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The responses of contemporary South African children to threshold experiences in Grimm fairy tales and African folk talesWolpert, Stacey 02 October 2008 (has links)
This study investigates the responses of contemporary South African, Grade one children to threshold experiences in Grimm fairy tales and African Zulu folk tales. Thresholds involve an exciting or challenging experience, or a transformation in stories. Three stories from each genre were read over six sessions, to ten diverse black and white children, from one school. The children’s enjoyment was assessed, with focus on their backgrounds and previous knowledge, to help find beneficial reading for them. Results suggested that while gender of characters and story origins did not seem important, story length, humour, entertainment and educational ability, as well as personal involvement, were useful. The study supported the notion that stories are generally universal and could help bridge our cultural divide. Reader-Response theory was used and its principles helped to structure questions for the interviews, and to analyse data. Hopefully, the findings will help to select appropriate texts for all children beginning school in present-day South Africa.
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Indefinite loss : parent caregivers' experiences of caring for their adult child in the South African context.Sedgwick, Ruthann 03 July 2014 (has links)
While it is recognised that the burden on the caregiver of a person who has suffered a
neurological event is great, research into the experience of caregiving and the effects of
cognitive-communicative difficulties on intergenerational families is lacking. Studies
examining these experiences within a multicultural and multilingual setting such as South
Africa are few. The effects of neurogenic communication disorders in family systems also
require further investigation. This study explores parent caregivers’ experiences of caring for
their once-independent adult child, who are now faced with the reality of parenting for the
second time. A qualitative research design was employed. Eighteen parents of adult children
who have suffered TBIs, strokes or brain tumours were interviewed. The data obtained were
analysed by means of thematic analysis. Themes associated with caring for an adult child,
specifically in the South African context, are identified and discussed. These themes related
to the parent caregiver’s experience of loss – loss of their child due to physical and cognitivecommunicative
difficulties as well as the loss of their own dreams and plans for the future.
Multiple roles within intergenerational family systems, support and information are identified
as significant factors in either minimising or exacerbating their experience of loss. These
themes are explained within a Family Systems Theory framework and assist in identifying both
positive and negative factors that impact on experiences of caring for an adult child. It stresses
the importance of the implementation of sustainable programmes and support services
specifically catering for parents of adult children with neurological communication disorders.
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Tuberculosis and compensation: A study of a selection of Basotho mineworkiers from Maseru districtBudiaki, Lugemba 17 November 2006 (has links)
Student Number : 0105964W -
MPH research report -
Faculty of Health Sciences / The Employment Bureau for Africa (TEBA Limited) established in 1902 recruits
mineworkers from Lesotho and neighbouring countries for South African mines.
Information on mineworkers’ health and welfare from Lesotho is scarce.
Tuberculosis prevalence ranged between 159/100000 and 506/100000 from 1991 to 2001
in Lesotho.
This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the proportion of mineworkers affected
with tuberculosis among adult male patients attending TB clinics in Maseru District’s
three main hospitals and ascertain compensation of mineworkers affected by occupational
lung disease including tuberculosis.
A structured questionnaire was used to interview 421 adult male TB patients at Queen
Elizabeth II, Saint Joseph and Scott hospitals in Maseru.
38.5% of participants in the study were mineworkers (former and active) in South
African mines. Among these mineworkers, 70.4% were employed in goldmines. 30.7%
of mineworkers were considered eligible for compensation. 42 mineworkers received
compensation for previous and current tuberculosis whilst 33 mineworkers had not.
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Looking closely by candle lightOosthuysen, Zandri January 2016 (has links)
A Research Report submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History of Art to the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2016 / In this research, I study the work by contemporary South African artist, Johannes Phokela, in relation to the Western art historical canon. I undertake a close analysis of his painting Candle Bathing (1997) that quotes Samson and Delilah (1609-1610) by the seventeenth century Flemish Baroque painter, Peter Paul Rubens. Through a comparative analysis and close looking I read Candle Bathing’s ‘visual argument’ within a postcolonial context. To argue that Candle Bathing is not a mere ‘quotation’ I look closely from multiple angles. To deal with the complexity of a quotation that crosses socio-political time and space, I interpret the painting from various theoretical frameworks: poststructuralism (semiotics), postmodernism (irony); and postcolonial theory to situate my contextual analysis. I am interested in how we can read beyond the literal and how a close reading of this ironic quotation can surface the complexities of contemporary South African art in relation to the art historical canon and colonialism. Through close looking I read Candle Bathing as addressing the art canon, colonialism, critiquing issues of race, and marginalisation. This research contributes to filling a knowledge based gap by researching a previously marginalised artist and a close engagement with Candle Bathing. In addition, this research offers a way of looking and a method on how to begin looking closely at contemporary African art quoting canonical works. I illustrate the value of close looking to read multifaceted and layered interpretations. / MT2017
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On footnotes and the haptic: an approach to the reading of stone inscriptions on South African koppiesMarx, Maja 06 February 2009 (has links)
Abstract:
A phenomenological study of chiasmic and haptic embodiment of the world through
passage, in order to illustrate the reading of chalked stone inscriptions on South
African koppies as “footnotes” to a landscape as text.
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An investigation into the teaching of English literature at senior secondary school level, with a particular emphasis on the reason for teaching literature, the selection of texts, and methodology used.Robinson, David Edwin 19 May 2015 (has links)
This thesis addresses three questions regarding education in South African High Schools: Why teach English literature? What English literature should be taught? How should English literature be taught?
