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Lovedale 1930-1955 : the study of a missionary institution in its social, educational and political context

- White, Timothy Raymond Howard

Authors: White, Timothy Raymond Howard
Date: 1988
Subjects: Lovedale Institution , History , South Africa , Education , African people
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:2527 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001856
Description: Lovedale was founded by the Glasgow Missionary Society as an eduational centre for Africans. Education was to be adapted to the lives of the Africans which would be a departure from the English classical tradition. This meant that emphasis was placed on vocational training and that academic education focussed on the study of English rather than the Classics. But the importance of mother-tongue education was also stressed. The missionaries placed emphasis on village education, whereby the African would be taught skills and crafts that would be useful to him in life. Education, they argued, should also aim at character-training and at spreading the Christian message. They also wanted to see co-operation between the Church and the State in the education of the African. Vocational education was designed to create African artisans who would be able to compete with Whites; but it also aimed at emphasizing the importance of industry in building up character. The Lovedale Press illustrates vocational training in progress, dealing with the difficulties that arose when African printers came into competition with Whites. But the missionaries also used the Press to propagate the Christian message and to promote African literature. An ideological rift began to open up between the missions and the new Black political beliefs of the Second World War. This led to the Lovedale Riot which is considered in the broader framework of sociopolitical unrest within the country. After the 1948 Election an ideological rift also developed between the missions and the State. This study concludes by examining the introduction of the Bantu Education Act and the Lovedale response to this. It was felt that although Bantu Education threatened to undermine their educational endeavour, they should nevertheless cooperate with the system in order to save what they had built up.
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Date Issued: 1988

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Anglican missionary policy in the diocese of Grahamstown under the first two bishops, 1853-1871

- Goedhals, Mary Mandeville

Authors: Goedhals, Mary Mandeville
Date: 1979
Subjects: Anglican , Diocese , Grahamstown , Bishops , Missionary policy , Cattle Killing , Government , Education , Black people , John Armstrong , Henry Cotterill
Language: English
Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:1211 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001540
Description: In 1843 a committee of the Colonial Bishroprics Fund appointed to investigate the state of the Church of England at the Cape of Good Hope, recommended the formation of a bishopric, and suggested that the bishop settle in the eastern districts of the colony, with an archdeacon in Cape Town. Three significant principles had been enunciated: the church was to grow under a bishop, the church would have a dual mission to blacks and whites, and the colony's eastern frontier, long a political and military headache, was seen as the focus of a new and spiritual battle. Contact between Nguni tribesmen and the eastward-moving European trekboer began in the region of the Fish River during the rule of the Dutch East India Company. Cattle and land were the main ingredients of the frontier conflict. From the point of view of the white settler, the growing cattle trade meant an increased need for pasture, but although the motive for expansion was economic, frontiersmen had come to regard large lands as their birthright. The semi-nomadic pastoral economy of the Nguni also required abundance of land, which was vested in the tribe. To the tribesmen, their cattle had a political, social and religious significance which transcended the economic. Cattle were sacrificed to the ancestors to propitiate the shades of the departed and to secure the prosperity of the tribe. The years of conflict, the constant threat to their herds and their land, undermined the basis of Nguni society, without providing it with a new foundation.
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Date Issued: 1979

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Music in Soweto

- Mngoma, Khabi

Authors: Mngoma, Khabi
Subjects: Khabi Mngoma , Choir , Singing , Johannesburg , Soweto , Western music , Jazz , Pop , Tribal folk music , Meadowlands , Zulu , Men‘s hostels , Mbaqanga , Penny-whistle bands , Weddings , Folk music , Dance , Invention , Radio , Curriculum , Education , Eisteddfodd , Musical training , Church , Father Hardesen , Rand Music Society , Leseding Anglican Mission , South African Salvation Army , Adjudication , Judges , Radio Bantu , Brass band , Route playing , Naledi Hospital , Violin , Cello , Orchestra , Theory of music , Voice , Piano , Bach Cantatta , Four Seasons , Mendelssohn‘s Hymns of Praise , Opera , Verdi‘s Requiem , Charity , Charitable organisations , Hugh Tracey , Study of Man in Africa
Language: English
Type: Sound , Music , Lecture
Identifier: vital:15105 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008533 , Reel number: BC161
Description: A talk by Khabi Mngoma about music in Soweto, given for the Institute for the Study of Man in Africa (ISMA) , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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The African heritage in music and in art

- Tracey, Hugh

Authors: Tracey, Hugh
Subjects: Technical College, Pretoria, Transvaal (Gauteng), South Africa , BP Southern Africa , African Heritage , Music , Art , America , Facing the Music , Problem , Population , Political crisis , Values , Tradition , Speech , Changes , Damage , Symbols , Phsychology , Education , Missionaries , Prejudice , Interdepence , Understanding , Intangibles , Material objects , Huts , Hoe , Spears , Legend , History , Sculpture , Trees , Carving , Wood carving , West Africa , Moralising , Basutholand , Medical murder , Lumumba , Congo , Kanyoka , Salisbury , Drinking , Fooding , Dancing , Churches , General Education Conference , Heritage , New York , American negro , London , Evaluation of arts , Father Andre Fernandez , Dark , Chosen people , Ideal , Year of change , Inter-dependence , Demands for independence , Statue , Politics
Language: English
Type: Sound , Lecture , Music
Identifier: vital:15099 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008527 , Reel number: BC130, BC171, BC172
Description: Lecture presented by Hugh Tracey at the General Education Conference, Technical College, Pretoria, South Africa , For further details refer to the ILAM Document Collection: Hugh Tracey Broadcasts
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