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The relationship between the Orange Free State and the Rolong of Thaba 'Nchu during the presidency of J.H. Brand, 1864-1888

- Wales, Janet Mary

  • Authors: Wales, Janet Mary
  • Date: 1980
  • Subjects: Rolong (African people) -- Politics and government , Rolong (African people) -- Government relations , Free State (South Africa) -- Native races
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2521 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001850
  • Description: During the period 1864 to 1888, President J .H. Brand of the Orange Free State Republic had to deal with two Rolong chiefs at Thaba 'Nchu. The first, Chief Moroka II, ruled the Seleka tribe from 1829 to 1880, while his successor Tsipinare, a Tshidi-Rolong, ruled from 1880 to 1884. The majority of the Rolong at Thaba 'Nchu were of the Seleka division, but the minority groups, the Tshidi and Rapulana, also played an important role in the tribe's relations with the Free State.
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Un' analisi del personaggio femminile in alcune tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri

- Quadu, Francesco Pietro Luigi

Validation of a predictor battery for engineering technicians

- Taylor, Jonathan Maclaren

  • Authors: Taylor, Jonathan Maclaren
  • Date: 1980
  • Subjects: Occupational aptitude tests , Engineering -- Vocational guidance , Vocational guidance , Prediction (Psychology) , Psychological tests
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3110 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004548 , Occupational aptitude tests , Engineering -- Vocational guidance , Vocational guidance , Prediction (Psychology) , Psychological tests
  • Description: From summary: This study describes a procedure for predicting course success for certain first term engineering technicians. The aim of the study is to reduce the high attrition rate of trainee engineering technicians through the early identification of candidates who are likely to fail their first term of study. This identification is done by testing all applicants to the courses on a battery of psychological tests, and from this information estimating the applicants' first term course results. It is suggested that the student counsellors attached to the various Technikons integrate the suggested procedure into a flexible vocational guidance service for engineering technicians. It should be borne in mind that no validation study can predict future success with a hundred percent accuracy, and that the sample used in this study may be specific to the Witwatersrand Technikon.
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  • Date Issued: 1980

'n Ondersoek na die vorm wat die opvoering in die primêre skool kan aanneem : met spesiale verwysing na geselekteerde primêre skole in die Westelike Provinsie

- Du Plessis, Philippus Lodewicus

  • Authors: Du Plessis, Philippus Lodewicus
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Drama in education
  • Language: Afrikaans
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2128 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002030 , Drama in education
  • Description: Watter vorm moet die opvoering in die primêre skool aanneem ? Die opvoering in die skool, en veral in die primêre skool word, veral sedert Peter Slade (1959 : 41-57 ens.) en Brian Way (1970 : 2-3 + 6-8 + 186- 189 + 268-269) gewaarsku het teen die gevare van die opvoering, deur baie beoefenaars van skooldrama afgekeur. Daar het in Engeland, Amerika en ook in Suid-Afrika tweespalt begin ontstaan tussen die aanhangers van die sogenaamde formeIe drama en die sogenaamde informele of vrye drama. Daar behoort nie so 'n tweespalt te wees indien die hele aangeleentheid reg benader word nie. (Heathcote soos opgeneem in Hodgson en Banham 1972 : 41). Daar word beoog om in hierdie studie ondersoek in te stel na die moontlike benaderingswyses asook die wenslikheid van die opvoering in die primêre skool. Die doel van hierdie studie is am opnuut te besin oor die waarde wat die skoolopvoering vir die kind kan hê. Ons durf, as opvoeders, die kind nie uitsluit van 'n aktiwiteit wat 'n bydrae tot sy totale ontwikkeling sou kon lewer nie. Daar word dus gehoop om tot 'n herwaardering van die skoolopvoering te kom wat waardevol sal kan wees in die opvoeding van die kind
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A comprehensive guide to conducting compensation surveys to determine competitive adjustments to base salary ranges

