The Bondelswarts Rebellion of 1922
- Authors: Lewis, Gavin, 1954-
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Bondelswarts (African people) , Namibia -- Race relations , Namibia -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2589 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006957 , Bondelswarts (African people) , Namibia -- Race relations , Namibia -- History
- Description: The rebellion was the result of many and varied Bondelswarts grievances, accumulating into discontent. The attempted arrest of Morris and the bungling of subsequent negotiations was the last straw. Their distrust, fear and suspicion of the Government, built up from German times, made any negotiations doubly difficult. They were a proud people, proud of their history and traditions, and proud of their tribal identity. Their days of complete independence were not long gone, and only in the early 1920's was there any appreciable white settlement in their area. It was then, while they watched their lands being irrevocably divided up amongst whites, that with the increased white settlement came stricter and more burdensome laws. In some respect, the rebellion was the last stand of a people driven to frustration and poverty. It was indeed, as Freislich calls it, the last tribal war. They fought a futile battle against the inexorable advance of white technology and civilization, and in this sense their ultimate revolt was perhaps inevitable (Conclusion: p. 229-230)
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1978
- Authors: Lewis, Gavin, 1954-
- Date: 1978
- Subjects: Bondelswarts (African people) , Namibia -- Race relations , Namibia -- History
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2589 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006957 , Bondelswarts (African people) , Namibia -- Race relations , Namibia -- History
- Description: The rebellion was the result of many and varied Bondelswarts grievances, accumulating into discontent. The attempted arrest of Morris and the bungling of subsequent negotiations was the last straw. Their distrust, fear and suspicion of the Government, built up from German times, made any negotiations doubly difficult. They were a proud people, proud of their history and traditions, and proud of their tribal identity. Their days of complete independence were not long gone, and only in the early 1920's was there any appreciable white settlement in their area. It was then, while they watched their lands being irrevocably divided up amongst whites, that with the increased white settlement came stricter and more burdensome laws. In some respect, the rebellion was the last stand of a people driven to frustration and poverty. It was indeed, as Freislich calls it, the last tribal war. They fought a futile battle against the inexorable advance of white technology and civilization, and in this sense their ultimate revolt was perhaps inevitable (Conclusion: p. 229-230)
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- Date Issued: 1978
Land Grants
- Subjects: Deeds , Conveyancing , Land titles , Registration and transfer , Quitrent
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:13949 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019927 , MS 20 010
- Description: A collection of Land Grants (both Freehold and Perpetual Quitrent) and transfers/title deeds for the Stutterheim/King William's Town area. Although these are predominantly in the names of German immigrants and British German Legion settlers, there are also some grants in Freehold for Xhosa people, as well as grants in Perpetual Quitrent for men at the mission stations of Bethel, Umgwali and Wartburg. Most of the documents are accompanied by diagrams of the land in question.
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- Subjects: Deeds , Conveyancing , Land titles , Registration and transfer , Quitrent
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:13949 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1019927 , MS 20 010
- Description: A collection of Land Grants (both Freehold and Perpetual Quitrent) and transfers/title deeds for the Stutterheim/King William's Town area. Although these are predominantly in the names of German immigrants and British German Legion settlers, there are also some grants in Freehold for Xhosa people, as well as grants in Perpetual Quitrent for men at the mission stations of Bethel, Umgwali and Wartburg. Most of the documents are accompanied by diagrams of the land in question.
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Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1951
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1951
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8085 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004395
- Description: Rhodes University Inaugural Celebrations Programme. Special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Friday, 9th March, 1951. , Installation as Chancellor of the University of Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, C.B.E., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., and Honorary Graduation Ceremony in the City Hall, Grahamstown, Thursday, October 25th, 1951, 11a.m.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1951
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1951
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8085 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004395
- Description: Rhodes University Inaugural Celebrations Programme. Special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Friday, 9th March, 1951. , Installation as Chancellor of the University of Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, C.B.E., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., and Honorary Graduation Ceremony in the City Hall, Grahamstown, Thursday, October 25th, 1951, 11a.m.
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- Date Issued: 1951
Rhodes University College Graduation Ceremony 1948
- Rhodes University College, University of South Africa
- Authors: Rhodes University College , University of South Africa
- Date: 1948
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8082 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004392
- Description: Rhodes University College special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Saturday, 1st May, 1948
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1948
- Authors: Rhodes University College , University of South Africa
- Date: 1948
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8082 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004392
- Description: Rhodes University College special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Saturday, 1st May, 1948
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- Date Issued: 1948
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1966
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1966
- Subjects: Busschau, William John
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8100 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004433
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony on Saturday 2 April 1966 at 10:30 a.m. in the University Great Hall. , The order for the special graduation and the installation of William John Busschau as Chancellor of Rhodes University within the Great Hall on Friday 1 April 1966 at 5.30 p.m.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1966
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1966
- Subjects: Busschau, William John
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8100 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004433
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony on Saturday 2 April 1966 at 10:30 a.m. in the University Great Hall. , The order for the special graduation and the installation of William John Busschau as Chancellor of Rhodes University within the Great Hall on Friday 1 April 1966 at 5.30 p.m.
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- Date Issued: 1966
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1961
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1961
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8095 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004410
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies in the University Great Hall on Saturday , 8th April, 1961, at 11 a.m. [and] Saturday , 22nd April, 1961, at 11 a.m.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1961
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1961
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8095 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004410
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies in the University Great Hall on Saturday , 8th April, 1961, at 11 a.m. [and] Saturday , 22nd April, 1961, at 11 a.m.
