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Studies in Carangid fishes No.6: key to the western Indian Ocean species of the Genus Carangoides Bleeker, 1851, with a description of Carangoides Nitidus Smith

- Smith, Margaret M

Authors: Smith, Margaret M
Date: 1972
Language: English
Type: text , Article
Identifier: vital:7124 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004450
Description: From introduction: Fishes in the family Carangidae commonly known as Jacks or Kingfishes are generally characterised by a silvery ovate body with s mall insignificant cycloid scales,a lateral line with curved anterior portion and a posterior straight portion bearing scules, a moderate mouth usually with feeble teeth, no dorsal and anal finlets, and a deeply forked caudal with a slender peduncle. A horizontally forwardly directed spine from the dorsal pterygiophore visible in front of the dorsal fin in shrunken or dried specimens, and the first two anal spines separate from the third and the rest of the fin are more pronounced in juvenile specimens.
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Date Issued: 1972

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Conference on the History of Opposition in Southern Africa

- Yawitch, Joanne

Authors: Yawitch, Joanne
Date: 1978-01-27-30
Subjects: Riots -- South Africa -- Durban , Beer -- South Africa -- Durban -- History , Women, Black -- Durban -- Economic conditions -- Congresses , Black people -- South Africa -- Durban -- Social conditions -- Congresses , Apartheid -- South Africa -- Durban -- History
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66623 , vital:28972
Description: In June 1959 there were widespread riots and disturbances in the Durban African area of Cato Manor. The fundamental causes were socio-economic; arising from such factors as poor living conditions and widespread poverty. But it was the exhaustive beer-raids on illegal stills that provided a flashpoint. It was illegal for Africans to brew their own beer; instead they were obliged to purchase it from the municipal beer-halls - the money then being used for the development and administration of African facilities, (l) Amongst the inhabitants of Cato Manor and particularly amongst women who traditionally brewed the beer, this caused much dissatisfaction. However, discontent was prevented from reaching breaking -point by the police strategy of ignoring illegal brewing as long as amounts did not exceed more than k to 8 gallons, and also by only carrying out very perfunctory raids. (2) Another dimension was added to the beer-hall issue in the form of complaints by women that this was not the traditional way of doing things. They said that men should obtain beer from their women instead of frequenting the beer halls, and more importantly, by patronising the beer-halls, men were depriving their women of what little money they could have paid them. (3) In this complaint centering around the fact that an element of traditional life was being disrupted, is contained another issue of basic importance to the Natal riots in general. The policies of the government as implemented by the Durban Corporation in the case of Cato Manor meant the fragmentation of a traditional and still important social order. The economic function of the women of Cato Manor, and ass will be seen later, of most Natal women was being removed. In addition to basic deprivation it was this factor that can to a large extent be seen as the reason for the intensity and militancy of the women's attacks on the beer-halls and on Corporation property. Cato Manor was an area unique among the locations and townships of Durban. Its inhabitants had moved there in the years just after the war without any official sanction. Cato Manor was unplanned, and as a result of its spontaneous creation far less controlled and policed than any of the townships set up as a result of government planning. Because of this freedom Cato Manor was a haven for all those who were illegally in the urban areas, or whose livelihood contravened the multitude of rules and regulations governing the lives of Africans. Cato Manor's large population of shebeen queens owed its existence to this lack of control. (4) In 1958 there had been considerable discontent and unrest in Cato Manor over the attempt to implement shack-removal schemes, thereby clearing the slum and transferring much of its population to the new township of Kwa Mashu. At Kwa Mashu where rents were higher and which was also less centrally situated than Cato Manor, there was far more rigid control. Removals would have in effect meant that. Cato Manor's large illegal population, including the shebeen Queens and petty traders, would have been deprived of their livelihoods or endorsed out of the urban areas. (5) It was in this context that threats of a Typhoid epidemic in June 1959 caused the Durban Corporation to decide to radically increase and improve sanitation measures in Cato Manor, and to eliminate any conditions conducive to the breeding of flies. The refusal of the inhabitants of Cato Manor to do away with the large quantities of illegal liquor negated the health measures taken by the authorities. Finally, municipal labourers were ordered to enter Cato Manor and destroy all stills. The resentment aroused by this action caused a large group of women to march on the Booth Road Beerhall on June 17th whereupon they chased out the male customers and destroyed the beer. (6) The rioting spread rapidly to other Durban beerhalls and a large proportion of the Corporations property was destroyed. In addition, a successful beer boycott was launched. In Cato Manor violence had subsided by the beginning of July at which time it had already spread to such areas as Verulam and Umbumbulu. Six weeks after the initial rioting essential services had not yet been restored fully in Cato Manor. By the beginning of August unrest was rife in many of Natal's smaller towns as well as a large section of the rural areas.
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Date Issued: 1978-01-27-30

