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Nostalgia in reimagining the past: the subjectivity of memory in the representation of history. a textual analysis of Rehad Desai's documentary films

  • Authors: Dlamini, Philani Vincent
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Documentary films
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/44591 , vital:38159
  • Description: South Africa occupies a unique space in terms of the decolonization of the continent of Africa. While massive projects of decolonization where happening across the continent, South Africa was subjected to a conservative and racialised project of segregation. This arrested development makes for an interesting anachronism in South Africa as disconcerting “ThirdWorld” and “First-World” economies emerged creating an anomalous temporality. I was born just a month before the inimitable Ruth First was unceremoniously assassinated in Mozambique in 1982. While further South, one of the most underreported conflicts of apartheid South Africa was in its nascent stages no further than a kilometer away from my house. I am referring of course to the violent clashes between factions of both the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC), played in the men’s hostel of the third largest township in the country, Umlazi, South of Durban. These would only come to have meaning to me later, when I was at university. I mention these cultural and perhaps socio-political artefacts in so far as they relate to the kind of environment that lead to this research enquiry. Which is to say that as social beings, we are in fact products of the things that affect the social environment that we exist in. This is not a new idea. What is particularly interesting for this enquiry is the eclecticism of the emblems that survive to shapes one’s own identity and perception of the world around them. Within the above stated mini-biography lies a complex matrix of emotions and extrapolated meanings mediated through a conflicted and negotiated understanding of what the social history of South Africa meant for my own personal history. This paper is an attempt to think through articulations of time as they are constituted by future-orientated subjectivities extending back to varied pasts. It does so by exploring a recent work of black South African self-writing, Jacob Dlamini’s Native Nostalgia (2009). Considering the text’s treatment of time, I argue that porous conceptions of temporality open up possibilities for self-enunciation. What Paul Gilroy has described as “the signs of sameness” (2000, 101). Meaning that these could be quantified and as such researchable and in fact applied across various cultural texts (including but not limited to film). The body of work from South African documentary filmmaker Rehad Desai provides an interesting case study to examine Jacob Dlamini’s thematic pre-occupations with nostalgia. Nostalgia here is used to see if such pre-occupations can be applied to a filmic body of work. Desai’s body of work is interesting to this enquiry because it almost exclusively deals with the temporalities of South Africa as “refracted through the prism of the past”. By this I mean Desai through his work appears to reflect on South Africa’s storied past as it affects current happenings. It is the intention of this paper to argue that Desai deals with his subject (the evolution of the South African political landscape) in similar terms to the way Jacob Dlamini explores the notion of reflective nostalgia.
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Oral narratives as intertexts in selected Nigerian films

  • Authors: Usman, Joshua
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Folk literature -- Nigeria , Oral tradition -- Nigeria Motion pictures -- Nigeria
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , DPhil
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/43721 , vital:37038
  • Description: This research into the interface between orality and Nigerian film builds on previous scholarly works in the field (Ladebo (1992), Onabajo and M’Bayo (2009), Omolola (2013), Ezeigbo (2013), Mgbemere (2015) and Onzuike (2016)). Evident from these studies is the prevalence of recurring patterns of oral narratives in Nigerian film. The aim of this study is to consider the following research questions: Do film producers/directors adopt the use of oral narratives in Nigerian film texts? How do oral narratives translate into films? What is the rate of recurrence of oral narratives in Nigerian films? Do oral narratives aesthetically influence the quality of Nigerian films? For the purpose of this study a selection of nine Nigerian films (three each from the Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo groups). These films are analysed as primary texts to show the occurrence of elements of orature and oral narratives. Underpinning such analysis is the theory of intertextuality as coined by the French linguist Julia Kristeva. Kristeva sees the text as “intertextuality […] within the text of society and history” (Kristeva, 1980: 37). This approach is augmented by the views of Greenblatt on New Historicism, which implies literature should be studied and interpreted within the context of the history of the author and cultural/social context. The nine films under discussion are considered within their cultural/social context.
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Re-imagining the Animal in J.M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals

