Coloured labour relations and political organisation: past developments and a scenario
- Authors: Natherson, R
- Date: 1988-11
- Subjects: Industrial relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66392 , vital:28944 , ISBN 0797202048
- Description: The rise and development of ‘Coloured’ labour relations and political organisations form the central theme of this study. These two areas of South African contemporary history have received comparatively little attention for a number of reasons. Not the least of these is the controversial issue of whether or not it is justifiable or accurate to treat ‘Coloureds’ as a separate and identifiable group apart from the black majority. The term ‘Coloured’ as used in the South African context refers to those people often described in other societies as of mixed race, mulattos or half-castes. Within this study the term ‘Coloured with a capital C and hereafter without apostrophes is used to avoid confusion with ‘coloured1 meaning black. Black is used in the general sense of all those people not being White. The impact of organized Coloured politics, however, has been greater than their minority status would suggest, especially in the Cape, and in particular in the Western Cape, where most of the people described as Coloured live. When Coloured political mobilization started in the 1890’s, it centered in Cape Town. The founding of the first successful Coloured political movement, the African Political Organization (APO), marked the start of successful black political mobilization on a national scale in South Africa. Other Coloured organisations which emerged after the APO made important contributions to the tactics and ideologies of Black political leaders. Coloured intellectuals in the 1940’s propagated the principle of non-collaboration with segregatory political institutions, implemented through the tactic of the boycott, a strategy employed to good effect by contemporary Black organisations. This study is divided into three main sections. Chapters 1 and 2 trace the origins of the labour history in which past and present day developments in the industrial relations system can be viewed in relation to the political, industrial and economic systems that have evolved within South Africa since the occupation of the Western Cape by the Dutch in 1652. The initial contact between these Europeans and the indigenous inhabitants of the Cape developed a relationship which determined the pattern of interaction between Black and White South Africans the major traces of which have still remained until today. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 deal with the early history of the Coloured people, their industrial and political organisations prior to the watershed year of South African Industrial Relations, 1979, whereafter a more generalised view is adopted in order to trace the broad trends which have emerged with the new labour dispensation and its industrial enfranchisement of the Black worker. The remaining chapters concentrate on Coloured participation within the Industrial and Political arenas, particularly in the Western Cape, and offer substantiation for the postulate of a new political grouping based on socialist principles and having a similar trend in terms of its origins to that of the British Labour Party at its birth at the turn of this century. It is concluded that this grouping would be a natural home for the ‘stateless’ Coloured, and ideologically and politically would offer coherence and structure to the disparate groupings within the United Democratic Front (UDF) and form the most potential, Western Cape based political party ‘in waiting'. , This occasional paper is based on the technical report which received the Finansbank award for 1987
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- Date Issued: 1988-11
- Authors: Natherson, R
- Date: 1988-11
- Subjects: Industrial relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66392 , vital:28944 , ISBN 0797202048
- Description: The rise and development of ‘Coloured’ labour relations and political organisations form the central theme of this study. These two areas of South African contemporary history have received comparatively little attention for a number of reasons. Not the least of these is the controversial issue of whether or not it is justifiable or accurate to treat ‘Coloureds’ as a separate and identifiable group apart from the black majority. The term ‘Coloured’ as used in the South African context refers to those people often described in other societies as of mixed race, mulattos or half-castes. Within this study the term ‘Coloured with a capital C and hereafter without apostrophes is used to avoid confusion with ‘coloured1 meaning black. Black is used in the general sense of all those people not being White. The impact of organized Coloured politics, however, has been greater than their minority status would suggest, especially in the Cape, and in particular in the Western Cape, where most of the people described as Coloured live. When Coloured political mobilization started in the 1890’s, it centered in Cape Town. The founding of the first successful Coloured political movement, the African Political Organization (APO), marked the start of successful black political mobilization on a national scale in South Africa. Other Coloured organisations which emerged after the APO made important contributions to the tactics and ideologies of Black political leaders. Coloured intellectuals in the 1940’s propagated the principle of non-collaboration with segregatory political institutions, implemented through the tactic of the boycott, a strategy employed to good effect by contemporary Black organisations. This study is divided into three main sections. Chapters 1 and 2 trace the origins of the labour history in which past and present day developments in the industrial relations system can be viewed in relation to the political, industrial and economic systems that have evolved within South Africa since the occupation of the Western Cape by the Dutch in 1652. The initial contact between these Europeans and the indigenous inhabitants of the Cape developed a relationship which determined the pattern of interaction between Black and White South Africans the major traces of which have still remained until today. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 deal with the early history of the Coloured people, their industrial and political organisations prior to the watershed year of South African Industrial Relations, 1979, whereafter a more generalised view is adopted in order to trace the broad trends which have emerged with the new labour dispensation and its industrial enfranchisement of the Black worker. The remaining chapters concentrate on Coloured participation within the Industrial and Political arenas, particularly in the Western Cape, and offer substantiation for the postulate of a new political grouping based on socialist principles and having a similar trend in terms of its origins to that of the British Labour Party at its birth at the turn of this century. It is concluded that this grouping would be a natural home for the ‘stateless’ Coloured, and ideologically and politically would offer coherence and structure to the disparate groupings within the United Democratic Front (UDF) and form the most potential, Western Cape based political party ‘in waiting'. , This occasional paper is based on the technical report which received the Finansbank award for 1987
