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Ea Tuka (It burns)

- Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Malefetsane Mosese and large group of men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Sotho , Sotho (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Lesotho Maseru f-lo
  • Language: Sotho
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162139 , vital:40763 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0105-12
  • Description: "It is burning! An island is burning! Thaba Bosiu is burning! At the pass there are flames. Thaba Bosiu is burning. You will burn and burst into flames, you witches. You have left the son of God out on the veld. You will have to go back and fetch him. The island is burning!" The song refers to the wild storm which raged around the mountain Thaba Bosiu in 1957 which blew away the roof of a Church and did much damage to homes in the region. Although the song is an initiation song, it is couched in essentially Christian trems. Lengae men's initiation song.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Macleantown: a study of a small South African community

- Irving, James

  • Authors: Irving, James
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Macleantown (South Africa) -- Social conditions Village communities -- South Africa South Africa -- Rural conditions South Africa -- Social conditions
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2590 , vital:20306
  • Description: For some years the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University has been engaged in an intensive study of the area of the Eastern Province of the Union of South Africa known to South Africans as the Border Region. By a singular chance an invitation from the East London Divisional Council to investigate the condition of a Border village arose when, in the course of a visit from its Secretary, sufficient data was shown concerning the conditions of village life in the region, to suggest that a special study should be made of rural problems on an intensive basis. In the first instance the enquiry directed to the Institute was administrative in the sense that difficulties were arising in the villages to warrant the establishment of sufficient authentic facts to point the way to methods of solving the immediate difficulties of the Council. While this object has not been overlooked, and it would have been less than courteous to have overlooked the demand that brought-the research into being, it has been thought necessary to widen the scope of the investigation to include materials that go beyond the administrative needs of the Council. The scope of the investigation has been widened to include an analysis of the village community as well as a co-ordinated body of brute fact. While "irreducible fact" is the basis on which the investigation rests, the attempt has been made to isolate meaning and significance of the data; it is in the latter field that deeper aspects of administrative decisions lie more often than in mountains of fact no matter how reliable. A community is an organised unit; there is no simple explanation of the way in which human social institutions work except by analysing the behaviour of people in their everyday activity. The manner in which the organisation works and be more or less efficient and there was prima facie evidence that the community of Macleantown was not organised to yield maximal efficiency. The causative factors involved in this drop in efficiency thus becomes one of the basic tasks , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1959

- Rhodes University

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 1959
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:8093 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004403
  • Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony in the University Great Hall on Friday , 3rd April, 1959, at 8 p.m. [and] Graduation Ceremony held in April 1959: University College of Fort Hare. Graduation Ceremony at Fort Hare on Friday, April 17th, 1959.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Ionospheric studies of the solar eclipse 25 December, 1954

- McElhinny, M W

  • Authors: McElhinny, M W
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Ionosphere -- Research , Solar eclipses
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:5531 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012869
  • Description: Since the Kennelly- Heaviside hypothesis in 1902 of the existence of a partially conducting layer in the upper atmosphere was proved to be true by the experiments of APPLETON and BARNETT (1925) and BREIT and TUVE (1926), this region has become known as the ionosphere. The ionosphere was soon discovered to consist of, not one but several layers (Fig. 1) (i) A layer at a height of just over 100 km. called the E layer. (ii) A layer at a height of approximately 300km. called the F₂ layer. (iii) A layer at a height of approximately 200 km. called the F₁ layer; this layer differs from the other two in that it is only present during the day time in Summer. (iv) Occasional intense reflections from a height of about 100 km. are found - these cannot be attributed to the normal E layer and have received the name "Sporadic E". The presence of two E layers (E₁ and E₂) has been suggested by HALLIDAY (1936) and BEST and RATCLIFFE (l978) but until recently most workers still seem to attribute these reflections to Sporadic E. Recent measurement by rockets of the electron density at E layer heights still do not confirm whether such bifurcation exists in the E region. The diurnal and seasonal variations of the first three layers indicate that the sun is the chief agent in their production. It is generally agreed that these layers consist of ionised molecules or atoms and free electrons produced by radiation from the sun. The origin of Sporadic E ionisation is still obscure, but it is thought that these sudden increases in ionisation which occur in E layer heights are due to passing meteors. Recently it has also been suggested by SEDDON, PICKAR and JACKSON (1954) from rocket measurements that Sporadic E might be due to a steep electron density gradient above the B layer.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Colesberg 3024