The thesis adopts an historical perspective in that it traces the lineages of influence from Britain in particular, and explores the attitudes and concerns of the academics and teachers of South Africa as they attempt to establish a rigorous discipline regarding South Africa’s literary heritage and the education curriculum. Theoretical concerns that are explored include the influence of the Cambridge School, the concepts presented by the Marxists and Cultural Materialists, and the position of Theory as it became more significant in the second half of the 20th Century. There is also recognition of scholarship deriving from the United States of America, in that the work of the New Critics and Harold Bloom are considered.
The work of significant South African critics such as Guy Butler, Mike Kirkwood and Tim Couzens is also explored, and the attempt to grapple with English in a multilingual society is considered. The curriculum documents that emerged in the post-1994 era are critiqued, and there is reference to the work of Taylor and Vinjevold.
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Public service broadcasting and diversity in the digital age: policy and options for SABC televisionSkinner, Katherine Alicia Mary January 2017 (has links)
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy / The thesis critically analyses the potential of digital technologies – in particular, digital terrestrial television – to enable substantive diversity of programming in a public service broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The thesis deploys critical political economy of the media approaches. These approaches argue for a social constructivist approach to technology and not a celebratory determinist approach, which confuses the potential of technology with what actually happens in ‘real world’, contested policy contexts. The research uses qualitative methodologies, specifically thematic analyses of policy texts and in-depth interviews with policy actors and informants. Ultimately, the thesis finds that the changing political context in South Africa, which has moved away from participatory policy making processes, has resulted in missed opportunities to harness the digital potential to diversify programming. The thesis finds that with the government’s deployment of more authoritarian ‘statist’ and market-orientated policies, the policy space has narrowed, ultimately limiting the possibilities for the delivery of substantive diversity of content and programming. Finally, the thesis finds that to begin to reverse these trends in the digital, multi-channel environment, the government needs to (re)commit to consultative policy making processes and to regulation and public funding in the public interest. / XL2018
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The Rise and Fall of ThisDay Newspaper : The Significance of Advertising to Its DemiseBassey, Eno Abasiubong 31 October 2006 (has links)
Student Number : 0413406F -
MA dissertation -
School of Journalism and Media Studies -
Faculty of Humanities / This study examines the rise and fall of ThisDay newspaper by examining its strategies to
break into the South African media market. The study places ThisDay in the context of
certain factors of the political economy of the South African media and examines how the
dynamics of advertising contributed to the collapse of the newspaper. By analysing
perspectives from Bagdikian (1983) among others, that the success and failure of the
media depends on its success or failure to attract advertising revenue. The study examines
the specific strategies used by ThisDay’s management to attract advertising as a key
source of revenue to determine how the failure or lack of such strategies could have
played a contributory role in the collapse of the newspaper. Among the factors examined
is the further consolidation of ownership in the competing media companies. The
intricacies and complex relationships that existed between the South African media its
owners and advertisers are examined, to determine whether the actions of the competition
contributed to ThisDay’s failure.
The findings of this study show that ThisDay’s entry met what was arguably a major need
for quality news in South Africa’s daily newspaper market; this however, did not prevent
its closure. It had to grapple with too many challenges, most of them internal. The
underlying reason for most of the problems management encountered was the
unavailability of financial resources to run a paper of ThisDay’s magnitude. However the
strategies that its management adopted as well as the business plan were way off the
mark. The demise of ThisDay newspaper is a loss to South African journalism in two
aspects; the industry lost a quality newspaper which greatly improved the level of South
African journalism (the quality of which many now say is in a decline). Secondly, its
failure will serve as a deterrent to any aspiring entrepreneur who would like to put
together a quality product, the perception being that quality newspapers are not
profitable. With the demise of ThisDay newspaper and recently the Nova, it seems that
the South African print media environment has closed its doors to new entrants.
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Situating Nukain Mabuza's rock garden: a study of a landscape dwelling through multiple explanatory frameworksCuthbertson, Hazel Claire January 2017 (has links)
A research report submitted to the
Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Arts (History of Art) by coursework and research report
March 2017 / In the 1960s and 1970s, farm worker Nukain Mabuza created a painted hillside rock
garden on a farm between Barberton and Kaapmuiden, Mpumalanga, South Africa. He
transformed his dwellings, and rearranged and painted the surrounding rocks according
to a unified scheme of geometric and animal motifs with a carefully selected colour
palette. This altered environment went far further aesthetically, and lasted far longer in
time, than the signs and scars that might typically result from a farm worker’s dwelling
upon the land. His work arguably bears some of the hallmarks of an inhabited ‘total work
of art’.
I challenge the dominant ‘outsider art’ explanatory framework adopted by JFC Clarke and
re-evaluate the fragmentary archive of Mabuza’s life and work. Working from the
likelihood that no single context will offer sufficient grounds for situating Nukain
Mabuza’s particular creative practice, I assess the relevance of cultural, historical and
religious contexts, which might have shaped Nukain Mabuza’s personal vision and
contributed to the form of his expressive environment. Nukain Mabuza’s altered
landscape has suffered considerable damage – there is no longer any trace of the two
dwellings and the stile, and the paintings on the rocks have all but disappeared. My
project seeks to contribute to the scholarship on Nukain Mabuza’s work by extending,
analysing, interpreting and situating his inhabited painted environment within the
worldview of southern African Bantu-speakers, as a unique personal creative expression,
and as an expression of the artist’s modernity. / MT2018
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Identity and culture in architecture: SA Institute of Trade & Cultural RelationsPatel, Dipen Ramesh 07 October 2008 (has links)
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