A new Barbus species (Pisces, Cyprinidae) from the Olifants River System, Western Cape Province, South Africa
- Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey), Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1974-08
- Subjects: Barbus erubescens , Freshwater fishes -- South Africa -- Olifants River (Clanwilliam District, Cape of Good Hope)
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69715 , vital:29570 , 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. 13 , A new species of small Barbus is described from the Olifants River System, western Cape Province, South Africa. The new species is restricted to a single tributary complex of the river system and appears closely related to B. calidus. Diagnostic features include pharyngeal teeth formulae, colour pattern, and dorsal and anal fin ray characteristics.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1974-08
- Authors: Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1974-08
- Subjects: Barbus erubescens , Freshwater fishes -- South Africa -- Olifants River (Clanwilliam District, Cape of Good Hope)
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69715 , vital:29570 , 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. 13 , A new species of small Barbus is described from the Olifants River System, western Cape Province, South Africa. The new species is restricted to a single tributary complex of the river system and appears closely related to B. calidus. Diagnostic features include pharyngeal teeth formulae, colour pattern, and dorsal and anal fin ray characteristics.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1974-08
A new species of the klipfish genus Springeratus (Clinidae) from the Indian Ocean
- Fraser, Thomas H, Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1972-11
- Subjects: Klipfish , Springeratus , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Geographical distribution , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69630 , vital:29561 , 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. 9 , Klipfishes of the subfamily Clininae are among the dominant intertidal fishes in southern Africa. Except for a few tropical clinine members such as Clinus xanthosoma Bleeker, Clinus ekloniae McKay and Petraites roseus (Gunther), these diverse temperate forms seem to be replaced by members of the Blenniidae in the intertidal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Klipfishes have not been collected often in the tropical IndoPacific, but often enough to indicate a distribution for C. xanthosoma from Japan through the Philippines to Indonesia and Ceylon. In a recent publication Shen (1971 b) has brought our knowledge of C. xanthosoma up to date and described a new genus, Springeratus to house this species. The status of C. halei has been and still remains uncertain since Day described it in 1888. While collecting fishes at Mauritius, an undescribed intertidal clinid was obtained. This population of live-bearing klipfish contributes to our understanding of the zoogeography and possible relationships of Australian and southern African Clininae. Penrith (1969: r 14) hypothesized sea-weed transport of a clinid ancestor from Australia to South Africa. The Mauritian species favours her hypothesis as well as casting some doubt on the validity of Springeratus as a genus different from Clinus (sensu Penrith, 1969).
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1972-11
- Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1972-11
- Subjects: Klipfish , Springeratus , Fishes -- Classification , Fishes -- Geographical distribution , Fishes -- Indian Ocean
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69630 , vital:29561 , 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. 9 , Klipfishes of the subfamily Clininae are among the dominant intertidal fishes in southern Africa. Except for a few tropical clinine members such as Clinus xanthosoma Bleeker, Clinus ekloniae McKay and Petraites roseus (Gunther), these diverse temperate forms seem to be replaced by members of the Blenniidae in the intertidal zone of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Klipfishes have not been collected often in the tropical IndoPacific, but often enough to indicate a distribution for C. xanthosoma from Japan through the Philippines to Indonesia and Ceylon. In a recent publication Shen (1971 b) has brought our knowledge of C. xanthosoma up to date and described a new genus, Springeratus to house this species. The status of C. halei has been and still remains uncertain since Day described it in 1888. While collecting fishes at Mauritius, an undescribed intertidal clinid was obtained. This population of live-bearing klipfish contributes to our understanding of the zoogeography and possible relationships of Australian and southern African Clininae. Penrith (1969: r 14) hypothesized sea-weed transport of a clinid ancestor from Australia to South Africa. The Mauritian species favours her hypothesis as well as casting some doubt on the validity of Springeratus as a genus different from Clinus (sensu Penrith, 1969).
