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Quality of life in Grahamstown, East London and Mdantsane: preliminary result

- Helliker, Kirk D, Bekker, Simon, Lambie, Eileen

Authors: Helliker, Kirk D , Bekker, Simon , Lambie, Eileen
Date: 2012
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144756 , vital:38376 , DOI: 10.1080/02580144.1981.10428933
Description: A quality of life survey amongst residents of three Eastern Cape towns, viz. Grahamstown, East London, and Mdantsane, shows that the attitudes to home and neighbourhood which urban residents in the Eastern Cape develop, are fashioned in large part by both the residential “group area” in which these urban dwellers live, and by their socio-economic status. White residents, overwhelmingly, are satisfied with their diets, their municipality, their homes. They feel safe in their homes and are satisfied that police protection is available if needed. For black residents fear of poverty and unemployment, of physical violence, and dissatisfaction with an inadequate diet is widespread. Indian and coloured urban residents who are generally perceived as minorities in Grahamstown and East London, occupy an intermediate position. Their residential areas are sited close to predominantly low income black residential areas. Higher income Indian and coloured households show lower rates of dissatisfaction with diet, housing, and municipal services than the black community.
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'n Leesgesentreerde ondersoek na sosiopolitiese elemente in die poësie aan die hand van enkele gedigte van Wilma Stockensẗrom

- De Jong, Maria Johanna

Authors: De Jong, Maria Johanna
Date: 1981
Subjects: Stockensẗrom, Wilma -- Criticism and interpretation
Language: Afrikaans
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:3615 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006333
Description: "Now let us refrain, I said, from calling Homer or any other poet to account regarding those arts to which his poems incidentally refer: we will not ask them, in case any poet has been a doctor and not a mere imitator of medical parlance, to show what patients have been restored to health by a poet" (Plato 1979 19). (1) Soos alle lesers van literatuur weet Plato dat die digter weinig bewys kan lewer dat die werklikheid waaroor hy skryf ook deur hom verander is. Uiteindelik sit hy net met die" sweet influence" van sy welluidende gedig (ibid . 21). Tog word hy verbied, en nie net, soos Plato wou veronderstel, omdat hy die irrasionele, die emosionele, die "laere" in die mens stimuleer nie.
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A critical examination of concept analysis and its application to concepts of space in geography

- Welch, Sally Lynn

Authors: Welch, Sally Lynn
Date: 1981
Subjects: Space perception , Geography -- Methodology
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:4807 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003721 , Space perception , Geography -- Methodology
Description: Preface: Concept analysis utilising Piaget and Gagne's theories is an expanding area of research in the 'exact' sciences such as physics and chemistry. It is, however, new to the concepts in geography which are 'non-exact'. The thesis, then, is an exploratory study; and concept analysis is considered a possible methodology for examining the students' understanding of non-exact geography concepts. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first contains an examination of the theory of concept analysis and a critical review of empirical studies, with a view to applying concept analysis to the discipline of geography. The second part involves what has been termed a case study, where concepts are selected for analysis, and students were tested for their understanding of the concepts.
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A Piagetian programme of intervention: facilitation of conceptual change and cognitive growth

- Moore, Robert Soulsby

Authors: Moore, Robert Soulsby
Date: 1981
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:3136 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006905
Description: This research aims (within a strictly Piagetian framework) toward the development of a programme of intervention which will facilitate cognitive development, conceptual change and scientific literacy for those individuals who experience difficulty in coping with contemporary scientific and technological concepts. The research focuses specifically on the development of a diagnostic battery useful for realising a conceptual profile of the individual. This profile would indicate personal areas of functional interests that can be used creatively as a starting point for the facilitation of cognitive growth. The goal of such a programme is not the acceleration of cognitive growth, but rather the restoration of the individual to the mainstream of transactions in which the process of growth can flourish. The proposed facilitatory programme makes use of Piagetian tasks in a voluntary, individualist mode of instruction comparable to recently developed techniques of scientific education programmes. In brief, this research analyses three specific areas: 1) The development of a body of theory that can assist in the development of such a facilitatory programme, 2) The development of a diagnostic battery to provide insight into the individual's level of conceptual development, 3) The realization of certain guidelines for an instructional procedure whereby facilitation of growth can begin . The experiment takes the form of a pilot study of twenty four black and white subjects, exploring whether the battery of Piagetian tasks reveals a profile of conceptual development of the individual. Unique conceptual profiles were realized for all individuals, with evidence pointing towards the existence of a relationship between functional interests and the more advanced areas of the individual's conceptual development.
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A preliminary validity study of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule with a sample of the South African university population

