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Thandazanini eNkosini

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Thank you

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Thank you father

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

Thathan'iminqamlezo

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

The acquisition of reading skills in English by coloured primary school children whose home language is Afrikaans : a developmental study conducted in a specific South African community

- Pitt, Joe Harrison

  • Authors: Pitt, Joe Harrison
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Reading (Primary) -- South Africa Reading (Elementary) -- South Africa English language -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Afrikaans speakers English language -- Study and teaching -- South Africa -- Foreign speakers
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: vital:2338 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002020
  • Description: This research studies the acquisition and development of specific reading skills in English by "Coloured" primary school children for whom English is a second language. This study involves both oral and silent reading research. Developmental trends in both modes of reading are compared with those established for reading in Afrikaans in order to ascertain whether any transfer takes place from Afrikaans to English. For analysis of data obtained from oral reading, this researcher adopted an error analysis method devised by Kenneth Goodman (1973), viz. Miscue Analysis (MA). Readers read a passage and their miscues were recorded. From the miscues this researcher established, for the different standards: the frequencies of miscues; readers' ability to associate sound and symbol; sensitivity to grammar; meaning access; and correction strategies. In the silent reading research, readers' performances in a test battery of eight sub-tests provide insights into the presence or absence of information processing skills. Readability levels (Singer and Donlan (1980), discrimination index and facility value (Heaton 1975), and Chi-Square Statistics (Roscoe 1969) determine the development of specific reading skills, viz.: utilization of textual cues; understanding cause and effect relationships and sequence; previewing and anticipation; scanning, referring and synthesizing; understanding text structure and coherence; understanding propositional development; understanding synonymy and antonimy; and understanding communicative value. Grellet (1981), Kennedy (1981), and Harri-Augstein (1982), inter alia, regard these skills as crucial to efficient text processing. Analyses of data show there are developmental patterns, but skills emerge 1 - 3 years late when compared with results obtained by Kennedy (1981 ) and develop at a retarded and erratic pace. The readers in all the standards have not mastered the skills sufficiently to process text efficiently. This research shows that Std 3 is a cut-off level where a transition takes place from lower-order to higher-order skills processing. In addition, Chi-Square Statistics show little transfer from Afrikaans to English; the skills develop independently in the two languages. Enquiry has identified various factors that influence skills deficiencies, viz.: syllabus prescriptions and problems of interpretation; teachers' understanding of the reading process and the methods employed; teacher-training progresses; materials prescribed for reading; and reading in the society. This research recommends ways in which short comings can be remedied
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The best of my life

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

The biggest city

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

The biggest day

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

The central beliefs of the Xhosa cattle-killing

- Peires, Jeffrey B

  • Authors: Peires, Jeffrey B
  • Date: 1987
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6152 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006832 , http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700029418
  • Description: The Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–7 cannot be explained as a superstitious ‘pagan reaction’ to the intrusion of colonial rule and Christian civilization. It owes its peculiar form to the lungsickness epidemic of 1854, which carried off over 100,000 Xhosa cattle. The Xhosa theory of disease indicated that the sick cattle had been contaminated by the witchcraft practices of the people, and that these tainted cattle would have to be slaughtered lest they infect the pure new cattle which were about to rise. The idea of the resurrection of the dead was partly due to the Xhosa belief that the dead do not really die or depart from the world of the living, and partly to the Xhosa myth of creation, which held that all life originated in a certain cavern in the ground which might yet again pour forth its blessings on the earth. Christian doctrines, transmitted through the prophets Nxele and Mhlakaza, supplemented and elaborated these indigenous Xhosa beliefs. The Xhosa and the Christian elements united together in the person of the expected redeemer Sifuba-sibanzi (the broad-chested one). The central beliefs of the Xhosa cattle-killing were neither irrational nor atavistic. Ironically, it was probably because they were so rational and so appropriate that they ultimately proved to be so deadly.
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The city with a heart of gold

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

The depersonalization of the concept of ownership in contemporary society brought about by the use of title as a security device: inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University

- Harker, J R, 1943-

The development of athletics in South Africa: 1814 to 1914

- Coghlan, Douglas Victor

  • Authors: Coghlan, Douglas Victor
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Athletics -- South Africa -- History
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60785 , vital:27830
  • Description: The purpose of this study was to record the development of athletics in South Africa from 1814 to 1914. This period was chosen because sport and athletics originated and developed a social institution during that time and the First World brought progress to a temporary halt, after which there were many new developments. The Cape Colony became British in 1814, and it was British influence that played such a dominant role in the social history of the period.
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  • Date Issued: 1987

The Drinkers

- Mann, Chris

  • Authors: Mann, Chris
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/459686 , vital:75852 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_432
  • Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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  • Date Issued: 1987

The effects of relative speed on selected physiological, kinematic and psychological responses at walk-to-run and run-to-walk interfaces.

- Candler, Paul David

  • Authors: Candler, Paul David
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Walking -- Physiological aspects , Running -- Physiological aspects
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:5164 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016081
  • Description: [Conclusions] l) The two forms of human locomotion, walking and running, are distinctly different and in evaluating these gait patterns consideration must be given to this fact. 2) The impression created by the energy cost curves, that there is a single locomotor interface for both walking and running is a false one . There are two distinctly different locomotor interfaces, the walk-to-run interface and the run-to-walk interface. The former appears to correspond with the "metabolic intersection point" and therefore has some metabolic significance. The latter appears to be merely an "overshoot" of the walk-to-run interface and presently has no apparent metabolic significance. 3) Because the walk-to-run interface speed corresponds with the intersection point of the energy cost curves, physiological responses to walking and running at this speed do not differ significantly. However, cadence and stride length patterns for these two locomotor patterns are distinctly different at this point. 4) The identification of single physiological or kinematic factors during perceptions of exertion in any given situation is an extremely difficult if not impossible task. Perceived exertion should therefore be considered a multi-factorial concept and should be evaluated as such. 5) The use of relative speed as a technique for reducing inter-subject variability in physiological and kinematic factors is worthless unless diverse ranges in morphological linearity are a characteristic of one's subject pool
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The exploration and evaluation of groundwater units south and west of Graaf-Reinet, Cape Province, South Africa