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- Date Issued: 1961
On the characterization of photovoltaic devices for concentrator purposes
- Authors: Vorster, Frederick Jacobus
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Photovoltaic cells , Image processing , Solar cells
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:10530 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/639 , Photovoltaic cells , Image processing , Solar cells
- Description: This study originated from an evaluation of the performance of a commercially available high concentration point focus concentrator PV system. The effect of module design flaws was studied by using current-voltage (I-V) curves obtained from each module in the array. The position of reverse bias steps revealed the severity of mismatch in a string of series-connected cells. By understanding the effects of the various types of mismatch, power losses and damage to the solar cells resulting from hot spot formation can be minimized and several recommendations for improving the basic performance of similar systems were made. Concern over the extent and type of defect failure of the concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells prompted an investigation into the use of a light beam induced current (LBIC) technique to investigate the spatial distribution of defects. An overview of current and developing LBIC techniques revealed that the original standard LBIC techniques have found widespread application, and that far-reaching and important developments of the technique have taken place over the years. These developments are driven by natural progression as well as the availability of newly developed advanced measurement equipment. Several techniques such as Lock-in hermography and the use of infrared cameras have developed as complementary techniques to advanced LBIC techniques. As an accurate contactless evaluation tool that is able to image spatially distributed defects in cell material, the basis of this method seemed promising for the evaluation of concentrator cells.
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- Date Issued: 2007
- Authors: Vorster, Frederick Jacobus
- Date: 2007
- Subjects: Photovoltaic cells , Image processing , Solar cells
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:10530 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/639 , Photovoltaic cells , Image processing , Solar cells
- Description: This study originated from an evaluation of the performance of a commercially available high concentration point focus concentrator PV system. The effect of module design flaws was studied by using current-voltage (I-V) curves obtained from each module in the array. The position of reverse bias steps revealed the severity of mismatch in a string of series-connected cells. By understanding the effects of the various types of mismatch, power losses and damage to the solar cells resulting from hot spot formation can be minimized and several recommendations for improving the basic performance of similar systems were made. Concern over the extent and type of defect failure of the concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells prompted an investigation into the use of a light beam induced current (LBIC) technique to investigate the spatial distribution of defects. An overview of current and developing LBIC techniques revealed that the original standard LBIC techniques have found widespread application, and that far-reaching and important developments of the technique have taken place over the years. These developments are driven by natural progression as well as the availability of newly developed advanced measurement equipment. Several techniques such as Lock-in hermography and the use of infrared cameras have developed as complementary techniques to advanced LBIC techniques. As an accurate contactless evaluation tool that is able to image spatially distributed defects in cell material, the basis of this method seemed promising for the evaluation of concentrator cells.
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- Date Issued: 2007
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1963
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1963
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8097 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004418
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Saturday 6 April 1963 at 11 a.m. in the University Great Hall [and] Saturday 4 May 1963 at 11 a.m. in the University Great Hall.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1963
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1963
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8097 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004418
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Saturday 6 April 1963 at 11 a.m. in the University Great Hall [and] Saturday 4 May 1963 at 11 a.m. in the University Great Hall.
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- Date Issued: 1963
Rhodes University College Graduation Ceremony 1950
- Rhodes University College, University of South Africa
- Authors: Rhodes University College , University of South Africa
- Date: 1950
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8084 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004394
- Description: Special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Saturday, 29th April, 1950
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Rhodes University College , University of South Africa
- Date: 1950
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8084 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004394
- Description: Special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Saturday, 29th April, 1950
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- Date Issued: 1950
Albany district farms, 1818-1874
- De Smidt, Abraham, 1829-1908, South Africa. Surveyor General
- Authors: De Smidt, Abraham, 1829-1908 , South Africa. Surveyor General
- Date: 1874
- Subjects: 1 inch = 200 Rhynland roods 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Farms -- South Africa -- Albany Maps , South Africa History 1806-1910 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109620 , vital:33161 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP472
- Description: Diagrams and/or survayor's descriptions of the farms: Springvale, Proctor's Fontein, Komga, Boekenhoud Fontein (Petrus de Wit J. Wilmot), Assegaai Bush (Johannes Potgieter), Klip Fontein, Carel's Rust (Nics. Niemand), Latham's Farm (Joseph Latham), Matjes Kraal, Seven Fountains, Faber's Kraal (Fred. Potgieter), Hartebeest Pad (Diedk. Niemand), Melville Park (Thos. Butler, George Slater), Sharon (T.C. White), farm of J.D.P. Francis. Negative copy of original, 1874. Signed A. de Smidt.
