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The status of traditional horse racing in the Eastern Cape

  • Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Griffith, Michelle , Paterson, Craig , Mantolo, Thumeka , Dume, Monde
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:7099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006617 , http://www.ecgbb.co.za/ecgb/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/THR-WEB.pdf
  • Description: From introduction: The Eastern Cape Gambling and Betting Board advertised a tender for research assessing and auditing the status of traditional horse racing in the Eastern Cape. The term ‘traditional horse racing’ (THR) is used for convenience but covers a range of horse racing events, not all of which are ‘traditional’. The term, within the research and this report, is used to denote all horse racing in the Eastern Cape which lies outside of the formal gambling horse racing industry which is localised to Port Elizabeth.
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  • Date Issued: 2013

Towards an exceptional Undergraduate Personal Learning Experience: the Personal Librarian Programme, a pilot project at Rhodes University Library

  • Authors: Gontshi, V
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6985 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007918
  • Description: This paper is a record of a unique intervention for enhancing the undergraduate learning experience at Rhodes University. It focuses on the establishment of the project, the experiences encountered and lessons learned thus far. In April 2013, a team of 13 librarians embarked on a Personal Librarian Pilot Project at the Rhodes University Library. The Personal Librarian Programme is primarily directed at undergraduate students at Rhodes University. In an attempt to bridge the information literacy skills gap that exists between Senior School and University in South Africa, the idea behind this programme is that each incoming first year student is assigned a Personal Librarian who will remain that individual’s contact in the library throughout his/her academic career at Rhodes University. The project came about as a result of research exploring the perceptions of both students and lecturers in the Commerce Faculty at Rhodes University with regard to Information Literacy practices and needs (Gontshi, 2011). The study revealed and recorded a shortcoming in the Information Literacy ability of students between Senior School Level and University Level. It became clear that new University students were not aware of the important link between their academic studies and the Library which in turn suggested the need to make Rhodes University librarians and the role that they play in the academic world more obvious to these new students (Gontshi, 2011). The Personal Librarian Programme was devised to fill this need. The Librarians involved in this programme include staff from all sections of the Library: circulation, faculty liaison and bibliographic/technical services. The training needs of staff who did not work directly with students were identified and the relevant training provided. The staff from circulation and bibliographic/technical services sections identified a need to advance their knowledge in the use of the library from a users’ perspective. The training focused on the following: “Brainstorming a research topic with a student”; “Identifying relevant databases to conduct a research topic” and “Conducting a search on relevant databases for the research topic” – this included different ways of devising an effective search technique. The training ensured a good foundation for these librarians to develop their confidence to work with users. The project, modeled on a similar programme at the Yale University Library in the United States of America, was also a direct result of Rhodes University Library’s involvement in the Carnegie Research Libraries Consortium (2009 – 2011) and the author’s ten-week internship in the United States, seven weeks of which were spent at Yale University.
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  • Date Issued: 2013

Treating the psychological sequelae of proactive drug-facilitated sexual assault : knowledge building through systematic case based research

  • Authors: Padmanabhanunni, A , Edwards, David J A
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6235 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007785
  • Description: Background: Drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) has emerged as a distinct category of sexual victimization and precipitates posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Few studies have examined the distinct psychological aspects of PTSD caused by DFSA. Gauntlett-Gilbert, Keegan and Petrak (2004) represent a notable exception and draw on cases, from their clinical experience, treated using Ehlers and Clarks’ (2000) cognitive therapy (CT). Aims: This paper aims to further develop and refine clinical knowledge on CT for PTSD arising from DFSA and advance the findings of Gauntlett-Gilbert et al. (2004). Method: Systematic case based research was used to investigate the applicability of CT for PTSD related to DFSA. Three survivors were treated with CT within the South African context. Results: The case series corroborated existing findings but also documented the presence of somatic and visual intrusions among survivors with partial or complete amnesia for rape and illustrated the utility of imagery interventions in targeting intrusions. The study highlighted the role of physical paralysis in DFSA in compounding helplessness/powerlessness and the necessity of enhancing physical agency and building social support. Conclusion: Distinctive aspects of PTSD related to DFSA can be effectively treated by adapting CT to suit this population group.
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  • Date Issued: 2013

