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The potential for zoobenthic fauna dispersal into the St Lucia Estuary from the Mfolozi–Msunduzi estuarine system, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: RK Owen --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa DP Cyrus --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa L Vivier --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa HL Jerling --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South AfricaThe onset of a prolonged drought in the St Lucia catchment in 2002 and subsequent mouth closure raised concern for the biota of the estuary. Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife proposed a scheme whereby the Mfolozi–Msunduzi mouth would be closed, causing fresh... -
Rapid colonisation of artificial substrates by macroinvertebrates in a South African lentic environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AJ Booth --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa WT Kadye --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa T Vu --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa M Wright --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaMacroinvertebrate colonisation patterns on artificial substrates were investigated in a small reservoir in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Semi-closed 1 000 cm3 polythene netting cages filled with either brick, gravel, shredded plastic, or equal proportions of these three materials, were... -
Macroinvertebrate colonisation of artificial substrates in a Nigerian river I: gravel and leaf litter
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: JO Olomukoro U OkologumeBenthic macroinvertebrate colonisation of artificial gravel and leaf litter substrates over periods of four to 40 days was examined in the Ogba River, Benin City, Nigeria. Of all the assemblages of organisms identified (398 individuals, 27 taxa) on different substrates,... -
Recent distributional changes of seabirds in South Africa: is climate having an impact?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: RJM Crawford AJ Tree PA Whittington J Visagie L Upfold KJ Roxburg AP Martin BM DyerThere have been recent changes in the distributions of several seabirds in South Africa. In the mid-1990s, breeding of Leach's storm petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa was recorded in the Western Cape, the first record for the Southern Hemisphere. There was a... -
Land is for people—experiences of the community of Khuis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: PA Erasmus --- Department of Anthropology,This study is an investigation into the social history of the Tlharo, with the aim of articulating and clarifying the particular nature of their experiences in respect of land-related issues. Their circumstances are described against the background of the course... -
Alternative substrates for cultivating oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Mashudu R Masevhe --- Agricultural Research Council–Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Crops, South Africa Puffy Soundy --- Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Science, South Africa Nicolette J Taylor --- Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, South AfricaWheat straw has generally been used as the main substrate for cultivating oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus); however, in South Africa it is becoming expensive for small-scale farmers to utilise. Therefore, the main objective of the study was to investigate the... -
Group B streptococcus colonisation in pregnant women at Dr. George Mukhari Hospital, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: MC Monyama --- Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, South Africa JY Bolukaoto --- Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, South Africa MO Chukwu --- Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, South Africa MRB Maloba --- Department of Microbiological Pathology, South Africa SR Moyo --- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Namibia RT Mavenyengwa --- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences, Namibia M Nchabeleng --- Department of Microbiological Pathology, South Africa SL Lebelo --- Department of Life and Consumer Sciences, South AfricaThe aim of the study was to estimate group B streptococcus (GBS) colonisation in pregnant mothers using selective enrichment broth and solid media for culturing GBS. Vaginal and rectal swabs were collected from 413 pregnant women for GBS culture at... -
What is anthropology that decolonising scholarship should be mindful of it?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hylton White --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaDecolonising scholarship in South African anthropology has met with an ingrained scepticism about ethnographic valorisations of forms of life that claim to be indigenous. This scepticism comes from a very long history of opposing ethnological essentialisms created in the colonial... -
Implications of geographical range changes and resultant sympatry for three Accipiter hawks on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Robin M Little --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South Africa Rene A Navarro --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, South AfricaSome invasive species are known to compete with and even displace indigenous species. Two Accipiter species historically indigenous to eastern South Africa have colonised the Cape Peninsula in the south-west of the country and have become sympatric with a third... -
