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- Church Choir and Congregation, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Alleluya, Alleluya

- Sacred Music Festival Participants, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Amen

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Amen

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Amen

- Church Music Workshop Participants, Composer not specified, Matsepe, Daniel, Dargie, Dave

Amen, Aleluya

- Sacred Music Festival Participants, Composer Not Specified, Dargie, Dave

Amen, Alleluya

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Amogela dimpho tsa rona, Morena

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Amogela ntate amogela dimpho

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An "unobtrusive art" : Elizabeth Gaskell's use of place in Ruth, North and South, and Wives and Daughters

- Eve, Vivian Jeanette

  • Authors: Eve, Vivian Jeanette
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 , Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2173 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001824
  • Description: The purpose of this study is to show how Elizabeth Gaskell creates a sense of place and why place is important in her novels. Gaskell's life and works indicate an interest in place and an ability to recreate it, but, although most critics mention her descriptive powers, few examine how a sense of place is achieved. Indeed, setting as a tool of analysis has received critical attention only fairly recently. Here the term 'place' has been chosen because it embraces the social, physical, and personal aspects of setting as well as the objects with which spaces are furnished, and for the purpose of discussing its significance a model of the novel has been devised which shows the interrelationships of character, action, setting, language, and ideas, as well as the influence of context (Introduction). Gaskell creates a sense of place in many unobtrusive ways, but particularly important are point of view, windows as vantage points, the connection of place with memory, and similarities in perception between scenes in the novels and fashions in painting (Chapter One). An analysis of Ruth illustrates the interrelationship of character and place. Ruth's journey mirrors her spiritual development, and character is often revealed through response to environment or the displacement of emotions onto it, while place is also used to signify innocence and to emphasize the plea for understanding of the unmarried mother and her child (Chapter Two). Places in North and South represent important aspects of newly industrialized Britain, and are significant to the novel's vision of a coherent society; an examination of how apparently irreconcilable communities are shown to be mutually dependent underlines the importance of place to the novel's ideas (Chapter Three). Wives and Daughters has a complicated plot based on a number of parallel, interlocking stories each centred on a home in the neighbourhood of Hollingford. How event, story, and plot are connected to these places shows their relationship with action (Chapter Four). Thus is an appreciation of Gaskell's literary achievement enhanced, and place shown to be a significant element in her novels.
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An adaptive discrete cosine transform coding scheme for digital x-ray images

- Mclean, Ivan Hugh

  • Authors: Mclean, Ivan Hugh
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: X-rays -- Digitization Image processing -- Digital techniques Diagnostic imaging Computer storage devices
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4567 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002032
  • Description: The ongoing development of storage devices and technologies for medical image management has led to a growth in the digital archiving of these images. The characteristics of medical x-rays are examined, and a number of digital coding methods are considered. An investigation of several fast cosine transform algorithms is carried out. An adaptive cosine transform coding technique is implemented which produces good quality images using bit rates lower than 0.38 bits per picture element
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An assessment of the South African longline fishery with emphasis on stock integrity of kingklip, Genypterus capensis (Pisces : ophidiidae)

- Japp, David William

  • Authors: Japp, David William
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Genypterus capensis , Ophidiidae , Fisheries -- South Africa , Longlining (Fisheries) -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:5209 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004660 , Genypterus capensis , Ophidiidae , Fisheries -- South Africa , Longlining (Fisheries) -- South Africa
  • Description: The South African demersal longline experiment is assessed with emphasis on the target species, kingklip Genypterus capensis. The hypothesis that kingklip on the South African coast comprise a unit stock is tested. Recommendations for the management of the fishery are made. Longlining was found to be commercially viable. Techniques have been developed to target on either kingklip or the Cape hakes, Herluccius capensis and H. paradoxus. Longline fishermen exploit the kingklip spawner stock from August to No v ember by taking advantage of prespawning aggregations on the South-East Coast . Effort switches to the West Coast in late summer and early winter where kingklip are less abundant and a larger proportion of hake is caught. Catch rates of kingklip on the South Coast have declined sharply and the resource there has been exploited at a rate greater than that required to retain 50% of the unexploited biomass . There is a 17,6% probability that the spawner biomass on the South Coast has already been depleted below its pristine level. On the West Coast the catch rates of kingklip are lower than on the South Coast and have not changed significantly, although within the 95% confidence limits there is a possibility that the resource there has also been depleted below 50% of its pristine level. Genypterus capensis on the South African coast comprise a unit stock. Comparison of kingklip morphology using multivariate and discriminant function analysis and of otolith morphology using univariate statistics shows that there are no significant differences between the fish on the West and South Coasts. They are a slow growing species and were aged up to 25 years. Kingklip on the West Coast are smaller and have a lower L~ than those on the South Coast, but this is not a characteristic of discrete stocks. Kingklip on the South Coast mature earlier than those on the West Coast and aggregate to spawn on the South - East Coast in spring. There is no obvious spawning period on the West Coast. It is hypothesized that kingklip spawning on the South-East Coast is in response to favourable environmental conditions that enhances the survival of their eggs and larvae. It is recommended that demersal longlining be established as a permanent kingklip-directed fishery but that effort should not be allowed to increase. The West and South Coasts should be managed .separately. A TAC of 5 OOOt for kingklip should be introduced for 1989 of which 2 OOOt should be allocated to the West Coast and 3 OOOt to the South Coast . A closed season for kingklip from 1 August to 30 September on the South-East Coast is recommended. Hake-directed longlining should not be allowed as its effect on the hake spawner stocks are unknown and could be a potential threat to the stability of the demersal trawl fishery.
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An erosion hazard assessment technique for Ciskei

