New ContreePub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.4102/nc.v9i0.810
G. Cuthbertson
{"title":"The St Andrew's Scottish Church mission in Cape Town, 1838-1878","authors":"G. Cuthbertson","doi":"10.4102/nc.v9i0.810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v9i0.810","url":null,"abstract":"When slaves at the Cape were emancipated at the end of 1838, St Andrew's Presbyterian (Scottish) Church became the first church in Cape Town to open its membership to Blacks. This accounts for the fact that ex-slave converts joined St Andrew's and not other churches. The St Andrew's Mission became an important 'westernizing agency' under the Rev. George Morgan and the Rev. G. W. Stegmann. It performed not only a religious function, but also became an educational and welfare organisation for ex-slaves during the 1840s. A clash between Morgan and Stegmann resulted in a split in the Mission and the establishment of an independent Coloured congregation at St Stephen's Church. Later, in 1878, dissension between the White congregation and the mission congregation at St Andrew's Church caused the closure of the continuing St Andrew's Mission. The mission to the Blacks was taken over by the newly formed Cape Presbytery in 1893.","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":"141658451","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.v13i0.785
J. Brain
{"title":"Mariannhill monastery, 1882-1982","authors":"J. Brain","doi":"10.4102/nc.v13i0.785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v13i0.785","url":null,"abstract":"The Mariannhill monastery was established in 1882 on the farm Zeekoegat in Natal by the Trappist monks who, before any direct evangelization, cultivated the large and productive monastery farm and erected the necessary buildings. Formal mission work did not begin until 1884 and by 1898, with 185 monks, Mariannhill had become the largest abbey in the world. It was separated in 1909 from the Trappist order and became a separate missionary congregation known as the Congregation of Missionaries of Mariannhill. Today Mariannhill missionaries are at work not only in Natal, but also in the Transkei, Zimbabwe, New Guinea, and Brazil.","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":"141657613","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.v9i0.813
Margaret Rainier
{"title":"Fort Donald and the Abalondolozi regiment","authors":"Margaret Rainier","doi":"10.4102/nc.v9i0.813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v9i0.813","url":null,"abstract":"Newly available sources of information have made it possible to establish the exact date and circumstances of the building of Fort Donald on the Pondoland-East Griqualand border, by Donald Strachan and members of the Abalondolozi regiment. Particulars about the formation, composition and services of this multi-racial volunteer corps, formally gazetted as a British unit in 1880, during the Basuto war, have also been traced. Strachan, a pioneer in Nomansland before the arrival there of Adam Kok and his Griquas in 1863, served as a magistrate both under the Griqua government, and the Cape administration from 1874. Part of his duties entailed the defence of his district in times of unrest. When colonial and imperial troops were engaged elsewhere, the Abalondolozi constituted the chief element in the defence of East Griqualand. Yet their service, (like those of Strachan himself) were but scantily rewarded. This neglect has resulted in lasting resentment among these outstanding Black troops and their people.","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":"141658410","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.v11i0.797
A. Appel
{"title":"Kannaland - 'n verdwene streeknaam","authors":"A. Appel","doi":"10.4102/nc.v11i0.797","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v11i0.797","url":null,"abstract":"In 1752 the name Kannaland appeared for the first time on a Map, that of the Beutler expedition. Ten years later it was already a generally accepted geographical reference. Although diversely spelt, the name seems to be derived from the ganna (lye-bush), also called seepganna, a plant well known at that time in the Karroo regions. Kannaland was at no stage accurately demarcated and the name referred to larger or smaller parts of the present Little Karroo. Thus, despite its popularity among the colonists in the second half of the eighteenth century, the name was never applied officially by the government or the church.","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":"141655976","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.v10i0.806
K. Hunt
{"title":"The Grahamstown city hall - the tale of two foundation stones","authors":"K. Hunt","doi":"10.4102/nc.v10i0.806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v10i0.806","url":null,"abstract":"Municipal government was introduced into Grahamstown in 1837. It was almost fifteen years later, however, before the first serious attempts were made to acquire a city hall and offices for the Municipal Commissioners, although an unsuccessful plan to buy the Wesley Chapel for this purpose during 1851 had been mooted. In 1862 the City Council purchased a site with a view to building a city hall there. Meanwhile it had been decided to erect a jubilee memorial tower near that site to commemorate the Settlers of 1820. On 23 May 1870 the foundation stone of the Tower was laid. Another colourful event took place there when on 28 August 1877 Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of the Cape Colony, laid the foundation stone of the City Hall. At the beginning of May 1882 this suitable building – with its adjacent group of offices – was officially declared open. Later the same month the prominent Jubilee Memorial Tower was inaugurated with pomp and circumstance. Although these two architectural beacons of Grahamstown have in fact no connection with each other and had been established separately and individually, nobody today would think of them other than as a unit.","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":"141655749","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.v13i0.784
P.H.R. Snyman
{"title":"Bailie's party of settlers: A collective experience in emigration","authors":"P.H.R. Snyman","doi":"10.4102/nc.v13i0.784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v13i0.784","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":"141657608","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.v9i0.811
I. J. Ferreira
{"title":"Die gebroeders Deas: Kar- en wamakers van Oudtshoorn 1875-1900","authors":"I. J. Ferreira","doi":"10.4102/nc.v9i0.811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v9i0.811","url":null,"abstract":"In 1853 the brothers William and James Robert Deas were still young boys when they emigrated with their parents from Scotland to South Africa. In 1856 their father settled in Oudtshoorn where the two boys went to school, learnt their trade as blacksmiths, and qualified as cart and waggon builders. In 1875 they established their own cartwright's shop, which in the years that followed they developed into one of the largest undertakings of its kind in the Cape Colony. By the end of 1899 owing to a depression in business the partnership had to be dissolved. Both the brothers were active in public affairs, even after their business had been sold, and each went his own way.","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":"141658088","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.v11i0.799
E. Immelman
{"title":"Early history of the Victoria West branch of the Standard Bank of South Africa","authors":"E. Immelman","doi":"10.4102/nc.v11i0.799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v11i0.799","url":null,"abstract":"The Victoria West Branch of the Standard Bank of South Africa was only the second to be established when it opened on 15 April 1863. The Bank occupied several premises consecutively before moving into the present modern building. For more than a century it has shared the weal and woe of the local population. The Bank's inspection reports are a valuable source of information on local economic conditions, such as the effects of droughts and floods on farming, the exploitation of the farmers by shopkeepers, the change in farming methods, and the contribution of the region to the country's total production. The Bank, never an indifferent spectator, was itself hard-pressed in difficult times.","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":"141656749","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.v12i0.787
A.G. Oberholster
{"title":"The old buildings of the Cape","authors":"A.G. Oberholster","doi":"10.4102/nc.v12i0.787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/nc.v12i0.787","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":"141656764","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}