African research and development surveys: Highlights from the South African success story

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Saahier Parker ◽  
Natalie Vlotman
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Success Story

Progress Made by the South African Light Metals Development Network

2009 ◽  
Vol 618-619 ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Damm ◽  
Willie du Preez
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
South African ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Light Metals ◽  
The South ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Innovation Fund ◽  
Development Network ◽  
Industry Sectors

Through focused investment by the CSIR, the South African Innovation Fund, the Automotive Industry Development Centre and the Department of Science and Technology over the past eight years, the national Light Metals Development Network has been established and grown into a well aligned collaborative research and development programme. The research and development focus has been primarily on aluminium and titanium technologies as applied in the automotive and aerospace industry sectors, with the latter growing in prominence over the past three years. Since 2009 the titanium-related research and development activities have been consolidated in a Titanium Centre of Competence. This paper provides an overview of the current status of the programme, the R&D focus areas, the collaborating entities and the industry involvement. It also highlights some of the significant achievements of the network and notable outputs produced. The Titanium Centre of Competence as a vehicle for strengthening industrial research and innovation capabilities in specific fields of technology is discussed and some initial experiences are shared.

scholarly journals The South African giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa: a conservation success story

Oryx ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francois Deacon ◽  
Andy Tutchings
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
National Park ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Conservation Priority ◽  
The South ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Giraffa Camelopardalis ◽  
Monitoring And Surveillance ◽  
Privately Owned

AbstractAcross Africa the majority of giraffe species and subspecies are in decline, whereas the South African giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa remains numerous and widespread throughout southern Africa. By 2013 the number of giraffes in South Africa's Kruger National Park had increased by c. 150% compared to 1979 estimates. An even greater increase occurred on many of the estimated 12,000 privately owned game ranches, indicating that private ownership can help to conserve this subspecies. The estimated total population size in South Africa is 21,053–26,919. The challenge now is to implement monitoring and surveillance of G. camelopardalis giraffa as a conservation priority and to introduce sustainable practices among private owners to increase numbers and genetic variation within in-country subspecies.

Rebuilding the Nation: On Architecture and the Aesthetics of Constitutionalism in South African Literature

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-91
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Anker
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
African Literature ◽  
The South ◽  
Success Story ◽  
South African Literature ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
South African Constitution ◽  
Constitutional Jurisprudence

AbstractThe South African Constitution is widely regarded as one of the world’s most progressive, and this essays looks to a series of novels concerned with the nation’s transition beyond apartheid in order to examine the challenges of transformative constitutionalism. Through readings of Nadine Gordimer’sNone to Accompany Me, Zakes Mda’sWays of Dying, and Ivan Vladislavic’sThe Folly,1it explores the prevalence of the language and imagery of architecture in describing national rebuilding and South African constitutional jurisprudence alike. The essay ultimately argues, however, that the architectural metaphor casts post-apartheid recovery as a success story that belies political and economic reality.

Exploring recidivism in the South African context.

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belinda Bedell ◽  
Nicholas Challis ◽  
Charl Cilliers ◽  
Joy Cole ◽  
Wendy Corry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
African Context

Macroinvertebrate variability between microhabitats of peritidal stromatolites along the South African coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 605 ◽  
pp. 37-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
RA Weston ◽  
R Perissinotto ◽  
GM Rishworth ◽  
PP Steyn
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
African Coast
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