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The gendered impact of Johannesburg water budget29 October 2008 (has links)
M.A. / Despite constitutional and legislative measures to promote gender equality, gender inequality pervades the South African political, social and economic sectors. It is imperative that government uses gender sensitive policy instruments to reverse these imbalances. Gender expenditure analyses on national budget votes reveal a perpetuation of gender inequality. This municipal study assesses Johannesburg’s water budget process using an analytical framework of three criteria: representation; participation and benefit accrued to women. It determines that administrative representation of women in Johannesburg Water is nominal, the drafting of the budget remains patriarchal and representation of gender concerns for water provision in the consultation phase is not evident. The participation of women in the consultation and approval phases cannot be quantified. Women benefit minimally as employees and as entrepreneurs. This study determines that there is a potentially significant gendered impact of Johannesburg’s water budget, which motivates for this policy instrument to be gender sensitive. / Mr. H. Robertson Prof. Y. Sadie
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The role of screen-print projects in enhancing awareness of active citizenship : a case study at artist proof studio31 July 2012 (has links)
M.Tech. / This study is based on the premise that awareness of active citizenship among South African citizens should be encouraged and can be developed through specific educational and skills interventions embedded in Visual Art learning programmes. South Africa‟s developing democracy requires active citizens with the capacity to disseminate values of equality, dignity, liberty and social justice, amongst other constitutional rights. Our country‟s history in the struggle for liberation encompasses a legacy of resistance, and screen-printed protest posters played an important role in communicating dissent towards the apartheid state (Seidmann 2009, Peffer 2009). My research examines the role of screen-printing as a particular graphic medium which is an organising tool to create awareness and communication. The project uses co-operative enquiry as a participatory action research method to facilitate the application of hand-made fine art screen-printed artworks and posters that support skills development, an understanding of self-identity and a sharing of skills that contribute to active citizenship. I present three visual art screen-printing projects that I facilitated from 2010 to 2011 at Artist Proof Studio (APS), an art centre in Johannesburg, whose mission is to inculcate aspects of active citizenship among the participating learners. I contend that the combination of all three screen-print projects presented to the group of students, leads to skills-development, awareness of personal identity and participation in community engagement projects which may enhance their ability to participate as active citizens and which in turn supports the mission statement of the education unit at APS. Such an intervention serves as a learning model that can further contribute to social, educational and economic redress among the participants at APS.
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Altered States: a youth centre & safe house for at-risk adolescents in Westbury, JohannesburgKridiotis,Joanne Alexandra January 2016 (has links)
Thesis (M.Arch. (Professional))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2016. / Drug abuse, particularly among younger generations, is
an issue of increasing concern in South Africa. According
to recent reports on global substance abuse, South
Africa was named as having some of the highest rates
of youth drug use in the world. This not only has dire impacts
for local communities and their youth, but has led
to increasing crime rates and unemployment in these
communities. One such community, plagued with youth
drug abuse and addiction, is Westbury, a former coloured
township in Western Johannesburg. Westbury has, in
turn, been selected as the focus area for this thesis due
to prevailing struggles with youth drug addiction, high
rates of drug-related crime and a community outcry
for a solution. This thesis aims to investigate a means
of alleviating degrees of drug use, and other risky youth
behaviours, by introducing an architectural intervention.
This intervention – defined as a Youth Centre and Safe
House – will attempt to address the search for identity
and meaning within the liminal state of adolescence,
and the often risky behaviours that arise as a result, by
providing a sense of ‘place’ and belonging for the ailing
youth.
With the main focus group being at-risk adolescents,
and in order to create an architecture that speaks of the
liminal state of adolescence, threshold and ‘the space
between’ become important design concepts. This
thesis attempts to investigate the movement between
distinct spaces, the experience of transition, and the
physical and psychological effects thereof. The resultant
design proposes an architecture of liminality, where
soft, implied thresholds and a celebration of ‘the space
between’ become the manner in which the liminal subject
can negotiate the built environment and establish a
sense of ‘place’ within it. / EM2017
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Globalization--South Africa--JohannesburgRyninks, Guy J 03 March 2016 (has links)
A research report submitted by the Wits School of Arts, Film and Television
Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for the degree of Masters in Film and Television.
