviews with two teacher educators, their assignment write-ups, and observations of their teacher education practice. Realist social theory, particularly the principle of emergence, was used to trace the emergence of change in teacher education practice. Sociocultural learning theory was used to explain mediation of learning-oriented changes in teacher education practice. We illustrate how the change project model and approach contributed to mediating change in practice, showing emergent attributes of capacity for mainstreaming ESE and elements of a concept of quality education among course participants oriented towards the common good. In conclusion, we argue that ESE seems to be a sensitising construct for initiating and sustaining change for ESE in teacher education. In addition, the change project has proved to be a potential vehicle for mainstreaming the notion and practice of ESE into social systems and teacher education practices. We argue that reflexive ESE praxis provides a sensitising focus, initiating quality education with humanising properties necessary for the common good.
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Date Issued: 2016

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Learning style of Chinese event management students

- Louw, Mattheus J, Louw, Lynette, Li, Yanxia

Authors: Louw, Mattheus J , Louw, Lynette , Li, Yanxia
Date: 2016
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69167 , vital:29438 , https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110366778-028
Description: There is a demand for social development in China by establishing, inter alia, a framework focusing on the employability of university graduates and developing self-directed learners. The key to achieving this would be to gain a better understanding of how learning styles, as one of the cognitive factors, contribute towards academic performance in order to provide meaningful learning experiences.
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Date Issued: 2016

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South African perceptions of the good life twenty years into democracy

- Moller, Valerie

Authors: Moller, Valerie
Date: 2016
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67215 , vital:29060 , https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20568-7_15
Description: publisher version , South Africa celebrated 20 years of democracy in 2014. In 1994, life satisfaction among all South Africans peaked following the first open non-racial elections. Since that time, only some 45–55 % of the total population, on average, state that they are satisfied. Drawing on Alex Michalos’ classic Multiple Discrepancy Theory (MDT), this chapter explores the needs, expectations, aspirations and perceptions of progress among black South Africans, who were promised a better life under democracy by the new government they voted for in 1994. Findings suggest that expectations raised by the new government in the early years of democracy, coupled with a strong sense of entitlement to state services and welfare in later years, are among the strongest drivers of life satisfaction 20 years into democracy. South Africa’s democracy project is still a work in progress and black South Africans continue to hope for a better life in the future.
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Date Issued: 2016

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CHIP: a co-chaperone for degradation by the proteasome

- Edkins, Adrienne L

Authors: Edkins, Adrienne L
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/164863 , vital:41179 , ISBN 978-3-319-11730-0 , DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11731-7_11
Description: Protein homeostasis relies on a balance between protein folding and protein degradation. Molecular chaperones like Hsp70 and Hsp90 fulfil well-defined roles in protein folding and conformational stability via ATP dependent reaction cycles. These folding cycles are controlled by associations with a cohort of non-client protein co-chaperones, such as Hop, p23 and Aha1. Pro-folding co-chaperones facilitate the transit of the client protein through the chaperone mediated folding process. However, chaperones are also involved in ubiquitin-mediated proteasomal degradation of client proteins. Similar to folding complexes, the ability of chaperones to mediate protein degradation is regulated by co-chaperones, such as the C terminal Hsp70 binding protein (CHIP).
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Date Issued: 2015

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Exploring contradictions and absences in mobilizing ‘learning as process' for sustainable agricultural practices

- Pesanayi, Tichaona

Authors: Pesanayi, Tichaona
Date: 2015
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437008 , vital:73323 , ISBN 9781315660899 , https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Realism-Environmental-Learning-and-Social-Ecological-Change/Price-Lotz-Sistka/p/book/9780367597689
Description: Water is a fascinating, life-giving being. It flows. It cuts into the earth to create its passage by finding the places where the earth will give. As it meanders it passes through many different contexts, whether at a fastrush-full-blown flood or the trickle of an underground desert stream. It does not demand that the space it moves through is homogenous. It adapts to whatever terrain it finds itself journeying through. Human creatures, dependent as they are on water for their own beings and for life, flock to water like flies to food. We build our cities, our factories and homes on the banks and corners of rivers and draw and drink and use (and abuse) water. We throw in and we take out and the river keeps going until sometimes it doesn’t. Then we worry. Sometimes it is not the lack of flow that worries us but the fact that when we drink it babies become sick, some die and this causes a stir. In South Africa this security, or lack of it, is embedded in the political historical landscape of this land. Water is classified as scarce. Our rainfall is low in comparison to other countries. In South Africa, during apartheid this scarce resource was not avail able in equal measure to all. The rulers of apartheid South Africa were farmers and miners. They were of British decent, sent to farm the new colony. They were also descended from first colonial settlers arriving from the Nether-lands and then Germany, known colloquially as the Boers. South Africa was divided and redivided until in 1948 the Boers gained independence from British rule and finished the job that the British had started by legalizing the separation of races. Farming was still core to the Boer way of life and this is reflect-ed in the laws that dictated resource use and management, such as the 1956 Water Act No. 54 (RSA, 1956) which gave riparian rights to those that owned land. Water was also subsi-dized to boost the economy, particularly for the large mines, and parastatals such as Eskom (Byrnes, 1996). Water was not only used to ensure that the economy of white South Africa flourished, it also was the landmark of division.
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Date Issued: 2015

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The Cohen and Kuttel stories: is the place where I hang my hat still relevant to determine my residence for tax purposes?

