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Conservation Developments in South African Forestry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: R. McC. Pott --- ,The historical development of environmental conservational activities within the South African Forestry Industry is followed, and the changing emphasis from the conservation of the remaining indigenous forests (pre-1900) to water conservation, to natural assets and unplanted areas is highlighted. The... -
A preliminary investigation of woody plant increase in the western Transvaal and implications for veld assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: MargaretH. Friedel --- Division of Wildlife and Rangelands Research, AustraliaThe relationships between tree density and indices of pasture and soil condition were examined in Western Transvaal grasslands where Acacia karroo had increased following disturbance. The correlation between tree density and pasture condition was not linear, indicating a threshold in... -
The development of veld assessment in the northern Transvaal savanna I. Red Turfveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Grassland Society of Southern Africa • Authors: M.H. Friedel --- Division of Wildlife and Rangelands Research, Australia A.C. Blackmore --- ,Grazing‐induced gradients in pasture species composition were characterized for the red turfveld of the Northern Transvaal savanna. A proposed classification of pasture species response to grazing was developed and the influence of state variables and driving forces other than grazing... -
A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF ASPECTS OF THE ECOLOGY OF A RARE MINNOW BARBUS TREURENSIS GROENEWALD, 1958 (PISCES: CYPRINIDAE) FROM THE EASTERN TRANSVAAL, SOUTH AFRICA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: C.J. Kleynhans --- Transvaal Nature Conservation Division, South AfricaThe habitat preferences, food habits, reproduction, age and population size of Barbus treurensis were investigated as part of a survey of the threatened fish of the Transvaal. Barbus treurensis occurs only in an isolated section of the Blyde River tributary... -
DEEP SEA, ESTUARINE AND FRESHWATER FISHES: LIFE HISTORY STRATEGIES AND ECOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: S. J.M. Blaber --- Division of Fisheries, AustraliaThe life histories of fishes from three different ecosystems are compared and discussed with emphasis on species that move between habitats: between estuary and sea in tropical northern Australia; between bottom waters and pelagic waters of the temperate continental slope... -
INFLUENCE OF FRESHWATER FLOW REGIME ON FISH ASSEMBLAGES IN THE GREAT FISH RIVER AND ESTUARY
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: L.D. Ter Morshuizen --- , South Africa A.K. Whitfield --- , South Africa A.W. Paterson --- , South AfricaTwo and a half years of data were collected from the lower Great Fish River, head region and estuary to determine the fish species composition within these areas. Gilchristella aestuaria, Liza dumerilii, Rhabdosargus holubi and Pomadasys commersonnii were the four... -
Spatial and temporal variation in a mesic savanna fire regime: responses to variation in annual rainfall
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: DA Balfour OE HowisonThis paper analyses the fire regime over 41 years (1956 to 1996) in Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, a mesic savanna area in South Africa. The study focuses at the landscape scale of tens of kilometres and at the medium term temporal scale... -
Retraction and expansion of flock mobility in Central Asia: costs and consequences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Carol Kerven Ilya Ilych Alimaev Roy Behnke Grant Davidson Leen Franchois Nurlan Malmakov Erik Mathijs Aidos Smailov Sayat Temirbekov Iain WrightSeasonal and spatial fluctuations in forage quality, accessibility and output provide strong incentives for migratory stock keeping in Central Asia. Over the past century, mobile livestock husbandry has either been suppressed or collapsed and a fragmented pattern of rangeland use... -
Transformation of a savanna grassland by drought and grazing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: T.G. O'Connor --- , Republic of South AfricaThe relative effects of drought and heavy grazing on the floristic composition, population size and structure, and basal cover of an African savanna grassland were differentiated by comparing changes over eight years, which included a severe drought year, across a... -
Vegetation change over 40 years in the Weenen/Muden area, KwaZulu-Natal: evidence from photo-panoramas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: M.T. Hottman T.G. O'ConnorThe utility of panoramic photographs for studying the extent and pattern of vegetation change, in particular of bush encroachment, was investigated by revisiting thirteen sites in the Weenen and Muden areas of KwaZulu-Natal that had been photographed in 1955. The... -
General history of the South African Forest Industry: 2003 to 2006
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: W. J. A. LouwThe reason for the survival and growth of the Forestry Industry is its ability to adapt to change. The Industry has a proven record of innovation and entrepreneurial ability to meet the challenges of the future. Taking into account the... -
Necessity and sufficiency in the aetiology of HIV/AIDS: The science, history and politics of the causal link
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ulrike Kistner --- , South AfricaAn earlier version of this paper was presented at the AIDS in Context Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 4–7 April 2001 -
Embodied history. Uniqueness and exemplarity of South African AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Didier Fassin --- ,The exceptionality of AIDS in South Africa, both for its epidemiological features and public controversies, seems to have its correspondence in the exceptionalism of South African history, with its unprecedented regime of apartheid and its unexpected turn to democracy. The... -
Challenging power and meaning: outlining the popular epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Rakai, Uganda, c. 1975–1990
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jan Kuhanen --- Department of History, FinlandThis article traces the historical evolution of conditions that favoured the spread of HIV in Rakai district, Uganda, and the process of evolution of the local, popular epidemiology of HIV and AIDS. It argues that the HIV epidemic was made... -
A critical historical analysis of the South African Catholic Church's HIV/AIDS response between 2000 and 2005
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Stephen Muoki Joshua --- School of Religion and Theology, Department of History of Christianity, South AfricaThe South African HIV and AIDS experience is unique in many ways considering the country's delayed and robust epidemic, the apartheid context, and successive HIV-denialist government regimes. While the struggle for democracy may have overshadowed the enormity of the unfolding... -
Branchipodopsis species — specialists of ephemeral rock pools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: L Brendonck ML Hamer BJ Riddoch MT SeamanThe anostracan Branchipodopsis genus is widespread throughout southern Africa and is the second most speciose anostracan taxon in this sub-continent. Branchipodopsis species are particularly dominant in small short-lived and clear rock pools, to the vagaries of which they are extremely... -
