""Of molecules and men"" : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: Kaye, Perry T
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: Biochemistry , Chemistry, Organic , Chemistry
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:643 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020712 , ISBN 0868101842
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1989
"Christian Missions in 19th and 20th century Southern Africa and in comparative perspective" conference.
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2007-07-08 , 2014-07-14
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7638 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012617
- Description: Welcome address by the Vice-chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat, at the "Christian Missions in 19th and 20th century Southern Africa and in comparative perspective" conference, Rhodes University, 8 July 2007.
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- Date Issued: 2007-07-08
"Ian Scott Henderson: a tribute"
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1981-11-12
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7441 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018318
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- Date Issued: 1981-11-12
"It takes a whole village to raise a child": youth development in Grahamstown
- Authors: Van Hees, Charlotte
- Date: 2000
- Subjects: Households -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Income -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Non-governmental organizations -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Non-governmental organizations -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Schools -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Youth -- Employment -- South Africa Youth -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Youth -- South Africa -- Social conditions Youth -- South Africa -- Societies, etc. Youth, Black -- Employment -- South Africa Youth, Black -- South Africa -- Social conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2431 , vital:20290 , ISBN 0868103691
- Description: This research report is an edited version of a thesis written by Charlotte van Hees for a Master’s degree in organisational anthropology. The degree was awarded by the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands in May 2000. The fieldwork for her thesis was carried out in the first half of 1999 when Charlotte joined the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) project team investigating development opportunities for local youth. For a town of its size Grahamstown has an exceptionally large number of development organisations and community initiatives. In short, it is the ideal setting for an organisational anthropologist. Over a six-month period Charlotte met with members of local organisations to compile a directory or, as she prefers to call it, a ‘social map’. The social map, published as ISER Research Report No. 3, sets out the manner in which local organisations are linked in their activities and services. Report No. 3 should be read in conjunction with this report. In her thesis Charlotte analyses the ideal characteristics of youth organisations and matches local examples to the ideal. On a ladder of perfection, an organisation run by youth for youth optimises youth development. Youth will benefit most if organisations join forces to offer comprehensive and coordinated services. Charlotte observed that although Grahamstown boasts a large number of organisations serving the youth, their services tend to be fragmented or overlapping. As a young outsider, Charlotte van Hees has the advantage of ‘seeing’ the local maze of organisations from a fresh vantage point. Her sizing up of the local situation has benefited from her considerable experience of youth work in the Netherlands. Apart from theoretical insights the report offers practical guidelines to enhance the success of local initiatives for youth. One recommendation, which youth volunteers might wish to adopt as their project, is to continuously update the social map. South Africa is a country experiencing rapid social change. Charlotte’s analysis is based on time- bound observations and a particular constellation of organisations. There have been major changes in the local government system since the study was written up which will inevitably affect the operations of organisations serving the youth. However, the basic lessons to be learnt from her analysis will remain valid in future and continue to serve as useful pointers for scholars and practitioners. Charlotte revisited Grahamstown briefly in April 2000 to present results to local organisations which had participated in the social mapping research. The workshop participants asked the ISER to make Charlotte’s analysis more widely available to stimulate debate and action among local youth and their organisations. It is in response to this wish that ISER has published this report. Thanks go to ISER’s publication officer, Nova de Villiers, for undertaking to edit Charlotte’s thesis for this publication. Anjanette Haller assisted with typing. Readers will appreciate their handiwork. This report is dedicated to the youth of Grahamstown. It is hoped it will revitalise their enthusiasm for personal development, and shape fresh ideas and action to make Grahamstown a better place to grow up in. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 2000
"My life in the new South Africa": a youth perspective
- Authors: Leggett, Ted , Moller, Valerie , Richards, Robin
- Date: 1997
- Subjects: Quality of life -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:538 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010393
- Description: The young people of South Africa hold the future of society in their hands. They will become the new leaders who will make or break South Africa's fledgling democracy. Of course, it is impossible to know how society will fare in the millennium; but knowledge of where the youth think their lives and their country are heading will provide some clues to what the future holds. The research for this book was inspired by the "Monitoring the future" project, a regular survey of young people's values and aspirations by the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan. Our research was informed by recent comprehensive inquiries on the youth conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Co-operative Research Programme on South African Youth and the research by the Joint Enrichment Programme and the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE). The present study also builds on more focused research on leisure, educational aspirations and quality of life conducted by researchers attached to the University of Natal's Quality of Life Research Unit. The evidence for the two large-scale inquiries and the quality of life studies was collected before South Africa's first open general elections. The material presented in this book is about young people who have experience of living under the new democracy. This report may be among the first to inform the newly formed National Youth Commission of young people's needs and aspirations. Urgently needed for planning and policy formation is a systematic programme of research into the evolving situation of South African youth under the new political dispensation. Until such time as the values and lifestyles of young people are monitored at regular intervals, ad hoc studies such as the one reported here may help to fill the gap. It is hoped that the views of young people expressed in this book will deepen our understanding of young people's expectations and aspirations for the future. My life in the New South Africa provides a snapshot of society two years after the first open general elections as seen through the lenses of the youth. The book, which was written by the young people themselves, documents contemporary everyday life and hopes and fears for the future as envisaged by the youth. The material was gathered through an innovative research project which aimed to learn how young people see themselves and their society two years into the new democracy. Over 900 of the youth gave descriptions of "my life in the New South Africa" in the first half of 1996 in response to a letter writing competition designed by the Quality of Life Research Unit at the University of Natal. The competition fits the currently fashionable genre of "participatory" research, in which subjects double as analysts of their life situation. Although a fairly recent addition to the South African research repertoire, the participatory method is not unfamiliar to quality of life researchers. For many years, students of quality of life have advocated that ordinary people and not the external experts are the best judges of what makes people's lives satisfactory or not. Working in this research tradition, the Quality of Life research team at the University of Natal took on the task of shaping a book around the issues addressed by the youth in their letters. The material produced by the letter writing competition was content-analysed by a team of experts and organised in a number of thematic chapters which cover many of the dominant concerns of contemporary youth. Essentially, the youth wrote the script and the researchers did the editing. The mood of the letters is overwhelmingly positive and inspiring for a new democracy intent on overcoming the shortcomings of the past. Energy, youthful optimism and good intentions radiate from the letters. There is no doubt that My life in the New South Africa will provide useful pointers for current policy formation. It is hoped that the contents of this book will also serve as benchmark information against which South African society will be able to measure itself in years to come. The majority of the young people who entered the competition fervently believe, or at least wish to believe, that their hopes for an ideal society in which all South Africans live in harmony will be realised. Their idealism is as refreshing and touching in its naivetέ as it is sobering. The youth who wrote to the Quality of Life research team, boldly outline the challenges that lie ahead for a new democracy. Time will tell if the hopes and fears of contemporary youth can be laid to rest and their dreams for the future fulfilled. South Africa owes it to the next generation that its young people not be disappointed.
