Born free without a cause?: Young and mediated
- Authors: Malila, Vanessa
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158609 , vital:40211 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141606
- Description: Each year on the 16th June we celebrate Youth Day and I wonder what the day means to young South Africans. Countries all over the world celebrate Youth Day as a way to highlight the importance of young people in society. In South Africa, it is this and much more. Here this specific day was chosen to commemorate the Soweto Uprising of 1976, when young South Africans rose up against the inequalities, atrocities and injustices of the apartheid government.
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- Authors: Malila, Vanessa
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158609 , vital:40211 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141606
- Description: Each year on the 16th June we celebrate Youth Day and I wonder what the day means to young South Africans. Countries all over the world celebrate Youth Day as a way to highlight the importance of young people in society. In South Africa, it is this and much more. Here this specific day was chosen to commemorate the Soweto Uprising of 1976, when young South Africans rose up against the inequalities, atrocities and injustices of the apartheid government.
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First Record of an Introduction of the Giant Pangasius, Pangasius sanitwongsei Smith 1931, Into an African River
- Mäkinen, Tuuli, Weyl, Olaf L F, van der Walt, Kerry-Ann, Swartz, Ernst R
- Authors: Mäkinen, Tuuli , Weyl, Olaf L F , van der Walt, Kerry-Ann , Swartz, Ernst R
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/443340 , vital:74109 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC145782
- Description: A catfish captured in the Breede River (33°56'41.6"S 20°4'45.6"E) in South Africa was identified using morphological and genetic techniques as the giant pangasius, Pangasius sanitwongsei Smith 1931, a new record for South Africa. The wild-caught specimen was a genetic match to juveniles purchased from the pet trade, and most likely originated from a release by an aquarist. Pangasius sanitwongsei is not on the list of fishes currently permitted for import into South Africa, and its presence in the pet trade illustrates the difficulty associated with preventing illegal introductions.
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- Authors: Mäkinen, Tuuli , Weyl, Olaf L F , van der Walt, Kerry-Ann , Swartz, Ernst R
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/443340 , vital:74109 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC145782
- Description: A catfish captured in the Breede River (33°56'41.6"S 20°4'45.6"E) in South Africa was identified using morphological and genetic techniques as the giant pangasius, Pangasius sanitwongsei Smith 1931, a new record for South Africa. The wild-caught specimen was a genetic match to juveniles purchased from the pet trade, and most likely originated from a release by an aquarist. Pangasius sanitwongsei is not on the list of fishes currently permitted for import into South Africa, and its presence in the pet trade illustrates the difficulty associated with preventing illegal introductions.
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In search of the Holy Grail: youth media consumption and the construction of citizenship
- Authors: Steenveld, Lynette N
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158597 , vital:40210 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141601
- Description: Rather than support the democratic process, as in the ideal scheme of things it should be doing, journalism has become an alienating, cynicism-inducing, narcoticising force in our political culture, turning people off citizenship rather than equipping them to fulfil their democratic potential.
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- Authors: Steenveld, Lynette N
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158597 , vital:40210 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141601
- Description: Rather than support the democratic process, as in the ideal scheme of things it should be doing, journalism has become an alienating, cynicism-inducing, narcoticising force in our political culture, turning people off citizenship rather than equipping them to fulfil their democratic potential.
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Open debate: ephemeral democracies: interrogating commonality in South Africa
- Authors: Makhubu, Nomusa
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147626 , vital:38655 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.796200
- Description: South Africa's Post-Apartheid era is characterized by the rhetoric of ‘unity in diversity’. However, numerous artist-led public interventions disclose alienating socio-economic conditions. Neoliberal reforms in the context of prevailing structural designs of Apartheid in South Africa weaken the democratization process, making it figurative rather than tangible and participatory. There is a pervasive perception that centres of power within the arts in South Africa are located in institutions of white proprietorship. As a result, young artists create independent establishments where they can have some control over cultural production and dissemination. This article debates the different strategies that are used by young practising artists to confront contemporary challenges in Post-Apartheid South Africa. One of these strategies promotes integration and deracialization through persistent engagement with predominantly white institutions in order to generate a sense of common purpose while the other opts for the power of provocative racialized but marginalized cultural movements.