Johannesburg 2015 / In our modern contemporary time period the vast and rapid expansion of globalisation is stronger than ever, resulting in the shifting of how identities are currently being formed. In Johannesburg there has been major shifts in the socio-political realities of our nation, coupled with globalisation there is a noticeable shift in way identities are formed in our present fractured environment. These shifts are important to acknowledge as South Africa is in the process of changing its image towards of an all encompassing equal state, and so It is imperative to study how these shifts are impacting on identity formation. There are multiple difficulties in a study such as this, initiating a study on a subject/s that is itself incomplete fails to produce finite answers or outcomes. Rather many varying results are produced and compiling this information proves challenging when attempting to comprehend these findings.
It is my aim to understand not only how identities are being formed within the rejuvenating city, but also how the rejuvenation of the city is impacting on the formation of identities. Because of the long-established fractured nature of Johannesburg there has been a fracturing of identities that continues even in the face of the changes that are occurring. However with the changes meant to curb these fractures I question if these fractures are in fact diminishing, remaining the same or is there actually a noticeable change occurring. Initially I consider the history of South Africa as this has evidently impacted on the city, my research is it then focused on Johannesburg, as this is the environment I live in and have formed my own identity in. I also investigate how through the use of auto-ethnography I am able to practice ‘self-expression’ staged upon my personal view of Johannesburg and the fractures I encounter. Because I use auto-ethnography as my autobiographical filming technique I have exclusive control over the film and this proved challenging as I was positioning myself in the film as a form of subjectivity. This created a problem in how I was intending to represent myself along with the fractured landscape of Johannesburg.
My outcome is a self-subjective representation of myself positioned into my environment represented as my personal view. I focus on the fractures I experience within my own environment the suburbs and that of the city, also the fracture between these two spaces and the continuing fracture in my own identity and relationship with the city. My research will allow for an avenue of self-representation on a very personal and idiosyncratic level as to encourage the city to be represented as it is experienced and perceived by its inhabitants. However my production can be seen as being specific to a similar case, that being of my own, but this practice allows for the use of auto-ethnography to represent our own individual perspectives and the subjectification of ourselves as inhabitants of the city from a personal perspective rather than a generalised and broad perspective.
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[re]Mapping the airport: business conference centre & hotel at LanseriaDean, Jennifer 07 October 2014 (has links)
The imagery of flight remains one of the most
captivating views in history. The bird’s eye view
it gives to man has helped him to gain an understanding
of a particular area, in addition to
broadening his knowledge base. Air travel has
time in sense (because of its convenience), and
shaped cities, with the airport control tower
becoming a dominant icon within the landscape.
Its form of communication and navigation is
different: having its own language, symbols that
have to be comprehended before the journey
of flight can begin. The map is one such device
that serves as a medium between the technical
and the lay – enabling a simpler understanding
of a complex subject. It is dexterous in its ability
to show detail, aiding the design process by
highlighting key elements, summarising others,
and giving clues as to the proposed site and
programme.
The focus of this study is to design a hub for
business, as well as a facilitator for improving
the knowledge of the visitor through information
and networks. Specific functional elements were
chosen in an attempt to supplement the existing
Lanseria airport, in addition to creating an identity
for a gateway into area and its surrounds. In
accordance with the co-operative nature of the
industry, the proposal can become a marketable
feature for the developing, expanding airport.
This document examines the context of aviation
and theatrical explorations into its methods of
communications (Chapters 1 – 2); the search
for an appropriate site (Chapter 3) and the
formation of programme and precedent studies
(Chapter 4); leading up to the final design of the
Centre and its technological aspects (Chapter 5).
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The ideological construction of new urbanism in Melrose Arch a critical analysis/Du Plessis, Linet. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M A(Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.
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Wat beteken verantwoordelike joernalistiek met betrekking tot MIV/VIGS in Suid-Afrika? : 'n inleidende studie oor MIV/VIGS in 'Die Burger' en 'The Star'Fourie, Aneleh 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the meaning of responsible news coverage of the HIV/Aids
epidemic with references to Die Burger en The Star.
Even though the numbers of HIV positive people are escalating in our country,
the media still persist in addressing HIV/Aids news in exactly the same way as any other
news, which means that journalists are still detached observers who simply reflect the
news of the day.
This study emphasizes that the limited success of HIV prevention campaigns
should urge the South African society to re-evaluate our approach to addressing
HIV/Aids. It is also important to convince the media of its responsibility towards more
ethical practices and especially towards greater involvement in this subject. Greater
involvement will necessitate the press to re-evaluating some conventional practices as
detachment and objectivity.
Within this context greater involvement and activism do not have to be synonyms.
With greater involvement one would like to emphasize the need for the media to take a
few steps closer to the realities of HIV/Aids in order to be able to have a deeper
understanding of the complexities of this disease.