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- Date Issued: 1988-11
Salvaging the law: the second Ernie Wentzel memorial lecture
- Authors: Didcott, J M
- Date: 1988-10-04
- Subjects: Civil rights -- South Africa , Terrorism -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73347 , vital:30178 , 1868140954
- Description: A budding author bold enough to have sent his manuscript to Dr Samuel Johnson for appraisal received a reply, so the story goes, in these terms: ‘Sir. Your work is both original and good. Unfortunately the part that is good is not original. And the part that is original is not good. I find it difficult to say anything new or original about the lovable man whose life we celebrate this afternoon and whose memory we thus keep alive. For so much has been said in the tributes previously paid to him, tributes testifying to the place he occupied in the hearts of countless South Africans. What is good should prove easier, however, when it is said of someone whom, at the ceremony held in court soon after his death, Ralph Zulman described, simply and truly, as a good man. So, be it said how it may, what I shall say today about Ernie Wentzel feels good to say. Unless someone who is now a lawyer was acquainted with Ernie during his childhood or schooldays, I can rightly claim, I believe, that none still around knew him for more years than I did. Our long friendship may explain why John Dugard honoured me with the invitation to deliver this lecture. It was certainly my reason for accepting the invitation with alacrity. Ernie and I first met each other 37 years ago, in 1951, when he entered the University of Cape Town, where I too was a student. I happened to be his senior by two years. But I soon got to know him well, for we had a lot in common. We were both enthusiastic student politicians. And we were in the same camp. Our time together on the campus was one of turmoil, not as acute as that which campuses have experienced subsequently, but intense nonetheless since, in addition to all the other strife of the period, the Universities of Cape T own and the W itwatersrand were under an attack that was constant and fierce for their policy of admitting students of every race, and they faced the threat of legislation forbidding them to accept any who was not white without official pennission.
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- Date Issued: 1988-10-04
- Authors: Didcott, J M
- Date: 1988-10-04
- Subjects: Civil rights -- South Africa , Terrorism -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/73347 , vital:30178 , 1868140954
- Description: A budding author bold enough to have sent his manuscript to Dr Samuel Johnson for appraisal received a reply, so the story goes, in these terms: ‘Sir. Your work is both original and good. Unfortunately the part that is good is not original. And the part that is original is not good. I find it difficult to say anything new or original about the lovable man whose life we celebrate this afternoon and whose memory we thus keep alive. For so much has been said in the tributes previously paid to him, tributes testifying to the place he occupied in the hearts of countless South Africans. What is good should prove easier, however, when it is said of someone whom, at the ceremony held in court soon after his death, Ralph Zulman described, simply and truly, as a good man. So, be it said how it may, what I shall say today about Ernie Wentzel feels good to say. Unless someone who is now a lawyer was acquainted with Ernie during his childhood or schooldays, I can rightly claim, I believe, that none still around knew him for more years than I did. Our long friendship may explain why John Dugard honoured me with the invitation to deliver this lecture. It was certainly my reason for accepting the invitation with alacrity. Ernie and I first met each other 37 years ago, in 1951, when he entered the University of Cape Town, where I too was a student. I happened to be his senior by two years. But I soon got to know him well, for we had a lot in common. We were both enthusiastic student politicians. And we were in the same camp. Our time together on the campus was one of turmoil, not as acute as that which campuses have experienced subsequently, but intense nonetheless since, in addition to all the other strife of the period, the Universities of Cape T own and the W itwatersrand were under an attack that was constant and fierce for their policy of admitting students of every race, and they faced the threat of legislation forbidding them to accept any who was not white without official pennission.
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- Date Issued: 1988-10-04
Procedures for the resolution of labour disputes
- Authors: Bezuidenhout, G
- Date: 1988-08-04
- Subjects: Labour disputes -- South Africa , Labour movement -- South Africa , Labour unions -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76936 , vital:30643
- Description: After SACCOLA's expulsion from the International Organization of Employers in 1983 the committee decided to explore areas of domestic activity consistent with its objectives of discussing employer views on labour affairs, and representing these views where agreement amongst employers existed. As the National Manpower Commission had shortly afterwards published a lengthy report dealing, inter alia, with the role of the Industrial Court and the definition of the unfair labour practice concept, SACCOLA set up a working party to see if employer consensus could be achieved on these issues. SACCOLA succeeded in agreeing a 18 page document, which was submitted to the Department of Manpower on 28 August 1984. This was subsequently acknowledged by the Director General of Manpower to have been one of the most comprehensive reactions to this report. In his reaction to the report, however, Dr Van der Merwe noted that legislative change would be greatly facilitated by labour/employer agreement, and he therefore suggested that SACCOLA should discuss its proposals with union federations.
