Rhodes University Graduation ceremony [on] Saturday, 17 April 1993, at 10:30 a.m., in the 1820 Settlers National Monument
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Title
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Rhodes University Graduation ceremony [on] Saturday, 17 April 1993, at 10:30 a.m., in the 1820 Settlers National Monument
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Creator
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Rhodes University
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Date
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1993/04/17
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Abstract
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This digitised archival document records the Rhodes University graduation ceremony held on Saturday, 17 April 1993, at the 1820 Settlers National Monument in Grahamstown. The seventeen-page programme identifies university officeholders, outlines the ceremonial proceedings and records an address by Dr D.D. Dhlomo, founder and Executive Chairman of the Institute for Multi-Party Democracy. It lists graduates across the Faculty of Arts, including qualifications in journalism and media studies, fine art, music, human movement studies, international studies and African languages, as well as honours, master’s and doctoral degrees. Postgraduate research reflects the university’s engagement with South African history, political transition, education, cultural heritage and social issues. Notable studies examine responses to Western education among conservative communities in Transkei, the role of the international community in South Africa’s transition, reform and democracy in Mozambique between 1983 and 1991, the history of Grahamstown from 1918 to 1945, and the development of health and safety systems on the Witwatersrand gold mines between 1900 and 1939. Research also explores Xhosa drama and language, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and Gikuyu oral traditions, South African art institutions, and representations of the Eastern Cape frontier in art. The programme records doctoral research on Xhosa tonology, African literature, music education and radical South African journalism. Its extensive awards sections document scholarships, bursaries, medals and prizes, including the Ernest Oppenheimer Trust Scholarship for 1820 Settler and Eastern Cape History and the B.A. Putterill Prize for ecological and conservation research in the Eastern Cape. The programme also lists academic honours, colours and half-colours and explains the role of the University Convocation. As a primary institutional source, it preserves graduate names, qualifications, research titles and academic achievements, supporting genealogical and biographical research and documenting Rhodes University’s academic history and the intellectual, cultural and political concerns reflected in South African higher education in 1993.
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Subject
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Rhodes University
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Graduation ceremonies
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Academic ceremonies
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Format
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application/pdf
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Language
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English
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Type
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text
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Extent
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17 pages
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Rights
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Rhodes University
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Is Part Of
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Rhodes University Graduation Programmes
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Genre
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Graduation program
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Publisher
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Rhodes University, Office of the Registrar
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Location
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Cory Library and Archives
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Location - Shelf Locator
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Box 4, C3
