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The state of folk music in Bantu Africa

  • Authors: Tracey, Hugh T
  • Date: 1955
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481655 , vital:78573 , https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v1i1.219
  • Description: We Europeans are at a great disadvantage in talking about African music. Unlike most other members of this Conference we do not represent or discuss our own music but that o a people radically unlike ourselves among whom we live. It is only because we have found that the African is pathetically incapable of defending his own culture and indeed is largely indifferent to its fate that we, who subscribe wholeheartedly to the ideals of our International Council, are attempting to tide over the period during which irreparable damage can be done and until Africans themselves will be capable of appearing at our conferences as well-informed representatives of their own peoples.
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  • Date Issued: 1955

The future of music in Basutoland

  • Authors: Tracey, Hugh T
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481622 , vital:78570 , https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i2.582
  • Description: There is a popular impression among the general public that folk music is a thing of the past and of no modern importance. This no doubt arises from a misconception of the function of music in society and also from the notion that the practice of European folk musics is a revivalist art, and, therefore, African music must fall into the same category. This is far from the truth which, in this case, is hidden under a mass of false assumptions and prejudices.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Kamba carvers

  • Authors: Tracey, Andrew
  • Date: 1960
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481698 , vital:78577 , https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v2i3.611
  • Description: You generally find the carvers on a street corner, sitting under a tree out of the hot sun, behind the neat rows of their carvings arranged on a mat, and it may be any¬where from Francistown to Jinja; the scene is the same. Their round, dark faces, their soft language with its th sounds, and above all the distinctive lines of their carvings mark them out as members of one of the enterprising tribes of Africa, the Kamba from Machakos, to the south east of Nairobi, in Kenya. These people travel over most of central Africa to sell their work, from Southern Rhodesia to the Sudan (not, however, the Portuguese territories), and in addition their carvings stock most of the curio shops all over Africa and are to be found both in America and Europe. Behind them is the Akamba Handcraft Association in Kenya, a society which looks after and promotes their interests and is run entirely by the Kamba.
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  • Date Issued: 1960

The road forward: a policy statement of the South African Coloured People's Congress, for the consideration of the National Convention of Coloured People

Three tunes for ‘Mbira dza Vadzimu’

  • Authors: Tracey, Andrew
  • Date: 1963
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/481820 , vital:78588 , https://doi.org/10.21504/amj.v3i2.828
  • Description: The Mbira d^a vad^imu is the oldest known form of mbira to be played by the Shona people of Southern Rhodesia. Parts of ancient mbiras, probably of this type, have been found at Zimbabwe; early travellers report that Shona chiefs kept large mbira bands; it is the only type of mbira that is — or was — played by all the Shona peoples; the equiva¬lent instrument is also played by two neighbouring tribes of the Shona, the Venda of the northern Transvaal (mbira de^a), and the Korekore of northeastern Southern Rhodesia (madebe d%a mbondoro). Everywhere it is associated with the worship of the spirits. > (vaehpmu, mhondoro), which is a certain sign of at least some degree of antiquity.
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  • Date Issued: 1963

Extracts from Diaz Cross or Kwaaihoek

  • Authors: Butler, Guy F
  • Date: 1975
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/458832 , vital:75774 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_549
  • 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: 1975

The school masters

  • Authors: Maclennan, Donald A C
  • Date: 1977
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , poem
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/468973 , vital:77146 , ISBN 0028-4459 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_339
  • 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: 1977

New chemical analyses of the Suurberg volcanic rocks and their significance in relation to Mesozoic volcanism in Southern Africa

  • Authors: Marsh, Julian S , Lock, B E , Fuchter, W H
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133231 , vital:36951
  • Description: Volcanic rocks are found associated with several of the late Mesozoic basins of southern South Africa. Bentonites are known from Plettenberg Bay and, according to an unconfirmed report, they are also found in the Worcester Basin, while vitric tuffs have been recorded from east of Oudtshoorn. The most extensive occurrences, however, are those of the Suurberg Group, which crops out sporadically around the margins of the Algoa Basin.
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  • Date Issued: 1979

NUMSA Resist the Bill

  • Authors: NUMSA
  • Date: 1980
  • Subjects: NUMSA
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113141 , vital:33714
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  • Date Issued: 1980

Message to be broadcast over the SABC by the Vice-Chancellor on plans and prospects for Rhodes University in 1981

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1981
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7444 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018321
  • Description: The year 1980 has been a good one for Rhodes University, both academically and financially. In the academic sphere, the University launched the M.Sc degree course in Limnology and there have been extensions to the courses offered in African History and in English in Africa. The major development, however, has been the establishment of two new chairs - one in Electronics and the other in English-Second- Language, endowed respectively by Federale Electronics and the Molteno Brothers' Trust.
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  • Date Issued: 1981

Résultats des études menées en Angleterre: détermination de la posologie optimale

  • Authors: Woodford, R , Haigh, John M , Barry, B W
  • Date: 1981
  • Language: French
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6449 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006636
  • Description: Les auteurs ont etudie la biodisponibilite et I'activite de formules experimentales et commercialisees de dermocortico'ides en utilisant les essais de vasoconstriction avec et sans occlusion (1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9). L'application unique de six heures avec lectures multiples a ete largement utilisee dans ce travail et la methodologie en a ete decrite en detail ailleurs (4). Sur la base de ce travail. on a pratique des applications repetees de dermocortico'ides commercialises au Royaume- Uni. en utilisant Ie test du blanchiment de la peau sans occlusion, de maniere a reproduire au plus pres la situation realisee en clinique (3). Ce travail a montre que I'application de cortico'ides trois fois par jour pendant cinq jours aboutissait a une tachyphylaxie considerable de la reponse du blanchiment quelque soit I'activite therapeutique de la formule utilisee. Au bout de deux jours de repos, on a assiste a une recuperation considerable, mais a nouveau une tachyphylaxie aigue s'est installee a la suite d'une nouvelle application triquotidienne.
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  • Date Issued: 1981