Algae, phytoplankton and eutrophication research and management in South Africa: past, present and future
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: CE van Ginkel --- , South AfricaA brief history of South African research on and management of algae-, phytoplankton- and eutrophication-related problems is presented, including their ecological, social and economic impacts, which provides a basis for formulation of future research needs. The contributions of southern African... -
Historical commercial West Coast rock lobster Jasus lalandii landings in South African waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: R Melville-Smith L van SittertHistoric data from 1891 to 2001 on the annual exports of rock lobster Jasus lalandii products (canned, frozen tails, raw whole frozen, cooked whole frozen and live) from the South African west coast are used to estimate the annual commercial... -
Stock separation and life history of Argyrozona argyrozona (Pisces: Sparidae) on the South African east coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SL Brouwer MH GriffithsFishery independent biomass surveys and commercial linefish catch returns were used to elucidate the spatial patterns of carpenter Argyrozona argyrozona distributed along the South African continental shelf. Two distinct areas of abundan ce ere determined, one on the central and... -
Maintenance mechanisms of plankton populations in frontal zones in the Benguela and Angola Current systems: a preface
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: HM Verheye W EkauThis preface provides the background to, and synthesis of research findings from, a set of environmental research-driven cruises off southern Angola, Namibia and South Africa during February–March 2002, under the auspices the BENguela Environment Fisheries Interaction and Training (BENEFIT) Programme... -
The presence of right whales in summer on the west coast of South Africa: the evidence from historical records
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: PB BestConventionally, southern right whales Eubalaena australis are portrayed as spending the summer on feeding grounds in the Antarctic and the winter on breeding grounds in coastal waters of the southern continents. Historical whaling records challenge this perception in the case... -
The life history of the giant octopus Octopus magnificus in South African waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CD Smith JC Groeneveld G MaharajOctopus magnificus is a regular bycatch of traps set for spiny lobsters and bottom trawls for Cape hakes Merluccius spp. on the continental shelf of South Africa. Octopuses were collected from rocky substrata (traps) and soft sediments (research trawls) during... -
Life-history parameters of white stumpnose Rhabdosargus globiceps (Pisces: Sparidae) in Saldanha Bay, South Africa, with evidence of stock separation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CG Attwood --- Marine Research Institute, Department of Zoology, South Africa TF Næsje --- , Norway L Fairhurst --- , South Africa SE Kerwath --- Marine Research Institute, Department of Zoology, South AfricaWhite stumpnose Rhabdosargus globiceps were sampled over 24 months in Saldanha Bay on the west coast of South Africa. The species is a rudimentary hermaphrodite, with <1% of mature fish having simultaneously developed ovaries and testes. Spawning activity extended from... -
Spawning strategies and transport of early stages of the two Cape hake species, Merluccius paradoxus and M. capensis, in the southern Benguela upwelling system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: B Grote --- , Germany EK Stenevik --- , Norway W Ekau --- , Germany HM Verheye --- Oceans and Coasts Research, Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa MR Lipiński --- Branch: Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, South Africa W Hagen --- Marine Zoology, GermanySeasonal and short-term variability of environmental parameters influence the spawning strategies of fish species. In this study, the spawning strategies and the transport of early stages of the two Cape hake species off South Africa were investigated. Distribution of eggs... -
The biology of Barnard's dentex, Dentex barnardi (Teleostei: Sparidae), in southern Angola
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: TJ Richardson --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa WM Potts --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa WHH Sauer --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaBarnard's dentex Dentex barnardi is a relatively slow-growing, late-maturing species with an intermediate longevity (maximum recorded age = 13 years). The length and age structures of the population were similar for males and females; however, the sex ratio was female... -
General history of the South Mrican forest industry: 1975 to 1990
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: W. J. A. Louw --- Department of Forestry, South AfricaThe more important events and developments in the history of the forest industry are summarized. The industry matured and expanded during this period in a number of aspects of which increase in exports and the emergence of the private sector... -
General history of the South African forest industry : 1991 to 2002
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: W.J.A. Louw --- Department of Forestry,“dapt or die” is a cliche that is often used to emphasise the need to change to ensure survival and sustained growth. During the 1990s the Forest Industry had to do just that. Never in the history of forestry did... -
Public-private partnerships as a strategy against HIV/AIDS in South Africa: the influence of historical legacies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Viviane Brunne --- , Switzerland 1In the face of the extreme challenges posed by the South African HIV/AIDS epidemic, collaboration between public and private partners is often called for in an attempt to mobilise additional resources and generate synergies. This paper shows that the ability... -
Addressing the HIV/AIDS—food insecurity syndemic in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: DavidA Himmelgreen --- Department of Anthropology, United States Nancy Romero-Daza --- Department of Anthropology, United States David Turkon --- Department of Anthropology, United States Sharon Watson --- Department of Anthropology, United States Ipolto Okello-Uma --- Department of Animal Science, Lesotho Daniel Sellen --- Departments of Anthropology and Public Health Sciences, CanadaRecently a few vocal health experts have suggested that some of the billions of dollars currently used to prevent and treat HIV and AIDS be reallocated to address more basic problems such as malnutrition, tuberculosis, malaria, and enteric and diarrheal... -
