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Nyanga panpipe music

- Tracey, Andrew T N

Othello and the Narrative of Africa

- Van Wyk Smith, Malvern

  • Authors: Van Wyk Smith, Malvern
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457457 , vital:75639 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_181
  • Description: Although Othello is where I want to start and where I hope to end, my proper aim is the more general one of Africa as seen through Elizabe-than eyes. I shall use a particular moment in the playas a crux upon which to develop a broad-ranging examination of what Elizabethans knew about Africa, or what they thought they knew about Africa, or, bet-ter still, how they understood what they thought they knew about Africa. The incident is Othello's appearance before the Venetian court where, accused by Desdemona's father that he had suborned her judgement with" charms... conjuration... and mighty magic"(1.3. 91-92), Othello proposes to unfold" a round unvarnished tale" to prove his veracity, his nobility and, most importantly, his common humanity with the Vene-tians. The speech contains such" round unvarnished" matters as the cannibals that each other eat, The anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Pambwemba

- Kambazite Makorekore, Mang'anja men, Tracey, Andrew T N

Persuasuve conflict: an hermeneutical model for interpreting Galatians in the context of the South African church

- Holgate, David A

  • Authors: Holgate, David A
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: Bible. Galatians -- Criticism, Textual , Liberation theology -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTh
  • Identifier: vital:1213 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001542
  • Description: This study looks at how to interpret Paul's letter to the Galatians in the contemporary South African church. It aims to provide a Bible study method for doing this which accounts both for the context in which interpretation takes place and for the requirements of exegesis. To this end, use is made of a combination of contextual Bible study methods and a recent multidimensional exegetical model, all of which are currently employed in South Africa. Initially, the study surveys a range of recent critical approaches to the Pauline epistles, particularly as these are employed by South African scholars working on Galatians. The fact that different exegetical approaches focus on different dimensions of the text, reveals the usefulness of a multidimensional exegetical model. The multidimensional exegetical model of Rousseau, which functions within a communication paradigm, is then introduced as an exegetical guide. To meet the second requirement of this study, the question of contextual exegesis is examined. Particular use is made of the hermeneutical approach of liberation theology, with its three mediations of social analysis, theological reflection and practical implementation. The central part of this study explores the implications of contextual interpretation and multidimensional exegesis of Galatians. The pre-canonical, canonical and contemporary contexts which affect the understanding of Galatians are discussed, and the multidimensional exegetical model is used to introduce the Galatian letter as a whole. The last part deals with the practical questions of group Bible study. The exegetical and hermeneutical theory developed earlier is simplified to provide a contextual Bible study method and this method is applied to three pericopes from Galatians. The task of bridging the gap between the university and the church is not an easy one, nor one which is solved by a single Bible study method. The exegetical and hermeneutical questions raised here point to the need for ongoing interaction between South African community of biblical scholars and those involved in the everyday life of the South African church
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Popanda Ngwazi tidakafa ndinjala

- Kambazite Makorekore, Mang'anja men, Tracey, Andrew T N

Popanda Ngwazi tidakafa ndinjala

- Kambazite Makorekore, Mang'anja men, Tracey, Andrew T N

Radio studies of ionized hydrogen in the southern Milky Way

- Gaylard, Michael John

  • Authors: Gaylard, Michael John
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: Interstellar hydrogen Milky Way Astrophysics
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:5440 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001993
  • Description: This thesis describes the results of a survey of the HI42ɑ recombination line emission at 2.3 GHz from HII regions in the Southern Milky Way, carried out with the 26 m diameter Hartebeesthoek radio telescope. The Galactic Longitude range covered was 290° to 40°. Single recombination lines were detected from 375 positions. Multiple lines were observed towards 90 positions in the inner Galaxy. No line emission could be detected in 28 positions. Continuum antenna temperatures were estimated from drift scans or radio maps observed for the purpose. LTE electron temperatures and turbulent velocities of the HII regions were calculated where possible. The properties of the sample were compared to those observed in HI09ɑ surveys. The lines observed from over 50 positions were first detections, of which half were associated with optically-identified HII regions. In about 150 cases the lines were only the second to be detected from those HII regions. The processes of the radio emission, detection, and analysis were simulated numerically. The detectability of the emission and the magnitude of non-LTE effects and pressure-broadening in multi-component HII regions was predicted and compared to observations. The radio luminosity function of the HII regions was determined over a range of three orders of magnitude in intrinsic brightness for the first time, using techniques which corrected for different types of incompleteness in the samples. The luminosity function was compared to those in five selected spiral galaxies, and shown to lie between those of M33 and M81. An alternate form of the luminosity function was developed for use with a numerical model of the spiral arm structure of the Milky Way. The physical parameters defining the major spiral arms were established by comparing synthesized diagrams of radial velocity versus Galactic Longitude with those actually observed. The faint, extended HII regions S9 and RCW129 in Scorpius, the Barnard Loop in Orion, and S296 in Canis Major were analyzed, using all available data. All the recombination lines from these HII regions were first detections
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Religious experience and schizophrenia in modern man : an experiential theoretical study