Toast to honorary graduates : luncheon

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1981
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7429 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018306
  • Description: Rhodes University's Vice Chancellor toast to honorary graduates : luncheon 1981
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  • Date Issued: 1981

Significance of 87Sr/86Sr ratios in the Merensky cyclic unit of the Bushveld Complex

  • Authors: Kruger, Floris J , Marsh, Julian S
  • Date: 1982
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133524 , vital:36986 , https://doi.org/10.1038/298053a0
  • Description: In a number of mafic layered intrusions, layers with platinum group element (PGE) mineralization coincide with breaks in cumulus mineral composition and isotopic variation trends through the layered sequence1,2. For example, in the Bushveld Complex in South Africa, abrupt increases in initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios occur at the UG-2 and Merensky pegmatoid (or ‘reef’) horizons, both of which are exploited for PGEs. We report here the results of a detailed Sr-isotope study across the Merensky unit and its immediate foot- and hangingwall-rocks which, when considered together with new ideas on processes operating in magma chambers3–5, suggest that magma mixing and post-cumulus infiltration of liquids displaced from below were important during crystallization of the Merensky pegmatoid.
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  • Date Issued: 1982

Comparative bioavailability of some locally manufactured betamethasone valerate containing preparations

  • Authors: Meyer, Eric , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
  • Date: 1983
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6399 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006326
  • Description: The bioavailabilities of three locally manufactured proprietary betamethasone- 17-valerate containing creams and ointments were compared by measuring their abilities to cause blanching of human skin after topical application. The preparations studied were Betnovate Cream and Ointment, Celestoderm-V Cream and Ointment and Persivate Cream and Ointment. Celestoderm-V cream displayed a significantly superior blanching activity over both Betnovate and Persivate creams in' the occluded mode, whereas Persivate cream displayed a significantly superior blanching activity over both Betnovate and Celestoderm-V creams in the unoccluded mode. Persivate ointment was found to produce a significantly superior blanching activity over Betnovate and Celestoderm-V ointments in both the occluded and unoccluded modes of application.
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  • Date Issued: 1983

Determination of phenylpropanolamine in serum and urine by high performance liquid chromatography

  • Authors: Dowse, Roslind , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
  • Date: 1983
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6361 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006056
  • Description: A high-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of phenylpropanolamine in human serum and urine without prior derivatization is presented. Using direct UV detection the method is sufficiently sensitive to detect 25 ng of drug/ml of serum or urine; the coefficients of variation at 25 ng/ml and 500 ng/ml were 5.16 and 2.12, respectively, in serum. The method involves serum and urine extraction at a basic pH with chloroform, a single back-extraction, and chromatography on a reverse-phase column. Serum and urine data following administration of a single 150-mg sustained-release tablet of phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride in 6 healthy volunteers demonstrates the suitability of the analytical method.
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  • Date Issued: 1983

The winter diet of gentoo penguins at Marion Island

  • Authors: LaCock, G D , Hecht, Thomas , Klages, N
  • Date: 1984
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/448453 , vital:74731 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1984.9634486
  • Description: The diet of Gentoo Penguins Pygoscelis papua at Marion Island was studied during September 1982. Samples were obtained from 64 birds using a stomach-pump. Fish accounted for 70% of the diet by wet weight, and crustaceans 30%. Fishes occurred in 72% of the samples, crustaceans in 75%, cephalopods in 13%, and molluscs in 8%. Cephalopods and molluscs did not form a significant proportion of any single sample. Harpagifer georgianus was the predominant fish in the diet (92,7% of otoliths recovered), and Nauticaris marionis was the only crustacean.
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  • Date Issued: 1984

Determination of erythromycin in serum and urine by high performance liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection

  • Authors: Stubbs, Christopher , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
  • Date: 1985
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Article
  • Identifier: vital:6428 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006576
  • Description: A high-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of erythromycin in human serum and urine with UV detection at 200 nm is presented. The method involves a solid-phase extraction procedure followed by a simple phase separation step and chromatography on a reversed-phase column. The method has sensitivity limits of 0.25 and 1.0 g/mL in serum and urine, respectively, and is sufficiently sensitive to monitor concentrations of erythromycin in human serum and urine after the administration of a single 500-mg erythromycin stearate tablet.
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  • Date Issued: 1985

The arrangement and structure of feather melanin granules as a taxonomic character in African starlings (Sturnidae)

  • Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K , Hartley, Alex H
  • Date: 1985
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465507 , vital:76615 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/4086659
  • Description: Electron micrographs of transverse sections of starling feathers, show-ing different structural types:(a) type A, Creatophora cinerea;(b) type B, Poeoptera kenricki;(c) type B, Lamprotornis purpureiceps;(d) type C, Spreo fischeri. nus Hylopsar, and are grouped as a superspecies by Hall and Moreau (1970). Here similar colors apparently are produced by a very different underlying structure. While these species share type B with the genus Poeoptera, there are differences in the details of the melanin granule arrangement, as well as other morphological differences.
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  • Date Issued: 1985

Rhodes University Graduation luncheon speech, 11 April 1987 (draft)

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Smith, Margaret Mary
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7558 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018435
  • Description: Rhodes University Graduation luncheon speech, 11 April 1987. Honorary Graduate toast to Margaret Smith.
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  • Date Issued: 1987

Vice Chancellor's Graduation luncheon speech, 1987

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Smith, Margaret Mary
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7557 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018434
  • Description: Honorary Graduate toast to Margaret Smith.
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  • Date Issued: 1987
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