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Glimpsing the balance between earth and sky: a meeting ground for postmodernism and Christianity in four selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and John Irving

- Edwards, Ross Stephen

  • Authors: Edwards, Ross Stephen
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Postmodernism -- Religious aspects Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Irving, John, 1942- Postmodernism (Literature)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2186 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002228
  • Description: The phrase “glimpsing the balance between earth and sky” in the thesis title is taken from Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In this novel, the central character Jeanette believes she has glimpsed the possibility that human relationships can find their mirror in the relationship with God, as she understands the divine Other. This glimpse has set her wandering, trying to find such a balance. This examination of four selected novels by Jeanette Winterson and John Irving shows that for Irving, “glimpsing the balance” means in part, giving voice to a strongly “Christian” view of humankind and human nature but in an age where the prevailing intellectual worldview is strongly sceptical of any Grand Narrative. The “voice” expressed in Irving’s work has to be situated, like Winterson’s, as one among many possibilities. Irving’s voice is itself masked as different, other/Other, freakish, in the narrative worlds he creates. Through his use of grotesque comedy as a vehicle for deeper philosophical concerns, Irving asks us: What after all in the postmodern world is the main show? This thesis argues that if Winterson and Irving are testing or re-presenting a Christian worldview in a postmodern context, than they are asking whether Christianity is capable of assimilating and rising above the worst circumstances the world, writer, and life can throw at it. In Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Winterson tells a story of “forbidden love”, posed as a direct challenge to the prevailing way of knowing in her character’s community. In Gut Symmetries, she expands this challenge by employing the insights of quantum physics to make sense of the complexities raised by a triangular love relationship. Irving offers the story of Owen in A Prayer for Owen Meany as the kind of story which might possibly make a believer out of him; in short, that he would have to be a witness to some kind of miracle, something utterly inexplicable. In A Son of the Circus Irving narrates the quest for identity undertaken by an Indian doctor who is in every way a Displaced Person – the condition, he implies, of anyone who purports to find their piece of the truth. The theoretical concerns of the postmodern project are examined through Lawrence Cahoone’s argument that postmodern writing offers criticism of: presence, origin, unity and transcendence through an analytical strategy of constitutive otherness. In each of their texts, Irving and Winterson are seen to use these four critical elements and to offer a postmodern strategy of re-presenting meaning through “constitutive otherness”. Both writers also employ a strategy of historiographic metafiction (as defined by Linda Hutcheon) as a means of constructing and re-presenting their narrated stories. Postmodern paradox is compatible with what could be called a Christian plan for living, if the latter is in turn given an appropriate 1990s interpretation. The selected novels by Winterson and Irving are offered as contemporary evidence for this view. This thesis argues that the connection between postmodernism and other worldviews, particularly Christianity, is found in both projects’ process of making meanings through encounters with an other/Other.
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Gnewagne

- Amadou Sodia (lead singer, bolon, kora), Hadja Maningbe, Djanka Diabate, Awa Maiga, Valerie Belinga (chorus), Ansoumane Kante, Yeye (percussions), Adama Conde (balafon), Alpha Camara (congas), Ousmane Kouyate, Djely Moussa Kouyate,Manfila Kante (guitar), Djessou Mory (rythm guitar, solo), Brass: Christian Martinez (trumpet), Bernard Camoin (trombone), Thierry Farrugia (saxophone), Phillipe Guez (arrangement, keyboard), Patrick Mareck

Gor Sayina

- Ismael Lo (author, composer, lead vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonica, chorus), EH. Malick Diouf (solo guitar, arrangments), Paul Thierry Oliveira (keyboard, arrangments), Alioune Wade (bass guitar), El Hadji Faye (percussion), Figaro Diagne (marimba), Abib Ndiaye (drums), Thirifays Claude (saxophone), Ramirez Jean Pierre (trumpet), Welch Jean Marc (trombone), Ousemane Hamadi (performer), Studio 2000, Samassa Records