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- Authors: Makhubu, Nomusa
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147626 , vital:38655 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.796200
- Description: South Africa's Post-Apartheid era is characterized by the rhetoric of ‘unity in diversity’. However, numerous artist-led public interventions disclose alienating socio-economic conditions. Neoliberal reforms in the context of prevailing structural designs of Apartheid in South Africa weaken the democratization process, making it figurative rather than tangible and participatory. There is a pervasive perception that centres of power within the arts in South Africa are located in institutions of white proprietorship. As a result, young artists create independent establishments where they can have some control over cultural production and dissemination. This article debates the different strategies that are used by young practising artists to confront contemporary challenges in Post-Apartheid South Africa. One of these strategies promotes integration and deracialization through persistent engagement with predominantly white institutions in order to generate a sense of common purpose while the other opts for the power of provocative racialized but marginalized cultural movements.
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Predicted mbira found
- Authors: Tracey, Andrew
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59732 , vital:27643 , http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/amj.v9i3.1908
- Description: This article is written as a follow-up to my article “The original African mbira?” (1972). I can report that an instrument which I predicted to have existed in that article actually did/does exist! In the original article I compared the tuning layouts of two related present-day members of the mbira family, hera, also called matepe, (found in northern Zimbabwe and northeast Zimbabwe into Mozambique) and nyonganyonga (found in central Mozambique, from Mutare, Zimbabwe to Beira, Mozambique and also into southern Malawi).
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- Authors: Tracey, Andrew
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59732 , vital:27643 , http://dx.doi.org/10.21504/amj.v9i3.1908
- Description: This article is written as a follow-up to my article “The original African mbira?” (1972). I can report that an instrument which I predicted to have existed in that article actually did/does exist! In the original article I compared the tuning layouts of two related present-day members of the mbira family, hera, also called matepe, (found in northern Zimbabwe and northeast Zimbabwe into Mozambique) and nyonganyonga (found in central Mozambique, from Mutare, Zimbabwe to Beira, Mozambique and also into southern Malawi).
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Rhino poaching: supply and demand uncertain
- Collins, Alan, Fraser, Gavin C G, Snowball, Jeanette D
- Authors: Collins, Alan , Fraser, Gavin C G , Snowball, Jeanette D
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70476 , vital:29665 , https://doi.org/10.1126/science.340.6137.1167-a
- Description: IN THEIR POLICY FORUM “LEGAL TRADE OF AFRICA’S RHINO HORNS” (1 MARCH, P. 1038), D. Biggs et al. point out that the trade ban on rhino horn has not been successful in reducing rhino poaching, which reached a record high of 668 in 2012. They argue that trade bans support illegal organizations, whereas a regulated legal market could reduce poaching effort and provide much-needed income for conservation. In making their case, Biggs et al. overlook a few important points.
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- Authors: Collins, Alan , Fraser, Gavin C G , Snowball, Jeanette D
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70476 , vital:29665 , https://doi.org/10.1126/science.340.6137.1167-a
- Description: IN THEIR POLICY FORUM “LEGAL TRADE OF AFRICA’S RHINO HORNS” (1 MARCH, P. 1038), D. Biggs et al. point out that the trade ban on rhino horn has not been successful in reducing rhino poaching, which reached a record high of 668 in 2012. They argue that trade bans support illegal organizations, whereas a regulated legal market could reduce poaching effort and provide much-needed income for conservation. In making their case, Biggs et al. overlook a few important points.
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Sexy girls, heroes and funny losers: gender representations in children's TV around the world edited by Maya Gotz and Dafna Lemish
- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143505 , vital:38252 , DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2013.839116
- Description: Gotz and Lemish have brought together in this volume a range of research which derives from the project they initiated in 2007 from the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI). Researchers in 24 countries around the world participated in this unique project, and the results, discussed at the 2008 and 2010 Prix Jeunesse International, prompted hopes that the producers of children's television would be persuaded to pay more concerted attention to issues of gender in their programming. Whether or not such a utopian outcome might be expected from this initiative is open to future question. For our immediate purposes however, the value of this collection is that it draws together in one volume some of the results from both the original quantitative survey and the subsequent qualitative analyses that examined specific themes emerging from the data.
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- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143505 , vital:38252 , DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2013.839116
- Description: Gotz and Lemish have brought together in this volume a range of research which derives from the project they initiated in 2007 from the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI). Researchers in 24 countries around the world participated in this unique project, and the results, discussed at the 2008 and 2010 Prix Jeunesse International, prompted hopes that the producers of children's television would be persuaded to pay more concerted attention to issues of gender in their programming. Whether or not such a utopian outcome might be expected from this initiative is open to future question. For our immediate purposes however, the value of this collection is that it draws together in one volume some of the results from both the original quantitative survey and the subsequent qualitative analyses that examined specific themes emerging from the data.
