Travels in the Interior of South Africa, 1849-1863: Hunting and Trading Jouneys. From Natal to Walvis Bay & Visits to Lake Ngami & Victoria Falls

1974 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 1608
Author(s):  
Robert I. Rotberg ◽  
James Chapman ◽  
Edward C. Tabler
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Victoria Falls

Mary Elizabeth Barber: South Africa's first lady natural historian

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN COHEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Royal Botanic Gardens ◽  
Victoria Falls ◽  
Natural Historian

An account of the life of a nineteenth century South African frontiers-woman who, without any formal education, made a name for herself as a plant collector and natural historian. Born in England, she emigrated as a child of 2 years of age with her family as one of the British settlers to the Grahamstown area in 1820. From the age of 20 she corresponded with several eminent English biologists, and had scientific papers on botany and entomology published in a number of journals. She was later involved in the early discoveries of diamonds and gold in South Africa. One of her sons was amongst the first to see and paint the Victoria Falls after their discovery by Livingstone. With her younger brother James Henry Bowker she collected and sent back a large number of plants, many of them previously unknown, to the herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. She collaborated with her older brother Thomas Holden Bowker in building up one of the earliest collections of stone-age implements in South Africa, some of which are now in the British Museum.

scholarly journals V.—On an African Occurrence of Fossil Mammalia Associated with stone Implements

1907 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
pp. 443-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. P. Mennell ◽  
E. C. Chubb
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Geological Evidence ◽  
Precise Information ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Victoria Falls

Stone implements have long been known to occur in South Africa, but nearly all the recorded discoveries have, until quite recently, been made at the Cape. Indeed, it is only lately that the subject has attracted much attention, and that the circumstances of their occurrence have been at all fully investigated. Even now there is little precise information on the point, and yet it is essential to the solution of the problems they present. For, as one of us has previously pointed out, in attempting to ascribe to their proper source the stone implements found in South Africa, we are confronted with difficulties that are unknown in Europe. Not only has the country been inhabited down to the present day by tribes like the ‘Bushmen’ unacquainted with the working of metals, and whose origin probably long antedates the earliest Egyptian civilisation, but we find stone still employed by the Bantu for certain purposes, and in Rhodesia the question is still further complicated by the existence of numerous ruins built by an unknown race possessing a considerable degree of barbaric culture, but still employing primitive types of stone implements. Geological evidence is therefore more than usually necessary, but, when there is any, it is frequently very ambiguous owing to the characters of the superficial deposits. More often than not it is altogether lacking, the great majority of the implements found having been picked up on the surface. Colonel Feilden some time ago pointed out the probability of certain of the Zambezi implements being of vast antiquity, and one of us had already formed a similar opinion in the course of a brief visit to the Victoria Falls.

scholarly journals Mora Debitoris and the Principle of Strict Liability: Scoin Trading (Pty) Ltd v Bernstein 2011 2 Sa 118 (SCA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 600
Author(s):  
Steve J Cornelius
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Breach Of Contract ◽  
Contractual Relations ◽  
Victoria Falls ◽  
Union Government

 Parties generally enter into contractual relations with the sincere intention to fulfil all the obligations created in terms of their contract. However, for various reasons, parties sometimes do not comply with the terms of their contract. Where a party fails to perform at the agreed date and time or after receiving a demand from the creditor, the debtor commits breach of contract in the form of mora debitoris.[1] The question then arises whether or not a debtor would also commit breach in the form of mora debitoris if the delay in performance cannot be attributed to wilful disregard of the contract or a negligent failure to perform on time. This was the question which the court had to determine in Scoin Trading (Pty) Ltd v Bernstein.[2][1]      Victoria Falls and Transvaal Power Co Ltd v Consolidated Langlaagte Mines Ltd 1915 AD 1; West Rand Estates Ltd v New Zealand Insurance Co Ltd 1926 AD 173; Fluxman v Brittain 1941 AD 273; Microuticos v Swart 1949 3 SA 715 (A); Linton v Corser 1952 3 SA 685 (A); Union Government v Jackson 1956 2 SA 398 (A); Standard Finance Corporation of South Africa Ltd v Langeberg Ko-operasie Bpk 1967 4 SA 686 (A); Nel v Cloete 1972 2 SA 150 (A); Van der Merwe v Reynolds 1972 3 SA 740 (A); Ver Elst v Sabena Belgian World Airlines 1983 3 SA 637 (A); Chrysafis v Katsapas 1988 4 SA 818 (A).[2]     Scoin Trading (Pty) Ltd v Bernstein 2011 2 SA 118 (SCA).

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