Flora of Southern Africa : the Republic of South Africa, Basutoland, Swaziland and South West Africa.

The decolonization process set in motion by the spectacular change of government in Lisbon in April 1974 produced a geopolitical earthquake across all of southern Africa. Its repercussions were deeply felt in the Republic of South Africa, where the government was forced to undertake a fundamental reassessment of South African relations with Mozambique, with Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and with Namibia (South West Africa).

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Sheep and Sheep-Herders in South Africa

Africa ◽

10.2307/1158050 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 432-438 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

A. R. Willcox

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

West Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Roman Period ◽

Middle Kingdom ◽

Hair Sheep ◽

South West ◽

South West Africa ◽

Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphIn a recent paper Mr. C. K. Cooke, F.S.A., discusses the questions of the introduction of sheep into Africa and their arrival in southern Africa (Cooke, 1965).Mr Cooke quotes Zeuner's conclusion (Zeuner, 1963) ‘that the first sheep in Africa were screw-horned hair sheep from Turkestan or Persia which reached lower Egypt about 5000 B.C. and Khartoum by 3300 B.C. This breed disappeared with the Middle Kingdom when it was replaced by a wool sheep and the fat-tailed sheep reached Africa only from the Roman period.’ Zeuner further asserts thatOne breed of sheep descended from the Egyptian hair-sheep had reached South-West Africa before the arrival of the Europeans. In these animals the profile is convex, the eyes are placed high on the skull and close to the drooping ears. The rams carry thick horns and a long ruff on the throat.

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South Africa and Terrorism

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900009359 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 6-8

Author(s):

Mary Jean Pew

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

West Africa ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Law And Order ◽

The Rule Of Law ◽

South West ◽

South West Africa ◽

Executive Action

World attention has been drawn in recent years to the intensification of organized militant action by Africans against the white ruling powers of southern Africa. The incidents have been sporadic, inadequately organized and equipped, doomed to fail from the outset. Nevertheless the governments have responded with comprehensive legislative and executive action to maintain “law and order” — undoubtedly a legitimate responsibility of any government, but one presumably to be reached by means that accord with norms of justice and the rule of law. Thirty-six men from South West Africa are currently being tried in South Africa for some allegedly terrorist activities on the basis of a law reflective more of a government that intends to maintain power by any means than one that is cognizant of standards of justice with which it, as much as any individual, should comply.

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Africa—Latin America—Asia—Middle East—Europe

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s0020860400068054 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 22 (227) ◽

pp. 102-116

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Latin America ◽

Middle East ◽

West Africa ◽

Prisoners Of War ◽

Foreign Affairs ◽

East Europe ◽

South West ◽

South West Africa ◽

The Republic

In February, the head of the ICRC delegation in the Republic of South Africa, Mr. N. de Rougemont, had interviews with the Minister of Police, the Commissioner of Police and senior officials of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. They discussed several points, including the possibility for ICRC delegates to visit categories of detainees not previously visited in the Republic of South Africa and to organize meetings, on the border with Angola, between delegates stationed in Windhoek and others in N'Giva (southern Angola), in order to facilitate the exchange of family messages and the dispatch of parcels to Angolan prisoners of war detained in Namibia/South-West Africa.

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The Genus Asparagus in Southern Africa*

Bothalia ◽

10.4102/abc.v9i1.1576 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 31-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

J. P. Jessop

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

West Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Main Part ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Nomen Nudum ◽

Chromosome Counts ◽

South West ◽

South West Africa

A revision of the genus Asparagus in South Africa, South West Africa, Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland has been undertaken. Notes are given on the value of most o f the characters which have been used in the separation of species, recent literature on the nature of Asparagus assimilatory organs, and a technique for the examination of chromosomes. Chromosome counts are listed for ten taxa. There is a key to the forty species and four varieties. In the main part of the work these taxa are described, and their synonymy, taxonomy, distribution and habitats dealt with. Six species and one variety are new. The following are the new species and combinations: A. setaceus (Kunth) (Asparagopsis setacea Kunth), A. mueronatus, A. macowanii Bak. var. zuluensis (N. E. Br.) (A. zuluensis N. E. Br.), A. rigidus, A. densiflorus (Kunth) {Asparagopsis densiflora Kunth), A. aethiopicus L. var. angusticladus, A. falcatus L. var. ternifolius (Bak.) (A. aethiopicus L. var. ternifolius Bak.), A. aspergillus, A. obermeyerae, A. krebsianus (Kunth) (Asparagopsis krebsiana Kunth), A. acocksii. A. crassicladus. Several plants o f horticultural importance occur in South Africa. The three best known are A. plumosus, which is reduced here to synonymy under A. setaceus (Kunth) Jessop, and A. sprengeri and A. myersii. A. sprengeri is being reduced to synonymy under A. densiflorus (Kunth) Jessop,. A. myersii, which is a nomen nudum, is also regarded as belonging to A. densiflorus.

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The Bantustan Proposals for South-West Africa

The Journal of Modern African Studies ◽

10.1017/s0022278x00013239 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 177-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anthony A. D'Amato

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

West Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Republican Party ◽

Left Wing ◽

South West ◽

The Face ◽

South West Africa ◽

The Right ◽

Nationalist Government

What Southern Africa will look like a generation from now is an immediate problem for the South African Government's top policy makers, who realise the precarious nature of apartheid. These planners have rejected both the do-nothing approach of the right-wing elements (e.g. the Republican Party) in South Africa and the multi-racial society solution pressed by Mrs Helen Suzman, the only Member of Parliament of the (relatively) left-wing Progressive Party. Between these two alternatives a host of partition schemes have been advocated, and one of them has been accepted: the ‘Bantustan’ proposals. By geographical isolation of each of the non-White ethnic groups into separate homelands or ‘Bantustans’, leaving the remainder of the territories of South Africa and South-West Africa to the Whites, the Nationalist Government is proceeding to change the face of Southern Africa.

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Notes on Boerhavia in Southern Africa

Bothalia ◽

10.4102/abc.v9i1.1578 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 113-121 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

L. E. Codd

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

West Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

South West ◽

South West Africa ◽

Introduced Weeds

A key is provided to the six species recognized in South Africa, of which B. pterocarpa S. Wats,and B. erecta L. are introduced weeds from America. B. deserticola (South West Africa) is described as new.

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OCEAN WAVE RESEARCH IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Coastal Engineering Proceedings ◽

10.9753/icce.v12.2 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 1 (12) ◽

pp. 2

Author(s):

J.A. Zwaborn ◽

C. Van Schaik ◽

A. Harper

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Reliable Data ◽

Ocean Wave ◽

South West ◽

South West Africa ◽

Wave Research ◽

The Republic ◽

Prediction Techniques ◽

Wave Recording

Wave recording on a national basis in South Africa commenced in 1967, when an "Ocean Wave Research" project was initiated, aimed at obtaining reliable data on sea conditions around the shorelines of the Republic and South West Africa and to improve on wave prediction techniques Various instruments are being used in this programme Some of the problems encountered in practice with these instruments and the agreement between the results obtained using various wave recorders simultaneously at the same station are discussed An indication of the volume of wave data so far obtained and the methods of analysing them are included.

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