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The modern University's response to manpower needs of a developing community

- Henderson, Derek Scott

Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
Date: 1980
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: vital:7411 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018288
Description: In the intellectual tradition which we have inherited in South Africa the university as an institution is predated perhaps only by the Catholic Church. From their very beginnings universities have regarded knowledge, advanced knowledge, its preservation, extension and transmission as their very reason for existence. Modernity, if it implies a serious departure from that tradition, cannot be held as a virtue in a university. A modern university is therefore one that exists in modern times, is in tune with the intellectual needs of those times, and which adapts, without imperilling, its centuries-old outlook towards knowledge. A modern university, most emphatically, is not one which cuts itself off from its age-old intellectual roots. An institution which does so is not a modern university it in fact ceases to be a university at all.
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Date Issued: 1980

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Moult in southern African passerine birds: a review

- Craig, Adrian J F K

Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K
Date: 1983
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447813 , vital:74676 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1983.9634475
Description: In the most recent checklist 398 passerine species are recorded for southern Africa. This paper lists information on the moult of 114 species, of which 27 are Palaearctic migrants, or birds for which there are data from European populations only. For 65 additional species data of uncertain relevance to southern African populations are included in appendices. There is much interspecific variation in both pattern and timing, even between members of the same family and genus. Aspects requiring special attention in future studies are discussed.
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Date Issued: 1983

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Beasts to beer pots - migrant labour and ritual change in Willowvale district, Transkei

- McAllister, Patrick A

Authors: McAllister, Patrick A
Date: 1985
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6112 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003832
Description: [From the introduction]: Why do some rituals disappear while others continue to be performed? Why do some persist in a relatively unaltered state while others are radically modified? In an article published in 1978 Monica Wilson drew attention to the scarcity of information on this subject, and proceeded to consider possible reasons for the 'resilience' of certain rituals, such as those accompanying initiation and death, and the 'obliteration' of others, such as those concerning the birth of twins. My concern in this paper is with the persistence and radical modification of a Gcaleka ritual called umhlinzeko or umsindleko, performed in celebration of the return of a migrant worker to his rural home. The earlier form of the ritual (umhlinzeko) is described and this is followed by an outline of the present-day form (umsindleko). The bulk of the paper is taken up with an attempt to explain why the one form gave way to another. In this respect the analysis concentrates on the relationship between the two forms and their socio-economic contexts, and tries to relate the changes in the form and meaning of the ritual to the changing economic and political circumstances affecting the Gcaleka and other Xhosa-speakers.
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Date Issued: 1985

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Astatotilapia tweddlei, a new species of fluviatile haplochromine cichlid fish from lakes Chilwa and Chiuta, Malawi, with zoogeographical notes

- Jackson, P B N (Peter Brian Neville), J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Jackson, P B N (Peter Brian Neville) , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1985-06
Subjects: Cichlids , Fishes -- Malawi
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70202 , vital:29633 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 38 , Recent collecting in the Malawi lakes Chilwa and Chiuta has revealed a new haplochromine cichlid fish, Astatotilapia tweddlei, which is described and illustrated. It is distinguished from most members of this genus by an elongate, rounded caudal fin. Although having a distinctly different colour pattern and more slender pharyngeal bone, it shows a greater similarity to A. paludinosa, known only from the Malagarasi Swamp 1200 km to the north in the Zaire ichthyofaunal province, than it does to members of this genus from the closely adjacent Zambezi province from which this wetland system, in the East Coast province is separated by only some 50 km.
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Date Issued: 1985-06

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1986 WAGE Negotiations

- The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees Union

Authors: The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees Union
Date: 1986
Subjects: The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees Union
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/136306 , vital:37360
Description: The Liquor and Catering Trades Employees' Union have made big demands for higher wages and shorter working hours to the bosses of the hotels. This is because wages are far too low for hotel workers while working hours are very long. These demands will be discussed at the Industrial Council, where your union representatives will argue for big improvements in working conditions. But we can expect strong opposition from the bosses who have their own representatives on the Industrial Council. So the union campaign for higher wages will not be easy! But we must win it because workers and their families are suffering and the union campaign is our only hope. The fight will not be won at the Industrial Council, however - it will be won in the hotels. We have to build up the union's strength in each and every hotel so that the bosses see that we are determined to win our demands. This booklet will help you to build up the workers' organisation in your hotel. Use it to discuss the union campaign so that every worker knows what part he or she has to play.
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Date Issued: 1986

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Financing university education in South Africa: the case for a student loan scheme

