Diagram of a part of the cancelled loan farm Assegaai Bush situated in that part of the disctrict of Uitenhage called Albany
- Authors: Barket, Edward
- Date: 1816
- Subjects: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Maps Maps , Assegaai Bush (Farm) -- Cape of Good Hope (Colony) -- Maps Maps , Albany (South Africa) Maps
- Type: cartographic , map
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/56783 , vital:26823 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa MP467 , MP467
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- Date Issued: 1816
Moffat, Mary (1795-1871)
- Authors: Barnard, S B
- Subjects: Moffat, Mary , Smith, Mary
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/18177 , vital:22332 , PIC/M 287 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Portrait of Mary Moffat (born Smith), wife of Scottish missionary to Africa, Robert Moffat (1795-1883).
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Head and shoulders portrait of R J Painter of Fort Beaufort
- Authors: Barnard, S B
- Subjects: Painter family -- Photographs , Painter, R J -- Photographs
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/22049 , vital:22993 , PIC/M 32 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Set of photographs - Head and shoulders portrait of R J Painter of Fort Beaufort and full-length portraits of 4 grandsons including Frank Ellis aged 16 months (1883), 3 of them wearing sailor suits. Photos taken between 1865 and 1888.
- Full Text: false
The Edgar Demonstration
- Authors: Barnett and Company
- Date: 1898
- Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Causes -- Photographs , Witwatersrand (South Africa) -- History , Edgar, Tom
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/20140 , vital:22822 , PIC/M 261 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: In December 1898 Transvaal police shot an Uitlander called Tom Edgar. The officer responsible said that it was in self-defence, but the Uitlander community reacted as if it was a political incident. This made the franchise issue an important factor in the outbreak of the war because political tension between Boers and British subjects in the Transvaal became worse. The death of Tom Edgar, an Uitlander working in the Transvaal, in 1898, signalled another definite lurch towards war. Edgar was shot by Zarps (a colloquialism for the South African police) after a drunken brawl, in seemingly cold blood (at least this was how it was portrayed at the time, although evidence suggests that he was trying to attack the policemen at the time of death). This prompted a demonstration by some five thousand Uitlanders to assert their rights as British subjects after having been treated "like Helots", and then with their leaders arrested, launched another demonstration.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1898
The Edgar Demonstration
- Authors: Barnett and Company
- Date: 1898
- Subjects: South African War, 1899-1902 -- Causes -- Photographs , Witwatersrand (South Africa) -- History , Edgar, Tom
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/20109 , vital:22817 , PIC/M 260 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: In December 1898 Transvaal police shot an Uitlander called Tom Edgar. The officer responsible said that it was in self-defence, but the Uitlander community reacted as if it was a political incident. This made the franchise issue an important factor in the outbreak of the war because political tension between Boers and British subjects in the Transvaal became worse. The death of Tom Edgar, an Uitlander working in the Transvaal, in 1898, signalled another definite lurch towards war. Edgar was shot by Zarps (a colloquialism for the South African police) after a drunken brawl, in seemingly cold blood (at least this was how it was portrayed at the time, although evidence suggests that he was trying to attack the policemen at the time of death). This prompted a demonstration by some five thousand Uitlanders to assert their rights as British subjects after having been treated "like Helots", and then with their leaders arrested, launched another demonstration.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1898
Laying of the foundation stone of the chancel of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George on 29 January 1890
- Authors: Barraud Brothers
- Date: 1890
- Subjects: Grahamstown, South Africa , St Michael and St George's Cathedral -- Grahamstown , Loch, Henry Brougham -- 1827-1900 , Hepburn, F W
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13953 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019930
- Description: View from the north side of Church Square showing the laying of the foundation stone of the chancel of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George by the Governor, Sir Henry Loch, on 29 January 1890. The camera of F. W. Hepburn is visible in the upper left window of 'T.H. Parker', a stone building in the background. , Donated by Martin Plaut, 2015
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1890
Decorative arch to welcome the Governor Sir Henry Loch to Grahamstown in 1890
- Authors: Barraud Brothers, Grahamstown (photographer)
- Subjects: Grahamstown, South Africa , Loch, Henry Brougham -- 1827-1900 , St Michael and St George's Cathedral -- Grahamstown , Schools -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Language: Latin
- Type: Image
- Identifier: vital:13954 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019931 , Donated by Martin Plaut, 2015
- Description: A decorative arch, part of the town decorations to welcome the Governor on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the chancel of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, reads in Latin "Praetorem Andreae pueri Aidanique salutant, omnes Patronum te clamant urbis alumni." (St Andrew's and St Aidan's boys greet the Governor, and all the scholars of the city schools hail their patron) Smaller shields read "Religio" and "Scientia". (Religion and knowledge)
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Ageing, wellbeing and development: Brazil and South Africa
- Authors: Barrientos, Amando , Moller, Valerie , Saboia, Joao , Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter , Mase, Julia
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: book chapter , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61690 , vital:28049 , https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0tFMDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2018
