Timba (Timba, the Wren)
- 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira, Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155930 , vital:39932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-13
- Description: "You mother, Ti-ti-ti- Timba stays in the bushes." The small bird Timba possibly one of the smallest in the district is either a Wren or one of the Tit family from the description given. Appears to be a favourite hero of local stories. Self delectative song with board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: 'Limited' Mfundo Phiri , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Namira, Chikwawa f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/155930 , vital:39932 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR088-13
- Description: "You mother, Ti-ti-ti- Timba stays in the bushes." The small bird Timba possibly one of the smallest in the district is either a Wren or one of the Tit family from the description given. Appears to be a favourite hero of local stories. Self delectative song with board zither.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Tinkancisi (We shall go to the island)
- Katunga and Mailoso (8 and 6 years old). Son and nephew of the chief, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Katunga and Mailoso (8 and 6 years old). Son and nephew of the chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156153 , vital:39957 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-16
- Description: Mpheta is said to be a kind of small river or reed bird (unidentified). The tuning of the xylophone is as follows; 832, 624, 576, 480, 424, 384, 312, 288, 240, 212. Tune without lyrics, Magogodo xylophone, lose notes.
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Katunga and Mailoso (8 and 6 years old). Son and nephew of the chief , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Arts, Malawi , Songs, Nyanja , Nyanja (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Chikwawa District f-rh
- Language: Nyanja/Mang'anja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/156153 , vital:39957 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR089-16
- Description: Mpheta is said to be a kind of small river or reed bird (unidentified). The tuning of the xylophone is as follows; 832, 624, 576, 480, 424, 384, 312, 288, 240, 212. Tune without lyrics, Magogodo xylophone, lose notes.
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- Date Issued: 1958
Tiye tuluka mwanawe (Come, come out, child)
- Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bimphi, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154037 , vital:39556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-09
- Description: "Come, come out you child. Come, come outside, that the people may see you. Don't you hear now? Why don't you come? If you were a bird you could have flown away. The year when my father died I did not wail. What must I do? What is it child? The fish eagle wailed, a bird of the heavens. He died at Cilanga. Come out child, there are people oustide." It is suggested that this song refers to a girl being shy after her initiation or 'coming out' into public life as a young woman. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1958
- Authors: Gezani Mwale , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1958
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Songs, Nyanja , Songs, Chewa , Nyanja (African people) , Chewa (African people) , Folk music , Africa Malawi Bimphi, Dowa, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Nyanja, Chewa, Chichewa
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154037 , vital:39556 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR079-09
- Description: "Come, come out you child. Come, come outside, that the people may see you. Don't you hear now? Why don't you come? If you were a bird you could have flown away. The year when my father died I did not wail. What must I do? What is it child? The fish eagle wailed, a bird of the heavens. He died at Cilanga. Come out child, there are people oustide." It is suggested that this song refers to a girl being shy after her initiation or 'coming out' into public life as a young woman. Self delectative song with Sansi (Mbira).
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- Date Issued: 1958
Babe lidzela nyoni
- Masitsela and 2 boys and 3 girls, Composer unknown, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Masitsela and 2 boys and 3 girls , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/247527 , vital:51591 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT557-M9 , Research no. M2B1
- Description: A wedding song sung by the bride's party unaccompanied.
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- Date Issued: 1958-03-26
- Authors: Masitsela and 2 boys and 3 girls , Composer unknown , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-03-26
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Eswatini Usutu Forest f-sq
- Language: Swati
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/247527 , vital:51591 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT557-M9 , Research no. M2B1
- Description: A wedding song sung by the bride's party unaccompanied.
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- Date Issued: 1958-03-26
Panali Ntowi-towi
- Mware, Kampala, Chewa boys, Composer not specified, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Mware, Kampala , Chewa boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252240 , vital:52215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT593-M65 , Research no. M3H7
- Description: A nthanu story song about a bird going to a town to find a wife.
