"Something rotten in this age of hope": Wesley Deintje directs The HamletMachine (Rhodes University Theatre, 28 September 2007)
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7048 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007390
- Description: Heiner Müller’s most famous play (Die Hamletmaschine, 1977) has evolved into something of a familiar war-horse for student theatre. The United States in particular has taken to the work; indeed, it was meant in part for them: “Heil Coca-cola!” says the script. For today’s South African ears this has become, very aptly, “Hail the Rainbow Nation!” What young director can resist it? Only eight pages in extent, the sparse yet densely referential text offers unfettered scope for interpretation and contextualization. Sure, the original offered Muller’s despairing take on the collapse of western civilisation, typified in the East German predicament where intellectuals felt trapped between the total failure of ‘actually existing socialism’ – that ideological mirage – in the German Democratic Republic, and the horrors of emergent bandit capitalism presaging an uncomfortable future. But the spaces in the text are so capacious that almost any claim to climactic despair can be entertained: idiot consumerism, gender oppression and aggression, political treachery and malfeasance, fascism, existential angst, intellectual cowardice, the postmodern condition, the rejection of hope.
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- Date Issued: 2008
'Respecting the racist': racism at work
- Authors: Martin, Tom
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454867 , vital:75382 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC144722
- Description: Racists can believe some pretty odd things, I'm not talking about the completely out-of-left field, lunatic fringe racists who might believe that God deems that white people have dominion over black people, or that there is a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.
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- Date Issued: 2001
'Respecting the racist’: racism at work
- Authors: Martin, Tom
- Date: 2001
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159079 , vital:40265 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC1447221
- Description: Racists can believe some pretty odd things, I'm not talking about the completely out-of-left field, lunatic fringe racists who might believe that God deems that white people have dominion over black people, or that there is a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.
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- Date Issued: 2001
40 000 years of climatic change in the Eastern Cape
- Authors: Lewis, Colin A
- Date: 2008
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6711 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006748
- Description: This article outlines the major climatic conditions that have occurred in the Eastern Cape over the last 40 000 years. They have been dated using radiocarbon analyses. Changes that are older than 40 000 years are beyond the range of radiocarbon dating and are not discussed.
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- Date Issued: 2008
A call to halt destructive, illegal mining in Zimbabwe
- Authors: Dalu, Mwazvita T B , Wasserman, Ryan J , Dalu, Tatenda
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480355 , vital:78434 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC-b45d9ad6
- Description: Amidst the socio-economic meltdown in Zimbabwe, increased illegal mining activities on recently discovered diamond and gold deposits have given local people a source of livelihood. The problem of illegal gold mining is fast spreading through the Eastern Highlands and other parts of the country, as hundreds of artisanal gold miners swarm to the area, tearing up natural forests and plantations. Illegal mining operations are now rampant in the Chimanimani Mountains, a narrow belt located on the eastern Zimbabwean/western Mozambican border. The hilly and generally inaccessible nature of these mountains has preserved much of the native flora and fauna, including some endemic or near endemic animals and plants, and thus they are an important habitat. The highlands are also a crucial international catchment and a major water source for thousands of families dependent on agriculture and fishing for their livelihoods. However, with an estimated 400 000 miners now operating illegally in Zimbabwe, the cumulative mining activities represent a major threat to people’s livelihood security and to the integrity of this crucial catchment, habitat and associated river systems.
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- Date Issued: 2017
A change of the seaward boundary of Goukamma Marine Protected Area could increase conservation and fishery benefits
- Authors: Götz, Albrecht , Kerwath, Sven E , Attwood, Colin G , Sauer, Warwick H H
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/123503 , vital:35449 , https://doi10.4102/sajs.v105i9/10.102
- Description: Goukamma Marine Protected Area (MPA) on the South African temperate South Coast has been shown to be effective in maintaining a spawning stock of roman, Chrysoblephus laticeps (Sparidae). The larval ecology and the oceanographic conditions in the area suggest a good potential for the enhancement of roman stocks outside the reserve through larval dispersal. A high rate of illegal fishing just inside the seaward boundary of the MPA could severely compromise its function. We suggest that a change of the seaward boundary of the reserve to coincide with a latitudinal line could increase its function as a harvest refuge for resident reef fishes such as roman, facilitate voluntary compliance and monitoring and prosecution of illegal fishing without a significant negative impact on the commercial linefishing fleet in the area. Simple adjustments such as the one proposed here could be attempted at a number of South African MPAs as they would be beneficial to achieve fishery and conservation goals alike.
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- Date Issued: 2009
A civic engagement:
- Authors: Amner, Roderick J
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/159366 , vital:40291 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139908
- Description: Rod Amner looks at how a small South African newspaper is managing to punch well above its weight.
