Ubomv' lomfana
- Authors: Ngqoko music ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/341099 , vital:62730 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338a-06
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping
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- Date Issued: 1996
Umagungqel' indawo
- Authors: Ngqoko music ensemble participants , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/342306 , vital:62878 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC339-03
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by uhadi
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- Date Issued: 1996
Umagungqel' indawo
- Authors: Dywili, Nofinishi , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/341076 , vital:62727 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338a-03
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by uhad
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- Date Issued: 1996
Uncovering plagiarism in academic writing : developing authorial voice within multivoiced text
- Authors: Angelil-Carter, Shelley
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Plagiarism -- Research Academic writing -- Research
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1807 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003692
- Description: Plagiarism is a modern Western construct which arose with the introduction of copyright laws in the eighteenth century. Before this time, there was little sense of artistic "ownership". Since then, the ideas of "originality" in writing as well as the "autonomous text" have been highly valued. In the theoretical section of this dissertation I deal with plagiarism and referencing from three perspectives. After looking at problems of definition of plagiarism, I turn to the first perspective, the historical development of the notions of plagiarism and originality. Alongside this I discuss the notions of "autonomous text" and "decontextualized" language, and attempt to show that these concepts are problematic, and that language is intensely social at the levels of discourses, genres, and the word. The second angle is a snapshot of present-day writing genres, and how they deal with documentation in different ways. The third point of focus is on the development of the student writer, on whom present-day genres of academic writing, and the historically constructed notions of plagiarism converge. Here I centre on the development of the undergraduate student as a writer, and some of the things that may be happening when a student is seen to be plagiarizing. Some of these are the "alienness" of academic discourses, the hybridization of discourses, the need to "try on" academic discourses, the lack of authority of the student writer and her relationship to the authority of the sources, and the way in which languages are learned and reproduced in chunks. I look finally at what the meaning of authorship might be in an intensely social view of language, and at the complexity of developing authorial voice in writing. The dissertation is located in a postpositivist paradigm, and seeks to interpret as well as being oriented towards praxis. The research took place within the Political Studies Department at the University of Cape Town. The study included a discourse analysis of the departmental handbook, as well as analysis of academic essays, at the first year and third year level, which were selected for having problems with referencing, or having plagiarized. A few were selected for good referencing. Students who had written these essays, and tutors and lecturers who had marked them, were then interviewed. In the analysis I explore differing understandings of the role of referencing in the academic essay, what negative and positive consequences the practice of referencing and the monitoring of plagiarism have, with regard to authority and voice in student writing, what might be happening when students are thought to be plagiarizing, and what difficulties are experienced by students in developing an authorial voice when using multiple sources. The study found that there are a range of underlying causes for plagiarism in student writing, which indicate that plagiarism is more a problem of academic literacy than academic dishonesty. It also found that marking practices in detecting plagiarism may sometimes be based on problematic assumptions about the amount of background knowledge and independent ideas which students bring to their writing. I conclude by putting forward a pedagogy for plagiarism and referencing, which is based on 1) the negotiation of shared meaning around the concept of plagiarism, including an examination of assumptions linked to this concept in its monitoring and enforcement, leading to the development of written policy and guidelines emerging from this shared understanding. 2) The development of an academic literacy programme within the curriculum, with attention to the complexities of developing authorial voice whilst constructing a text based on the texts of others, with a focus on authors, which moves students towards an understanding of how knowledge is constructed.
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Unyangwe phi
- Authors: Ngqoko music ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/341761 , vital:62814 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338a-07
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping and whistle
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- Date Issued: 1996
Up Beat Issue Number 11 1994/5
- Authors: SACHED
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: SACHED
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115981 , vital:34285
- Description: It's the end of a big year for all South Africans. April saw all of us rejoice and celebrate as Nelson Mandela became the first president of a free South Africa. But it has also been a difficult year. 'What's the use of freedom if our daily lives are ruled by guns?' This issue is explored in our feature 'Guns - what's to be done?' on page 4. But the youth of our country continue to believe in the future. Read about how young people in Wattville, are using their talents to brighten up their own neighbourhood on page 30. Now it's holiday time and Upbeat is packed with fun reading, games and lots of information on great holiday reads. So put up your feet and enjoy your well earned break. We wish all of you a happy and peaceful holiday. Thank- you for your support in 1994.
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Up Beat Issue Number 3 1995
- Authors: SACHED
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: SACHED
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116089 , vital:34296
- Description: Where is Maputaland? It is in Northern Kwazulu/Natal. For many years, the government ignored far away places like Maputaland. The roads are terrible and there are few buses. People must walk a very long way to get to a clinic or a shop. The people of Maputaland wanted to solve their transport problem. So they got together with the Khuphuka Skills Training and Employment Programme. Khuphuka is training local people to build drains, roads and bridges. In the Ingwavume and KwaNgwanase districts, 36 young men and women are training to be team leaders. While they work, they are being taught all about how to build roads. When they graduate from the course, they will supervise other trainees. The project is part of the Reconstruction and Development Programme and is co-ordinated by the Department of Public Works.
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Up Beat Issue Number 6 1992
- Authors: SACHED
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: SACHED
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116270 , vital:34349
- Description: The two-hour drive from Cape Town to Worcester is long. But it’s not boring. You pass green, open farmlands where cattle graze. Every now and then, you cross a river or a stream. In the distance, the purple mountains frame the blue sky. Bree River High School In the valley surrounded by the Hottentots-Holland mountains, you find Worcester. Just outside the town is Bree River High School. Wilfred Zebedezela is a student there. He throws the shotput. He lives on a farm outside Worcester and he travels for an hour everyday to get to and from school. ‘At school there isn’t a place where I can train with weights, said Wilfred. ‘So I build my muscles by doing farm work. I would like to practice shotput at home, but I can’t because there is only one shotput at school. I can’t practise at school, as there is no teacher to stay behind in the afternoons with me.’ Ruduwaan Visagie is a 200 metre sprinter. ‘We can’t afford things like starting blocks. We ran in the South African Junior Athletics Championships. But some of our athletes almost couldn't take part. We didn’t have starting blocks. Fortunately, we managed to borrow some.’