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- Date Issued: 1874
- Authors: De Smidt, Abraham, 1829-1908 , South Africa. Surveyor General
- Date: 1874
- Subjects: 1 inch = 200 Rhynland roods 30.5595° S, 22.9375° E , Farms -- South Africa -- Albany Maps , South Africa History 1806-1910 Maps
- Language: English
- Type: maps , digital maps , cartographic
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/109620 , vital:33161 , Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University Library, Grahamstown, South Africa , MP472
- Description: Diagrams and/or survayor's descriptions of the farms: Springvale, Proctor's Fontein, Komga, Boekenhoud Fontein (Petrus de Wit J. Wilmot), Assegaai Bush (Johannes Potgieter), Klip Fontein, Carel's Rust (Nics. Niemand), Latham's Farm (Joseph Latham), Matjes Kraal, Seven Fountains, Faber's Kraal (Fred. Potgieter), Hartebeest Pad (Diedk. Niemand), Melville Park (Thos. Butler, George Slater), Sharon (T.C. White), farm of J.D.P. Francis. Negative copy of original, 1874. Signed A. de Smidt.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1874
Bybelse verwysings in die poësie van Petra Müller
- Jacobus, Jason Clarence Jeremy
- Authors: Jacobus, Jason Clarence Jeremy
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Afrikaans poetry -- 20th century , Bible -- New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc , Bible -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc , Allusions in literature
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/30419 , vital:30941
- Description: In this dissertation, the Biblical allusions in Petra Müller’s poetry will be analysed. Biblical figures as well as specific scenes from the Bible often form the basis of her poems. At first, her poetry will be contextualised within the tradition of Afrikaans religious poetry and subsequently the theory of transtextuality or textual transcendence coined by Genette (1992) will be discussed – particularly those concepts that will be relevant to the analysis of the relationship between Müller’s poetry and the original Biblical text or textual fragment. How does Petra Müller utilise the Bible as a source and inspiration for her poetry? How does she engage with the original Biblical text alluded to in her work?
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Jacobus, Jason Clarence Jeremy
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Afrikaans poetry -- 20th century , Bible -- New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc , Bible -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc , Allusions in literature
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/30419 , vital:30941
- Description: In this dissertation, the Biblical allusions in Petra Müller’s poetry will be analysed. Biblical figures as well as specific scenes from the Bible often form the basis of her poems. At first, her poetry will be contextualised within the tradition of Afrikaans religious poetry and subsequently the theory of transtextuality or textual transcendence coined by Genette (1992) will be discussed – particularly those concepts that will be relevant to the analysis of the relationship between Müller’s poetry and the original Biblical text or textual fragment. How does Petra Müller utilise the Bible as a source and inspiration for her poetry? How does she engage with the original Biblical text alluded to in her work?
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- Date Issued: 2018
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1965
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1965
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004428
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony on Saturday 10 April 1965 at 10:30 a.m. in the University Great Hall.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1965
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1965
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004428
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony on Saturday 10 April 1965 at 10:30 a.m. in the University Great Hall.
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- Date Issued: 1965
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 2005
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8142 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007257
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies 1820 Settlers National Monument Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 18.00 [and] Friday, 1 April 2005 at 10:30; 14:30 & 18:00 [and] Saturday, 2 April 2005 at 10:30 , RU East London Graduation Ceremony Christian Centre, Wyse Street, East London Friday, 4 May 2005 at 18:00
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- Date Issued: 2005
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2005
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8142 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007257
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies 1820 Settlers National Monument Thursday, 31 March 2005 at 18.00 [and] Friday, 1 April 2005 at 10:30; 14:30 & 18:00 [and] Saturday, 2 April 2005 at 10:30 , RU East London Graduation Ceremony Christian Centre, Wyse Street, East London Friday, 4 May 2005 at 18:00
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- Date Issued: 2005
Die Ndzundza-Ndebele en die blankes in Transvaal, 1845-1883
- Van Jaarsveld, Floris Albertus, 1922-1995
- Authors: Van Jaarsveld, Floris Albertus, 1922-1995
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Ndebele (African people) -- History , Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2578 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004379 , Ndebele (African people) -- History , Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
