Family language policy in a xenophobic context: The case of Kalanga transnational families in South Africa
- Authors: Maseko, Busani , Nkomo, Dion
- Date: 2024
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468053 , vital:77003 , ISBN , https://hdl.handle.net/10413/23289
- Description: Due to globalisation and people’s mobility, transnational families have become a common feature worldwide. As they settle in host countries, a diminished need and opportunities to use their heritage languages usually follow. This tendency places pressure on immigrant languages, particularly in countries that do not support their teaching in education. In highly ethnicised and racialised contexts like South Africa, parents’ transnational experiences impact decisions regarding language use in identity construction in the host country. This study examines the family language policies of three transnational Zimbabwean Kalanga families in South Africa. It reveals how their language transactions, negotiations and contestations are enmeshed with considerations of the everpresent xenophobic sentiment in South African society. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with parents from three focal Zimbabwean families of Kalanga heritage. The findings show that parents’ experiences of xenophobia in South Africa shape their language acquisition decisions for their children in considerable ways. The preference for acquiring and using Zulu and English at the expense of Kalanga is motivated by parents’ desire and aspiration for their children’s assimilation into a South African identity to minimise exposure to xenophobic attacks, for children’s schooling and general upward social mobility.
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- Authors: Maseko, Busani , Nkomo, Dion
- Date: 2024
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468053 , vital:77003 , ISBN , https://hdl.handle.net/10413/23289
- Description: Due to globalisation and people’s mobility, transnational families have become a common feature worldwide. As they settle in host countries, a diminished need and opportunities to use their heritage languages usually follow. This tendency places pressure on immigrant languages, particularly in countries that do not support their teaching in education. In highly ethnicised and racialised contexts like South Africa, parents’ transnational experiences impact decisions regarding language use in identity construction in the host country. This study examines the family language policies of three transnational Zimbabwean Kalanga families in South Africa. It reveals how their language transactions, negotiations and contestations are enmeshed with considerations of the everpresent xenophobic sentiment in South African society. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with parents from three focal Zimbabwean families of Kalanga heritage. The findings show that parents’ experiences of xenophobia in South Africa shape their language acquisition decisions for their children in considerable ways. The preference for acquiring and using Zulu and English at the expense of Kalanga is motivated by parents’ desire and aspiration for their children’s assimilation into a South African identity to minimise exposure to xenophobic attacks, for children’s schooling and general upward social mobility.
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Analysis of South African Media Coverage of the 2022 KZN Floods
- Aiseng, Kealeboga, Gamede, S
- Authors: Aiseng, Kealeboga , Gamede, S
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455411 , vital:75428 , ISBN , https://tiikmpublishing.com/proceedings/index.php/msdc/article/view/1117
- Description: Literature exists that studies media coverage of natural disasters. The media has the potential to influence how governments react to disasters, how emergency services handle disasters, and how people receive and react to the news of disasters. However, the media sometimes sensationalizes the news about the disasters and focus on other manifestations such as panic, looting, shock, emerging heroes and villains, human conflict, and suffering. This study aims to analyze the media coverage of the 2022 floods in the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in South Africa. In particular, the study seeks to evaluate if there was media coverage of the floods and what the contents of the coverage were. The study used content analysis to examine the presence of KZN floods from three selected online newspapers, focusing on whether the floods were covered, and which issues or themes dominated the reporting of the floods. The aim here was to examine the role that the media played during this disaster in South Africa. Content analysis was used to note the number of stories covered during the KZN floods in the media, the key themes that dominated the coverage of the floods and factors that influenced the media coverage of the floods. The selected online newspapers are News24, Independent Online (IOL) and TimesLive. These newspapers were purposively selected because of their wider national readership, the ideology of the newspaper, strong online presence, and type/style of reporting. Based on the above-presented data, we argue that there was sufficient coverage of the KZN floods in South African media. The study also discovered that the following issues or stories dominated the reporting/coverage of floods: disaster management, casualties, relief measures, the role of the government, business interests, the role of opposition parties, destruction of infrastructure, and effects on social life.