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Virtual sculpting : an investigation of directly manipulated free-form deformation in a virtual environment
- Authors: Gain, James Edward
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Computer simulation , Computer graphics , Virtual reality
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:4660 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006661 , Computer simulation , Computer graphics , Virtual reality
- Description: This thesis presents a Virtual Sculpting system, which addresses the problem of Free-Form Solid Modelling. The disparate elements of a Polygon-Mesh representation, a Directly Manipulated Free-Form Deformation sculpting tool, and a Virtual Environment are drawn into a cohesive whole under the mantle of a clay-sculpting metaphor. This enables a user to mould and manipulate a synthetic solid interactively as if it were composed of malleable clay. The focus of this study is on the interactivity, intuitivity and versatility of such a system. To this end, a range of improvements is investigated which significantly enhances the efficiency and correctness of Directly Manipulated Free-Form Deformation, both separately and as a seamless component of the Virtual Sculpting system.
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Walmer, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Yates, M J
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Crinum lineare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13424 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015707
- Description: Crinum lineare in long grassveld. This species is gradually disappearing here under encroaching urban sprawl.
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- Date Issued: 1996
Walmer, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Crinum lineare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13425 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015708
- Description: Crinum lineare in long grassveld. This species is gradually disappearing under encroaching urban sprawl.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996
Where are the men? : an investigation into female-headed households in Rini, with reference to household structures, the dynamics of gender and strategies against poverty
- Authors: Brown, Brenda
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Women heads of households -- South Africa , Poor women -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2097 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002660 , Women heads of households -- South Africa , Poor women -- South Africa
- Description: An in-depth study is conducted into ten female-headed households in the township of Rini, an underprivileged section of Grahamstown in the Eastem Cape region of South Africa. The study provides information on the way in which such households function in conditions of poverty and underemployment. The meaning of the term 'household' is clearly defined. A household consists of a group of people, who may or may not be kin-related, but who usually live under the same roof, eat together and share resources. Household members may be absent for varying periods of time, but are still considered to have rights in the household to which they belong. The female-headed household usually contains a core of adult women who are often uterine kin. Men are frequently members of these households and are usually related to the women who form the core. Their status and roles in such households are defined and intra-household relations between household members are discussed. In this study, female headship is observed to occur in conditions of poverty when an elderly woman is widowed, receives a regular income in the form of and old age pension, and when her status as the senior member of the household is acknowledged. The presence of men in female-headed households has not been widely emphasised in other studies, either of the female-headed household itself, or in research done in this area of South Africa. An attempt is therefore made to illustrate the way in which men function in these households and the varying roles they play. An attempt is also made to describe other structures and practices which support the female-headed household in a rapidly changing urban environment. These include church membership, burial society membership, the informal economy, wider kinship networks and, in the case of the men, the rite of circumcision.
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White writers and Shaka Zulu
- Authors: Wylie, Dan
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Shaka, Zulu Chief, 1787?-1828 In literature Shaka, Zulu Chief, 1787?-1828 Zulu (African people) -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002276
- Description: The figure of Shaka (c. 1780-1828) looms massively in the historical and symbolic landscapes of Southern Africa. He has been unquestioningly credited, in varying degrees, with creating the Zulu nation, murderous bloodlust, and military genius, so launching waves of violence across the subcontinent (the "mfecane"). The empirical evidence for this is slight and controversial. More importantly, however, Shaka has attained a mythical reputation on which not only Zulu self-conceptions, but to a significant degree white settler self-identifications have been built. This study describes as comprehensively as possible the genealogy of white Shakan literature, including eyewitness accounts, histories, fictions and poetry. The study argues that the vast majority of these works are characterised by a high degree of incestuous borrowing from one another, and by processes of mythologising catering primarily to the social-psychological needs of the writers. So coherent is this genealogy that the formation of an idealised notion of settler identity can be discerned, especially through the common use of particular textual "gestures". At the same time, while conforming largely to unquestioning modes of discourse such as popularised history and romance fiction, individual writers have attempted to adjust to socio-political circumstances; this study includes four close studies of individual texts. Such close stylistic attention serves to underline the textually-constructed nature of both the figure of Shaka and the "selves" of the writers. The study makes no attempt to reduce its explorations to a single Grand Unified Explanation, and takes eclectic theoretical positions, but it does seek throughout to explore the social-psychological meanings of textual productions of Shaka - in short, to explore the question, Why have white writers written about Shaka in these particular ways?
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Ya jiliza
- Authors: Ngqoko music ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/342175 , vital:62863 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338b-11
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping, ugubu and umasengwane
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- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Somu, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345827 , vital:63322 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348b-02
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
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- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Nomeva, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345803 , vital:63316 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348a-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
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- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Nomeva, N. , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345785 , vital:63317 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348a-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
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- Date Issued: 1996
Yaka Yaka Ndemka
- Authors: Hogsback festival participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Hogsback sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/345891 , vital:63328 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC348b-08
- Description: Xhosa music at Hogsback festival
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- Date Issued: 1996
Ye Mandela
- Authors: Ngqoko Xhosa ensemble participants , Composer not specified , Dargie, Dave
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Folk music , Sacred music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Alice sa
- Language: IsiXhosa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/341058 , vital:62725 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Dave Dargie Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , DDC338a-01
- Description: Ngqoko music ensemble accompanied by clapping and whistle
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1996