- Weaver, Alex van Breda

  • Authors: Weaver, Alex van Breda
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Soil erosion -- South Africa -- Ciskei
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:4792 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001892
  • Description: The study examines the relationship between the spatial variation in soil erosion and various natural and anthropogenic attributes of the region between the coastal plateau and the Winterberg escarpment of Ciskei. A raster-based geographical information system is derived for four separate study catchments and data on soil erosion and various soil erosion hazard indices are read into a computerised data matrix. The independent variables (soil erosion hazard indices) used in the study are selected on the basis of a review of the literature and on the availability of data in the Ciskei region. Multivariate analyses of the relationship between soil erosion and the various independent variables reveals that the primary variables affecting the spatial variation in soil erosion are land use, dominant soil type, geology, veld type and mean annual precipitation. All of these variables are readily quantifiable at the regional scale for large areas of Ciskei. An erosion hazard assessment model for use in central Ciskei is developed based on the results of the statistical analyses. The model is tested in separate study areas and is shown to provide an efficient method of identifying areas of differing susceptibility to soil erosion. The derived model is simple to operate and has input requirements which are easily met. It can be applied without the aid of computers, or where large areas are to be mapped it is well suited to computerisation
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An examination of the use of the contextual question in examining Shakespeare's plays at the standard ten level in Cape Education Department schools

- Mullineux, Peter Newton

  • Authors: Mullineux, Peter Newton
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Study and teaching , English literature -- Examinations, questions, etc. , English literature -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1346 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001412
  • Description: Six years as a sub-examiner of both literature and written work made me aware of a personal dissatisfaction with the system of examining. This research examines in detail the use of the contextual question in examining Shakespeare's plays. The main concern has been to try to deduce what constitutes a good set of contextual questions. This area appears to have attracted little detailed research. However, there is much general writing on the teaching of literature. There is no major conclusion in the dissertation but rather a series of conclusions related to the concept of the contextual question. These are summarised towards the end of chapter three. Some general recommendations appear at the end of chapter three as a sub-heading. The findings of this investigation indicate a need for further research into the system of examining literature in the Cape. It is hoped that teachers and examiners reading this dissertation will be able to use the findings to provide a possible framework for the setting of sound contextual questions
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An existential-phenomenological explication of being-a-black student at a predominantly white university, with special reference to Rhodes University

- Harilall, Rehena Ranir

  • Authors: Harilall, Rehena Ranir
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Racism , South Africa , Black university students , College , Racism -- South Africa -- Psychological aspects , College students, Black , College students, Black -- South Africa -- Psychology
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2903 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002067
  • Description: This study attempts to explore, theoretically and empirically, the experience of being black in a predominantly white university. It is more specifically concerned with perceived interaction between members of different cultural and ethnic groups, namely, between black and white. Using the existential-phenomenological method the experience of seven subjects, both male and female, were explicated. This explication revealed that black students become aware of their "difference" during interaction with members of the dominant white group. The black students perceive the behaviour of the white-dominant group to be racist and this creates a great deal of latent hostility, anger, and resentment. It is suggested that a programme be developed to diffuse the conflict situation during intergroup interaction at university.
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An experiment in literary critical appreciation, using a comparison between three nineteenth-century novels prescribed by the Cape Education Department and a random sample of Mills and Boon popular romance fiction

- Stear, Natalie Jean

  • Authors: Stear, Natalie Jean
  • Date: 1989
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1347 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001413
  • Description: The novel as an art form provides writers with the opportunity of exercising their imaginative power to create a 'speaking picture' of life. Whatever form that picture may take, it is vital that it should offer relevance to real life. The literature teacher's earnest intention, therefore, should be to encourage an appreciation of literary novels among adolescent pupils in order to enrich the quality of their living and to sharpen their awareness of the human condition. Teaching adolescents to discern the essential differences between the novel of quality and the novel which exists purely to provide wish-fulfilment and sensual titillation is the aim of this dissertation. Thus a structural analysis of the literary novel is presented, asserting that certain aspects of the novel should be identified and appreciated by the developing reader. Three novels which have recently been prescribed by the Cape Education Department for pupils in standards 9 or 10 are briefly examined in order to test the itensity of their illusion of reality in conjuction with the literary skills of their creators. These novels are Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy). Each has been viewed from a different angle, but each reveals its right to be evaluated as great literature. In order to develop literary appreciation among teenage readers, and to convince them of the delights and insights to be gained, it is proposed that comparison of the 'literary' with the 'unliterary' novel should promote discernment and sound judgement. Popular romance fiction, as published by Mills & Boon, is therefore investigated. These stories enjoy immense popularity, particularly among teenage girls. Far from promoting the illusion that life has been faithfully represented, these novels are shown to reveal a world manipulated to suit both the author and the reader: life as it might have been rather than as it is. A sample of adolescent responses to this type of comparative reading is provided in the last chapter. These responses reveal that the pupils' critical faculties were engaged and literary appreciation was evident
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An explication of the dual nature of narcissism in Patrick White's novel The solid mandala

