The overall purpose of this study was to investigate the transformation of a South African region, with the city of Pretoria at its core, from pre-historical times up to 1 994, and with consideration of the prospects for the immediate future, in terms of the dynamic nature of South African society. The names Tshwane, Pretoria and Phelindaba in the title of the study refer to the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras in the historiography of the region and symbolize the notion of transformation. The aim was to contextualize, exemplify and understand structure-agency interaction, with particular emphasis on the territorial outcomes of the interrelationship between identity and place. The approach of the study was area specialization, based on the principles of contemporary locality and regional studies, and combining a structurationist ontology with the epistemology of postmodernism. Chapter 1 introduces the purpose, theme, theoretical framework, sphere, subject field, approach and methodology of the study. After defining the study area and describing its natural environment, the chapter discusses the operational paradigm and the research process of this study. Chapter 2 describes the occupation of land, the control of resources and the organization and transformation of society in the Bankenveld up to 1840 in relation to the limitations and possibilities of a dynamic natural environment. A time-space schema integrating human-environment interaction in the study area over two million years of human occupation is presented. Chapter 3 describes the development of a colonial land policy set against the formation of a new colonial society in the Pretoria District after 1840. Further, it details the findings of a reconstruction of territoriality, based on an identity-in-land. These findings are at variance with established views on land occupation in the Pretoria District as at 19 June 1913, and at the same time lend support for the current post-apartheid land reform programme. The focus in Chapter 4 is on the development of a racial land distribution policy in tandem with the evolution of a Euro-colonial segregationist ideology in South Africa. The objective was to conduct an audit of land occupation in the Pretoria area between 1 91 0 and 1 940. This quantitative analysis provides the basis for a critical evaluation of historical land policies and their influence on contemporary land reform policies. Chapter 5 presents an analysis of the development of the apartheid spatial planning strategy in terms of the micro-environment of public urban amenities, the mesoenvironment of urban planning and the macro-environment of homeland formation against the background of the evolution of the apartheid racial ideology from 1 940 to 1990. It further traces the desegregation of public amenities and the demarcation of new provinces during the period of negotiations for a political settlement in South Africa between 1 990 and 1 994, and considers prospects for spatial development in the study area. Chapter 6, the final chapter, reflects on the conceptual framework, approach, and aim of the study in an attempt to understand fully the particularities of the Pretoria region within the larger national context and within the context of an integrated human-earth in a fully theorized and integrated way. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 1998. / gm2014 / Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology / Unrestricted

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document. / Dissertation (MA (Town and Regional Planning))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Town and Regional Planning / unrestricted

Adolescents living in the inner-city of Pretoria have their own special challenges that they must face everyday. These challenges entails a poverty context, communities of violence, difficult family circumstances and a developmental phase in which they struggle with their own identity. The focus of this research is to listen to the stories of adolescents that have not being listened to before, concerning HIV/AIDS and their experiences regarding care. These young people is infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. The researcher does this research in the Narrative therapeutical paradigm, listening Practical Theologically to the stories of young people infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS regarding care. Other stories about adolescents and care will also be listened to. The research process is social-constructionally structured. The researcher is searching for a holistic understanding of care from the perspective of young people. Discourses about adolescents, about care, about the inner city and about AIDS will be discussed. Two separate groups of young people participated in the research. The researcher also listened to voices of the Sediba Hope AIDS Care Center about care and about young people. Reflection groups were used, consisting of teenagers and people from the academic community. The researcher used the method of reflection and self reflection throughout the research. Care is described after there were listened to the stories of the young people. The role of an African world-view is described as a resource to understand care holistically. The researcher spent time to reflect on the theological implications of the stories of young people and about the role they must play in the church and in the community. Different care narratives are described as an outcome of the research. Other outcomes are also named and reflected upon. / Thesis (PhD (Practical Theology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Practical Theology / unrestricted