‘Growing’ social protection in developing countries: lessons from Brazil and South Africa
- Authors: Barrientos, Armando , Moller, Valerie , Saboia, Joao , Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter , Mase, Julia
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67195 , vital:29058 , https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2013.756098
- Description: publisher version , The rapid expansion of social protection in the South provides a rich diversity of experiences and lessons on how best to reduce poverty and ultimately eradicate it. Knowledge on how best to ‘grow’ social assistance, understood as long-term institutions responsible for reducing and preventing poverty, is at a premium. This article examines the expansion of social assistance in Brazil and South Africa, two of the middle income countries widely perceived to have advanced furthest in ‘growing’ social protection. It examines three aspects: the primacy of politics in explaining the expansion of social protection and assistance, the tensions between path-dependence and innovation in terms of institutions and practices, and the poverty and inequality outcomes of social assistance expansion. The article concludes by drawing the main lessons for other developing countries.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2013
Views of Rhodes University, including buildings, students and surrounds, commissioned by the University for sale as prints
- Authors: Battiss, Walter, 1906-
- Date: 1980
- Subjects: Rhodes University -- Buildings -- Pictorial works , Rhodes University -- Students -- Pictorial works
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/32261 , vital:24027 , ART/L 54 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: One of a set of six paintings of views of Rhodes University, including buildings, students and surrounds, commissioned by the University for sale as prints. Paintings by Walter Batiss
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1980
Generic gold standard or contextualised public good? Teaching excellence awards in post-colonial South Africa
- Authors: Behari-Leak, Kasturi , McKenna, Sioux
- Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66774 , vital:28992 , ISSN 1470-1294 , https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2017.1301910
- Description: Publisher version , Teaching Excellence Awards have raised the profile of teaching as a scholarly project. There are however a number of questions about what constitutes teaching excellence and how ‘excellence’ is understood in current higher education. In a post-colonial South Africa, where significant injustices permeate our society, we question whether excellence can be understood in a generic manner. Furthermore, we argue that as universities are a public good, teaching excellence needs to explicitly attend to the ways in which universities contribute to broad goals of transformation and inclusivity. We analysed data from the national Teaching Excellence Awards and 13 South African universities’ awards to interrogate the discourses that underpin ‘excellence’ in this context of social inequality. We found that while the awards have gone some way to enhancing the position of teaching in institutions, ‘excellence’ was largely articulated in fairly generic ways which failed to take into account the enablements and constraints of the discipline and the institution. Furthermore, the guidelines and criteria privilege a decontextualised notion of excellence that seeks a ‘gold standard’ and validates performativity, rather than a contextualised response to the needs of the students.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2017
Influences on the struggle over content: considering two fine art studio practice curricula in developing/ed contexts
- Authors: Belluigi, Dina Z
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59809 , vital:27653 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2016.1183617
- Description: This paper considers the influences of curricula content on the nuances of teaching and learning practices, and the ways in such influences are complicated by the contexts within which they are situated. Generated data from within the particularity of two fine art schools, one operating from the developed world in the global ‘north’ and another the developing world in the ‘south’, considers how they have negotiated the contemporary push from the professional community of practice, led by ‘western’ artmaking, towards the discourse-interest of contextualism in fine art practice education, compared to the focus on skills and mastery of more out-dated formalism. Particular emphasis is placed on the significance of such influences and pressures on the structures and cultures of teaching and learning.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2016
Playing broken telephone with student feedback: the possibilities and issues of transformation within a South African case of a collegial rationality model of evaluation
- Authors: Belluigi, Dina Z
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66943 , vital:29003 , https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-84334-655-5.50001-5
- Description: publisher version , Drawing on the case of a small South African university which espouses a social justice approach to transformation, this chapter considers the possibilities and challenges created for student feedback within an institutional context that gives the individual lecturer a large degree of autonomy in evaluation. The chapter looks at some of the dominant perceptions of student feedback in addition to how it is collected and utilised, by referring to the institution’s policies and guideline documents; institutional research conducted with course coordinators; responses elicited from 40 lecturers on the issues outlined in this chapter; the author’s own reflections as a staff developer in the institution; and specific examples of good practice from lecturers situated within social science disciplines. The emerging concerns which structured this discussion are: the impact of student feedback on improving quality; enabling student voice; increasing student ownership; and the educational value of evaluation processes.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2013
Musicians at unknown venue
- Authors: Benny , Mankunku , Tito, Dudley , Sandi, Buggs
- Date: 19--?