- Trigonometrical Survey (South Africa)

  • Authors: Trigonometrical Survey (South Africa)
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: 1 : 25000 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Colesberg (South Africa) Maps , South Africa History 1910-1961 Maps
  • Language: English
  • Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114167 , vital:33933 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP607
  • Description: 3025 Colesberg, South Africa 1:25000 sheet. Compiled and drawn in 1959 by the Trigonometric Survey Office. Magisterial districts as at January 1964. T.S.O. 404/956. (Saamgestel in 1959 en geteken in 1959 deur die Driehokesmatings Kantoor.)
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  • Date Issued: 1959

He rea nyadiwa (We are despised)

- Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men, Hugh Tracey

  • Authors: Serakalala Abotseng and group of 35 men , Hugh Tracey
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Folk songs, Tswana , Tswana (African people) , Ngwaketse (African people) , Folk music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Botswana Kanye f-bs
  • Language: Tswana/Ngwaketse
  • Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162591 , vital:40953 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa , TR0108-12
  • Description: "We are despised although we are despised. Were are the bullets fired when cattle are captured. Makau wee!" "Makau wee!" is a regimental shout. The official praise is known as Mmoki. Sung when returning from a lion hunt. The following Maboko were spoken in honour of Chief Bathoen II, the present Chief Magogodi Mmolaeatshephe (the man who kills a serpent), spoke the Chief's praises. Hunting song
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Forest recession - Nqantos area, Upper Kubusie

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Thorn tree canopy - King Williams Town

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Ba tsetse ka likepe

- Jane Mosese and large group of men, Hugh Tracey

Tlotlang Kgosi (Honour the great Chief)

- Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men, Hugh Tracey

Mampho thiba lisabole (Mampho, ward off the spears)

- Mosinoa Peter, with group of 14 dancers and large group of singers, Hugh Tracey

Tshetlha di kae (Where are the tawny ones)

- School girls, Hugh Tracey

Tlalerwa re Humanega (Improverished by the wild dog)

- Lentswe Male and 20 Kgatla men, Hugh Tracey

A study of the heroine in certain Victorian novels

- Addecott, Grahame John

  • Authors: Addecott, Grahame John
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism , Heroines in literature
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2319 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013374
  • Description: During the reign of Queen Victoria was seen the gradual emergence of the emancipated woman. The idea that women were innocent beings who must be kept from real knowledge of the world died hard, however, and to the end of the era there were many who repudiated the very concept of emancipation whether in literature or life. Coupled with the chivalrous, idealistic concept of womanhood was Victorian respectability, and it is not surprising that in the earlier Victorian novels we see clearly the idealistic concept of women and the effects of the cult of respectability. To illustrate my theme, of the gradual change in the concept of the novel which naturally kept pace, more or less, with the progress the emancipation of women was making, I have chosen one novel from each of seven great Victorian novelists whose works span the whale era. The only exception I have made is with Charlotte Bronte. In her case the heroines of two of her novels are discussed mainly because she is the first Victorian novelist to sound a note of protest against the then conventional concept of the heroine.
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Mora Motlole (Motlole's son)

- Mahlapane Qoalike and group of women, Hugh Tracey

Ndiribe m'mbale (I have no neighbour)

- Boys of Dedza Secondary School, Hugh Tracey

Yellowwood

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Cape chestnut

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

  • Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
  • Date: 1959
  • Subjects: Calodendrum capense -- South Africa -- Photographs
  • Language: English
  • Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110374 , vital:33277
  • Description: Caption: "Cape chestnuts on Red Hill, Rabula Valley on road from King William's Town to Keiskammahoek. 1959."
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  • Date Issued: 1959

Cussonia spicata - Spiked cabbage tree

- Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)

Kgosi boa-a Kegakilwe bakgosi boa (Chief Kegakilwe, the chieftainship is leaving us)

- Dintsa Marumolo and about 60 young men, Hugh Tracey

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