- Description: In 1969 het Leonard Thompson met reg beweer dat Suid-Afrikaanse historici hulle tot op hede hoofsaaklik besig gehou het met die doen en late van 'n Blanke gemeenskap wat die land sedert 1652 oorheers het. Die Swartman was die "forgotten factor" in die geskiedenis van Suider-Afrika. Waar die Swartman die onderwerp van wetenskaplike studie was, is dit aan argeoloë, linguiste, etnoloë en fisiese en sosiale antropoloë oorgelaat. Tereg het Thompson kort hierna opgemerk: "We need to know much more about the complex process by which African chiefdoms became incorporated in white controlled politics in the late nineteenth century. Only when monographs have been written on several individual cases, shall we be in a position to reach definite conclusions about the process as a whole ". Sedert hierdie uitspraak van Thompson het verskeie historici hulle op die terrein van die "forgotten factor" begewe. Omvangryke publikasies oor onder andere die Zulu, Pedi, Sotho asook die Swazi's het sedertdien die lig gesien, terwyl 'n werk oor die Tswana van Wes-Transvaal pas verskyn het. Hierteenoor het heelwat van die kleiner en minder invloedryke swart groeperinge tot op hede steeds agterweë gebly. Wat Noordoos Transvaal betref - meer spesifiek die gebied tussen die Elandsrivier, die Lebomboberg en die Krokodilrivier wat die Ohrigstadse Volksraad in 1846 van Mswati gekoop het, was daar behalwe die Pedi verskeie ander groepe aanwesig wat almal gedurende die loop van die negentiende eeu onder Blanke gesag gekom het. Hieronder het getel die Ndzundza, die Kopa, Tau, Kwena, Ntwane, Koni, Rôka, Kutswe , Pai en Pulana, waarvan die Ndzundza en Kopa die belangrikste was. Ten spyte van die feit dat daar heelwat argivale bronne oor hierdie groepe bestaan, het geen navorser dit tot op hede nog ontgin nie. Oor die onderwerping van hierdie stamme aan Blanke gesag gedurende die negentiende eeu, is daar weinig bekend. Wat die Ndzundza-geskiedenis betref, geld Thompson se opmerking nog steeds dat historici wetenskaplike studie oor die Swartes tradisioneel aan navorsers uit ander dissiplines oorgelaat het. Dit blyk duidelik uit 'n ontleding van sekondêre materiaal wat oor die Ndzundza bestaan. Verskeie studies van volkekundige aard is oor die verskillende kulturele fasette en pre-koloniale geskiedenis van die Transvaalse Ndebele, waarvan die Ndzundza deel uitmaak, gedoen. In die meeste van hierdie studies word die pre-Blanke geskiedenis van die Ndzundza as inleiding aangebied, terwyl daar in sommige gevalle ook na die historiese tydperk verwys word. Op hierdie wyse is die herkomsgeskiedenis van die Ndzundza met behulp van mondelinge tradisies redelik volledig opgeteken. As gevolg van die feit dat geen argivale bronne geraadpleeg is nie, is die volkekundige werke wat die historiese tydperk betref, deurspek met spekulasies, onjuisthede en valse aannames. Met enkele uitsonderings berus verwysings deur die enkele historici wat die Ndzundza-geskiedenis behandel, veral met betrekking tot die tydperk voor 1882, grootliks op die uitsprake van volkekundiges. Dit het meegebring dat die huidige beeld en feitelikhede omtrent die negentiende eeuse Ndzundza-geskiedenis onjuis is, veral soos dit in algemene geskiedenisse opgeteken staan. Hierteenoor het verskeie historici die Mapoch-oorlog van 1882- 1883, waartydens die Ndzundza hul onafhanklikheid verloor het, behandel. In sy biografie oor genl P. J. Joubert het J. A. Mouton die oorlog tot 'n enkele hoofstuk beperk. Vir Mouton gaan dit egter om Joubert se persoonlike aandeel en gee hy gevolglik nie veel aandag aan die belangrikste aspek van die oorlog, naamlik die oorsake, nie. H. P. van Coller het in 1941 'n MA-verhandeling die lig laat sien waarin die oorsake en verloop van die Mapoch-oorlog beskryf word. Van Coller se uiteensetting omtrent die oorsake van die oorlog is egter ontoereikend aangesien dit heelwat onjuisthede bevat, geweldig subjektief is en nie ontkom aan naïewe aannames en uitsprake nie. Die belangrikste oorsaak van die oorlog, naamlik gronddispute, word deur Van Coller geignoreer. Voorts behandel hy die oorlog as 'n gevolg van die moord op Sekhukhune, sodat die Ndzundza "toevallig" betrek word. Ander historici se verwysings na die oorlog is ook ontoereikend omdat dit in die meeste gevalle beperk bly tot enkele bladsye en paragrawe. Tot op hede is die negentiende eeuse Ndzundza-geskiedenis dus nog of onvolledig, of onjuis opgeteken. Met hierdie studie word gepoog om 'n bydrae in hierdie verband te maak. Omdat die historisiese feite omtrent die verloop van die 1882-1883 oorlog grootliks bekend is, val die klem op die tydperk daarvóór. Voorts moet dit gemeld word dat dit in hierdie studie hoofsaaklik gaan om die faktore wat die verhoudinge tussen die Ndzundza en die Blankes bepaal het, te elimineer. Ander aspekte wat ter sprake kom is onder andere die uitwerking wat die Blanke besetting van Noordoos-Transvaal op die Ndzundza gehad het, gronddispute, arbeidsaangeleenthede, Swazi- en die Pedi-deelname in die Blankes se pogings om die Ndzundza te onderwerp van die asook die uiteindelike vernietiging en verlies onafhanklikheid van die Ndzundza. Die spelwyse van sekere name en benaminge wat in hierdie verhandeling voorkom, het in sommige gevalle probleme opgelewer. Die meerderheid Ndebele name is gespel volgens die voorskrifte van die Suid-Ndebele taalraad. Waar die korrekte moderne spelling van Swartes se name nie vasgestel kon word nie, is dit in aanhalingstekens weergegee soos dit in die dokument voorkom. AIle amptelike benamings soos staatspresident of koloniale sekretaris is in die teks met 'n kleinlettertjie gespel maar in die voetnotas met 'n hoofletter. Die motivering hiervoor is die Afrikaanse gebruik om amptelike benamings binne Westerse staatsverband met 'n hoofletter te spel maar benamings in tradisionele verband soos kaptein, opperhoof of hoofman met 'n kleinlettertjie, wat myns insiens op diskriminasie neerkom. Wat die spel van die woord swart betref: Waar dit as byvoeglike naamwoord gebruik word (bv. swart kindertjies), is deurgaans van kleinletters gebruik gemaak. Hoofletters is gebruik wanneer dit as selfstandige naamwoord gebruik word, bv. Die Swartes. Die terme kaffer en meid is waar moontlik, vermy. Die aangehaalde stukke waarin dit weI voorkom, moet nie as beledigend beskou word nie maar as verteenwoordigend van die terminolgoie van 'n bepaalde tyd in die geskiedenis. Die bedoeling was geensins om enigiemand te na te kom nie. wat ter sprake kom.
