Rhodes eResearch Repository
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Repository of the academic and research output of the Rhodes University community.
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Ameliorating poverty in South Africa through natural resource commercialisation - Shackleton, Sheona Elizabeth
This short policy brief advocates for more attention to be paid to the potential of natural resource commercialisation as a means to livelihood security and poverty alleviation in rural South Africa. It is one of a set of four policy briefs based on the findings of several case studies across the country.
(application/pdf) - 17-oct-2006
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The complexities of media regulation - Banda, Fackson
This is a review of Article 19's publication entitled 'Broadcasting pluralism and diversity: training manual for African regulators'. It analyses the key issues raised in the manual, and problematises them in terms of media theory. It concludes that the Article 19 manual is a useful training resource, regardless of some of its theoretical and presentational shortcomings.
(application/pdf) - 01-nov-2006
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Those merry, tinkling, tuneful bells: handbells in Victorian Grahamstown with a note on bell ringing at Grahamstown Cathedral - Berning, J.M.
[From the introduction]: The idea of using sets of small bells tuned to particular notes in order to produce music is very old. There are illustrations of slung bells being played in this way from the 11th and 12th centuries.
Bell ringers in England date the sue of sets of tuned and hand-held bells from as early as the 16th century though it seems that the modern handbell may have come into existence in the early 18th century. Such bells were used by tower bell ringers as convenient practice devices for change ringing. The ringing of tunes on handbells became popular...
(application/pdf) - 12-nov-2008
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The Cory Library for Historical Research : a short history, 1931-2003 - Berning, J.M.
Cory Library exists to contain the materials, in any form, which the student of the past needs to pusue his researches. That 'student of the past' may come from a discipline labelled History but he might just as easily not - all disciplines have pasts. George Cory, the 'founder' himself practised history only as a hobby, the collections he built in the pursuit of this hobby shaped the Cory Library.
This history of the Cory Library presents an overview of its establishment, resources, staff and users.
(application/pdf) - 19-nov-2008
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