Opening Access to Knowledge in Southern African Universities

“The Southern African Regional Universities Association last year published an important report titled Opening Access to Knowledge in Southen African Universities. This report identified key constraints in access to knowledge in universities in the SADC Region and builds on the findings from two earlier studies of  SARUA, A Status Review of ICT in Universities in the SADC Region (2006), and Science and Technology: A Baseline Study on Science and Technology and Higher Education in the SADC Region (2007).

The authors show that the presence of research from Africa in leading international peer-reviewed journals is diminishing, and also highlights the obstacles that prevent the majority of African research from ever receiving an adequate profile or readership within African research communities, and internationally. Reasons for the restictions on access to knowledge in Africa, and particularly in the Southern African Region are shown to revolve around restrictive copyright practices and regulations, and a lack of access to Internet-based technologies, out-dated paradigms for knowledge collection and dissimination, and the lack of creative and effective government supported enabling environments within higher education to match the vision of African leaders for knowledge and innovation in Africa in the 21st Century.” (From the foreword to the Report by Piyushi Kotecha)

To read the report Click Here!

UP Boekjol: Afrikaanse Skrywers Donderdag 6 Maart

10:00-11:00: Marieta Napierkamer, Hoofkampus: 

Joan Hambidge en Cas Vos lees voor. Joan het geen bekendstelling nodig nie – sy het meer as 20 digbundels gepubliseer, twee ernstige en drie satiriese romans, talle resensies en film- en reisrubrieke. Cas het vier digbundels op sy kerfstok; die jongste, Die afdruk van ons hande (2007), het baie gunstige resensies ontvang.  

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10:00: Klubsaal, Hoofkampus: Baja Lingual:

Michiel Heyns, Henning Pieterse, Charl-Pierre Naudé, Jerry Mojalefa en Andries Wessels gesels oor vertaling vir ’n veeltalige gemeenskap.

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11:00-12:00: Acacia, oorkant Burgundy’s, Hoofkampus:  Joan Hambidge – Rapier of Knuppel:

Corina van der Spoel gesels met haar oor haar werk in ’n gesprek getitel “Rapier of knuppel”.

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11:00-12:00:  Marieta Napierkamer, Hoofkampus: Dolf van Niekerk

Dolf van Niekerk, bekende roman- en radiodramaskrywer en digter, gesels tussen 11:00-12:00 met Rina Thom oor sy skeppende werk. Dolf se onlangse digbundel, Nag op ’n kaal plein, is uiters positief deur kritici en lesers ontvang. 

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12:00-14:00: Marieta Napierkamer, Hoofkampus

’n oopmikrofoonsessie, gelei deur Leti Kleyn. Die voorlesings word afgeskop deur die bekende Andries (Roof) Bezuidenhout, voormalige voorman van die Brixton Moord en Roof-Orkes. Andries se debuutdigbundel, Retoer, het pas verskyn. Enige digter is welkom om tydens hierdie sessie te kom voorlees in enige taal. 

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12:00-13:00: Klubsaal, Hoofkampus:

Ingrid de Kok, Henning Pieterse, Jerry Mojalefa, Mandla Maphumulo en Buti Skhosana gesels tydens die sessie “Gedigte nogmaals in gesprek” oor die vertalingsproses wat hulle met mekaar se gedigte ervaar het. Gedigte is in en vanuit Engels, Afrikaans, Sepedi, IsiNdebele en IsiZulu vertaal.  

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15:00: Protea, Hoofkampu: Piet Haasbroek gesels met Tommy Fenyes. Piet is ’n bekende kortverhaal-en romanskrywer en sy laaste roman, Oemkontoe van die nasie, het groot opslae gemaak. 

UP Bookjol: Some English Presentations Thursday 6 march

1. Darryl Accone, author of All under Heaven, the fascinating saga of his family, talks to Karen Harris

Acacia (opposite Burgundy’s), Main Campus: 14:00

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2. Shimmer Chimodya (Winner of the Noma Award for African Writing 2007) talks about writing in Zimbabwe and his novel Strife

Club Hall, Main Campus: 16:00

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3. Fred Khumalo, author of Touch my Blood, Bitches’ Brew and Seven Steps to Heaven, talks to Leon de Kock about his larger than life characters, and his writing of a Jacob Zuma biography

Club Hall, Main Campus: 17:30