New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v8i0.818
F. Nöthling
{"title":"Behuisingskemas vir gekleurdes in Pretoria 1900-1924","authors":"F. Nöthling","doi":"10.4102/nc.v8i0.818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v8i0.818","url":null,"abstract":"During the Republican period Coloured people in Pretoria had to provide their own housing. This situation was perpetuated under British rule owing to factors such as insufficient funds, lax municipal administration, and the temporary nature of the governmental system. Housing conditions for Coloured people were indeed very poor until 1910 despite some effort by the City Council and other organisations to bring about improvement. From 1912 the construction of barracks, hostels, model homes, and municipal houses was undertaken and received special attention. The efforts of the local government were not successful, however, and once again the Coloured people had to provide their own housing. With the outbreak of World War I the housing shortage increased since a growing number of Blacks moved from rural areas to Pretoria. Overcrowding and subletting were rife, and the high mortality among Coloured people during the 1918 influenza epidemic was a result of the poor housing facilities in Pretoria. After the War the Coloured people once again approached the City Council for assistance to build houses; meanwhile the housing standards in Marabastad were once more criticised. A new scheme was introduced. whereby houses were to be erected with loans negotiated by the City Council but the necessary capital for such a scheme was not available. This \"model scheme\" was consequently carried out on a reduced scale by the Council and in the course of 1922 only some 260 two- and three-bedroomed houses were built. Insufficient influx control at this stage gave rise to an even bigger housing shortage and the Council's efforts to accommodate Coloured people in hostels and compounds only partially alleviated the situation. After two decades – during which several housing schemes were tried – the City Council of Pretoria still could not boast of having successfully solved the chronic housing shortage for Coloureds in the area under its jurisdiction.","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":"141657563","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.v13i0.782
C.C. Eloff
{"title":"Russia and the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902","authors":"C.C. Eloff","doi":"10.4102/nc.v13i0.782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v13i0.782","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":"141656521","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.v9i0.809
A.P.J. Van Rensburg
{"title":"Oos-Vrystaatse Grensgordel: 'n Streekhistoriese voorstudie en bronneverkenning","authors":"A.P.J. Van Rensburg","doi":"10.4102/nc.v9i0.809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v9i0.809","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":"141657886","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.v10i0.805
F. Nöthling
{"title":"Die ontwikkeling van die Brakpanse munisipale wapen 1920-1966","authors":"F. Nöthling","doi":"10.4102/nc.v10i0.805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v10i0.805","url":null,"abstract":"The municipal coat of arms approved by the Brakpan Town Council in 1920 was not of sound heraldic design. This, however, only became an issue when the Heraldry Society of Southern Africa called upon the Council to eliminate the heraldic defects in it, so that a badly designed shield should be excluded from a proposed exhibition of municipal coats of arms during the Union festival (1960). The Council nevertheless decided to retain its coat of arms. When a new building for the Transvaal provincial administration was erected, it was decided that only municipal coats of arms of sound heraldic design would be displayed in this building. Thus the Council was forced to reconsider its decision. After consultation with Heraldists the Council had new heraldic bearings designed, which were registered and approved in 1966. The new shield relates to the old coat of arms in so far as it also depicts mining as a factor in the establishment of the town.","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":"141658208","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.v12i0.788
Johann W.N. Tempelhoff
{"title":"Hobbs's local history and the library","authors":"Johann W.N. Tempelhoff","doi":"10.4102/nc.v12i0.788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v12i0.788","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":"141658700","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.v12i0.791
Sally Sampson
{"title":"The Fort England chapel","authors":"Sally Sampson","doi":"10.4102/nc.v12i0.791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v12i0.791","url":null,"abstract":"The story of religious ministry at Fort England is much older than the chapel itself. The Rev. William Shaw held his first local services in the rough army barracks manned by the Hottentot Cape Corps. He conceived the idea of a chapel and Sunday-school for the men on the site, but it was many years before this could be realised. It was not until 1861 that the Methodist Church built the Fort England Chapel just outside the military boundary, primarily for the use of the garrison. When the old fort became an asylum in 1875, the resident chaplain conducted his own services inside the wards; the chapel was out of bounds to patients until 1891, when services began to be held for them there. Eventually, in 1913, the government bought the chapel from the Methodists for £2 000, since when it has served the Fort England Hospital exclusively.","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":"141657384","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.v12i0.789
A.G. Oberholster
{"title":"Raakpunte tussen streekgeskiedenis en pleknaamkunde","authors":"A.G. Oberholster","doi":"10.4102/nc.v12i0.789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v12i0.789","url":null,"abstract":"As language is one of the most important cultural relics of human societies of the past, historians should regard it as a valuable and many-sided source of information on the past. This is also true of place-names, perhaps more so. It is therefore natural that there should be points of contact and co-operation between toponymy and regional history. There are, however, practical risks in this cooperation if it is not based on sound scholarship. South African regional historians have not even begun to exploit toponymy, largely because they are ignorant of place-names as a source of information, and, secondly, because of their incompetence in retrieving the information they contain. Since place-names are very resistant to change, they sometimes survive for many centuries, carrying with them information on various matters, e.g. on the original settlers and those who moved in at a later stage, their race, language, and social traditions; on the original landscape, including fauna and flora; on historical events and personalities, and on cultural activities. In some instances place-names can be deceptive and lead the historian astray. He should therefore be wary of names that have no direct bearing on either the location or its inhabitants and of unsound interpretations of place-names.","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":"141658399","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.v10i0.800
A. G. Oberholster
{"title":"Die Eerste Vryheidsoorlog: Van verset en geweld tot skikking deur onderhandeling 1877-1884","authors":"A. G. Oberholster","doi":"10.4102/nc.v10i0.800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v10i0.800","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":"141656446","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}