- Borchardt, Frederick Francois

  • Authors: Borchardt, Frederick Francois
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: Schizophrenia -- Religious aspects , Experience (Religion) -- Psychological aspects
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2897 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002061
  • Description: In this study the psychological structures of two categories of religious and schizophrenic experience were examined from a phenomenological- existential perspective. Existing theories describe schizophrenia as an unfree, rigid experience with limited possibilities for selfhood. Some theorists believe, however, that some forms of schizophrenia can be seen as potential growth experiences which could facilitate existential renewal. These forms of schizophrenia are mystical, mythical or spiritual in nature. Religious experiences are, according to the literature, essentially renewal experiences facilitating existential growth and transformation through a particular system of thought and devotional relationship shared by a group of people. The Duquesne phenomenological- psychological method was used to analyse seven case studies, four of which involved schizophrenic experiences and three which involved religious conversion experiences. The general psychological structure which emerged through this analysis showed both schizophrenia and religious experience to have specific implications for the personal, social, material and mystical dimensions of being. The description of a specific psychological structure of experience which could optimally facilitate existential growth and transformation was attained by examining psychological structures where the subject's experience culminated in existential growth and transformation (such as religious experience and certain schizophrenIc experiences). As both these categories of experience displayed a strong mystical component, a psychological structure of experience which facilitates a transformative mystical experience was described. It can be concluded that an experience involving a mystical dimension could be transformative if the general psychological structure of the person displays (a) an openness towards reality as it presents itself (b) an experience of oneself as having a measure of existential freedom (c) a certain sense of security in one's own selfhood and (d) a social world which could understand, support and reflect inner experiences.
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Rhodes University Annual Report 1990

- Rhodes University

Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1990

- Rhodes University

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 1990
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:8124 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005707
  • Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Friday, 6 April 1990 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 7 April 1990 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday; 12 May 1990 at 11.30 a.m. in the Guild Theatre.
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Sand inundation on rocky shores : its effects on species richness and the structure of species assemblages

- Dower, Katherine Mary

  • Authors: Dower, Katherine Mary
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: Intertidal ecology , Tide pool ecology
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:5814 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007183 , Intertidal ecology , Tide pool ecology
  • Description: Although sand deposits are present on many intertidal rocky shores, their effects on species richness, zonation and trophic structure have often been overlooked. This study is the first to recognise sand as an important abiotic factor on South African rocky shores. Rocky shores in the eastern Cape Province of South Africa are subject to extensive sand inundation and are composed of two hard substrata of differing topographies. Four sites on one substratum and six on the other were sampled quantitatively using quadrats. The biota were identified, counted and/ or weighed to provide a matrix of species biomass and numbers in separate zones. This matrix was then analysed using ordination and classification. A total of 321 species were identified which is more than local rocky or sandy shores. While the intermediate disturbance hypothesis would predict high species richness on these shores, it does not fully explain this richness nor the distribution of species assemblages. Habitat heterogeneity, including the dynamics of sand deposits, is strongly influenced by substratum topography and is the most important factor generating species richness. Abrasion by sand (sand scour) causes local reductions in richness but the presence of semi-permanent sand deposits allows habitation by psammophilic and sand-dependent species. As a result the biota of a sand inundated rocky shore includes both a full rocky shore and a large sandy beach component. Substratum topography controls patterns of sand deposition and retention and community analysis showed that samples were clustered primarily according to species richness and secondarily according to substratum type. Ordination of species identified an arc of species assemblages of decreasing levels of sand tolerance. These corresponded to sample groupings so that th assemblages found in various habitats were characterised by particular levels of sand tolerance. The presence of sand has a negative effect on the biomass of primary producers and filter feeders but a positive effect on the biomass of deposit feeders. Because sand is retained to different degrees in different zones, trophic structure varies between zones and to a lesser extent, between rock types. In general, however, the trophic structure of sand inundated rocky shores is similar to that of non-inundated shores.
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Sankie Dolly Nkondo, Flames of Fury and Other Poems. Johannesburg Congress of South African Writers, 1990. Book Review

