Media and political communication on African sovereigns : unravelling the Nigerian- South African scenario

AbstractIn the previous article we asked the question of to what extent a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region show transformative orientations in the fields of ecology, economics and politics. In this article we deal with the question of what the social location of these transformative orientations is. The more transformatively oriented students are to be found among female, ANCoriented, transethnically directed, postmaterialistic, self-controlling, non-religious, and sometimes Anglican (in each case non-Catholic) students who regard work as something interesting, participate in political communication and consensus building, and see politics and study as a value. Students who favour socio-economic equality more specifically are to be found among the more religiously inspired and motivated students.

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An evaluation of the functionality and delivery of websites of political parties in South Africa

SA Journal of Information Management ◽

10.4102/sajim.v12i1.453 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria Crossland ◽

Wallace Chigona

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Political Parties ◽

South African ◽

Political Communication ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Information Dissemination ◽

Party Competition ◽

The Political ◽

Communication Environment ◽

Internet Penetration

The political communication environment worldwide has been transformed by the Internet with websites providing opportunities for affordable information dissemination and reception. Internationally, a party contesting an election without a website seems impossible today. This exploratory study examines the use of websites by political parties during the 2009 South African elections and investigates the functionality offered by the websites as well as how effectively this functionality is delivered. The study analysed the websites of both large and small political parties. It is worth noting that in spite of the lower Internet penetration rates in South Africa, the majority of political parties contesting the 2009 elections had websites. The study shows that the websites of the larger parties generally offer more functionality than those of the smaller parties, supporting the view of ‘normalisation’ of party competition in cyberspace. However, an analysis of the delivery of the content does not confirm the normalisation effects.

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The Three-dimensional structure of frozen-hydrated nudaurelia capensis β virus

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100127682 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 650-651

Author(s):

N. H. Olson ◽

T. S. Baker ◽

Wu Bo Mu ◽

J. E. Johnson ◽

D. A. Hendry

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Rna Virus ◽

Carbon Film ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Dimensional Structure ◽

Electron Dose ◽

Total Electron ◽

Three Dimensional Structure ◽

Negative Stain ◽

Dimensional Reconstruction

Nudaurelia capensis β virus (NβV) is an RNA virus of the South African Pine Emperor moth, Nudaurelia cytherea capensis (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae). The NβV capsid is a T = 4 icosahedron that contains 60T = 240 subunits of the coat protein (Mr = 61,000). A three-dimensional reconstruction of the NβV capsid was previously computed from visions embedded in negative stain suspended over holes in a carbon film. We have re-examined the three-dimensional structure of NβV, using cryo-microscopy to examine the native, unstained structure of the virion and to provide a initial phasing model for high-resolution x-ray crystallographic studiesNβV was purified and prepared for cryo-microscopy as described. Micrographs were recorded ∼1 - 2 μm underfocus at a magnification of 49,000X with a total electron dose of about 1800 e-/nm2.

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