- Snelgar, Robin John

  • Authors: Snelgar, Robin John
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Wage surveys , Wages
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2896 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002060
  • Description: The compensation process is a complex network of sub-processes directed toward compensating people for services performed, and motivating them to obtain desired levels of performance. Among the intermediate components of this process are wage and salary payments, the awarding of other cost items such as insurance, vacations, sick leave, etc. (fringe benefits), and the provision of essentially non-cost rewards such as recognition, privileges and symbols of status. However, the broad subject of compensation in terms of cost to the organisation may be examined in two sections, namely, wage and salary administration, and fringe benefit administration. The compensation survey forms an integral part of both administration processes, and thus becomes a necessary and essential device in the determination of the final compensation package to the employee.
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A psychodiagnostic study of adolescent stealing

- Lewis, Deborah A

  • Authors: Lewis, Deborah A
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Theft -- Research -- South Africa , Theft -- Psychology , Juvenile delinquency -- South Africa -- Case studies , Juvenile delinquency -- Research -- Methodology , Projective techniques for teenagers -- Research , Adolescent psychology
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3121 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005982 , Theft -- Research -- South Africa , Theft -- Psychology , Juvenile delinquency -- South Africa -- Case studies , Juvenile delinquency -- Research -- Methodology , Projective techniques for teenagers -- Research , Adolescent psychology
  • Description: Studies on delinquency fall into two groups, a statistical orientation and a qualitative approach. This study adopted the latter approach using Maslow's theory to investigate the relationship between unmet needs and stealing. It also attempted to explicate the function of stealing for each individual and focused upon interpersonal and intrapersonal aspects. The Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test and the Draw a Person Test were administered to four white male adolescents who had stolen. Their ages ranged from 14 to 17 years. An analysis of each test was completed focusing upon the needs of the individual. In addition the case history and impressions gained during testing were included. It was found that unmet needs had resulted in stealing. Their personalities displayed common characteristics but differences were also evident. A summary was provided and the implications for therapy were then discussed.
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A study of some aspects of the poor white problem in South Africa

- Lewis, Robert Alexander

An examination of the spatial variation of surficial sediment characteristics in the Howison's Poort Reservoir

- Weaver, Alex van Breda

  • Authors: Weaver, Alex van Breda
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Howison's Poort Reservoir , South Africa , Sedimentation and deposition
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:4790 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001890
  • Description: From Introduction: Lakes, estuaries and man-made water impoundments can be considered as intervening basins which provide for the temporary storage both of sediment and of water. Because of the potential energy of soil in elevated positions and because of the kinetic energy of water flowing under the influence of gravity, eroded material is eventually transported to the lowest possible level, i.e. the ocean deeps, or some intervening basin. This denudation process may be compared with Newton’s second law of thermodynamics which states that each system tends to move in the direction of lowest energy. Sedimentation in intervening basins may be seen as part of the natural process of landscape evolution. The rates at which sedimentation occurs may be strongly influenced by the activities of man.
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Anglican missionary policy in the diocese of Grahamstown under the first two bishops, 1853-1871

- Goedhals, Mary Mandeville

  • Authors: Goedhals, Mary Mandeville
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Anglican , Diocese , Grahamstown , Bishops , Missionary policy , Cattle Killing , Government , Education , Black people , John Armstrong , Henry Cotterill
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:1211 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001540
  • Description: In 1843 a committee of the Colonial Bishroprics Fund appointed to investigate the state of the Church of England at the Cape of Good Hope, recommended the formation of a bishopric, and suggested that the bishop settle in the eastern districts of the colony, with an archdeacon in Cape Town. Three significant principles had been enunciated: the church was to grow under a bishop, the church would have a dual mission to blacks and whites, and the colony's eastern frontier, long a political and military headache, was seen as the focus of a new and spiritual battle. Contact between Nguni tribesmen and the eastward-moving European trekboer began in the region of the Fish River during the rule of the Dutch East India Company. Cattle and land were the main ingredients of the frontier conflict. From the point of view of the white settler, the growing cattle trade meant an increased need for pasture, but although the motive for expansion was economic, frontiersmen had come to regard large lands as their birthright. The semi-nomadic pastoral economy of the Nguni also required abundance of land, which was vested in the tribe. To the tribesmen, their cattle had a political, social and religious significance which transcended the economic. Cattle were sacrificed to the ancestors to propitiate the shades of the departed and to secure the prosperity of the tribe. The years of conflict, the constant threat to their herds and their land, undermined the basis of Nguni society, without providing it with a new foundation.
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Extinction as consummation: an exposition of Virginia Woolf's mataphysic of visionary relation