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Stark, Karen, Renaud, Craig

Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Stark, Karen , Renaud, Craig
Date: 2015
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131285 , vital:36549 , DOI: 10.25159/1998-8125/5779
Description: Determining the residence of a taxpayer is one of the most important aspects of modern tax systems. For an individual taxpayer who migrates, a common trend in the modern world, the questions are where the person is ordinarily resident and whether the place of ordinary residence can change.
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Date Issued: 2015

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The Seduction of Ash: " Mia Couto's" The Day Mabata-bata Exploded" and" The Bird-Dreaming Baobab

- Njovane, Thandokazi

Authors: Njovane, Thandokazi
Date: 2014
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142702 , vital:38103 , 10.4314/eia.v41i2.2
Description: Chesca Long-Innes argues that Mia Couto's installation of the fantastic in his short story collection, Voices Made Night, may best be understood "not so much as a product of any 'magical realist' poetics, but as 'naturalised,' or motivated as a function of the collective neurosis of a [Mozambican] society traumatised by its continuing history of poverty and extreme violence". Couto's use of the fantastic, she adds, encompasses both empirical and psychic reality, and both are characterised by instability and elusiveness. The collection, she then maintains, constitutes a reinvention or reimagining of subjective realities constructed and perpetuated by the social trauma underpinning what she terms the "psycho-pathology of post-colonial Mozambique, in which the society as a whole is [. . .] caught in the grip of a profound depression or melancholia".
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Date Issued: 2014

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A cooperative benefits framework in South Africa's land redistribution process: the case of sugarcane farmland transfers

- Mbatha, Cyril N, Antrobus, Geoffrey G

Authors: Mbatha, Cyril N , Antrobus, Geoffrey G
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142922 , vital:38176 , DOI: 10.1080/03031853.2012.741207
Description: A good indicator of successful land redistribution cases has to be the continuation of viable productivity rates in their post-transfer periods. Continued productivity benefits all the stakeholders that are involved in the process. Unfortunately, negative productivity levels have been reported in numerous South African land redistribution transfers in recent years. A game theoretic perspective is adopted to illustrate and argue that cooperation among key stakeholders, which could be enforced through long-term contracts between land buyers, sellers and new owners, may lead to maintenance and higher productivity levels and other benefits within the country's land redistribution process.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Newspapers as ‘community members’: Editorial responses to the death of Eugene Terre'Blanche

- Smith, Jade, Adendorff, Ralph

Authors: Smith, Jade , Adendorff, Ralph
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125320 , vital:35771 , https://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2012.702778
Description: This article uses the appraisal system to expose covert meanings surrounding white supremacist Eugène Terre’Blanche’s murder in editorials from three South African newspapers: The Citizen, Sowetan and The Times. Following Martin and White’s (2005) framework, inscribed and evoked Attitudinal meanings are identified to prove an ‘us versus them’ perspective of Terre’Blanche’s death. Graduation and Engagement strategies supplement this, illustrating how meanings are modified or organized to align readers. The analysis reveals surface attempts to present a ‘balanced view’ of this racially-sensitive event; however, beneath this is clear blame allocation. Additionally, the covert evaluation is explained by Coffin and O’Halloran’s (2006) theory of ‘dog-whistling’, where only aligned readers can detect underlying meanings. This creates the imagined community – ‘us’ – of which the newspaper is seen as a trusted member. Print media, it could be inferred, is symbolic of other South African community members, who mask their evaluations with a politically correct façade.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Protection of development-induced internally displaced persons under the African Charter: the case of the Endorois community of Northern Kenya

- Juma, Laurence

Authors: Juma, Laurence
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127100 , vital:35955 , https://heinonline.org./HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/ciminsfri46amp;div=15amp;g_sent=1amp;casa_token=amp;collection=journals
Description: The discourse on development-induced displacement has highlighted the enormity of problems faced by communities who are forcefully removed to create room for development projects, while at the same time, exposed the insularity of national and international legal frameworks for their protection. Using the case of Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE) on behalf of the Endorois Community v Kenya (No 276/200), decided by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights in November 2009, this article analyses the support that regional and continental rights enforcement mechanisms could provide to the protection of IDPs, particularly those displaced by development projects.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Paper bridges: a critical examination of the Daily Dispatch's ‘community dialogues’

- Amner, Roderick J

Authors: Amner, Roderick J
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142645 , vital:38098 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2011.545564
Description: A series of town-hall-like meetings called the ‘community dialogues’ were conducted in 2009 by the Daily Dispatch newspaper in East London, under the banner of public/civic journalism, a global journalistic reform movement begun in the United States in the late 1980s. the editorial leadership of the newspaper imagined a number of core journalistic and civic purposes for the dialogues and succeeded in achieving some of these. However, the newspaper's claim that the dialogues could help to build ‘horizontal bridges’ between diverse communities in East London is critically examined through the example of two community dialogues which took place in neighbouring locations - the predominantly white, middle-class suburb of Beacon Bay, and the informal African settlement of Nompumelelo - on consecutive days in 2009. This article argues that social inequalities, particularly acute in the South African context, may preclude the emergence of a shared vision of the common good, and that joint deliberation between diverse social groups in the pursuit of consensus may not be realistic or even an appropriate goal, especially if it means ratifying an unjust status quo.
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Date Issued: 2011

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