- Dares, Anna Ewa

Authors: Dares, Anna Ewa
Date: 1981
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:21178 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6771
Description: The study investigated the validity of the Rathus Assertiveness Schedule (RAS) with a sample (N=l68) of the white South African undergraduate students. In terms of criterion- related validity, results indicated that ratings of external judges, unaware of their subjects' self-evaluation, correlated significantly with the assertiveness scores of the male subjects only. Construct validation of the RAS with ten personality traits measured by the Howarth Personality Questionnaire yielded results consistent with Wolpe's hypothesis that assertiveness relates inversely to anxiety. In addition, evidence was found to support the contention that assertiveness correlates negatively with inferiority. A principal components analysis of the RAS revealed a potentially useful factor structure for both males and females. A number of factors including situation-specific assertive behavior as well as factors measuring aggressiveness were identified for both sexes.
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A reappraisal of the governorship of Sir Benjamin D'Urban at the Cape of Good Hope, 1834-1838

- Lancaster, Jonathan Charles Swinburne

Authors: Lancaster, Jonathan Charles Swinburne
Date: 1981
Subjects: D'Urban, Benjamin, Sir, 1777-1849 , Colonial administrators -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope , Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2584 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005895
Description: Preface: Sir Benjamin D'Urban only spent four years as Governor of the Cape Colony, yet to many people he is one of the most easily identifiable of all British Governors. The principal reason for this, it seems, is the continuing emphasis placed upon his short-lived settlement of the Colony's troublesome eastern frontier in 1835. The main objectives of this thesis have been to examine some of the most notable analyses of that settlement together with an attempt to remove D'Urban's governorship from the narrow and controversial confines imposed by his frontier policy. I have tried to place his governorship in the wider context of his day, examining the various controls upon him, and his overall role as Governor together with some of his administration's less well known but ultimately equally important aspects. In effect, I have tried to view D'Urban in 'the round '. The thesis makes no pretence at being a complete survey. Several important and possibly contributory aspects to a fuller understanding of D'Urban's Cape interlude - notably his ten years in various executive positions in the West Indies and British Guiana, and his period as commander-in-chief of the British army in Canada - were beyond the reach of anything more than a cursory review. Presumably there are documents relative to this period of D'Urban's life in the Archives in Montreal, Georgetown and London. D'Urban's reputation in South Africa continues to rest upon the short-lived system he established in 1835 and the great promise for future relations between black and white that many authors then and since saw in it, or alternately failed to see in it. With this in mind, and the realisation that 145 years and a succession of Governors, High Commissioners and Prime Ministers have passed since 1835, the following extract from the front page of The Daily Dispatch of 10 May, 1980, is revealing. It was reported that the Ciskei government demanded "all the land between the Kei and Fish Rivers, the Indian Ocean and the Stormberg Mountains to form the territory of an independent Ciskei ." The fundamental questions of to whom the land belongs and of how to establish a just modus vivendi with the Xhosa, which plagued both D'Urban's short administration and the Colonial Office for much of the Nineteenth Century are still with us today. Any analysis of his four year period as Governor of the Cape must necessarily be tempered by this realisation.
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A review of the use of geophysics in base- and precious-metal exploration

- Furnell, R G

Authors: Furnell, R G
Date: 1981
Subjects: Geophysics , Geological surveys , Precious metals , Mining geology
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
Identifier: vital:5015 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006144
Description: The object of geophysical surveys in mineral exploration has traditionally been to detect subsurface geological features, which may reflect the presence of mineralization in depth and, if possible, to measure the dimensions of the causative body. Geophysical methods may also be used to locate extensions to known mineralization and for determining the size, depth and internal characteristics of an orebody. Marked improvements in geological concepts of ore genesis have led to a better appreciation, amongst geologists, of mineralized environments, and this has had an effect on the use of geophysics in recent years. Geophysical surveys are being increasingly used as an aid in environmental reconstructions and the results of regional surveys may be used to provide an indirect guide to ore. One of the main applications of geophysics lies in areas where the orebodies and associated structures are not exposed, as most geophysical measurements are more expensive than surface geological or geochemical surveys.
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A socio-economic survey of the Amatola Basin: interim report

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

Authors: Bekker, S B , de Wet, Christopher J , Manona, Cecil W
Date: 1981
Subjects: Ciskei (South Africa) -- Rural conditions Agriculture -- South Africa -- Ciskei Middledrift (South Africa) Fingo (African people) Hlubi (African people) Agriculture -- South Africa -- Ciskei Amatola River Watershed (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Amatola River Watershed (South Africa) -- Social conditions
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2282 , vital:20272 , ISBN 0868100730
Description: Early in 1981, Professor S. Bekker of Rhodes University was invited to attend a meeting of the Amatola Basin Steering Committee of the Agricultural and Rural Development Research Institute (ARDRI) at the University of Fort Hare. At this meeting, Professor Bekker was invited to undertake a socio-economic survey of the Amatola Basin. The Board of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University gave Professor Bekker permission in February 1981 to undertake the research project on condition that it was conducted in the fashion this Institute usually requires. It was subsequently agreed that the survey, known as 'Amatola Basin VII: Socio-economic survey', was to establish the basic demographic, kinship, consumption and employment patterns of the residents of the Amatola Basin. Practices and traditions related to dry land agriculture would also be identified , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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A study of phosphorus dynamics in the main basin of Swartvlei, September - December 1980