- Ryan, Rory

  • Authors: Ryan, Rory
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 , Virginia Woolf
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2171 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001822
  • Description: What follows is an attempt to circumscribe Virginia Woolf's ideas on life and death, the relation between self and all that which is not self, and the nature of reality, in short, Woolf's vision. I hope that whatever unity and structure may exist in the vision will not be overlooked, and moreover, I intend to avoid imposing a unity where none exists, whether the absence of unity is intentional or accidental
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Graaff-Reinet and the Great Depression (1929-1933)

- Minnaar, Anthony de V

  • Authors: Minnaar, Anthony de V
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Graaff-Reinet (South Africa) -- History , South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1961
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2518 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001847
  • Description: The Depression of 1929-1933 was a world-wide phenomenon, in which "no aspect of the economy, no part of the world, escaped devastation". ¹ Accordingly the study of a medium sized rural town in South Africa during the period of the Depression, should show effects and reactions that were, in general, indicative of worldwide trends. In choosing Graaff- Reinet, I felt that being a close-knit community , with its urban and rural populations closely associated with each other, and the white, coloured and black sections of the population interdependent, it adequately represented a microcosm of South Africa as a whole. Then, too, Graaff- Reinet was ideally suited to illustrate the reality, that in South Africa during the Depression " the farmers were the most heavily hit of all". ² The single most significant product of the Graaff- Reinet district was wool, which at the time of the Depression was South Africa's second most important export, and consequently the well-being of the whole district depended largely on the market performance of this product . During the Depression the price of wool dropped drastically and the Graaff-Reinet farmers suffered in consequence . Graaff-Reinet also went, almost according to a blueprint, through the general phases of the Depression. The privations of the farming community led to the financial embarrassment of the local financial institutions causing their collapse , which in its turn led to the widespread hardship of everyone in the town. But these events all had a particular Graaff-Reinet quality, and the twists to the general outline are rooted deep in the local character of the district . Historically Graaff-Reinet is extremely interesting. It is the fourth oldest town in South Africa, being established in 1786, and in studying Graaf-Reinet one cannot but become conscious of the immense tradition and the awareness of history , which all its people have. The study itself starts with a general outline of the Worldwide Depre ssion, its causes and results, then moves on to the Depression in South Africa . The study of Graaff-Reinet in the Depression is divided into three basic sections, the Farmers, the Townspeople, and the Politics of Graaff-Reinet during the Depression. All three contain their own sub-divisions dealing with different aspects. In the Graaff-Reinet sections are included references to national events, tying them to, and explaining the course of, local happenings. In short the study becomes the story of how the Depression effected the people of Graaff-Reinet, how they suffered during this period and how they reacted to it. A final concluding section deals with their general recovery from the Depression. ¹ Heaton, H. : Kruger, D. W. The Economic History of Europe. p. 696. ²The Making of a Nation; a history of the Union of South Africa 19l0 - 1960. p. 158.
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Land, labour and African affairs, 1924-1934

- Lacey, Marian

Lesniewski's logic aspects of his protothetic, ontology and mereology

- Norman, Max

  • Authors: Norman, Max
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:21148 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6596
  • Description: Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939) was professor of Philosophy of Mathematics at the University of Warsaw from 1919 until his death. He played a leading role in the Warsaw school of logic and had a lasting influence on many of its members. Lesniewski constructed his first description of mereology in colloquial language and in the absence of a secure logical foundation. In order to effectively distinguish between the collective and distributive notions of class, further description of the distributive notion was necessary. He therefore formalized the distributive concepts in his theory of ontology. Henceforth "ontology" will be used specifically to refer to this theory of Lesniewski. Finally, the construction of protothetic (a system of propositional logic) provided a sound logical foundation of Lesniewski's ontology and mereology. Protothetic, together with his prescribed rules of procedure and his grammar of semantic categories, also facilitated the formalization of his systems in a logically rigorous manner. All of the researchers acknowledge that one of Lesniewski's most fundamental achievements was the development of his deductive systems (protothetic, ontology and mereology).
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Narrative technique in ʹBeowulfʹ