- Dollery, Brian

Authors: Dollery, Brian
Date: 1986
Subjects: Student loan funds -- South Africa Student aid -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: Book , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1752 , vital:20222 , ISBN 0868101443
Description: The fact that not all claims on the central government enjoy equal status in the eyes of policymakers has been vividly illustrated by the recent experience of South African universities. Indeed, it is not alarmist to describe the present financial position of these institutions as approaching a state of crisis. Consequently, there is an urgent need for members of the university community in this country to re-examine the whole question of university finance. The present paper attempts to address precisely this issue, and proposes a radical alternative to the current method of finance. A caveat must be added at the outset. First, the analysis will be restricted to universities per se although it could be extended mutatis mutandis to include some other institutions within the tertiary education sector, and secondly, the primary focus will fall on developing a broad framework rather than on a detailed examination of the minutiae of university funding. Section I evaluates the case for public intervention in the provision of university education, and the various alternative approaches to the problem of university finance are outlined in Section II. A specific proposal for the financing of university education is set out in Section III, together with a rebuttal of some of the more important objections to the scheme. The paper concludes with an overview of the central arguments in Section IV. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1986

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Shakespeare, Webster and the Moriturus Lyric in Renaissance England

- Gouws, John S

Authors: Gouws, John S
Date: 1989
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/457869 , vital:75686 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA1011582X_75
Description: It is perhaps a commonplace that the dying will register their experience as a lingering on a threshold, but it is remarkable, in the first place, to record that awareness in a poem, and, in the second place, to insist that the poem be placed at the end of the book. As I hope to show in the course of this discussion, the notion of writing a poem in the face of imminent death is not uncommon in the Renaissance; in fact, the act of doing so is one of the manifestations of a" good death", a mode of" self-fashioning" not restricted to poets. What is unusual and innovative about the Waller example is the inauguration of the self-consciously placed poem in the collected works of a poet, an act which leads inevi-tably to the most famous instance, Tennyson's" Crossing the Bar". Two Emily Dickinson poems suggest that in the nineteenth century the genre was sufficiently established to invite variant forms. In" I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-", the speaker recounts the experience of diminishing consciousness, and in" Because I could not stop for Death-" she crosses the threshold into the next world.'The latler poem of course al-so makes use of the" Death and the Maiden"(the rape of Persephone) motif, and so goes well beyond what can be regarded as a true moritu-rus lyric.
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Date Issued: 1989

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Organiser update: Food & Allied Workers Union Information & Research Department: number 3, vol. 1

- Food and Allied Workers Union

Authors: Food and Allied Workers Union
Date: 1990-06
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: English
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112426 , vital:33579
Description: Industrial and mining group Barlow Rand was again selected the SA's top company in the annual Financial Mail Top 100 companies survey. Barlows received top position in rating in the rankings of total assets, sales, profit and market capital at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Barlows Received net profit of Rl,06 billion in the year to September 1989 from the sales of R26,4 billion. Ranked by sales CG Smith received the second position, SAB came third and CG Smith Food on the fourth position. Following is the ranking of the too ten companies on the JSE, ranked by sales, net profit and assets.
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Date Issued: 1990-06

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Transport and General Workers Union: Bi-Annual Congress 1991: Financial Progress Report from Dec 1989-May 1991

- Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)

Authors: Transport and General Workers' Union (South Africa)
Date: 1991-05
Subjects: Uncatalogued
Language: eng
Type: text , pamphlet
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/103038 , vital:32203
Description: In reviewing the 1990 financial year for TGWU (1 Jan 1990 - 31 Dec 1990) it is clear that the union was in an unstable financial position. The income from subscriptions was forever fluctuating. In most cases expenditure for this period exceeded the income from subscriptions. Our bank balance was, from time to time, in an overdraft situation. The union couldn’t be self-sufficient—and as a result, relied on foreign funding. This report will deal with both the income and expenditure for the said financial period.
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Date Issued: 1991-05

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Turbidity-induced changes in feeding strategies of fish in estuaries

- Hecht, Thomas, Van der Lingen, C D

Authors: Hecht, Thomas , Van der Lingen, C D
Date: 1992
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/446960 , vital:74573 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00445096_644
Description: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of turbidity on the feeding strategies of fish in estuaries. Three species representing different feeding guilds were selected for the investigation. These were Elops machnata (representative piscivore), Pomadasys commefsonnii (a macrobenthivore) and Athefina breviceps (a planktivore). The stomach contents of these fish were examined from a clear and a turbid estuary and some experimental work was carried out on A. brevic8ps to test the hypothesis that turbidity affects feeding behaviour. Turbidity was found to have no effect on size selection of prey, but feeding rate, particularly of visual predators, was reduced at higher turbidity levels. This was caused by a decrease in the reactive distance of the fish. It would appear that in order to optimize the aquisition of food under different turbidity conditions fishes have the ability to change their feeding strategies. Visual predators are more affected by turbidity than are macrobenthic feeders.
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Date Issued: 1992

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