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- Date Issued: 1988-08-04
- Authors: Bezuidenhout, G
- Date: 1988-08-04
- Subjects: Labour disputes -- South Africa , Labour movement -- South Africa , Labour unions -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76936 , vital:30643
- Description: After SACCOLA's expulsion from the International Organization of Employers in 1983 the committee decided to explore areas of domestic activity consistent with its objectives of discussing employer views on labour affairs, and representing these views where agreement amongst employers existed. As the National Manpower Commission had shortly afterwards published a lengthy report dealing, inter alia, with the role of the Industrial Court and the definition of the unfair labour practice concept, SACCOLA set up a working party to see if employer consensus could be achieved on these issues. SACCOLA succeeded in agreeing a 18 page document, which was submitted to the Department of Manpower on 28 August 1984. This was subsequently acknowledged by the Director General of Manpower to have been one of the most comprehensive reactions to this report. In his reaction to the report, however, Dr Van der Merwe noted that legislative change would be greatly facilitated by labour/employer agreement, and he therefore suggested that SACCOLA should discuss its proposals with union federations.
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- Date Issued: 1988-08-04
Detention without trial: past, present and future
- Mathews, A S, Wylie, James Scott
- Authors: Mathews, A S , Wylie, James Scott
- Date: [1988]-02
- Subjects: Detention of persons -- South Africa , Human rights -- South Africa , Political prisoners -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72512 , vital:30079
- Description: Detention without trial can be a formidable government weapon against political opponents. In South Africa this weapon has been fashioned into a multiple warhead. There are currently seven security law detention provisions on the statute book, of which one is dormant but can be activated by the State President. Non security law detention, for example detention under drug laws, will not be discussed in this paper. While the seven detention laws are of varying severity and serve different purposes, they are best classified and explained under two main categories or groups - preventive detention and pre-trial detention.
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- Date Issued: [1988]-02
- Authors: Mathews, A S , Wylie, James Scott
- Date: [1988]-02
- Subjects: Detention of persons -- South Africa , Human rights -- South Africa , Political prisoners -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72512 , vital:30079
- Description: Detention without trial can be a formidable government weapon against political opponents. In South Africa this weapon has been fashioned into a multiple warhead. There are currently seven security law detention provisions on the statute book, of which one is dormant but can be activated by the State President. Non security law detention, for example detention under drug laws, will not be discussed in this paper. While the seven detention laws are of varying severity and serve different purposes, they are best classified and explained under two main categories or groups - preventive detention and pre-trial detention.
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- Date Issued: [1988]-02
October elections: a recipe for conflict?
- National Union of South African Students
- Authors: National Union of South African Students
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Elections -- South Africa , Local elections -- South Africa , Local government -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1978-1989
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72773 , vital:30112
- Description: On October 26 1988, for the first time in the country’s history, South Africans of all races will be expected to go to the polls to elect their local government representatives. Never before have these elections been held together on the same day. That is about all that is historically "new" about the coming local authority elections. Yet to the government, the forthcoming municipal elections are all-important. So much so, that it is now an offense to call on people to boycott the elections. This booklet will attempt to find some explanations for why the coming municipal elections are so important to the government. How do they fit into the National Party’s political plans for the country and, most importantly, how do the majority of politically unrepresented South Africans view the elections and the structures of local government?
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- Date Issued: 1988
- Authors: National Union of South African Students
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Elections -- South Africa , Local elections -- South Africa , Local government -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1978-1989
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72773 , vital:30112
- Description: On October 26 1988, for the first time in the country’s history, South Africans of all races will be expected to go to the polls to elect their local government representatives. Never before have these elections been held together on the same day. That is about all that is historically "new" about the coming local authority elections. Yet to the government, the forthcoming municipal elections are all-important. So much so, that it is now an offense to call on people to boycott the elections. This booklet will attempt to find some explanations for why the coming municipal elections are so important to the government. How do they fit into the National Party’s political plans for the country and, most importantly, how do the majority of politically unrepresented South Africans view the elections and the structures of local government?
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- Date Issued: 1988
Three Hundred Years
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: South Africa -- History -- 20th century , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/37342 , vital:34155 , Bulk file 7
- Description: This is one of many individual publications put out by the New Unity Movement History Series and is a republication of a work by Hosea Jaffe whose pen name was 'Mnguni'.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: South Africa -- History -- 20th century , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/37342 , vital:34155 , Bulk file 7
- Description: This is one of many individual publications put out by the New Unity Movement History Series and is a republication of a work by Hosea Jaffe whose pen name was 'Mnguni'.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1988
Toward a co-operative way
- Authors: Roberts, R , Swart, Jane
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Cooperative societies -- South Africa , Rural development -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75674 , vital:30447
- Description: This publication is not intended to be a scientific study and in fact does not pretend to be as such. It merely poses various perspectives and issues that reflect on the development and growth of the co-operative movement. A great deal of information grows out of personal and other experiences that have been shared at various levels, both individual, group, workshop/conferences and visits of actual co-operatives at work. The main people who have shared these experiences have helped, in one way or another to shape this publication. To them, and they know who they are, a very warm and special word of thanks. A particular note of appreciation for Sonja Sleigh and the members of the Peace Centre, who spent many hours in the typesetting and actual compilation of the publication. It is hoped that at the end of the day, that the questions and issues posed in this publication will serve towards enriching the growth process; the growth toward a richer and more human society.
