scholarly journals Subtidal Understorey Algal Community Structure in Kelp Beds around the Cape Peninsula (Western Cape, South Africa)

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Leliaert ◽  
R. J. Anderson ◽  
J. J. Bolton ◽  
E. Coppejans
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Algal Community ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Kelp Beds ◽  
Cape Peninsula

Three new species of Lachenalia (Hyacinthaceae: Massonieae) from Western and Northern Cape, South Africa

Bothalia ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. D. Duncan ◽  
T. J. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Southwestern Part ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Northern Cape ◽  
Three New Species

This is the sixth in a series of papers on Lachenalia, towards a revision of the genus. Three new species are described. L. lutea from the southwestern part of the Western Cape, L. cernua from the southern Cape Peninsula and the Worcester Valley of the Western Cape, and L. nardousbergensis from the Bokkeveld Plateau of the Northern Cape, and the Nardousberge and Middelburg Plateaus of the Western Cape.

scholarly journals Social values as determinants of entrepreneurial intentions among university students in Cape Town – South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivence Kalitanyi ◽  
Dick Jacobus (Kobus) Visser
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
University Students ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Cape Peninsula

An empirical study was conducted in Cape Town – South Africa – to determine whether social values (family, parents’ work and education) have an impact on entrepreneurship students in the universities of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch, and University of the Western Cape, as well as Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The paper reviewed the literature about the role social values plays in the people’s lives. Respondents were the entrepreneurship university students. Data were collected in classrooms, and, in most cases, with the facilitation of both the lecturer and the researcher. Bivariate and multivariate tests of statistical significance were conducted, while Cronbach’s Alpha was used to measure the reliability of the research tool. Findings suggest that social values of the university students have an impact on their entrepreneurial intentions. The paper ends with recommendations to universities, entrepreneurship lecturers, parents, government and businesses, as well as civil society organizations. Keywords: social values, entrepreneurship intentions, university students, Cape Town. JEL Classification: Y4

Genetic and morphological evidence for a new mountain-living freshwater crab species (Decapoda : Potamonautidae : Potamonautes) from the Western Cape province of South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louisa E. Wood ◽  
Savel R. Daniels
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Freshwater Crab ◽  
Crab Species ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Haplotype Networks ◽  
Clade B ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Mountain Habitats

Recent studies in southern Africa have revealed a wealth of novel freshwater crab species in high mountainous regions. In the present study, phylogeographic affinities between two sister mountain-living freshwater crab species (Potamonautes brincki and P. parvicorpus) were examined for novel lineages. Seventy-six crab specimens were collected throughout the Western Cape Province of South Africa and sequenced for the COI locus. Evolutionary relationships were analysed using Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony, a haplotype network and analyses of molecular variance (AMOVA). Results revealed three divergent clades. Clade A comprised specimens of P. brincki restricted to the Hottentots Holland; sister to which was Clade B from the Overberg, while Clade C comprised specimens of P. parvicorpus from the Cape Peninsula and adjacent interior. Haplotype networks and AMOVA provide evidence for the absence of gene flow whilst morphology of the male gonopods and the mandibular palp revealed subtle but consistent differences between the three clades. Since Clades A and C represent two described species, P. brincki and P. parvicorpus, respectively, Clade B is herein described as a new species, P. tuerkayi, sp. nov. These results highlight the importance of continued sampling of mountain habitats to document aquatic invertebrate diversity.

Biogeographv of Oxalis (Oxalidaceae) in South Africa: a preliminary study

Bothalia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. C. Oberlander ◽  
L. L. Dreyer ◽  
K. J. Elser
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Succulent Karoo ◽  
Winter Rainfall ◽  
Table Mountain ◽  
Northern Areas ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
Insight Into

Oxalis L ,  commonly called sorrel,is a large and cosmopolitan taxon that has undergone spectacular speciation within southern Africa (± 270 taxa). and more specifically within the winter rainfall regions of the western Cape Region (CR). The main objective of this study w as to analyse the geographical distribution of Oxalis in South Africa in relation to currently defined phytogeographic units. The observed patterns of biodiversity and endemism within South African members of the genus show interesting disjunctions and concentrations of species.  Oxalis is one of the few CR taxa that is shared between the core Fynbos and Succulent Karoo Biomes, and this study therefore provides a novel insight into evolutionary trends across, and not only w ithin. these phvtogeographic units. The major centre for diversity for Oxalis is situated on Table Mountain and the northern areas o f the Cape Peninsula (grid square 3318CD). Subsidiary centres are located in the Clanwilliam/Niewoudtville and Kamiesberg regions. The reported patterns in Western Cape suggest that  Oxalis species richness has been generated and retained in areas w hich have been identified as core Fynbos (Table Mountain), Fynbos refugia during interglacials (Kamiesberg). and an ecotonal region which might switch between the two biome types (Clanwilliam/ Niewoudtville). Presumably these three types of areas would provide interesting material for DNA-based phylogenetic work, and a test of the climate change 'species-pump' hypothesis proposed by Midgley et al. (2001).

