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Living in Grahamstown East/Rini: a social indicators report

- Moller, Valerie, Manona, Cecil W, Van Hees, C, Pillay, E, Tobi, A

  • Authors: Moller, Valerie , Manona, Cecil W , Van Hees, C , Pillay, E , Tobi, A
  • Date: 2001
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , text
  • Identifier: vital:540 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010769
  • Description: [From the preface]: The ‘Living in Grahamstown East/Rini’ project takes its title from a series of reports on social indicators initiated by Statistics South Africa. The popular series aims to communicate to ordinary people the statistics on living conditions in various parts of the country. The first two booklets in the series, Living in South Africa and Living in Gauteng, were based on survey data for South Africa and Gauteng Province (CSS: 1996; 1997). In similar vein, this booklet presents statistics on living conditions in Grahamstown East/Rini for ready reference by community organisations, local planning and policy-makers, scholars, and the general public. [From the introduction]: This report is intended to serve the needs of information users. The source of information is a representative sample survey of 862 Grahamstown East/Rini households conducted in May 1999. The report serves as a reference work for municipal planners and policymakers, community organisations, and interested citizens. It is hoped that the reported social indicators will be useful for drawing up business plans for community development projects. The information in this report is mainly factual. It is based on self-reports collected from households in Grahamstown East/Rini. In time, the facts contained in this report will date. They will then gain historical value for scholars with an interest in learning "how things were" to compare the situation in Grahamstown East/Rini in 1999 with later developments and changes in living conditions and lifestyles , This was edited by Valerie Møller, with contributions by Cecil W. Manona, Charlotte van Hees, Edmund Pillay and Andile Tobi , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 2001

Gender, households and environmental changes in informal settlements in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

- Manona, Cecil W, Bank, Leslie J, Higginbottom, Karen

The collapse of the 'tribal authority' system and the rise of civic organisations

- Manona, Cecil W, Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995

  • Authors: Manona, Cecil W , Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
  • Date: 1995
  • Subjects: Civic associations -- South Africa Local government -- South Africa -- Ciskei Local government -- South Africa Tribal government -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Manuscript , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2454 , vital:20293
  • Description: The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1995

Educational needs of adults in Mdantsane

- McAllister, Patrick A, Young, Michael, Manona, Cecil W, Hart, Jo

  • Authors: McAllister, Patrick A , Young, Michael , Manona, Cecil W , Hart, Jo
  • Date: 1992
  • Subjects: Adult education -- South Africa -- Mdantsane (Ciskei) Adult education -- South Africa -- Mdantsane (Ciskei) -- Case studies
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2079 , vital:20253 , ISBN 0868102423
  • Description: The purpose of the study was to collect some preliminary information in advance of the inauguration of a new educational project at Fort Hare University which, under the guidance of a new Vice-Chancellor, Dr. S.M.E. Bengu, is forging for itself a new course of development as a people's University. The new project arises out of a report prepared by the International Extension College for the University of Fort Hare. The hope is that a number of innovations can be introduced into adult education in the Eastern Cape which will prove of value in meeting the needs of people living in different kinds of localities. The planning will begin in the early winter, as soon as staff have assembled, and as soon as Dr. David Warr, the international consultant to the project, is in post. It seemed sensible to conduct, in advance, one of the surveys which will be needed to underpin plans. To do this at short notice and complete it in a short time (the work did not commence until February, 1992) the best course was to rely on an experienced team from a neighbouring University, Rhodes, which had already conducted surveys in different districts within the Eastern Cape, and to bring in further support from the University of Natal , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1992

Local responses to political policies and socio-economic change in the Keiskammahoek district, Ciskei: anthropological perspectives

- de Wet, Christopher J, Manona, Cecil W, Palmer, Robin C G

Tsweletswele: problems and prospects for development in a peri-urban closer settlement in Ciskei

- Bekker, S B, Fincham, Robert J, Manona, Cecil W, Whisson, Michael G

  • Authors: Bekker, S B , Fincham, Robert J , Manona, Cecil W , Whisson, Michael G
  • Date: 1983
  • Subjects: Ciskei (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Ciskei (South Africa) -- Economic policy Tsweletswele (Ciskei, South Africa) Nutrition -- South Africa -- Ciskei Public health -- South Africa -- Ciskei Working class -- South Africa Africans -- Nutrition Agriculture -- South Africa -- Ciskei
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2260 , vital:20270 , ISBN 0868100552
  • Description: In Ciskei, the development of urban housing and local authority structures has not been able to keep up with this immigration. As a result, a number of communities have sprung up in the tribal Authority areas close to this conurbation of some half a million people. These communities are neither urban nor rural, and comprise people with rural farmworker backgrounds who obtain their main source of income from employment in urban areas. In contradistinction to their true rural cousins, the breadwinners in these communities do not need to become migrants living and working far from home. Rather, they work during the week in an urban location close to home, and return on weekends to their families and children. This volume reports on one such community. The settlement of Tsweletswele is new, situated in a Tribal area, and within thirty kilometres of East London. Its residents who came from farms in the region work in East London. Their level of living is low, their access to state services minimal, and their tenure in the settlement uncertain. This report aims quite simply to establish what strategies these people choose to survive in their settlement. Subsequently, a set of recommendations are made which are aimed at improving the levels of living in the community, the delivery of essential services, and the tenure arrangements in the settlement , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1983

Migrancy and development: prelude and variations on a theme

- Whisson, Michael G, de Wet, Christopher J, Manona, Cecil W, McAllister, Patrick A, Palmer, Robin C G

  • Authors: Whisson, Michael G , de Wet, Christopher J , Manona, Cecil W , McAllister, Patrick A , Palmer, Robin C G
  • Date: 1982
  • Subjects: Labor supply -- South Africa Africans -- Employment Working class -- South Africa Ciskei (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Xhosa (African people)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2101 , vital:20255 , ISBN 0868100994
  • Description: Communities which have been characterised by migrancy for a long period of time, such as the Xhosa and the Italians considered in this paper, develop sets 6f terms which describe migrants. The Xhosa have varied criteria for their categories, e.g. amajoyini - those on contract to mainly the mining and construction industries; abafuduga - those who deliberately sell up and go elsewhere; amagoduka - those who intend to return home; imfiki - impoverished migrants from white owned farms. Italians tend to view the crossing of international boundaries as the essence of migration and classify their migrants by the state in which they work e.g. Inglesi, Americani, rather than by the more complex terminology of the Xhosa. Some terms are simply descriptions, others are categories with wider connotations, into which people place others and themselves. As far as possible we shall use the peoples' own categories, which define their relationships to "home", the region to which they migrate and to migrancy as a way of life, as these have important implications for what happens at home. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1982

A socio-economic survey of the Amatola Basin: interim report

- Bekker, S B, de Wet, Christopher J, Manona, Cecil W

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