- Chaplin, Sherril Edith

Protest in fiction : an approach to Alex la Guma

- Cornwell, David Gareth Napier

  • Authors: Cornwell, David Gareth Napier
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: La Guma, Alex , South African literature (English) -- Black authors -- History and criticism , Protest literature, South African (English) -- History and criticism
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2169 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001820
  • Description: From Introduction: Thus for the black South African, the act of creative writing is inescapably a form of political action, and unless he turns his back on the reality which confronts him and retreats into a private imaginary world, it is also a form of social action, Yet Ezekiel Mphahlele has rightly cautioned that "creating an imaginary world" can never be an effective substitute for social act ion . Composing fictions about social and political problems is an indubitably oblique way of seeking a solution to them, and even the tendentious recreation of reality is only a metaphor for its actual transformation. Protest writing in South Africa is paradoxically a form of social action which is also only a parasitical imitation of social action, and therefore its avoidance . The freedom of literary creation described above is ambiguously not only a freedom to express reality, but also a freedom from the constraints of reality. And this suggests why the outlaw was such an important symbol to an earlier generation of rather more self-conscious writers.
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Satan and Lucifer: a comparison of their metamorphoses from Angel to Devil in Milton's Paradise lost and Vondel's Lucifer and Adam in Ballingschap

- Paterson, Lynette

  • Authors: Paterson, Lynette
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Milton, John, 1608-1674 Vondel, Joost van den, 1587-1679
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2184 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001837
  • Description: The aim of this thesis is to compare the poetic delineation of the character of Satan in Paradise Lost with that of Lucifer in Lucifer and Adam in Ballingschap, and to consider the influence of the genre in each case , not in order to prove similarities or differences , but rather to allow the characters to illuminate each other. Both Satan and Lucifer develop progressively from angel to devil in the course of the poem or play. However, this process is more than just a physical metamorphosis, or even a moral degeneration. It is in each case a process of identity change, intensely and consciously experienced by the character. The fall is a movement from God to Self. The unfallen creature's integrity consists in his submergence in the Being and Will of God; for the fallen creature integrity means a separate, independent self-hood. In rebelling against their role and duty as Archangel, Satan and Lucifer rebel against submergence in the Being of God and thus against their very nature and the order of things. Consequently they experience personal and psychological disintegration. From this condition of imbalance and uncertainty they both develop to a new state of personal reintegration and unequivocal identity, now as Arch-fiend. In neither case is the process instant or entirely concurrent with the physical fall into Hell. Rather, it is protracted, hence the division of this thesis into sections that focus on the different stages in the development: Archangel, Arch-rebel and Arch- fiend (introduction, p. ii-iii).
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Scientific theories : a philosophical analysis

- Schwerin, Alan Kenneth

  • Authors: Schwerin, Alan Kenneth
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Science -- Philosophy , Logical positivism , Realism
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2701 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001976
  • Description: In this essay I have considered some of the philosophical problems involved in attempting to settle the question, What are scientific theories about? And in order to expose these problems, I have dealt with two influential responses to this question of the referents of scientific theories - namely, logical empiricism and realism.
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Symbolism and imagery in the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius' Metamorphosis