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- Date Issued: 1958-05-28
- Authors: Mware, Kampala , Chewa boys , Composer not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1958-05-28
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Malawi Visanza f-mw
- Language: Chewa, Chichewa, Nyanja
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/252240 , vital:52215 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Field Tapes, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , HTFT593-M65 , Research no. M3H7
- Description: A nthanu story song about a bird going to a town to find a wife.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1958-05-28
A study of the biology of the Jameson reservoir near Grahamstown, Cape Province
- Authors: Darbyshire, John Frederick
- Date: 1959
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6784 , vital:21179
- Description: 1. This thesis is an ecological study of a South African water storage reservoir and it’s tributary streams. 2. A brief description of the reservoir, the surrounding vegetation, superficial geological strata, soils and early history of the reservoir is given in Chapter I. 3. The surrounding vegetation is discussed in some detail in Chapter II. The zonation of the plants and the influence of water upon it are discussed. 4. The results of the regular investigations of the physicochemical environment are presented in Appendix 1 and the salient points noted in Chapter III. 5. The species of algae collected are listed in Appendix 2 and in Chapter IV are discussed in relation to habitat and abundance. 6. The animals are dealt with in a similar manner in Chapter V. Under 'Discussion and Conclusions' in Chapter VI an attempt is made to review the findings and discuss their significance.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Darbyshire, John Frederick
- Date: 1959
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6784 , vital:21179
- Description: 1. This thesis is an ecological study of a South African water storage reservoir and it’s tributary streams. 2. A brief description of the reservoir, the surrounding vegetation, superficial geological strata, soils and early history of the reservoir is given in Chapter I. 3. The surrounding vegetation is discussed in some detail in Chapter II. The zonation of the plants and the influence of water upon it are discussed. 4. The results of the regular investigations of the physicochemical environment are presented in Appendix 1 and the salient points noted in Chapter III. 5. The species of algae collected are listed in Appendix 2 and in Chapter IV are discussed in relation to habitat and abundance. 6. The animals are dealt with in a similar manner in Chapter V. Under 'Discussion and Conclusions' in Chapter VI an attempt is made to review the findings and discuss their significance.
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- Date Issued: 1959
A study of the relationship between the poetry and criticism of Ezra Pound 1908-1920
- De Villiers, André Rex Wepener
- Authors: De Villiers, André Rex Wepener
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2317 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013320
- Description: From the preface: The purpose of this thesis is exposition rather than criticism. Pound's position in the hierarchy of the 'New Criticism' would provide an extremely interesting subject; but I have rather tried to outline; the standards which he has laid down as being central in the technics of good poetry and to show how closely he has adhered to them in his own verse. I have limited the period to be discussed because all of the essential principles which he employs in his writing after 1920 are discernible in the body of his work published before that date.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: De Villiers, André Rex Wepener
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2317 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013320
- Description: From the preface: The purpose of this thesis is exposition rather than criticism. Pound's position in the hierarchy of the 'New Criticism' would provide an extremely interesting subject; but I have rather tried to outline; the standards which he has laid down as being central in the technics of good poetry and to show how closely he has adhered to them in his own verse. I have limited the period to be discussed because all of the essential principles which he employs in his writing after 1920 are discernible in the body of his work published before that date.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Chikangaide (The bird)
- Authors: Young police , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Poilce Headquaters, Zomba, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154956 , vital:39797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-17
- Description: Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said, "The children were playing and took their mother's clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but hearing the bird singing so prettily he forgot his anger and in fact went anf gave the bird still more clothes. This is a variation of the old theme of the enchantment of music. It perhaps does not indicate an aeshetic pleasure in the natural song of the blind but rather in the words of the song which it is supposed to have sung. Nthano story song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Young police , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk music--Africa , Field recordings , Ngoni (African people) , Arts, Malawi , Folk music , Africa Malawi Poilce Headquaters, Zomba, Ncheu District, Central Nyasaland f-mw
- Language: Ngoni
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154956 , vital:39797 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR084-17
- Description: Once there were some children who took their mother's clothes and gave them to a bird, and the bird started singing and said, "The children were playing and took their mother's clothes and gave them to me knowing nothing because I am only a bird from the bush." The father came and waited for the bird to kill it, but hearing the bird singing so prettily he forgot his anger and in fact went anf gave the bird still more clothes. This is a variation of the old theme of the enchantment of music. It perhaps does not indicate an aeshetic pleasure in the natural song of the blind but rather in the words of the song which it is supposed to have sung. Nthano story song with clapping.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Fishes of the family Lethrinidae from the Western Indian Ocean
- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Lethrinidae -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14979 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018778 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 17
- Description: Among the most difficult problems of the systematist are certain groups of tropical fishes, notably the Parrotfishes and the Lethrinidae, whose bright colours fade quickly after death. Both of these groups are especially abundant in the Indo-Pacific. The Parrotfishes are troublesome enough, but the species do tend to retain the same livery fairly constantly in life, and there are several features that provide well defined generic cleavage, as well as useful clues to species. The Lethrinidae are more difficult, having fewer variable features. Even dimensions, e.g. relative depth, are useful only when comparable stadia can be compared, as considerable general change in body shape may occur with growth. Under the water these are troublesome fishes to identify, as most species are camouflaged by an intricate pattern of cross bars, cloudy patches, and reticulations, which make them all look much alike. In addition, they are among the most wary of the reef fishes, and difficult to approach for close scrutiny. Fresh from the water, the concealing, darker, cross markings and reticulations usually fade within a few moments, and some species are not difficult to recognise, since just after death, colour and pattern are normally reasonably constant within one species, a few are almost constant, others show variation round a typical pattern. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Lethrinidae -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:14979 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018778 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 17
- Description: Among the most difficult problems of the systematist are certain groups of tropical fishes, notably the Parrotfishes and the Lethrinidae, whose bright colours fade quickly after death. Both of these groups are especially abundant in the Indo-Pacific. The Parrotfishes are troublesome enough, but the species do tend to retain the same livery fairly constantly in life, and there are several features that provide well defined generic cleavage, as well as useful clues to species. The Lethrinidae are more difficult, having fewer variable features. Even dimensions, e.g. relative depth, are useful only when comparable stadia can be compared, as considerable general change in body shape may occur with growth. Under the water these are troublesome fishes to identify, as most species are camouflaged by an intricate pattern of cross bars, cloudy patches, and reticulations, which make them all look much alike. In addition, they are among the most wary of the reef fishes, and difficult to approach for close scrutiny. Fresh from the water, the concealing, darker, cross markings and reticulations usually fade within a few moments, and some species are not difficult to recognise, since just after death, colour and pattern are normally reasonably constant within one species, a few are almost constant, others show variation round a typical pattern. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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- Date Issued: 1959
Letsema la a phota (The group is threshing corn)
- Boys and girls from Mabe's Community school, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Boys and girls from Mabe's Community school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Rustenburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166324 , vital:41351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-12
- Description: "Rasentsetsa's hair is so thick he looks like a bird. We are threshing corn. This is Rasentsetsa's band of threshers. But we do not see him here. We always work our hardest when the men are here. Threshing song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Boys and girls from Mabe's Community school , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Rustenburg f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/166324 , vital:41351 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0117-12
- Description: "Rasentsetsa's hair is so thick he looks like a bird. We are threshing corn. This is Rasentsetsa's band of threshers. But we do not see him here. We always work our hardest when the men are here. Threshing song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Loseka lwa e boka (You should not praise this cow)
- Group of Lete men, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Group of Lete men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165326 , vital:41233 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-05
- Description: 'You should not praise this cow for you do not know it. It is hornless. It is the cow belonging to nong." 'Nong' is a generic term for any large bird but more specifically means 'Vulture'. This song also is sung when the bride-price is paid. It ends with a Maboko praise and the cries of the women. The praise was for Baitlutli, grand uncle of the present Chief and uncle of Ketshwerebothata, ex-Regent of Ramoutsa. Engagement song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Group of Lete men , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Ramoutsa f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Lete
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165326 , vital:41233 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0112-05
- Description: 'You should not praise this cow for you do not know it. It is hornless. It is the cow belonging to nong." 'Nong' is a generic term for any large bird but more specifically means 'Vulture'. This song also is sung when the bride-price is paid. It ends with a Maboko praise and the cries of the women. The praise was for Baitlutli, grand uncle of the present Chief and uncle of Ketshwerebothata, ex-Regent of Ramoutsa. Engagement song.
