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Eight decades of pasture plant improvement in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: A. Smith --- Department of Agriculture (Natal Region), J.M.L.C. Rhind --- Department of Agriculture (Natal Region),Pasture plant improvement in South Africa is reviewed. Before 1910 only introduction and evaluation took place but shortly after 1910 selections were made from tall fescue introductions. Early breeding programmes were established at Prinshof, Potchefstroom, Grahamstown and later Rietondale. -
Intergroup Attitude Change in South Africa: A Thirty-Seven Year Longitudinal Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan C. Mynhardt --- University of South Africa,This longitudinal study reports intergroup attitude changes in South Africa over a 37-year period beginning from the 1970s when the apartheid dispensation was still firmly in place, following by a second data collection period after a time of political turmoil... -
Historical analysis of the Journal of the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists and prospects for the development of a sub-Saharan African limnology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MJ Wishart --- Freshwater Research Unit, Department of Zoology, South Africa BR Davies --- Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Australia M Coke --- , South AfricaFor many years the Journal published by the Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists has aimed to provide a forum for the publication of research results, observations, comment, theories, hypotheses and other information on natural waters in and around Africa... -
The 'fishery' in South Africa's remaining coastal stonewall fish traps
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: LV Kemp GM Branch CA Attwood SJ LamberthAncient stonewall fish traps along the southern coast of South Africa, known locally as 'vywers', have both cultural and historical significance. Most have been degraded through neglect. Only two sets of vywers are actively maintained and fished, but without legal... -
Generational forgiveness and historical injustices: perspectives of descendants of victims of Apartheid-era gross human rights violations in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cyril K. Adonis --- Department of Interdisciplinary Research, College of Graduate Studies, South AfricaThis study explored the issue of generational forgiveness in the political sphere in contemporary South Africa. It is based on qualitative interviews conducted with 20 children and grandchildren (females = 10, males = 10) of victims of Apartheidera gross human rights violations. The interview... -
The use and perceived usefulness of IAS 29 restated financial statements by Zimbabwean investment analysts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: E Chamisa --- Department of Accounting,International Accounting Standard 29 (IAS 29) (Financial Reporting in Hyperinflationary Economies) asserts that, in a hyperinflationary economy, financial statements “are useful only if they are expressed in terms of the measuring unit current at the balance sheet date” (International Accounting... -
Shipwreck survivor camps: A neglected terrestrial component of maritime archaeology in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Elizabeth van Tonder --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaIn South Africa there has been limited systematic investigation of shipwreck survivor camps as an archaeological phenomenon. In most cases these sites are investigated purely as an adjunct to work on the associated wreck. The aim of this paper is... -
The Constitutional right to culture and the judicial development of Indigenous Law: a comparative analysis of cases
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Joan Church --- Department of Jurisprudence, Jacqueline Church --- Department of Procedural Law, Faculty of Law,Although integral to the culture of indigenous peoples in South Africa, indigenous law was historically only recognised as a personal law subservient to the general law. This is no longer so. In the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,... -
Structure and dynamics of demersal fish assemblages over three decades (1985–2012) of increasing fishing pressure in Guinea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ML Camara --- Centre National des Science Halieutiques de Boussoura (CNSHB), Republic of Guinea B Mérigot --- Université de Montpellier, France F Leprieur --- Université de Montpellier, France JA Tomasini --- Université de Montpellier, France I Diallo --- Centre National des Science Halieutiques de Boussoura (CNSHB), Republic of Guinea M Diallo --- Centre National des Science Halieutiques de Boussoura (CNSHB), Republic of Guinea D Jouffre --- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, SenegalIn a context of growing fishing pressures and recommendations for an ecosystem approach to fisheries, there is a need to monitor changes in fish communities over time. In this study, we analysed data from scientific trawl surveys carried out on... -
Impacts of alien ‘ecosystem engineers’ overwhelm interannual and seasonal shifts in rocky-shore community composition on Marcus Island, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: S Sadchatheeswaran --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa GM Branch --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa CL Moloney --- Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Research Institute, South Africa TB Robinson --- Department of Botany and Zoology, South AfricaThe South African coastline has been invaded by numerous alien species. Rare pre-invasion (1980) and post-invasion datasets (2001 and 2012) exist for Marcus Island, a small land-tied island in Saldanha Bay, South Africa. These snapshot datasets of the island’s intertidal... -
The Problematics of Naming in Kenyan Creative Narratives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Makau Kitata --- Literature, University of Nairobi, KenyaThere is a tendency in Kenyan literature, which can be defined as ahistorical ethnopolitanism. In this approach the writer chooses to use names of characters and places that indicate an attempt to see the Kenyan community from a distance. The... -
Mangrove colonisation of the Mlalazi Estuary, South Africa: a response to artificial breaching
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: RH Taylor --- Hydrology Department, South AfricaThe Mlalazi Estuary has 40 ha of mangroves, but before the 1930s there were none. The purpose of this study is to understand why this change occurred, and how the understanding thus gained can provide ecological information that will help... -
Trends in shore-based angling effort determined from aerial surveys: a case study from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: BQ Mann --- , South Africa JB Mann-Lang --- , South AfricaUnderstanding the spatiotemporal characteristics of effort is a critical component of managing fisheries. Recreational shore-angling is the largest sector of the linefishery and one of the primary recreational activities undertaken along the coast of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. The aim... -
The underlying concepts of the definition of a liability in financial reporting: A doctrinal research perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Daniël Coetsee --- , South AfricaAccounting literature has identified fundamental conceptual issues and uncertainties regarding the financial reporting treatment of liabilities. This paper assesses whether the underlying concepts for the definition of a liability are robust and sufficiently developed in the 2018 Conceptual Framework of... -
The names and naming of gannets comprising the genus Morus (family Sulidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Adrian Koopman --- , South AfricaThe gannet species found in the northern hemisphere can be fully identified as the Northern Gannet Morus bassanus in the family Sulidae. This full identity reveals four historical themes which intertwine to produce a number of historical and current names... -
The avifauna of Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal: a review of historical and recent ornithological records
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: John B Rose --- , France Oliver JL Fox --- , The Gambia Bram Piot --- , Laos Philippe Delaporte --- , FranceWe present the results of a review of the bird species historically observed in Niokolo-Koba National Park, a World Heritage Site and 913 000 ha natural protected area in southeastern Senegal. In carrying out this work we consulted both formal... -
Quasilattices and complex concept analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: G.N. Nop --- Iowa State University, USA J.D.H. Smith --- Iowa State University, USAQuasilattices are algebraic structures that comprise a semilattice-ordered system of lattices. In this paper, certain quasilattices (that are characterized abstractly by a local completeness property) provide an extension of Wille's concept analysis to the study of complex systems that function... -
Exploring the effects of historical legacies and patronage politics on human resource management in Ghana’s local government
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Mohammed Ibrahim --- Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, UK Farhad Hossain --- Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, UKThis paper examines human resource management (HRM) practices in Ghana's local government and advances a twofold argument. First, it shows that decentralization reforms introduced in the 1980s and 1990s locked the system into a path-dependent governance trajectory. This has narrowed...