A Survey of Music Education in the Primary Schools of South Africa's Cape Peninsula

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anri Herbst ◽  
Jacques de Wet ◽  
Susan Rijsdijk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Music Education ◽  
General Class ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Music Specialist ◽  
Specialist Teachers ◽  
Democratic Elections

We investigated the state of music education in government primary schools in the Cape Peninsula (Western Cape Province, South Africa) as perceived by the general class teacher. Since the first democratic elections in South Africa (1994), the entire primary and secondary school education system has changed drastically in terms of content, and general class teachers (not music specialist teachers) are now responsible for music education within the Arts and Culture learning area. We aimed to identify and analyze problems that these teachers experience in implementing the music component of the revised curriculum. A structured questionnaire was sent to all primary schools in the Cape Peninsula; the response rate was 51.7%. Findings are discussed and interpreted against the historical background of education in South Africa and relevant music philosophical perspectives. January 27, 2005 September 12, 2005

Two new Mesoceration Janssens, 1967 from the Piketberg, South Africa (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4555 (2) ◽  
pp. 268
Author(s):  
DAVID T. BILTON ◽  
MUSA C. MLAMBO
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Species ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Western Cape Province ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Two New Species

Mesoceration explanatum sp. nov. and M. piketbergense sp. nov. are described from the Piketberg range in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, bringing the total number of known species in the genus to 55, all of which are endemic to South Africa. M. explanatum sp. nov. is a member of the truncatum group, whilst M piketbergense sp. nov. belongs to the endroedyi group and is apparently closely related to M. concessum Perkins & Balfour-Browne, 1994 and M. tabulare Perkins, 2008, both of which are endemic to the Cape Peninsula. The two new species were both relatively abundant in the Piketberg, and may be narrowly endemic to this inselberg-like mountain range. 

The value of graduate destination survey data in understanding graduate unemployment: A focus on the universities of technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Andre Kraak
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Accurate Picture ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Graduate Unemployment

This article contributes graduate destination survey (GDS) evidence to the debate about graduate unemployment in South Africa. There has been lively contestation on the topic for several years, including several contributions from the commercial press arguing that graduate unemployment is very high. In contrast, academic evidence (based on national labour force data for the period 1995–2011) has been presented suggesting that the unemployment of graduates in South Africa is minimal, on average only 4.9% in 2011. New evidence has emerged from two recent GDSs – one comprehensive survey of all 2010 graduates across all qualification levels at all four universities in the Western Cape, and a second focusing only on the 2012 Bachelor of Technology (BTech) graduates at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT) in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng. These two studies, using the same methodology and online questionnaire, provide a more accurate picture of the graduate unemployment problem in two important economic regions of the country. The results show that although rates of unemployment are low at the elite University of Cape Town (UCT) and Stellenbosch University (SU) (graduate unemployment is between 3 and 6%), rates are much higher at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) – a former historically disadvantaged technikon – with 15.8% unemployment among CPUT students. African unemployment at CPUT reached 20.2% among all first-time entrants (as compared with 4% for whites), suggesting the continuation of a racially stratified labour market for highly skilled labour long after apartheid’s demise. Similarly, unemployment rates among the BTech VUT graduates of 2012 reached 18%. This is an extremely high rate for fourth-year graduates of a polytechnic-type institution whose primary mandate is to place qualified graduates in jobs in the mainstream economy.

scholarly journals Transdisciplinary service-learning for construction management and quantity surveying students

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Pinfold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quantity Surveying ◽  
The Way

The transformation of higher education in South Africa has seen higher education institutions become more responsive to community matters by providing institutional support for service-learning projects. Despite service-learning being practised in many departments at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), there is a significant difference in the way service-learning is perceived by academics and the way in which it should be supported within the curriculum. This article reflects on a collaborative transdisciplinary service-learning project at CPUT that included the Department of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. The aim of the transdisciplinary service-learning project was for students to participate in an asset-mapping exercise in a rural communal settlement in the Bergrivier municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. In so doing students from the two departments were gradually inducted into the community. Once inducted, students were able to identify the community’s most urgent needs. During community engagement students from each department were paired together. This allowed transdisciplinary learning to happen with the exploration of ideas from the perspectives of both engineering and urban planning students. Students were able to construct meaning beyond their discipline. Cooperation and synergy between the departments allowed mutual, interchangeable, cooperative interaction with community members. Outcomes for the transdisciplinary service-learning project and the required commitment from students are discussed.

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