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- Date Issued: 1988
- Authors: Roberts, R , Swart, Jane
- Date: 1988
- Subjects: Cooperative societies -- South Africa , Rural development -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75674 , vital:30447
- Description: This publication is not intended to be a scientific study and in fact does not pretend to be as such. It merely poses various perspectives and issues that reflect on the development and growth of the co-operative movement. A great deal of information grows out of personal and other experiences that have been shared at various levels, both individual, group, workshop/conferences and visits of actual co-operatives at work. The main people who have shared these experiences have helped, in one way or another to shape this publication. To them, and they know who they are, a very warm and special word of thanks. A particular note of appreciation for Sonja Sleigh and the members of the Peace Centre, who spent many hours in the typesetting and actual compilation of the publication. It is hoped that at the end of the day, that the questions and issues posed in this publication will serve towards enriching the growth process; the growth toward a richer and more human society.
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- Date Issued: 1988
A new species of Pogonophryne (Pisces, Artedidraconidae) from Queen Maud Land, Antarctica
- Eakin, Richard R, 1946-, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Eakin, Richard R, 1946- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1988-01
- Subjects: Pogonophryne -- Antarctica -- Queen Maud Land
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70280 , vital:29641 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 45 , Pogonophryne platypogon is described from a 61.0 mm SL juvenile specimen collected near Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. This species belongs to the dorsally spotted group of Pogonophryne but is distinguished from other known species of the group in having a smoothly flattened terminal expansion on the mental barbel and a very narrow snout and jaws (jaw width less than 13% SL). It also has a very narrow interorbital region (less than 5% SL).
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- Date Issued: 1988-01
- Authors: Eakin, Richard R, 1946- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1988-01
- Subjects: Pogonophryne -- Antarctica -- Queen Maud Land
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70280 , vital:29641 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 45 , Pogonophryne platypogon is described from a 61.0 mm SL juvenile specimen collected near Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. This species belongs to the dorsally spotted group of Pogonophryne but is distinguished from other known species of the group in having a smoothly flattened terminal expansion on the mental barbel and a very narrow snout and jaws (jaw width less than 13% SL). It also has a very narrow interorbital region (less than 5% SL).
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- Date Issued: 1988-01
Halaelurus clevai, sp. n., a new species of catshark (Scyliorhinidae) from off Madagascar, with remarks on the taxonomic status of the genera Halaelurus gill and Galeus rafinesque
- Seret, Bernard, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Seret, Bernard , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1987-08
- Subjects: Halaelurus -- Madagascar , Scyliorhinidae -- Madagascar
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70269 , vital:29640 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 44 , Fifteen specimens of a new catshark were trawled during a shrimp fishery survey off Tulear, Madagascar. The new species is described, illustrated and compared with other species of Halaelurus. The taxonomic status of the genera Halaelurus and Galeus is discussed.
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- Date Issued: 1987-08
- Authors: Seret, Bernard , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1987-08
- Subjects: Halaelurus -- Madagascar , Scyliorhinidae -- Madagascar
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70269 , vital:29640 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 44 , Fifteen specimens of a new catshark were trawled during a shrimp fishery survey off Tulear, Madagascar. The new species is described, illustrated and compared with other species of Halaelurus. The taxonomic status of the genera Halaelurus and Galeus is discussed.
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- Date Issued: 1987-08
The fishes of the genus Bathylagus of the Southern Ocean
- Gon, O (Ofer), 1949-, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Gon, O (Ofer), 1949- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1987-08
- Subjects: Bathylagidae , Fishes -- Antarctic Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70258 , vital:29639 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 43 , In his revision of the genus Bathylagus, Norman (1930) recognized five species from the Southern Ocean. The taxonomic status of these species is re-evaluated by using morphometric data and the number of vertebrae, anal fin rays, gill-rakers, lateral scale series and pyloric caeca. Principle component analysis was carried out in support of species separation, using selected body proportions. Three species, namely B. antarcticus, B. gracilis and B. tenuis, are recognized here. B. gracilis and B. euryops latifrons, both described by Lonnberg, 1905, were found to be synonymous. A key to the species of Bathylagus in the Southern Ocean is provided.