Variation in population structure and life-history parameters of steentjies Spondyliosoma emarginatum: effects of exploitation and biogeography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: KL Tunley --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Zoology, South Africa CG Attwood --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Zoology, South Africa CL Moloney --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Zoology, South Africa L Fairhurst --- , South AfricaThe size and age structures, sex ratio, size- and age-at-sex-change, growth and mortality rate of the protogynous hermaphrodite, steentjie Spondyliosoma emarginatum, were compared to determine the effects on population structure and life-history parameters of exploitation (comparing an unexploited reserve and... -
Factors affecting recapture rates of raggedtooth sharks Carcharias taurus tagged off the east coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ML Dicken --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa AJ Booth --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa MJ Smale --- , South AfricaUnderstanding differences in the recapture rate between different tags (A-, B- and C-types), capture methods (rock-and-surf anglers, scientific divers and Natal Sharks Board protection nets) and life-history stages (juvenile and adult) is critical in evaluating the results obtained from cooperative... -
Pioneers in South African Anaesthesia:
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: R Hofmeyr --- Department of Anaesthesia, PC Gordon --- Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum Department of Anaesthesia, -
Pioneers in South African Anaesthesia:
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: PC Gordon --- University of Cape Town, ND Hauser --- Department of Anaesthesia, J Marais --- Groote Schuur Hospital, -
Pioneers in South African Anaesthesia: Dr Heyman Harold (Heymie) Samson, anaesthetic innovator
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: PC Gordon --- Nagin Parbhoo History of Anaesthesia Museum, Department of Anaesthesia, RW Nieuwveld --- Department of Anaesthesia, -
The evolution of gout (an old lifestyle disease)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: OB Omole --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care, South AfricaBackground: Few diseases that confront the 21st century clinician have documented history which dates back to early human era. -
Variations in moult, morphology, movement and survival rates of the Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus within southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Bo T Bonnevie --- Information Technology Division, South AfricaRinging data from the South African bird ringing unit, SAFRING, were analysed to explore variations and trends in population parameters of the Sombre Greenbul Andropadus importunus in southern Africa. Adult and juvenile body mass increased southwards, whereas the relative sizes... -
Europe's long history of extracting African renewable energy: Contexts for African scientists, technologists, innovators and policy-makers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kate B. Showers --- Centre for World Environmental History, United KingdomHaving failed to identify local energy supplies compliant with Kyoto Protocol obligations, the EU turned to Africa in the 21st C. According to definition, the term ‘renewable energy’ source equally describes slaves, forests and rivers. Environmental history analysis demonstrates the... -
Historification and Kenya's Plural Identities: Re-reading Ngugi's Historiography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jairus Omuteche --- Department of Language and Literature Education, KenyaThis article critiques Ngugi wa Thi ong'o's strategies of constructing nationalism and heroism in some of his creative works. This critical re-reading focuses on Ngugi's choice and projections of characters in relation to historical epoch and setting, evaluating how the... -
The Intersection of the Self and History in Kenyan Autobiographies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jennifer Muchiri --- Department of Literature, KenyaLife writing has increasingly become a popular genre which calls for sustained interrogation and analysis of the narratives produced. The autobiography is not only the story of the narrating subject but can be read as the history of the society... -
Population dynamics and biology of an invasive population of mosquitofish Gambusia affinis in a temperate estuarine lake system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Hans Sloterdijk --- Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Germany Nicola C James --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South Africa M Kyle S Smith --- South African National Parks, Rondevlei Scientific Services, South Africa Werner Ekau --- Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Germany Olaf LF Weyl --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South AfricaThis study investigates the distribution, relative abundance, population growth and biology of the alien invasive fish Gambusia affinis in the Wilderness Lakes System, a coastal lake system in the warm-temperate region of South Africa. Fish were collected throughout the system... -
Who named it in anaesthesia?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: AA Abraham --- Department of Anaesthesia, IndiaThe history of modern anaesthesia started on October 16, 1846 when WTG Morton demonstrated ether anaesthesia in Massachusetts General Hospital in USA. For about one month the new born branch of medicine was without a name. The word anaesthesia as... -
Ecology of Wahlberg’s velvet gecko, Homopholis wahlbergii, in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Martin J. Whiting --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Leeann T. Reaney --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa J. Scott Keogh --- School of Botany and Zoology, The Australian National University, AustraliaWe examined 170 museum specimens of the southern African gekkonid lizard Homopholis wahlbergii, to quantify sexual dimorphism, male and female reproductive cycles and diet. The largest male and female we recorded were 116 and 119 mm snout–vent length (SVL) respectively... -
Standing on the shoulders of colourful giants: 50 years of zoological research in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Peter J. Taylor --- Durban Natural Science Museum, South Africa Michelle Hamer --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, South AfricaOn the occasion of a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa (ZSSA), the history of the Society is outlined in terms of its different ‘growth stages’ under different political dispensations and geographical headquarters, of... -
High population connectivity and Pleistocene range expansion in the direct-developing plough shell Bullia rhodostoma along the South African coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: T Muteveri --- Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa CA Matthee --- Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa RCK Bowie --- Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, USA S von der Heyden --- Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, South AfricaPleistocene climatic and oceanographic changes have influenced the distribution of marine biodiversity in southern Africa. Most evidence, however, has been derived from rocky shore or demersal taxa; data on sandy shore species are limited, despite severe threats to many sandy... -