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- Authors: Aiseng, Kealeboga , Gamede, S
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455411 , vital:75428 , ISBN , https://tiikmpublishing.com/proceedings/index.php/msdc/article/view/1117
- Description: Literature exists that studies media coverage of natural disasters. The media has the potential to influence how governments react to disasters, how emergency services handle disasters, and how people receive and react to the news of disasters. However, the media sometimes sensationalizes the news about the disasters and focus on other manifestations such as panic, looting, shock, emerging heroes and villains, human conflict, and suffering. This study aims to analyze the media coverage of the 2022 floods in the province of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in South Africa. In particular, the study seeks to evaluate if there was media coverage of the floods and what the contents of the coverage were. The study used content analysis to examine the presence of KZN floods from three selected online newspapers, focusing on whether the floods were covered, and which issues or themes dominated the reporting of the floods. The aim here was to examine the role that the media played during this disaster in South Africa. Content analysis was used to note the number of stories covered during the KZN floods in the media, the key themes that dominated the coverage of the floods and factors that influenced the media coverage of the floods. The selected online newspapers are News24, Independent Online (IOL) and TimesLive. These newspapers were purposively selected because of their wider national readership, the ideology of the newspaper, strong online presence, and type/style of reporting. Based on the above-presented data, we argue that there was sufficient coverage of the KZN floods in South African media. The study also discovered that the following issues or stories dominated the reporting/coverage of floods: disaster management, casualties, relief measures, the role of the government, business interests, the role of opposition parties, destruction of infrastructure, and effects on social life.
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Rhodes University Research Report 2023: a year in review
- Roberts, Jaine, Mantolo, Thumeka, Nzwanga, Anela
- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , Nzwanga, Anela
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473277 , vital:77625 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: Our university continues to be a formidable powerhouse of research, innovation and intellectual creativity. Our intellectual space continues to be our strength as we endeavour to make our contribution to local, national, continental and international solutions to some of the daunting challenges of our time. Our researchers continue to produce path-breaking research and creative outputs which expand the frontiers of knowledge and propel humanity forward; knowledge which contributes to the improvement of the quality of life, the advancement of sustainable development and the deepening of human understanding and wisdom.
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- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , Nzwanga, Anela
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473277 , vital:77625 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: Our university continues to be a formidable powerhouse of research, innovation and intellectual creativity. Our intellectual space continues to be our strength as we endeavour to make our contribution to local, national, continental and international solutions to some of the daunting challenges of our time. Our researchers continue to produce path-breaking research and creative outputs which expand the frontiers of knowledge and propel humanity forward; knowledge which contributes to the improvement of the quality of life, the advancement of sustainable development and the deepening of human understanding and wisdom.
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Short Course Handouts Bundle for the Training of Trainers Course: Introductory course to facilitating social learning and stakeholder engagement in natural resource management contexts
- Weaver, Martin, Rosenberg, Eureta, Cockburn, Jessica J, Thifhulufhelwi, Reuben, Chetty, Preven, Mponwana, Maletje, Mvulane, P
- Authors: Weaver, Martin , Rosenberg, Eureta , Cockburn, Jessica J , Thifhulufhelwi, Reuben , Chetty, Preven , Mponwana, Maletje , Mvulane, P
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: Social learning , Stakeholder management , Natural resources Management , Community education
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/338822 , vital:62456 , ISBN
- Description: This document is a compilation of the course handouts (materials) developed and produced for the “Training of Trainers” Short Course – the full title of which is the: “Introductory course to facilitating social learning and stakeholder engagement in natural resource management contexts”.
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- Authors: Weaver, Martin , Rosenberg, Eureta , Cockburn, Jessica J , Thifhulufhelwi, Reuben , Chetty, Preven , Mponwana, Maletje , Mvulane, P
- Date: 2023
- Subjects: Social learning , Stakeholder management , Natural resources Management , Community education
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/338822 , vital:62456 , ISBN
- Description: This document is a compilation of the course handouts (materials) developed and produced for the “Training of Trainers” Short Course – the full title of which is the: “Introductory course to facilitating social learning and stakeholder engagement in natural resource management contexts”.
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Planetary Urgency, Researcher Reflexivity and ESE Research: Questions Arising from an Initial Exploration of Goethean-inspired Phenomenology
- Authors: Olvitt, Lausanne L
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437541 , vital:73392 , ISBN
- Description: Many of the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are currently influential in Environment and Sustainability Education (ESE) research in South Africa foreground interventionist research, activism, causal explanation, critique, social-ecological transformation and decoloniality. These frameworks guide ESE researchers to design, implement and report on research in particular ways, hence influencing how social-ecological phenomena, learning and social change are understood and enacted. In this essay, I present some exploratory perspectives on the relevance and potential contribution of phenomenological approaches to ESE research, especially Goethean inspired observation.
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- Authors: Olvitt, Lausanne L
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437541 , vital:73392 , ISBN
- Description: Many of the theoretical and methodological frameworks that are currently influential in Environment and Sustainability Education (ESE) research in South Africa foreground interventionist research, activism, causal explanation, critique, social-ecological transformation and decoloniality. These frameworks guide ESE researchers to design, implement and report on research in particular ways, hence influencing how social-ecological phenomena, learning and social change are understood and enacted. In this essay, I present some exploratory perspectives on the relevance and potential contribution of phenomenological approaches to ESE research, especially Goethean inspired observation.