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- Date Issued: 1986
- Authors: Van Jaarsveld, Floris Albertus, 1922-1995
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: Ndebele (African people) -- History , Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
- Language: Afrikaans
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2578 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004379 , Ndebele (African people) -- History , Transvaal (South Africa) -- History
- Description: In 1969 het Leonard Thompson met reg beweer dat Suid-Afrikaanse historici hulle tot op hede hoofsaaklik besig gehou het met die doen en late van 'n Blanke gemeenskap wat die land sedert 1652 oorheers het. Die Swartman was die "forgotten factor" in die geskiedenis van Suider-Afrika. Waar die Swartman die onderwerp van wetenskaplike studie was, is dit aan argeoloë, linguiste, etnoloë en fisiese en sosiale antropoloë oorgelaat. Tereg het Thompson kort hierna opgemerk: "We need to know much more about the complex process by which African chiefdoms became incorporated in white controlled politics in the late nineteenth century. Only when monographs have been written on several individual cases, shall we be in a position to reach definite conclusions about the process as a whole ". Sedert hierdie uitspraak van Thompson het verskeie historici hulle op die terrein van die "forgotten factor" begewe. Omvangryke publikasies oor onder andere die Zulu, Pedi, Sotho asook die Swazi's het sedertdien die lig gesien, terwyl 'n werk oor die Tswana van Wes-Transvaal pas verskyn het. Hierteenoor het heelwat van die kleiner en minder invloedryke swart groeperinge tot op hede steeds agterweë gebly. Wat Noordoos Transvaal betref - meer spesifiek die gebied tussen die Elandsrivier, die Lebomboberg en die Krokodilrivier wat die Ohrigstadse Volksraad in 1846 van Mswati gekoop het, was daar behalwe die Pedi verskeie ander groepe aanwesig wat almal gedurende die loop van die negentiende eeu onder Blanke gesag gekom het. Hieronder het getel die Ndzundza, die Kopa, Tau, Kwena, Ntwane, Koni, Rôka, Kutswe , Pai en Pulana, waarvan die Ndzundza en Kopa die belangrikste was. Ten spyte van die feit dat daar heelwat argivale bronne oor hierdie groepe bestaan, het geen navorser dit tot op hede nog ontgin nie. Oor die onderwerping van hierdie stamme aan Blanke gesag gedurende die negentiende eeu, is daar weinig bekend. Wat die Ndzundza-geskiedenis betref, geld Thompson se opmerking nog steeds dat historici wetenskaplike studie oor die Swartes tradisioneel aan navorsers uit ander dissiplines oorgelaat het. Dit blyk duidelik uit 'n ontleding van sekondêre materiaal wat oor die Ndzundza bestaan. Verskeie studies van volkekundige aard is oor die verskillende kulturele fasette en pre-koloniale geskiedenis van die Transvaalse Ndebele, waarvan die Ndzundza deel uitmaak, gedoen. In die meeste van hierdie studies word die pre-Blanke geskiedenis van die Ndzundza as inleiding aangebied, terwyl daar in sommige gevalle ook na die historiese tydperk verwys word. Op hierdie wyse is die herkomsgeskiedenis van die Ndzundza met behulp van mondelinge tradisies redelik volledig opgeteken. As gevolg van die feit dat geen argivale bronne geraadpleeg is nie, is die volkekundige werke wat die historiese tydperk betref, deurspek met spekulasies, onjuisthede en valse aannames. Met enkele uitsonderings berus verwysings deur die enkele historici wat die Ndzundza-geskiedenis behandel, veral met betrekking tot die tydperk voor 1882, grootliks op die uitsprake van volkekundiges. Dit het meegebring dat die huidige beeld en feitelikhede omtrent die negentiende eeuse Ndzundza-geskiedenis onjuis is, veral soos dit in algemene geskiedenisse opgeteken staan. Hierteenoor het verskeie historici die Mapoch-oorlog van 1882- 1883, waartydens die Ndzundza hul onafhanklikheid verloor het, behandel. In sy biografie oor genl P. J. Joubert het J. A. Mouton die oorlog tot 'n enkele hoofstuk beperk. Vir Mouton gaan dit egter om Joubert se persoonlike aandeel en gee hy gevolglik nie veel aandag aan die belangrikste aspek van die oorlog, naamlik die oorsake, nie. H. P. van Coller het in 1941 'n MA-verhandeling die lig laat sien waarin die oorsake en verloop van die Mapoch-oorlog beskryf word. Van Coller se uiteensetting omtrent die oorsake van die oorlog is egter ontoereikend aangesien dit heelwat onjuisthede bevat, geweldig subjektief is en nie ontkom aan naïewe aannames en uitsprake nie. Die belangrikste oorsaak van die oorlog, naamlik gronddispute, word deur Van Coller geignoreer. Voorts behandel hy die oorlog as 'n gevolg van die moord op Sekhukhune, sodat die Ndzundza "toevallig" betrek word. Ander historici se verwysings na die oorlog is ook ontoereikend omdat dit in die meeste gevalle beperk bly tot enkele bladsye en paragrawe. Tot op hede is die negentiende eeuse Ndzundza-geskiedenis dus nog of onvolledig, of onjuis opgeteken. Met hierdie studie word gepoog om 'n bydrae in hierdie verband te maak. Omdat die historisiese feite omtrent die verloop van die 1882-1883 oorlog grootliks bekend is, val die klem op die tydperk daarvóór. Voorts moet dit gemeld word dat dit in hierdie studie hoofsaaklik gaan om die faktore wat die verhoudinge tussen die Ndzundza en die Blankes bepaal het, te elimineer. Ander aspekte wat ter sprake kom is onder andere die uitwerking wat die Blanke besetting van Noordoos-Transvaal op die Ndzundza gehad het, gronddispute, arbeidsaangeleenthede, Swazi- en die Pedi-deelname in die Blankes se pogings om die Ndzundza te onderwerp van die asook die uiteindelike vernietiging en verlies onafhanklikheid van die Ndzundza. Die spelwyse van sekere name en benaminge wat in hierdie verhandeling voorkom, het in sommige gevalle probleme opgelewer. Die meerderheid Ndebele name is gespel volgens die voorskrifte van die Suid-Ndebele taalraad. Waar die korrekte moderne spelling van Swartes se name nie vasgestel kon word nie, is dit in aanhalingstekens weergegee soos dit in die dokument voorkom. AIle amptelike benamings soos staatspresident of koloniale sekretaris is in die teks met 'n kleinlettertjie gespel maar in die voetnotas met 'n hoofletter. Die motivering hiervoor is die Afrikaanse gebruik om amptelike benamings binne Westerse staatsverband met 'n hoofletter te spel maar benamings in tradisionele verband soos kaptein, opperhoof of hoofman met 'n kleinlettertjie, wat myns insiens op diskriminasie neerkom. Wat die spel van die woord swart betref: Waar dit as byvoeglike naamwoord gebruik word (bv. swart kindertjies), is deurgaans van kleinletters gebruik gemaak. Hoofletters is gebruik wanneer dit as selfstandige naamwoord gebruik word, bv. Die Swartes. Die terme kaffer en meid is waar moontlik, vermy. Die aangehaalde stukke waarin dit weI voorkom, moet nie as beledigend beskou word nie maar as verteenwoordigend van die terminolgoie van 'n bepaalde tyd in die geskiedenis. Die bedoeling was geensins om enigiemand te na te kom nie. wat ter sprake kom.