Sheep, herbs and blood on the beach: discrepant representations of ritual acts for essentialising and reinforcing difference in contemporary South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew D. Spiegel --- , South AfricaSouth Africa’s 2018/2019 summer holidays were marked by a flurry of media reports describing, some in vivid, graphic detail, the ritual slaughter of a sheep on a popular Cape Town beach by a group of #MustFall activists. Their action was... -
Screening of ectomycorrhizal and other associated fungi in South African forest nurseries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: V Chartier FitzGerald --- , South Africa J Dames --- , South Africa G Hawley --- , South AfricaThe South African forestry industry covers approximately 1.3 million hectares and is dependent on exotic pine and eucalypt species. Nursery seedlings are not inoculated with ectomycorrhizal (ECM) fungi. This investigation assessed levels of naturally occurring ECM colonisation of Pinus patula... -
Contextual relevance and decolonisation of South African Industrial Psychology training: An exploratory case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Edel-Quinn F. Nibafu --- , South Africa Marieta Du Plessis --- , South Africa Fatima Abrahams --- , South AfricaThis study explored the contextual relevance of Industrial Psychology training in a South African university, focussing on its responsiveness to contemporary multi-cultural work settings. Our purposive sample of informants (n = 15, female = 66.67%, South African black citizens =... -
Critical Literary Arts in Action: The Decolonial Project of Ba re e ne re within and beyond Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Lineo Segoete --- , Lesotho Zachary Rosen --- , LesothoIn this article we explore the historical construction of literary infrastructure established in Lesotho. Building on an analysis of Sesotho language orthography by Dr Litšepiso Matlosa, we recall the colonial genesis of written Sesotho by Swiss and French missionaries. As... -
Decolonising and Africanising the Spanish studies curriculum under emergency online teaching: introducing Equatorial Guinean literature in South African higher education
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nereida Ripero-Muñiz --- , South Africa Thato Senabe --- , South Africa Musa Maseko --- , South Africa Yolanda Reigadas --- , South AfricaThis is a reflective piece that explores the process of creating and implementing a new course at the University of the Witwatersrand on the literature of Equatorial Guinea under emergency online teaching that took place in 2020 due to the... -
Determining the post-herbivore-exclusion effect on an intertidal community by the recovery response of a known dominant herbivore
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: DC van den Berg --- , South Africa K Sethebe --- , South Africa GW Maneveldt --- , South AfricaFollowing a long-term herbivore-exclusion study (2003-2008) in the mid-eulittoral zone at Kalk Bay, Cape Town, South Africa, the post-herbivore-exclusion effect (12 years later) of the limpet Cymbula oculus, the dominant herbivore in the community, was examined after it had recolonised... -
Colonisation theory and invasive biota: the Great Fish River case history, 35 years later
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Pule P Mpopetsi --- Rhodes University, South Africa Wilbert T Kadye --- Rhodes University, South AfricaUsing the Great Fish River, South Africa, Laurenson and Hocutt (1986) proposed a colonisation theory outlining the characteristics of successful invaders and the properties of aquatic habitats that facilitate successful fish invasions. The Great Fish River has modified flow due... -
La Cuisine Pied Noir: wandering in “nostalgia-scape”
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Rainer Maria Wieshammer --- , Klaes Eringa --- ,The year 1962 marked the end of the colonial occupation of Algeria by France after more than 130 years. In the wake of a bloody war of independence, nearly 700 000 former European settlers left their old homeland under dramatic... -
Hunting the hippo: a brief history of wildlife hunting and the reconfiguration of animal-human relations in Namibia’s Zambezi region
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hauke-Peter Vehrs --- University of Cologne, GermanyThe Zambezi region in north-eastern Namibia is located at the centre of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), an area that is endowed with a great variety of wildlife and managed not only to protect this asset but also... -
Transforming language discourse in higher education through reading modules in African languages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Nkidi Phatudi --- College of Education, University of South Africa, Millicent Ngema --- College of Education, University of South Africa,The discourses around teaching and learning in South Africa are intense, with English still being a preferred language of learning and teaching at higher education level. The dominance of English as the language that unifies societies economically and politically marginalises... -
Exploring the integration of indigenous languages into teaching and learning practices at primary schools in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Mousin Omarsaib --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Muvhulawa Matumba --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Patricia Badenhorst --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Ghulam Masudh Mohamed --- Durban University of Technology, South AfricaThis systematic literature review explores the integration of indigenous languages (ILs) into teaching and learning practices at primary schools in South Africa. The authors examine the current state and preparedness of teachers in integrating ILs to enhance learning. The PRISMA...