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Youth in rural Transkei: the demise of "traditional" youth associations and the development of new forms of association and activity, 1975-1993

  • Authors: McAllister, Patrick A , Dumisani, Deliwe
  • Date: 1994
  • Subjects: Rural poor -- South Africa -- Transkei Rural youth -- South Africa -- Transkei Youth -- South Africa -- Transkei -- Societies, etc Youth -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Transkei Transkei (South Africa) -- Social conditions
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2068 , vital:20252 , ISBN 0868102687
  • Description: In the rural Xhosa-speaking parts of South Africa there is a strong tradition of youth associations or youth organisations. With a few notable exceptions, these have been neglected in the sociological and historical literature. Our understanding of rural areas, their relationship with other parts of the country, and of rural change, have suffered in consequence. The youth are at the forefront of the urban/rural interface, and at the forefront of rural change. In his analysis of the indlavini youth organisation that existed in Pondoland in the 1950s, Beinart (1991) illustrates how a study of this element of society is important for an understanding of issues such as the nature of migrant labour and worker consciousness, as well as for social change in rural areas, the politics of generation and gender, and rural protest. Our aim in this study has been to document the decline of the 'traditional' youth associations in the Shixini administrative area of Willowvale district, Transkei. By 'traditional' we mean the youth organisations as they existed in the 1960s and early 1970s, though there is evidence to suggest that there had been considerable continuity in this respect from much earlier - at least from the 1930s and 1940s (Mayer and Mayer 1972). We suggest reasons for this decline, as well as some of the consequences, and examine some of the new, alternative youth activities which have replaced the older ones. This allows us to make some comment about the changing role of youth in rural areas like Shixini, and to suggest some of the policy implications of this. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1994

Youth development in Grahamstown: a social map: a guide to organisations catering for youth development

  • Authors: Van Hees, Charlotte
  • Date: 2000
  • Subjects: Arts -- Study and teaching Associations, institutions, etc. -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Directories Community development -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Community education -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Culture -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Mass media -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Public health -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Public welfare -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Schools -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Sports -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Unemployment -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Youth -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Youth -- South Africa Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Directories Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2420 , vital:20288 , ISBN 0868103640
  • Description: Grahamstown is a town in the Eastern Cape with a population of approximately 110 000 of which the vast majority live in the former black township, known as Grahamstown East. Unemployment, poor housing, a high crime rate and a lack of primary facilities like toilets, electricity and water are daily facts for a large number of the inhabitants of Grahamstown East. Every day government departments, non-government organisations (NGOs) and volunteers work to improve the lives of the people. Youth merit special attention, after all “youth make the future”. The spectrum of organisations catering for youth development is broad: from local schools providing basic education to organisations like the Grahamstown Foundation trying to involve youth in national art projects. They all have one thing in common. They are all aiming to give youth a grip on their lives, to give them a future by empowering them. But what do we actually know about the youth? Where do they come from? What are their expectations and aspirations in life? What kind of leisure activities do they have? What kind of organisations do they use to get ahead in life? And what do we actually know about these organisations? How do they form their policy and activities? Which role does the government play and which role is left for the non-governmental organisations? In what ways do they work together? How do youth participate in the policy making of these organisations? The Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) of Rhodes University is working together with the Centre for Policy and Management of the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) to find answers to these questions. A sample survey was conducted in May 1999 to compile baseline information on youth from Grahamstown East in terms of social characteristics, motivations for personal and collective development, and expectations for the future. From January until July 1999 the project team has visited organisations in Grahamstown focusing on (youth) development to identify existing youth programmes and to see how these programmes are incorporated in the town’s context. This social map is a product of this research. The research defines youth as young people living in Grahamstown East in the age category of 14 to 25 years old. This social map however also includes organisations catering for younger children, by displaying the pre-schools and organisations like Child and Family Welfare Society that focus on children up to the age of 13. The National Youth Commission defines youth development in “Youth Policy 2000” (1997) as a process whereby young men and women are able to improve their skills, talents and abilities to extend their intellectual, physical and emotional capabilities to express themselves and to live full lives. This definition is used in this research. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 2000

Xenophobia and international students and staff

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2008-05-20
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7704 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015849
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  • Date Issued: 2008-05-20

World views, joking and liberated women - some reflections on the application of kinship theory : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

World views, joking and liberated women - some reflections on the application of kinship theory

  • Authors: Whisson, Michael G
  • Date: 1979
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:6110 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008104
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  • Date Issued: 1979

Witches : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

  • Authors: Mayer, Philip
  • Date: 1954
  • Subjects: Witchcraft , Withces
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:651 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020720
  • Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1954

William's book blurb

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2013-09-08
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7942 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016493
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  • Date Issued: 2013-09-08

Why literature? : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

  • Authors: Brink, André P
  • Date: 1980-07-23
  • Subjects: Literature
  • Language: English , Afrikaans
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:606 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020675 , ISBN 0868100366
  • Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1980-07-23

Why a "Coloured" National Convention

  • Authors: Planning Committee of the South African Coloured National Committee
  • Date: 1961-06
  • Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31211 , vital:23925 , MS 10 800 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
  • Description: We would like to stress at the outset that we are not organising this Convention in order to “gang up” with persons of other race-groups against others. Some people say that we should have nothing to do with Africans, because we have nothing in common with them. This is utter folly. We could mention several important factors which we do have in common with them. There is our common humanity, there is our common South Africanism, there is a great deal of common discrimination under South African laws, and there is, in regard to a great and growing number of Africans, a common Western view of life. We would like to see developed a wider South Africanism, capable of embracing all the peoples of this country, whatever their race, colour or creed. Let nobody say that because we are organising a Convention as a Coloured group, we are recognising and accepting the fact that we are a separate groun, or that we wish to be so regarded in the laws of the land. We repeat that we are a separate group by exclusion, by discrimination, by virtue of laws which we regard as wrong. And it is to destroy this false, separate identity that we are dedicating ourselves in this Convention.
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  • Date Issued: 1961-06

Who goes to parliament?

