Browsing by Author "Hodgson, Janet"

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    A history of Zonnebloem College, 1858-1870 : a study of church and society
    (1975) Hodgson, Janet; Cumpsty, John
    The Kafir College was established as an Industrial Institution for the Instruction of the children of Native Chiefs and their Councillors at Bishop's Court, (1) the home of Bishop Gray in Claremont, in February, 1858. This experiment in education was the realization of the vision of two leading personalities of the time - Bishop Gray, the Metropolitan of the Anglican Church in South Africa (2) and Sir George Grey, Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape Colony. (3) The College was the combined venture of the Church and the British Government. They shared the financial responsibilities and when Zonnebloem, (4) a wine Term on the outskirts of Cape Town, was bought as a permanent site for the Institution in 1859, they both contributed towards the purchase price. Zonnebloem College came into being the following year when the students took up residence in their new quarters. The property, after first being transferred to Sir George Grey, was subsequently received back by Bishop Gray and it has been held in trust by the Lord Bishop of Cape Town ever since. The history of Zonnebloem can be divided into a number of distinct periods. While the College has functioned as an Educational Institution up to the present day, its purpose has changed at intervals over the years. It has altered direction and varied the scope of its work in order to meet the differing educational needs of the time. The student enrolment, too, has changed with time, for the College has of necessity been compelled to comply with the requirements of Government legislation
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    Ntsikana : history and symbol studies in a process of religious change among Xhosa-speaking people
    (1985) Hodgson, Janet; Cumpsty, John S
    The figure of Ntsikana, both as a man of history and as an historical symbol, is the focus of this study. I argue that change may come about by giving new meanings to old forms and images or by taking the new forms and content and filling them with the old, and that these two sets continue to exist side by side for a long time. Cumpsty's "Model of Religious Change in Socio-Cultural Disturbance" is used to identify the dynamics in the process and to explore the nature of the dialectic between innovation and assimilation of the new on the one hand, and continuity with the old on the other. The Ntsikana tradition is followed ever a period of two hundred years and well illustrates the need to see religious change as part of an ongoing process within a particular social and historical context.
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    Umgalelo and the failure of the church? : a study in voluntary associations in Mbekweni Paarl
    (1987) Kokoali, Christian Tumelo; Hodgson, Janet
    Umgalelo are defined as "small-scale informal mutual benefit societies". The name is derived from the Xhosa verb ukugalela, "to pour forth, out, or in". In the old Xhosa- tradition it could be used as ukugatela iinkomo, to pour in cattle in competing for a wife. Two or more contestants for a wife would bid against each other with cattle, one beating the other by a higher price. Nowadays umgalelo refers associations which involve the "pouring mutual benefit and good fellowship. to the voluntary in" of money for In Zulu these associations are called maholisana from ukukhola, to pay. In Southern Sotho the name is 'ho amohedisana', literally meaning to make each other receive from the verb amhoela, 'to receive. This system of umgalelo began with the establishment of money economy among Africans in the gold and diamond mines at the end of the nineteenth century.