Prospects for the advancement of Women Chartered Accountants in Public Accounting firms in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: E. Sadler --- University of South Africa,Female chartered accountants comprise a small minority of the accounting profession in South Africa, although dramatic increases in their numbers have occurred in recent years. The personnel partners of a selection of public accounting firms were surveyed about their employment... -
The accounting function of John Company’s Cape of Good Hope factory 1812–1813, during the second British occupation of the Cape colony – observations and comments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: J G Samkin --- Department of Accountancy,This paper reviews and makes observations on the accounting functions of the Cape of Good Hope factory of the English East India Company during the period 1812–1813. In particular, the accounting records maintained by the Cape factory are examined. By... -
Age and growth of the common blacktip shark Carcharhinus limbatus from Indonesia, incorporating an improved approach to comparing regional population growth rates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JJ Smart --- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, Australia A Chin --- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, Australia AJ Tobin --- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, Australia CA Simpfendorfer --- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture, Australia WT White --- CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere Flagship, AustraliaAge and growth estimates from length‑at‑age data were produced for the common blacktip shark Carcharhinus limbatus from Indonesia. Back‑calculation techniques were used due to a low sample size (n = 30), which was dominated by large, mature sharks. A multi‑model... -
Beyond Jaws: rediscovering the ‘lost sharks’ of southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: DA Ebert --- Pacific Shark Research Center, USA KE van Hees --- Pacific Shark Research Center, USASouthern Africa has one of the richest and most diverse chondrichthyan faunas in the world, comprising all 13 orders, 49 families, 111 genera and approximately 204 species. This represents nearly 20% of all known chondrichthyans, and includes 117 shark, 79... -
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... -
Exercise in futility or dawn of Afrikaner self-determination: an exploratory ethno-historical investigation of Orania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: FC de Beer --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaDue to their ethnic diversity nation states have the arduous task of accommodating various identity conscious groups within their boundaries. Nation-building programmes and strategies are employed mostly to unite the heterogeneous populations of nation states, as is currently also being... -
The ‘picaninny wage’. An historical overview of the persistence of structural inequality and child labour in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: S.L. Levine --- Department of Social Anthropology,This paper considers the recruitment of children and youths in colonial and post colonial South Africa. It explores the early legislation that transformed the nature of childhood in pre-colonial South Africa, and contributes to emerging scholarship on social constructions of... -
Silencing the past: historical and archaeological colonisation of the Southern San in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Francis --- Athabasca University, I University Drive, CanadaThe San of the Drakensberg are assumed to be extinct. Yet, there are Zulu-speaking people in the Drakensberg who still identify as San. These people and their claims both challenge the preconceived notions of what it means to be San... -
Roald Dahl: A psychosexual developmental trajectory study illustrated within psychobiography
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Paul Fouché --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Humanities, South Africa Tania Holz --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Humanities, South AfricaThis study applies analytical psychobiography, particularly Freud's psychoanalytic apporoach, to the study of the psychosexual development of Roald Dahl (1916–1990), a renowned children's author, gentleman spy, connoisseur, and philanthropist of his time. Data sources for the analysis included primary and... -
The Dracula killer: A psychobiographical illustration of the Schahriar syndrome model for serial murder
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Paul Fouché --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Humanities, South Africa Hanlie Nel --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Humanities, South Africa Pravani Naidoo --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of the Humanities, South AfricaThis psychobiographical study of Richard Trenton Chase (1950–1980), a serial murderer, has the aim to uncover the psychic mechanisms characteristic of his functioning. The study included primary and secondary data sources. All materials collected and analysed, were published and publically... -
The spiritual wellness of Beyers Naudé: A psychobiographical study of a South African anti-apartheid theologian
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Paul Fouché --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, South Africa Barbara Burnell --- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, South Africa Roelf van Niekerk --- Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, South AfricaThe study explores and describes Beyers Naudé's (1915–2004) spiritual wellness across his lifespan. Naudé's life history was uncovered through the systematic collection and analyses of life history materials. Data were interpreted applying the Wheel of Wellness model (WoW) by Sweeney... -
Psychobiography in psychology: Past, present, and future
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joseph G. Ponterotto --- Division of Psychological and Educational Services, USAThe present article reviews the history and emerging trends in the field of psychobiography. Five historical periods are highlighted: hagiography and pre-19th century study of lives; Freud and applied psychoanalysis; psychodynamic extensions and personology; modern multi-theoretical models; and psychobiography as... -
Luxury and innovation: Towards an evaluative framework
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: • Authors: Michael Riley --- Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom Edith Szivas --- International Centre for Hotel and Resort Management, University of West London, London, United KingdomThis conceptual paper uses a historical and psychological analysis of luxury to argue that it is has been, and continues to be, a driver of innovation in the tourism and hospitality industries. In examining the relationship between creativity and innovation, the paper... -
A Profile of the East African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Frederick Onyango Ogola --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya George N. Njenga --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya Peter C. Mhando --- The Pennsylvania State University, USA Moses N. Kiggundu --- Carleton University Sprott School of Business, CanadaRegional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a general synopsis of the East African Community (EAC) and traces the evolution of regional integration in Eastern Africa from colonial times to the present... -
Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann from Leipzig to Potchefstroom University: scholarly committed, ethically ambivalent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: N.S. (Fanie) Jansen van Rensburg --- Social Anthropology, School of Social and Government Studies, South AfricaWhile Friedrich Rudolf Lehmann, Potchefstroom's first volkekunde [ethnology] professor, worked and associated with well-known and ardent supporters of the Nazi government in Germany, his German colleagues critiqued his lukewarm commitment to Nazism. Later, this political ambivalence also marked his time... -
Resource partitioning in two coexisting cladocerans, Daphnia magna and Scapheloberis kingi (Anomopoda: Daphniidae), in north-eastern Algeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: K Chakri --- Laboratoire de Recherche et de Conservation des Zones Humides, Algeria B Samraoui --- Laboratoire de Recherche et de Conservation des Zones Humides, AlgeriaLife-history traits of two coexisting cladocerans, Daphnia magna Straus and Scapheloberis kingi Sars, inhabiting a temporary pond in north-eastern Algeria were monitored in 2013 under laboratory conditions. Their life histories were compared for differences in traits such as age and... -
Oral histories of HIV/AIDS support group members, NGO workers and home-based carers in KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Philippe Denis --- School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, South AfricaThe purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the AIDS research community the existence of an oral history project known as the Memories of AIDS Project. The project focused on HIV/AIDS support group members, non-governmental organisation... -
Observations of terrestrial locomotion in wild Polypterus senegalus from Lake Albert, Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: TY Du --- Redpath Museum, Canada HCE Larsson --- Redpath Museum, Canada EM Standen --- Department of Biology, CanadaPolypterids, the most basal actinopterygians, are a group of fish long-considered living fossils and holding a key position for understanding fish and tetrapod evolution. Knowledge of the natural history of Polypterus is limited, their having been studied in little detail... -
The amazing Minivent ventilator
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: PC Gordon --- Department of Anaesthesia, South Africa LC Howell --- Department of Critical Care, South AfricaIn the mid-1960s Dr Anthony Cohen, an anaesthetist in private practice in Johannesburg, developed the Minivent respirator in response to the lack of ventilators that existed at that time in operating theatres in both private and state hospitals. The remarkable,... -
Using stable isotope analysis to study the diet of Gilchristella aestuaria larvae: preliminary insights into the foodwebs of six South African estuaries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: D Costalago --- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Sweden NAF Miranda --- DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow Water Ecosystems, Department of Zoology, South Africa NA Strydom --- Department of Zoology, South Africa R Perissinotto --- DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow Water Ecosystems, Department of Zoology, South AfricaSouth African estuarine systems are becoming increasingly altered by anthropogenic and environmental factors, but the consequences of such changes for these systems are still not fully understood. The most common approach for evaluating the ecological status of aquatic systems is... -
Life cycle of chokka-squid Loligo reynaudii in South African waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MR Lipiński --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa JSF van der Vyver --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa P Shaw --- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University Penglais, UK WHH Sauer --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaThis short note summarises past and current knowledge of the life cycle of chokka-squid Loligo reynaudii d’Orbigny, 1845, in South African waters. Prior to approximately 2010, the chokka-squid stock was considered simple and uniform, with one paralarval pool, the drift... -
Luxury and innovation: Towards an evaluative framework
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Michael Riley --- Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, United Kingdom Edith Szivas --- International Centre for Hotel and Resort Management, United KingdomThis conceptual paper uses a historical and psychological analysis of luxury to argue that it is has been, and continues to be, a driver of innovation in the tourism and hospitality industries. In examining the relationship between creativity and innovation,... -
Things Fall Apart and the Pedagogy of Adichie’s Single Story
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Eve Eisenberg --- English Department, USAThis essay undertakes a critical examination of the epistemological and pedagogical risks and rewards of teaching Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in American secondary schools. I consider these issues from several different viewpoints. Recent research suggests that American students receive... -
Population connectivity of an overexploited coastal fish, Argyrosomus coronus (Sciaenidae), in an ocean-warming hotspot
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: R Henriques --- Evolutionary Genomics Group, Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa WM Potts --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa CV Santos --- Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade Agostinho Neto (FCUAN), Angola WHH Sauer --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa PW Shaw --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaThe West Coast dusky kob Argyrosomus coronus is a commercially exploited fish with a distribution confined to the Angola–Benguela Frontal Zone (ABFZ) of the southeastern Atlantic Ocean. A previous study revealed that during a recent period of local warming the... -
The Role of Interpreters during the Early Portuguese Presence in East Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Joseph A. B. Jackson-Eade --- Global Cultures, History and Oriental Studies, ItalyThe entry of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean caused hitherto mutually unknown societies to come into contact with each other. In this process, the figure of the interpreter played a key role. This article explores the complex relationship between... -
Kipchamba Arap Tapotuk’s Music: Oral Narratives, (Hi)story and Culture of the Kalenjin People
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Charles Kipng’eno Rono --- Literature, Theatre and Film, KenyaFocusing on the Koilong’eet Band, this paper is an interrogation of how the selected songs by Kipchamba Arap Tapotuk incorporate Kalenjin oral techniques to create a space for narrating the past and the culture of the Kalenjin people. By conducting... -
