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Jesus, Che, Luaty: on the relationship between a digital picture and an iconic image in political iconography in Angola

- Siegert, Nadine

Authors: Siegert, Nadine
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145919 , vital:38478 , DOI: 10.2979/africatoday.65.1.04
Description: This essay makes a close examination of a selection of images of the Angolan rapper Luaty Beirão, who became internationally known as a political activist during his imprisonment in June 2015, accused of staging a coup d'état. By analyzing and interpreting images that were highly mediatized during that period, this article shows how political iconography can be traced back to Christian iconography and other images. Such filiations of images and their mediatization invoke a power that contributes to the formation of political and popular icons. This article analyzes this nexus by deconstructing the transmutation of a photograph into a popular icon.
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Date Issued: 2018

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MARS: Motif Assessment and Ranking Suite for transcription factor binding motifs

- Kibet, Caleb K, Machanick, Philip

Authors: Kibet, Caleb K , Machanick, Philip
Date: 2016
Language: English
Type: article , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61155 , vital:27985 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/065615
Description: We describe MARS (Motif Assessment and Ranking Suite), a web-based suite of tools used to evaluate and rank PWM-based motifs. The increased number of learned motif models that are spread across databases and in different PWM formats, leading to a choice dilemma among the users, is our motivation. This increase has been driven by the difficulty of modelling transcription factor binding sites and the advance in high-throughput sequencing technologies at a continually reducing cost. Therefore, several experimental techniques have been developed resulting in diverse motif-finding algorithms and databases. We collate a wide variety of available motifs into a benchmark database, including the corresponding experimental ChIP-seq and PBM data obtained from ENCODE and UniPROBE databases, respectively. The implemented tools include: a data-independent consistency-based motif assessment and ranking (CB-MAR), which is based on the idea that `correct motifs' are more similar to each other while incorrect motifs will differ from each other; and a scoring and classification-based algorithms, which rank binding models by their ability to discriminate sequences known to contain binding sites from those without. The CB-MAR and scoring techniques have a 0.86 and 0.73 median rank correlation using ChIP-seq and PBM respectively. Best motifs selected by CB-MAR achieve a mean AUC of 0.75, comparable to those ranked by held out data at 0.76 { this is based on ChIP-seq motif discovery using five algorithms on 110 transcription factors. We have demonstrated the benefit of this web server in motif choice and ranking, as well as in motif.
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Date Issued: 2016

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MAWU and the industrial council

- MAWU, FOSATU

Authors: MAWU, FOSATU
Date: Feb 1993
Subjects: FOSATU, MAWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110364 , vital:33272
Description: This is a booklet to explain why M A W U has decided to join the Industrial Council for the Iron, Steel Engineering and Metallurgical Industry. In South Africa at present there are 104 Industrial Councils. However, the one for the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical Industries is the largest and most important covering nearly 500 000 workers. But only about 100 000 of these workers belong to trade unions. At the Industrial Council the employers and trade unions negotiate an agreement that covers all 500 000 workers. At present on the union side there are 14 trade unions - M A W U will make it 15. But most of these unions are racial unions and what are called craft unions - that is their members only do certain kinds of jobs e.g. boilermakers or electricians etc. On the employer side nearly all the 8400 factories in the industry are members of the employer association SEIFSA. It is SEIFSA - which is the largest and most powerful employer association in South Africa - that negotiates for employers on the Industrial Council.
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Date Issued: Feb 1993

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Himantura draco, a new species of stingray (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from South Africa: with a key to the Dasyatidae and the first record of Dasyatis kuhlii (Müller & Henle, 1841) from southern Africa

- Compagno, Leonard J V, Heemstra, Phillip C, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Compagno, Leonard J V , Heemstra, Phillip C , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1984-01
Subjects: Fishes -- South Africa -- Classification , Stingrays -- Africa, Southern
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70050 , vital:29610 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 33 , Himantura draco sp.n is described from an immature male specimen of 56 cm disc width collected at Durban. Dasyatis kuhlii is reported from southern Africa based on three specimens from Natal. Records of H. fava, H. imbricata and H. jenkinsii from southern Africa appear to be erroneous, the latter two being misidentifications of H. gerrardi, and the first a misidentified specimen of H. uarnak. Records of H. purpurea are apparently based on Dasyatis violacea and Himantura sp. (possibly H. fai). A key to the 13 species of dasyatids known from southern Africa is presented.
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Date Issued: 1984-01

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Looking underneath: deconstruction in Hogarth's Industry and Idleness