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- Date Issued: 1987-08
- Authors: Gon, O (Ofer), 1949- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1987-08
- Subjects: Bathylagidae , Fishes -- Antarctic Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70258 , vital:29639 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 43 , In his revision of the genus Bathylagus, Norman (1930) recognized five species from the Southern Ocean. The taxonomic status of these species is re-evaluated by using morphometric data and the number of vertebrae, anal fin rays, gill-rakers, lateral scale series and pyloric caeca. Principle component analysis was carried out in support of species separation, using selected body proportions. Three species, namely B. antarcticus, B. gracilis and B. tenuis, are recognized here. B. gracilis and B. euryops latifrons, both described by Lonnberg, 1905, were found to be synonymous. A key to the species of Bathylagus in the Southern Ocean is provided.
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- Date Issued: 1987-08
The national state of emergency
- Authors: Bureau of Information
- Date: 1987-06
- Subjects: South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1978-1989 , State of siege -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74363 , vital:30293 , 0797012060
- Description: On 12 June 1986, at a joint sitting of the three houses of Parliament, the State President declared a National State of Emergency. In his speech he said: “. . .the sporadic instances of violence have once again begun to increase and have taken on such proportions that I am of the opinion that the ordinary laws of the land at present on the statute book are inadequate to enable the Government to ensure the security of the public and to maintain public order.” What were the State President’s reasons for declaring the State of Emergency? Was the Government’s action justified? What of the rule of law? Has the National State of Emergency achieved its objectives? When will the National State of Emergency be lifted?
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- Date Issued: 1987-06
- Authors: Bureau of Information
- Date: 1987-06
- Subjects: South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1978-1989 , State of siege -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74363 , vital:30293 , 0797012060
- Description: On 12 June 1986, at a joint sitting of the three houses of Parliament, the State President declared a National State of Emergency. In his speech he said: “. . .the sporadic instances of violence have once again begun to increase and have taken on such proportions that I am of the opinion that the ordinary laws of the land at present on the statute book are inadequate to enable the Government to ensure the security of the public and to maintain public order.” What were the State President’s reasons for declaring the State of Emergency? Was the Government’s action justified? What of the rule of law? Has the National State of Emergency achieved its objectives? When will the National State of Emergency be lifted?
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- Date Issued: 1987-06
The cardinal fishes (Perciformes: Apogonidae) collected in the Maldive Islands during the Xarifa expedition (1957/58)
- Gon, O (Ofer), 1949-, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Gon, O (Ofer), 1949- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1987-03
- Subjects: Xarifa Expedition (1957-1958) , Cardinalfishes -- Maldives
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70247 , vital:29638 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 42 , Fifteen species of apogonid fishes were collected in the Maidive Islands during the Xarifa Expedition (1957/58): Apogon abrogramma; A. cyanosoma; A. guamensis; A. kallopterus; A. moluccensis; A. savayensis; A. taeniophorus; Archamia fucata; Cheilodipterus lineatus; C. macrodon; Fowleria aurita; Neamia octospina; Pseudamia gelatinosa; Rhabdamia cypselura; R. gracilis. Each species is treated with a diagnosis, colour description (in preservative) and taxonomic remarks.
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- Date Issued: 1987-03
- Authors: Gon, O (Ofer), 1949- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1987-03
- Subjects: Xarifa Expedition (1957-1958) , Cardinalfishes -- Maldives
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70247 , vital:29638 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 42 , Fifteen species of apogonid fishes were collected in the Maidive Islands during the Xarifa Expedition (1957/58): Apogon abrogramma; A. cyanosoma; A. guamensis; A. kallopterus; A. moluccensis; A. savayensis; A. taeniophorus; Archamia fucata; Cheilodipterus lineatus; C. macrodon; Fowleria aurita; Neamia octospina; Pseudamia gelatinosa; Rhabdamia cypselura; R. gracilis. Each species is treated with a diagnosis, colour description (in preservative) and taxonomic remarks.
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- Date Issued: 1987-03
Producer co-operatives in South Africa: their economic and political limits and potential
- Authors: Philip, T Kate
- Date: [1987?]
