Defamation détente Gorbachev glasnost perestroika invasion of privacy: regulation, ethics, accountability
- Authors: Copteros, Stratos
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454656 , vital:75363 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141582
- Description: It was the final year of my BA in International Relations. 1988. Studying a Cold War whose freeze was thawing fast. Indeed, everything was changing so rapidly since Gorbachev's arrival that our bibliographies included that week's Time, Newsweek, Economist and every other cur-rent publication of a then Google-free world.
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Media ownership and transparency: regulation, ethics, accountability
- Authors: Rumney, Reg
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454229 , vital:75329 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141591
- Description: It is hard to understand why such an intemperate war of words flared up over the change in ownership of one of South Africa's oldest and influential newspaper groups. Yet inquiries about the identity of the new owners of Independent News and Media South Africa (INMSA) generated a surprising ferocity from a surprising range of sources.
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Needed: a broader view of accountability: regulation, ethics, accountability
- Authors: Friedman, Steven
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454822 , vital:75379 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141586
- Description: Political journalists and judges might be offended by claims that they have much in common. But the commonality exists nonetheless. Both media and courts insist that their independence is crucial to a democrat-ic society. Both see themselves as a vital check on the power of gov-ernment. And both therefore resist calls that they should be accounta-ble to society. Criticism of judges and political journalists, even when accompanied by no demands that they be forced to do anything differ-ently, are often rejected as an assault on the independence of both.
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Prof Nyokong wins NRF Lifetime Achievement Award
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:7215 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006511 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: Professor Tebello Nyokong of Rhodes University was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s NRF Awards, held in Port Elizabeth, 2013. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Rhodes University and holder of the DST-NRF Research Chair in Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, as well as Director of the DST-Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Centre focussing on sensors.
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- Date Issued: 2013
The language of listening: the Marikana aftermath
- Authors: Wasserman, Herman
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158904 , vital:40239 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141563
- Description: Unless you're, say, the National Press Club of South Africa, who decided that the South African rhino was the newsmaker of the year for 2012, there should be no doubt that the Marikana massacre was the biggest news event of last year. Some observers, like the University of Johannesburg sociologist, Professor Peter Alexander, even consider the massacre one of the turning points in South African history. How did the South African media respond to what was evidently a historic moment?
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Voice and agency in post-apartheid South African media: young and mediated
- Authors: Wasserman, Herman , Garman, Anthea
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: vital:38361 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141607
- Description: What does the rising number of service delivery protests tell us about who gets to speak and who gets to listen in South African politics? Do politicians listen to the youth, especially the vast numbers of the un- and under-employed? What role do the youth play in social cohesion, civic action and the future of our young democracy?
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Exercise Physiology: HMS 313
- Authors: Van Gent, M , Lyoka, P
- Date: 2012-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17931 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1012197
- Description: Exercise Physiology: HMS 313, supplementary examination June 2011.
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- Date Issued: 2012-11
Animal Breeding: AGA 322
- Authors: Chimonyo, M , Muchenje, V
- Date: 2012-02
- Subjects: Animal Breeding
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17520 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1009787
- Description: Animal Breeding: AGA 322, examination February 2010
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- Date Issued: 2012-02
Introduction to Psychology: PSY 122E
- Authors: Kheshwa, J G , Van Niekerk, R
- Date: 2012-02
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17986 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010559
- Description: Introduction to Psychology: PSY 122E, supplementary degree examination January 2012.
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- Date Issued: 2012-02
Mathematical Economics: ECO 222 & 222E
- Authors: Maredza, A , Harper, L
- Date: 2012-02
- Subjects: Economics, Mathematical
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17507 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010767
- Description: Mathematical Economics: ECO 222 & 222E, Supplementary examination February 2012.
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- Date Issued: 2012-02
Metabolism and Enzymology: BCH 223
- Authors: Mazomba, N , Bradley, G
- Date: 2012-02
- Subjects: Metabolism
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17854 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010482
- Description: Metabolism and Enzymology: BCH 223, supplementary examination February 2012.
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- Date Issued: 2012-02
Plant Ecology, Genetics, Taxonomy & Physiology: BOT 221
- Authors: Buwa, L V , Magwa, M L , Afolayan, A J , Mhinana, Z M
- Date: 2012-02
- Subjects: Botany
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17735 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010187
- Description: Plant Ecology, Genetics, Taxonomy & Physiology: BOT 221, supplementary examination February 2012.