Spatial distribution, seasonal abundance and exploitation status of shark species in Kenyan coastal waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: BK Kiilu --- Kenya Fisheries Services, Kenya B Kaunda-Arara --- Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Kenya RM Oddenyo --- Coral Reef Conservation Project, Kenya P Thoya --- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kenya JM Njiru --- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, KenyaEfforts to conserve and manage shark populations are often hampered by a lack of basic data, such as species-specific landings and distribution ranges. We bridge this gap in coastal East Africa by providing data on the distributions, catch rates, morphometrics,... -
Age, growth and per-recruit stock assessment of southern mullet Chelon richardsonii in Saldanha Bay and Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: M Horton --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa D Parker --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa H Winker --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, South Africa SJ Lamberth --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, South Africa K Hutchings --- Anchor Environmental Consultants, South Africa SE Kerwath --- Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaThe southern mullet Chelon richardsonii (Mugilidae) is the main target species of the inshore net fishery (gillnet and beach-seine) on the west coast of South Africa. The stock has displayed symptoms of overfishing, with a 28% reduction in the standardised... -
Football and forlorn hope: an ethnographic comic concerning the Grahamstown Soccer Association from 1975 to 1985
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Shawn Forde --- School of Kinesiology, CanadaThis ethnographic comic presents research that was conducted in Makhanda (previously Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The comic only tells a partial story, based on ethnographic and historical research, relating to soccer, nostalgia, hope and violence. It... -
Population structure and growth of the beaked clam Eumarcia paupercula (Bivalvia, Veneridae) in Maputo Bay, Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ED Mugabe --- Centre of Coastal Studies and School of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Mozambique CA Amoda --- Centre of Coastal Studies and School of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Mozambique CL Griffiths --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaThe edible beaked clam Eumarcia paupercula (Holten, 1802) is an abundant component of the intertidal infauna in Maputo Bay, Mozambique, and is an important source of food and income for local communities. This study investigates the population structure and estimates... -
Life history, distribution and seasonal movements of a threatened South African endemic seabream, Chrysoblephus gibbiceps
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CG Attwood --- Department of Biological Sciences and the Marine Research Institute, South Africa ME Dawson --- Department of Biological Sciences and the Marine Research Institute, South Africa SE Kerwath --- Department of Biological Sciences and the Marine Research Institute, South Africa C Wilke --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South AfricaThe red stumpnose Chrysoblephus gibbiceps (Sparidae) is a South African endemic seabream that has been severely depleted by fishing. A total of 678 C. gibbiceps were sampled by line and trawl fishing for a study of their morphology, age, growth,... -
Review of fish life history strategies associated with warm temperate South African estuaries and a call for effective integrated management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: NA Strydom --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Y Kisten --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaRefuge and feeding areas for young fish in estuaries are important for the survival of fish and replenishment of coastal fish stocks, particularly in the temperate south east coast of southern Africa. Larvae and juveniles of important fishery species recruit... -
Trends in savannah waterbirds: protected area effect and influence of global threats on differing guilds
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Tawanda Tarakini --- , Zimbabwe Peter Mundy --- , Zimbabwe Hervé Fritz --- , FranceUnderstanding species threats is underpinned by information on their population trends. We investigated the contribution of population drivers associated with 86 waterbird species’ trends at a local scale, Hwange National Park (HNP) and a national scale (Zimbabwe). We used logistic... -
Prolonged nursing in Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) at Cape Cross colony, Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Anna N Osiecka --- , South Africa Jack Fearey --- , South Africa Simon Elwen --- , South Africa Tess Gridley --- , South AfricaExtended nursing periods have been observed in some pinniped species. Here, we document multiple cases of such prolonged nursing in Cape fur seals in Namibia. Over three separate visits to the Cape Cross breeding colony, we observed five unusual nursing... -
Are South African linefishes recovering and what makes them prone to overexploitation?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: M Haupt --- , South Africa H Winker --- , South Africa D Parker --- , South Africa SE Kerwath --- , South AfricaManaging coastal fisheries is challenging as the status of many fish stocks caught in these fisheries remains unknown. In the South African linefishery, regular comprehensive assessments of the status of most linefish stocks are unattainable owing to a scarcity of... -
Glycaemic control and family history of diabetes mellitus: is it all in the genes?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: RR Chetty --- , South Africa S Pillay --- ,Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a familial condition with a strong genetic component. International studies have highlighted associations between a positive family history of diabetes (FHD) and poorer glycaemic control. No current data are available on this association... -
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... -
South African marine citizen science – benefits, challenges and future directions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: WM Potts --- , South Africa JB Mann-Lang --- , South Africa BQ Mann --- , South Africa CL Griffiths --- , South Africa CG Attwood --- , South Africa AD de Blocq --- , South Africa SH Elwen --- , South Africa R Nel --- , South Africa KJ Sink --- , South Africa R Thornycroft --- , South AfricaSouth Africa has a long history of engagement in citizen science (CS), particularly marine CS. This review examines the contributions made by marine CS, from the 1930s through to the current era, where websites, social media and mobile apps provide... -
Sedimentary charcoal studies from southern Africa’s grassy biomes: a potential resource for informing the management of fires and ecosystems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Abraham N Dabengwa --- , South Africa Sally Archibald --- , South Africa Jemma Finch --- , South Africa Louis Scott --- , South Africa Lindsey Gillson --- , South Africa William J Bond --- , South AfricaAfrican grassy biomes evolved together with fire and have a long history of human manipulation of fire, yet few rangeland studies acknowledge the role of prehistoric fire in shaping contemporary ecological patterns. Nevertheless, prehistoric fire records have been used elsewhere... -