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The art of change: perspectives on transformation in South Africa
- Makhubu, Nomusa, Simbao, Ruth K
- Authors: Makhubu, Nomusa , Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147642 , vital:38657 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.798180
- Description: There have been almost two decades of democracy in South Africa, yet rising anger and violent discontent lay bare continuing inequity. It is timely to ask the question: can South Africans really be frank about how meaningful the transformation from oppressive political and economic structures has been? Does the inclination towards neo-liberalism and capitalism in South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracy allow real change? Where economic inequality and spatial divisions still persist and, indeed, are actively reproduced by current market forces, can South Africans really create inclusive and integrative spaces? The Art of Change: Perspectives on Transformation in South Africa confronts some of these issues, reopening debates and encouraging reflection on cultural dynamics in South Africa during the past two decades.
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- Authors: Makhubu, Nomusa , Simbao, Ruth K
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147642 , vital:38657 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1080/09528822.2013.798180
- Description: There have been almost two decades of democracy in South Africa, yet rising anger and violent discontent lay bare continuing inequity. It is timely to ask the question: can South Africans really be frank about how meaningful the transformation from oppressive political and economic structures has been? Does the inclination towards neo-liberalism and capitalism in South Africa’s post-Apartheid democracy allow real change? Where economic inequality and spatial divisions still persist and, indeed, are actively reproduced by current market forces, can South Africans really create inclusive and integrative spaces? The Art of Change: Perspectives on Transformation in South Africa confronts some of these issues, reopening debates and encouraging reflection on cultural dynamics in South Africa during the past two decades.
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The final instar exuvium of Pycna semiclara Germar, 1834 (Hemiptera Cicadidae)
- Midgley, John M, Bouwer, Nicolette, Villet, Martin H
- Authors: Midgley, John M , Bouwer, Nicolette , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440695 , vital:73804 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC136752
- Description: Exuviae of the cicada Pycna semiclara were found next to freshly eclosed adults. The exuvium of Pycna Semiclara is described and illustrated for the first time and a key is presented to distinguish the exuvium of this species from those of Platypleura stridula and Platypleura capensis, the only other species of cicadas from southern Africa for which exuviae have been described.
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- Authors: Midgley, John M , Bouwer, Nicolette , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/440695 , vital:73804 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC136752
- Description: Exuviae of the cicada Pycna semiclara were found next to freshly eclosed adults. The exuvium of Pycna Semiclara is described and illustrated for the first time and a key is presented to distinguish the exuvium of this species from those of Platypleura stridula and Platypleura capensis, the only other species of cicadas from southern Africa for which exuviae have been described.
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The triteness of knowing:
- Authors: Mkhize, Nomalanga
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158587 , vital:40209 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141596
- Description: The de-commodification of English news and the online enclavism of opinion-making among South Africa's young educated elite.
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- Authors: Mkhize, Nomalanga
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158587 , vital:40209 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141596
- Description: The de-commodification of English news and the online enclavism of opinion-making among South Africa's young educated elite.
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Veracity, transparency and inclusivity plus engagement and empowerment: regulations, ethics, accountability
- Authors: Dugmore, Harry , Smith, Jade
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158564 , vital:40207 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141577
- Description: As a centre with a brief to encourage "more and better" health journalism in South Africa, we've had to think hard about definitional issues and about balancing subjective and objective gauges of quality. We've developed an initial appraisal of health journalism, locally and internationally, and we've created a normative framework that we hope will enable journalists and educators to have better discussions about what is meant by quality in health journalism. This framework will hopefully inform what kind of journalism education - degrees, short courses, topic guides, symposia - might promote higher levels of quality in reporting on medical science.
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- Authors: Dugmore, Harry , Smith, Jade
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158564 , vital:40207 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141577
- Description: As a centre with a brief to encourage "more and better" health journalism in South Africa, we've had to think hard about definitional issues and about balancing subjective and objective gauges of quality. We've developed an initial appraisal of health journalism, locally and internationally, and we've created a normative framework that we hope will enable journalists and educators to have better discussions about what is meant by quality in health journalism. This framework will hopefully inform what kind of journalism education - degrees, short courses, topic guides, symposia - might promote higher levels of quality in reporting on medical science.
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Walking the (social media) line: regulations, ethics, accountability
- Authors: Mathurine, Jude
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158576 , vital:40208 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141581
- Description: Journalists are moving from the margins to the mainstream. While media organisations wrap their heads around social media strategies, editors and reporters struggle to keep pace with changing policies, laws and practice.
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- Authors: Mathurine, Jude
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/158576 , vital:40208 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC141581
- Description: Journalists are moving from the margins to the mainstream. While media organisations wrap their heads around social media strategies, editors and reporters struggle to keep pace with changing policies, laws and practice.
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