Treating the psychological sequelae of proactive drug-facilitated sexual assault : knowledge building through systematic case based research : extended version of the article that was published as a brief report

  • Authors: Padmanabhanunni, A , Edwards, David J A
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6236 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007786
  • Description: From Introduction: Drug facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) -- on victims who are too intoxicated to be aware of their surroundings or exercise any control of the situation -- has emerged as a distinct category of sexual victimisation. DFSA has been identified as a significant public health concern, particularly among college students, with the majority of victims being women (McCauley, Ruggiero, Resnick, & Kilpatrick, 2010; Zinzow, Resnick, McCauley, Amstadter, Ruggiero, & Kilpatrick, 2010). Exact rates remain uncertain due to significant under-reporting (Du Mont, Macdonald, Rotbard, Asslanni, & Bainbridge, 2010; Lawyer, Resnick, Bakanic, Burkett, & Kilpatrick, 2010). Opportunistic DFSA, also called incapacitated rape (Lawyer et al., 2010; Zinzow at al., 2010), is the most common form and refers to assaults on women who have voluntarily consumed an excessive amount of alcohol (Lovett & Horvath, 2009). In proactive DFSA (called drug facilitated rape by Lawyer et al., 2010 and drug-alcohol facilitated rape by Zinzow et al., 2010), perpetrators deliberately incapacitate victims by plying them with alcohol or covertly administering an incapacitating drug such as Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) or Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) to victims with the intention of sexually assaulting them (Hall & Moore, 2008).
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  • Date Issued: 2013

Victimisation in the lives of lesbian-identified women in South Africa : implications for clinical assessment and treatment

  • Authors: Padmanabhanunni, A , Edwards, David J A
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6237 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007787
  • Description: Few clinical studies have examined victimisation in the lives of lesbian women in South Africa and whether there are distinct implications for psychological treatment. This paper presents the assessment and treatment of a lesbian-identified South African survivor of childhood sexual abuse who, as an adult, was raped and later gang raped. Her victimisation in adulthood represented ‘corrective rape’ motivated by the prejudiced assumption that the sexuality of lesbian women is pathological and should be ‘corrected’ through rape. This paper lends insights into the role of heterosexism in shaping vulnerability to victimisation and the process of recovery. It provides recommendations for work with sexual minority clients and highlights the implications when there is an absence of safety and support in the external environment.
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  • Date Issued: 2013

When veiled silences speak: reflexivity, trouble and repair as methodological tools for interpreting the unspoken in discourse-based data

  • Authors: Morison, Tracy , Macleod, Catriona I
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6220 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006280 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794113488129
  • Description: Researchers who have attempted to make sense of silence in data have generally considered literal silences or such things as laughter. We consider the analysis of veiled silences where participants speak, but their speaking serves as ‘noise’ that ‘veils’, or masks, their inability or unwillingness to talk about a (potentially sensitive) topic. Extending Lisa Mazzei’s ‘problematic of silence’ by using our performativity-performance analytical method, we propose the purposeful use of ‘unusual conversational moves’, the deployment of researcher reflexivity, and the analysis of trouble and repair as methods to expose taken-for-granted normative frameworks in veiled silences. We illustrate the potential of these research practices through reference to our study on men’s involvement in reproductive decision-making, in which participants demonstrated an inability to engage with the topic. The veiled silence that this produced, together with what was said, pointed to the operation of procreative heteronormativity.
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  • Date Issued: 2013

You reap what you sow : regulating marriages and intimate partnerships in a diverse post-apartheid society

