scholarly journals Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon F. Steyn ◽  
Lyndon S. Anthony ◽  
Faical Azaiez ◽  
Shadley Baard ◽  
Robert A. Bark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Radioisotope Production ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Activities

The development of new target stations for radioisotope production based on a dedicated 70~MeV commercial cyclotron is described. Currently known as the South African Isotope Facility (SAIF), this initiative will free the existing separated-sector cyclotron (SSC) at iThemba LABS (near Cape Town) to mainly pursue research activities in nuclear physics and radiobiology. It is foreseen that the completed SAIF facility will realize a three-fold increase in radioisotope production capacity compared to the current programme based on the SSC.

scholarly journals Development of New Target Stations for the South African Isotope Facility

Instruments ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gideon Steyn ◽  
Lyndon Anthony ◽  
Faiçal Azaiez ◽  
Shadley Baard ◽  
Robert Bark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Radioisotope Production ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Activities

The development of new target stations for radioisotope production based on a dedicated 70 MeV commercial cyclotron (for protons) is described. Currently known as the South African Isotope Facility (SAIF), this initiative will free the existing separated-sector cyclotron (SSC) at iThemba LABS (near Cape Town) to mainly pursue research activities in nuclear physics and radiobiology. It is foreseen that the completed SAIF facility will realize a three-fold increase in radioisotope production capacity compared to the current programme based on the SSC.

Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jared McDonald
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

Dr Jared McDonald, of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, reviews As by fire: the end of the South African university, written by former UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen.    How to cite this book review: MCDONALD, Jared. Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 117-119, Sep. 2017. Available at: <http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=18>. Date accessed: 12 Sep. 2017.   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD IN CAPE TOWN, 23 MAY, 1964

Ostrich ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-313
Author(s):  
Cecily Niven ◽  
J. M. Winterbottom ◽  
C. J. Uys ◽  
R. W. Heard
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
The South ◽  
Annual General Meeting

MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY, HELD AT CAPE TOWN, 26 JUNE 1959

Ostrich ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 165-180
Author(s):  
J. M. Winterbottom ◽  
M. K. Rowan ◽  
R. W. Heard ◽  
Ernest Middlemiss
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
General Meeting ◽  
Annual General ◽  
The South ◽  
Annual General Meeting

scholarly journals 1.15. J- and H-band observations of the Galactic bulge by PANIC

1998 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 45-46
Author(s):  
Shigeru Matsumoto ◽  
Yoshikazu Nakada ◽  
Ian S. Glass
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observatory ◽  
Galactic Bulge ◽  
The South ◽  
Bolometric Correction ◽  
Array Camera

Nine regions in the Galactic bulge were observed at J and H bands with a PtSi 1040×520 array camera which is named the PtSi Astronomical Near Infrared Camera (PANIC). These regions were centered at l=(–5°,0°,+5°) b=(–6°,0°,+6°) respectively. Each region was covered with nine frames each of which spanned 30′ by 30′ square arcmin. Observations were carried out at the South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town, from 1995 to 1997 using a 40cm f/5 Newtonian telescope. A bolometric correction (Frogel and Whitford 1987) was given to the observed stars by using J-H values of reference RGB stars (Frogel et al 1990).

The 1952 Jan Van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival: Constructing and Contesting Public National History in South Africa

1993 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciraj Rassool ◽  
Leslie Witz
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Public History ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
African National Congress ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
National History ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The 1950S

For all approaches to the South African past the icon of Jan Van Riebeeck looms large. Perspectives supportive of the political project of white domination created and perpetuate the icon as the bearer of civilization to the sub-continent and its source of history. Opponents of racial oppression have portrayed Van Riebeeck as public (history) enemy number one of the South African national past. Van Riebeeck remains the figure around which South Africa's history is made and contested.But this has not always been the case. Indeed up until the 1950s, Van Riebeeck appeared only in passing in school history texts, and the day of his landing at the Cape was barely commemorated. From the 1950s, however, Van Riebeeck acquired centre stage in South Africa's public history. This was not the result of an Afrikaner Nationalist conspiracy but arose out of an attempt to create a settler nationalist ideology. The means to achieve this was a massive celebration throughout the country of the 300th anniversary of Van Riebeeck's landing. Here was an attempt to display the growing power of the apartheid state and to assert its confidence.A large festival fair and imaginative historical pageants were pivotal events in establishing the paradigm of a national history and constituting its key elements. The political project of the apartheid state was justified in the festival fair through the juxtaposition of ‘civilization’ and economic progress with ‘primitiveness’ and social ‘backwardness’. The historical pageant in the streets of Cape Town presented a version of South Africa's past that legitimated settler rule.Just as the Van Riebeeck tercentenary afforded the white ruling bloc an opportunity to construct an ideological hegemony, it was grasped by the Non-European Unity Movement and the African National Congress to launch political campaigns. Through the public mediums of the resistance press and the mass meeting these organizations presented a counter-history of South Africa. These oppositional forms were an integral part of the making of the festival and the Van Riebeeck icon. In the conflict which played itself out in 1952 there was a remarkable consensus about the meaning of Van Riebeeck's landing in 1652. The narrative constructed, both by those seeking to establish apartheid and those who sought to challenge it, represented Van Riebeeck as the spirit of apartheid and the originator of white domination. The ideological frenzy in the centre of Cape Town in 1952 resurrected Van Riebeeck from obscurity and historical amnesia to become the lead actor on South Africa's public history stage.

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