  • Authors: Wattam, Mcleod Amy
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Animal rights -- Philosophy , Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/45781 , vital:38963
  • Description: .M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals (1999) is a literary representation of, and intervention into, human-animal relations. It is an experimental literary destabilisation of the generic boundaries that underlie the systematic (mis)representation and (mis)treatment of nonhuman animals, specifically their mass commodification in contemporary societies. The text provides a critique and negotiation of anthropocentric reason and its ramifications for nonhuman animals. This study focuses on how Coetzee’s narrative problematises dominant discourses through questioning their authority and offering alternatives to anthropocentric conceptions of the animal that are based upon reason-centred and dualistic thought. The duality of human versus animal is explored alongside other dualities deconstructed in the text, such as fiction versus nonfiction, and philosophy versus literature. Coetzee’s representation of these constructs and their interconnectedness is investigated, specifically with regards to positively developing human-animal relations. Through exploring what Coetzee calls the ‘sympathetic imagination’, his alternative contribution to the field of human-animal relations will be considered. This study focuses on the space for re-imagination that Coetzee has provided with The Lives of Animals. It highlights the role literature can and ought to play in this re-imagination, and why this re-imagination is necessary for the development of human-animal relations. Posthumanism will be used as a theoretical lens throughout, as it appears to resonate closely with Coetzee’s project. Both the form and the content of the text will be analysed, highlighting their interconnected significance in Coetzee’s project and the continued relevance of interventions such as this.
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Resistance: revealing and exposing the constructions of societal control

  • Authors: Vaghmaria, Nishil Rishik
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Research , Aesthetics Artists -- South Africa -- Exhibitions
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/43710 , vital:37035
  • Description: This practice based visual arts investigation was triggered by the researcher’s social understandings and personal concern about societal control on the individual, and his resistance to the negative effects of consumerism and capitalism. Through this research project he aims to reveal and expose the workings of those systems of control visually. He pays particular attention to our current global, cultural and socio-political, economic order and the limitations that are imposed on the individual in terms of freedom of choice and expression, and through both the written work and the practical work he aims to influence a revolution of the mind and to encourage critical consciousness and awareness on the part of its audience regarding how individuals are manipulated, distracted and seduced into conformity. As an outcome of his research, and of his intention to act as an agent for socially aware creative practice, he presents a tentative framework for the use of emerging, socially conscious artists and educators. The practical component of this study is focused around the creation and display of graffiti-influenced images in both public and gallery spaces. The researcher makes extensive use of the SI’s subversive artistic technique of Détournement as he engages with the notion of ‘distraction’. This project, with its dual focus on text and on the creation of artworks in both public and gallery spaces, is intended as a contribution to the search for new critical understandings and diagnostic terminologies around social control.
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Role of councillors in the roll-out of the national development plan: the case of Chris Hani District Municipality

  • Authors: Fololo, Ncumisa Kanyisa
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Political leadership -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Municipal officials and employees -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Local government -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/42129 , vital:36628
  • Description: The study wants to establish the level of awareness of councillors of their role and responsibility in the National Development Plan as public representatives who are required to provide sustainable ways to meet the socio-economic needs of communities and improve the quality of life. The interest was triggered by the fact that even though the National Development Plan is a national document but its implementation and success will be gauged through the improved lives of community that are led by councillors. All the envisaged programmes and activities that are reflected in the NDP will be implemented in the municipal areas hence councillors as community leaders should be the champions of such. Their contribution as public representatives in the implementation of the NDP is vital and key. The study adopted a case study design that assisted in establishing what is required from councillors in the implementation of the NDP as they plan for communities and municipal officials as a supporting and implementing arm of the council. Qualitative and quantitative data collection instruments were used to collect data. Data collection tools used to obtain information from the councillors and municipal officials were written self-administered questionnaires for councillors and face to face interviews for municipal officials. For councillors the study reflected on their lack in carrying their fiduciary duties in providing leadership and guidance through proper planning and oversight. They have to a certain degree viewed the NDP as political document rather than a government planning framework tool. For municipal officials, the study highlighted their lack of ownership of the NDP which they view it as a separate document rather than considering that the national developed the National Spatial Development Perspective, Provinces, the Provincial Development and Growth Strategies and local government had to develop their Integrated Development Plans and all those were the strategic planning documents to drive development forward, however without having a long term vision which is called by many countries, National Development Plan to provide framework for all these documents. Subsequently, the study made a set of recommendations in this regard.
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Structural violence on economically independent women aged between 30 and 50 years in Nairobi

  • Authors: Ndungu, Shelmith
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Women -- Violence against -- Kenya -- Nairobi , Sex role -- Kenya -- Nairobi Social role -- Kenya -- Nairobi Women -- Economic conditions Women and socialism
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MPhil
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/42891 , vital:36703
  • Description: The reasons patriarchal structural violence on economically independent women continues to happen are not fully understood. Most studies have been focused on socio-economic factors that influence women to stay in abusive relationships and the interventions that address these factors. However, the problem goes beyond economic ability. This study aimed to provide insight which can serve as the basis for remedial action and ultimately the development of an international standard prohibiting women’s abuse and domestic violence in families. The study focused on two key objectives; the role of culture and patriarchy in maintaining structural violence. The study aimed to investigate how these variables influence women’s decision to continue staying in abusive relationships. The target population was people working in non-governmental organisations which deal with domestic violence survivors in Nairobi, Kenya. A sample of 12 respondents was utilised in a qualitative study. The study employed qualitative interviews whose data were thematically analysed. Results indicate that gender based violence can start early in the relationship sometimes even during courtship. What changes over time is the severity of the violence. The main type of abuse experienced by the women visiting the sampled centres was physical abuse. The main reason given for staying in an abusive relationship is the fear that their children would be abused if left with the abusive partner. Societal norms also emerged as a barrier for women in abusive relationships. The study recommends creation of awareness in the general population on how to identify gender-based violence for the purpose of intervention.
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The aesthetic manifestations of nothingness in contemporary visual arts practice