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- Date Issued: 1959
The executive government of the Cape of Good Hope, 1825-54
- Authors: Fryer, Alan Kenneth
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2604 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011896
- Description: The study of administrative processes is a relaltively new one both in the field of history and sociology. In both disciplines what is required is study of the sructure and growth of adminstrative systems and of the impact of administrative action on the community it seeks to serve and which it often provokes. In the field of history, Professor F. Tout in his chapters on administrative history ... gave new vitality and understanding to medieval studies. In the main, South African history, though probably not more so than other Commonwealth countries, has been less fortunate. Preface, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Fryer, Alan Kenneth
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2604 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011896
- Description: The study of administrative processes is a relaltively new one both in the field of history and sociology. In both disciplines what is required is study of the sructure and growth of adminstrative systems and of the impact of administrative action on the community it seeks to serve and which it often provokes. In the field of history, Professor F. Tout in his chapters on administrative history ... gave new vitality and understanding to medieval studies. In the main, South African history, though probably not more so than other Commonwealth countries, has been less fortunate. Preface, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1959
The fact and meaning of the resurrection : a study in emphases
- Authors: Bill, Jean-Francois
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Resurrection , Resurrection -- Biblical teaching
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Bachelor , BDiv
- Identifier: vital:1289 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014595
- Description: INTRODUCTION. The fact of the Risen Christ is the focal point which gives meaning to the Christian faith as a whole. Modern thought, while not denying the Resurrection, tends to confine it to its doctrinal or credal significance. In contrast, the early Christians were conscious of the presence of the Risen Lord and consequently the Resurrection was a fact of living experience. As mere history it loses its moral significance; as mere faith it becomes vague belief in deathlessness, and undermines the reality of the Atonement. The Resurrection is both fact and faith.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Bill, Jean-Francois
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Resurrection , Resurrection -- Biblical teaching
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Bachelor , BDiv
- Identifier: vital:1289 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014595
- Description: INTRODUCTION. The fact of the Risen Christ is the focal point which gives meaning to the Christian faith as a whole. Modern thought, while not denying the Resurrection, tends to confine it to its doctrinal or credal significance. In contrast, the early Christians were conscious of the presence of the Risen Lord and consequently the Resurrection was a fact of living experience. As mere history it loses its moral significance; as mere faith it becomes vague belief in deathlessness, and undermines the reality of the Atonement. The Resurrection is both fact and faith.
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- Date Issued: 1959
The historical development of geography as a subject in the schools of the Cape Province (1772-1951)
- Authors: Knox, John Charles
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Geography -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1974 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012702 , Geography -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
- Description: As the title indicates, this is a study of the historical emergence of geography as a subject in Cape schools, and covers the period 1772-1951. The account is not merely descriptive and factual, for wherever possible an attempt is made to assess the nature and scope of the geography which was taught at different periods in relation to modern, authoritative ideas concerning the pedagogic application of the subject in the school. The work as a whole is predominantly concerned with the historical development of geography in the secondary school. However, in the initial four chapters the slight and insubstantial nature of the available data precludes the possibility of differentiating between geoeraphy of primary standard and that of secondary standard, and in these early chapters all references to the subject are consequently generalized. In Chapter 5, which deals with the period during which Langham Dale was Superintendent-Genera l of Education, geography of secondary standard becomes distinguishable from that of primary standard for the first time, and from this point onwards the two are differentiated to the fullest extent possible, and the former is chiefly emphasized. The entire study is presented against a broad background of relevant, educational developments of a general nature.
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- Date Issued: 1959
The historical development of geography as a subject in the schools of the Cape Province (1772-1951)
- Authors: Knox, John Charles
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Geography -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1974 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012702 , Geography -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
- Description: As the title indicates, this is a study of the historical emergence of geography as a subject in Cape schools, and covers the period 1772-1951. The account is not merely descriptive and factual, for wherever possible an attempt is made to assess the nature and scope of the geography which was taught at different periods in relation to modern, authoritative ideas concerning the pedagogic application of the subject in the school. The work as a whole is predominantly concerned with the historical development of geography in the secondary school. However, in the initial four chapters the slight and insubstantial nature of the available data precludes the possibility of differentiating between geoeraphy of primary standard and that of secondary standard, and in these early chapters all references to the subject are consequently generalized. In Chapter 5, which deals with the period during which Langham Dale was Superintendent-Genera l of Education, geography of secondary standard becomes distinguishable from that of primary standard for the first time, and from this point onwards the two are differentiated to the fullest extent possible, and the former is chiefly emphasized. The entire study is presented against a broad background of relevant, educational developments of a general nature.
