Textualisation of the Domestic Self: Hildagonda Duckitt’s Autobiographical Cookbook

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius Crous ◽  
Alan Murdoch
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
British Empire ◽  
White Women ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
The Media ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Hilda’s Diary of a Cape Housekeeper (1902), by Hildagonda Duckitt, is an example of culinary literature and essentially a diary of life in the Cape at the time (one that includes recipes, notes on gardening, etc.). This text is investigated in this article with the aim of examining the responsibilities of women with respect to food, food preparation and the kitchen, the depiction of men with respect to food, its preparation and the eating thereof, and the influence of class and the ethnicity of the author’s intended audience. The article notes how these responsibilities have changed over time, particularly with regard to their content and appearance, as well as discusses the relationship between cookbooks and men. Cookbooks have become a mainstream subject of academic study, of popular culture and the media, not least of all for the insights that they provide about gender (especially in terms of the division of labour), ethnicity and culture, and while they have traditionally been aimed at white women, this is no longer always the case. Such gender issues are the primary focus of this article. The context of the book, namely South Africa under British colonial rule during the late 1800s and early 1900s, is also considered in order to shed light on the questions of ethnicity and culture. Duckitt’s affinity for the British Empire is explored, as well as her views about the indigenous people of South Africa, their roles with respect to food, and their place in the colonial home. Lastly, the article takes stock of Duckitt’s voracious appetite for new knowledge and its production, despite the patriarchy of the time.

scholarly journals Explore changes in the aspects fundamental to the competitiveness of South Africa as a preferred tourist destination

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Engelina Du Plessis ◽  
Melville Saayman ◽  
Annari Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Frequency Analysis ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Players ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Background: Tourism is an evolving and changing industry, and keeping up with these changes requires an understanding of the forces and changes that shape this industry’s outcomes. Tourism managers struggle daily to stay ahead in the competition to attract more tourists to destinations. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of the past could shed light on the advantages of the future.Aim: The aim of this study was to do a temporal analysis of the competitiveness of South Africa as a tourism destination.Setting: This research investigated the competitive position of South Africa as a tourism destination just after the 1994 elections and compared those results to the results of a similar study in 2014.Methods: In this article, a frequency analysis revealed South Africa’s strengths and weaknesses, after which t-tests indicated the relationship between the strengths and weaknesses of the destination and the factors that contribute to South Africa’s competitiveness.Results: South Africa’s strengths include the quality of the food and experience, scenery, variety of accommodation climate and geographical features. It is clear that respondents identified different attributes that contributed to the strengths of the destination in comparison with 2002, where the strengths were wildlife, scenery, cultural diversity, climate, value for money, variety of attractions and specific icons.Conclusion: This research is valuable for South Africa because it informs tourism role players about what respondents perceive to be South Africa’s strengths. Role players can then form strategies that incorporate the strengths to create competitive advantage. This article also indicates the areas in which the country has grown in the past decade as well as indicating which weaknesses remain a problem.

Gladstone and Jamaica

1959 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Knaplund
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Political Life ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Old Irish ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Irish Question ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Clear Statement

Early in his political life the famous British statesman, W. E. Gladstone, had close contact with colonial problems. His maiden speech in the House of Commons, June 3, 1833, was a defense of his father against charges that slaves were mistreated on the Gladstone plantations in Demerara; his first government post was that of Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the Colonies; before the end of the 1830's he had served on many committees which studied questions relating to the colonies; and in 1846 he was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. In 1835 and again in 1849 he drafted pamphlets on the British colonial empire; by mid-nineteenth century he was a leading advocate of colonial self-government; and his speech “Our Colonies” at Chester, November 12, 1855 (published as a pamphlet), was a clear statement of his creed that “ freedom and voluntaryism ” should govern the relationship between Britain and the overseas portions of the British Empire. While in later years noncolonial issues received most of his attention, he never abandoned his faith in freedom as the basic remedy for intra-imperial problems. In the closing years of his political career he fought magnificently but vainly to apply that principle of freedom (which had stilled colonial discontent) to the age-old Irish question.

