Uranium in South Africa and South West Africa (Namibia)

1979 ◽  
Vol 291 (1381) ◽  
pp. 307-319 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Alkaline Complex ◽  
Metamorphic Belt ◽  
Small Bodies ◽  
Ore Formation ◽  
Clastic Rocks ◽  
Magmatic Rocks ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa

A number of genetically different uranium deposits occur in South Africa and South West Africa in rocks of widely differing ages. Early Proterozoic clastic rocks contain sedimentary uraninite, whose deposition in auriferous quartz-pebble conglomerates and carbon seams can be related to fluvial fans and algal mats. Recently discovered deposits of uranium in the Phanerozoic Karoo Supergroup occur as widespread but small bodies in channel sandstones of fluvial association. Carnotite deposits are developed in Cainozoic calcretes in the western, more arid, regions of southern Africa in which the uranium has been precipitated epigenetically from circulating groundwater. Uranium mineralization in magmatic rocks is present to a small extent in phoscorite and carbonatite of the middle Proterozoic Phalaborwa Igneous Complex, and is associated with alkaline lavas and intrusive rocks in the Pilanesberg alkaline complex of middle-late Proterozoic age. Multicyclic processes of ore formation have produced extensive deposits of uraninite-bearing alaskitic pegmatitic granites, of Phanerozoic age, in the Pan-African Damara metamorphic belt.

The Africa Bureau, London

1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-294
Author(s):  
Peter Calvocoressi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Physical Size ◽  
Informal Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
African People ◽  
South West ◽  
South West Africa

It is not easy to describe the objects, still less the activities, of the Africa Bureau in a few words. It is one of those organisations whose ambitions and influence are much greater than its physical size.If you look at the dominating purpose behind the activities of the past 12 years, you will find it in the Bureau's sympathy with and determination to promote African independence. It was established in 1952 to provide accurate information particularly on the aims and hopes of African nationalism, to oppose unfair discrimination, and to encourage development in Africa. The need for such an organisation in Britain had been recognised primarily by Rev. Michael Scott, who on returning from South Africa sought help from people in Britain for the African people of South West Africa. An informal group advising on the intricate political and constitutional issues involved in bringing South West Africa's plight before the United Nations provided the nucleus from which the Africa Bureau grew, and since 1948, Michael Scott, honorary director of the Bureau, has attended the U.N. and given evidence as personal representative of Chief Hosea Kutako of the Hereros.

General Assembly

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-512
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
West Africa ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Commitments ◽  
South West ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
South West Africa ◽  
The Government ◽  
Alternate Procedure ◽  
Union Government

Report of the Committee on South West Africa: The report of the Committee on South West Africa to the tenth session of the General Assembly stated that the Committee had again invited the government of the Union of South Africa to confer with it, but that the Union government had refused the invitation, stating that it still maintained that the mandate in respect of South West Africa had lapsed and that the government had no other international commitments as a result of the demise of the League of Nations. Provisional rules of procedure for the Committee had been adopted on February 11, 1954; at its meeting on June 1, 1955, the Committee, having received no comment from South Africa, decided that these provisional rules of procedure should become its rules of procedure. In 1955, the Union government had again refused to submit an annual report in regard to the Territory of South West Africa to the Committee; therefore, the Committee decided to apply the alternate procedure contained in its rules of procedure with respect to examination of reports.

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