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- ItemOpen AccessBrits-Kaffraria, 1853-1866(1926) Steyn, Hendrik PIn die behandeling van Brits-Kaffraria van 1853 tot 1866 (dit wil sê vanaf Cathcart se skikkinge tot by die bekendmaking van die anneksasie van Brits-Kaffria) is die bedoeling nie gewees om 'n volledige opgawe te gee van al die besonderhede in verband daarmee nie, omdat dit die perke van 'n skripsie te ver sou oorskry. Daar is alleenlik 'n poging aangewend om 'n duidelike beeld te gee van die belangrikste geskiedkundige gebeurtenisse en ontwikkelinge in Brits-Kaffraria tydens daardie periode. Die gevolge van die anneksasie moes onaangetas gelaat word daar ruimte dit nie toegelaat het nie, en ook omdat sommige van die gevolge hulle waarskynlik lank daarna eers laat geld het en dit sou my te ver van die eientlike gekose tydperk wegvoer.
- ItemOpen AccessThe rural economic development of the magisterial district of Albert since 1865.(1929) Van den Heever, Daniel Johannes GertruidaAlbert 1s situated 1n the North-East of the Cape Province,(see accompanying rough sketch map) bounded by the Orange River.1n the North and by the districts of Colesberg, steyneburg, Molteno, Wodehouse and Aliwal Borth in the Cape Province
- ItemOpen AccessThe Glen Grey Act and its effects upon the native system of land tenure in Cape Colony and the Transkeian Districts(1929) Wiggins, EllaThe first object of this essay is to trace any tendency of the Natives in the Cape Colony to modify their own communal system of land occupation in favour of any system more approximating to the Western ideal of individual tenure or ownership. The significance of any such tendency need not be emphasised. The communal occupation of land is one of the most essential bases of tribal organisation. It is closely linked up with the organisation of the family as an economic unit, as well as with the tribe in that aspect. It is, indeed, at the very roots of the Native family and tribal system. To trace any changes from communal to individual occupation mu.st be a part, therefore, of a larger study, viz., of the development of tribal life so as to admit of free economic action by individuals untrammelled by the bonds of tribal custom.
- ItemOpen AccessDie administrasie van Brits Kaffraria(1933) De Villiers, C BPage with thesis details missingThesis in afrikaans
- ItemOpen AccessThe Griquas of Griqualand East until about 1878(1935) Knoll, Thelma J NI have attempted to write a history of that section of the Griqua people who from 1862 to 1872 lived as an independent nation - the word is their own - in the present Griqualand East. It has not been an easy task, and I am afraid I have not given as clear an account as I should have liked to do. The Rev. William Dower, a London Missionary Society Minister, who lived among the Griquas in Griqualand East for several years, is the only man who has written anything like a history of these people. His book I have used mainly to get an idea of the character of the Griquas and of their social condition while Dower lived with them. For the facts of their history in Griqualand East I had to go to blue books, and to unpublished material in the Archives in Cape Town. I have not had the time to go through all the material on the subject - both in the blue books and in the Archives there is a great deal which I have not touched. In view of the many contradictory statements contained in the blue books which I had at my disposal, it was indeed difficult (due perhaps to some extent to my lack of experience of official reports) to select the correct data. For the history of the Griquas before 1860 I am mainly indebted to Sir George Cory who gives a connected account of a period about which there is very little material.
- ItemOpen AccessThe restriction of competition between road motor transport and the railways in the Union of South Africa(1936) Horwitz, RalphNo abstract / Text can't be copied properly (signs and symbols)
- ItemOpen AccessThe separation movement during the period of representative government at the Cape, 1854-1872(1938) Taylor, Noel HAbstract not detected properly (grammatical errors)
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- ItemOpen AccessA multiple factor analysis of the relationship between musicality, general intelligence, and literary ability(1939) Karlin, E; Reyburn, H A; Bell, William HenryThe judgement 'that person is musical' is commonplace in our daily lives. The present writer has grown up in an intellectual environment coloured to a marked extent by interest in music and the related arts. To him it had always been a very natural phenomenon that a person should be regarded as musical or 'not-musical', and it seems justifiable to state that has attitude was but typical of his fellow-men. There appears to have prevailed for some time the idea that musicality represented some 'innate permeating spirit' which distinguished the possessor of the 'musical spark' from his brethren of more common clay. This implied that certain human beings had some general musical capacity or 'turn of mind' which was not possessed by others. Is there any justification for such an assumption? It was a question such as this which first stimulated the writer's interest towards a scientific investigation of the problem of musicality. This interest was refreshed almost continuously by a consideration of a number of further questions inevitably bound up with the consequences of the initial problem: Of the musical individuals themselves, was it true to say that their musicality was evidenced homogeneously either in degree or in quality throughout different musical operations? Was, for example, the music student who was keenest at discrimination of pitch also best at the memorizing of his music? Could anything definite be stipulated, either on a priori grounds or on the basis of experience, about the relationship existing between one's musicality and one's general intelligence? And what of the so-called allied arts; did literary ability, for instance, likewise involve a special quality, and was this ichor the same as was to explain musicality? It was as an attempt to provide a scientifically-investigated answer to such and similar questions that this analysis was originally undertaken. At the time of writing the field of the problem was entirely virgin soil; and though the writer would like to feel that this world does take an appreciable step towards clearing the obstructing growths of ignorance on the subject, yet he is obliged to point out the severely limited nature of the scope ot this thesis, owing partly to the brevity of time at his disposal and partly to the amount of wasted labour attendant upon all "pioneer" endeavour.