- Watts, Jacqueline Anne

  • Authors: Watts, Jacqueline Anne
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: White, Patrick, 1912-1990. The Solid Mandala White, Patrick, 1912-1990 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:2907 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002072
  • Description: The focus of this thesis has been to engage in a hermeneutic dialogue with Patrick White's novel The solid mandala, to provide an explication of the dual nature of narcissistic wounding. To this end a brief review of Patrick White's novels is given, which traces a thematic development of the hero's strivings to attain wholeness and merger with an idealized image. This struggle is understood to reflect man's strivings to return to a state of omnipotent fusion with the maternal image, be it God, nature, the idealized other, or the self. Literature which reflects the dual nature of narcissistic wounding is reviewed, and the concept of narcissism is traced from the historical roots of Freud, to current understandings of the function and experience of narcissism. Emphasis is given to understanding the experiential nature of narcissistic wounding. As such it is implied that narcissism is a normal developmental component which requires the facilitation of containment and reflection for its transformation into appropriate adult functioning. The importance of the maternal environment is discussed, together with the various theoretical conceptualizations of the consequences of failure of the environment. The hermeneutic dialogue with the novel's description of the experiences of the twins, Waldo and Arthur provides the basis for an amplification of the experience of narcissistic wounding. This amplification is used as clinical material from which a number of psychoanalytic formulations are drawn. These formulations are supported by a number of clinical examples from the researcher's own practice. There appears to be evidence for the value of focusing on the dual nature of the experience of narcissistic wounding. This focus reveals two aspects of experience, a damaged, positive, libidinal aspect and a defensive, pathological destructive aspect. Amplification of these two aspects of experience contribute to further the understanding of the conflictual experience of narcissistic wounding, and suggest the necessity for such an understanding for effective therapeutic intervention
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An investigation into the dietary requirements of Oreochromis Mossambicus fry and the formulation and preparation of a dry food for use in aquaculture

- Thorpe, Peter Stuart

  • Authors: Thorpe, Peter Stuart
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Cichlids , Tilapia -- Nutrition , Aquaculture
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:5184 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001960 , Cichlids , Tilapia -- Nutrition , Aquaculture
  • Description: The need for developing a dry feed which satisfied the nutrient requirements of Oreochromis mossambicus fry was identified. The spawning and grading techniques which resulted in a higher fecundity and ensured uniformity within and between samples of fry are discussed. Preparation techniques were developed which met the physical requirements of fry feeds. An analysis of the flesh and yolk sac fry for amino acid composition was undertaken. The initial test diet was based on these results, as well as on the natural feeding ecology of the species. Feeding trials were undertaken and growth responses monitored to determine the optimum levels of the various dietary components. A feed was developed which gave superior growth to that obtained with natural food organisms. This feed consisted of Torula yeast (47%), Weider Super Protein (44.39%), Vitamin supplement (0.45% - multivitamin), additional vitamin C supplement (0.16%), Spirulina (5%), and methionine supplement (3%). An optimum particle size range for O. mossambicus fry (between 5 & 25mm) was established at 125-200um. The fry should be fed the following feed ratios depending on age: 30.4% body weight/day up to day 5, 30.6% body weight/day up to day 10 and 25.1% body weight/day up to day 15. An optimum feeding frequency of 8/10hr day was recommended. A feed conversion ratio of 1.24:1 and a protein efficiency ratio of 0.682:1 was obtained. Digestable energy of the feed was determined at 16.1 kj/g feed. The established dry feed is suitable for use in commercial hatcheries, and as a formulation for further research on the intensive rearing of O. mossambicus fry.
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  • Date Issued: 1989

An investigation into the need for counselling service at the Cape College of Education

- Blom, Lana-Lorraine

  • Authors: Blom, Lana-Lorraine
  • Date: 1989
  • Subjects: Counseling in higher education Teachers -- Training of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Cape College of Education Counseling
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1610 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003492
  • Description: Many students find that their greatest academic step is that from high school to college or university, and that it involves a transition affecting almost all aspects of their lives. In order to offer assistance to students experiencing transitional and other personal problems, Student Counselling Services have been established and are operature at most tertiary institutions in Southern Africa. Currently no such service exists on the campus of the Cape College of Education, Fort Beaufort. This exploratory study attempts to determine whether there is a need for such a service and further, to establish factors which might encourage or discourage students from using such a service. An open-ended questionnaire was administered to 178 students at the College in order to gain insight into their ideas and feelings and what they perceive their needs to be. Through an explication of the student protocols, several major themes emerged and are discussed in detail. The research findings suggest a need for the establishment of a counselling service, and shed some light on factors which need be considered should such a service be offered. The methodological approach is discussed as well as recommendations for improvements.
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  • Date Issued: 1989
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