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The modern University's response to manpower needs of a developing community

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1980
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7411 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018288
  • Description: In the intellectual tradition which we have inherited in South Africa the university as an institution is predated perhaps only by the Catholic Church. From their very beginnings universities have regarded knowledge, advanced knowledge, its preservation, extension and transmission as their very reason for existence. Modernity, if it implies a serious departure from that tradition, cannot be held as a virtue in a university. A modern university is therefore one that exists in modern times, is in tune with the intellectual needs of those times, and which adapts, without imperilling, its centuries-old outlook towards knowledge. A modern university, most emphatically, is not one which cuts itself off from its age-old intellectual roots. An institution which does so is not a modern university it in fact ceases to be a university at all.
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  • Date Issued: 1980

The relationship between the Orange Free State and the Rolong of Thaba 'Nchu during the presidency of J.H. Brand, 1864-1888

  • Authors: Wales, Janet Mary
  • Date: 1980
  • Subjects: Rolong (African people) -- Politics and government , Rolong (African people) -- Government relations , Free State (South Africa) -- Native races
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2521 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001850
  • Description: During the period 1864 to 1888, President J .H. Brand of the Orange Free State Republic had to deal with two Rolong chiefs at Thaba 'Nchu. The first, Chief Moroka II, ruled the Seleka tribe from 1829 to 1880, while his successor Tsipinare, a Tshidi-Rolong, ruled from 1880 to 1884. The majority of the Rolong at Thaba 'Nchu were of the Seleka division, but the minority groups, the Tshidi and Rapulana, also played an important role in the tribe's relations with the Free State.
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  • Date Issued: 1980

The Vice-Chancellor's Report to the Convocation, 11 April 1980

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1980
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7401 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018278
  • Description: The Vice-Chancellor's Report to the Convocation, 11 April 1980.
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  • Date Issued: 1980

Vice Chancellor's Address to staff, 1980

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Date: 1980
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:7438 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018315
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  • Date Issued: 1980

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A revision of the anthiine fish genus Sacura (Perciformes: Serranidae) with descriptions of two new species

The Educational Journal

Crinum campanulatum, Vlei Lily

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1979-10-15
  • Subjects: Crinum campanulatum -- Grahamstown (South Africa)
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , essay
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109111 , vital:33061
  • Description: Crinum campanulatum, Vlei Lily The several vleis on the Grahamstown Aerodrome Flats, about 4 Akm NW of central town hold, water only after heavy rains. Most of these vleis produce their quota of Vlei Lilies as soon as enough water has accumulated, This might occur fairly regularly each year or may not occur for several years, depending on drought conditions. Mrs. Louise Mullins, wife of the headmaster of St. Andrews’ Preparatory School, Grahamstown, noticed that the first vlei off the main Cradock Road never had vlei lilies despite other lesser vleis within a few hundred metres of it being well-stocked with the lilies. She wondered why the hiatus should have occurred. Some time in the 1960's she took a few plants from one of the lily-filled vleis and planted them round the edge of this bare vlei. No more was seen of these plants until about 1974 when one stool of leaves showed through the water at the northeast corner of the vlei. No flowers appeared. It was thought that this was the only plant to have survived,(if indeed it was one of those Mrs. Mullins had transplanted) but after the exceptional rains of August and September 1979 when the annual rainfall fell in two drenching spells and filled the vleis more than they were accustomed to, that the vlei lilies in this bare vlei came to be seen. Originally the vlei, known as Island Vlei to some people because it has a natural island in its centre, was almost a complete circle in shape but when the netting fence was constructed through its centre line of bank of ground as thrown up to carry the wire above water level. Thus the vlei was bisected into two semicircular vleis. In the eastern half of the vlei, four plants developed and showed themselves clearly above the water. Only she northeastern one mentioned above as having been seen unflowerd before, flowered in September 1979 for the first time, as far as is known. The other three plants threw up only about three leaves. The western half of the vlei, the portion on Mr. Mike Palmer's farm, "Strowan", had five plants, two of which flowered. Thus, in the two halves together, nine plants showed themselves, three of them producing flowers. Photographs of the northeast plant in flower were taken, and also views of part of the vlei to show absence of plants generally. Future photographs in. say 50 years, 2029 A.D., may show a vlei covered with Vlei Lily plants, or they may show no developments. C.J. Skead. Grahamstown. 1979.10.15.
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  • Date Issued: 1979-10-15