  • Authors: Kruuse, Helen
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/54152 , vital:26396 , https://tinyurl.com/yaughtn2
  • Description: South Africa does not have a particularly proud history. Marred by the politics of separate but (un)equal treatment of its people, the country's past political system has had a damaging effect in all spheres, but specifically on that of the family. In the context of relationships, it is fair to say that the apartheid system was replicated in family law, with the Western 'white' monogamous marriage receiving the state's stamp of approval - leaving other relationships (customary, Muslim, homosexual, cohabiting etc) largely out in the cold.
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  • Date Issued: 2013

“It’s like uprooting trees”: responsive treatment for a case of complex post-traumatic stress disorder following multiple rapes

  • Authors: Van der Linde, Francois , Edwards, David J A
  • Date: 2013
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6238 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007788
  • Description: This systematic case study documents 27 sessions of assessment and treatment with cognitive therapy of Bongi (23)who presented with major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline traits. Bongi had been raised in a punitive environment, had been raped three times, the first time at age 9, and had been in a series of abusive relationships. The treatment illustrates the importance of therapist responsiveness in addressing this kind of complex presentation, the importance of drawing on case formulation to guide the course of treatment and the range of different interventions that need to be incorporated into an integrative treatment of a complex case. Self-report measures of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress indicators provided evidence that the therapy contributed to positive changes and the qualitative therapy narrative gives details of the nature of some of those changes. Although treatment was not complete when Bongi moved away, Bongi herself judged that the therapy had been a valuable experience which had resulted in her feeling more alive, more confident, and better able to take care of herself.
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  • Date Issued: 2013

Chris McGregor and the Castle Lager Big Band

  • Authors: Alexander, Tebogo
  • Date: 2012-09-20
  • Subjects: McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Jazz , Jazz musicians , Castle Lager Big Band
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:13471 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001393 , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Jazz , Jazz musicians
  • Description: Photocopied article from the newspaper Vrye Weekblad about a recording of Chris McGregor with the Castle Lager Big Band.
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Jazz musician

  • Authors: Arnott, Bruce
  • Date: 2012-09-20
  • Subjects: McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Jazz , Jazz musician
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:13475 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001397 , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Jazz , Jazz musician
  • Description: Photocopied tribute from Bruce Arnott to Chris McGregor. There is also a drawing of Chris McGregor as seen by Bruce Arnott.
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McGregor: I tried to forget South Africa

  • Authors: Aimé, Bernard , Loll, Jacques
  • Date: 2012-09-20 , 1989
  • Subjects: Jazz , Mndebele, Sonti , Jazz musicians , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Shepp, Archie , Mothle, Ernest , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Matthews, Gilbert
  • Language: French
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:13465 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001375 , Jazz , Mndebele, Sonti , Jazz musicians , Brotherhood of Breath (Musical group) , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Shepp, Archie , Mothle, Ernest , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Matthews, Gilbert
  • Description: Photocopied interview from the French Jazz Magazine of Chris McGregor about the evolution of his music and the music in South Africa. This article has been written when Archie Shepp joined the Brotherhood of Breath. On the first page, the top picture shows Chris McGregor at the time of the interview playing Piano, and the bottom picture shows him with the Big Band Blue Notes during the '60s. There are also 2 pictures on the second page. The left one shows Chris McGregor at the Piano, the singer Sonti Mndebele and the saxophonist Archie Shepp. The picture on the right represents Chris McGregor and Archie Shepp.
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  • Date Issued: 1989