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- Date Issued: 1972-11
A new species of Tropheus (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika
- Axelrod, G S (Glen S.), Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Axelrod, G S (Glen S.) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1977-11
- Subjects: Cichlids , Tropheus , Freshwater fishes -- Tanganyika, Lake
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69803 , vital:29581 , 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. 17 , Tropheus polli, a sp. nov. (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, is described and compared with T. moorii Boulenger 1898, T. annectens Boulenger 1900, T. duboisi Marlier 1959, T. brichardi Nelissen & Thys 1975, and T. moorii kasabae Nelissen 1977. Included are detailed morphometric data with a figure and colour plate, a lower pharyngeal bone description with electron micrograph scans, and a type locality map.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1977-11
- Authors: Axelrod, G S (Glen S.) , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1977-11
- Subjects: Cichlids , Tropheus , Freshwater fishes -- Tanganyika, Lake
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69803 , vital:29581 , 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. 17 , Tropheus polli, a sp. nov. (Pisces: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika, is described and compared with T. moorii Boulenger 1898, T. annectens Boulenger 1900, T. duboisi Marlier 1959, T. brichardi Nelissen & Thys 1975, and T. moorii kasabae Nelissen 1977. Included are detailed morphometric data with a figure and colour plate, a lower pharyngeal bone description with electron micrograph scans, and a type locality map.
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- Date Issued: 1977-11
A review of the Red Sea cardinalfishes of the Apogon bandanensis complex: with a description of a new species
- Fraser, Thomas H, Randall, John E, 1924-, Lachner, Ernest A, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Randall, John E, 1924- , Lachner, Ernest A , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1999-11
- Subjects: Apogon bandanensis , Apogon -- Red Sea -- Classification , Apogon -- Red Sea -- Identification
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71033 , vital:29771 , 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. 63 , Three species of the Apogon bandanensis group are found in the Red Sea, the widespread Apogon guamensis, the endemic Apogon annularis, and a new endemic species Apogon zebrinus. Colour patterns, number of gill-rakers, body depth, second anal spine length, pectoral-fin length, and caudal peduncle depth are important aids for identification of the Red Sea species. Two synonyms of Apogon guamensis were based on juvenile material: Apogon ocellatus from Madagascar and Apogon spongicolus from the Red Sea. Rüppell’s, Günther’s and Klausewitz’s concepts of Apogon annularis are reviewed. Apogon erdmani is a synonym of Apogon annularis. Apogon savayensis and another wide spread new species were not found in any Red Sea collections we examined.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999-11
- Authors: Fraser, Thomas H , Randall, John E, 1924- , Lachner, Ernest A , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1999-11
- Subjects: Apogon bandanensis , Apogon -- Red Sea -- Classification , Apogon -- Red Sea -- Identification
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71033 , vital:29771 , 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. 63 , Three species of the Apogon bandanensis group are found in the Red Sea, the widespread Apogon guamensis, the endemic Apogon annularis, and a new endemic species Apogon zebrinus. Colour patterns, number of gill-rakers, body depth, second anal spine length, pectoral-fin length, and caudal peduncle depth are important aids for identification of the Red Sea species. Two synonyms of Apogon guamensis were based on juvenile material: Apogon ocellatus from Madagascar and Apogon spongicolus from the Red Sea. Rüppell’s, Günther’s and Klausewitz’s concepts of Apogon annularis are reviewed. Apogon erdmani is a synonym of Apogon annularis. Apogon savayensis and another wide spread new species were not found in any Red Sea collections we examined.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1999-11
Conclusion: The diversity of contemporary African foreign policy: Selecting Signifiers to explain Agency
- Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161681 , vital:40654 , ISBN 9780367348281 , https://www.routledge.com/African-Foreign-Policies-Selecting-Signifiers-to-Explain-Agency/Bischoff/p/book/9780367348281
- Description: This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: Bischoff, Paul, 1954-
- Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/161681 , vital:40654 , ISBN 9780367348281 , https://www.routledge.com/African-Foreign-Policies-Selecting-Signifiers-to-Explain-Agency/Bischoff/p/book/9780367348281
- Description: This book explores, at a time when several powers have become serious players on the continent, aspects of African agency, past and present, by African writers on foreign policy, representative of geography, language and state size.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
Cultivation of medicinal plants as a tool for biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation in the Amatola region, South Africa:
- Wiersum, K Freerk, Dold, Anthony P, