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A feminist perspective on autonomism and commoning, with reference to Zimbabwe

- Alexander, Tarryn, Helliker, Kirk D

  • Authors: Alexander, Tarryn , Helliker, Kirk D
  • Date: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71374 , vital:29838 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2016.1235353
  • Description: This article engages with the autonomist Marxism of John Holloway from a feminist standpoint. The positions developed by this feminist critique are used to shed new light on the land occupations in contemporary Zimbabwe. Though sympathetic to his work, we argue that Holloway does not sufficiently address gender identity with specific reference to social reproduction and women. The notions of the commons and the process of commoning are consistent with Holloway’s autonomist framework and its complementarities to Silvia Federici’s Marxist feminist lens on the commons is highlighted. Against a tendency within autonomist and commoning theories, we argue for a pronounced identitarian politics as grounded in localised struggles undertaken by women as women. We privilege the significance of women asserting and revaluing their identities as part of a possible project of transformation. For us, struggling against and beyond what exists is invariably rooted in struggles within what exists (including identities).
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Action for increasing energy-saving behaviour in student residences at Rhodes University, South Africa

- Ancha, Angel, Bulunga, Lindelwa, Thondhlana, Gladman

  • Authors: Ancha, Angel , Bulunga, Lindelwa , Thondhlana, Gladman
  • Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67801 , vital:29146 , https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-07-2017-0107
  • Description: Publisher version , Purpose: In response to increasing energy demand and financial constraints to invest in green infrastructure, behaviour change energy-saving interventions are increasingly being considered as a tool for encouraging pro-environmental behaviour in campus residences. This paper aims to report on a pilot programme aimed at reducing energy consumption via behaviour change interventions, variably applied in residences at Rhodes University, South Africa. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected via structured questionnaires, energy consumption records and post-intervention programme focus group discussions. Findings: Participant residences that received a mix of different interventions in the forms of pamphlets, face-to-face discussions, incentives and feedback recorded more energy reductions of up to 9 per cent than residences that received a single or no intervention. In post-experiment discussions, students cited personal, institutional and structural barriers to pro-environmental energy-use behaviour. Practical implications: Overall, the results of this study suggest that information provision of energy-saving tips combined with regular feedback and incentives can result in energy-use reductions in university residences, which may yield environmental and economic benefits for universities, but addressing barriers to pro-environmental behaviour might maximise the results. Originality/value: Given the lack of literature on energy conservation in the global South universities, this study provides the basis for discussing the potential for using behavioural interventions in universities for stirring pathways towards sustainability.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

Archaeopteris (Progymnospermopsida) from the Devonian of southern Africa

- Anderson, Heidi M, Hiller, Norton, Gess, Robert W

  • Authors: Anderson, Heidi M , Hiller, Norton , Gess, Robert W
  • Date: 1995
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72712 , vital:30102 , https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1995.tb02593.x
  • Description: Archaeopteris notosaria sp. nov. based on one fertile and numerous sterile leafy branches is described from the Grahamstown By-Pass locality, Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group) Upper Devonian, and represents the first unequivocal record of the genus in southern Africa. This occurrence is used, in its palaeogeographical context, to support the suggestion that climatic gradients in Late Devonian times were less steep than they are at present.
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  • Date Issued: 1995

The complex immunological and inflammatory network of adipose tissue in obesity

- Apostolopoulos, Vasso, De Courten, Maximilian P J, Stojanovska, Lily, Blatch, Gregory L, Tangalakis, Kathy, De Courten, Barbora

  • Authors: Apostolopoulos, Vasso , De Courten, Maximilian P J , Stojanovska, Lily , Blatch, Gregory L , Tangalakis, Kathy , De Courten, Barbora
  • Date: 2016
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66120 , vital:28905 , https://doi.org/10.1002/mnfr.201500272
  • Description: publisher version , A number of approaches have been utilized in the prevention, management, and treatment of obesity, including, surgery, medication, diet, exercise, and overall lifestyle changes. Despite these interventions, the prevalence of obesity and the various disorders related to it is growing. In obesity, there is a constant state of chronic low‐grade inflammation which is characterized by activation and infiltration of pro‐inflammatory immune cells and a dysregulated production of high levels of pro‐inflammatory cytokines. This pro‐inflammatory milieu contributes to insulin resistance, type‐2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other related co‐morbidities. The roles of the innate (macrophages, neutrophils, eosinophils, mast cells, NK cells, MAIT cells) and the adaptive (CD4 T cells, CD8 T cells, regulatory T cells, and B cells) immune responses and the roles of adipokines and cytokines in adipose tissue inflammation and obesity are discussed. An understanding of the crosstalk between the immune system and adipocytes may shed light in better treatment modalities for obesity and obesity‐related diseases.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Audit, investigation, search, seizure and access to information

