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The Saluting Battery at the Castle of Good Hope Cape Town 1910-1942
W.M. Bisset
Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies , 2012, DOI: 10.5787/20-4-353
Abstract: Although the guns of the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town never fired a shot in anger, they often fired salutes in honour of Royalty (the King's Birthday), visiting heads of state and warships, Union Day (a salute of 19 guns in 1931) and on other appropriate occasions. The subject of this article is the Saluting Battery on Katzenellenbogen Bastion at the Castle which was operational from about 1910 until about 1942. In 1912 the Castle was the only authorized saluting station in the Union of South Africa. The battery was manned by personnel of the Royal Garrison Artillery until it was taken over by South Africa in 1921.
SOME GARRISON AND COMMAND REGIMENTAL SERGEANT MAJORS AT THE CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE IN CAPE TOWN
W.M. Bisset
Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies , 2012, DOI: 10.5787/12-4-602
Abstract: Whilst the names of the officers who have commanded our commands and regiments have been recorded and are in many cases well known, the same cannot be said for all our garrison and regimental sergeant majors. Unlike unit commanders, regimental sergeant majors do not sign a handing over certificate on appointment, so it is often very difficult to establish who the successive regimental sergeant majors of some of our units where.' However, by good fortune and some guesswork, which yielded unexpectedly good results it has been possible to fill another gap in our knowledge about some of those who have served at the Castle of Good Hope.
PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE
Various Authors
Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies , 2012, DOI: 10.5787/15-5-473
Abstract: The Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town is South Africa's oldest and most important historical monument, so one would expect that many photographs depicting its history would be readily available, Unfortunately this is not the case and there are a number of gaps in this collection.
Military architecture in the Netherlands and her former colonies (1500-1800)
Jan Ploeger
Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies , 2012, DOI: 10.5787/2-2-969
Abstract: In this article we wish to consider the history of certain Dutch fortifications in theNetherlands, her former colonies and spheres of influence. Special attention will be given to the construction of our Castle and the engineers responsible for the design of South Africa's most important historical monument. Trading concerns such as the Dutch East India and West India Companies erected fortifications as the occasion demanded in their possessions and areas under their control. This was done out of purely military or also commercial considerations which they deemed necessary for the protection of their interests against internalor external threats of trading competition.
A NEW LOOK AT THE CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE, AND ITS SYMBOLIC IMPORTANCE
W.M. Bisset
Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies , 2012, DOI: 10.5787/9-3-734
Abstract: The Castle of Good Hope has been described as unquestionably the 'oldest and historically the most interesting building in the country'.1 Yet it is often forgotten that its development as a showplace reminding countless visitors of South Africa's early architectural achievements and European roots, is a recent phenomenon which received its most significant boost at the Van Riebeeck Festival in 1952.
THE RIEDER AUTOMATIC RIFLE ATTACHMENT
W.M. Bisset
Scientia Militaria : South African Journal of Military Studies , 2012, DOI: 10.5787/11-3-669
Abstract: In March 1981, Mrs H. J. R. Rieder donated her husband's presentation British .303 SMLE Rifle No 1 Mark III (number M-45374) with the Rieder Automatic Rifle Attachment to the Military Museum at the Castle in Cape Town. With it were a number of photographs, letters, documents and plans concerning this once secret invention which was tested outside the Castle during the Second World War. Fortunately, the documents donated by Mrs Rieder include a list of the numbers of the 18 rifles to which Mr Rieder's automatic attachment was fitted and it is hoped that the publication of this information will lead to the discovery of some of them and be of considerable interest to their present owners.
O proletariado, a esperan？a e o sonho de uma vida boa
Sochaczewski, Suzanna;
Estudos Avan？ados , 2012, DOI: 10.1590/S0103-40142012000200019
Abstract: this paper discusses the subject of the hope of the working class in brazil in our time, considering the struggles of the union movement for better work conditions and payment, and the role of knowledge production specific to this process. the principal point of reference for this discussion is the proletarian dream of a good life and the responsibility of the present generation of union leaders in the education of young workers in the sense of building a utopia for the transformation of society.
Spanish maritime experience in Southern Africa during the Early Modern Period
Germán Santana Pérez
- , 2018, DOI: 10.1177/0843871418808498
Abstract: Apparently, the Treaty of Tordesillas dismissed the possibility of Spanish shipping via Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. The preferred route to Asia was via Cape Horn or Acapulco. In this article we will show that access to Southern Africa was not entirely closed to the Spanish between the 16th and 18th centuries. We will analyse shipping in this period and, above all, we will discuss the enlightened reforms of the 18th century that changed the connecting routes between Spain and the Philippines, making them pass through Cape Town, as well as the hostility shown to the Hispanic presence in those waters by great powers like the Netherlands. Based on these connections, we will discuss the exchange of plants between Spain and Southern Africa
Assessing Development Paradigms of Democracy: A Perspective of Minimal Democracy in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope 1853 – 1994
E. A. Ndaguba
- , 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/apsdpr.v4i3.123
Abstract: This paper is a first of two separate papers in an attempt to recount the antecedent of minimalist democracy in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. The study uses thematic reviews, documentary evidence, scholarly encyclopaedia and articles. Other methods used in gathering data for the study include legislative proceedings, enactments and Acts, as well as various Constitutions and information from websites (www.nelsonmandela.org). The study establishes that there existed tenets of democratic element not in wholeness as with maximalist approach to democracy in the Cape of Good Hope. Nonetheless, based on the context of time and space. It contends that both representative and responsible democracy existed in practice and principle in the Cape of Good Hope between 1854 and 1872 respectively. The central thesis of this paper is that, the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope is arguably the first and only Colony under British Conquest in Africa to operate both representative and responsible government in colonial era. Also, opportunities were evenly shared between whites and non-whites. It concludes with an African Proverb that says, “Until lions tell their tale, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
David Gill FRS (1843–1914): The Making of a Royal Astronomer
John S. Reid
- , 2018, DOI: 10.1177/0021828617751290
Abstract: David Gill was an outstanding astronomer over several decades at the end of the nineteenth and into the early twentieth century. He was famous for his observational accuracy, for his painstaking attention to detail, and for his hands-on knowledge of the fine points of astronomical instrumentation. Astronomy, though, was a second professional career for David Gill. This account maps out the surprising and unusual path of David Gill’s life before he became Her Majesty’s Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. It covers aspects of his education, his horological career, his employment by Lord Lindsay to oversee the Dunecht observatory, his personal expedition to Ascension Island and his appointment as Her Majesty’s Astronomer at the age of 34. The account includes local detail and images not found in the main biography of David Gill. It ends with some detail of Gill’s continuing interest in clocks after his appointment
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