  • Authors: Munnick, Robyn Therése
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Art -- Research
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/41625 , vital:36546
  • Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the notion of nothingness and how it [nothingness] is the conceptual and theoretical foundation for my practice. Furthermore, within this study I explicate how my art uses my mother’s battle with cancer and the subsequent void it created in me as source material for the artistic expression of nothingness. The diagnosis which followed by a physical and emotional absence of the matriarch of my family, led to an emotional trauma that triggered a feeling of nothingness within me. The overarching problem in the study is therefore how this nothingness could be expressed in my art. Nothingness, as a product of expectation, is a notion which refers to where something used to be, should be or is not anymore, and attempts to grasp what is there by not being there. In attempting to express nothingness, the research aimed to build on an exploration of the various materials and modes utilized in order to underpin the research objectives. The primary mode of delivery for my art-making process is painting. However, through strengthening the messages and meaning of the hypothesis of nothingness within my art and research, the use of further modes and materials became pivotal. This involved the use of unconventional contrasting modes within painting such as the cloth doily, thread, tubing, ceramics, food colour, spray paint, PVA, plaster, wooden boxes and fragments thereof. These materials and modes were vital in visualising and aestheticising the conceptual underpinnings of the research. As a result, this strengthened and emancipated my art from the traditional bounds of pure painting. Methods of data gathering took the form of artefacts, document analysis and field notes in the form of photographic journaling. Ultimately my body of work and research validates that the idea of nothingness can be artistically explored.
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The aesthetic manifestations of nothingness in contemporary visual arts practice

  • Authors: Munnick, Robyn Therése
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Art, Modern -- 21st century , Aesthetics , Visual perception , Art -- Philosophy
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MTech
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/41636 , vital:36550
  • Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the notion of nothingness and how it [nothingness] is the conceptual and theoretical foundation for my practice. Furthermore, within this study I explicate how my art uses my mother’s battle with cancer and the subsequent void it created in me as source material for the artistic expression of nothingness. The diagnosis which followed by a physical and emotional absence of the matriarch of my family, led to an emotional trauma that triggered a feeling of nothingness within me. The overarching problem in the study is therefore how this nothingness could be expressed in my art. Nothingness, as a product of expectation, is a notion which refers to where something used to be, should be or is not anymore, and attempts to grasp what is there by not being there. In attempting to express nothingness, the research aimed to build on an exploration of the various materials and modes utilized in order to underpin the research objectives. The primary mode of delivery for my art-making process is painting. However, through strengthening the messages and meaning of the hypothesis of nothingness within my art and research, the use of further modes and materials became pivotal. This involved the use of unconventional contrasting modes within painting such as the cloth doily, thread, tubing, ceramics, food colour, spray paint, PVA, plaster, wooden boxes and fragments thereof. These materials and modes were vital in visualising and aestheticising the conceptual underpinnings of the research. As a result, this strengthened and emancipated my art from the traditional bounds of pure painting. Methods of data gathering took the form of artefacts, document analysis and field notes in the form of photographic journaling. Ultimately my body of work and research validates that the idea of nothingness can be artistically explored.
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The challenges facing small, medium and microsize enterprise in public procurement: a case of Sundays River Valley Municipality

  • Authors: Mkele, Makhaya Nelson
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Government purchasing -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Government purchasing -- Case studies Small business -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Small business -- Research -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/40017 , vital:35675
  • Description: The purpose of this study is to investigate challenges facing Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in order to improve the participation of SMMEs in public procurement processes within category B municipalities. A Total Quality Management approach was used to interpret the manner in which to install change within a selection of supplier procedures. The study employed desktop analysis to explain and describe the challenges SMMEs are facing in public procurement in the Sundays River Valley Municipality. Based on the discussions of the participation of SMMEs in public procurement, the challenges which exist within a centralised approach of public procurement were discovered. The findings of the study revealed that SMMEs are challenged by the lack of entrepreneurial coaching by local government, low demand for the commodities, lack of experience, skills and knowledge, limited access to debt finance, poor marketing skills, poor managerial and lack of planning skills, gaps in implementation of preference point system, poor management of core strategies of the preferential system, gaps in implementation of preference point system, poor management of the tender system, improper integration of central supplier database, globalisation and the impact of e-procurement on local government level. Subsequently, the study made recommendations in this regard.
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The contribution of tourism in local economic development: the case of Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality