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Rhodes University Research Report 2022: a year in review
- Roberts, Jaine, Mantolo, Thumeka, Nzwanga, Anela
- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , Nzwanga, Anela
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473263 , vital:77624 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: 2022 was a year in which Rhodes University reviewed its purpose and reimagined its future. All stakeholders, ranging from current students and staff, to alumni, collaborators, community partners, councillors, governors and funders, were invited to participate in the process of reflection and reimagination, and to craft a new roadmap. This culminated in the University Council adopting a revised Institutional Development Plan (IDP) at its final meeting of 2022.
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- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , Nzwanga, Anela
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473263 , vital:77624 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: 2022 was a year in which Rhodes University reviewed its purpose and reimagined its future. All stakeholders, ranging from current students and staff, to alumni, collaborators, community partners, councillors, governors and funders, were invited to participate in the process of reflection and reimagination, and to craft a new roadmap. This culminated in the University Council adopting a revised Institutional Development Plan (IDP) at its final meeting of 2022.
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The (Slow) Urgency of Socio-cological Justice in ESE–Listening to Children in Marginalized Positions in ESE
- Jørgensen, Nanna J, James, Anna
- Authors: Jørgensen, Nanna J , James, Anna
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437526 , vital:73391 , ISBN
- Description: As a contribution to discussions about how ESE research respond to increasing urgency and climate emergencies, this essay discusses the relation between education and the pursuit of societal transformation with a view to questions of socio-ecological justice. Our research interest centers on young children’s participation and voice, on the inequalities which constitute barriers to this participation, and on the potentials of a more fine-tuned pedagogy which listens to children’s voices and their relations with the non-human environment in our research practices. This listening is a radical process of unlearning and rethinking ‘urgency’. The essay is based on an ongoing dialogue about how research on sustainability education might respond to the voices of children in marginalized positions across two very different geographical and socio-cultural settings–the Danish welfare state and post-apartheid South Africa (see James and Jørgensen, forthcoming). Here we draw attention to the dangers of assumptions underlying urgency (dualism and instrumentalism) and the voices of young children in research as a practice that resists these dangers.
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- Authors: Jørgensen, Nanna J , James, Anna
- Date: 2022
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437526 , vital:73391 , ISBN
- Description: As a contribution to discussions about how ESE research respond to increasing urgency and climate emergencies, this essay discusses the relation between education and the pursuit of societal transformation with a view to questions of socio-ecological justice. Our research interest centers on young children’s participation and voice, on the inequalities which constitute barriers to this participation, and on the potentials of a more fine-tuned pedagogy which listens to children’s voices and their relations with the non-human environment in our research practices. This listening is a radical process of unlearning and rethinking ‘urgency’. The essay is based on an ongoing dialogue about how research on sustainability education might respond to the voices of children in marginalized positions across two very different geographical and socio-cultural settings–the Danish welfare state and post-apartheid South Africa (see James and Jørgensen, forthcoming). Here we draw attention to the dangers of assumptions underlying urgency (dualism and instrumentalism) and the voices of young children in research as a practice that resists these dangers.
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Rhodes University Research Report 2021: a year in review
- Roberts, Jaine, Mantolo, Thumeka, De Vos, Nicole, Nzwanga, Anela
- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , De Vos, Nicole , Nzwanga, Anela
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473253 , vital:77623 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: Rhodes University offers its students, researchers, and collaborators a rich and distinctive intellectual space. One of its differentiators is that it is the only South African research intensive university situated in a rural area. Moreover, Rhodes University is located in an impoverished region bedevilled with high levels of poverty and unemployment. This relatively unique characteristic has significant implications for the way its mandate as a research-led institution is fulfilled, and will continue to be fulfilled in the future. The relatively unique context of Rhodes University is played out in the nexus of research, teaching and learning, and community engagement. Engaged research is a significant feature of our knowledge production, and we strive to make ourselves simultaneously locally responsive and globally connected. The award by the Talloires Global Network of Engaged Universities of the prestigious MacJannet Prize to Rhodes University’s Nine-Tenths Programme in 2021 was wonderful affirmation of our strategy to be locally impactful while also being globally influential.