- Herbst, Michael

Authors: Herbst, Michael
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147803 , vital:38674 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2003.11877010
Description: In Hogarth's engraved series Industry and Idleness two young men from lower-class backgrounds are apprenticed to Mr West, a weaver. The first plate (1) lays bare the two apprentices' marked difference in temperament: Francis Goodchild works contentedly at his well-lit loom with his 'Prentice's Guide- a standard manual of instruction and advice for London apprentices in various trades - open on the floor below him. In the gloomy foreground Thomas Idle snores crassly at his loom, oblivious of his 'Prentice's Guide, which has apparently been reduced to tatters by the cat that now toys with the abandoned shuttle.
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Date Issued: 2017

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How to be or not to be? A critical dialogue on the limitations and opportunities of academic development in the current higher education context

- Behari-Leak, Kasturi, Chitanand, N, Padayachee, Kershree, Masehela, L, Vorster, Jo-Anne E, Ganas, Rieta, Merckel, Vanessa

Authors: Behari-Leak, Kasturi , Chitanand, N , Padayachee, Kershree , Masehela, L , Vorster, Jo-Anne E , Ganas, Rieta , Merckel, Vanessa
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/124217 , vital:35577 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-13671ff578
Description: In the tumultuous time we find ourselves, debates about pedagogy have taken centre stage once again. Concerns raised by the student protests of 2015 and 2016 have highlighted the urgent need to re-think traditional teaching, learning and assessment practices, as well as the development of decolonised and transformative curricula.Traditional notions of academic and professional development are now being tested and contested, insofar as they are able to respond to student challenges in appropriate, responsive, legitimate and relevant ways. As a professional organisation dedicated to supporting learning and teaching, the executive team of HELTASA responded to the challenge in this article by engaging with perspectives on the purpose, role and conceptualisation of academic development in the current decolonial moment in the South African Higher Education landscape. Critical processes that enable academics to engage, share thoughts and debate epistemological, pedagogical and methodological options to support students and academics are much needed. And the context and spirit in which these debates occur may be as important as the debates themselves.At its annual conference, the executive team facilitated a critical dialogue with conference delegates on the limitations and opportunities of AD in our current context. Given the diverse teaching and learning contexts and institutional differentiation in the sector, this article explores individual and collective theorised observations, reflections and experiences of the seven facilitators who led the CD. These reflections were analysed and discussed against the backdrop of AD as well as the affordances of CD as a participatory learning and engagement methodology. The findings showed that there is dire need to re-imagine, not only AD’s role but alternative forms of critical engagement in the sector.
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Date Issued: 2018

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Going against the tide: seeking regulations for private military/security companies in a globalized world

- Juma, Laurence

Authors: Juma, Laurence
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/128822 , vital:36163 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC85398
Description: This article discusses the role of privatization of security in Africa, but its focus is on private military and security companies (PMSCs). The article proceeds on the basis that there is need for effective regulatory frameworks for PMSCs that operate in conflict zones of Africa. Thus, it begins by appraising the existing normative standards at the international, regional and domestic level that apply to these companies, and thereafter, identifies their shortcomings in light of the prevailing security conditions within the continent. The article then posits broad theoretical imperatives for designing a more effective regulatory framework for PMSCs and concludes by proposing the establishment an overarching continental regime constructed on the basis of the suggested imperatives.
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Date Issued: 2011

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Unsustainable trade-offs: provisioning ecosystem services in rapidly changing Likangala River catchment in southern Malawi

- Pullanikkatil, Deepa, Mograbi, Penelope J, Palamuleni, Lobina, Ruhiiga, Tabukeli, Shackleton, Charlie M

Authors: Pullanikkatil, Deepa , Mograbi, Penelope J , Palamuleni, Lobina , Ruhiiga, Tabukeli , Shackleton, Charlie M
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176308 , vital:42683 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-018-0240-x
Description: Provisioning ecosystem services of the Likangala River Catchment in southern Malawi are important for livelihoods of those living there. Remote sensing, participatory mapping and focus group discussions were used to explore the spatio-temporal changes and trade-ofs in land-cover change from 1984 to 2013, and how that afects provisioning ecosystem services in the area. Communities derive a number of provisioning ecosystem services from the catchment. Forty-eight species of edible wild animals (including birds), 28 species of edible wild plants and fungi, 22 species of medicinal plants, construction materials, ornamental fowers, frewood, honey, gum, reeds and thatch/weaving grasses were derived from the catchment and used by local communities.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Reaching sideways, writing our ways: the orientation of the arts of Africa discourse

- Simbao, Ruth K, Miko, William B, Ijisakin, Eyitayo T, Tchibozo, Romuald, Hwati, Masimba, NG-Yang, Kristin, Mudekereza, Patrick, Nalubowa, Aidah, Hyacinthe. Genevieve, Jason, Lee-Roy, Abdou, Eman, Chachage, Rehema, Tumusiime, Amanda, Sousa, Suzana, Muchemwa, Fadzai