  • Authors: Tshobeni, Yolanda
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Local government -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Economic development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Tourism -- South Africa -- Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality Tourism -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/43732 , vital:37039
  • Description: The primary aim of the study was to analyse the contribution of tourism to Local economic development in BCMM. Tourism is one of the most important sectors of the economy and an extremely lucrative business. The industry is growing and carries great potential of contributing to a country and/or local areas’ economy and development. What motivated the study is that there are no published studies on the contribution of tourism to LED in BCMM. Therefore, is a lack of information on the importance of tourism activities on promoting the local communities’ economies and social well-being by helping to reduce poverty. Even though, the municipality gives some information on activities that are being done by the municipality to work with the local communities that have tourist attraction hubs, the information does not delve into economic issues that are needed to ensure that there is promotion of development in areas that are around the tourist attraction hubs. The study was qualitative and it used secondary data to achieve its objectives. Data was sourced from journals, municipal documents, newspapers and many other secondary sources. Results showed that tourism in BCCM has led to economic development in that there are quite a number of attractions and tourism products in the city i.e. museums, theatres, beautiful beaches, conference, restaurants, and accommodation facilities, and this is where job opportunities are created. The tourism sector is one of the key areas with great potential for poverty alleviation and has been taken as a key portfolio to be appropriately monitored to foster its growth and development in the Buffalo City Metropolitan.
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The design of a building linking central and the Baakens river mouth

  • Authors: De Klerk, Paul
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Architecture -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- 21st century , Urban renewal -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth , Architecture -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MArch
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/43138 , vital:36746
  • Description: This treatsie focuses around the reationship of the Baakens Valley and the historical core and their respective declined states that has been affected through shifts in urban development and urban sprawl. Urban centres are moving away from the core decentralizing activity affecting the central areas allowing people-orientated environments to decline as an outcome of urbanism. Settlement expansion was forced along the coast due to topography Decentralised city growth with urban sprawl far from the historical core. New centres developed within residential realms detracted from people returning to the historical core Increased major arterial routes diminished density through vehicular orientated living spaces vs the density of the historical core orientated to the pedestian and mixed use activity City centre deteriorated due to Urban expansion and activity centres leaving the CBD resulting in a dilapidated city core.
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The design of a learning resource centre in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth

  • Authors: Henderson, Lauren
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: School buildings -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Designs and plans , Elementary school buildings -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- Design and construction School buildings -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth Architecture -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth -- 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MArch
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/42705 , vital:36683
  • Description: Streets and sidewalks should be seen as public spaces within themselves (Flositz, 2010,iii) this thought triggered an interest in public spaces and what they offer the users and community in which they are placed. This research will examine not only the impacts of the colonialist regime’s planning on Port Elizabeth, but more specifically the segregation and planning of public spaces affecting New Brighton, a predominantly “Black” suburb along the periphery of the city that came to be as a result of forced removals from the city centre (Pettman, 1913: 298). The main argument being carried through this treatise is the significant role that public spaces play in the lives of the urban poor (Dewar & Uytenbogaardt, 1995: 10) especially looking at South Africa and the impact apartheid had on public spaces. It looks at the potential and the ability of the design of public architecture to develop community spaces for all that contributes to a sense of place and pride for the community of New Brighton, Port Elizabeth. This treatise uses the understandings and information gathered throughout the research conducted to develop a suitable design response that generated a significant educational community hub inclusive of a Learning Resource Centre. It will strengthen not only the connection between the various users (races, religions, genders or ages) but also the current segregated and isolated schools within New Brighton’s community. The intention was to bridge not only street and building together but also school and community as a cohesive environment that works together to create a unique experience, exclusive to that area impacted by the context and community in which it sits. Ideas of public space, the in-between and Montessori’s schooling together with the notions of place-making is what ultimately influenced many of the design decisions and the authors theoretical stance. Looking at streets as more than just movement routes or thoroughfares from point A to point B, we can see them as places within a space, where one can experience the world that moves around them. Ultimately the design developed as a response to the identified issues and challenges and created a facility that not only meets the need of the under-resourced secondary schools in New Brighton but also contributes to the development of the public realm of those schools.
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The design of an office headquarters for SAMSUNG in the foreshore, Cape Town