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- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , De Vos, Nicole , Nzwanga, Anela
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473253 , vital:77623 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: Rhodes University offers its students, researchers, and collaborators a rich and distinctive intellectual space. One of its differentiators is that it is the only South African research intensive university situated in a rural area. Moreover, Rhodes University is located in an impoverished region bedevilled with high levels of poverty and unemployment. This relatively unique characteristic has significant implications for the way its mandate as a research-led institution is fulfilled, and will continue to be fulfilled in the future. The relatively unique context of Rhodes University is played out in the nexus of research, teaching and learning, and community engagement. Engaged research is a significant feature of our knowledge production, and we strive to make ourselves simultaneously locally responsive and globally connected. The award by the Talloires Global Network of Engaged Universities of the prestigious MacJannet Prize to Rhodes University’s Nine-Tenths Programme in 2021 was wonderful affirmation of our strategy to be locally impactful while also being globally influential.
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Regulation of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Biology by Host Molecular Chaperones:
- Kirigin, Elisa, Ruck, Duncan Kyle, Jackson, Zoe, Murphy, James, McDonnell, Euan, Okpara, Michael O, Whitehouse, Adrian, Edkins, Adrienne L
- Authors: Kirigin, Elisa , Ruck, Duncan Kyle , Jackson, Zoe , Murphy, James , McDonnell, Euan , Okpara, Michael O , Whitehouse, Adrian , Edkins, Adrienne L
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165385 , vital:41239 , ISBN , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/7515_2020_18
- Description: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a gammaherpesvirus associated with development of the human diseases Kaposi’s sarcoma, Primary Effusion Lymphoma and Multicentric Castleman’s Disease. KSHV establishes a chronic latent infection in hosts, with periods of viral lytic replication, where both latent and lytic virus cycles contribute to malignancy, most often in the immunodeficient host.
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- Authors: Kirigin, Elisa , Ruck, Duncan Kyle , Jackson, Zoe , Murphy, James , McDonnell, Euan , Okpara, Michael O , Whitehouse, Adrian , Edkins, Adrienne L
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165385 , vital:41239 , ISBN , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/7515_2020_18
- Description: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a gammaherpesvirus associated with development of the human diseases Kaposi’s sarcoma, Primary Effusion Lymphoma and Multicentric Castleman’s Disease. KSHV establishes a chronic latent infection in hosts, with periods of viral lytic replication, where both latent and lytic virus cycles contribute to malignancy, most often in the immunodeficient host.
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Rhodes University Research Report 2020: a year in review
- Roberts, Jaine, Mantolo, Thumeka, De Vos, Nicole
- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , De Vos, Nicole
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473241 , vital:77622 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: This was a year like no other in living memory. Since March 2020, our institution has been operating under COVID-19 pandemic conditions, in various levels of lockdown, with a blend on-line and physical activities. Research-based postgraduate students were amongst the first to return in May 2020, as lockdown levels permitted, particularly those whose work was dependent upon access to physical resources of the campus.
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- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Mantolo, Thumeka , De Vos, Nicole
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473241 , vital:77622 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: This was a year like no other in living memory. Since March 2020, our institution has been operating under COVID-19 pandemic conditions, in various levels of lockdown, with a blend on-line and physical activities. Research-based postgraduate students were amongst the first to return in May 2020, as lockdown levels permitted, particularly those whose work was dependent upon access to physical resources of the campus.
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South Africa’s trade in cultural goods and services with a focus on cultural trade with BRICS partners
- Cattaneo, Nicolette S, Snowball, Jeanette D
- Authors: Cattaneo, Nicolette S , Snowball, Jeanette D
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/470339 , vital:77350 , ISBN , https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2015.1069208
- Description: This article examines the potential role the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) could play in stabilising countries experiencing a high degree of economic volatility. The CRA is a US$100 billion pooled reserve fund that has its origins in the fifth BRICS Summit hosted in Durban. The CRA was set up to help emerging nations deal with liquidity shortages and to strengthen financial systems during crisis. The article examines the debate on the effect of capital market liberalisation and collates some relevant macroeconomic data on the BRICS economies in order to explore the case for a contingent reserve facility. It is found that emerging economies that rapidly liberalised their capital accounts experienced increased economic volatility, creating an uncertain macroeconomic environment and hampering the ability of policymakers to conduct appropriate stabilisation policy. The article takes the position that the CRA could play an important role in providing liquidity to distressed emerging economies. However it concludes that the CRA facility does not signal a significant break from the Bretton Woods institutions on the part of the BRICS countries.
