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Showing 1 to 20 of 4055 for “"Coloured" Group Area"”.
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Social differentiation and local government in Pella, a rural coloured area in Great Bushmanland
… focus structural differentiation in the Rural Coloured Area (or Reserve) of Pella in Great Bushmanland in the North-western Cape Province, within the context of local government over the past hundred years. In an attempt to synthesise an analysis of constitutional structures with one of …
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Racial attitude development in black, white and coloured South African children
… African primary school children in three racial groups. The sample consisted of black, white and coloured children from the Cape Town area. The study aimed to examine developmental patterns of own-group preference and out-group prejudice, as well as the efficacy of the Katz- Zalk Projective …
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Multiparameter quantum groups: contractions and coloured generalisations.
… geometric aspects of multi- parameter quantum groups. In particular, we study some two-parameter quantum groups and associated structure of Hopf algebras. We focus our attention on a new quantum group, Gr,s, depending on two deformation parameters and five generators. The first four generators …
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The politics of exclusion : a case study of the Factreton area
… study explores and documents the experiences of coloured workers in the Factreton area. Coloured workers in Factreton have a tendency to be unresponsive to political issues and political organisation. This unresponsiveness to politics is due to coloured workers tendency to perceive, and deal …
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Low cost housing : an evaluation of its adequacy in relation to the Coloured group in Cape Town
… of them, who fall within the lowest income groups, are unable to provide themselves with adequate housing. In Cape Town, the Non-White population consists largely of the Coloured group. Although Westernised and becoming increasingly urbanised, this group occupies a differentiated position, …
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Coloured factory workers' perceptions regarding job evaluation
This research investigated coloured factory workers' perceptions regarding job evaluation. The research was done in an engineering manufacturing company in Epping, Cape Town. Fifty-six subjects were selected by means of a stratified random sample. Subjects were weekly paid factory workers in …
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Gendered positions in a church youth group: a discourse analysis
… research is a discourse analysis of a Christian ‗coloured‘ youth group, from the area of Mitchell‘s Plain, Cape Town. The aim of the analysis is to explore the ways in which the interlocutors construct their identities and gender positions and how they are able to affirm, challenge and perpetuate …
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The social reference-group theory of job satisfaction : a comparative study of Coloured and White salesmen in South Africa
Data relevant to five separate areas of a worker's job satisfaction (satisfaction with: work, pay, promotion opportunities, co-workers and supervision) were gathered from a sample of 98 male Coloured salesmen and 95 male White salesmen, employed in different branches of a life assurance company in …
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Can coloured men be good fathers and will society let them? An intergenerational exploration of coloured men in Cape Town and their caring practices
… from fathers to sons, particularly within Coloured families. Statistics concerning the number of Coloured men who are ‘present’ fathers suggest an overwhelming absence: up to 48% of families are without a father. The historical and social perceptions of Coloured men have often painted them …
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A one-round algorithm for virtually synchronous group communication in wide area networks
Group communication services, and especially those that implement Virtual Synchrony semantics, are powerful middleware systems that facilitate the development of fault-tolerant distributed applications. In this thesis, we present a high quality, theoretical design of a group communication service …
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Language attitudes and identity - influences on language use among two Coloured communities in Kensington-Factreton
… design, and which obtained the responses of 60 coloured respondents living in the Kensington-Factreton area, Western Cape, is reported on. The probability stratified random sample was equally representative in terms of class (working- and middle class), home language (Afrikaans and English), and …
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Leliefontein : structure and decline of a Coloured mission community 1870-1913
Leliefontein is a Coloured Reserve in the magisterial district of Namaqualand. There are five Coloured Reserves in Namaqualand: Leliefontein, Komaggas, Steinkopf, Concordia and Richtersveld. All these Reserves owe their existence to missionary influence. Leliefontein is the most southerly of the …
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Farm labour in a demarcated area of the Western Cape
… Specifically, we seek to define: a) The role of Coloured people, Africans and Whites as farm workers; b) the interaction amongst the three mentioned racial groups; c) the community structure of the three racial groups; d) tendencies in migration of farm labourers and the problems arising from it; …
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Negotiating masculinities : studying risk behaviours associated with performances of 'coloured' masculinities
… roles and associated risk behaviours amongst a group of marginalised 'coloured' men from two deprived communities, one urban and one rural, in Cape Town, South Africa. To achieve this aim, the research examined two broad questions. The first question asked: What levels of conformity to …
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Early identification of learning disability in children of the Cape Flats area
… children attending schools in the Cape Flats area. This practical issue needs to be addressed despite the controversy that rages concerning the theoretical aspects of learning disability, its problematic measurement issues and the confusion of research findings in the field. Three main issues …
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Assessment of learning potential using a modified version of the coloured progressive matrices
… randomly assigned to an assessment or control group. For the assessment group the intervention procedure involved the Coloured Progressive Matrices test as a pretest measure, in four treatment sessions each two to three days apart, and as a posttest measure. Verbal and/or figural aids were …
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The prevalence of rheumatic disease in a rural Coloured population in Namaqualand
… rheumatic diseases have been undertaken in the Coloured population of South Africa. As a group they are genetically heterogenous and in comparative medicine they have tended to occupy an intermediate position between Black and White South Africans. A study of the nature and extent of rheumatic …
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Khoe, San, Coloured, controvert or conform: Physical attributes influencing the formation of cultural identity in ""Coloured"" women of the Western and Northern Cape
… people classified under the Apartheid regime as Coloured. Racist, derogatory past classificatory terms which refer to Khoe and San persons, still haunt many people to the extent that they have chosen to disassociate from their indigenous ancestry and internalize and embrace the Apartheid …
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Through a Coloured Lens: Post-Apartheid Indentity amongst Coloureds in KZN
… concept useful in describing the ethnogenesis of Coloureds as a new group of people in South Africa. To call Coloured people "creole" deviates from the prescribed racialized and informal definition of them as "mixed-race" thereby also circumventing the idea of racial "purity." Recognizing that …
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