Requiem for SA Jazzman

The New Unity Movement Bulletin

"Dudu's Ghost" and the Dedication Orchestra at the 100 Club

  • Authors: Alfred, Luke
  • Date: 2012 , 1993
  • Subjects: McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Pukwana, Dudu , Jazz , Jazz musicians , Dyani, Johnny Mbizo , Feza, Mongezi , Miller, Harry , Dedication Orchestra , 100 Club
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:13472 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001394 , McGregor, Chris -- 1936-1990 , Blue Notes (Musical group : South Africa) , Pukwana, Dudu , Jazz , Jazz musicians , Dyani, Johnny Mbizo , Feza, Mongezi , Miller, Harry
  • Description: The Dedication Orchestra is a group of contemporary English and South African musicians formed in honour of the memory of the Blue Notes, the seminal South African jazz band who found a home from home in London during the early 60s. , Photocopied article from the newspaper SA Times about a concert by the Dedication Orchestra at the 100 Club, London, in honour of the memory of the Blue Notes. There are 5 pictures with the article. The left picture shows Dudu Pukwana playing soprano saxophone, the top middle photo shows Johnny Dyani playing double bass, Mongezi Feza is on the below photo, Chris McGregor is on the top right picture and on the below right photo there is Harry Miller.
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  • Date Issued: 1993

(Dis)allowances of lesbians’ sexual identities: Lesbian identity construction in racialised, classed, familial, and institutional spaces

  • Authors: Gibson, Alexandra , Macleod, Catriona I
  • Date: 2012
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6222 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006536 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353512459580
  • Description: This article explores how lesbian identity construction is facilitated and constrained by the raced, classed, gendered, familial, and geographical spaces that women occupy. We present a narrative-discursive analysis of eight lesbians’ stories of sexuality, told within a historically white university in South Africa. Three interpretative repertoires that emerged in the narratives are discussed. The ‘disallowance of lesbian identity in particular racialised and class-based spaces’ repertoire, deployed by black lesbians only, was used to account for their de-emphasis of a lesbian identity through the invocation of a threat of danger and stereotyping. The ‘disjuncture of the (heterosexual) family and lesbian identity’ repertoire emphasised how the expectation of support and care within a family does not necessarily extend to acceptance of a lesbian identity.
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  • Date Issued: 2012

A quantitative post-release evaluation of biological control of water lettuce, Pistia stratiotes L. (Araceae) by the weevil Neohydronomus affinis Hustache (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) at Cape Recife Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

  • Authors: Moore, Gareth R , Hill, Martin P
  • Date: 2012
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Article
  • Identifier: vital:6839 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010987 , http://dx.doi.org/10.4001/003.020.0217 , https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0579-5298
  • Description: [from the introduction] Water lettuce, Pistia stratiotes L. (Araceae) is recognized as being among the world’s worst aquatic weeds. In its adventive range, the plant forms extensive mats capable of blocking navigation channels, impeding water flow in irrigation and flood control canals, and disrupting hydropower generation (Holm et al. 1977). Dense mats of the weed prevent light penetration into the water column which negatively affects submerged aquatic plant communities, causing a lowering of the oxygen concentration and thereby reducing benthic invertebrate and fish populations (Neuenschwander et al. 2009).
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  • Date Issued: 2012

An ion-imprinted polymer for the selective extraction of mercury(II) ions in aqueous media

  • Authors: Batlokwa, Bareki Shima , Chimuka, Luke , Tshentu, Zenixole , Cukrowska, Ewa , Torto, Nelson
  • Date: 2012
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6566 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004125
  • Description: A double-imprinted polymer exhibiting high sensitivity for mercury(II) in aqueous solution is presented. Polymer particles imprinted with mercury(II) were synthesised by copolymerising the functional and cross-linking monomers, N’–[3– (Trimethoxysilyl)–propyl]diethylenetriamine (TPET) and tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS). A double-imprinting procedure employing hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), as a second template to improve the efficiency of the polymer, was adopted. The imprinted polymer was characterised by FTIR, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and the average size determined by screen analysis using standard test sieves. Relative selective coefficients (k`) of the imprinted polymer evaluated from selective binding studies between Hg2+ and Cu2+ or Hg2+ and Cd2+ were 10 588 and 3 147, respectively. These values indicated highly-favoured Hg2+ extractions over the 2 competing ions. The results of spiked and real water samples showed high extraction efficiencies of Hg2+ ions, (over 84%) as evaluated from the detected unextracted Hg2+ ions by ICP-OES. The method exhibited a dynamic response concentration range for Hg2+ between 0.01 and 20 μg/mℓ, with a detection limit (LOD, 3σ) of 0.000036 μg/mℓ (36 ng/ℓ) that meets the monitoring requirements for the USA EPA of 2 000 ng/ℓ for Hg2+ in drinking water. Generally, the data (n=10) had percentage relative standard deviations (%RSD) of less than 4%. Satisfactory results were also obtained when the prepared sorbent was applied for the pre-concentration of Hg2+ from an aqueous certified reference material. These findings indicate that the double-imprinted polymer has potential to be used as an efficient extraction material for the selective pre–concentration of mercury(II) ions in aqueous environments.
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  • Date Issued: 2012