A historical perspective on fire research in East and Southern African grasslands and savannas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Simon Pooley --- , United KingdomThis paper provides a history of attempts to understand and manage fire in the grasslands and savannas of eastern and southern Africa from c. 1900 to 2010. Given the brevity of the paper and the author’s expertise, there is a... -
The effect of changes in human drivers on the fire regimes of South African grassland and savanna environments over the past 100 years
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: James R Puttick --- , South Africa M Timm Hoffman --- , South Africa Timothy G O’Connor --- , South AfricaFire is a key regulator of tree cover in grassy ecosystems, but century-long changes in fire regimes have not been explicitly quantified in South Africa. This study aimed to determine changes in the fire regimes of South Africa’s grassy biomes... -
Tribute to a legend of southern African herpetology: Wulf Dietrich Haacke (1936–2021), with a bibliography of his herpetological contributions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Michael F Bates --- National Museum, South Africa Graham J Alexander --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Aaron M Bauer --- Villanova University, USAWindhoek-born Wulf Dietrich Haacke’s career as a herpetologist while associated with the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria spanned more than 50 years. He passed away on 30 June 2021 at the age of 84. This tribute summarises various aspects of his... -
The Use of Ellipsis as a Narrative Technique in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jennifer Muchiri --- , KenyaThis paper reads the use of ellipsis as a narrative technique in Yvonne Owuor’s Dust. The paper interrogates the deployment of ellipsis in the novel as a strategy for contesting notions of homogeneity at different levels. Through the use of... -
The status of arboreta in South Africa and the taxa they contain
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: MD Cheek --- , South Africa JRU Wilson --- , South Africa DM Richardson --- , South Africa Ş Procheş --- , South AfricaCollections of living trees (hereafter arboreta) are important for conservation, research on species selection for forestry, and as sentinel sites for monitoring pests and diseases. Arboreta can also be the source of propagules for biological invasions. Between 2012 and 2022... -
Mistaken identity: challenges with specimen identification for morphologically conservative skinks (Trachylepis) leads to taxonomic error
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Kirstin Stephens --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Graham J Alexander --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Buyisile G Makhubo --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Nicolas S Telford --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South Africa Krystal A Tolley --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, South AfricaIt is commonly recognised that natural history datasets contain locality errors that can compromise the utility of those datasets. However, another source of error in these datasets is taxonomic misidentifications, and this type of error is potentially common, particularly with... -
Tropidosaura essexi Hewitt, 1927 (Reptilia: Lacertidae) is live bearing: the only viviparous African lacertid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Gary K Nicolau --- Rhodes University, South Africa Emily A Jackson --- Rhodes University, South Africa Adriaan Jordaan --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Graham J Alexander --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaViviparity has evolved independently multiple times within squamate reptiles. In the Lacertidae, two genera and several species from the Northern Hemisphere are known to be viviparous. However, although viviparity is present in many African reptiles, all African lacertids were considered... -
Afrikaner networks for volksdiens: Stellenbosch volkekundiges, 1926–1997
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.S. (Kees) van der Waal --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaSeveral critical exposés of volkekunde at Stellenbosch University have focused on dominant figures up to the 1960s but have not sufficiently considered how they engaged with Afrikaner nationalism. This article introduces questions around solidarity, discontinuity and dissent amongst volkekundiges up... -
An assessment of the medium-term reproductive success of an extralimital white rhinoceros population
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Anja Truter --- , South Africa Nokubonga Mgqatsa --- , South Africa Daniel M Parker --- , South AfricaThe white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is threatened primarily due to continued poaching for its horns. In South Africa, partly to promote the conservation of the species, white rhinos have been introduced into areas where they did not occur historically (i.e... -
Ghana’s pineapple innovation history: An account from stakeholders in Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Daniel Adu Ankrah --- School of Agriculture, University of Ghana, GhanaDespite the pineapple fruit contributing significantly towards Ghana’s non-traditional export, the empirical space deficiently accounts for innovations within the sector. This article addresses prime questions that beg answering such as: the origin of innovations, when, how, what conditions facilitate adoption... -
Height growth strategies of Mimosa scabrella along a chronosequence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Vinicius Costa Cysneiros --- Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Sebastião do Amaral Machado --- Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Allan Libanio Pelissari --- Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Edilson Urbano --- State University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Aquidauana University Unit, BrazilAssessing variations in tree allometry is useful for understanding height growth strategies in relation to life-history trajectories, light competition and environmental restrictions. Scaling exponent and asymptotic heights obtained from height–diameter (HD) models may elucidate how trees optimise growth strategies and... -
Age structure in the false tomato frog Dyscophus guineti from eastern Madagascar compared to the closely related D. antongilii (Anura, Microhylidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Giulia Tessa --- Università degli Studi, Italy FabioM. Guarino --- Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy JasminE. Randrianirina --- Parc Botanique et Zoologique de Tsimbazaza, Faune, Madagascar Franco Andreone --- Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Zoology, ItalyThe false tomato frog, Dyscophus guineti, is an endemic species of eastern Madagascar, typically found in open and swampy areas of mid-elevation forests. We measured 62 females and 70 males from a population from Marovato, next to Brickaville. Snout-vent length... -
Contributions of Africa to management and organization science