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- Authors: Cattaneo, Nicolette S , Snowball, Jeanette D
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/470339 , vital:77350 , ISBN , https://doi.org/10.1080/10220461.2015.1069208
- Description: This article examines the potential role the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (CRA) could play in stabilising countries experiencing a high degree of economic volatility. The CRA is a US$100 billion pooled reserve fund that has its origins in the fifth BRICS Summit hosted in Durban. The CRA was set up to help emerging nations deal with liquidity shortages and to strengthen financial systems during crisis. The article examines the debate on the effect of capital market liberalisation and collates some relevant macroeconomic data on the BRICS economies in order to explore the case for a contingent reserve facility. It is found that emerging economies that rapidly liberalised their capital accounts experienced increased economic volatility, creating an uncertain macroeconomic environment and hampering the ability of policymakers to conduct appropriate stabilisation policy. The article takes the position that the CRA could play an important role in providing liquidity to distressed emerging economies. However it concludes that the CRA facility does not signal a significant break from the Bretton Woods institutions on the part of the BRICS countries.
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Intellectualisation of African languages: past, present and future
- Kaschula, Russell H, Nkomo, Dion
- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Nkomo, Dion
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174728 , vital:42504 , ISBN , https://icl20capetown.com/
- Description: This paper discusses the intellectualisation of African languages from a historical perspective. It explores how different historical epochs ascribed certain values on African languages, thereby facilitating or impeding the development of the languages, which remain in urgent need of transformation into fully functional languages in modern society. Such an exploration is not undertaken for the purposes of generating another historical account or rivalling others already in place, but in order to contribute towards understanding the integral role of African languages in the broader decolonisation and transformation endeavours across the continent.
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- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Nkomo, Dion
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174728 , vital:42504 , ISBN , https://icl20capetown.com/
- Description: This paper discusses the intellectualisation of African languages from a historical perspective. It explores how different historical epochs ascribed certain values on African languages, thereby facilitating or impeding the development of the languages, which remain in urgent need of transformation into fully functional languages in modern society. Such an exploration is not undertaken for the purposes of generating another historical account or rivalling others already in place, but in order to contribute towards understanding the integral role of African languages in the broader decolonisation and transformation endeavours across the continent.
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Rhodes University Research Report 2019: a year in review
- Roberts, Jaine, Macgregor, Jill, Mantolo, Thumeka
- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Macgregor, Jill , Mantolo, Thumeka
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473231 , vital:77621 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: The pages of this report outline the strong research trajectory of our institution, and the many facets of our work that give effect to our context, our local and national partnerships, and our collaborations on the African continent and beyond. Rhodes University is very fortunate to have outstanding, dedicated and committed academic and support staff who take a deep and keen interest in the growth, development and academic success of each and every one of our students, as well as in the social and natural environment that surrounds us.
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- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Macgregor, Jill , Mantolo, Thumeka
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473231 , vital:77621 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: The pages of this report outline the strong research trajectory of our institution, and the many facets of our work that give effect to our context, our local and national partnerships, and our collaborations on the African continent and beyond. Rhodes University is very fortunate to have outstanding, dedicated and committed academic and support staff who take a deep and keen interest in the growth, development and academic success of each and every one of our students, as well as in the social and natural environment that surrounds us.
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The Politics of Language Education in Africa:
- Kaschula, Russell H, Kretzer, Michael M
- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Kretzer, Michael M
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174739 , vital:42505 , ISBN , https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.750
- Description: Language policies in sub-Saharan African nations emerge out of specific political, historical, socioeconomic, and linguistic conditions. Education plays a crucial role for all spheres of language policy. Policies either upgrade or downgrade indigenous languages through their application at various educational institutions. The most significant example is the selection of the language (s) used as languages of learning and teaching at higher-education institutions. The region’s colonial history also influences the language policies of the independent African states. Language policy in Senegal is an example of a francophone country focusing on a linguistic assimilation policy in which minor reforms in favor of indigenous languages have taken place.
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- Authors: Kaschula, Russell H , Kretzer, Michael M
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/174739 , vital:42505 , ISBN , https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.750
- Description: Language policies in sub-Saharan African nations emerge out of specific political, historical, socioeconomic, and linguistic conditions. Education plays a crucial role for all spheres of language policy. Policies either upgrade or downgrade indigenous languages through their application at various educational institutions. The most significant example is the selection of the language (s) used as languages of learning and teaching at higher-education institutions. The region’s colonial history also influences the language policies of the independent African states. Language policy in Senegal is an example of a francophone country focusing on a linguistic assimilation policy in which minor reforms in favor of indigenous languages have taken place.