- ItemOpen AccessThe political career of Saul Solomon, Member of the Cape Legislative Assembly from 1854 to 1883(1939) Drus, EthelSaul Solomon was born in 1817 and died in 1892. He was never a member of the Legislative Council, so that his political career can be said to have begun in 1854, when he was returned to the first House of Assembly as one of the four members representing Capetown. He held his seat with a break of only one year, in 1869, until 1883, when illness oompelled him to retire. To my mind, prior to 1854, he was but an 'amateur' politician, using the word in no depreciatory sense,and I therefore propose to concentrate most of my attention on his parliamentary career.
- ItemOpen AccessDie kulturele betekenis van die eerste Afrikaanse geskrifte tot 1900(1940) Fourie, Margaretta MMy doel met hierdie studie is nie om 'n geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse Taalbeweging te gee nie. Ek wil slegs aandui hoe die genootskappers en ander stryers vir die Afrikaanse saak hul gestelde doel, n.l. om die nasionale gevoel van die volk aan te wakker en die volk te oortuig van die waarde van sy eie taal, deur die uitgee van Afrikaanse geskrifte probeer bereik het. Ook is my doel nie om te let op die literere waarde van die werke of om die geskiedkundige uiteensettinge daarin aan die waarheid te toets nie. Ek wil net maar 'n studie maak van die rol wat hierdie werke in die verwesenliking van 'n nasionale oplewing gespeel het.
- ItemOpen AccessThe Lieutenant-Governorship of Andries Stockenstrom(1940) Smuts, P J
- ItemOpen AccessThe growth and development of Cape Town(1940) Margaret MarshallThe study of Cape Town is one of particular interest because the growth of the town has been so intimately dependent upon its situation It has been stated that Cape own occupies the most central position in the-world, for it· is nearer to more large ·sea-ports than any other city. Africa south of the Equator-forms a great promontory occupying a central position in relation to the great land masses of Europe, Asia the Americas, and-Australia.
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- ItemOpen AccessThe anaemia of pregnancy: A report on the haematological study of 48 cases of pregnancy, with review of the literature(1941) Elliott, G AStudies of anaemia occurring during pregnancy have been of two main types. The first type, from which information of great value has been collected, is the mass survey of large series of cases. Studies of such a nature have the disadvantage that the less common varieties of pregnancy anaemia are pooled amongst the more common, a feature which is largely responsible for the perpetuation of traditional rather than factual ideas on the subject of these less common forms. The second type of study, of which the present is an example, consists of a more intensive and detailed investigation of individual cases with the main purpose of interpreting pathogenesis in terms of deviation from that which is physiological. Anaemia and pregnancy are common associations. It is important to distinguish between anaemia which is apparently due to pregnancy and anaemia which is associated coincidentally with pregnancy. In the present enquiry, the phrase "anaemia during pregnancy" generically denotes that a case is pregnant and anaemic at the same time. " Anaemia of pregnancy" and "pregnancy anaemia" are used synonymously to indicate that the anaemia is conditioned directly by pregnancy; it is perhaps too strong to refer to such anaemia as being due to pregnancy. ". Anaemia complicated by pregnancy" indicates that pregnancy occurs coincidentally with some disorder of the blood which ordinarily occurs quite apart from and is quite unrelated to pregnancy. The present investigation has sought to establish normal standards for the less commonly noted physical features of red cell fragility and red cell size during normal pregnancy, and to investigate these features in mild and severe grades of anaemia during pregnancy, followed through to the puerperium. At the same time, full haematological investigations were carried out and the results of various types of treatment followed. The type of response to treatment was used as an important aid to the diagnosis of the type of anaemia. That the investigation of the red cell fragility in pregnancy might afford information of value was suggested by Dr. J.M. Vaughan on the evidence of a single case under 2 her own observation some time previously in which the fragility was increased. The observations of Cassells (1938) also suggested that with an accurate technique for fragility estimation the red cells during pregnancy could be shown to behave differently from other forms of anaemia as regards their fragility. As no controlled work had been published on the subject, it was necessary to establish standards of red cell fragility for pregnancy uncomplicated by anaemia, and to compare these standards with the findings in pregnancy complicated by anaemia. On the assumption that red cell fragility is at least in part related to red cell thickness (Haden, 1934, Dacie and Vaughan, 1938), estimations of mean cell volume and mean cell diameter were an essential part of the investigation. Red cell counts, haemoglobin estimations, reticulocyte counts, white cell counts, and estimation of plasma bilirubin were part of the routine investigation.
