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Report on slum clearance and the ability of Europeans to pay an economic rent in a small South African city

- Irving, James

Authors: Irving, James
Date: 1959
Subjects: Slums -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Whites -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2565 , vital:20304
Description: In this paper an analysis is developed of the characteristics of a group of Europeans who have been declared to be living in houses unfit for habitation in terms of the criteria laid down in the Slums Act No. 53 of 1934. It is assumed, for purposes of analysis, that the group will be transferred to municipal housing and that, like the Coloured and Africans in the City of Grahamstown, economic rent scales will be applied. This paper is, therefore, concerned with the present condition of the tenants in the slum but is predictive in terms of what will most probably happen if they are transferred to better municipally owned housing under economic rentals. The specific reasons why economic rent, without subsidisation, is likely to be applied to this group need not concern us in this paper. Even if an economic rent is not applied the discussion is held to be of value so far as sets up standards and techniques by which levels of subsidisation, if applied, might be measured. Further, the data is held to be factually interesting so far as it relates to the poverty of Europeans on which, little has been written for some years. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Serioline fishes (yellowtails: amberjacks) from the Western Indian Ocean

- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968

Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
Date: 1959
Subjects: Seriola , Yellowtail
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:14977 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018776 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 15
Description: Among the most esteemed by the big game angler, these fishes are of world-wide distribution, and the various species (commonly named “Yellowtail” in South Africa), are all built on much the same plan, the caudal lunate, the dorsal and anal fins long and mostly low. All are powerful swimmers, presumably able to cover vast distances, and within each genus and subgenus the different species do not differ widely from one another. As a result, there has been a general tendency for systematists to identify species, even in remote parts, with those already known. The literature reveals astonishingly few detailed original descriptions of these fishes, and there has been a regrettable tendency merely to reproduce early illustrations that are technically good, rather than to provide originals of actual specimens, which has caused widespread confusion. Two genera are treated here, viz. Seriola Cuvier, 1817 and the monotypic Seriolina Wakiya, 1924; Zonichthys Swainson, 1839 is regarded as Atlantic only, while the pelagic monotypic Naucrates Rafinesque, 1810 is so well known as scarcely to need inclusion here. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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The anatomy of human misery and its therapy : a study of miracles and healing in the life of our Lord and in the early church, until the Council of Nicaea

- Hawkridge, John Bernard

Authors: Hawkridge, John Bernard
Date: 1959
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Miracles , Spiritual healing -- Psychological aspects , Healing in the Bible , Church history
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Bachelor , BDiv
Identifier: vital:1257 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012229 , Jesus Christ -- Miracles , Spiritual healing -- Psychological aspects , Healing in the Bible , Church history
Description: This thesis seeks to show that miracles and healing are inseparable from the Messianic task of Jesus Christ; and that in so far as He commissioned His Church to continue that Messianic task, it is reasonable to expect that miracles and healing would continue. The early history of the Church is examined for evidence confirming this expectation, and a question is asked of the contemporary Church.
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Date Issued: 1959

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The executive government of the Cape of Good Hope, 1825-54

- Fryer, Alan Kenneth

Authors: Fryer, Alan Kenneth
Date: 1959
Subjects: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History -- 1795-1872
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: vital:2604 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011896
Description: The study of administrative processes is a relaltively new one both in the field of history and sociology. In both disciplines what is required is study of the sructure and growth of adminstrative systems and of the impact of administrative action on the community it seeks to serve and which it often provokes. In the field of history, Professor F. Tout in his chapters on administrative history ... gave new vitality and understanding to medieval studies. In the main, South African history, though probably not more so than other Commonwealth countries, has been less fortunate. Preface, p. 1.
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Date Issued: 1959

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The fact and meaning of the resurrection : a study in emphases

- Bill, Jean-Francois

Authors: Bill, Jean-Francois
Date: 1959
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Resurrection , Resurrection -- Biblical teaching
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Bachelor , BDiv
Identifier: vital:1289 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014595
Description: INTRODUCTION. The fact of the Risen Christ is the focal point which gives meaning to the Christian faith as a whole. Modern thought, while not denying the Resurrection, tends to confine it to its doctrinal or credal significance. In contrast, the early Christians were conscious of the presence of the Risen Lord and consequently the Resurrection was a fact of living experience. As mere history it loses its moral significance; as mere faith it becomes vague belief in deathlessness, and undermines the reality of the Atonement. The Resurrection is both fact and faith.
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The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the Western Indian Ocean

- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968

Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
Date: 1959
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:14973 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018772 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 11
Description: Family Eleotridae - The Gobioid fishes are one of the major trials of ichthyologists, and when general regional collections are worked up, these fishes tend to be pushed aside, and are apparently often identified with some impatience by those not especially interested. It is not indeed uncommon for later workers to find several species in a bottle supposed to contain only one, or to find one and the same fish in the same collection labelled with different names. All this is understandable, for not only are there numerous species, but almost all are small to minute, so that accurate description and especially illustration are no light undertaking. In addition, they are generally covered with mucus, so that two exactly similar living specimens, preserved in different media, e.g. alcohol and formalin, can emerge looking so completely different, that the purely museum worker may be forgiven for considering them different species. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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The historical development of geography as a subject in the schools of the Cape Province (1772-1951)

- Knox, John Charles

Authors: Knox, John Charles
Date: 1959
Subjects: Geography -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MEd
Identifier: vital:1974 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012702 , Geography -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope
Description: As the title indicates, this is a study of the historical emergence of geography as a subject in Cape schools, and covers the period 1772-1951. The account is not merely descriptive and factual, for wherever possible an attempt is made to assess the nature and scope of the geography which was taught at different periods in relation to modern, authoritative ideas concerning the pedagogic application of the subject in the school. The work as a whole is predominantly concerned with the historical development of geography in the secondary school. However, in the initial four chapters the slight and insubstantial nature of the available data precludes the possibility of differentiating between geoeraphy of primary standard and that of secondary standard, and in these early chapters all references to the subject are consequently generalized. In Chapter 5, which deals with the period during which Langham Dale was Superintendent-Genera l of Education, geography of secondary standard becomes distinguishable from that of primary standard for the first time, and from this point onwards the two are differentiated to the fullest extent possible, and the former is chiefly emphasized. The entire study is presented against a broad background of relevant, educational developments of a general nature.
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The identity of Scarus gibbus Ruppell, 1828 and of other parrotfishes of the family Callyodontidae from the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean

- Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968

Authors: Smith, J.L.B. (James Leonard Brierley), 1897-1968
Date: 1959
Language: English
Type: Text
Identifier: vital:14978 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018777 , Ichthyological Bulletin; No. 16
Description: Parrotfishes have long been one of the major problems of the taxonomist, largely as a result of classification based on preserved material. Workers such Bleeker, who handled fresh specimens, provided useful descriptions and at least passable illustrations of Parrotfishes. There has, in consequence, been a general tendency to use such names in preference to those of earlier workers, notably Lacepede and Valenciennes, most of whose descriptions, based on long dead specimens, not only lack accurate, or indeed any, illustration, but rarely contain critical diagnostic data. In consequence, the nomenclature has been in a state of utter chaos, and any worker privileged to travel and examine early type specimens incurs a good deal of responsibility, since the majority of other workers are usually not in a position to query his opinions about their identities. , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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