  • Authors: Wiese, Andre
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Office buildings -- South Africa -- Cape Town , Office layout -- South Africa -- Cape Town Office buildings -- Design and construction Office buildings -- Planning
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MArch
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/40413 , vital:36159
  • Description: This treatise developed through an interest in 21st century office buildings and most particularly, their impact on productivity, employee wellness and corporate culture. The conventional office of the mid-20th century disregarded employee health and well-being and was geared toward increasing productivity and production. The retrofitting of these buildings is very costly, and it is almost impossible to ensure compliance with modern-day environmental and efficiency standards to ultimately create a good office environment conducive to productivity and employee well-being. The nature of office has shifted to a more collaborative, socially interactive, open and flexible working environment because of the mobility technology offers the workplace. The current office building typology is concerned with the health and well-being of employees, active design, sustainability and environmental awareness. The treatise takes a qualitative research approach that is exploratory in nature and through careful analysis and interpretation, site constraints and informants are identified that inform the design of an office headquarters for Samsung. Pure research is based on the readings of Richard Sennett, Jane Jacobs, Stephen Kellert and Judith Heerwagen. An understanding is developed around factors that positively impact employee health and well-being in the workplace. Research determines that social interaction, human nature connectivity and the designed environment significantly impact the health and well-being of office user. Social interaction is scalable from the urban network to internal workspaces and is essential to create a seamless connection between the office environment and immediate urban context to stimulate serendipitous moments of interaction. The design of a Samsung Headquarters in Foreshore Cape Town uses Building Information Management (BIM) among other strategies to respond to its immediate environmental conditions and to create an environment conducive to the health and well-being of the office user and effectively increase productivity. The design is situated along a prominent pedestrian corridor that connects the CBD to the waterfront.
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The implementation of performance management systems: Chris Hani District Municipality

  • Authors: Zazi, Luzuko
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Performance -- Management -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Chris Hani District Municipality , Employees -- Rating of -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Chris Hani District Municipality Municipal government -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Chris Hani District Municipality
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MPA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/44301 , vital:37150
  • Description: This study stemmed from the researcher’s observations about the seemingly ‘obvious’ under performance of the Chris Hani District Municipality and the Lukhanji Local Municipality. As a resident of Komani – under the now Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality, the researcher noticed the rampant water cuts and electric power outages, among other issues, experienced in the district; and sort to understand the underlying causes to these. To understand the root-cause, this study aimed to describe the implementation of performance management systems within the Chris Hani District Municipality; neglecting the Lukhanji Local Municipality as it was in the process of amalgamation to form the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality. The process was finalised in August 2017, proving the municipality ‘too new’ to study. As a descriptive, qualitative study following the constructivist paradigm, focus was placed on the role senior management plays in the performance management processes, with six operational staff’s perceptions about this process interrogated through a focus group. As custodians and drivers of quality service delivery, five directors and senior managers were interviewed through semi-structured interviews to gather thick, descriptive narratives about the process. The study found performance management was implemented at management level only, with ‘loose’ performance arrangements between supervisors and subordinates. This made it difficult to manage performance or account for poor performance as there are not strict, contractual targets. At management level, critical issues found included poor performance information collection, management not owning their respective targets on their portfolios of evidence, non-alignment of targets with the Integrated Development Plan, and Council not holding persons responsible for irregular expenditure accountable - as no investigations were done in order to recover the monies. This, the Auditor General says promotes a general culture of unaccountability; thus, confirming the researcher’s observations and identifying the root-cause. Recommendations included a ‘back-to-basics’ philosophical approach to municipal governance. These included an adoption of a comprehensive performance management policy; management empowerment in the collection and use of performance information; a change in organisational culture from both side of the political-administrative dichotomy; and an introduction of a community-based monitoring mechanism supplemented with a non-partisan voter education initiative. Furthermore, the strengthening of intergovernmental relations was recommended insofar as this pertains to the delivering of basics services and infrastructure, developing the local economy, and improving the quality of life within the district.
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The living and learning experiences of Nelson Mandela University students residing in off-campus residence accommodation

  • Authors: Mzileni, Pedro Mihlali
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Student housing -- South Africa -- Port Elizabeth , Learning Learning, Psychology of Motivation in education
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/41697 , vital:36573
  • Description: This research study investigated the living and learning experiences of Nelson Mandela University students who reside in off-campus student accommodation. The university is located in the suburb of Summerstrand in the city of Port Elizabeth (PE) and it is one of the large universities in South Africa with a student population of 27 311 students by 2017. With only 3285 beds in its on-campus residence system, the university can only cater for 12% of students on site. The rest of the student population, which is the majority, resides in offcampus residences and private accommodation. The off-campus accommodation system of the university consists of accredited and nonaccredited off-campus residences. The non-accredited residences are privately owned houses that are based in the upper-income area of Summerstrand whilst the accredited residences are big properties that are also privately owned but are administratively managed by the university and they are based in the low-income area of North End. The study used Tinto’s Theory of Student Integration to frame the investigation and it found that PE resembles elements of an apartheid city that is divided along class and gender patterns. This spatial structure of the city affects the governance and administrative systems of the university, such as commuting, and they affect the materiality of student’s learning experiences. This criticality brings a different understanding of ‘studentification’ when it occurs in a developing country’s context wherein the different demographics of students shape how it becomes visible in a university city that is engulfed which socio-political problems of violence and crime. This brings diverse traditions of studying higher education in a post-apartheid setting where student accommodation is viewed as a need emanating from student vulnerability within the context of enrolment massifications, infrastructure limitations, and the privatization of living structures.
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The management of conflict between employees: a case study of an information technology company in Johannesburg

