Framing VBS: a textual analysis of Daily Maverick’s coverage of the VBS Mutual Bank heist in the years 2018-2020
- Authors: Nyulu, Siyamthanda Natascha
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: VBS Mutual Bank (South Africa) , Banks and banking Corrupt practices South Africa , Journalism, Commercial South Africa , Journalistic ethics South Africa , Frames (Sociology) , Journalism Social aspects South Africa , Daily Maverick
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/425256 , vital:72223
- Description: This study investigates how Daily Maverick framed the VBS Mutual Bank scandal for its readers in the years 2018-2020. It utilises framing theory as the guiding theoretical framework in trying to understand how Daily Maverick portrayed the corruption case for its readers. This study also leans on social responsibility and normative theories of the press to analyse whether Daily Maverick fulfilled its role of facilitating dialogue between the elite and ordinary citizens of Limpopo affected by the corruption at the bank. Using a qualitative textual analysis, the thesis discusses how elite sources were quoted more than ordinary citizens who are affected the most by the corruption scandal. This allowed the elite to turn the VBS matter into a political spectacle whereas, because it is an example of failure in the financial sector, the heist caused further failures in municipalities already failing in Limpopo, North-West and Gauteng. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Journalism and Media Studies, 2023
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The contentious relationship between feminist scholarship and university sexual violence policies: 1980-2021
- Authors: Roberts, Lily May
- Date: 2023-10-13
- Subjects: Sexual assault South Africa History , Women college students Crimes against South Africa , Feminism and higher education South Africa , Educational leadership South Africa , Education, Higher Administration
- Language: English
- Type: Academic theses , Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/425267 , vital:72224
- Description: This thesis tracks the historically contentious relationship between feminist scholarship and university sexual violence policies. It examines the rise of the managerial university in South Africa, and the overlapping development of sexual violence policies through feminist activism from the early 1990s. Through an examination of the sexual violence policies of the University of Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, Stellenbosch University, and the University of the Western Cape, this thesis argues that these policies are aimed at ‘managing’ the process of reporting, rather than dismantling the broader structures – both within the university and society as a whole – that lead to and enable sexual violence. In this way, sexual violence policies are governed by a managerial discourse, limiting the possibility of addressing the dismantling of structures and discourses that perpetuate sexual violence, which, as I argue, is fundamentally opposed to the intellectual and political project of feminist scholarship from which these sexual violence policies initially emerged. However, this thesis also argues that feminist scholarship is not immune to the influence of managerialism, as discourses of efficiency and effectiveness have shaped Gender and Women’s Studies, where feminist scholarship is often located. I use the #RUReferenceList protests that drew on black feminist scholarship and came under managerial control as an example of the contentious relationship between managerialism and feminist activism. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, History, 2023
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