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- Date Issued: 2009
A conceptually relevant and practically sophisticated journalism syllabus for Africa
- Authors: Banda, Fackson
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454547 , vital:75354 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC139370
- Description: Over 35 African journalism educators gathered in Grahamstown, South Africa in September last year, at the invitation of the SAB Ltd-Unesco Chair of Media and Democracy, to present and discuss initial research papers aimed at defining a common vision of journalism education on the African continent. The meeting was held against the backdrop of the bid by Rhodes University, under the auspices of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, to host the 2nd World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC).
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- Date Issued: 2010
A consequence of nectar feeding?
- Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K , Hulley, Patrick E
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465245 , vital:76586 , https://sora.unm.edu/node/52068
- Description: Cape White-eyes (Zosterops pallidus) frequently feed on nectar during early winter. This feeding can leave feathers on the forehead matted with nectar and pollen. At least some individuals then shed these feathers, at a time when the annual complete molt has already been terminated. It is suggested that such localized replacement of fouled plumage may occur regularly both in white-eyes and in other short-billed nectar-feeder.
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- Date Issued: 1996
A far from passive record Anton van Wouw: The smaller works, AE Duffey: book review
- Authors: de Jager, Maureen
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/147402 , vital:38633 , https://0-hdl.handle.net.wam.seals.ac.za/10520/EJC38334
- Description: Anton van Wouw : the smaller works is, as its title implies, concerned with the generally lesser-known smaller works of Dutch-born sculptor, Anton van Wouw. Using the measure of "half life-size and smaller" as a guideline, author Alexander Duffey provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated overview of the many full-length small sculptures, busts, relief panels and maquettes produced by Van Wouw between 1881 (nine years prior to his arrival in South Africa at the age of 28) and 1940. Naturalistically sculpted and generally cast in bronze, these smaller works are wide-ranging in their subject matter, depicting innocuous, commonplace scenes alongside aspects of Afrikaner history, representations of Boer and British leaders, and so-called "native studies" (p 11).
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- Date Issued: 2009
A Framework for DNS Based Detection of Botnets at the ISP Level
- Authors: Stalmans, Etienne , Irwin, Barry V W
- Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/427984 , vital:72478 , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Ir-win/publication/327622932_A_Framework_for_DNS_Based_Detection_of_Botnets_at_the_ISP_Level/links/5b9a14e1458515310583fc19/A-Framework-for-DNS-Based-Detection-of-Botnets-at-the-ISP-Level.pdf
- Description: The rapid expansion of networks and increase in internet connected devices has lead to a large number of hosts susceptible to virus infec-tion. Infected hosts are controlled by attackers and form so called bot-nets. These botnets are used to steal data, mask malicious activity and perform distributed denial of service attacks. Traditional protection mechanisms rely on host based detection of viruses. These systems are failing due to the rapid increase in the number of vulnerable hosts and attacks that easily bypass detection mechanisms. This paper pro-poses moving protection from the individual hosts to the Internet Ser-vice Provider (ISP), allowing for the detection and prevention of botnet traffic. DNS traffic inspection allows for the development of a lightweight and accurate classifier that has little or no effect on network perfor-mance. By preventing botnet activity at the ISP level, it is hoped that the threat of botnets can largely be mitigated.
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- Date Issued: 2011
A Framework for the Static Analysis of Malware focusing on Signal Processing Techniques
- Authors: Zeisberger, Sascha , Irwin, Barry V W
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/427914 , vital:72473 , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Ir-win/publication/327622833_A_Framework_for_the_Static_Analysis_of_Mal-ware_focusing_on_Signal_Processing_Techniques/links/5b9a1396a6fdcc59bf8dfc87/A-Framework-for-the-Static-Analysis-of-Malware-focusing-on-Signal-Processing-Techniques.pdf
- Description: The information gathered through conventional static analysis of malicious binaries has become increasingly limited. This is due to the rate at which new malware is being created as well as the increasingly complex methods employed to obfuscating these binaries. This paper discusses the development of a framework to analyse malware using signal processing techniques, the initial iteration of which focuses on common audio processing techniques such as Fourier transforms. The aim of this research is to identify characteristics of malware and the encryption methods used to obfuscate malware. This is achieved through the analysis of their binary structure, potentially providing an additional metric for autonomously fingerprinting malware.