If one would like to see a difference in the spreading and impact of HIV/Aids on
the South African community it is very important that the media will be included in the
efforts against HIV/Aids. The media are a powerful and influential institution, which
shape the minds and ideas of the society. The majority of South Africans are dependent
on the media for most of their information - including HIV/Aids information.
The greater involvement and responsibility requires pro-activity of the media and
could facilitate the establishment of a better informed, well empowered and involved
civil society who would themselves also be prepared to take ownership of HIVand Aids
in the South African community. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie word ondersoek ingestel na wat verantwoordelike mediadekking met
betrekking tot MIVNigs sou beteken met spesifieke verwysings na enkele uitgawes van
Die Burger en The Star. Onafhanklik van die groeiende epidemie in Suid-Afrika kies die
meeste publikasies om MIVNigs nuusdekking steeds soos enige ander nuus te hanteer.
Dit beteken dat joernaliste die oogmerk van objektiwiteit nastreef en dus as onbetrokke
waarnemers die gebeure van die dag aan die publiek weergee. Hierdie studie beklemtoon
die omvang van die MIVNigs krisis en die beperkte sukses van voorkomingsinisiatiewe
in Suid-Afrika wat gevolglik ook die media noodsaak om konvensionele joernalistiek
praktyke in heroënskou te neem.
Indien 'n mens 'n verandering in die verspreiding en impak van MIVNigs op die
Suid-Afrikaanse samelewing wil sien, is dit veral nodig om ook die media in die stryd
teen MIVNigs te betrek. Die media is 'n invloedryke instelling en die grootste deel van
die publiek se inligting - ook oor MIVNigs - word op die inhoud van dagblaaie
gebaseer.
Dit beklemtoon die verantwoordelikheid wat op die media rus om
verantwoordelike en etiese nuusdekking aan die kwessie te gee. Vir die media om
optimaal tot die stryd teen MIVNigs by te dra, is dit egter nodig dat die media self
betrokke raak en proaktiewe nuusdekking sal nastreef.
Met 'n meer betrokke media word nie noodwendig aktivisme bedoel nie, maar dit
vra eerder dat die media 'n paar tree nader aan MIVNigs sal gee sodat die epidemie in sy
totaliteit beter verstaan kan word. Met so 'n benadering kan die media bydrae tot die
vestiging van 'n ingeligte, bemagtige en betrokke gemeenskap wat self ook eienaarskap
van MIVNigs begin neem.
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An analysis of digital photojournalistic practices: a study of the Sowetan's photographic departmentAllan, Christopher January 2003 (has links)
Photojournalism in South Africa is in the process of undergoing a shift from an analogue past to a fully digital future. This shift to digital has already been completed by many of the newspapers in the United States of America and Europe, and the new technology is seen to have made fundamental differences in the way that journalists do their job. This thesis attempts to explore the differences brought about, as well as the problems experienced by the photographic department at the Sowetan newspaper as a result of the shift to digital. How the development of technology has affected the photojournalist throughout is focused upon in a brief history of photojournalism and examples of how technology has shaped different aspects of journalism in both a positive and negative manner is considered. Exactly what digital photography is, how it has been integrated into American Photographic departments and the changes that the new technology has prompted are also explained. The manipulation of images in the past as well as the relative ease of digital manipulation are covered and concerns are raised about the future implications of digital manipulation. By conductlng participant observation and holding interviews, research data was compiled which allowed conclusions to be drawn about the impact that the shift to digital had had on the Sowetan photographic department. Intentional and unintentional consequences were expected and revealed in the research. The job of the photojournalist and photographic editor was found to have changed but perhaps not as dramatically as expected. Third world factors such as crime, poverty and lack of education were discovered to have resulted in problems that differed noticeably from those experienced by American and European photographic departments. Some expected difficulties were not experienced at all, while other major obstacles, specifically the repairs that must constantly be made to the digital cameras, continue to hamper the operations of the new digital department. Some understanding of the problems that might be encountered by future photojournalism departments that are considering making the shift to digital are arrived at, in the hope that they may be foreseen and overcome.
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Joubert Park : the need for interventionNielsen, Neal David 23 July 2014 (has links)
M.Tech. (Architectural Applied Design) / Please refer to full text to view abstract
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Replenishing biodiversity at Mellville Koppies Nature Reserve a biomimetic architectural responseSherratt, Marc William 18 March 2014 (has links)
M.Tech. (Architectural Technology) / Please refer to full text to view abstract
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