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- Date Issued: 2012-02
China in South Africa: a long affair: Africa rising
- Authors: Wasserman, Herman
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454594 , vital:75358 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC134108
- Description: Official relations between Africa and China in contemporary times can be seen to have started in 1955 with the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, aimed at promoting economic and cultural co-operation. The development of China-Africa relations gained impetus when it became clear in the 1990s that to maintain the "roaring pace" of its economic growth as a result of economic reforms, China would need to look for new sources of energy and natural resources - which it found in Africa.
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Mobile: the challenge of a unique new space for journalism: have you got your mojo?
- Authors: Malila, Vanessa
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159517 , vital:40304 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC135832
- Description: The speed with which technology is improving in the mobile communications market is widening the scope for opportunity to engage with audiences, provide information and capture their attention for that little while longer. Current technology such as 3G wireless technologies, which allow for high-speed data transmission, and access to multimedia content, as well as smart phones and tablet computers have already illustrated the potential for users to access information that is tailored to mobile devices and available anywhere.
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Patrick Hayes. JM Coetzee and the Novel: writing and politics after Beckett
- Authors: Marais, Mike
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144220 , vital:38322 , DOI: 10.1093/res/hgs014
- Description: According to Patrick Hayes, J. M. Coetzee's fiction, on a thematic level, ‘repeatedly suggests that the condition of modernity is made up of competing, equally important, and yet incommensurate ways of imagining the good community’ (p. 4). The first of these imaginings is grounded in the Kantian notion that the human individual is a rational and autonomous agent, and that it is precisely his or her rational autonomy, and capacity to direct life through neutral principles that commands the respect and recognition of other individuals. As is evident in its emphasis on rationality, this politic of equal dignity and recognition is universalistic in its claims. In contrast, the second imagining of community is based on the recognition of cultural specificity, and the argument that freedom and equal recognition are only possible through a revision of deleterious cultural stereotypes. In its terms, the good community ‘must be founded on the recognition, and active fostering of cultural particularity’ (p. 12). This politic of difference is highly suspicious of the universalizing claims of the politic of dignity, arguing that its appeal to equal dignity is itself a form of particularism masquerading as universalism.
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Regular moult-breeding overlap in the Pale-winged Starling Onychognathus nabouroup
- Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/449518 , vital:74827 , https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2989/00306525.2012.737149
- Description: In an earlier publication, with a sample consisting entirely of dated museum specimens, I concluded that, at the population level, moult-breeding overlap occurred in the Pale-winged Starling Onychognathus nabouroup, and in two other southern African Sturnidae, for which both museum skins and ringing records were available (Craig 1983). Subsequently, additional Pale-winged Starling specimens were examined in a reassessment of the subspecies that had been described, but no further analysis of the moult was undertaken (Craig 1988a). As part of a current behavioural study of this species, 58 Pale-winged Starlings were captured and colour-ringed at Augrabies Falls National Park during October 2011, and moult data were recorded for each bird following the standard scoring system for primary wing-feathers (de Beer et al. 2001). This prompted a re-examination of my earlier data, including the application of the Underhill-Zucchini model (Underhill and Zucchini 1988) to the available material.
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Richard T. Carson: Contingent valuation: a comprehensive bibliography and history
- Authors: Snowball, Jeanette D
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71504 , vital:29859 , https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10824-012-9165-7.pdf
- Description: For those of us who have been involved in willingness to pay studies for some time, Contingent Valuation: A comprehensive bibliography and history by Richard Carson is a fascinating read, tracking the early development of the method and debates around it from an insider’s perspective. As someone who has not only been involved in contingent valuation research over many years, but who has also been instrumental in shaping it, Richard Carson is the ideal author of this carefully crafted book.
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Anthropological School of Thought and Introduction to Fieldwork: ANT 311
- Authors: Komanisi, M P , Myaluza-Masina, N , Lamla, C M
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18343 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011472
- Description: Anthropological School of Thought and Introduction to Fieldwork: ANT 311, Special examination January 2012.
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- Date Issued: 2012-01
Business Economics: BCH 323
- Authors: Bradley, G , Mabinya, L , Pletsche, B I
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17856 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010484
- Description: Business Economics: BCH 323, Supplementary examination January/February 2012.
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- Date Issued: 2012-01
Chemical Technology 1: PAC 225
- Authors: Zulu, N H , Ajibade, P A
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17820 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010373
- Description: Chemical Technology 1: PAC 225,supplementary examination January 2012.
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- Date Issued: 2012-01