Graphicacy as a form of communication

- Wilmot, P Dianne

  • Authors: Wilmot, P Dianne
  • Date: 1999
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6091 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008613
  • Description: Children of today inhabit a multi-dimensional world and in order to communicate effectively in it they need the ability to utilise four forms of communication namely, oracy, literacy, numeracy and graphicacy. Communicating in graphic form requires an ability to both encode and decode spatial information using symbols which requires the utilisation and application of spatial perceptual skills and concepts. The draft Curriculum Framework for General and Further Education and Training identifies graphic literacy as one of the critical outcomes of the new South African curriculum. Spatial information about the environment is most frequently communicated in the graphic mode. Yet if graphicacy is to be recognised as an essential mode of communication and, as such, a vital element in education, then we need to seek ways of developing and introducing an explicit and critical pedagogy in our schools to foster the development of graphic and critical graphic literacy. But first, the skills and concepts integral to graphicacy need to be identified and understood. This article provides a framework for thinking about graphicacy as a form of communication in the General Education and Training (GET) band, the compulsory component of South African education (Grades 1-9).
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Guy Butler (obituary)

- Wright, Laurence

  • Authors: Wright, Laurence
  • Date: 1999
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:7052 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007411
  • Description: An obituary focusing on Guy Butler's Shakespearean preoccupations. The 1999/2000 volume of Shakespeare in Southern Africa only appeared in 2001. The Butler obituary was included as a 'stop-press' item as the volume went to print, which accounts for the apparent anomaly between the date of publication and the date of Guy Butler's death.
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Hip hop

- Tonton Mac, Sugar Flavor, Caporal F (lead vocals), Suzanne Khar Fofana Ass II, Bouba (chorus), El hadji Cissokho, Babouli Cissokho (kora), Laye Kane, Urbain Lambert (guitar), Jazzy M (scratch), Sama Flavor (composed by), Studio 2000

Histoire Sans Fin

- Tonton Mac, Sugar Flavor, Caporal F (lead vocals), Suzanne Khar Fofana Ass II, Bouba (chorus), El hadji Cissokho, Babouli Cissokho (kora), Laye Kane, Urbain Lambert (guitar), Jazzy M (scratch), Sama Flavor (composed by), Studio 2000

Hommage (Faitai)

- Billy Sincop, Goly Herve (key board), Vata Monbassa, Santa N'guessan, N'dri Martial (guitars), Niamkey Jusitine, Botha Therese, Loukou Kedjebo, N'guessan Pitie, Gerbasco, Kouadio Maurison (chorus), Santa N'guessan (arrangement), Kouadio Maurison (perfromer), Santa N'guessan

Honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus (Hymenoptera: Apidae), of equatorial Africa

- Radloff, Sarah E, Hepburn, H Randall

  • Authors: Radloff, Sarah E , Hepburn, H Randall
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/451885 , vital:75083 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA10213589_364
  • Description: Morphometric and flight dimensional characters of worker honeybees, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, from equatorial Gabon were analysed by multivariate methods to characterize the population. A single morphocluster and a single flight dimension cluster were obtained. When these bees were grouped together with those of other countries of the region, again a single morphoduster and flight cluster were obtained. All of the outlier samples were previously designated as Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille and completely surround the Gabon samples, establishing the same subspecies membership for the latter. The bees of Gabon are morphometrically more homogeneous than in any other area of Africa.
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Hotep Galeta intervew

- Hotep Galeta interviewee, Struan Douglas interviewer, International Library of African Music

Hydrogeology of the Queenstown 1:500 000 map region (Sheet 3126)

- Smart, Michael Charles

  • Authors: Smart, Michael Charles
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Hydrogeology , Hydrogeology Maps , Hydrogeology -- South Africa -- Queenstown
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4971 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005583 , Hydrogeology , Hydrogeology Maps , Hydrogeology -- South Africa -- Queenstown
  • Description: The Groundwater characteristics of a portion of the Eastern Cape are depicted on a General Hydrogeological Map (Queenstown 3126) at 1 :500 000 scale. The purpose of the map and accompanying text is to provide a synoptic overview of the hydrogeology of the area. The "fractured and intergranular" aquifer type predominates in the more humid eastern part of the study area where the lithologies are more highly weathered whereas the fractured type predominates in the drier west. For the bulk of the area borehole yields are in the 0.5 - 2.0 ℓ/sec range. Higher yields (in the 2.0 - 5.0 ℓ/sec range) are common only in a small area in the south-west of the map. Lowest yields (0.1 - 0.5 ℓ/sec) are obtained in an area immediately north of East London and in the Dwyka Group near the NE coast. It is important to note that these yield ranges are merely a measure of the central tendency, and that higher yields - in excess of 3 ℓ/sec - could well be obtainable at optimal hydrogeological target features within these areas. Highest borehole yields are obtained in folded areas (restricted to the southern edge of the study area) followed by rocks with dolerite intrusions (common over the bulk of the study area). Other targets include fractured sedimentary and volcanic rock and unconsolidated deposits. Yields obtained from dolerite contact zones vary across the area; differences correspond to spatial variations in the style of intrusion. Highest success rates are obtained in areas intruded by a combination of dykes, ring-shaped sheets and irregular sheets while poor results are obtained in areas intruded by thick massive sills. Air photo and satellite image interpretation, geological mapping, magnetic, electrical resistivity and electromagnetic geophysical methods can be used to locate drilling target features. Groundwater quality is good since electrical conductivities over much of the area are lower than 70 mS/m and rarely exceed the South African Water quality guideline limit for human consumption of 300 mS/m. The volume of groundwater abstractable ranges between approximately 2 000 m³/km²/annum and 80 000 m³/km²/annum and is limited by either volumes of recharge or subsurface storage.
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Imbongi and griot: toward a comparative analysis of oral poetics in Southern and West Africa