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- Date Issued: 2012
A fuzz testing framework for evaluating and securing network applications
- Authors: Zeisberger, Sascha , Irwin, Barry V W
- Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428000 , vital:72479 , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Barry-Ir-win/publication/327622655_A_Fuzz_Testing_Framework_for_Evaluating_and_Securing_Network_Applications/links/5b9a153b92851c4ba8181b0d/A-Fuzz-Testing-Framework-for-Evaluating-and-Securing-Network-Applications.pdf
- Description: Research has shown that fuzz-testing is an effective means of increasing the quality and security of software and systems. This project proposes the im-plementation of a testing framework based on numerous fuzz-testing tech-niques. The framework will allow a user to detect errors in applications and locate critical areas in the applications that are responsible for the detected errors. The aim is to provide an all-encompassing testing framework that will allow a developer to quickly and effectively deploy fuzz tests on an applica-tion and ensure a higher level of quality control before deployment.
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- Date Issued: 2011
A Global Call for More Investment in Data-Driven Perioperative Care Delivery Models in Humanitarian Settings
- Authors: Mara, Busisiwe Oladimeji, Olnrewaju.
- Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/9118 , vital:72975
- Description: Abstract that must end in a full stop.
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- Date Issued: 2023
A Landscape of Insects and Other Invertebrates, D.N. MacFadyen: book review
- Authors: Villet, Martin H
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/451583 , vital:75061 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32856
- Description: Despite their generally small sizes, southern African insects consistently attract public attention. Rarely is it positive attention, but when it is, it is often from notable champions. Let me explain.
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- Date Issued: 2010
A Letter From Bed
- Authors: Maclennan, Donald A C
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/459448 , vital:75832 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_216
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1989
A Magical 'Dream': The Port Elizabeth Shakespearean Festival 2005
- Authors: Wright, Laurence
- Date: 2005
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/455563 , vital:75439 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48058
- Description: Mannville has always had a special relationship with this particular play, which inaugurated the theatre in St George's Park with Lesley French's 1972 production, and has been performed there on a number of occasions since. It is the archetypal Shakespearean show for outdoor theatre, and the PE Shakespearean Festival productions in a sense transport the delightful balmy (and sometimes barmy!) traditions established at the summertime open-air theatre in Regents Park, London, where Lesley French enjoyed so many triumphs--not least with this play--to Eastern Cape soil. Outdoor theatre has its risks, logistical and climatic, but when it comes off, as this show did, the result is vividly memorable.
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- Date Issued: 2005
A Mobile Phone Solution to Improve Geographic Mobility
- Authors: Miteche, Sacha , Terzoli, Alfredo , Thinyane, Hannah
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/428423 , vital:72510 , https://www.cs.ru.ac.za/research/g10m4201/docs/SATNACWIP.pdf
- Description: Motor vehicle ride sharing is a popular way of travelling in most coun-tries. Different incentives have made this mode of travelling to exist formally and informally, for example as in carpooling clubs and hitchhik-ing respectively. Advances in Information and Communication Tech-nology (ICT) have facilitated developments of formal Dynamic Ride Sharing (DRS) systems that target mobile devices. These are seen as solutions to people’s preference of flexible ride sharing services. In de-veloping countries, hitchhiking is a common technique for ride sharing travels. This paper describes a proposal to develop a DRS system that primarily targets mobile phone users in South Africa for informal ride sharing methods done in hitchhiking.
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- Date Issued: 2012
A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy, by Colin C. Williams
- Authors: Rogan, Michael
- Date: 2024
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473700 , vital:77674 , https://ilr-rit.org/article/id/19385/
- Description: Colin C. Williams’ new book, A Modern Guide to the Informal Economy, offers a timely analysis of a segment of the global workforce that has received increasing atten tion in recent years. A range of different measures suggest that, globally, the vast majority (61 per cent) of all employment is informal.1 Once thought to be exclusive to labour markets in middle- and low-income countries, the rise of platform work and the gig economy in the economies of developed countries has spurred new inter est in the subject. Similarly, the uneven effects of the pandemic and its aftermath have drawn unprecedented attention to the resultant economic and social crisis, which has disproportionately affected workers in the informal economy.2 Using the most internationally comparable definition of the informal economy as comprising all workers without legal or social protection through their employment,3 the recent pandemic and continuing economic crisis has left the bulk of the global workforce without a safety net. Such a “moment” naturally raises questions about the structure of employment, the role and reach of social protection programmes and the policy options available in countries where informal employment is the norm.
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- Date Issued: 2024
A note on mapping propolis deposits in Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis) colonies
- Authors: Ellis, James D , Hepburn, H Randall
- Date: 2003
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/451805 , vital:75078 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC32532
- Description: Propolis is a mixture of plant-derived substances, and sometimes wax, collected by most Apis mellifera subspecies for use as caulking and entrance-reducing material and as a colony sealant and sterilant (Ruttner 1988; Schmidt and Buchmann 1992; Hepburn and Radloff 1998). Additionally, it is used in honey bee defense against colony invaders, particularly Aethina tumida Murray (small hive beetles) (Hepburn and Radloff 1998; Neumann et al. 2001; Ellis 2002).
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- Date Issued: 2003