  • Authors: Monakali, Robin
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Conflict management -- South Africa -- Johannesburg , Conflict management -- Case studies Interpersonal relations Personnel management -- Psychological aspects Management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/41997 , vital:36616
  • Description: The global working environment has transformed significantly over the last two decades, with rapid advancements in technology and information as well as the levels of diversity in the workplace. This process of adaptation, the failure to adapt or weaknesses in adaptation can be an underlying cause of conflict within organizations. For an organization to be successful, there must be effective conflict management techniques in place in order to resolve or keep the conflict at a minimum. The aim of this exploratory case study was to therefore explore the management of conflict between employees in an Information Technology company in Johannesburg. The human needs theory, which states that the deprivation of human needs is a major source of conflict, was used as the theoretical framework guiding this study. A mixed methods approach, also known as methodological triangulation, was used, which involved combining qualitative and quantitative research methods in order to achieve triangulation of data. The qualitative research method that was used comprised individual semi-structured interviews with two Human Resources managers and the quantitative research method involved the completion of self-administered questionnaires by 94 employees of the IT company. The researcher used a purposive sampling design for the interviews and simple random sampling for the questionnaires. Ethics permission for this research was received from Nelson Mandela University’s Research Ethics Committee and the study was conducted in accordance with the university’s Policy on Research Ethics. The findings of this study have revealed that the type of conflict mainly experienced in this organization was employee conflict, due to interpersonal clashes relating to personality differences. The employees were unanimous that conflict can have both a positive and negative effect. The interviews confirmed that the IT company makes use of negotiation and mediation to resolve workplace conflict, with the literature review providing evidence that negotiation and mediation are useful means of managing conflict between employees. However, the results from the completed questionnaires revealed that employees attempt to manage conflict by avoiding the conflict, which could be due to employees having limited awareness of the organization’s procedures to address conflict. This study can therefore potentially be beneficial to organizations and assist the latter in developing conflict management skills and practices, which can enhance organizational performance, productivity and employee retention.
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Uhlalutyo-nzulu kusetyenziso lolwimi kwiincwadi ezikhethiweyo

  • Authors: Mnwana-Qutywa, Noluyolo Beatrice
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Xhosa language -- Grammar , Xhosa language -- Research Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) Computational linguistics
  • Language: Isixhosa
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/41986 , vital:36615
  • Description: Olu phando lujolise ekubetheleleni ingcamango yokuba ulwazi lwegrama yolwimi nobunjojeli kulwimi ngokubanzi kubalulekile kakhulu ekuphuculeni isakhono sokuthetha ulwimi ngokukuko nokulubhala ngokusemgangathweni. Kukho ingxaki nesihlava esiye sisendela sokungasetyenziswa ngokukuko kolwimi nkqu nangababhali boncwadi, nto leyo edala inkxalabo kuba ukuphela nokuphanza kolwimi kukuphela kwesizwe. Xa kuthethwa ngetekisi kuthethwa ngentsingiselo yayo, ntsingiselo leyo idula ngokuhlalutywa, kunikwe ingqwalasela emandla kwiintsingiselo eziziswa ngamagama ngokwendlela asetyenziswe ngayo. Kuyinto eyaziwayo ukuba igama, alaneli nje ukunika intsingiselo njengoko lisetyenzisiwe entethweni koko nendawo elimi kuyo ngokokuma kwamagama kwintetho okanye kwisivakalisi kunegalelo elinzulu ekuphuhliseni oko kujoliswe kuko ngokwentetho leyo, nokuba iyintetho yomlomo okanye ebhaliweyo. Xa kuchazwa ubuni bolwimi njengesixhobo sonxibelelwano ayinakusingelwa phantsi injongo yokusetyenziswa kwalo. Yiva xa ezi ngcali zigalela ngelithi: “Language offers a window into cognitive function, providing insights into the nature, structure and organisation of thoughts and ideas”. Ngokwalo mhlomlo wezi ngcali ungentla kucaca cace ukubaluleka kolwimi njengesixhobo sokunxibelelana nokusingqongileyo kanti nokuvakalisa iingcamango nezimvo. Ikakhulu ababhali xa bebhala iincwadi zabo kusoloko kukho udaba abanqwenela ukwabelana ngalo nabanye abantu. Olo nxibelelwano luphuhliseka ngakumbi xa ubani enolwazi olunzulu lolwimi. Kolu phando, kuza kuqanyelwa ngesiThako sobuNzululwazi beNgxoxo-Buciko (Critical Discourse Analysis) kuba sona sibethelela ukuhlalutywa kucubungulwe indlela ulwimi olusetyenziswe ngayo kwiitekisi ezibhaliweyo kanti nakwintetho yomlomo, kwaye sikwaphanda nzulu ngeenjongo zokusetyenziswa kolwimi.
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Uphandonzulu malunga nokutyeshelwa kokufundiswa kolwimi lwesixhosa kwizikolo ezazibizwa model C