- Subjects: uncatalogued
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/126902 , vital:35934 , RHPC-105
- Description: Musicians at unknown venue. , Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19--?
The party-state in the land occupations of Zimbabwe: the case of Shamva district
- Authors: Bhatasara, Sandra , Helliker, Kirk D
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71353 , vital:29836 , https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909616658316
- Description: There has been significant debate about the land occupations which occurred from the year 2000 in Zimbabwe, with a key controversy concerning the role of the state and ruling party (or party-state) in the occupations. This controversy, deriving from two grand narratives about the occupations, remains unresolved. A burgeoning literature exists on the Zimbabwean state’s fast-track land reform programme, which arose in the context of the occupations, but this literature is concerned mainly with post-occupation developments on fast-track farms. This article seeks to contribute to resolving the controversy surrounding the party-state and the land occupations by examining the occupations in the Shamva District of Mashonaland Central Province. The fieldwork for our Shamva study focused exclusively on the land occupations (and not on the fast-track farms) and was undertaken in May 2015. We conclude from our Shamva study that involvement by the party-state did not take on an institutionalised form but was of a personalised character entailing interventions by specific party and state actors.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2018
James Butler's family tree : in a circular format
- Authors: Biggs, Alice , Vorster, Christine
- Date: 1973-1975
- Subjects: Butler, Guy, 1918-2001 Butler, James, 1854-1923 Butler family Collett family Biggs family Vorster family Moys family Murray family
- Language: English
- Type: still image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/54137 , vital:26395 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , MS/L 19 337
- Description: James Butler's family tree. Prepared by Alice Biggs (Brooklyn) and Christine Vorster (Irene) 1973-1975. James Butler was born in London, 1854 and immigrated to South Africa in 1874. He established a book shop "Butler and Wilkie". Later became the editor of the Midland News. He died and was buried in Cradock in 1923. He got married in 1882 to Annie Letitia Collett, born 1856.She lived at Grass Ridge, Cradock and died at Graaff-Reinet, buried in Cradock in 1951.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1973-1975
Farmerfield Church built by Daniel Roberts ca. 1830s
- Authors: Biggs, Allan
- Date: 1935
- Subjects: Methodist Church of Southern Africa -- Farmerfield Mission -- Photographs
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/37345 , vital:24652 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017. , PIC/S 4911
- Description: Photograph shows a group of black children (possibly a school class) with their schoolmaster in front of the church building. Inscribed on the back are the words ' ... This picture was taken 1935 aprox by Allan Biggs when he took his mother to see the church built by her father.' Photo accompanied a memorial sketch of Benjamin F. Roberts, kept at MS 19 922.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1935
Possible futures for science and engineering education
- Authors: Blackie, Margaret , Le Roux, Kate , McKenna, Sioux
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66796 , vital:28994 , ISSN 1573-174X , https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-015-9962-y
- Description: Publisher version , From Introduction: The understanding that the science, engineering, technology and mathematics disciplines (STEM) have a significant and directly causal role to play in economic productivity and innovation has driven an increased focus on these fields in higher education. Innovation in this context is a shorthand for the harnessing of the knowledge economy and the provision of products with novel significant ‘added value’. The assumption in both developed and developing economies alike is that STEM will drive national growth (World Bank 2002; UNESCO 2009), and this impacts on demands that universities provide competent graduates in sufficient numbers. However, exactly what ‘competency’ might mean in this context is open to debate.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2016
Almost the end of the bathing season for Fats.
- Authors: Bookhalane, Fats
- Date: 19??
- Subjects: UNCATALOGUED
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237146 , vital:50486 , DTC-147
- Description: Clipping of Fats Bookhalane. , Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/) (NEVER CAHNGE THIS FIELD)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19??
Fats loves a cold bath under the tap.
- Authors: Bookhalane, Fats
- Date: 19??
- Subjects: UNCATALOGUED
- Type: Image
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/237136 , vital:50485 , DTC-146
- Description: Clipping of Fats Bookhalane taking a cold bath under the tap. , Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/) (NEVER CAHNGE THIS FIELD)
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 19??