Anatomy of a pottery bonfiring in the Port St Johns region, Eastern Cape, South Africa

  • Authors: Steele, John
  • Date: 2012
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/1034 , vital:30232
  • Description: This paper seeks to document and contextualise the unique bonfiring methods of octogenarian potter Alice Gqa Nongebeza, who works from her homestead at Nkonxeni village in the Tombo area near Port St Johns. Her firing technique is compared with those of fellow local potters Debora Nomathamsanqa Ntloya and Nontwazana Dunjana. These three Mpondo potters, and their understudies, create ceramic utilityware and other items for a mainly local market that sometimes also appeals to collectors and tourists. Although they are aware of each other, they use their own clay sources and clayworking methods, and have evolved very different firing techniques. This paper, with reference also to potters in KwaZulu-Natal, shows that Nongebeza, in particular, has developed a rare approach to firing, and calls for the inclusion of her type of firing technique in African firing lexicons. It also calls for greater attention to sequential firing detail as practised by individual potters, in forthcoming reports that add to knowledge about zeroelectricity- usage ceramics production in southern Africa, and elsewhere.
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  • Date Issued: 2012

Changing sediment yield and sediment dynamics in the Karoo uplands, South Africa : post-European impacts

  • Authors: Foster, I D L , Rowntree, Kate M , Boardman, J , Mighall, T M
  • Date: 2012
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6684 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006683
  • Description: We provide an overview of published results and a significant body of new data from an ongoing research programme designed to reconstruct sediment yields and sources in small (<60 km2) catchments in the Eastern Cape, South Africa over the last 150 years. Our analysis of four catchments has determined that sediment yield increased significantly in the latter half of the 20th Century but that the exact timing of these increases was different in each of the four catchments. In two high altitude locations, sediment yield increases were not associated with a significant change in sediment source, although in one case areas of former cultivation appear to have made a slightly greater contribution since the 1960s. In a third catchment, increases in sediment yield appear to have been driven by the development of badlands and by an increase in connectivity between the badlands and the main channel network in the 1960s. In the fourth catchment, increased connectivity between the main catchment and dam occurred as a result of the construction of a causeway to carry a main road and by the construction of culverts beneath the road. Occasional changes in sediment source have also been identified in the sedimentary record but these were not linked directly to road construction. Research to date shows the complexity of sediment delivery in these semi-arid catchment systems and emphasises the need to combine sediment yield with source ascription in order to better understand the dynamics of these systems.
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  • Date Issued: 2012

Contrasting habitat associations of imperilled endemic stream fishes from a global biodiversity hot spot

  • Authors: Chakona, Albert , Swartz, E R
  • Date: 2012
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:7148 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011850 , http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6785/12/19
  • Description: Knowledge of the factors that drive species distributions provides a fundamental baseline for several areas of research including biogeography, phylogeography and biodiversity conservation. Data from 148 minimally disturbed sites across a large drainage system in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa were used to test the hypothesis that stream fishes have similar responses to environmental determinants of species distribution. Two complementary statistical approaches, boosted regression trees and hierarchical partitioning, were used to model the responses of four fish species to 11 environmental predictors, and to quantify the independent explanatory power of each predictor.
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  • Date Issued: 2012
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