New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v10i0.801
A.G. Oberholster
{"title":"Studies in the history of Cape Town, volume 2&3","authors":"A.G. Oberholster","doi":"10.4102/nc.v10i0.801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v10i0.801","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141658285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v15i0.771
O.J.O. Ferreira
{"title":"Eerste fabrieken: Die beginpunt van nywerheidsontwikkeling in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek","authors":"O.J.O. Ferreira","doi":"10.4102/nc.v15i0.771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v15i0.771","url":null,"abstract":"In 1881 the Volksraad of the Transvaal Republic granted A.H. Nellmapius a concession for the processing of local produce. This was the first step on the road to economic self-sufficiency of the Republic which had only recently regained its political independence. During 1882 Nellmapius in partnership with Isaac and Barnett Lewis and Samuel Marks established a factory east of Pretoria at the present Eerste Fabrieke. By February 1883 they were already producing spirituous liquor. The factory was officially opened on 6 June 1883 by S.J.P. Kruger who was elected president in May 1883. The undertaking, which in due course was taken over by Nellmapius' partners, expanded considerably in the following years. However, a severe setback was experienced when in 1896 the Liquor Law was amended and the sale of alcohol to Blacks on the Rand was strictly forbidden. This led to a steady decline in business and with the occupation of Pretoria by the British forces in 1900 production was finally stopped.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141659799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v16i0.765
De Kock
{"title":"'n Geografiese ontleding van eksplorasie in die sentraal-Weskusgebied van Suid-Afrika (1660 tot die era van die veeboerpionier)","authors":"De Kock","doi":"10.4102/nc.v16i0.765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v16i0.765","url":null,"abstract":"J.D. Overton developed theoretical frameworks incorporating the different components and linkages in the process of exploration. In this article one of his models is applied in connection with the early Stages of exploration in the central part of the west coast of South Africa, which includes the magisterial districts of Clanwilliam, Vredendal, and Vanrhynsdorp. It is concluded that exploration of the central part of the west coast was mainly undertaken as the result of economical demand factors which came into being. Although the original demand factors did not seem to be satisfied fully in this area, new demand factors appeared which gave way to re-assessment of the central part of the west coast. As the area was able to provide for this new demand, the result was the final settlement of Whites.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141661651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v15i0.769
P.H.R. Snyman
{"title":"Kaias and cocopans: The story of mining in South Africa's Northern Cape","authors":"P.H.R. Snyman","doi":"10.4102/nc.v15i0.769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v15i0.769","url":null,"abstract":"No abstract available.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141661153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v15i0.772
A. D. V. Minnaar
{"title":"The establishment and growth of Empangeni","authors":"A. D. V. Minnaar","doi":"10.4102/nc.v15i0.772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v15i0.772","url":null,"abstract":"The name Empangeni is a Zulu word of which there are various interpretations as to its origin. In 1841 Aldin Grout, a missionary of the American Mission Society, was the first White to arrive in the area. He only remained a short time and was followed in 1851 by the Rev. H.P .S. Schreuder of the Norwegian Mission Society. In 1887 Zululand was declared British territory and A.J. Shepstone was appointed the first magistrate of the Lower Umfolozi district. The magisterial seat was moved from Patane to the present day Empangeni in 1894. In 1905-06 the first White settlers arrived in the district, and the so-called Empangeni concession lands were granted between 1909 and 1911. In 1906 Empangeni was officially declared a village and was under the control of the magistrate. From 1917 he was assisted by a village advisory board. In 1931 the village received a town board and borough status was finally granted in October 1960. With the announcement in 1965 of the proposed harbour development at Richards Bay Empangeni entered a dynamic growth phase in its history.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141662211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v15i0.774
R. Taylor
{"title":"Cape Town's municipal services a century ago","authors":"R. Taylor","doi":"10.4102/nc.v15i0.774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v15i0.774","url":null,"abstract":"Conditions in Cape Town in the 1880s left much to be desired, especially when one looks at it from the city engineer's point of view. A boom town at that stage with a total population of approximately 40 000, Cape Town offered few of the amenities associated with a modern city. The water-supply was inadequate until the completion of the Molteno Reservoir on Oranjezicht farm in 1886. The dusty unpaved roads had to be wetted with seawater in the dry season. However, they quickly turned into mud after the rains. Many parts of the town were unsewered, and where they existed the sewers very often were blocked by uncontrolled building alterations or the dumping of rubbish. No wonder public health was brought to a crisis at intervals by epidemics of typhoid caused by local insanitary conditions. Very dissimilar to those of today, indeed, were the problems the city engineer of this town, growing into a city, had to handle.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141660587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v16i0.768
P. Snyman
{"title":"Die stand van stedelike en streekgeskiedenis in die RSA","authors":"P. Snyman","doi":"10.4102/nc.v16i0.768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v16i0.768","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis of research undertaken in respect of a discipline over a certain period of time can be very revealing with reference to the position of a section of that discipline. Although not all current history research projects were included in the analysis the result is, nevertheless, surprising. In this case it appears that urban and regional history are no longer such a neglected field of research as generally accepted.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141659098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v16i0.766
J.B. De Vaal
{"title":"Ou handelsvoetpaaie en wapaaie in Oos- en Noord-Transvaal","authors":"J.B. De Vaal","doi":"10.4102/nc.v16i0.766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v16i0.766","url":null,"abstract":"Various factors determined the routes taken by the Voortrekkers. Amongst these were the topography of the interior, the unpopulated Areas/regions of the Orange Free State and Transvaal, the shallow upper reaches of rivers and the perennial fountains. In most cases they could make use of old trade routes that led from Delagoa Bay and Inhambane to the interior. A good deal of research has already been done on these routes, amongst others by B.H. Dicke and W.H.J. Punt. In this article an overview is given of the most important routes: those from Delagoa Bay to Mashonaland; Inhambane to the Soutpansberg; those along the eastern escarpment; Elim to Pafuri, Inhambane and Delagoa Bay; from the Zimbabwe ruins to the Messina copper mine and the Rooiberg tin mine; the route up the Sand River and from Soutpan to Tshivhase; the wagon roads between Ohrigstad, Delagoa Bay, Lydenburg and Pilgrim's Rest, and from Ohrigstad and Lydenburg to Schoemansdal and Albasini.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141662156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.4102/nc.v16i0.767
Robert F. Haswell, R. Brann
{"title":"Voortrekker Pieter Mauritz Burg","authors":"Robert F. Haswell, R. Brann","doi":"10.4102/nc.v16i0.767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v16i0.767","url":null,"abstract":"The Voortrekkerperiod of Pietermaritzburg's development has received scant attention and inaccurate conclusions, based almost exclusively on incomplete archival records, have been drawn. A re-examination of the written record, with the use of artistic evidence, not totally sheds further light on the dorp's embryonic history; it also reveals that Pietermaritzburg is a repository of Voortrekker domestic architecture.","PeriodicalId":52000,"journal":{"name":"New Contree","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141660290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}