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The life and work of Benjamin Tyamzashe: a contemporary Xhosa composer

- Hansen, Deirdre Doris

  • Authors: Hansen, Deirdre Doris
  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Xhosa (African people) -- Music , Hymns, Xhosa , Tyamzashe, Benjamin John Peter (1890-1978) , Composers, Black -- South Africa
  • Language: English , Xhosa
  • Type: Book
  • Identifier: vital:550 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020214
  • Description: The present paper is a digest of the thesis submitted under the same title, by Miss Deirdre Hansen for the Degree of Master of Music of Rhodes University in 1968. This work includes a large number of musical illustrations, which illuminate in detail many aspects of the works of Benjamin Tyamzashe. The section containing these has been reduced to its essentials, but what is here given should enable the reader to understand the manner in which Tyamzashe's ability as a composer has developed, and to give him his rightful place among his contemporaries. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1968

The measurement of group differences in social concepts

- Morsbach, Gisela W L

  • Authors: Morsbach, Gisela W L
  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Ethnic groups -- Psychology -- South Africa , Racism -- South Africa , Stereotypes (Social psychology) , Cross-cultural studies
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:3218 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012907
  • Description: The present study attempted a cross-cultural investigation of ethnic and national stereotypes in South Africa, a land inhabited by a heterogeneous population. In this country, real or imagined differences due to racial characteristics profoundly influence social interaction. Moreover, such differences are entrenched and underscored by the prevailing legal system while supplying the rationale for many actions of the goverru:tent in power. On the basis of relevant literature it was assumed that differentiation between stereotypes would be based mainly on colour, but that further distinctive differentiations would be present inside the ensuing major groupings ("White and "Non-White"). It was furthermore attempted to show that various groups differed significantly in their judgment of an ethnic stereotype only if they had a dissimilar relationship with the group to be judged. Altogether 760 subjects were tested. These belonged to the six major ethnic and cultural groups in South Africa (Africans, Afrikaners, Coloureds, English-speaking White Gentiles, Indians, and Jews). They were all asked to judge each one of ten concepts by means of the semantic differential technique, which consisted of twenty adjective pairs. Six of these concepts were the names of the South African groups mentioned above, while another three concepts represented the names of groups outside South Africa ("the Americans", "the Germans", and "the Russians") which play an important role in the thinking of South Africans. Finally, the subjects were asked to rate themselves ("Me"- concept). For the sake of better comparison, only first-year students were tested at various universities. The results were analyzed with the aid of a computer (the ICT computers at the University of Cape Town and at Rhodes University). Since a cross-cultural study rests on the theoretical assumption that any tests used for the purpose of comparison are reliable and valid in all cultures to be investigated, a few additional questions had to be asked. The checks undertaken confirmed that in the present study:- 1) The motivation of the subjects as well as their comprehension of the test's basic aims did not differ to any great extent. 2) The six groups did not differ appreciably as regards the social desirability of adjectives used, the semantic structure of the adjective pairs, and the range of scores on the adjective pairs. Furthermore, it was established that male-female differences in attitudes in each of the six groups tested were negligible. The stereotypes were compared with each other inside every one of the groups tested, as well as being compared between all the groups. These comparisons were carried out on the single adjective pairs separately (by means of the Sign Test and the Median Test), and then undertaken in the context of the factorial structure of the concepts. The major results showed that:- 1. The 'colour line' is an important criterion of evaluation in all groups but the Coloureds and the Jews. a) Apart from a 'Black Factor', on which the concepts "the Africans" and "the Coloureds" obtained high loadings, there appeared to be two factors dealing with the evaluation of the White groups. b) The evaluation of the 'Black Factor' by the African subjects was much more positive than the 'Black Factor' found in other groups. c) The Indian subjects did not regard themselves as belonging to the ' Non-Whites' ; neither were they regarded as such by the other subjects tested. 2. The criterion of colour was of less importance in the Coloured and Jewish groups tested. 3. The Jewish subjects appeared to possess the most differentiated stereotype structure, since, in their case, there were four, instead of the usual three factors to be extracted. Moreover, they tended to regard the Non-'White groups more positively than did the other two White groups. 4. The Afrikaans subjects held the most negative opinion of "the Africans"; conversely, "the Afrikaners" were also rejected more strongly than the English-speaking Whites by the Non-Whites tested. 5. Of all groups rated, "the Americans" were the most liked. 6. The stereotypes of "the Russians" and "the Germans" were fairly similar, except in the case of the Afrikaans subjects, who had an exceptionally positive regard for "the Germans". 1. Ratings of the subjects' own group were generally very much more positive than the ratings of the same group by members of other groups, except in the case of the English-speaking White Gentiles. 8. When any two groups rated a concept differently, this could generally be traced back to, on the one hand, differences in the relationships between each one of the judging groups, and, on the other, the group being judged. In conclusion it can be stated that differences between the groups as regards any one stereotype were generally smaller than the differences between the stereotypes of different concepts as held by any one group tested. Where no special relationships existed between a judging group and one being judged, ethnic and national stereotypes tended to be relatively similar in the various cultures and sub-cultures investigated.
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  • Date Issued: 1968