- Subjects: Cooperative societies -- South Africa , Producer cooperatives -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75250 , vital:30391
- Description: The social and political effects of mass unemployment in South Africa mean there is an urgent need for strategies of job- creation. In this context, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), and the National Unemployed Workers' Co-ordinating Committee (NUWCC) have all expressed support for producer co-operatives, which are not only seen to have the potential to create jobs, but at the same time, are seen as providing a democratic alternative to capitalist enterprises. Thus firstly, this dissertation is exploring the potential for producer co-ops to fulfil these roles. However, for co-ops to make any contribution at all, they have to be economically viable. Thus this dissertation also attempts to analyse the terms on which this may be possible. In Chapter One, I analyse the roots of mass unemployment in South Africa, locate the problem and its effects within the framework of the current economic and political crisis, and analyse state strategies for overcoming this problem. I then turn to analysing the social and psychological effects of unemployment, and the implications of this for the growth of democratic organisation in the factories and township communities. I look at the strategies emerging for organising the unemployed, and conclude that the potential to organise the unemployed hinges largely around the extent to which unemployed workers' organisation manages to create jobs. In this regard, co-ops are a strategy of job creation that allows the unemployed to take the initiative in creating their own jobs, and on terms that build different forms of work organisation. On the basis of the priorities defined by the NUWCC, I then turn to analysing the limits and possibilities of co-op production. In Chapter Two, I address the theoretical issues that have emerged in relation to co-ops in capitalist society internationally, and attempt to analyse the reasons for their widespread economic failure, and for their tendency to degenerate into capitalist enterprises. From this, I draw out the potential terms on which collapse and/or degeneration can be countered, and refer to Mondragon in Spain and Lega in Italy as case studies. I then look at the potential political role co-ops can play, and conclude this chapter by focussing the issues discussed onto South African questions. In Chapter Three, I attempt a typology of co-op development in South Africa today, highlighting the extent to which a broad range of social forces see co-ops serving their own interests. Then, on the basis of a list of production co-ops in Addendum A, I analyse some of the overall features of the democratic co-ops that do exist at present, and point to the existence of degenerative tendencies in the South African context, with specific reference to Thusanang. I then focus on three case studies - the Pfananani co-ops, a carpentry co-op, and Nonthutuzelo. Each of these co-ops has arisen under different conditions, and they illustrate different aspects of the issues co-ops in SA will have to address if they are to survive. Chapter Four focusses on the production co-ops of the Sarmcol Workers Co-op (SAWCO), particularly the t-shirt co-op. The analysis of SAWCO constitutes the main case study of this dissertation. I have prioritised SAWCO because at the time I began the research, it was the only co-op with structural links to a Cosatu union; it is a co-op that arose out of the context of a workers' struggle, and contains important lessons for the establishment of co-ops with a clear relationship to democratic organisation. Furthermore, it relies on the 'solidarity' market to sell its products, and highlights certain important features and contradictions within this market. Finally, it highlights key issues in relation to the structures of ownership and control in democratic co-ops. In my conclusion, I attempt to draw together the material in the dissertation as a whole. I apply the theoretical discussion to the South African context, assess the implications of the nature of SA's economy for the development of co-ops, and attempt to provide some pointers to the terms on which democratic co-ops can be economically viable, thus creating jobs, at the same time as making a broader contribution to the extension of democracy in South Africa. , Labour studies research report (University of the Witwatersrand); v 4
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- Date Issued: [1987?]
- Authors: Philip, T Kate
- Date: [1987?]
- Subjects: Cooperative societies -- South Africa , Producer cooperatives -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75250 , vital:30391
- Description: The social and political effects of mass unemployment in South Africa mean there is an urgent need for strategies of job- creation. In this context, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), and the National Unemployed Workers' Co-ordinating Committee (NUWCC) have all expressed support for producer co-operatives, which are not only seen to have the potential to create jobs, but at the same time, are seen as providing a democratic alternative to capitalist enterprises. Thus firstly, this dissertation is exploring the potential for producer co-ops to fulfil these roles. However, for co-ops to make any contribution at all, they have to be economically viable. Thus this dissertation also attempts to analyse the terms on which this may be possible. In Chapter One, I analyse the roots of mass unemployment in South Africa, locate the problem and its effects within the framework of the current economic and political crisis, and analyse state strategies for overcoming this problem. I then turn to analysing the social and psychological effects of unemployment, and the implications of this for the growth of democratic organisation in the factories and township communities. I look at the strategies emerging for organising the unemployed, and conclude that the potential to organise the unemployed hinges largely around the extent to which unemployed workers' organisation manages to create jobs. In this regard, co-ops are a strategy of job creation that allows the unemployed to take the initiative in creating their own jobs, and on terms that build different forms of work organisation. On the basis of the priorities defined by the NUWCC, I then turn to analysing the limits and possibilities of co-op production. In Chapter Two, I address the theoretical issues that have emerged in relation to co-ops in capitalist society internationally, and attempt to analyse the reasons for their widespread economic failure, and for their tendency to degenerate into capitalist enterprises. From this, I draw out the potential terms on which collapse and/or degeneration can be countered, and refer to Mondragon in Spain and Lega in Italy as case studies. I then look at the potential political role co-ops can play, and conclude this chapter by focussing the issues discussed onto South African questions. In Chapter Three, I attempt a typology of co-op development in South Africa today, highlighting the extent to which a broad range of social forces see co-ops serving their own interests. Then, on the basis of a list of production co-ops in Addendum A, I analyse some of the overall features of the democratic co-ops that do exist at present, and point to the existence of degenerative tendencies in the South African context, with specific reference to Thusanang. I then focus on three case studies - the Pfananani co-ops, a carpentry co-op, and Nonthutuzelo. Each of these co-ops has arisen under different conditions, and they illustrate different aspects of the issues co-ops in SA will have to address if they are to survive. Chapter Four focusses on the production co-ops of the Sarmcol Workers Co-op (SAWCO), particularly the t-shirt co-op. The analysis of SAWCO constitutes the main case study of this dissertation. I have prioritised SAWCO because at the time I began the research, it was the only co-op with structural links to a Cosatu union; it is a co-op that arose out of the context of a workers' struggle, and contains important lessons for the establishment of co-ops with a clear relationship to democratic organisation. Furthermore, it relies on the 'solidarity' market to sell its products, and highlights certain important features and contradictions within this market. Finally, it highlights key issues in relation to the structures of ownership and control in democratic co-ops. In my conclusion, I attempt to draw together the material in the dissertation as a whole. I apply the theoretical discussion to the South African context, assess the implications of the nature of SA's economy for the development of co-ops, and attempt to provide some pointers to the terms on which democratic co-ops can be economically viable, thus creating jobs, at the same time as making a broader contribution to the extension of democracy in South Africa. , Labour studies research report (University of the Witwatersrand); v 4
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- Date Issued: [1987?]
