741 research outputs found
A conversation with playwright Zodwa Nyoni
No full textZodwa Nyoni the writer of Tears are not Meant to Stay Inside, the first African Opera to be written and staged in the United Kingdom. The interview was conducted virtually on Microsoft Teams on 26 February 2025. My discussion with Zodwa Nyoni lasted for one hour and ranged widely across her writing life in theatre and working in the creative industry, specifically focusing on her opera, Tears are Not Meant to Stay Inside. What strikes me now, on reading the transcription of the interview is Nyoni’s candour regarding the culturally and linguistically diverse creative artists, independence of mind, and the degree to which the personal, identity and culture are interlinked in her work
Data protection laws and privacy on Facebook
No full textBackground: Social networks have changed the way people communicate. Business processes and social interactions revolve more in the cyber space. However, as these cyber technologies advance, users become more exposed to privacy threats. Regulatory frameworks and legal instruments currently lacking a strong cyber presence are required, for the protection of users.
Objectives: There is need to explore and evaluate the extent to which users are exposed to vulnerabilities and threats in the context of the existing protection laws and policies. Furthermore, to investigate how the existing legal instruments can be enhanced to better protect users.
Method: This article evaluates and analyses these privacy challenges from a legalistic point of view. The study is focused on the South African Facebook users. Poll information gathered from the profile pages of users at North-West University was analysed. A short survey was also conducted to validate the poll results. Descriptive statistics, including measures of central tendency and measures of spread, have been used to present the data. In addition, a combination of tabulated and graphical description data was also summarised in a meaningful way.
Results: The results clearly show that the legal frameworks and laws are still evolving and that they are not adequately drafted to deal with specific cyber violation of privacy.
Conclusion: This highlights the need to review legal instruments on a regular basis with wider consultation with users in an endeavour to develop a robust and an enforceable legal framework. A proactive legal framework would be the ideal approach unfortunately; law is reactive to cyber-crimes
sj-docx-1-mde-10.1177_23821205231184045 - Supplemental material for Standards for Scaffolding in Health Sciences Programmes: A Delphi Consensus Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-mde-10.1177_23821205231184045 for Standards for Scaffolding in Health Sciences Programmes: A Delphi Consensus Study by Beloved Masava, Champion N Nyoni and Yvonne Botma in Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development</p
sj-docx-3-mde-10.1177_23821205231184045 - Supplemental material for Standards for Scaffolding in Health Sciences Programmes: A Delphi Consensus Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-mde-10.1177_23821205231184045 for Standards for Scaffolding in Health Sciences Programmes: A Delphi Consensus Study by Beloved Masava, Champion N Nyoni and Yvonne Botma in Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development</p
sj-docx-2-mde-10.1177_23821205231184045 - Supplemental material for Standards for Scaffolding in Health Sciences Programmes: A Delphi Consensus Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-mde-10.1177_23821205231184045 for Standards for Scaffolding in Health Sciences Programmes: A Delphi Consensus Study by Beloved Masava, Champion N Nyoni and Yvonne Botma in Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development</p
Street children identification and capititation : a case study in Songea Municipal Council, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania
No full textThis study was conducted in Songea Municipal, Ruvuma Region. The study was conducted in three wards, namely, Lizaboni, Mfaranyaki and Bombambili. The main objective of the study was to capacitate street children so that they can be self reliant. The specific objectives were identification of street children, training, care and support of street children, and provision of capital grand to graduate street children. The study comprised a random sample of 30 street children, 9 vulnerable children, 4 street children attending vocational training, 12 ward leaders, 9 community members, one GSM leader, and one Municipal community development officer. Sample selection was carefully done to avoid bias. Primary data were obtained through personal observation, administering of structured questionnaire and focus group discussion. Secondary data was obtained from GSM office, KIWOHEDE office, Songea Municipal office, Ruvuma Regional secretariat office and Southern New Hampshire University/Open University of Tanzania library.
Descriptive statistics as frequencies and percentage were used in analysis. The results from this study show that the problem of street children exists and the major factors that contribute to this problem are poverty, divorce, orphanage and large family. However, poverty is the major cause of this problem in the study area. (Author abstract)Nyoni, E. J. (2007). Street children identification and capititation: A case study in Songea Municipal Council, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania. Retrieved from http://academicarchive.snhu.eduMaster of Science (M.S.)School of Community Economic Developmen
Representations of the "other" in selected artworks : re-membering the black male body.