- Beattie, Shannon Boyd

  • Authors: Beattie, Shannon Boyd
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Apuleius. Metamorphoses
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:3625 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009511
  • Description: A study of the story of Cupid and Psyche within the context of the Metamorphoses as a whole reveals a recurrent pattern of themes, motifs, and images, which indicates that the story symbolises the experiences of Lucius. The Judaeo-Christian Greek meaning of psyche, oneself, implies that Psyche is a symbol of Lucius. This is borne out by the similarity of their experiences, and by the fact that they both have the same character traits of simplicitas and curiositas. Cupid's warnings to Psyche concerning the control which Fortuna has over her life further establish the connection between Psyche and Lucius, whose life is controlled by blind Fate. Military imagery, and images of light and dark, which occur in connection with Cupid and Psyche, also describe the experiences of Lucius. Venus symbolises Isis, as is indicated by Isis' identification of herself as Venus, in addition to many other deities, at the end of the Metamorphoses. Once again imagery, this time of the sea, makes this relationship clear, while military imagery implies a parallel between the relationship of Psyche and Cupid, and that of Lucius and Fotis. Jupiter intervenes in Psyche's misfortunes, just as Isis saves Lucius from his hardships. Juno and Ceres are also identified with Isis at the end of the Metamorphoses, thus linking the story of Cupid and Psyche with the life of Lucius.
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The nature and function of setting in Jane Austen's novels

- Kelly, Patricia Marguerite Wyndham

  • Authors: Kelly, Patricia Marguerite Wyndham
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 , English fiction , Eighteenth century , Novel , Setting , Northanger Abbey , Pride and Prejudice , Mansfield Park , Emma
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2172 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001823
  • Description: This study examines the settings in Jane Austen's six novels. Chapter I introduces the topic generally, and refers briefly to Jane Austen's aims and methods of creating her settings. Short accounts are given of the emphasis put on setting in the criticism of Jane Austen's work; of the chronology of the novels; and of the use made of this aspect of the novel in eighteenth-century predecessors. Chapter II deals with the treatment of place in Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. The consideration of five novels together makes it possible to generalize about aspects of place common to all , and to discuss particulars peculiar to individual novels without, I hope, excessive repetition. The chapter may be thought disproportionately long, but this aspect of setting is most prominent and important in the delineation of character. Chapter III discusses the handling of spatial detail and time in these five novels. Chapter IV offers a fuller analysis of what is the chief concern of this thesis, the nature and function of setting, in respect of the single novel Persuasion, and attempts to draw together into a coherent whole some of the points made in Chapters II and III. Persuasion separates conveniently from the other works, not only because it was written after them, but more importantly because in it there is a new development in Jane Austen's use of setting. Some critics, notably E.M. Forster and B.C. Southam, have found startlingly new qualities in the setting of Sanditon, and, certainly, the most striking feature of the fragment is the treatment of place. But Jane Austen left off writing Sanditon in March 1817 because of illness, and the twelve chapters make up too small and unfinished a piece to be considered in the same way as the other novels. The Watsons, too, except for some references to it in Chapter I, does not come within the scope of this dissertation. Another introductory point needs to be made briefly. Where it is necessary, the distinction between Jane Austen and the omniscient narrator is observed, but generally, partly because it is clear that Jane Austen's values are close to those of the narrator, and partly because it is convenient, traditional and sensible to do so, the name "Jane Austen" is used to refer both to the actual person and to the narrator of the novels.
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The nouvelles of Henry James : a phenomeno-generic approach

- Bijker, Antony Jan

  • Authors: Bijker, Antony Jan
  • Date: 1979
  • Subjects: Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Diaries , James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. , James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Diaries
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: vital:2168 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001819
  • Description: From Introduction: The present work is about the nouvelles of Henry James and not about phenomenology. That is to say that I am more concerned with James's use of the form of the nouvelle than with the illustration of a method. But, as Roland Barthes has pointed out: "How can we tell the novel from the short story, the tale from the myth, suspense drama from tragedy ... without reference to a common model? Any critical attempt to describe even the most specific, the most historically orientated narrative form implies such a model. "I Hence, because phenomenology is somewhat alien to the Anglo-American critical sensibility, I must temporarily reverse this emphasis and discuss the phenomenological "model" that underlies my investigation of James and the nouvelle form. Elsewhere phenomenological theory will take precedence only when it throws light on what is a highly elusive genre.
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