- ItemOpen AccessThe place of religion in education from the stand-point of Roman Catholicism(1941) Prinz, Alfons PaulThis work has been written for two main reasons: (a) "Religion in education" is a real problem which all educational authorities and teachers have to face. Before the State took it upon itself to educate the children of the nation, the Church of Rome, and later the Protestant Churches also, gave both religious and secular education, the emphasis lying on the former. Once the state had taken over control of education, the emphasis shifted to the latter. Gradually, religious and moral instruction, leading to a practice of Christian religion, were neglected until they were virtually omitted in many public schools. This tragic result was brought about by the combined influence which naturalism and the scientific method, applied to other than the fields of science, had exercised upon education since the days of the Renaissance-Reformation period. Men everywhere are becoming aware of the powerlessness of modern education to produce Christians. Our children are no longer educated, in the sense attached to the word education in former times, but simply prepared for living in a secular sense. While some are quite contented and ask no more than this of education, others maintain that education should also include the culture of the soul. (b) The Church of Rome has always maintained the religious principle in education. It has therefore a special right to speak on "Religion in Education". The approach to the problem in this thesis is made from the Roman Catholic standpoint, and the fifth chapter is entirely devoted to Catholic Education, in order to illustrate that it is possible to combine the religious and the secular elements into one, viz. Christian education.
- ItemOpen AccessA socio-economic study of Parkwood Estate, Cape Flats(1941) Rabkin, Phyllys; Batson, EdwardParkwood Estate in the municipality of Cape Town is part of the Wynberg Ward. It is bounded on the west by the Prince George Drive, an arterial road to the False Bay Suburbs, on the north by the Golf Links Estate and on the other side by farmlands not as yet sub-divided into plots. Parkwood Estate, in spite of its prepossessing name, is a typical "pondokkie settlement" on the Cape Flats, housing some 1,100 people, mainly Coloured. The Estate is forty-three acres in extent and has about 185 houses, making it one of the more densely populated areas in the vicinity. The dwellings are of very poor construction, consisting almost entirely of roughly built wood and iron structures. The area is singularly deficient in municipal services, there being no system of sewerage and no provision for stormwater drainage. This latter municipal deficiency has meant that annual flooding is inevitable for the people of Parkwood but the seriousness of the consequences was only brought to the notice of the public in the winter of 1941 when the rains were particularly severe. The water level was so high that houses were rendered totally uninhabitable and two children in the district met their death through drowning. The conditions of life are backward, the roads are only tracks in the prevailing sandy littoral drift characteristic of the Cape Flats, the water supply is drawn from wells open to contamination, and the homes are illuminated at night by candlelight.
- ItemOpen AccessDie modern biografie(1941) Nerina Helene du Toit
- ItemOpen AccessThe development of the conception of a liberal education(1941) Somarundarum CooppanText can not be detected properly for copying
- ItemOpen AccessThe place of religion in education from the stand-point of Roman Catholicism(1941) Alfons Paul PrinzMen everywhere are becoming aware o~ the powerlessness o~ modern education to produce Christians. Our children are no longer educated, in the sense attached to the word education in former times, but simply prepared for living in a secular sense. While some are quite contented and a sk no more than this o~ e ducation, others maintain that education should also include the culture o~ the soul. (b) The Church o~ Rome has always maintained the religious principle in education. It has there~ore a special right to speak on "Religion in Education". The approach to the problem in this thesis is made ~rom the Roman Catholic standpoint, and the ~i~th chapter is entirely devoted to Catholic Education, in order to illustrate that it is possible to combine the religious and the secular elements into one, viz. Christian education. In the ~irst two chapters the tripartite psychology o~ man, stipulating a body, a mind, and a soul, and the sultures corresponding to these parts o~ man, physical, mental, and spiritual, are dealt with. The next two chapters attempt to outline the present-day situation and to point out how this situation -2- was brought about. Having thus shown what should be done and what is actually being done to-day, I have then ventured, in the last three chapters, to make some positive suggestions as to what can be done, even when the environmental influences are by no means favourable. I wish to express my gratitude to Professors W.F. Grant and A.H. Murray for the very valuable assistance they have given me in the compilation of the thesis.