The prism of memory

- De Villiers, D.Z.

  • Authors: De Villiers, D.Z.
  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Memory
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:677 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020746
  • Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1968

The South African Commercial Advertiser and the Eastern Frontier, 1834-1847: an examination of the ways in which and the sources from which it reported frontier conflicts

- Frye, John

  • Authors: Frye, John
  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Fairbairn, John, 1794-1864 , South African Commercial Advertiser (Newspaper) , South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2622 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014918
  • Description: [From Introduction]. The name of John Fairbairn is remembered with honour in South Africa for the part he played in the achievement of a freer press in the Cape Colony, in the campaign to prevent Britain from establishing a convict station on Cape soil, and in the movement which resulted in the establishment of a form of representative government in the Cape in 1853. More controversial is his share, as the editor of the first modern newspaper in the Colony, in a campaign to secure just treatment for the natives both inside and outside of the Colony. It is with his treatment of the conflicts, both small and great, between the Colony and the AmaXhosa tribes on its Eastern Frontier that this study is concerned.
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  • Date Issued: 1968

Title not specified

- Gumede's Concertina Band, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Title not specified

- Cold Storage Commission of Southern Rhodesia, Performer not specified, August Musarurwa, Tracey, Hugh

Toli

- Sea Waves Choir, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

Tragic themes in the plays of Arthur Miller

- Wortham, Christopher John

  • Authors: Wortham, Christopher John
  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Miller, Arthur, 1915-2005 , American drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism -- 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2306 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012875
  • Description: Aeschylus wrote that we learn through suffering. Whether one agrees with this statement or not, one has to recognise that it has given rise to a great deal of discussion about tragedy. What kind of suffering we can associate with tragedy will be considered in the chapters which follow. The more immediate concern is the business of learning. Man can learn a good deal about the problems that confront him, but he cannot learn all there is to know about anything. His knowledge is relative. He may postulate the absolute, but it is beyond the grasp of the human mind to perceive the absolute in its absoluteness. The relativist can avoid an epistemological quagmire by simply accepting that a relativistic attitude is only of relative value; he has the intellectual humility to recognise that whatever he thinks or says is likely to reveal only part of the truth. Arthur Miller has suggested that the best serious literature is concerned with the absolute, in that he criticises one of his contemporary playwrights for writing a work which "fails to extend itself so as to open up ultimate causes". Chap. 1, p. 1.
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  • Date Issued: 1968

Trip to a game reserve with the Hofmeyrs, December 1968

  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- History -- Photographs Rhodes University -- Students -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/40525 , vital:24995 , PIC/M 6851
  • Description: This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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  • Date Issued: 1968

Umbambo

- Gumede's Concertina Band, Performer not specified, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh

University Christian Movement 20th century worship service, 1968

  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- Students -- Photographs Rhodes University -- History -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/40546 , vital:24999 , PIC/M 6853
  • Description: This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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  • Date Issued: 1968

University of the Witwatersrand Gymnastics club 1968, Sue Benjamin and Carol pictured

Women's Border gymnastics team 1968, Gail Martin pictured

Young couple at Rag ball 1968, possibly Gail Martin

Young women sitting at a table, possibly at the Oriel Hall leaving dinner

  • Date: 1968
  • Subjects: Rhodes University -- History -- Photographs Rhodes University -- Students -- Photographs
  • Type: Image
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/40655 , vital:25011 , PIC/M 6862
  • Description: This image is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
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  • Date Issued: 1968

Aliaka kwanga te

- Lolaka, Jaccano and John Ouwerx, Tracey, Hugh

Misu ya pamba

- Lolaka, NJaccano and John Ouwerx, Tracey, Hugh

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