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- Date Issued: 1986
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1971
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1971
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8105 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004560
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony on Friday 2nd April 1971 at 8 p.m.[and] on Saturday 3rd April 1971 at 10:30 a.m. in the University Great Hall.
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- Date Issued: 1971
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1971
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8105 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004560
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony on Friday 2nd April 1971 at 8 p.m.[and] on Saturday 3rd April 1971 at 10:30 a.m. in the University Great Hall.
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- Date Issued: 1971
Rhodes University College Graduation Ceremony 1949
- Rhodes University College, University of South Africa
- Authors: Rhodes University College , University of South Africa
- Date: 1949
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8083 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004393
- Description: Special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Saturday, 30th April, 1949.
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- Date Issued: 1949
- Authors: Rhodes University College , University of South Africa
- Date: 1949
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8083 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004393
- Description: Special Graduation Ceremony, Grahamstown, Saturday, 30th April, 1949.
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- Date Issued: 1949
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1955
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1955
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8089 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004399
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony in the Grahamstown City Hall on Friday , 1st April, 1955, at 8 p.m. [and] Graduation Ceremony held in April 1955: University College of Fort Hare. Graduation Ceremony. April 29th ,1955.
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- Date Issued: 1955
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1955
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8089 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004399
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony in the Grahamstown City Hall on Friday , 1st April, 1955, at 8 p.m. [and] Graduation Ceremony held in April 1955: University College of Fort Hare. Graduation Ceremony. April 29th ,1955.
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- Date Issued: 1955
My other - my self: post-Cartesian ontological possibilities in the fiction of J M Coetzee
- Authors: Mfune, Damazio Laston
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation Self in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Consciousness in literature Intersubjectivity in literature Ontology in literature Metaphysics in literature South African fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2246 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002289
- Description: The central argument of my study is that, among other matters, in his works, J.M. Coetzee could be said to demonstrate that the known Self is an embodied being and is not autonomous. With regard to the latter contention, Coetzee intimates that any two Subjects are implicated in each other’s subjectivities in a reciprocal process that involves what Derek Attridge has called “irruptions of otherness” (2005: xii) into the Subject’s subjectivity. These irruptions, which happen during the encounter, lead to a double loss of autonomy for each Subject and this phenomenon renders the relationship between Subjects non-dichotomus or non-binaric. In other words, the Subject does not produce the contents of his or her consciousness in a sui generis and ex nihilo fashion, and his or her ontological indebtedness to the Other constitutes his or her first loss of autonomy. As for those Others that do possess consciousness, the Subject is implicated in their consciousness and this constitutes the Subject’s second loss of autonomy. These losses counter the near solipsistic Nagelian neo-Cartesianism and paves the way for imagining both intra- and inter-species “intersubjectivity”. It is my view that this double loss of autonomy accounts for the sympathetic and empathetic imagination that we encounter in Coetzee’s fiction. Following Coetzee’s intimations of intersubjectivity through irruptions of otherness, what I see as my contribution to studies on this author’s work through this study is the link I have established between the physicalist strain within the philosophy of mind (whose central thesis is that consciousness is an embodied phenomenon) and a modified Kantian “metaphysics”, especially Immanuel Kant’s conception of concepts as comprising form and content. I have deployed this conception in demonstrating the Subject’s ontological indebtedness to external sources of the content part of consciousness. And, through the Husserlian concept of intentionality, and Kant’s (1929: 27) observation that we cannot have appearances without something that appears, I have linked the Subject to the sources of his or her content and thereby also demonstrated that the Subject is not eternally separated or alienated from those sources. Instead, the Subject is not simply contiguous but coterminous and co-extensive, albeit in a mediated way, with the external sources of the content part of his or her consciousness. Thus, while accepting the thesis of the Other’s radical otherness, I modify the thesis of the Other’s radical exteriority. Ultimately, then, ontologically speaking, the Coetzeean project could be described as one of embodying and grounding the supposedly autonomous, solipsistic and freefloating/disembodied Cartesian Subject. This he does by alerting this Subject, first and foremost, to its embodiedness and, further to that, pointing out its ontological indebtedness to its Others and its implication in the Others’s consciousnesses and so prevent it from continuing with its imperialistic and ecological barbarities. However, ethically speaking, beyond the reciprocal ethics that arises from mutual ontological indebtedness and implication, it is the selflessness that characterises a cruciform logic that comes across as the epitome of Coetzeean ethics.