No full textThesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.The depiction of blackness in the visual arts is located in the complex discourse of representation. Blackness within western visual art has been, and continues to be viewed as oppositional to representations of whiteness, and is constantly perceived as other. This dissertation analyses the process of othering and the impact of such a process on the production of artwork in southern Africa, where the representation of the black male, in particular has been subjected to racist ideology, supported by its props, stereotype, generalization and the homogenization of black experience. Using poststructuralist theories of identity construction and power, I analyse stereotype, racism and masculinity in the colonial and postcolonial periods, focussing especially on the internalization of white constructions of blackness within black visual culture. I discuss the work of Baines as representative of colonial constructions of black masculinity, the work of Bhengu, Mapplethorpe and Makhoba as illustrative of the internalization of stereotypic identities, and the work of Voyiya, Harris and Nyoni as representative of resistant discourses of representation of the black male body. I situate the latter within the contemporary debate on questions of subjectivity and agency within the Foucauldian concept of power. I have deliberately chosen works by two American artists (Mapplethorpe and Harris) in order to situate discourses of blackness within a wider context
Response of estuarine and freshwater macroinvertebrate assemblages to habitat, water quality, flow and land use change in the lowland Amatikulu/Nyoni catchment.
No full textMaster of Science in Ecology. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2018.Water has become a scarce commodity in Sub-Saharan Africa and in drought prone South Africa. Due to the extensive utilization of water resources in South Africa, management and monitoring of our rivers and estuaries is required by law to achieve a balance between use and protection. Macrobenthic invertebrates of estuaries and freshwater macroinvertebrates have played a large role as indicators of ecosystem health. The lowland Amatikulu/Nyoni catchment in the province of KwaZulu-Natal is relatively poorly understood and baseline information about the ecology of the ecosystem is required. This therefore advocates more research into the Amatikulu/Nyoni catchments ecological wellbeing is needed to inform best management
practices. The overall aim of this study was to utilize aquatic macroinvertebrates as ecological indicators to evaluate the current biological condition of the Amatikulu/Nyoni River/Estuary. Freshwater and estuarine invertebrates were evaluated separately in the study with two main lines of evidence including: (1) the use of valid statistical methods to determine how water quality, habitat and sediment composition affected estuarine and freshwater macroinvertebrates community structure, abundance and distribution, and (2) the use of an established community metric measure or biological index namely the South African Scoring System (SASS) Version 5 to evaluate the wellbeing of the freshwater invertebrate communities. The application of these
lines of evidence are detailed in chapters two and three.
Chapter one is a general introduction for the thesis and a comprehensive literature review of how and why macroinvertebrates have been used as a bio indicators of freshwater and estuarine integrity. Chapter two describes the collection of freshwater macroinvertebrates from four freshwater sites and their assessment using the SASS5 community metric measure during
the high and low flow seasons in 2017. In addition, multivariate statistical analyses were performed on the data to test the significance of macroinvertebrate community shifts and correlations with changes in temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, percentage dissolved oxygen, pH, South African Scoring System Version 5 Scores, Average Score Per Taxa (ASPT),
the number of individuals for each survey and flow periods and between sites. The lowland Amatikulu River catchment sites showed that there was a change in the ecological condition of freshwater macroinvertebrate assemblages as well as along a longitudinal gradient with upstream sites having better conditions to support more sensitive species. In the third chapter, estuarine benthic macroinvertebrates were collected from four estuary sites using a Van Veen grab during two sampling surveys in 2017. To analyse the data, Conoco version 4.5 was also used to test the significance of benthic invertebrate community
shifts and correlations with environmental, spatial and temporal variables. Estuarine benthic invertebrate assemblages varied between sampling sessions in accordance with estuary mouth conditions, nutrient concentrations, sediment grain size distributions and total organic content levels compared with other environmental parameters. By identifying the relationship and drivers between aquatic macroinvertebrates with water quality, habitat, flow and anthropogenic land use change, insight has been gained into the structure and function of the Amatikulu/Nyoni Catchment, its ecosystem health and some management and monitoring recommendations derived to contribute to the sustainable management of the system
I am not a Witch
No full textThis is a film review of I am not a Witch (2017), directed by Rungano Nyoni
The foreign policy of a radicalised state- the two level game of Zimbabwe's relations with the IMF (2000-2007)
No full textThe suspension of Zimbabwe from the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) in 2001 has been justified as resulting from loan repayment arrears and failed macroeconomic policies. This dissertation argues that these justifications oversimplify the relationship between the Fund and Zimbabwe in the 2000s. As such, three factors are essential for a more comprehensive analysis into the country's foreign policy- the state type, the impact of bargaining between factions of different ideological underpinnings (internationalists vs. nationalists), and land reform. The socio-economic context of neocolonialism and the negative impact of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) on the domestic level, and comprehensive economic sanctions on the international sphere forged a radicalised state. The Land Reform and Resettlement Programme (LRRP) became the conduit through which economic redistribution occurred and the structural cleavages it created were significant in defining the political ‘rules of the game'. We argue that foreign policy analysis of a radicalised state specifically necessitates a closer look at the symbiotic synergies between domestic bargaining and international negotiation. Through the lens of Putnam's Two Level games hypothesis, we conclude that there were four main factors that determined the country's foreign policy towards the IMF and the failure of the negotiations- there was a prioritisation of domestic political considerations over external conditionalities; there was an incompatibility of ‘win-sets' between the IMF and Zimbabwe; that comprehensive sanctions reduced the IMF's bargaining space; and domestic ideological divergence between neoliberal ‘internationalists and radical ‘nationalists' undermined the negotiations
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