ABSTRACT I would like to express my thanks to Prof. R. G. Howarth for his encouraging and patient supervision of my work over many year.s. !t .is largely due to his pioneering and inspiring interest in South African literature that I was able to complete my work in the face of almost insurmountable difficulties.. My thanks also go to Prof. E. Westphal for his supervision and help. I am indebted to Mrs. P .E. Stevens, librarian in charge of the Special Collection section of Jagger Library, and...
Socio - Economic Study Of Parkwood Estate. Cape. Flats
Abstract: This report had its genesis in a proposed thesis, purporting to investigate the part that Religion (including both Christianity and the indigenous beliefs of the Bantu) is playing in the lives of the people at Langa, the Municipal Native location lying about eight miles from Cape Town. It was felt that, after some two hundred years of missionary endeavour in South Africa, the time was ripe for an assessment of the degree to which Christianity had become part of the Bantu scheme of t...
Sir George Greys Federation Policy 1854 - 1859
Die Kulto'rele Betekenis Van Die Eerste Afrikaanse Geskrifte Tot 1900.
ABSTRACT Luxury goods, used in mediaeva1 long distance trade ca. AD 900-1250, found an important market among the Iron Age peoples of southern Africa. Indirect evidence of this trade can be seen in the form of archaeological collections of glass beads at sites throughout Africa and Southeast Asia. Thousands of beads have been found at Iron Age sites in the eastern Transvaal Lowveld and at inland sites along the Limpopo Valley and in Botswana. Similar looking types of beads, referred to as sma...
Die Kulto'rele Betekenis Van Die Eerste Afrikaanse Geskrifte Tot 1900
ABSTRACT This study deals with the physical aspects of sedimentation in Saldanha Bay and Langebaan Lagoon. On the basis of detailed textural investigations the depositional history of the study area has been established. The sediments in the bay and in the lagoon consist of a fine terrigenous quartz population and a coarser skeletal carbonate population, which have been mixed in various proportions. In order to gain size parameters that are more closely related to the hydraulic nature of depo...
Abstract The difficulties involved in the taxonomy of the genus Crassula, such as the extensive variation and often difficult species complexes, vicariousness and hybridization, are sketched against a historical background. These difficulties have prompted the author to review concepts of taxa from subspecific to generic level and have also le~ to the approach adopted in this work. It is argued that in several genera and sections, as previously recognized, too much stress was placed on the se...
Abstract It is the intention of this thesis to bring together the existing scattered data concerning the Amphipoda of southern Africa, to add records from unidentified collections and to present the whole in a form that will provide a firm basis for future work in this field. The collections examined are principally those of the University of Cape Town, the South African Museum and the National Institute for Water Research. These collections are together much larger than any previously report...
ABSTRACT Closed expressions for differential cross sections are derived from the Austern-Blair theory of inelastic nuclear scattering. These formulae are an extension of the strong absorption model of Frahn and Venter for elastic scattering. AU the well-known features of inelastic angular distributions of composite particles are shown explicitly. These include effects of. the multipolarity of the transition, the nuclear interaction, the Coulomb force and the shape of the reflection coefficien...
Abstract Although the phytoplankton of the waters off the west coast of South Africa (the Benguela Current region) s ha .. been the subject of several detailed studies in the past, data on that of the s.w. Indian Ocean has been almost entirely restricted to incidental references in the reports of expeditions which have passed through the area. Consequently, little has been known of the species composition and distribution of the phytoplankton, and nothing of its seasonal fluctuations. This st...
The Analysis Of Late Stone Age Hafting Cements From The Cape Province, South Africa
Abstract The work of Hotz showed the lack of knowledge of the behaviour of electrolytes in acetone solutions as well as the uncertainty as to the pos~ibility of preparing anhydrous acetone and the stability of this solvent, if it could be prepared. An extensive study was therefore undertaken in which the efficiency of various desiccants vJas studied in producing acetone as anhydrous as could be obtained. A very efficient still was designed and the average water content of the acetone produced...