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- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Mfune, Damazio Laston
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Criticism and interpretation Self in literature Identity (Psychology) in literature Consciousness in literature Intersubjectivity in literature Ontology in literature Metaphysics in literature South African fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2246 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002289
- Description: The central argument of my study is that, among other matters, in his works, J.M. Coetzee could be said to demonstrate that the known Self is an embodied being and is not autonomous. With regard to the latter contention, Coetzee intimates that any two Subjects are implicated in each other’s subjectivities in a reciprocal process that involves what Derek Attridge has called “irruptions of otherness” (2005: xii) into the Subject’s subjectivity. These irruptions, which happen during the encounter, lead to a double loss of autonomy for each Subject and this phenomenon renders the relationship between Subjects non-dichotomus or non-binaric. In other words, the Subject does not produce the contents of his or her consciousness in a sui generis and ex nihilo fashion, and his or her ontological indebtedness to the Other constitutes his or her first loss of autonomy. As for those Others that do possess consciousness, the Subject is implicated in their consciousness and this constitutes the Subject’s second loss of autonomy. These losses counter the near solipsistic Nagelian neo-Cartesianism and paves the way for imagining both intra- and inter-species “intersubjectivity”. It is my view that this double loss of autonomy accounts for the sympathetic and empathetic imagination that we encounter in Coetzee’s fiction. Following Coetzee’s intimations of intersubjectivity through irruptions of otherness, what I see as my contribution to studies on this author’s work through this study is the link I have established between the physicalist strain within the philosophy of mind (whose central thesis is that consciousness is an embodied phenomenon) and a modified Kantian “metaphysics”, especially Immanuel Kant’s conception of concepts as comprising form and content. I have deployed this conception in demonstrating the Subject’s ontological indebtedness to external sources of the content part of consciousness. And, through the Husserlian concept of intentionality, and Kant’s (1929: 27) observation that we cannot have appearances without something that appears, I have linked the Subject to the sources of his or her content and thereby also demonstrated that the Subject is not eternally separated or alienated from those sources. Instead, the Subject is not simply contiguous but coterminous and co-extensive, albeit in a mediated way, with the external sources of the content part of his or her consciousness. Thus, while accepting the thesis of the Other’s radical otherness, I modify the thesis of the Other’s radical exteriority. Ultimately, then, ontologically speaking, the Coetzeean project could be described as one of embodying and grounding the supposedly autonomous, solipsistic and freefloating/disembodied Cartesian Subject. This he does by alerting this Subject, first and foremost, to its embodiedness and, further to that, pointing out its ontological indebtedness to its Others and its implication in the Others’s consciousnesses and so prevent it from continuing with its imperialistic and ecological barbarities. However, ethically speaking, beyond the reciprocal ethics that arises from mutual ontological indebtedness and implication, it is the selflessness that characterises a cruciform logic that comes across as the epitome of Coetzeean ethics.