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- Date Issued: 1959
The photo-fluorescence properties of some organic materials
- Authors: Cameron, Antony John Wesley
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Hydrocarbons -- Spectra -- Fluorescence , Organic compounds , Energy transfer
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:5514 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010041 , Hydrocarbons -- Spectra -- Fluorescence , Organic compounds , Energy transfer
- Description: In this thesis I have given an account of the experimental work carried out by me at Rhodes University from the beginning of 1954 to the end of 1955, and the analysis of the results which was completed during the following two years, 1956 and 1957. The dissertation is divided into two sections; Part I deals with the photo fluorescence spectra of a large group of organic compounds, and Part 2 describes an investigation of the photo-fluorescence properties of and energy transfer in liquid organic solutions.
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- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Cameron, Antony John Wesley
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Hydrocarbons -- Spectra -- Fluorescence , Organic compounds , Energy transfer
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:5514 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010041 , Hydrocarbons -- Spectra -- Fluorescence , Organic compounds , Energy transfer
- Description: In this thesis I have given an account of the experimental work carried out by me at Rhodes University from the beginning of 1954 to the end of 1955, and the analysis of the results which was completed during the following two years, 1956 and 1957. The dissertation is divided into two sections; Part I deals with the photo fluorescence spectra of a large group of organic compounds, and Part 2 describes an investigation of the photo-fluorescence properties of and energy transfer in liquid organic solutions.
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- Date Issued: 1959
Tsemeli e Telele (The Butcher bird)
- Small boys of Koali, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Small boys of Koali , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Koali f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160973 , vital:40575 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-02
- Description: Mouse hunting song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Small boys of Koali , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Koali f-lo
- Language: Sotho
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/160973 , vital:40575 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0101-02
- Description: Mouse hunting song
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
Tumediso ya Morena (Greetings to the Chief)
- Jemina Pheha and 24 women, Hugh Tracey
- Authors: Jemina Pheha and 24 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165924 , vital:41297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-01
- Description: "Great, greetings, owner of the home. Bird greetings. Greetings! Owner of the home, where do I put the shield?" "Bird greetings" implies that the people are the Chief's small birds. The singers are using a local Pedi dialect of Kgatla. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
- Authors: Jemina Pheha and 24 women , Hugh Tracey
- Date: 1959
- Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa South Africa Saulspoort f-sa
- Language: Tswana/Kgatla
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165924 , vital:41297 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0116-01
- Description: "Great, greetings, owner of the home. Bird greetings. Greetings! Owner of the home, where do I put the shield?" "Bird greetings" implies that the people are the Chief's small birds. The singers are using a local Pedi dialect of Kgatla. Praise song.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1959
The contribution of the Anglican church to education in the Cape
- Authors: Rawlins, G E
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Church and education -- South Africa , Church of England -- Education -- South Africa , Education -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1978 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013055
- Description: In his "Onderwys in Kaapland, 1652 - 1939", Dr. P.S. du Toit makes special references to the educational work of the Anglican Church, indicating that there is some contribution. This attitude has as its aim to expose more of the reef of which the outcrops receive attention by Dr. du Toit ... much can happen between 1807 and 1829, and some of what did is described in these pages. One of Dr. du Toit's interests is the effect of the attempt to make English and instruction in English the basis of all education. Chap. 1, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Rawlins, G E
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: Church and education -- South Africa , Church of England -- Education -- South Africa , Education -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: vital:1978 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013055
- Description: In his "Onderwys in Kaapland, 1652 - 1939", Dr. P.S. du Toit makes special references to the educational work of the Anglican Church, indicating that there is some contribution. This attitude has as its aim to expose more of the reef of which the outcrops receive attention by Dr. du Toit ... much can happen between 1807 and 1829, and some of what did is described in these pages. One of Dr. du Toit's interests is the effect of the attempt to make English and instruction in English the basis of all education. Chap. 1, p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1960
The frontier in South African English verse : 1820-1927
- Authors: Taylor, Avis Elizabeth
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: South African poetry (English) -- 19th century , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism , South Africa -- In literature
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2318 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013347
- Description: The concept of a distinctively South African poetry in English has been, and still is, derided as a "pipe dream" as part of the fallacy which stems from the desire for a "national" literature. In 1955, for instance, C.J. Harvey (in an article containing much common sense as well as sound literary judgment) denounced the self-conscious hunting for "Local Colour" which engrosses so many South African writers. Harvey claimed: "Our civilization is not "South African", except in trivial details, it is Western European, and more specifically as far as poetry written in English is concerned, English ... ". There is a serious error of emphasis here. It would be more accurate to say that our ancestors brought Western European civilization to this continent. To imagine that this civilisation has not undergone and is not still constantly suffering a subtle but far-reaching metamorphosis in Africa would be to fly in the face of reality. White South Africans do not only carry the same identity-card but they can be distinguished from Frenchmen, Englishmen or Irishmen by more than "trivial details". This thesis is an examination of some af the earliest English written in southern Africa, particularly of the verse produced by our poetasters and near-poets. It attempts, during the course of this examination, to call attention to a few of the more significant changes which have arisen as the result of the importation of Western civilsation to an African frontier. Further I hope to show some at the varying ways in which these differences affected the white pioneer and how this has been reflected in our verse since pioneering times. In this sense the Frontier may be thought of as the background against which South African English writers developed certain characteristic traits. Intro., p. 1-2.
