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New Every Morning - Memories of a South African Childhood (Paperback)
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New Every Morning - Memories of a South African Childhood (Paperback)
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Loot Price R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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In this personal memoir Margaret Bond (1911-1985) recounts the
story of her missionary family in Southern Africa, and her memories
growing up in in the Cape after the Boer War. Margaret Bond was the
grand-daughter of the Rev. James McLaren, the Scottish principal of
Blythswood Educational Institution in the Transkei, who authored
the first Xhosa-English dictionary and first Xhosa grammar. She was
the daughter of William Bond who -- after an education at a British
public school and Oxford -- went out to the Cape Colony as school
principal and subsequently school inspector. Bringing education to
South Africa involved arduous travel by horseback over the South
African Veld, setting up schools and colleges from scratch, and
living in sometimes very remote locations far from other Europeans.
The education these pioneers brought to Africa was very much that
of the Victorian era -- English language and grammar, European
history, English literature, an understanding of the rules of the
British Empire. But these committed educators also took a keen
interest in the indigenous Xhosa population among whom they lived,
recording the vocabulary and grammar and providing it with with the
written form that exists today. Bringing education to the colonies
was above all an Imperial task. The backdrop to Margaret Bond's
memoirs is the late summer blooming and fading of Empire, as
Britain's far-flung colonies gained increasing self confidence and
impatience for self rule and as Britain itself was weakened by the
Great War. It was to end with the Second World War. This historical
and personal record covers the period 1870 through 1920.
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