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Rhodes University Research Report 2018 a year in review
- Roberts, Jaine, Macgregor, Jill, Mantolo, Thumeka, Gillitt, Tarryn
- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Macgregor, Jill , Mantolo, Thumeka , Gillitt, Tarryn
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473220 , vital:77620 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: Overarching our Institutional Transformation Plan are four core operational principles that guide our intellectual community and are intended to permeate every aspect of the life of our University. These are: 1. Sustainability - conceptualised and understood in the broadest possible sense, and not just environmental or financial sustainability; 2. Being simultaneously locally responsive and relevant, as well as globally engaged, so that we can enter the global knowledge system from our own position of strength and thereby enrich the accumulated stock of knowledge; 3. The advancement of social jus-tice; and 4. The public good purpose and value of higher education. These core principles are intended to be embedded into our teaching and learning, research, community engagement, and every aspect of the life of our University. The pages of this report outline the strong research trajectory that Rhodes University is on, which gives effect to these prin-ciples with increasing degrees of engaged research, and partner collabo-rations on the African continent and beyond. Rhodes University is very fortunate to have outstanding, dedicated and committed academic and support staff who take a deep and keen interest in the growth, develop-ment and academic success of each and every one of our students, as well as in the social and natural environment that surrounds us. The re-sults of the 2018 academic year were celebrated during a bumper grad-uation weekend in April 2019, in which a total of 2321 graduates were capped at six graduation ceremonies, 46% of whom were Postgraduates, 61% were women, and 19% were international students.
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- Authors: Roberts, Jaine , Macgregor, Jill , Mantolo, Thumeka , Gillitt, Tarryn
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473220 , vital:77620 , ISBN , https://www.ru.ac.za/researchgateway/researchexcellence/annualresearchreports/
- Description: From Foreword by Dr Sizwe Mabizela: Overarching our Institutional Transformation Plan are four core operational principles that guide our intellectual community and are intended to permeate every aspect of the life of our University. These are: 1. Sustainability - conceptualised and understood in the broadest possible sense, and not just environmental or financial sustainability; 2. Being simultaneously locally responsive and relevant, as well as globally engaged, so that we can enter the global knowledge system from our own position of strength and thereby enrich the accumulated stock of knowledge; 3. The advancement of social jus-tice; and 4. The public good purpose and value of higher education. These core principles are intended to be embedded into our teaching and learning, research, community engagement, and every aspect of the life of our University. The pages of this report outline the strong research trajectory that Rhodes University is on, which gives effect to these prin-ciples with increasing degrees of engaged research, and partner collabo-rations on the African continent and beyond. Rhodes University is very fortunate to have outstanding, dedicated and committed academic and support staff who take a deep and keen interest in the growth, develop-ment and academic success of each and every one of our students, as well as in the social and natural environment that surrounds us. The re-sults of the 2018 academic year were celebrated during a bumper grad-uation weekend in April 2019, in which a total of 2321 graduates were capped at six graduation ceremonies, 46% of whom were Postgraduates, 61% were women, and 19% were international students.
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Allopatric speciation in the flightless Phoberus capensis (Coleoptera: Trogidae) group, with description of two new species
- Strümpher, Werner P, Sole, Catherine L, Villet, Martin H, Scholtz, Clarke H
- Authors: Strümpher, Werner P , Sole, Catherine L , Villet, Martin H , Scholtz, Clarke H
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442730 , vital:74028 , ISBN , https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/47/2/article-p149_4.xml
- Description: The name Phoberus capensis (Scholtz) is applied to a small flightless, keratinophagous beetle endemic to the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. Its gross distribution stretches from roughly 1000 km from the Cederberg (32°24’22” S, 19°04’50” E) to Grahamstown (33°20’07” S, 26°32’50” E). The populations are spatially discrete, restricted to relict forests of the southern Cape and disjunct high montane refugia of the Cape Fold Mountains. We test the hypothesis that there is more than one distinct species nested within the name P . capensis . Phylogenetic relationships among populations were inferred using molecular sequence data. The results support three distinct evolutionary lineages, which were also supported by morphological characters. Divergence time estimates suggest Pliocene-Pleistocene diversification. Based on these results, it is suggested that the P. capensis lineage experienced climatically-driven allopatric speciation with sheltered Afrotemperate forests and high mountain peaks serving as important refugia in response to climatic ameliorations. The P. capensis complex thus represents a speciation process in which flight-restricted populations evolved in close allopatry, possibly as recently as the Pleistocene. Two divergent and geographically distinct lineages are described as novel species: The new species, P . disjunctus sp. n. and P . herminae sp. n., are illustrated by photographs of habitus and male aedeagi.