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- Date Issued: 1960
- Authors: Taylor, Avis Elizabeth
- Date: 1960
- Subjects: South African poetry (English) -- 19th century , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism , South Africa -- In literature
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2318 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013347
- Description: The concept of a distinctively South African poetry in English has been, and still is, derided as a "pipe dream" as part of the fallacy which stems from the desire for a "national" literature. In 1955, for instance, C.J. Harvey (in an article containing much common sense as well as sound literary judgment) denounced the self-conscious hunting for "Local Colour" which engrosses so many South African writers. Harvey claimed: "Our civilization is not "South African", except in trivial details, it is Western European, and more specifically as far as poetry written in English is concerned, English ... ". There is a serious error of emphasis here. It would be more accurate to say that our ancestors brought Western European civilization to this continent. To imagine that this civilisation has not undergone and is not still constantly suffering a subtle but far-reaching metamorphosis in Africa would be to fly in the face of reality. White South Africans do not only carry the same identity-card but they can be distinguished from Frenchmen, Englishmen or Irishmen by more than "trivial details". This thesis is an examination of some af the earliest English written in southern Africa, particularly of the verse produced by our poetasters and near-poets. It attempts, during the course of this examination, to call attention to a few of the more significant changes which have arisen as the result of the importation of Western civilsation to an African frontier. Further I hope to show some at the varying ways in which these differences affected the white pioneer and how this has been reflected in our verse since pioneering times. In this sense the Frontier may be thought of as the background against which South African English writers developed certain characteristic traits. Intro., p. 1-2.
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- Date Issued: 1960
Chocolates for my wife [corrected author's version]
- Authors: Matshikiza, Todd
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Matshikiza, Todd, 1921-1968 , Musicians, Black -- Biography , Matshikiza Family
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/39873 , vital:24930 , This manuscript 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. , MS 20 068
- Description: Description on the back of published version (published in 1982 by Africasouth Paperbacks by David Philip): "Of Chocolates for my wife, first published in 1961 (and 'banned' in South Africa until July 1982), Matshikiza said, "This is a book about real people, many of them my friends, and about a few of the experiences I have share with them." It tells in his own wry, vivacious, coruscating style of black life in the Johannesburg of Orlando, Sophiatown and Alexandra Township when King Kong was in rehearsal - and in sharp contrast to this, of the adventures of the Matshikiza family in London." This book was first published by Hodder & Stoughton, London in 1961.
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- Date Issued: 1961
- Authors: Matshikiza, Todd
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Matshikiza, Todd, 1921-1968 , Musicians, Black -- Biography , Matshikiza Family
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/39873 , vital:24930 , This manuscript 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. , MS 20 068
- Description: Description on the back of published version (published in 1982 by Africasouth Paperbacks by David Philip): "Of Chocolates for my wife, first published in 1961 (and 'banned' in South Africa until July 1982), Matshikiza said, "This is a book about real people, many of them my friends, and about a few of the experiences I have share with them." It tells in his own wry, vivacious, coruscating style of black life in the Johannesburg of Orlando, Sophiatown and Alexandra Township when King Kong was in rehearsal - and in sharp contrast to this, of the adventures of the Matshikiza family in London." This book was first published by Hodder & Stoughton, London in 1961.
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- Date Issued: 1961