Bulawayo Research Articles

Determination ofLg-wave attenuation using single-station seismograms: a case study for Zimbabwe

In this paper we show how the quality factor Q may be calculated using a single seismograph station and a number of events recorded on analogue seismograms. We followed Nuttli's (1973) method and extended it to one seismograph station. Using the single station Bulawayo (BUL), we determined a mean Q value of 650 for Zimbabwe. Furthermore, we considered different propagation paths over Zimbabwe as the seismic waves travelled to BUL and found a low Q value of 350 for the Deka fault zone. The Q value of 650 obtained in this study agrees well within error with that of 603 reported by Chow et al. (1980) using the multistation, multi-event method, and lies within the range of Q values (454–759) reported by Xie & Mitchell (1990) using a ‘back-project’method to image large-scale lateral variations of Lg coda Q. The results obtained are important as the Q value constitutes part of the input data in seismic hazard calculations. The method may be used to determine Q in regions where there may be only one station with reliable analogue seismogram data.

Si Ye Pambili — which way forward?: urban development, culture and politics in Bulawayo

The last hundred years’ social history of urban development in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second‐biggest city, has been given special characteristics by the city's closeness to South Africa and by the outcomes of controversies between national governments, the Bulawayo City Council and groups of urban residents over the form urban settlement for Africans should take. Policies before independence fluctuated between attempts at keeping African urban residents ‘temporary’ and underlining their basically rural identities, and modernising efforts at integrating them in town and establishing forms of social control that would discourage them from developing political demands for rights and citizenship equal to those of white urbanites. The culture and politics of Bulawayo's African townships were influenced significantly by initiatives to adapt to or resist such policies, and the article seeks to trace lines of continuity between the way in which people reacted to urban conditions and policies of urbanisation in colonial times and what stand out as important issues of articulation and self‐understanding in what is today called ‘high‐density suburbs’ and provide political culture in Bulawayo with its special liveliness. The revival of an Ndebele nationalism favouring an ‘authenticist’ view of culture is discussed and compared to the more ‘eclecticist’ practices of township community theatre groups.

An Iron Adze from the Lukwe River 20 Km North of Bulawayo

An Iron Adze from the Lukwe River 20 Km North of Bulawayo

Rolin's Rhodesia. By Henri Rolin (translated by Deborah Kirkwood). Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1978. Pp. 304. No price stated.

Rolin's Rhodesia. By Henri Rolin (translated by Deborah Kirkwood). Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1978. Pp. 304. No price stated.

Shona Pottery from Pumula Township, Bulawayo, Rhodesia

Shona Pottery from Pumula Township, Bulawayo, Rhodesia

Meetings in Bulawayo, 24th February 1967

Meetings in Bulawayo, 24th February 1967

Meeting in Bulawayo, 8th February 1965

Meeting in Bulawayo, 8th February 1965

Notes on African Formicidae (Hymenoptera) - 1.

When examining closely workers of L. schwabi Ford and L. stuhlmanni Mayr, collected by Dr G. Arnold in Bulawayo and Chirinda Forest (S. Rhod.), and determined by him and comparing them with specimens of stuhlmanni, collected by Dr J. H. Grobler in Barberton (Tvl.), (also determined by Dr Arnold), I noticed that the ratio of the width of the head across the anterior margin to the width across the eyes is the same in both species.

Meeting in Bulawayo, 16th May 1962

Meeting in Bulawayo, 16th May 1962

Meeting in Bulawayo 23rd September 1959

Meeting in Bulawayo 23rd September 1959

Meeting in Bulawayo 6th July 1954

Meeting in Bulawayo 6th July 1954

The Birds of Bulawayo, Southem Rhodesia

the Birds of Bulawayo, Southem Rhodesia