Descriptions of two new species of Hetereleotris (Pisces: Gobiidae) from the western Indian Ocean, with discussion of related species
- Hoese, Douglass F, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Hoese, Douglass F , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1986-09
- Subjects: Gobiidae -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70228 , vital:29636 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 41 , Thirteen species of the genus Hetereleotris are recognized from the Indian Ocean. Two of the species are described as new. H. poecila (Fowler) is recorded for the first time from the Indian Ocean, and H. vulgaris (Klunzinger) is recorded from the Mediterranean. Specimens of H. zonata from India and Pakistan were found to differ in several features from specimens from South Africa. A key is given to the species from the western Indian Ocean. Diagnoses and a primary synonymy are given for each of the 11 previously described species.
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- Date Issued: 1986-09
- Authors: Hoese, Douglass F , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1986-09
- Subjects: Gobiidae -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70228 , vital:29636 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 41 , Thirteen species of the genus Hetereleotris are recognized from the Indian Ocean. Two of the species are described as new. H. poecila (Fowler) is recorded for the first time from the Indian Ocean, and H. vulgaris (Klunzinger) is recorded from the Mediterranean. Specimens of H. zonata from India and Pakistan were found to differ in several features from specimens from South Africa. A key is given to the species from the western Indian Ocean. Diagnoses and a primary synonymy are given for each of the 11 previously described species.
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- Date Issued: 1986-09
A new snake eel, Ophichthus bennettai, (Pisces: Ophichthidae) from off western South Africa
- McCosker, John E, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: McCosker, John E , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1986-07
- Subjects: Snake eels -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70206 , vital:29634 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 39 , A new species of snake-eel, Ophichthus bennettai, Subfamily Ophichthinae, is described from a single specimen trawled in 372 m off western South Africa. It differs from all other ophichthines in its combination of mostly uniserial teeth, uniform brown coloration, and vertebral formula 17-63-167.
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- Date Issued: 1986-07
- Authors: McCosker, John E , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1986-07
- Subjects: Snake eels -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70206 , vital:29634 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 39 , A new species of snake-eel, Ophichthus bennettai, Subfamily Ophichthinae, is described from a single specimen trawled in 372 m off western South Africa. It differs from all other ophichthines in its combination of mostly uniserial teeth, uniform brown coloration, and vertebral formula 17-63-167.
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- Date Issued: 1986-07
Two new species of clinid fishes (Perciformes: Clinidae) from South Africa
- Heemstra, Phillip C, Wright, J E, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Wright, J E , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1986-07
- Subjects: Clinidae -- Classification , Perciformes -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70224 , vital:29635 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 40 , Two new species of clinid fishes, Cancelloxus elongatus and Pavoclinus smalei, are described from specimens collected in 10 — 25 m off the southeastern Cape Province using rotenone and SCUBA. Generic assignment of both species is provisional pending a reassessment of the generic classification of South African clinid fishes.
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- Date Issued: 1986-07
- Authors: Heemstra, Phillip C , Wright, J E , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1986-07
- Subjects: Clinidae -- Classification , Perciformes -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70224 , vital:29635 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 40 , Two new species of clinid fishes, Cancelloxus elongatus and Pavoclinus smalei, are described from specimens collected in 10 — 25 m off the southeastern Cape Province using rotenone and SCUBA. Generic assignment of both species is provisional pending a reassessment of the generic classification of South African clinid fishes.
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- Date Issued: 1986-07
Briefing paper two: the National Security Management System
- Date: 1986-06?
- Subjects: National Security Management System (South Africa) , National security -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76903 , vital:30635
- Description: The aim of the government' s state of emergency in June 1986 was to try and bring the country under control through the use of force. Tens of thousands of people were detained, and many were tilled. At the same time, the government has been building a National Security Management System (NSMS). This is a series of structures throughout South Africa, designed to defend apartheid. The main type of structure is called a Joint Management Centre (JHC). Before we explain what a JMC is and what it does, it is useful to know where the idea for a National Security Management System comes from.
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- Date Issued: 1986-06?