  • Authors: Stultz, Newell Maynard
  • Date: 1975
  • Subjects: Legislators -- South Africa South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994 South Africa -- Politics and government
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2747 , vital:20322 , ISBN 0949980560
  • Description: The focus here is upon the 1 169 white men and the twelve white women who were elected or nominated to the South African Parliament in Cape Town between 1910 and the conclusion of the 1970 general and Senate elections.1 Because of the integrated nature of government at the national level in South Africa, an examination of all parliamentarians concurrently produces information on all cabinet ministers during the same period, and for most if not all of the top leaders of the major political parties as well. Hence, recognizing the unitary structure of the South African regime - sometimes expressed in the principle of the 'sovereignty of Parliament' - it seems possible to designate these 1 181 persons as the formally ascendant South African political elite during the country's first six decades. Moreover, there is no reason to doubt that this number includes nearly all of the persons who exercised disproportionately great real power during these years, excepting, of course, those few non-whites who may be thought to have been politically influential at the national level. Every indication is that political life in South Africa centred on these individuals, or at least on some of them, for clearly not all were of equal political importance. Yet even the leaders within this select group, whom we shall also consider separately in detail, frequently (although not in every case) rose to prominence within the institution of Parliament, in part on the basis of their ability to influence and control its deliberations. An understanding of the backgrounds of all parliamentarians thus not only helps to describe the body itself, but may also contribute a new appreciation of the political power of the country's top leadership. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1975

Whither psychiatry in our changing society? : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

  • Authors: Levin, Aubrey
  • Date: 1994
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:648 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020717 , ISBN 0868102997
  • Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1994

Where Leaders Learn' - relevant leadership for our society

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2011-02-19
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7839 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016032
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  • Date Issued: 2011-02-19

Where leaders learn : towards the greater realization of the Rhodes University vision

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2007-01-01
  • Subjects: Rhodes University
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7689 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015834
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  • Date Issued: 2007-01-01

Where leaders learn : facilitating citizenship through service-learning

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2009-03-24
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7728 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015875
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  • Date Issued: 2009-03-24

What literature? : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

  • Authors: Van Wyk Smith, Malvern
  • Date: 1981
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:676 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020745 , ISBN 0868100692
  • Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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  • Date Issued: 1981

West Bank land restitution claim: social history report

  • Authors: Maqasho, Landiswa , Bank, Leslie , Mrawu, Busisiwe
  • Date: 1999
  • Subjects: Colored people (South Africa) -- South Africa -- East London Africans -- South Africa -- East London Land reform -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Land settlement -- Government policy -- South Africa Mdantsane (East London) Nongqongqo (East London) West Bank location (East London)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2691 , vital:20317 , ISBN 0868103624
  • Description: Today, the west bank of the Buffalo River is a well-established industrial area. At the centre of this industrial complex is the Mercedes Benz South Africa production plant. Yet, over 40 years ago on the production site of this world reknowned motor manufacturer there was a small urban location which housed approximately 7000 African and Coloured residents. The village was known as Nongqongqo. According to Tankard (1990) it was the “original village and first official location of East London” and served primarily as a source of labour for workshops, transport and packing concerns in the East London harbour. The village, which was also known as the West Bank Location, was a stable and peaceful community that accommodated an ethnically mixed community of Xhosa, Fingoes (Mfengu), Pondos, Zulus, Sothos and so-called Coloured people. In 1965, the tranquillity of everyday life in this seaside village came to a rude and abrupt end when government bulldozers and trucks moved in to demolish the village. The inhabitants were forcibly resettled on the east bank of the Buffalo River and in the fledgling township of Mdantsane in the Ciskei. The removals were undertaken in accordance with the terms of the Bantu Administration Act No. 25 of 1945, Population Registration Act of 1950 and Group Areas Act of 1952 (cf. Booysen, 1995). The aim of this report is to investigate the social and historical circumstances that surrounded the destruction of this once vibrant seaside village. This report forms part of a process through which approximately 1400 original residents of Nongqongqo are seeking restitution for losses they incurred during this removal in terms of the Restitution of Land Rights Act of 1994. This report seeks to contribute to this process by contextualising the Nongqongqo removal within an historical understanding of the management of black urbanization in East London and by investigating the specific social, economic and political circumstances that led to the deproclamation of this location. However, in order to understand the impact of the removals, the article also attempts to reconstruct from oral and documentary sources a profile of the West Bank community in the years preceding the removal. Although the historical material on West Bank is sketchy, we have managed to assemble data that allows us to build up a fairly comprehensive socio-economic profile and residential arrangements in this community in 1955. This exercise in historical reconstruction, we believe, is essential for a meaningful assessment of the significance of the removals for those involved. In the final part of the article we begin to assess and aggregate the emotional, social and economic costs of the removals for the people of Nongqongqo. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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  • Date Issued: 1999

Wellcome to ISER 2011 Summer School

  • Authors: Badat, Saleem
  • Date: 2011-09-12
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7800 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015993
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  • Date Issued: 2011-09-12

Welcome to U.T.A.S.A. Conference and Assessment

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7362 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017242
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Welcome to the 1979 S.A. Universities baseball tournament at Rhodes

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017282
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Welcome to Survival of the Press Conference, 1979

  • Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
  • Language: English
  • Type: Text
  • Identifier: vital:7395 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017284
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