  • Authors: Notuku, Liza
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Xhosa language -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- South Africa , Xhosa language -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Multicultural education -- South Africa Native language and education -- South Africa
  • Language: Isixhosa
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/42803 , vital:36693
  • Description: Olu phando lusekelezelwe ukubuyisela inkcubeko yabaNtsundu esele bephulukene nayo ngenxa yokulandela iilwimi zaseNtshona. Ngokwenkcubeko yeMveli kubalulekile ukuba umntu azazi izithethe, amasiko nenkcubeko yakhe ngobubanzi. Ukuzazi kuya kumnceda umntu asinde kwimikhuba nemikhwa ebonwa komabonakude neviwa koonomathotholo imihla nezolo. Kolu phando ulwimi lusetyenziswa njengesixhobo sokunqanda ukwehla komgangatho womntu oMnyama phakathi kwezinye iintlanga ngenxa yokungahoywa kolwimi lwesiXhosa. Uphando luthwele inkuthazo yokufakwa kolwimi lwesiXhosa kwikharityhulam yokufunda nokufundisa kwizikolo ezikumbindi wedolophu. Intsusamabandla yolu phando kukubona indlela abafundi abaMnyama abafunda kwizikolo ezazibizwa ngooModel C abalahlekelwa ngalo lulwimi lwabo lweenkobe ngenxa yokutyeshelwa kwalo. Lukwabonisa abazali babantwana ubungozi bokufunda ngolwimi olongezelelweyo, lwimi olo lwenza abantwana bangaphuhli ngokupheleleyo njengoko besenza abantwana abafunda ngolwimi lwabo lweenkobe. Ubungozi ngokufunda ngolwimi lo mnye umntu kukuba abantwana abazuzi izakhono ngokulinganayo kuba lo ungafundi ngolwimi lwakhe uya sokola, aphele engaphantsi ngokomgangatho kulo ufunda ngolwimi lwakhe lweenkobe. Uphando olu lukwasisilumkiso nangendlela olulahleka ngalo ulwimi lude lube kanti luya phela ngenxa yokunyevulelwa kwangabo aba balo. Loo nto ibenza baphulukane kwanezinto esele benazo basale bezimpula zikalujacu. Olu xwebhu luyinkuthazo kumzi wonke wakwaXhosa ukuba kucingwe nzulu nangokutsha ngokusetyenziswa kolwimi lwabo ukuze ukwazi ukuthatha inxaxheba kubutyebi beli lizwe. Lo msebenzi ndiwunikela kuni mzi wakwaXhosa ngethemba lokuba nakukhe nizirhabulele kulo vimba uzele yingqaka nibuye niwonwabele.
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Uphicotho nzulu lobunzululwazi bolwimi olusetyenziswa kwimiyalezo emifutshane yesiXhosa sisini esahlukeneyo