Reviews in Medical Ethics

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-424
Author(s):  
Ana S. Iltis
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Law And Ethics ◽  
Ethics Research ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

What the Doctor Didn’t Say, by Jerry Menikoff and Edward P. Richards, is a courageous and well-written volume that examines some of the fundamental debates pertaining to the ethics of clinical research. The volume deserves a careful reading by anyone with a potential role in clinical research: clinicians who might serve as investigators or refer patients to clinical trials; research staff; Institutional Review Board (IRB) members and administrators; sponsors who design clinical trials; and the book’s intended audience, namely, potential research participants and their families. A cursory reading of this volume might lead one to think that Menikoff and Richards have declared war on clinical research. They have not. Instead, they offer an in-depth study of the conduct and oversight of clinical research through the lens of law and ethics. They shed light on old issues and initiate discussion of new questions, challenging readers to think critically about the relationship between medical ethics, research ethics, the law, and the conduct of clinical research.

scholarly journals ‘The Trial the World is Watching’: The 1972 Prosecution of Derk Crichton and James Watts, Abortion, and the Regulation of the Medical Profession in Apartheid South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-229
Author(s):  
Susanne M. Klausen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
British Empire ◽  
White Women ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Common Law ◽  
National Party ◽  
Party Government ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Government

AbstractAfter its formation in 1910 as a self-governing dominion within the British empire, the Union of South Africa followed a combination of English and Roman-Dutch common laws on abortion that decreed the procedure permissible only when necessary to save a woman’s life. The government continued doing so after South Africa withdrew from the Commonwealth and became a republic in 1961. In 1972 a sensational trial took place in the South African Supreme Court that for weeks placed clandestine abortion on the front pages of the country’s newspapers. Two men, one an eminent doctor and the other a self-taught abortionist, were charged with conspiring to perform illegal abortions on twenty-six white teenagers and young unmarried women. The prosecution of Dr Derk Crichton and James Watts occurred while the National Party government was in the process of drafting abortion legislation and was perceived by legal experts as another test of the judiciary’s stance on the common law on abortion. The trial was mainly intended to regulate the medical profession and ensure doctors ceased helping young white women evade their ‘duty’ to procreate within marriage. Ultimately, the event encapsulated a great deal about elites’ attempt to buttress apartheid culture and is significant for, among other reasons, contributing to the production of South Africa’s extremely restrictive Abortion and Sterilisation Act (1975).

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MENTORSHIP AND SUCCESSFUL YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT TELKOM, SOUTH AFRICA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Tshehla ◽  
Watson Ladzani ◽  
King Costa
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Youth Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Government ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Made In

South Africa, in general, is plagued by high unemployment, especially among the youth. The study explored the relationship between mentorship and successful youth entrepreneurship at Telkom, South Africa. The primary focus of the investigation was to establish whether mentorship could be the answer to unemployment and the declining youth entrepreneurship in the City of Tshwane. A qualitative research approach was applied in this study, using the Telkom mentorship programme as the sample. The sample consisted of mentors and youth mentees, obtained from the Telkom mentorship database. Data was collected using semi-structured, open-ended interviews. Data analysis was done using thematic analysis with Atlas Ti 8.0. The literature shows that mentoring has benefits for both mentors and entrepreneur mentees. It also shows that the government and private sector can play a key role in youth entrepreneur mentorship. The findings of the study have proven that mentorship yields positive results for youth entrepreneurs, which supports the literature in this study. The findings of the study yielded three themes, which were as follows: success factors for mentorship, inhibiting factors for mentorship, and influence of mentorship on successful youth entrepreneurship. In addressing the objectives of this study, the findings have proven that there is a relationship between mentorship and successful youth entrepreneurship. The recommendations made in this study include improvements in the mentorship programme for mentees and mentors, initiatives by government that include more mentorship programmes and better communication as well as providing funding for mentorship programmes. Further research, to establish the correlation between mentorship and successful entrepreneurship, is recommended.

scholarly journals Pedestrians and E-Scooters: An Initial Look at E-Scooter Parking and Perceptions by Riders and Non-Riders