- Silberbauer, M J

Authors: Silberbauer, M J
Date: 1981
Subjects: Phosphorus -- Environmental aspects -- South Africa -- Swartvlei Lakes -- South Africa -- Swartvlei Limnology -- South Africa -- Swartvlei Aquatic ecology -- South Africa -- Swartvlei
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
Identifier: vital:5016 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006146
Description: Introduction: Phosphorus is an especially scarce element in the aquatic environment, yet it is of vital importance to living organisms: the pyrophosphate bond is the basis of biochemical energy transfer, and phosphate groups make up the backbone of the nucleic acids (Wetzel, 1975). An understanding of phosphorus movements and transformations is thus essential to a study of the biological functioning of a lake. The present report describes a study of phosphorus dynamics inSwartvlei, a lake with an extremely low pelagic primary production rate, in the order of 0,15 gC.m⁻².d⁻¹ (Robarts, 1973; Howard-Williams and Allanson, 1978). The littoral phosphorus dynamics of Swartvlei have been discussed in some detail (Howard-Williams, 1977; Howard-Williams and Allanson, 1978), and what follows is an attempt to quantify the changes in phosphorus concentration occurring in the deeper parts of the lake, which comprise some 57% of the total area.
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A study of the Presbyterian Church mission in the Transvaal from 1903-1960

- Boyd, Barry Graeme

Authors: Boyd, Barry Graeme
Date: 1981 , 2013-03-22
Subjects: Presbyterian Church -- South Africa -- Transvaal , Missions -- South Africa -- Transvaal
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:1226 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006110 , Presbyterian Church -- South Africa -- Transvaal , Missions -- South Africa -- Transvaal
Description: The aim of ·this study is to present a picture of the circumstances and the manner in which the mission was undertaken. With this in mind reference has been made to individual men and their particular importance and also to the decislons of the Church Assembly as they affected Mission. In part, the thesis is fuller for the earlier years, for the writer holds that these were the most formative as they established the pattern. Furthormore the writer wishes to make clear that the Mission become the work of black men with the white Mission Secretary of the 1950's filling an administrative role. This does not mean he was unimportant but for the nature of this study and its desire to ·emphasise the role of the black man, the work of these individual administrators has been largely omitted. In the concluding chapters the writer has shown the effects of political changes and African Nationalism on the Mission with a further chapter on the Mission's educational work. , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
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A study of the vegetation of the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve, Cape Provice

- Palmer, Anthony Riordan

Authors: Palmer, Anthony Riordan
Date: 1981 , 2013-04-18
Subjects: Botany -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Lubke, R.A.
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
Identifier: vital:4244 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007284 , Botany -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Description: The plant communities of the Andries Vosloo Kudu Reserve (6493 ha.; Acocks's Valley Bushveld) are classified using the Braun-Blanquet phytosociological technique. A checklist of the flowering plants is presented. The flora of the reserve displays an affinity to five phytochoria (Capensis, Karoo-Namib, Sudano-Zambezian, Afro-montane and Indian Ocean Coastal Belt 1, of which the Karoo-Namib and Indian Ocean Coastal Belt are the most extensive. The flora of the Valley Bushveld is regarded as adequately conserved, but a recommendation is made to consolidate the study area with adjacent farms. A small herbarium, containing specimens of all species listed in the checklist, has been established. The climate of the study area is classified according to the Koppen classification as Cfa. Simultaneous air temperature recording at four separate localities demonstrated that differences exist between local ities of marginally different altitude, aspect and slope. The phenology of 51 plant species, recorded at monthly intervals over a continuous period of 478 days, is presented. These species are classified according to their response to air temperature and rainfall for the initiation of new growth, flowering and fruiting. Species exhibited a spectrum of responses ranging from endogenous to exogenous control over phenological events. , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
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An assessment of the nutritional status of young black school children in the Albany Magisterial District, Eastern Cape

