The thirtieth anniversary of the Soweto uprisings: reading the shadow in Sam Nzima's iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson
- Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147536 , vital:38647 , https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2007.40.2.52
- Description: This haunting photograph (Fig. 1) from the 1976 Soweto Uprisings in South Africa is often referred to as the single most important photograph to emerge from the struggle against apartheid (Purtilo 1999:22). According to South African film director Feizel Mamdoo, there are particular moments in history that are defined by photographic, celluloid, or television images, such as the world famous photograph of the Saigon girl, naked and burning from napalm (Worsdale 1998; see also Richards 2001). He argues that the iconic photograph by Sam Nzima depicting Hector Pieterson being carried in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubu, with his distraught sister Antionette1 running alongside, is comparable in the way that “it marks history, both social and personal” (Worsdale 1998).
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147536 , vital:38647 , https://doi.org/10.1162/afar.2007.40.2.52
- Description: This haunting photograph (Fig. 1) from the 1976 Soweto Uprisings in South Africa is often referred to as the single most important photograph to emerge from the struggle against apartheid (Purtilo 1999:22). According to South African film director Feizel Mamdoo, there are particular moments in history that are defined by photographic, celluloid, or television images, such as the world famous photograph of the Saigon girl, naked and burning from napalm (Worsdale 1998; see also Richards 2001). He argues that the iconic photograph by Sam Nzima depicting Hector Pieterson being carried in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubu, with his distraught sister Antionette1 running alongside, is comparable in the way that “it marks history, both social and personal” (Worsdale 1998).
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'Alternative foods' and community-based development : Rooibos tea production in South Africa's West Coast mountains
- Nel, Etienne L, Binns, Tony, Bek, David
- Authors: Nel, Etienne L , Binns, Tony , Bek, David
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6718 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006791
- Description: Rooibos tee (red bush tea) (Aspalathus linearis, Fabaceae), which is indigenous only to the Cedarberg and neighbouring mountains of South Africa, has become popular internationally as a result of its apparent health-giving properties. Situated within the broader contexts of alternative food networks, alternate economic spaces and local/community-based development, this paper examines how two marginalised communities have successfully penetrated international markets by supplying organically produced rooibos tea which is certified by the international Fairtrade system. Focusing on the cases of Wupperthal and Heiveld, the paper explores the dynamics of the production and marketing process and the key variables involved. Success has been achieved through active NGO support, which has engaged with local skills and social capital, and has led to significant social and economic upliftment among the participating communities. The experience illustrates how, given the right conditions, poor communities in the South might participate successfully in global alternative food networks.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Nel, Etienne L , Binns, Tony , Bek, David
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6718 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006791
- Description: Rooibos tee (red bush tea) (Aspalathus linearis, Fabaceae), which is indigenous only to the Cedarberg and neighbouring mountains of South Africa, has become popular internationally as a result of its apparent health-giving properties. Situated within the broader contexts of alternative food networks, alternate economic spaces and local/community-based development, this paper examines how two marginalised communities have successfully penetrated international markets by supplying organically produced rooibos tea which is certified by the international Fairtrade system. Focusing on the cases of Wupperthal and Heiveld, the paper explores the dynamics of the production and marketing process and the key variables involved. Success has been achieved through active NGO support, which has engaged with local skills and social capital, and has led to significant social and economic upliftment among the participating communities. The experience illustrates how, given the right conditions, poor communities in the South might participate successfully in global alternative food networks.
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Morphological and genetic analyses suggest that southern African crown crabs, Hymenosoma orbiculare, represent five distinct species
- Edkins, M T, Teske, Peter R, Papadopoulos, Isabelle, Griffiths, C L
- Authors: Edkins, M T , Teske, Peter R , Papadopoulos, Isabelle , Griffiths, C L
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445701 , vital:74415 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107852
- Description: The crown crab, Hymenosoma orbiculare, occurs all along the coast of southern Africa displays great morphological variation across this range. To determine whether the species c several distinct taxonomic units, H. orbiculare were collected from 18 estuaries and lagoons Walvis Bay in Namibia and Kosi Bay in north-eastern South Africa. Open ocean individua also obtained from False Bay in south-western South Africa. Morphological and genet mitochondrial DNA) comparisons were carried out between individuals from all locatio monophyletic clusters were identified on the basis of genetic data, each confined to specific of the distribution range. Morphological data supported the distinctness of each of these clus typical H. orbiculare, characterized by large size (maximum carapace width 28 mm) and of the characteristic ornamentations of other morphotypes, occurred in estuaries and lag along the west and south coasts. False Bay deep-water individuals were of two forms.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Edkins, M T , Teske, Peter R , Papadopoulos, Isabelle , Griffiths, C L
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445701 , vital:74415 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107852
- Description: The crown crab, Hymenosoma orbiculare, occurs all along the coast of southern Africa displays great morphological variation across this range. To determine whether the species c several distinct taxonomic units, H. orbiculare were collected from 18 estuaries and lagoons Walvis Bay in Namibia and Kosi Bay in north-eastern South Africa. Open ocean individua also obtained from False Bay in south-western South Africa. Morphological and genet mitochondrial DNA) comparisons were carried out between individuals from all locatio monophyletic clusters were identified on the basis of genetic data, each confined to specific of the distribution range. Morphological data supported the distinctness of each of these clus typical H. orbiculare, characterized by large size (maximum carapace width 28 mm) and of the characteristic ornamentations of other morphotypes, occurred in estuaries and lag along the west and south coasts. False Bay deep-water individuals were of two forms.
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- Date Issued: 2007
A few points on Pointfree pseudocompactness
- Authors: Dube, T , Matutu, Phethiwe P
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6783 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006926
- Description: We present several characterizations of completely regular pseudocompact frames. The first is an extension to frames of characterizations of completely regular pseudocompact spaces given by Väänänen. We follow with an embedding-type characterization stating that a completely regular frame is pseudocompact if and only if it is a P-quotient of its Stone-Čech compactification. We then give a characterization in terms of ideals in the cozero parts of the frames concerned. This characterization seems to be new and its spatial counterpart does not seem to have been observed before. We also define relatively pseudocompact quotients, and show that a necessary and sufficient condition for a completely regular frame to be pseudocompact is that it be relatively pseudocompact in its Hewitt realcompactification. Consequently a proof of a result of Banaschewski and Gilmour that a completely regular frame is pseudocompact if and only if its Hewitt realcompactification is compact, is presented without the invocation of the Boolean Ultrafilter Theorem.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Dube, T , Matutu, Phethiwe P
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6783 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006926
- Description: We present several characterizations of completely regular pseudocompact frames. The first is an extension to frames of characterizations of completely regular pseudocompact spaces given by Väänänen. We follow with an embedding-type characterization stating that a completely regular frame is pseudocompact if and only if it is a P-quotient of its Stone-Čech compactification. We then give a characterization in terms of ideals in the cozero parts of the frames concerned. This characterization seems to be new and its spatial counterpart does not seem to have been observed before. We also define relatively pseudocompact quotients, and show that a necessary and sufficient condition for a completely regular frame to be pseudocompact is that it be relatively pseudocompact in its Hewitt realcompactification. Consequently a proof of a result of Banaschewski and Gilmour that a completely regular frame is pseudocompact if and only if its Hewitt realcompactification is compact, is presented without the invocation of the Boolean Ultrafilter Theorem.
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- Date Issued: 2007
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