- Kaschula, Russell H

  • Authors: Kaschula, Russell H
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Folk poetry, African , Oral tradition -- Africa , Folk literature -- Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: article , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59379 , vital:27576 , https://doi.org/10.1080/13696819908717840
  • Description: This article takes up the challenge of comparative research in Africa by analysing and comparing the oral art of West African griots and Southern African iimbongi or oral poets. Similarities and differences between these performers and their respective societies are highlighted through the use of an ethnographic methodology. A distinction is drawn between the more traditional performers such as Thiam Anchou and D.L.P. Yali-Manisi, and the more modern performers such as M’Bana Diop, Bongani Sitole and Zolani Mkiva. The rich use of genealogy and history in the more traditional performances is highlighted. In comparing the work of the more contemporary, urban poets such as M’bana Diop of Senegal and Zolani Mkiva from Southern Africa, similarities are found in their performances on post-independence leaders such as Senghor and Mandela. Political pressures which have been brought to bear on the performer are also discussed. This article explores the continuity between the past and the present in relation to aspects such as the following: how performers gain recognition, their continued survival, their relationship with politics and religion, the orality- literacy debate, and the stylistic techniques used by these performers. Wherever possible, examples of performers and their work are provided.
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In search of self explorations of identity in the work of Paul Auster

- Van der Vlies, Andrew Edward

  • Authors: Van der Vlies, Andrew Edward
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Auster, Paul, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation , Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2208 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002251 , Auster, Paul, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation , Identity (Psychology) in literature
  • Description: Paul Auster is regarded by some as an important novelist. He has, in a relatively short space of time, produced an intriguing body of work, which has attracted comparatively little critical attention. This study is based on the premise that Auster's art is the record of an entertaining, intelligent and utterly serious engagement with the possibilities of conceiving of the identity of an individual subject in the contemporary, late-twentieth century moment. This study, focussing on Auster's novels, but also considering selected poetry and critical prose, explores the representation of identity in his work. The short Foreword introduces Paul Auster and sketches in outline the concerns of the study. Chapter One explores the manner in which Auster's early (anti-),detective' fiction develops a concern with identity. It is suggested that Squeeze Play, Auster's pseudonymous 'hard-boiled' detective thriller, provided the author with a testing ground for his subsequent appropriation and subversion of the detective genre in The New York Trilogy. Through a close consideration of City of Glass, and an examination of elements in Ghosts, it is shown how the loss of the traditional detective's immunity, and the problematising of strategies which had previously guaranteed him access to interpretive and narrative closure, precipitates a collapse which initiates an interrogation of the nature and construction of ideas about individual identity. Chapter Two develops a suggestion that City of Glass was written in response to particular emotional concerns of the author by turning to an examination of the memoir-novel, The Invention of Solitude. This chapter examines the extent to which Auster's Jewishness is implicated in his understanding of identity, and in the techniques with which he expresses his concerns. It is argued that Auster's engagement with texts and memories important to him in order to find a voice adequate to the task which he assumes in The Invention of Solitude, reveals the ethical imperative of recognizing and accepting a relationship to alterity. The influence on Auster of certain Jewish writers, like Edmond Jabes, is considered in the course of the chapter. The third chapter addresses the issue of the description of Auster's work as postmodernist, in the light of what the study has presented as Auster's ethical engagement with alterity. Critical responses to Auster's texts are canvassed, before it is suggested that aspects of the ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas may be useful in considering these important issues in Auster's oeuvre. Chapter Four returns to a consideration of The New York Trilogy, examining its final part, The Locked Room, before discussing In the Country of Last Things and Moon Palace. All three novels are narrated by first-person narrators who, in very different situations, come (consciously and unconsciously) to negotiate their own identities in relation either to other people or to adverse circumstances. The chapter thus considers the manner in which these texts figure Auster's concern with relationships between individuals and otherness. Chapter Five seeks, as a means of concluding the study, to consider aspects of Auster's presentation of the manner in which identity is connected to perception, and to an engagement with that which is other than the self This chapter focuses on Auster's figuration of necessary responses to the otherness of the objective world and to chance as a radical alterity. Beginning with a consideration of an early essay, the chapter explores relevant aspects of Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Leviathan and Mr Vertigo, considers elements in Auster's poetry, and demonstrates the usefulness of exploring the influence on his work of the 'objectivist' poets and aspects of Dada and Surrealist poetics. The seemingly punitive severity of the fates of some of Auster's protagonists is shown ultimately to be positive, and (potentially) redemptive, reflecting Auster's profoundly ethical conception of the responsibilities and possibilities of selfhood.
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Insubordination in the workplace