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- Authors: Strümpher, Werner P , Sole, Catherine L , Villet, Martin H , Scholtz, Clarke H
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442730 , vital:74028 , ISBN , https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/47/2/article-p149_4.xml
- Description: The name Phoberus capensis (Scholtz) is applied to a small flightless, keratinophagous beetle endemic to the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. Its gross distribution stretches from roughly 1000 km from the Cederberg (32°24’22” S, 19°04’50” E) to Grahamstown (33°20’07” S, 26°32’50” E). The populations are spatially discrete, restricted to relict forests of the southern Cape and disjunct high montane refugia of the Cape Fold Mountains. We test the hypothesis that there is more than one distinct species nested within the name P . capensis . Phylogenetic relationships among populations were inferred using molecular sequence data. The results support three distinct evolutionary lineages, which were also supported by morphological characters. Divergence time estimates suggest Pliocene-Pleistocene diversification. Based on these results, it is suggested that the P. capensis lineage experienced climatically-driven allopatric speciation with sheltered Afrotemperate forests and high mountain peaks serving as important refugia in response to climatic ameliorations. The P. capensis complex thus represents a speciation process in which flight-restricted populations evolved in close allopatry, possibly as recently as the Pleistocene. Two divergent and geographically distinct lineages are described as novel species: The new species, P . disjunctus sp. n. and P . herminae sp. n., are illustrated by photographs of habitus and male aedeagi.
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Overview and revision of the extant genera and subgenera of Trogidae (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea).
- Strümpher, Werner P, Villet, Martin H, Sole, Catherine L, Scholtz, Clarke H
- Authors: Strümpher, Werner P , Villet, Martin H , Sole, Catherine L , Scholtz, Clarke H
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442743 , vital:74029 , ISBN , https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/47/1/article-p53_4.xml
- Description: Extant genera and subgenera of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) are reviewed. Contemporary classifications of this family have been based exclusively on morphological characters. The first molecular phylogeny for the family recently provided strong support for the relationships between morphologically defined genera and subgenera. On the basis of morphological, molecular and biogeographical evidence, certain taxonomic changes to the genus-level classification of the family are now proposed. The family is confirmed as consisting of two subfamilies, Omorginae Nikolajev and Troginae MacLeay, the former with two genera, Omorgus Erichson and Polynoncus Burmeister, and the latter with two genera, Trox Fabricius and Phoberus MacLeay stat. rev. Phoberus is restored to generic rank to include all Afrotropical (including Madagascan endemic) species; Afromorgus is confirmed at subgeneric rank within the genus Omorgus ; and the monotypic Madagascan genus Madagatrox syn. n. is synonymised with Phoberus. The current synonymies of Pseudotrox Robinson (with Trox ), Chesas Burmeister, Lagopelus Burmeister and Megalotrox Preudhomme de Borre (all with Omorgus ) are all accepted to avoid creating speculative synonyms before definitive phylogenetic evidence is available.
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- Authors: Strümpher, Werner P , Villet, Martin H , Sole, Catherine L , Scholtz, Clarke H
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442743 , vital:74029 , ISBN , https://brill.com/view/journals/ise/47/1/article-p53_4.xml
- Description: Extant genera and subgenera of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) are reviewed. Contemporary classifications of this family have been based exclusively on morphological characters. The first molecular phylogeny for the family recently provided strong support for the relationships between morphologically defined genera and subgenera. On the basis of morphological, molecular and biogeographical evidence, certain taxonomic changes to the genus-level classification of the family are now proposed. The family is confirmed as consisting of two subfamilies, Omorginae Nikolajev and Troginae MacLeay, the former with two genera, Omorgus Erichson and Polynoncus Burmeister, and the latter with two genera, Trox Fabricius and Phoberus MacLeay stat. rev. Phoberus is restored to generic rank to include all Afrotropical (including Madagascan endemic) species; Afromorgus is confirmed at subgeneric rank within the genus Omorgus ; and the monotypic Madagascan genus Madagatrox syn. n. is synonymised with Phoberus. The current synonymies of Pseudotrox Robinson (with Trox ), Chesas Burmeister, Lagopelus Burmeister and Megalotrox Preudhomme de Borre (all with Omorgus ) are all accepted to avoid creating speculative synonyms before definitive phylogenetic evidence is available.
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"I want to kill myself!": identity documents and mental health in the South African Daily Sun tabloid
- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143549 , vital:38256 , ISBN , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: An Identity Document (ID) is needed by South Africans to study, apply for a pension or get married. However, Home Affairs, the state department responsible for issuing them, is poorly managed. The popular Daily Sun tabloid newspaper mediates for its five million working class readers the frustration caused by this incompetency in its “Horror Affairs” column. Readers tell their stories about (not) getting their IDs, stories often of suicide, depression and “giving up” on life. Using a Lacanian frame, and through a close reading of “Horror Affairs” texts, I argue that this tabloid plays a therapeutic role for its socially marginalised readers by mediating the “invisibility” engendered by the modernising state and its administrative technologies. Given the concern about high rates of mental health illness in South Africa, the research also demonstrates how popular culture forms can alert health care practitioners to issues which may otherwise go unnoticed.