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131245 , vital:36541 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: Chapter 5 of the Tax Administration Act, which supplements the various fiscal statutes, empowers SARS to call for information on taxpayers, conduct audits, investigations and in certain instances to search premises and seize goods and records. For this purpose, taxpayers are required to keep proper books and records (see § 8.2 and § 4). The purpose of a tax audit is to verify the accuracy and timing of an assessment, but more specifically to ensure accuracy and full disclosure in terms of the law. In the event that an audit reveals non-compliance, criminal and/or civil charges may be initiated by SARS (see § 8.5).
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Miscellaneous provisions

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131276 , vital:36548 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: Miscellaneous provisions pertaining to tax administration are explained in this chapter.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Dispute resolution

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131084 , vital:36522 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: Chapter 9 of the Tax Administration Act 2011, deals with the objection and appeals processes of the tax Acts administered by SARS in terms of s 4 of the SARS Act, 1997. A taxpayer who is aggrieved by an assessment or a decision in which he has an interest, has the right to object against the assessment or decision.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Registration, returns, assessments and records

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131060 , vital:36520 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: This chapter covers the administrative provisions dealing with the requirements for certain persons to register with SARS, the submission of tax returns, the raising of assessments and the maintenance of records.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Advance rulings

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131195 , vital:36535 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: Chapter 7 of the Tax Administration Act, namely ss 75–90, deals with the formal system and process of the advance tax ruling system. It therefore follows that SARS may now issue advance rulings in respect of all tax types and tax Acts administered by the Commissioner. Procedures and guidelines, in the form of ‘binding general rulings’, for implementation and operation of the ‘advance ruling’ system may be issued by the Commissioner to give effect to the advance tax ruling system.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Administrative penalties

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131225 , vital:36539 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: Provisions dealing with the levying of interest and penalties are contained in the Tax Administration Act and specific provisions also exist in the various tax Acts. Most of the specific penalty provisions in the various tax Acts have been replaced by the general provisions contained in the Tax Administration Act.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Payment of taxes, refunds and SARS’ collection powers

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131264 , vital:36547 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: The Tax Administration Act and the various tax Acts administered by the Commissioner contain specific provisions dealing with the payment and recovery of tax, which are explained in this chapter.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Griqualand West Northern Boundary Commission

- Arnot, David

  • Authors: Arnot, David
  • Date: 1863
  • Subjects: f-sa , No scale 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Griqualand West (South Africa) Maps , South Africa History 1836-1909 Maps
  • Language: English
  • Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105231 , vital:32481 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP416a
  • Description: Griqualand West Northern Boundary Commission, Appendix map C, Filed among the Griqua government records, Colesberg, 1863. Surveyor General Office 1881. Filed by David Arnot, Griqua Secretary, agent and representative of the chief Waterboer and government at Colesberg in letter to his excellency Sir P.E. Wodehouse, her Britannic Majesty's high commissioner for South Africa.
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  • Date Issued: 1863

Cape of Good Hope

- Arrowsmith, John, 1790-1873

Environmental and social recovery asymmetries to large-scale disturbances in small island communities

