A study of bantu retail traders in certain areas of the Eastern Cape
- Authors: Savage, R B
- Date: 1967
- Subjects: Retail trade -- Bantu-speaking peoples -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Black people -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MCom
- Identifier: vital:1069 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007703 , Retail trade -- Bantu-speaking peoples -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Black people -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description: The beginning of the eighteenth century marks the start of economic relations between the colonists of the Cape and the Bantu. As early as 1702 a quarrel about the bartering of cattle had broken out between parties of Whites and Bantu, each of which had made their way, from opposite directions, into the area between the Gamtoos and the Kei Rivers. The Bantu, who were encountered in the Eastern Cape, belonged to the Xhosa-speaking tribes. They were cattle farmers who also practised some agriculture, but this was considered a subsidiary activity which was left to the women. Their economy was a self-sufficient subsistence one with each family an almost entirely self-supporting unit. Each relied on its own cattle and crops and built its own dwellings. To serve its own requirements, each family made domestic utensils out of wood, grass and clay. Iron implements were, however, made by special smiths.
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- Date Issued: 1967
Scientific research, innovation and economic growth : a possible relationship
- Authors: Phillips, Bruce D (Bruce Dalton)
- Date: 1967
- Subjects: Research -- Economic aspects , Technological innovations , Research -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MCom
- Identifier: vital:1096 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013027
- Description: Resources devoted to science, or rather to "new science" or research and development and related technical activities have undergone a remarkable rate of increase over the past two decades throughout most of the world. This phenomenon has been symptomatic not only of the development of the majority of nations in the 'western world' but also of the Soviet bloc, and furthermore, all the indications are that this expansion of scientific activities will continue throughout the present decade. Intro., p. 1.
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- Date Issued: 1967