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Baniyelme D. Zoogah --- McMaster University, CanadaGiven the increasing globalization of management and organization science (MOS), it has been suggested that scholarly communities examine the contributions of their contexts to the discipline. Accordingly, the contributions from Africa to MOS across the pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras... -
The Subversion of Archipelagic Memory in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Edgar Fred Nabutanyi --- Makerere University, South AfricaArchipelago memory and history are often scripted as inherently colonial and patriarchal obligations. This is anchored on the belief that it is the dominant power that connects the archipelago and curates its history-making enterprise. This logic, which affirms the agency... -
Anton Reichenow and the birds of Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Adrian JFK Craig --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe first handbook of the birds of Africa was completed in 1905 by Anton Reichenow (1847–1941). Based in the Berlin museum for almost 50 years, he described 152 African taxa that are still recognised as valid species today, and was... -
South African birds in a Canadian museum: the legacy of colonial service by Lionel E Taylor
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Adrian JFK Craig --- Rhodes University, South Africa WRJ Dean --- FitzPatrick Institute, University of Cape Town, South AfricaThe Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, holds a collection of 498 specimens of 275 bird species presented by Lionel E Taylor, who worked in South Africa for the Department of Forestry from 1902 to 1911. Most specimens... -
Crossing Etosha: a history of donkeys in Namibia’s central north
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Luregn Lenggenhager --- University of Cologne, Germany Giorgio Miescher --- University of Basel, Switzerland Romie Nghitevelekwa --- University of Namibia, Namibia Martha Akawa --- University of Namibia, NamibiaDonkeys are a common sight in Namibia’s central north and play an important albeit contested role in rural society and economy. Historically, they were one of the few domesticated animals that were allowed to enter today’s Etosha National Park and... -
The beast that never forgot? Baboon conservation and the role of multispecies history
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sandra Swart --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaHistory and culture were long seen as definitionally human. As other distinctive traits that once defined our species as unique disappeared, at least we still had those two. But are we really the only species shaped by our pasts and... -
Evolutionary relationships in the African frog family Ptychadenidae, including the first molecular analysis, range extension, and distribution modelling of the monotypic genus Lanzarana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Tadeáš Nečas --- , Czech Republic Tomáš Mazuch --- Mendel University, Czech Republic Janis Czurda --- , Czech Republic Hassan Sh Abdirahman Elmi --- Charles University, Czech Republic Mark-Oliver Rödel --- , Germany Václav Gvoždík --- , Czech RepublicThe family Ptychadenidae contains three ecologically and morphologically distinct genera: the widespread, species-rich and above-ground dwelling Ptychadena, the less widespread and diverse, burrowing Hildebrandtia, and the little-known, burrowing, monotypic Lanzarana, endemic to Somalia. Previous morphological studies placed Lanzarana in a... -
Observations on the breeding biology of D’Arnaud’s Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Henrik Brumm --- Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Germany Poyo Makomba --- , Tanzania Wolfgang Goymann --- , TanzaniaBreeding behaviour is a key process for avian fitness and evolution, but the basic natural histories of many species are unknown. We studied the breeding biology of D’Arnaud’s Barbet Trachyphonus darnaudii (family Lybiidae) on the Usangu Plains in southwestern Tanzania... -
Memorandum on the problem of farm labour (1937)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: H. Max Gluckmann [AN1] Isak Niehaus --- Brunel University London, UKIn 1937, Max Gluckman submitted a memorandum to a commission of inquiry into the shortage of farm labour in South Africa. In the memorandum, he criticised the presumption that the government should induce African male migrants from the reserves to... -
Recreating valour: Exploring the life domains and quality of life impact among military re-enactors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dewald Venter --- Vaal University of Technology, South AfricaThis study explored the effect on military re-enactors’ life domains and quality of life (QoL). Eight military re-enactors (female = 1, male = 7; age range 42–75 years) were interviewed before and after participating in a military re-enactment regarding the... -
Reproduction, recruitment, growth and mortality of co-occurring species of the intertidal limpet Siphonaria with contrasting reproductive modes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CD McQuaid --- Rhodes University, South Africa RJ Chambers --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe pulmonate limpets Siphonaria concinna and S. serrata co-exist intertidally on many South African rocky shores. The two species are similar morphologically and in terms of their intertidal habitat and distribution; both lay gelatinous egg masses on the shore, but... -
Psychotherapy in South African indigenous languages: Positioning isiXhosa as a language of symbolisation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Ntokozo Gqweta --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe sociopolitical history of language use in South Africa is controversial and complex. This article utilises postcolonial theory to problematise the historical pattern of language use in South Africa to oppress black people. African psychology and Afrocentricity are used to... -
The reproductive biology of two sympatric West African savanna reed frogs (genus Hyperolius) in Marahoué National Park, Ivory Coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Ouétré N’Guessan --- Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Gbongué U Zingbé --- Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé, Kouassi P Kanga --- Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly, Mark-Oliver Rödel --- , Germany N’Goran G Kouamé --- Université Jean Lorougnon Guédé,We studied the reproductive behaviour of the sympatric Hyperolius concolor and H. guttulatus in the humid savanna of the Marahoué National Park, central-western Ivory Coast. Males congregated in large choruses around a large stagnant swamp. Clutch size in H. concolor... -
Distribution and status of reptile species in south-eastern Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Kurt M van Wyk --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Bryan Maritz --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Bruce W Clegg --- Malilangwe Trust, Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, ZimbabweWhile the loss of biodiversity in response to anthropogenic drivers is well documented, reptiles are rarely prioritised in global conservation efforts. Although more than 20% of all reptile species are currently listed as threatened, and a growing body of evidence...