CONSTRUCTED WETLAND RESEARCH PROGRAMME IN SOUTH AFRICA

1990 ◽  
pp. 373-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Batchelor ◽  
W.E. Scott ◽  
A. Wood
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Constructed Wetland ◽  
Research Programme

scholarly journals The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)

1987 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-71
Author(s):  
J. R. E. Lutjeharms ◽  
M. L. Gründlingh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Ocean Circulation ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
World Ocean ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Quantum Leap ◽  
The World ◽  
World Ocean Circulation Experiment ◽  
Do So

An international research programme of enormous scope, WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment), is being planned for the last decade of this century. It is aimed at increasing our knowledge and understanding of the world ocean circulation by a quantum leap, thereby contributing to a better understanding of world climate changes. This programme is of great interest to South Africa and, while lacking the resources of the larger countries. South Africans can make key contributions in certain specific areas and have started preparing to do so.

Development of an HIV Clinical and Research Database for South Africa

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 144-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. C. Spencer ◽  
M. H. Steinberg ◽  
A. S. Kanter
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Information System ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Research Database ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Microsoft Access ◽  
Hiv Epidemic ◽  
Care Support

Abstract:Health service restructuring in South Africa provides an opportunity to introduce appropriate Health Information System (HIS) technology. This is particularly relevant given the emerging HIV epidemic and the need to capture, translate and disseminate new experiences in HIV/AIDS care, support and clinical research. In 1994, a number of clinicians and health-care providers working in South Africa had begun to establish basic computerized databases to assist in research on HIV, but no standardized nomenclature or framework for collaboration was created. This paper describes a clinical and research database that could be used as an example for a standardized system by clinicians working in South Africa. The authors, with assistance from the National AIDS Research Programme of the Medical Research Council, created a prototype relational database using Microsoft Access™. To test the prototype, 1057 HIV-positive patients from the Infectious Disease Clinic at Johannesburg General Hospital were entered.

scholarly journals Urban nature conservation: vegetation of natural areas in the Potchefstroom municipal area, North West Province, South Africa

Koedoe ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.S. Cilliers ◽  
E. Van Wyk ◽  
G.J. Bredenkamp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Plant Communities ◽  
Soil Depth ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Soil Surface ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
North West Province

This study on the natural and degraded natural vegetation of natural areas in the Potchefstroom Municipal Area, forms part of a research programme on spontaneous vegetation in urban open spaces in the North West Province, South Africa. Using a numerical classification technique (TWINSPAN) as a first approximation, the classification was refined by applying Braun-Blanquet procedures. The result is a phytosociological table from which 6 plant communities were recognised, which are subdivided in sub-communities and variants, resulting in 18 vegetation units. Some of these vegetation units are similar to communities described previously in natural areas. The presence of degraded natural communities suggests huge anthropogenic influences in certain areas. An ordination (DECORANA) scatter diagram shows the distribution of the plant communities along gradients which could be related to vegetation structure, altitude, soil depth, rockiness of soil surface, wetness or dryness of the habitat and number of introduced species. This study contributes to the compilation of a guideline for a conservation orientated management plan for the area, but also created a wealth of new knowledge of the reaction of indigenous plant species under disturbed conditions.

Advances in Cow Dung Ecology: International Aspects of the Australian Bush Fly Research Programme

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-136
Author(s):  
R. C. Muirhead-Thomson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Dung Beetles ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
Cow Dung ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
Blood Sucking ◽  
And Control ◽  
International Aspects

Intensive research carried out over the last 20 years on the biology and control of the Australian bush fly, Musca vetustisima, a widespread and irritating pest of man in that region, has provided a wealth of information about the community relationships of fauna in the cow dung pats which provide the breeding habitat of the fly. The extension of this project to South Africa and to Southern Spain in the search for exotic dung beetles or allied controlling agents to deal with both the bush fly and the blood-sucking buffalo fly, Haematobia, has given this programme a wider significance.

The Matatiele Archaeology and Rock Art (MARA) Program Excavations: The Archaeology of Mafusing 1 Rock Shelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Pinto ◽  
Will Archer ◽  
David Witelson ◽  
Rae Regensberg ◽  
Stephanie Edwards Baker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
History Of ◽  
Formed Part

AbstractThe rock shelter Mafusing 1 was excavated in 2011 as part of the Matatiele Archaeology and Rock Art orMARAresearch programme initiated in the same year. This programme endeavours to redress the much-neglected history of this region of South Africa, which until 1994 formed part of the wider ‘Transkei’ apartheid homeland. Derricourt’s 1977Prehistoric Man in the Ciskei and Transkeiconstituted the last archaeological survey in this area. However, the coverage for the Matatiele region was limited, and relied largely on van Riet Lowe’s site list of the 1930s. Thus far, theMARAprogramme has documented more than 200 rock art sites in systematic survey and has excavated two shelters – Mafusing 1 (MAF1) and Gladstone 1 (forthcoming). Here we present analyses of the excavated material from theMAF1 site, which illustrates the archaeological component of the wider historical and heritage-related programme focus. Our main findings atMAF1 to date include a continuous, well stratified cultural sequence dating from the middle Holocene up to 2400 cal.BP. Ages obtained from these deposits are suggestive of hunter-gatherer occupation pulses atMAF1, with possible abandonment of the site over the course of two millennia in the middle Holocene. After a major roof collapse altered the morphology of the shelter, there was a significant change in the character of occupation atMAF1, reflected in both the artefact assemblage composition and the construction of a rectilinear structure within the shelter sometime after 2400 cal.BP. The presence of a lithic artefact assemblage from this latter phase of occupation atMAF1 confirms the continued use of the site by hunter-gatherers, while the presence of pottery and in particular the construction of a putative rectilinear dwelling and associated animal enclosure points to occupation of the shelter by agropastoralists. Rock art evidence shows distinct phases, the latter of which may point to religious practices involving rain-serpents and rainmaking possibly performed, in part, for an African farmer audience. This brings into focus a central aim of theMARAprogramme: to research the archaeology of contact between hunter-gatherer and agropastoralist groups.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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