Authors: Simbao, Ruth K , Miko, William B , Ijisakin, Eyitayo T , Tchibozo, Romuald , Hwati, Masimba , NG-Yang, Kristin , Mudekereza, Patrick , Nalubowa, Aidah , Hyacinthe. Genevieve , Jason, Lee-Roy , Abdou, Eman , Chachage, Rehema , Tumusiime, Amanda , Sousa, Suzana , Muchemwa, Fadzai
Date: 2017
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145886 , vital:38475 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1162/AFAR_a_00341
Description: In Rehema Chachage's video installation, Kwa Baba Rithi Undugu (2010), sculptural objects representing old-fashioned transistor radios are mounted on the wall, side by side (Fig. 1). Embedded in each radio is a small video screen, which reveals a figure who stands in one place while the vertical line of the radio tuner crosses her body in search of the desired frequency (Figs. 2–3). A man's voice wafts in and out as it is periodically interrupted by unsolicited noise, revealing the difficulty of relating to others when sound is interrupted or there is an absence of voice. Voice, writes Chachage, is a “prerequisite for interlocution and the construction of discourse.” This work engages with the assertion that to “live means to participate in dialogue: to ask questions, to heed, to respond, to agree …” and to do so full heartedly with your “eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit … whole body and deeds” (Bakhtin 1984:293).
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Date Issued: 2017

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MAWU and the industrial council

- FOSATU

Authors: FOSATU
Date: 1983
Subjects: FOSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/179221 , vital:39865
Description: In South Africa at present there are 104 Industrial Councils. However, the one for the Iron, Steel, Engineering and Metallurgical Industries is the largest and most important covering nearly 500 000 workers. But only about 100 000 of these workers belong to trade unions. At the Industrial Council the employers and trade unions negotiate an agreement that covers all 500 000 workers. At present on the union side there are 14 trade unions - M A W U will make it 15. But most of these unions are racial unions and what are called craft unions - that is their members only do certain kinds of jobs e.g. boilermakers or electricians etc. On the employer side nearly all the 8400 factories in the industry are members of the employer association SEIFSA. It is SEIFSA - which is the largest and most powerful employer association in South Africa - that negotiates for employers on the Industrial Council.
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Date Issued: 1983

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Geotourism, iconic landforms and island-style speciation patterns in National Parks of East Africa:

- Scoon, Roger N

Authors: Scoon, Roger N
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158252 , vital:40166 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/s12371-020-00486-z
Description: Many of the national parks in East Africa are equally as famous for their iconic landforms as they are for their diversity and concentrations of fauna and flora. The newly formed Ngorongoro-Lengai Geopark in northern Tanzania is the first geopark to be established in the region, but there is remarkable potential for geotourism in the majority of the national parks. The most spectacular landforms have been shaped by the East African Rift System. Formation of the two major rifts in the region, the Albertine Rift (or western branch) and the Gregory Rift (or eastern branch), was accompanied, or in some cases preceded, by extensive alkaline volcanism. The rifting and volcanism are primarily Late Cenozoic phenomenon that dissected and overprinted the older regional plateaus. Rifting impacted the regional drainage and captured major rivers, including the Victoria Nile.
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Date Issued: 2020

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The “Pleasure Streets” of exile: queer subjectivities and the body in Arthur Nortje’s London poems

- Thorpe, Andrea

Authors: Thorpe, Andrea
Date: 2018
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68432 , vital:29255 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02564718.2018.1447865
Description: Publisher version , In this article, I aim to expand our understanding of Arthur Nortje as a poet of “exile” by exploring the dialectic between self-loathing and pleasure, as well as between engagement and isolation, which he portrays performatively through his London poetry. While critics have emphasised Nortje’s “marginality” or “liminality”, both as an “exile” and a “coloured” South African, I draw on the critical writing of Zoë Wicomb in order to extend readings of his poetry beyond this tragic paradigm. I furthermore take up Sarah Nuttall’s suggestion that Nortje’s London poetry describes a degree of immersion within the city and that this aspect of his work demands further study. After tracing Nortje’s playful use of literary influences and his reworking of the trope of flânerie, I provide a series of close readings of poems in which Nortje depicts an exploration of queer subjectivities, staged within the city. In his London poetry, Nortje subverts and eludes fixed racial, sexual, national and class identities. Nortje’s London poetry exemplifies how South African literature was developed in response to the alienating condition of exile, but also through engagement with the places where exile occurred.
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Date Issued: 2018

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