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- Date Issued: 2011
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 2004
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2004
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8143 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007261
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies 1820 Settlers National Monument Friday, 2 April 2004 at 10:30; 14:30 & 18:00 [and] Saturday, 3 April 2004 at 10:30 [and] Friday, 30 July 2004 at 18:00 , RU East London Graduation Ceremony Christian Centre, Wyse Street, East London Friday, 7 May 2004 at 10:30: 14:30 & 18:00 [and] Saturday, 8 May 2004 at 10:30
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- Date Issued: 2004
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2004
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8143 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007261
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies 1820 Settlers National Monument Friday, 2 April 2004 at 10:30; 14:30 & 18:00 [and] Saturday, 3 April 2004 at 10:30 [and] Friday, 30 July 2004 at 18:00 , RU East London Graduation Ceremony Christian Centre, Wyse Street, East London Friday, 7 May 2004 at 10:30: 14:30 & 18:00 [and] Saturday, 8 May 2004 at 10:30
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- Date Issued: 2004
The inner image: an examination of the life of Helen Elizabeth Martins leading to her creation The Owl House and A Camel Yard as outsider art
- Authors: Ross, Susan Imrie
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Sculptors -- South Africa -- Biography Martins, Helen Elizabeth, 1897-1976 Owl House (Nieu Bethesda, South Africa) Art brut Women artists -- South Africa Nieu bethesda (South africa) -- Description and travel Primitivism in art Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Artists -- Psychology Symbolism in art
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2430 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002227
- Description: The Owl House is situated in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, and the person responsible for its creation, Helen Elizabeth Martins (1897-1976), is South Africa's best known Outsider artist. A number of newspaper and magazine articles, television programmes, radio interviews, play, films, short stories, theses and art works have resulted directly from her work. Interest in The Owl House continues to grow, with visitors coming from all over South Africa, and various parts of the world,to visit it. The Owl House was Helen Martins' home for most of her 78 years. During the last 30 or so years of her life she devoted all her time and energy to transforming the interior of her house into a glistening fantasy world of colour and light, using crushed glass stuck to almost every surface, coloured glass pane inserts in the walls, mirrors of many sizes and shapes, and countless paraffin lamps and candles. She called her garden' A Camel Yard', and filled it with over 500 cement statues, structures and bas reliefs. All the labour involved, apart from crushing and sorting the coloured glass, was provided by at least four different men, who assisted her over the years, Johannes Hattingh, Jonas Adams, Piet van der Merwe and Koos Malgas, though Helen Martins was the inspiration and director behind it all. Through a study of Helen Martins' background and life, and their effects upon her psyche, a rigorous attempt has been made to reach some understanding of why she became a recluse, and what caused her to create this unique body of work comprising her entire domestic environment. She became increasingly asocial as her life progressed, and ultimately ended it by committing suicide in 1976. Through the universality of symbolism, the meanings of the subjects, themes and concerns which she chose to depict are studied. Then, together with some knowledge of her life and personal influences, an attempt has been made to deduce what it was that Helen Martins was trying to express and work through in her creations. This study also led to an awareness of the fact that, although each one is unique, there are many examples of Outsider Art throughout the world. Fundamentally, creators of Outsider Art remain asocial in relation to their cultural milieu and cultural context. Some other examples of Outsider Art, both in South Africa as well as in Europe and India, were visited, and are described and compared with The Owl House as well as with one another. The way in which society reacts or responds to Outsider Art and its creators is studied through the comprehensive records of one specific case which caused great controversy in Johannesburg during the 1970s. Ultimately, working alone or with assistance, it is the Outsider artist who is the driving force behind these unique works, and whose indefinable inner fire of passion alone makes it possible to bring them into being. It would seem that the fascination with Outsider Art is that through their work, creators allow others a glimpse into a different sense of reality which is both mysterious and inexplicable.
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- Date Issued: 1996
- Authors: Ross, Susan Imrie
- Date: 1996
- Subjects: Sculptors -- South Africa -- Biography Martins, Helen Elizabeth, 1897-1976 Owl House (Nieu Bethesda, South Africa) Art brut Women artists -- South Africa Nieu bethesda (South africa) -- Description and travel Primitivism in art Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Artists -- Psychology Symbolism in art
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:2430 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002227
- Description: The Owl House is situated in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, and the person responsible for its creation, Helen Elizabeth Martins (1897-1976), is South Africa's best known Outsider artist. A number of newspaper and magazine articles, television programmes, radio interviews, play, films, short stories, theses and art works have resulted directly from her work. Interest in The Owl House continues to grow, with visitors coming from all over South Africa, and various parts of the world,to visit it. The Owl House was Helen Martins' home for most of her 78 years. During the last 30 or so years of her life she devoted all her time and energy to transforming the interior of her house into a glistening fantasy world of colour and light, using crushed glass stuck to almost every surface, coloured glass pane inserts in the walls, mirrors of many sizes and shapes, and countless paraffin lamps and candles. She called her garden' A Camel Yard', and filled it with over 500 cement statues, structures and bas reliefs. All the labour involved, apart from crushing and sorting the coloured glass, was provided by at least four different men, who assisted her over the years, Johannes Hattingh, Jonas Adams, Piet van der Merwe and Koos Malgas, though Helen Martins was the inspiration and director behind it all. Through a study of Helen Martins' background and life, and their effects upon her psyche, a rigorous attempt has been made to reach some understanding of why she became a recluse, and what caused her to create this unique body of work comprising her entire domestic environment. She became increasingly asocial as her life progressed, and ultimately ended it by committing suicide in 1976. Through the universality of symbolism, the meanings of the subjects, themes and concerns which she chose to depict are studied. Then, together with some knowledge of her life and personal influences, an attempt has been made to deduce what it was that Helen Martins was trying to express and work through in her creations. This study also led to an awareness of the fact that, although each one is unique, there are many examples of Outsider Art throughout the world. Fundamentally, creators of Outsider Art remain asocial in relation to their cultural milieu and cultural context. Some other examples of Outsider Art, both in South Africa as well as in Europe and India, were visited, and are described and compared with The Owl House as well as with one another. The way in which society reacts or responds to Outsider Art and its creators is studied through the comprehensive records of one specific case which caused great controversy in Johannesburg during the 1970s. Ultimately, working alone or with assistance, it is the Outsider artist who is the driving force behind these unique works, and whose indefinable inner fire of passion alone makes it possible to bring them into being. It would seem that the fascination with Outsider Art is that through their work, creators allow others a glimpse into a different sense of reality which is both mysterious and inexplicable.
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- Date Issued: 1996