- Fincham, Robert John

Authors: Fincham, Robert John
Date: 1981
Subjects: Schools -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Africans -- Nutrition Nutrition surveys -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Malnutrition -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Children -- South Africa -- Nutrition
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2172 , vital:20262 , ISBN 0868100773
Description: This working paper covers a survey conducted between 16 and 30 January 1980 of 3 171 black Sub A and Sub B pupils 8 years old or younger, at schools in both the rural and urban areas of the Albany Magisterial District, Eastern Cape. The survey, under the auspices of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Rhodes University, was carried out as a result of a request from Dr J. D. Krynauw, Regional Director of Health Services in the Eastern Cape, to assess levels of nutrition of black children. Newspaper reports (see Appendix 1) of low levels of nutrition and high infant mortality rates among young black children in the Eastern Cape appeared to suggest a chronic nutritional situation, a situation not perceived as such by the Department of Health. A comprehensive pilot study was instituted on written request from Dr Krynauw in late October 1979. A report of the pilot study findings was presented in May 1980 to the Department of Health (Fincham, 1980). The present paper elaborates on that report and also includes analyses of data not presented before. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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An investigation into the influence of the physical distribution concept on the performance of certain South African manufacturers of consumer products

- Staude, G E

Authors: Staude, G E
Date: 1981
Subjects: Physical distribution of goods Industrial productivity -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: vital:1191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004606
Description: The "Physical Distribution Concept" is being increasingly recognised as a vitally important business philosophy for those firms for which efficient physical distribution is critical to marketing success. Manufacturers of products which are perishable, easily substitutable; and/or quickly obsolescent are some which fall into this category. In a competitive business environment, factors such as the " availability" of the product, and not simply its price or quality, begin to exert a significant influence on the purchasing decision. The "Physical Distribution Concept" comprises three elements, namely, consumer orientation; organizational integration and profit orientation. "Physical Distribution Orientation" refers to the predisposition of the firm and its employees to these three elements. For the Physical Distribution Concept to serve as an effective guide to management action, a physical distribution orientation on the part of all those concerned with marketing and physical distribution-related activities in a firm, is a pre-requisite. The chief executive, in particular, should adhere to this business philosophy, regardless of the functional route he followed to his position. In his leadership role, theory holds that he exerts considerable influence on his subordinates, and consequently on his firm's way of doing business. This thesis is concerned with an analysis of the Physical Distribution Concept. It focuses on the chief executives of firms manufacturing consumer convenience goods, as well as consumer shopping goods. As such, it is primarily concerned with determining the extent to which the chief executives are physical distribution oriented and whether there is a statistically significant relationship between their extent of physical distribution orientation and their companies' performance. The thesis is also concerned with the extent to which any pattern of organizational arr angements for physical distribution exists.
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An investigation into the nature and function of prescribed literature in schools and a comparative study of the required reading in English literature in school syllabuses in South Africa, Rhodesia and the ex-High Commission Territories from 1945-1980

- Marzo, Patricia Beatrice

Authors: Marzo, Patricia Beatrice
Date: 1981
Subjects: English literature -- Study and teaching -- South Africa , English literature -- Study and teaching -- Zimbabwe , South African literature (English) -- Study and teaching , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century , Zimbabwean literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2273 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006887 , English literature -- Study and teaching -- South Africa , English literature -- Study and teaching -- Zimbabwe , South African literature (English) -- Study and teaching , South African literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century , Zimbabwean literature (English) -- History and criticism -- 20th century
Description: From preface: The original purpose of this thesis was to make a comparative study of all the English literature which had been prescribed from 1945 to 1980 for study by all high school pupils in the Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe and the ex-High Commission Territories. This proved to be a formidable task. However, most of the material collected, including all the individual poems prescribed, was recorded in table form. This proved too bulky a system for comparative purposes and the field was narrowed to include only that English literature which had been prescribed for candidates writing Matriculation or Senior Certificate examinations on the higher grade as part of the English Language syllabus. From time to time, however, reference will be made in this thesis to prescriptions for the lower grades and for the lower standards.
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Aspects of the biology of Caffrogobius Caffer (Günter) (Pisces : Teleostei : Gobiidae) in the Eastern Cape

- Butler, Graham Stuart

Authors: Butler, Graham Stuart
Date: 1981
Subjects: Osteichthyes -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
Identifier: vital:5345 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006849
Description: Several strategies used by the gobiid fish Caffrogobius caffer enabling it to colonise the harsh intertidal environment in the eastern Cape were studied. Q. caffer is opportunistic in its use of available food resources and feeds throughout the day with a slight tendency towards crepuscular peaks of feeding activity. The system of space utilisation used by C. caffer is so organised that all individuals of the population have access to patchily distributed food resources. Current velocities occurring over high tide limit the movements of Qo caffer and interpool movements occur only during the initial stages of a rising tide and in the final stages of an ebbing tide when the current velocities are below the tolerance limit of Q. caffer. The epifauna associated with the alga Ulva rigida, which forms an important constituent of the diet of the intermediate size classes of Q. caffer, was examined and it appears that this epifauna is an important source of food to Q. caffer. This report presents the results of the first detailed study of the biology of an intertidal fish in southern Africa.
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