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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Port Elizabeth"”.
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Nostalgia and heritage in Korsten, Port Elizabeth, 1956 to 1990
… a series of entertainment structures in Korsten, Port Elizabeth, from 1956 to 1990. Their everyday experience of living in Korsten, together with the trauma of displacement (as a consequence of forced removals) and the nostalgia associated with the joy of an 'era of entertainment’ they …
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The making of an African working class: Port Elizabeth 1925-1963
… the 'making' of an african working class in Port Elizabeth. It offers an alternative interpretation to conventional histories which emphasize continuity both in the idea of a strong industrial working class and in a tradition of militant and effective worker organisation. At the same time, it …
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New Brighton, Port Elizabeth c1903-1953 : a history of an urban African community
… the history of New Brighton in the context of Port Elizabeth's political economy. This port city was essentially an entrepôt until primary industrialisation commenced after the First World War. Jobs in the footwear and motor assembly plants were the preserve of unskilled white …
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The single parent family : a sociological study of the socio-economic problems facing single parents in Port Elizabeth
… study on the single parent family in the Port Elizabeth region. In 1986, the Human Sciences Research Council completed a study of 300 White single parents drawn from lists of children from single parent families at 13 primary schools in the Pretoria School Board District. The report …
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The burden of tuberculosis in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease undergoing dialysis therapy at Livingstone hospital, Port Elizabeth
… Mandela Bay population and over 5 times that reported in the general population for the country as a whole. Only informal housing and a history of hospitalization were identified as positive risk factors in this young population with a low HIV prevalence. Isoniazid prophylaxis in this high risk …
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The Free[way] City: An exploration of Inner City Renewal through the removal of Settlers Way Freeway in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
The inner city of Port Elizabeth has faced a series of problems since the 1960s. These include forced removals, relocation of critical functions and the implementation of obdurate infrastructure. One of the most destructive of these forces was the construction of the Settlers Way Freeway in 1963. …
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Environmental factors influencing the strategic planning of academic libraries : a comparative case study of the universities of Fort Hare and Port Elizabeth libraries
Academic libraries play an important role in academic institutions by supporting teaching, research and learning processes. However, it does seem that sustainability of these vital information centres is increasingly below their utility value leading to poor information services. Factors such as …
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To evaluate the support required by staff in the Paediatric Unit in Dora Nginza Hospital in Port Elizabeth, South Africa in caring for children with life limiting and life threatening illnesses
… aimed to explore the perceived needs of support required by paediatric staff caring for children with LL and LTIs in the Paediatric Department in DNH and set out the following objectives: 1) To identify the need for educational support; 2) To explore the emotional impact on Health Care …
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The evaluation and improvement of a sustainability index for intergrated urban water management in South African cities.
… areas. Two South African cities, East London and Port Elizabeth were selected as case studies to test the applicability and validity of the original and revised index. In the evaluation of the SI, data accessibility and transparency in the method were used to determine the effectiveness of the …
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A study of the Hyperiid Amphipoda in the waters off the east and south coasts of the Republic of South Africa in relation to prevailing hydrological conditions
… on "lines" normal to the coast at Durban, Port Shepstone, Port St. Johns, Bashee River, East London, Kowie River, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Seal. In the first cruise only four lines were worked and of these, the first three contained three stations each while the fourth (Port Elizabeth line) …
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Raymond Mhlaba and the genesis of the Congress Aliance : a political biography
… alternative viewpoint. The study reveals that in Port Elizabeth, there was a distinctively communist-trade unionist oriented group which revolutionalised the ANC: It was this group which consolidated racial and class co-operation against the apartheid system in the mid-1940s and early 1950s. This …
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The role and function of e-mail as a form of computer mediated communication for research purposes : a comparative study
… represents a typical HDI and the University of Port Elizabeth a HAL
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The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
… identity and heritage in one South African city, Port Elizabeth, which in 2005 was re-named the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipal area. This discussion examined, at times, the historical era prior to South Africa's democracy and the period after the first democratic elections of 27 April 1994.
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Influences on the transport properties of a range of South African marine concretes
It is widely understood that the transport properties of marine concretes affect their potential durability in their service environment. The critical deterioration effect on such concretes is corrosion of embedded steel promoted by chloride ion ingress into the concrete. The occurrence of such …
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Athol Fugard : his dramatic work with special reference to his later plays
… the playwright's only novel. A chapter on the Port Elizabeth plays written in Fugard's apprenticeship years, The Blood Knot, Hello and Goodbye and Boesman and Lena, focuses on his growing skill as a dramatist, his involvement in his milieu both geographically and emotionally, as well as …
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Measuring institutional change : the application of two theoretical models to two South African higher education institutions
… higher education institutions: the University of Port Elizabeth and Peninsula Technikon.
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The Agulhas current system above the intermediate level
… of dynamical upwelling between East London and Port Elizabeth; the region where the current turns eastward (retroflection); the interaction with the South East Atlantic ocean; the planetary waves in the Agulhas return current over and east of the Agulhas plateau.
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The body count : using routine mortality surveillance data to drive violence prevention
… described in this thesis were an important source of descriptive epidemiological information on homicide. The 37,037 homicide records described in the thesis were drawn from Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, for which the surveillance system maintained …
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The salience and visibility of toponymic changes in Makhanda & Gqeberha: A social semiotic perspective
… the Eastern Cape Province, previously known as Port Elizabeth (now renamed Gqeberha), and the city of Grahamstown (now renamed Makhanda). Drawing on social semiotics theory, these name changes are examined through an analysis of how they are made visible on billboards, shopfronts, and road …
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Stranger's Location: Interrogating Apartheid Spatial Legacies and the Idea of Home in New Brighton
… but I am specifically interested in the city of Port Elizabeth and the township named New Brighton – where I was born. Port Elizabeth has an interesting but problematic history involving forced removals, resulting in townships such as New Brighton. This document serves as an explication of a body …
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