  • Authors: Gwavu-Peter, Yoliswa Ruby
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Xhosa language -- Grammar , Applied linguistics , Sociolinguistics , Linguistic change -- Social aspects
  • Language: Isixhosa
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/39653 , vital:35343
  • Description: Olu phando luza kuthi lubeke umnwe kwindlela ulwimi negrama ezithi zisetyenziswe ngayo kumakhasi onxibelelwano zizini ezahlukileyo. Imiyalezo emifutshane iye yathatha unyawo kule mihla sikuyo. Ukanti kukho nokugxekwa kwayo ngenxa yokuba inempembelelo kuphanzo lolwimi. Olunye uphando olwenziweyo luyaphikisana nale mbono njengokuba lungqina ukuba itextism* ayonakalisi lwazi lwamntu kulwimi. Umahluko ophawulekayo kwimiyalezo ethunyelwa ngamadoda nabafazi awukabonakali uphandiwe esiXhoseni, nto leyo ethe yakhuthaza umphandi ukuba akhe avule indlela. Olu phando lujolise ekuphononongeni igrama yesiXhosa kwimiyalezo emifutshane ethunyelwa zizini ezahlukeneyo. Abathathi nxaxheba kolu phando bayikhethe ngokwabo imiyalezo eza kuthi isetyenziswe kolu phando. Uhlalutyo luza kuthi lujonge ikhophasi engangemiyalezo elikhulu linamashumi mahlanu (150) ethunyelwe ngabathathi nxaxheba abangamashumi amahlanu anesihlanu (55), amadoda angamashumi amabini anesihlanu (25) kunye namabhinqa angamashumi amathathu (30). Abantu abanikezele ngemiyalezo baza kunikwa uxwebhu oluchaza ngeenjongo zolu phando nesizathu sokusebenzisa imiyalezo emifutshane njengomsimelelo wolu phando. Kuza kufuneka batyikitye noxwebhu lwesivumelwano. Yonke le miyalezo ivela kubantu abathetha isiXhosa njengolwimi lwasekhaya. Iminyaka yabantu abanikele ngemiyalezo yabo ngokukhululekileyo iphakathi kwama-25 kunye nama-48. Isizathu sokuba amabhinqa ibe ngawona maninzi anikezele ngemiyalezo kunamadoda sesokuba amadoda ebemadolwa-nzima ukunikezela ngemiyalezo yawo kunamabhinqa. Injongo ibikukufumana amanani alinganayo kwisini ngasinye. Olu phando luza kuthi luthathe indlela yentyila-lwazi njengoko kuza kuthi kuhlalutywe, kucakacwe kuchazwe le miyalezo ikhethelwe uphando. Umphandi uza kuthi asebenzise ingcingane yobunzululwazi yolwimi yoluntu (sociolinguistics*) njengengundoqo kolu phando ze ezinye iingcingane ezifana nefonoloji, isintaksi kunye netextism zisetyenziswe ukuxhasa le ingundoqo.
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Uphononongo lwesimo sabalinganiswa kujongwe izenzo, iimpawu nemikhwa eyandulela nelandela ukubulala kwiincwadi ezikhethiweyo zesiXhosa

  • Authors: Hempe, Zoleka Faith
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Xhosa drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
  • Language: Xhosa
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , DLitt
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/30777 , vital:31129
  • Description: Olu phando luzondelele ukwenza umqela obonakalayo ekuhliseni inani lokubulawa nokuzibulala kwabantu ngokuthi luphengulule iimpawu ezibonakala phambi nasemva kokuzibandakanye nesi senzo. Olu gocagoco lweempawu luza kumncedisa umphandi aqaphele okuqhubeka engqondweni yombulali. Uphando luza kubuye lucebise okunokwenziwa ngabantu xa luthe lwaziqaphela ezi mpawu. Iimeko ezingqonge ababulali ziza kujongwa ngeliso elibukhali ukuba azinafuthe na kwiimeko ezityhalela ababulali kwizenzo zokukhupha imiphefumlo. Isahluko sokuqala yimbulambethe eyintsika yolu phando nezakuthi inike isikhokelo ngendlela oluza kuhamba ngayo uphando, luxovula uluncwadi kwaneendlela ezahlukileyo zophando eziza kusetyenziswa.Amagama angundoqo aza kusetyenziswa kolu phando aza kucaciswa. Isahluko sesibini simalunga neengcingane oluza kwayama ngazo olu phando. Eyonangcingane inkqenkqeza phambili kolu phando yingcigane yobume bengqondo nazakuthi umphandi ayicacise nzulu ukuze akhangele indlela ebachaphazela ngayo ababulali. Le ngcingane imalunga nendlela ingqondo yomntu echaphazeleka ngayo kokumngqongileyo kwaye ikwanikezela neendlela zokuyinyanga. Lolu lwazi ke umphandi aza kulusebenzisa ukuhlalutya imeko yombulali ngamnye kwiincwadi ezichongelwe uhlalutyo. Akhona namanye amangenelela eengcingane athe acaciswa kwesi sahluko nazakuthi umphandi awaqwabulule kwisahluko sesithathu nesesineindlela ayamana ngawo nezenzo zababulali. Kwisahluko sesithathu umphandi uza kuphengulula iimpawu ezibonakala kubabulali abakwiincwadi ezichongiweyo. Isahluko sesine sona ziza kujonga iindidi neendlela zokubulala kuze kucatshulwe kwiincwadi ezichongiweyo siphinde siqaphele nezizathu ezityhilizela ababulali kwezi zenzo zokukhupha imiphefumlo. Isahluko sesihlanu sona siza kubhenca okufunyaniswe luphando size sinike neengcebiso ezinokwenziwa ukunciphisa inanilabantu abakhupha imiphefumlo.
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