- Parsons, Roger Paul

  • Authors: Parsons, Roger Paul
  • Date: 1987 , 2013-04-18
  • Subjects: Hydrogeology -- South Africa , Aquifers -- South Africa -- Graaff-Reinet , Groundwater -- South Africa -- Graaff-Reinet
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4865 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007351 , Hydrogeology -- South Africa , Aquifers -- South Africa -- Graaff-Reinet , Groundwater -- South Africa -- Graaff-Reinet
  • Description: The investigation reported in the thesis concerns an area south and west of Graaff-Reinet, in the Cape Province. The research projec t identified the existence of four groundwater units. The aquifers predominantly occur in Beaufort Group sediments and the boundary of each unit is formed by dolerite intrusives or with topographical highs. The objective of the study was to quantitatively assess these units in terms of both quantity and quality for possible future development as a municipal supply for Graaff-Reinet. In order to achieve the objective, fieldwork was carried out involving a hydrocensus, geological mapping, drilling, aquifer testing and hydrochemical sampling. The analysis of these data revealed that the Sundays and Kamdeboo aquifer units are unsuitable for further development. The Moordenaars and Swart units, both of which produce good quality water, have a combined exploitation potential in the order of 30 000 m³ /d. , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
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The fellowship experience : an investigation into the shared exploration of children's fiction by teacher and pupils in the senior primary school

- Haschick, J D

The fourteen last rondos of C P E Bach: an investigation into their historic position, their form and their style

- Lewis, Pauline Mary

  • Authors: Lewis, Pauline Mary
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel, 1714-1788 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MMus
  • Identifier: vital:2663 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004608
  • Description: This thesis deals with a set of compositions by C. P.E. Bach, referred to as "The Last Fourteen Rondos". Thirteen of these are contained in the collections of sonatas, fantasias and rondos for connoisseurs and music lovers. The fourteenth is a separate work, entitled "The Farewell From a Silbermann Clavier in the Form of a Rondo". After establishing the background and the history of these rondos, the thesis then proceeds to a detailed analysis of the various compositional aspects. First, it tries to explain the overall design of the rondos, a design which differs from that normally associated with rondo form. It then deals with the structure of the thematic material and shows Bach's preference for phrase parallelism and a relatively simple melodic and harmonic outline of the various subjects. Special chapters are devoted to the manner in which C.P.E. Bach treats the musical substance, namely, by means of Variation and by systematic development. A short chapter is then devoted to the fantasia sections, which are included into most of the rondos. It is in the field of harmony where C.P.E. Bach emerges as a most important forerunner of nineteenth century musical trends and, consequently, some detailed analyses form a major portion of the chapter dealing with harmony. Special attention is then given to the various aspects of C.P.E. Bach's style and, in particular, to the pianistic · traits. The thesis ends with a brief survey of the influence which C.P.E. Bach exerted on his contemporaries and on later composers.
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The geology and alteration/mineralization of the Van Rooi's vley W/Sn deposit, Namaqua metamorphic complex, South Africa

- Smithies, Robert Hugh

  • Authors: Smithies, Robert Hugh
  • Date: 1987 , 2013-03-01
  • Subjects: Mineralogy -- South Africa , Geology -- South Africa -- Namaqualand
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
  • Identifier: vital:4924 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004526 , Mineralogy -- South Africa , Geology -- South Africa -- Namaqualand
  • Description: Scheelite, wolfram Ite and cassIterIte mIneralizat ion is hosted wIthin numerous quartz-tourmaline-feldspar-fluorite veins at Van Rooi's Vley, N.W. Cape Province . MineralizatIon and hydrothermal alteration within, and around, these veins is hIghly complex and reflects the intricate interaction of hydrotherma l activity upon a structurally deformed sequence of ProterozoIc med ium to high-grade gneisses. Four distinct stages of alteration and mineralization occurred, including a l ate 'epithermal stage'. Although the location of mineralization was strongly controlled by st ructure, the concentration of mineralizati on was controlled by physicochemical variables, of which host-rock geochemistry was particularly important . Further W/Sn mineralization occurs on a local scale, some of which is spatia lly related to minor leucogranite dykes. Leucogranite bodies are not uncommon within the region and some are enriched in Wand Sn. By comparing FIB ra tio s,W/Sn ratios, the alteration mineralogy, the ore mineralogy and the Fe-content of tourmaline, the deposits within the Van Rooi's Vley area can be placed into a 'proximal' to 'distal' classification, with respect to a common source of mineralizing hydrothermal fluids. The Van Rooi's Vley deposit, whilst affiliated to greisen-style deposits, represents a ' distal' quartz-vein lode deposit. , KMBT_363 , Adobe Acrobat 9.53 Paper Capture Plug-in
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The good news

- Monwabisi Gladstone Sabani, Tracey, Andrew T N

The Hasidic spirit as the foundation of the art of Marc Chagall

- Bagraim, Abigail Sarah

  • Authors: Bagraim, Abigail Sarah
  • Date: 1987
  • Subjects: Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985 Criticism and interpretation
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MFA
  • Identifier: vital:2393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002189
  • Description: In considering Chagall's art the observer is immediately struck by the constancy of his almost obsessive repetition of certain symbols and themes. In this way Chagall has created his own fantasy world, one with which the observer soon becomes acquainted and grows to love and understand.
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