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owain James ◽  
J Swiderski ◽  
John Hicks ◽  
Denis Teoman ◽  
Ralph Buehler
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Observational Study ◽  
Perceived Safety ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Right Of Way ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Since 2018, pedestrians in many U.S. cities have been sharing sidewalk space with dockless shared e-scooters. The introduction of e-scooters has received pushback from pedestrians. Complaints reported in the media include e-scooters blocking walkways and sidewalks when parked illegally as well as safety concerns from pedestrians who do not feel safe around moving e-scooters. However, little is known beyond a few initial studies on e-scooter parking and anecdotes about pedestrian perceptions of e-scooter safety. Our case study from Rosslyn, Virginia, helps shed light on these two issues. First, we conducted a survey of 181 e-scooter riders and non-riders asking about their perceived safety around riders of e-scooters and experiences of sidewalks blocked by e-scooters. We found highly divergent responses about safety and sidewalk blocking perceptions from riders and non-riders. Second, we conducted an observational study of 606 parked e-scooters along three mixed-use corridors in Rosslyn to investigate the relationship between the built environment and e-scooter parking. We found that 16% of 606 observed e-scooters were not parked properly and 6% (36 e-scooters) were blocking pedestrian right-of-way. Moreover, our survey showed that e-scooter trips in Rosslyn replaced trips otherwise taken by Uber, Lyft, or a taxi (39%), foot (33%), bicycle (12%), bus (7%), or car (7%).

Membership born in the Interstitial Spaces of the British Empire: The Indian Question in South Africa from 1860 to 1960

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
MARINA MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Global History ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This article revisits the question of Indian South Africans as a means of looking at a small selection of events1 situated within the dynamics between India, Britain and South Africa from 1860 to 1960, which were particularly influential in moulding the status of membership born within these interstitial spaces of the British Empire. Adopting a wider rather than a nationalist perspective, this discussion contributes to the growing global history scholarship looking at the relationship between India, Britain and its dominions.

Themes and tones of cannabis news reports and legalization outcomes

2020 ◽  
pp. 016344372096090
Author(s):  
Michael Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Print News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Neutral Tone ◽  
Cannabis Policy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

This project analyzed print news articles on cannabis legalization that were published in 2015 ( N = 295) from newspapers across the United States. The following year, 2016, saw more states legalize cannabis for adult use and medical use than before. Therefore, one goal of this research was to investigate the relationship between reports on cannabis legalization and subsequent legal changes that occurred in states that reformed their cannabis laws. Findings reveal that cannabis legalization issues are reported in the media with tones that favor, oppose, or are neutral toward cannabis legalization. Overall, cannabis legalization stories were reported with a neutral tone. Additionally, arguments about whether cannabis should be legalized are framed using criminological, economic, medical, and political themes. The political theme emerged most frequently in all reports. Findings indicate that there is an association between the tone of positive reporting and subsequent cannabis legalization in states where those reports originated. These findings have implications for allowing policymakers and healthcare professionals to build on their existing knowledge of the relationship between media, public opinion, and emerging cannabis policy. Finally, this study provides some context for the connection between a story’s theme, tone, and how they can shed light on cannabis legalization outcomes.

scholarly journals Division of Labour, Work–Life Conflict and Family Policy: Conclusions and Reflections

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-109
Author(s):  
Michael Ochsner ◽  
Ivett Szalma ◽  
Judit Takács
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Multilevel Structure ◽  
Labour Division ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Work Life Conflict

This thematic issue aims to shed light on different facets of the relationship between division of labour within families and couples, work–life conflict and family policy. In this afterword, we provide a summary of the contributions by emphasizing three main aspects in need of further scrutiny: the conceptualisation of labour division within families and couples, the multilevel structure of relationships and the interactions of gender(ed) values at different levels of exploration.

Introduction: assembling and materialising

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick McCurdy ◽  
Anna Feigenbaum ◽  
Fabian Frenzel ◽  
Gavin Brown
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
Media Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

In this section introduction the authors consider the different elements that are brought together to create the material and social infrastructures of camps. Taking seriously the material and social infrastructures of camps, they examine the spatial division of labour within protest camps. They also introduce how the architecture of the public squares and gardens that are occupied by protesters can shape the ways in which politics is practised within them. Protest camps are seldom spontaneous, and it is necessary to understand better the processes by which camps are planned, and the ways in which political practices travel between camps over time. This includes the important role of media and communication infrastructure. The authors highlight the need to examine the relationship between the physical space of occupation and the mediated or virtual space. Of interest are the media practices used to maintain and amplify spaces of protest, with particular attention given to the role of media - and social media in particular - in maintaining and amplifying corporeal protest camp sites.

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