New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v10i0.803
E. Carruthers
{"title":"The growth of local self-government in the peri-urban areas north of Johannesburg, 1939 to 1969","authors":"E. Carruthers","doi":"10.4102/nc.v10i0.803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v10i0.803","url":null,"abstract":"Irregular and rapid urbanisation became a feature of South Africa in the I920s and 1930s. The health problems presented by settlements on the periphery of towns and cities attracted the attention of the Union government, and in 1938 a committee was appointed to investigate the matter. One of the recommendations of this committee was that the peri-urban areas to the north of Johannesburg be subjected to some form of local government. The Peri-Urban Areas Health Board was established in 1943 to provide this. Three local area committees were created in this area: Northern Johannesburg, North-Eastern Johannesburg, and North-Western Johannesburg. Despite the practical benefits of its administration, the residents of these areas attempted on numerous occasions to secede from the control of the Peri-Urban Board. These efforts culminated in the foundation of Randburg in 1959 and Sandton in 1969.","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":"141656228","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 : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v8i0.815
C.C. Eloff
{"title":"A merchant family in early Natal. Diaries and letters of Joseph and Marianne Churchill, 1850 to 1880","authors":"C.C. Eloff","doi":"10.4102/nc.v8i0.815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v8i0.815","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":"141657396","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 : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v8i0.821
P. Scholtz
{"title":"Meerhoffkasteel - historiese heuwel in die Hardeveld","authors":"P. Scholtz","doi":"10.4102/nc.v8i0.821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v8i0.821","url":null,"abstract":"Meerhofftasteel is a pyramid-shaped hill in the area known as the Hardeveld and is situated approximately fifteen kilometres west of the town of Nuwerus in the Cape Province. Today it lies far from the mainstream of civilization, but in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries pioneer travellers often visited this spot. In 1662 the expedition of Pieter Cruijthoff, and in the following year that of Pieter Meerhoff and Jonas de la Guerre explored the Hardeveld area north of the Olifants River and in their notes referred to \"a mountain of marble\", probably Meerhofftasteel. The first definite reference to the name Meerhofftasteel was made in 1682 by Oloff Bergh in his diary. In September 1685, when the expedition of Simon van der Stel visited the hill, the commander had his name chiselled out in one of the caves. Among those who later visited Meerhoffkasteel were J.T. Rhenius (1721, 1722 and 1724) and I.P. Giebeler (1739). During 1739 an important battle was fought in this area between troops of the Dutch East India Company and the Bushmen which resulted in the Bushmen’s influence disappearing from the region. Farms were then allocated to farmers, and in 1792 J. Jorssen became the first owner of the loan farm MeerhoffkasteeI. In 1978 the National Monuments Council unveiled a plaque at this historical site.","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":"141656516","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 : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v14i0.780
R. Haswell
{"title":"Greytown: A South African townscape","authors":"R. Haswell","doi":"10.4102/nc.v14i0.780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v14i0.780","url":null,"abstract":"With only a few exceptions, South Africa's urban settlements were founded by people of either Dutch or British descent. The Dutch-Afrikaner dorp and the British-settler town can be recognized as contrasting places, but the British takeover of each of the four provinces initiated a period in which dorp and town elements were blended. This process of inter-cultural borrowing produced South African townscapes, of which Greytown, Natal is a prime example. Townscapes are vivid reflections of cultural history, and their interpretation can therefore be a useful adjunct to other sources of historical information.","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":"141657242","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 : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v12i0.792
I.J. Van der Merwe
{"title":"Die klein dorp in verval","authors":"I.J. Van der Merwe","doi":"10.4102/nc.v12i0.792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v12i0.792","url":null,"abstract":"The decline of the small town in the South African countryside has reached a critical stage. This is reflected in the shrinking White population figures and is detrimental to the internal structure and functioning of these towns as far as services, facilities, the basis of their economies and their socio-economic population composition are concerned. This situation is the cumulative result of an obsolete reason for the existence of some towns in a changed technological milieu, the migration of the population from the countryside to the cities, and the incompetent state of some towns. Although an instant solution is not available, several approaches to this complex problem are possible. Different levels of towns could be identified before taking differentiated remedial action. It is also possible to follow up the slight signs of revival in non-metropolitan areas by using extensive development aid to guide main and subsidiary towns into vital regional centres. It should, however, be taken into account that not all towns will advance this process - some will inevitably be subjected to progressive decline in order to save the region as a whole.","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":"141657684","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 : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v8i0.817
Johann W.N. Tempelhoff
{"title":"The settlers' press: seventy years of printing in Grahamstown (1830 - 1900) covering the publication of books, pamphlets, directories, almanacs and newspapers with historical notes, anecdotes and contemporary illustrations","authors":"Johann W.N. Tempelhoff","doi":"10.4102/nc.v8i0.817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v8i0.817","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":"141656709","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}