- Date: 1986-06?
- Subjects: National Security Management System (South Africa) , National security -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76903 , vital:30635
- Description: The aim of the government' s state of emergency in June 1986 was to try and bring the country under control through the use of force. Tens of thousands of people were detained, and many were tilled. At the same time, the government has been building a National Security Management System (NSMS). This is a series of structures throughout South Africa, designed to defend apartheid. The main type of structure is called a Joint Management Centre (JHC). Before we explain what a JMC is and what it does, it is useful to know where the idea for a National Security Management System comes from.
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- Date Issued: 1986-06?
The Role of the Missionaries in Conquest
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: South Africa -- History -- 20th century , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/37293 , vital:34154 , Bulk File 7
- Description: This is one of many individual publications put out by the New Unity Movement History Series and is a republication of a book by Nosipho Majeke.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
- Date: 1986
- Subjects: South Africa -- History -- 20th century , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/37293 , vital:34154 , Bulk File 7
- Description: This is one of many individual publications put out by the New Unity Movement History Series and is a republication of a book by Nosipho Majeke.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1986
"Get organised": a practical student manual
- Authors: Western Cape Youth League
- Date: 1985-10
- Subjects: Youth -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Students -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Student government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76262 , vital:30528
- Description: The past few months have seen our courageous youth take to the streets to demonstrate their disgust against this system of exploitation and oppression. This militant fervour has touched many young hearts and minds. However, there is always the danger that these energies will burn out and dissipate. Demoralisation can so easily set in if these energies are not constructively channeled. "Channeled into what?” you may ask. ORGANISATIONS. It is only through strong organisations which attempt to give guidance and direction that meaningful action can be undertaken. The WCYL recognises the important need for students to begin to discuss broader issues such as The History of Struggle in S.A. or The Nature of S.A. Society. It is only when students begin to grapple with broader issues such as these, together with more specific ones, in a co-ordinated manner, will their actions be more effective. To this end has "GET ORGANISED" been designed. The handbook is intended as a guide for students in their efforts to organise SRC’s, awareness programmes, among other things, in schools.
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- Date Issued: 1985-10
- Authors: Western Cape Youth League
- Date: 1985-10
- Subjects: Youth -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Students -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Student government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76262 , vital:30528
- Description: The past few months have seen our courageous youth take to the streets to demonstrate their disgust against this system of exploitation and oppression. This militant fervour has touched many young hearts and minds. However, there is always the danger that these energies will burn out and dissipate. Demoralisation can so easily set in if these energies are not constructively channeled. "Channeled into what?” you may ask. ORGANISATIONS. It is only through strong organisations which attempt to give guidance and direction that meaningful action can be undertaken. The WCYL recognises the important need for students to begin to discuss broader issues such as The History of Struggle in S.A. or The Nature of S.A. Society. It is only when students begin to grapple with broader issues such as these, together with more specific ones, in a co-ordinated manner, will their actions be more effective. To this end has "GET ORGANISED" been designed. The handbook is intended as a guide for students in their efforts to organise SRC’s, awareness programmes, among other things, in schools.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-10
Astatotilapia tweddlei, a new species of fluviatile haplochromine cichlid fish from lakes Chilwa and Chiuta, Malawi, with zoogeographical notes
- Jackson, P B N (Peter Brian Neville), J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Jackson, P B N (Peter Brian Neville) , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1985-06
- Subjects: Cichlids , Fishes -- Malawi
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70202 , vital:29633 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 38 , Recent collecting in the Malawi lakes Chilwa and Chiuta has revealed a new haplochromine cichlid fish, Astatotilapia tweddlei, which is described and illustrated. It is distinguished from most members of this genus by an elongate, rounded caudal fin. Although having a distinctly different colour pattern and more slender pharyngeal bone, it shows a greater similarity to A. paludinosa, known only from the Malagarasi Swamp 1200 km to the north in the Zaire ichthyofaunal province, than it does to members of this genus from the closely adjacent Zambezi province from which this wetland system, in the East Coast province is separated by only some 50 km.
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- Date Issued: 1985-06
- Authors: Jackson, P B N (Peter Brian Neville) , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1985-06
- Subjects: Cichlids , Fishes -- Malawi
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70202 , vital:29633 , Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)) Periodicals Margaret Smith Library (South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB))
- Description: Online version of original print edition of the Special Publication of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology; No. 38 , Recent collecting in the Malawi lakes Chilwa and Chiuta has revealed a new haplochromine cichlid fish, Astatotilapia tweddlei, which is described and illustrated. It is distinguished from most members of this genus by an elongate, rounded caudal fin. Although having a distinctly different colour pattern and more slender pharyngeal bone, it shows a greater similarity to A. paludinosa, known only from the Malagarasi Swamp 1200 km to the north in the Zaire ichthyofaunal province, than it does to members of this genus from the closely adjacent Zambezi province from which this wetland system, in the East Coast province is separated by only some 50 km.
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- Date Issued: 1985-06