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Phytochemical studies on certain South African species of the rutaceous genera Agathosma Willd. and Zanthoxylum L

- Finkelstein, Nathan

Authors: Finkelstein, Nathan
Date: 1979
Subjects: Zanthoxylum Rutaceae
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: vital:3725 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001460
Description: Selected species of two South African rutaceous genera, Agathosma Willd. and Zanthoxylum L., were phytochemically studied. Two species of the former genus, A. puberula (Steud.) Fourc . and A. elavisepala R. A. Dyer, yielded a novel O-prenylcoumarin, puberul in, the structure of which was fully elucidated as 6,8- dimethoxy-7-prenyloxycoumarin. This represents the first report of a coumarin from that endemic genus. In another study the alkaloids in three species of Zanthoxylum, Z. davyi (Verdoorn) Waterm., Z. thorneroftii (Verdoorn) Waterm. and Z. humile (E .A. Bruce) Waterm . , were investigated. Chelerythrine, nitidine, (-) -α-N-methylcanadine, (+)-laurifoline and (+)-magnoflorine were isolated and characterized in the stem and root bark of Z. davyi, while the root bark of Z. thorneroftii contained skimmianine and decarine in addition to the alkaloids present in Z. davyi. Skimmianine, decarine, N-norchelerythrine, chelerythrine, (-)-α-N-methylcanadinc, candicine and tembetarine were identified in the root bark of Z. humile. The chemotaxonomic significance of these alkaloids occurring in the South African taxa in relation to other African Zanthoxylum taxa, is discussed. Several non-alkaloids (lupeol, β-sitosterol and (-)-sesamin) were also isolated and characterized in Z. davyi and Z. humile. Horizontal cellulose column chromatography and low pressure liquid chromatography have been applied to the separation of quaternary alkaloids
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Date Issued: 1979

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Politics and communication in the Ciskei, an African Homeland in South Africa

- Switzer, Les

Authors: Switzer, Les
Date: 1979
Subjects: Mass media -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Ciskei Communication -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Ciskei Ciskei (South Africa) -- Politics and government
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2724 , vital:20320 , ISBN 094998096X
Description: The Ciskei was gradually ‘consolidated’ by a process of geo-political gerrymandering that included the incorporation of black dormitory townships dependent on ‘white’ cities outside the homeland for survival. By 1973, the Ciskei homeland’s de facto population was estimated at 602 000.4 Since then, the overcrowded rural population has been forced to absorb thousands of refugees removed from South Africa’s ‘white’ areas — including several ‘black spots’ now outside the boundaries of the homeland — and migrants from two districts (Herschel and Glen Grey) formerly in the Ciskei which were ceded by the South African government to Transkei. Any attempt at measuring the extent to which communication affects the political credibility of the present Ciskei homeland in the eyes of its inhabitants must be weighed against these historical realities. This monograph is divided into three parts: 1. An outline of the political system in the Ciskei. 2. The role of the mass media in determining attitudes towards homeland news. 3. Some observations on the status accorded oral channels of communication in the transmission and validation of political news in selected rural and urban areas of the Ciskei. In obtaining data for this study, five surveys were conducted in two rural villages, the biggest urban area in the Ciskei and the Ciskei Legislative Assembly. The villages of Gobozana (or Xengxe) and Nyaniso formed the basis of the rural surveys conducted in April — June 1976. Fifty heads of homesteads in each village, in a universe of about 500 homesteads, were selected at random. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Prayer and Amen

- Church music workshop participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Church music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1979
Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bulawayo sa
Language: isiXhosa
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/369174 , vital:66182 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC062a-19
Description: Sung prayer followed by amen response, unaccompanied
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Date Issued: 1979

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Prayer and Response

- Church music workshop participants, Composer not specified, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Church music workshop participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1979
Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Bulawayo sa
Language: Ndebele
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/368944 , vital:66156 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC062a-08
Description: Sung prayer and response, unaccompanied
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Date Issued: 1979

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Pressman and other people, [members of the East Cape Administration Board] visiting Glenmore

Date: 1979
Subjects: Forced migration -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Photographs Forced migration -- South Africa -- Glenmore -- Photographs Forced migration -- South Africa -- Klipfontein -- Photographs Blacks -- South Africa -- Relocation -- Photographs Apartheid -- South Africa -- Photographs Glenmore (South Africa, Eastern Cape) -- Race relations -- Photographs Squatters -- South Africa -- Glenmore -- Photographs
Type: Image
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/44825 , vital:25446 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017 , PIC/S 4902-41
Description: A series of photographs taken at the time of the Klipfontein evictions, the resultant trial at the Supreme Court Grahamstown, and the eventual settlement of those evicted in the Glenmore resettlement location, showing some of the residents involved, officials, members of the press, as well as aerial and on site views of Glenmore. Photographers: Dave Forbes, Ben Maclennan, Evert Smith, and an unknown photographer. This photograph shows a group of five men, probably members of the East Cape Administration Board who are visiting Glenmore, and a pressman or newspaper reporter taking pictures.
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Date Issued: 1979

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Protest in fiction : an approach to Alex la Guma

- Cornwell, David Gareth Napier

Authors: Cornwell, David Gareth Napier
Date: 1979
Subjects: La Guma, Alex , South African literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism , Protest literature, South African (English) -- History and criticism
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2169 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001820
Description: From Introduction: Thus for the black South African, the act of creative writing is inescapably a form of political action, and unless he turns his back on the reality which confronts him and retreats into a private imaginary world, it is also a form of social action, Yet Ezekiel Mphahlele has rightly cautioned that "creating an imaginary world" can never be an effective substitute for social act ion . Composing fictions about social and political problems is an indubitably oblique way of seeking a solution to them, and even the tendentious recreation of reality is only a metaphor for its actual transformation. Protest writing in South Africa is paradoxically a form of social action which is also only a parasitical imitation of social action, and therefore its avoidance . The freedom of literary creation described above is ambiguously not only a freedom to express reality, but also a freedom from the constraints of reality. And this suggests why the outlaw was such an important symbol to an earlier generation of rather more self-conscious writers.
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Date Issued: 1979

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Psalms and Response

- Sithole, Clement, OSB, Children of the Nkosiyethu School, Dargie, Dave

Authors: Sithole, Clement, OSB , Children of the Nkosiyethu School , Dargie, Dave
Date: 1979
Subjects: Choral music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Mahlabathini f-sa
Language: Zulu
Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/267659 , vital:54111 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC115b-06
Description: Zulu music workshop composition, accompanied by the drum.
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Date Issued: 1979