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The Educational Journal

A comprehensive guide to conducting compensation surveys to determine competitive adjustments to base salary ranges

  • Authors: Snelgar, Robin John
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Wage surveys , Wages
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2896 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002060
  • Description: The compensation process is a complex network of sub-processes directed toward compensating people for services performed, and motivating them to obtain desired levels of performance. Among the intermediate components of this process are wage and salary payments, the awarding of other cost items such as insurance, vacations, sick leave, etc. (fringe benefits), and the provision of essentially non-cost rewards such as recognition, privileges and symbols of status. However, the broad subject of compensation in terms of cost to the organisation may be examined in two sections, namely, wage and salary administration, and fringe benefit administration. The compensation survey forms an integral part of both administration processes, and thus becomes a necessary and essential device in the determination of the final compensation package to the employee.
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  • Date Issued: 1979

A study of some aspects of the poor white problem in South Africa

An examination of the spatial variation of surficial sediment characteristics in the Howison's Poort Reservoir

  • Authors: Weaver, Alex van Breda
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Howison's Poort Reservoir , South Africa , Sedimentation and deposition
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:4790 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001890
  • Description: From Introduction: Lakes, estuaries and man-made water impoundments can be considered as intervening basins which provide for the temporary storage both of sediment and of water. Because of the potential energy of soil in elevated positions and because of the kinetic energy of water flowing under the influence of gravity, eroded material is eventually transported to the lowest possible level, i.e. the ocean deeps, or some intervening basin. This denudation process may be compared with Newton’s second law of thermodynamics which states that each system tends to move in the direction of lowest energy. Sedimentation in intervening basins may be seen as part of the natural process of landscape evolution. The rates at which sedimentation occurs may be strongly influenced by the activities of man.
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  • Date Issued: 1979

Anglican missionary policy in the diocese of Grahamstown under the first two bishops, 1853-1871

  • Authors: Goedhals, Mary Mandeville
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Anglican , Diocese , Grahamstown , Bishops , Missionary policy , Cattle Killing , Government , Education , Black people , John Armstrong , Henry Cotterill
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:1211 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001540
  • Description: In 1843 a committee of the Colonial Bishroprics Fund appointed to investigate the state of the Church of England at the Cape of Good Hope, recommended the formation of a bishopric, and suggested that the bishop settle in the eastern districts of the colony, with an archdeacon in Cape Town. Three significant principles had been enunciated: the church was to grow under a bishop, the church would have a dual mission to blacks and whites, and the colony's eastern frontier, long a political and military headache, was seen as the focus of a new and spiritual battle. Contact between Nguni tribesmen and the eastward-moving European trekboer began in the region of the Fish River during the rule of the Dutch East India Company. Cattle and land were the main ingredients of the frontier conflict. From the point of view of the white settler, the growing cattle trade meant an increased need for pasture, but although the motive for expansion was economic, frontiersmen had come to regard large lands as their birthright. The semi-nomadic pastoral economy of the Nguni also required abundance of land, which was vested in the tribe. To the tribesmen, their cattle had a political, social and religious significance which transcended the economic. Cattle were sacrificed to the ancestors to propitiate the shades of the departed and to secure the prosperity of the tribe. The years of conflict, the constant threat to their herds and their land, undermined the basis of Nguni society, without providing it with a new foundation.
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  • Date Issued: 1979

Base-metal mineralization in alkaline pyroclastics: the Regenstein Vent, South West Africa

  • Authors: Ferreira, C A M , Jacob, Roger E , Marsh, Julian S
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/133220 , vital:36950 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA10120750_1123
  • Description: Geochemical analysis of soil samples taken from the area underlain by the Regenstein alkaline diatreme indicated potential areas for Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization, and these were subsequently proved by drilling. The pipelike body, emplaced into quartzites of the Damara Supergroup, consists of lithic and volcanic breccias. The breccias have been intruded, first by phonolite dykes, and then by numerous bodies of alkaline mafic and ultramafic rocks.
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  • Date Issued: 1979
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