- Chadd, Kevin Mark

  • Authors: Chadd, Kevin Mark
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Employees -- Dismissal of -- Law and legislation -- South Africa , Labor laws and legislation -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , LLM
  • Identifier: vital:3668 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003183 , Employees -- Dismissal of -- Law and legislation -- South Africa , Labor laws and legislation -- South Africa
  • Description: This thesis traces the development of insubordination in the employment relationship. The essence of the relationship is that the employee, by contracting out his or her productive capacity, occupies a subordinate position. The primary aim is to locate and define the nature of subordination and to investigate how the breach of this position would justify dismissal as interpreted and applied by the courts. This is achieved by investigating dismissal for insubordination under the common law contract of employment, the unfair labour practice jurisdiction and the 1995 Labour Relations Act. Initially the obligation of the employee to be subordinate, an essential term of the contract of employment, is located and defined by using the tests of Control, Organisation and Dominant Impression, which theoretically indicate the true nature of insubordination. Insubordination under the common law is equated with disobedience to the lawful and reasonable instructions of the employer which were given in good faith and fell squarely within the contractual relationship. Insubordination under the unfair labour practice jurisdiction was equated with a challenge to the authority of the employer of which disobedience was a manifestation of such intention. Instructions given by the employer under the unfair labour practice jurisdiction had to be lawful, reasonable and fair. What was fair depended on the surrounding circumstances of the dismissal and a wilful and unreasonable refusal of the employee to obey the valid instructions of the employer justified dismissal Under the 1995 Labour Relations Act it is submitted that insubordination will be dealt with in essentially the same manner as under the previous jurisdiction, subject to the Act's objectives and purposes. The disobedience of the employee is to be tolerated if that employee is attempting to achieve the Act's objectives, and any dismissal as a result of the disobedience could be unfair, because the employer's conduct fiustrates the purpose of the Act. Therefore, the contractual right of the employer to expect subordination from the employee may have been whittled away to such an extent over time that it seems superficial to regard subordination as an essential term of the contract of employment.
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Integrating the development of academic literacy into mainstream teaching and learning

- Amos, Trevor L

  • Authors: Amos, Trevor L
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/270891 , vital:54489 , xlink:href="https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA10113487_947"
  • Description: Higher education is challenged to develop effective and independent learners of students who experience learning difficulties. These students are however, (potentially) able to engage in and do not necessarily lack the the inherent bstract cognitive capability necessary for academic success. The aim of this article is to be done in practice to integrate the development of academic literacy into mainstream teaching and learning.
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Interactions of cobalt (II) tetrasulfophthalocyanine with nitrite in the presence of nitrate and perchlorate ions