- Klopper, Dirk

  • Authors: Klopper, Dirk
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460820 , vital:76038 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_194
  • Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Sarimbeta

- Kambazite Makorekore, Mang'anja men, Tracey, Andrew T N

Sigebenga

- Ngqoko married women villagers, Tracey, Andrew T N

Sikwakqeni

- Nonogcinile, Nomillion and group, Tracey, Andrew T N

Sisel' utywala

- Nonogcinile, Nomillion and group, Tracey, Andrew T N

Sobendiye

- Ngqoko young villagers, Tracey, Andrew T N

Students' conceptions of simple D.C. electricity circuits: a study of primary, inappropriate conceptions, learning difficulties of physics students, and implications for instruction

- Jiya, Zindlovu

  • Authors: Jiya, Zindlovu
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: Physical sciences -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:5441 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001994
  • Description: The work attempts to identify the general conceptual problems of the generations of Black students who pass through flrst year physics courses at the University of Fort Hare. In particular the alternative conceptions of students in the area of direct current electricity are investigated, using various techniques including written diagnostic tests. The main method used in the investigation of the student frameworks is the personal interview. A varied number of inappropriate conceptions are identifled in the students in significantly large proportions, and these are found to be dependent on many factors; for example the socio-cultural background like language and its metaphors, and media images. It is established that some of these are exacerbated by student perceptions about the nature of physics and of the scientific enterprise in general. Certain proposals are made about how to remedy the situation; relying mainly on the recently established innovative instructional strategies like conceptual change and cognitive conflict, and on making proposals about restructuring certain forms of presentation of the subject matter, paying attention to how language is used to address the speciflc problems of the students. The importance of providing practical experiences for the students is also emphasised
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Synthetic and spectrometric investigation of 1,4-benzoxazepines

- Whittal, R D

  • Authors: Whittal, R D
  • Date: 1990
  • Subjects: Spectrum analysis , Benzodiazepines
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4381 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005046
  • Description: Flavanone (2,3-dihydro-2-phenyl-4H-benzopyran-4-one) and a series of 4'- and 7-halogeno derivatives were prepared from the corresponding 2'-hydroxychalcones [1-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-3-phenyl-2-propen-l-ones], which, in turn, were synthesized by aldol condensation of substituted 2'-hydroxacetophenones with various benzaldehydes. A series of 2,3-dihydro-2-phenyl-l,4-benzoxazepin-5(4H)-ones were prepared by ring expansion of the corresponding flavanones, via the Schmidt reaction, using trimethylsilylazide and trifluoroacetic acid. A series of tetrazoles {2,3-dihydro-2-phenyl-tetrazolo[1,5-d]-1,4-benzoxazepines} were also isolated as by-products of the Schmidt reaction. Flavanone oxime was synthesized for use in Beckmann reactions, and its molecular structure was determined by x-ray crystallography. Attempts to prepare 1,4-benzoxazepinone or its 1,5-analogue via Beckmann rearrangement of flavanone oxime, with polyphosphoric acid or phosphorus pentachloride catalysts, however, were unsuccessful. Several methods for introducing Δ²-unsaturation into the benzoxazepinone system were also examined. High resolution ¹H n.m.r., computer modelling, and molecular mechanics techniques were used to determine the conformations of the heterocycles of the benzoxazepinones and tetrazoles and results are compared with earlier studies in this field. Certain trends in the fragmentation patterns were observed in the low resolution mass spectra of the benzoxazepinones and tetrazoles, and high resolution mass spectrometric data were used to explore the major fragmentation patterns of these compounds.
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  • Date Issued: 1990

Tankatara bushveld, Sunday's River, Port Elizabeth

- Vanderplank, Helen J

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