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- Authors: Boshoff, Priscilla A
- Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143549 , vital:38256 , ISBN , https://ischp.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/ischp_2015_abstract_booklet.pdf
- Description: An Identity Document (ID) is needed by South Africans to study, apply for a pension or get married. However, Home Affairs, the state department responsible for issuing them, is poorly managed. The popular Daily Sun tabloid newspaper mediates for its five million working class readers the frustration caused by this incompetency in its “Horror Affairs” column. Readers tell their stories about (not) getting their IDs, stories often of suicide, depression and “giving up” on life. Using a Lacanian frame, and through a close reading of “Horror Affairs” texts, I argue that this tabloid plays a therapeutic role for its socially marginalised readers by mediating the “invisibility” engendered by the modernising state and its administrative technologies. Given the concern about high rates of mental health illness in South Africa, the research also demonstrates how popular culture forms can alert health care practitioners to issues which may otherwise go unnoticed.
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Diversity in Human Sexuality: Implications for Policy in Africa
- Authors: Dugmore, Harry
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453379 , vital:75249 , ISBN , https://doi.org/10.17159/assaf/0022
- Description: Although two-thirds of countries in the world no longer outlaw lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) relationships, same-sex relationships are still illegal in 76 countries. In the recent past, new laws have been passed in Russia, India, Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon and Uganda and are being contemplated in other countries to further prohibit same-sex relationships or the so-called ‘promotion of homosexuality’. There is evidence that such new laws precipitate negative consequences not just for LGBTI persons and communities, but also for societies as a whole, including the rapid reversal of key public health gains, particularly in terms of HIV and AIDS and other sexual health programmes, increases in levels of social violence, some evidence of reduced economic growth, and the diversion of attention from sexual and other violence against women and children.
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- Authors: Dugmore, Harry
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , report
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453379 , vital:75249 , ISBN , https://doi.org/10.17159/assaf/0022
- Description: Although two-thirds of countries in the world no longer outlaw lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) relationships, same-sex relationships are still illegal in 76 countries. In the recent past, new laws have been passed in Russia, India, Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon and Uganda and are being contemplated in other countries to further prohibit same-sex relationships or the so-called ‘promotion of homosexuality’. There is evidence that such new laws precipitate negative consequences not just for LGBTI persons and communities, but also for societies as a whole, including the rapid reversal of key public health gains, particularly in terms of HIV and AIDS and other sexual health programmes, increases in levels of social violence, some evidence of reduced economic growth, and the diversion of attention from sexual and other violence against women and children.
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Standard Practices
- Amendt, Jens, Anderson, G, Campobasso, Carlo P, Dadour, I R, Gaudry, E, Hall, Martin J R, Moretti, T C, Sukontason, K L, Villet, Martin H
- Authors: Amendt, Jens , Anderson, G , Campobasso, Carlo P , Dadour, I R , Gaudry, E , Hall, Martin J R , Moretti, T C , Sukontason, K L , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442821 , vital:74036 , ISBN , https://www.routledge.com/Forensic-Entomology-International-Dimensions-and-Frontiers/Tomberlin-Benbow/p/book/9780367575885
- Description: The use of forensic entomology has become established as a global science. Recent efforts in the field bridge multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, microbiology, chemistry, genetics, and systematics as well as ecology and evolution. The first book of its kind, Forensic Entomology: International Dimensions and Frontiers provides an inclusive summary of worldwide research on this body of knowledge that integrates aspects of a wide range of scientific realms. The book first reviews the history of forensic entomology, its accomplishments, and future challenges in nations around the world. It then provides perspectives of other scientific disciplines that are shaping the questions being addressed in the field.
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- Authors: Amendt, Jens , Anderson, G , Campobasso, Carlo P , Dadour, I R , Gaudry, E , Hall, Martin J R , Moretti, T C , Sukontason, K L , Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book chapter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/442821 , vital:74036 , ISBN , https://www.routledge.com/Forensic-Entomology-International-Dimensions-and-Frontiers/Tomberlin-Benbow/p/book/9780367575885
- Description: The use of forensic entomology has become established as a global science. Recent efforts in the field bridge multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, microbiology, chemistry, genetics, and systematics as well as ecology and evolution. The first book of its kind, Forensic Entomology: International Dimensions and Frontiers provides an inclusive summary of worldwide research on this body of knowledge that integrates aspects of a wide range of scientific realms. The book first reviews the history of forensic entomology, its accomplishments, and future challenges in nations around the world. It then provides perspectives of other scientific disciplines that are shaping the questions being addressed in the field.
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