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- Date Issued: 1997
"Pension funds should be into commodities"
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1980-04-22
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7416 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018293
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- Date Issued: 1980-04-22
"Prejudice and fear in South African education"
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1980-06-24
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7410 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018287
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- Date Issued: 1980-06-24
"Should a Vice-Chancellor be a computer scientist?"
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1981
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7432 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018309
- Description: Information Systems Seminar, Carlton Hotel, Johannesburg, 10 June 1981. Should a Vice-Chancellor be a computer scientist? As I prepared my thoughts to address you this morning it seemed to me that there were three topics of potential interest to this audience on which a person with my background could dwell. 1) Are universities turning out graduates with the right backgrounds (a) to manage companies in which information systems will play an increasingly important role and (b) to drive the information systems effectively? 2) The proper role of the universities in research and development with regard to information systems 3) The effective administrative use of information systems in universities considered as organisations which have as great an obligation to be efficient as businesses.
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- Date Issued: 1981
"The black man's place in the technology explosion"
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1980-05-23
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7406 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018283
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- Date Issued: 1980-05-23
"The nature of a University in a changing society"
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1986-05-02
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7522 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018399
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- Date Issued: 1986-05-02
"The role of the school and University in SA - future of education"
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1986-06-21
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7525 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018402
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- Date Issued: 1986-06-21
"This horrid war" - the newly discovered diary of Captain James Primrose, 1851-53
- Authors: Jackson, Caroline
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: Primrose, James Maurice, 1819-1892 -- Diaries
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/24703 , vital:23262 , MS 20 063 , This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: "This horrid war" - the newly discoverd diary of Captain James Primrose, 1851-53" - In: Quarterly bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 67, no. 2, April to June 2013.
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- Date Issued: 2013
"We are all friends here": the social dynamics of a development project
- Authors: Ainslie, Andrew
- Date: 1994
- Subjects: St Mark's Mission (South Africa) St Mark's Community Project Rural development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Community development -- South Africa Cooperative marketing of agricultural produce -- South Africa Women in community development -- South Africa Women in cooperative societies -- South Africa Sex role in the work environment -- South Africa World Vision International Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Rural conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1663 , vital:20214 , ISBN 0868102660
- Description: In 1978, a Rev. John Galela, then a minister at St.Mark's, launched a project which included pig-farming and the growing of vegetables for human consumption and to feed the pigs. With a grant from the South African Council of Churches (SACC), a pump was installed on the banks of the river and vegetables were grown under irrigation on 2,4 ha of land. This pilot project did not affect the leasing arrangements mentioned above. The project apparently enjoyed the approval and support of the local community, until the chief, Chief M.D. Feketha (an influential member of the Ciskeian cabinet at this time), came to hear of it and forbade the people of Newlands, who fall under his "tribal" jurisdiction, to participate in the project. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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- Date Issued: 1994
10th International and Organisational Design and Management Symposium: welcome & opening
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2011-04-04
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7803 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015996
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- Date Issued: 2011-04-04
14th South African Marine Science Symposium/49th Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association International Conference: welcome & opening
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2011-04-04
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7806 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015999
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- Date Issued: 2011-04-04
1968: SASO and the Revival of Black Political Opposition
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2011-09-05
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7812 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016005
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- Date Issued: 2011-09-05
1975 SAU Baseball Tournament
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7334 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017062
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2008 Rhodes University graduation ceremonies address
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2008-03-27
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7669 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015814
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- Date Issued: 2008-03-27
2009 Rhodes University Graduation ceremonies address
- Authors: Badat, Saleem
- Date: 2009-04-16
- Subjects: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7744 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015892
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- Date Issued: 2009-04-16
23rd Annual Congress of the New Testament Society of South Africa dinner
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1987-04-23
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:7559 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018436
- Description: Welcome address by Dr D.S. Henderson, at the 23rd Annual Congress of the New Testament Society of South Africa dinner event.
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- Date Issued: 1987-04-23