- Chebotareva, Natalia, Nyokong, Tebello

  • Authors: Chebotareva, Natalia , Nyokong, Tebello
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/293257 , vital:57069 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00958979908054907"
  • Description: Spectroscopic changes observed on addition of nitrite to solutions of cobalt(II) tetra-sulfophthalocyanine ([Co(II)TSPc]4-) in the presence of N− 3 or ClO− 4 are reported. There is spectroscopic evidence for the oxidation of [Co(II)TSPc]4- to a [Co(III)TSPc]3- species in the presence of nitrite ions. Equilibrium and kinetic studies for the interaction between [Co(II)TSPc]4- and NO− 2 are reported. The rate was found to be first order in both [Co(II)TSPc]4- and NO− 2. The rate constant for the forward reaction, k f=1.6 × 10−4 dm3mol−1s−1 was determined at 20°C for the interaction between nitrite ions and [Co(II)TSPc]4- in the presence of NO3 − or ClO4 − ions.
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Investigating systemic factors affecting science learning in Curriculum 2005 : case studies of two schools

- Wilkinson, Warren George

  • Authors: Wilkinson, Warren George
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Curriculum change Curriculum change -- Case studies Science -- Study and teaching -- South Africa Curriculum planning -- South Africa Education -- South Africa -- Evaluation Competency-based education -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
  • Identifier: vital:1588 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003470
  • Description: The thesis illustrates the contention that an outcomes-based system with its underlying philosophy of social constructivism cannot operate effectively within a traditional school system. Restructuring of an institution is necessary to accommodate the outcomes-based system. Using the research instruments of interviews, questionnaires, journals, participant observations and collection of physical artefacts, two case studies investigating systemic factors as they influence science learning were conducted in two South African schools. The one school, St Sebastian's College, was an extremely well resourced school while the other, Mtunzini High School was a middle class school in comparatively deprived circumstances. Attempts were made to introduce an outcomes-based education course involving a group of grade 8 learners in the respective schools. Difficulties in implementation were encountered and at best only very limited success was achieved. There were two reasons for this. First, particularly in the case of St Sebastian's College, I designed a course which was over ambitious in that it was not suited to the developmental stage of the learners. Second, traditional schooling systems follow a perspective of education termed 'the structure of the disciplines' which fosters a system of rigid time tabling, compartmentalisation of subjects and emphasis upon summative assessment. In contrast, the curricula I designed involved a 'cognitive' perspective which required flexible time scheduling, integration of subjects and developmental assessment. The conflicts which arose include time constraints and resistant attitudes on the part of learners and teachers. The thesis culminates with some suggested steps to follow should a school community wish to restructure. These include a shared vision, employing organised abandonment, capacity building and commitment to a systemic perspective.
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Jainaro

- Micka Gomis (lead vocal, keyboard, percussion, composer, arranger), Pathe Jassi (bass, vocals), Ousmane Sowe (keyboard, horns, percussion), Omar Sowe (guitar), Ablaye "Bird" Ndiaye (saxophone), Papa Ndiaye Guewel (sabars, jimbe), Karim Mbaye (sabar), Kaare Wamberg (drums programming, vocals, guitar, bass), Josephone Ciss, Therese Mamady, Clara Mendy, Jeannette Senghor (chorus), Studio 2000

Jeanne D'Arc

- Omar Pene (author, composer, lead vocal), Babacar Dieng, Mada Ba (Super Diamono vocals), Lappa Diagne (Super Diamono drums), Iba Ndiaye, Papis Ba, Ousmane Sow (Super Diamono keyboards), Doudou Conare, Ousmane Sow (Super Diamono guitars), Pape Ndiaye ( Super Diamono percussion), Dembel Diop (Super Diamono bass, arrangement), Amy Bamba, Awa Maiga (guest vocals), Brass: Philippe Slominsky, Ibou Konate (guest trumpet), Alain Hatot, Sanou Diouf (guest saxophone), Jacques Bolognesi, Moustapha Fall (guest trombone), Philippe Guez (guest keyboard), Thio Mbaye (guest percussions, vocal), Syllart Production

Jiguen

- Ismael Lo (author, composer, lead vocal, rhythm guitar, harmonica, chorus), EH. Malick Diouf (solo guitar, arrangments), Paul Thierry Oliveira (keyboard, arrangments), Alioune Wade (bass guitar), El Hadji Faye (percussion), Figaro Diagne (marimba), Abib Ndiaye (drums), Thirifays Claude (saxophone), Ramirez Jean Pierre (trumpet), Welch Jean Marc (trombone), Studio 2000, Samassa Records

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