- Aswani, Shankar, Van Putten, Ingrid, Miñarro, Sara

  • Authors: Aswani, Shankar , Van Putten, Ingrid , Miñarro, Sara
  • Date: 2017
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67325 , vital:29073 , https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2685-2
  • Description: publisher version , People’s livelihoods in tropical small-island developing states are greatly dependent on marine ecosystem services. Yet services such as fisheries and coastal buffering are being degraded at an alarming rate, thus making people increasing vulnerable to protracted and sudden environmental changes. In the context of the occurrences of extreme events such as earthquakes and tsunamis, it is vital to uncover the processes that make people in these island states resilient, or not, to environmental disruptions. This paper compares people’s perceptions of social and environmental impacts after an extreme event in the Western Solomon Islands (11 different villages on 8 different islands) to better understand how knowledge systems influence the coupling of human and natural systems. We examine the factors that contributed to perceptions of respective recovery in the environmental versus the social domains across communities with different traditional governance and modernization characteristics in a tsunami impact gradient. First, we separately assessed, at the community and individual level, the potential determinants of perceived recovery in the environmental and social domains. At the community level, the average values of the perceived environmental and social recovery were calculated for each community (1 year after the tsunami), and at the individual level, normally distributed environmental and social recovery variables (based on the difference in perceptions immediately and 1 year after the tsunami) were used as dependent variables in two General Linear Models. Results suggest that environmental and social resilience are not always coupled correspondingly and, less unexpectedly, that asymmetries during recovery can occur as a result of the underlying social and ecological context and existing adaptive capacity. More generally, the study shows how by evaluating post-disturbance perceptional data in tsunami-affected communities, we can better understand how subjective perceptions of change can affect the (de)-coupling of human and natural systems.
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  • Date Issued: 2017

Untitled reproduction of pen-and-ink sketch by W. Guybon Atherstone from the steps of the Drostdy looking down High Street, dated 3 May 1830

- Atherstone, W. Guybon

  • Authors: Atherstone, W. Guybon
  • Date: 1830-05-03
  • Subjects: South Africa Grahamstown History , Buildings South Africa Grahamstown , South Africa History 1830 , Grahamstown (South Africa) Pictorial works
  • Language: English
  • Type: picture , drawings , still image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170362 , vital:41913 , Gareth Angelbeck private collection
  • Description: Facebook post (dated 22 February 2021) by Gareth Angelbeck: "A reproduction of a pen-and-ink sketch by W. Guybon Atherstone from the steps of the Drostdy looking down High Street, dated 3 May 1830. The three-storied building at the corner of High Street (now Major Frasiers) is known to have been built by Pieter Retief. All subsequent illustrations show it with two stories only, and the alteration must have taken place several decades before the advent of photography. The sketch also shows an open water furrow, leading from the bottom right corner to the top of High Street. This was the public water supply of the town in 1830, which was led to open tanks at various points in the town. Colonel Graham's mimosa tree is shown, in the middle of High Street, a short distance from St. George's Church (later, the Cathedral). This tree, marking the traditional spot where the decision to found Grahamstown was made on 14 August 1812, was destroyed in a gale in 1844. (Ref- Grahamstown in Early Photographs, F van der Riet, David Philip pub, CT, 1974)."
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  • Date Issued: 1830-05-03

Contour plan of Grahamstown

- AWM, Hodge, WA

  • Authors: AWM , Hodge, WA
  • Date: 1934
  • Subjects: Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Maps Maps , South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: cartographic , map
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68301 , vital:29236 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa MP407 , MP407
  • Description: Contour plan of Grahamstown, 1934. Drawn by A.W.M. ; signed by W.A. Hodge, City Engineer. "War time regulations: this plan must not be removed from college premises under any circumstances" signed by E H Wied.
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  • Date Issued: 1934

Contour plan of the city of Grahamstown, 1934

- AWM, Hodge, W M

Plan of the subdivisions of Featherstone's Kloof originally called Kowiefontein showing the portion it is proposed to sell

- AWM, Hodge, WA

Bold man saves tree

- Babiana

Starting again with tree landmarks

- Babiana

  • Authors: Babiana
  • Date: 1972-09-06
  • Subjects: Ficus (Plants) -- South Africa -- Photographs , Fig -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , clippings , ephemera
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73084 , vital:30151
  • Description: Newspaper article: "This huge Moreton Bay wild fig tree in the Port Elizabeth Club grounds (the tree with the biggest spread in the city?) is no doubt one of the "nice lot of seedlings" raised from seed in 1882 by Mr John Wilson. Four were planted in the corners of Trinder Square when it was laid out as a garden in 1888. As the ohter Ficus macrophylla seedlings were distributed "far and wide," the great landmark trees at the corner of Main Road and 17th Avenue, Walmer, were probably from the same lot. (Macro-phylla means long-leafed of big-leafed.)"
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  • Date Issued: 1972-09-06
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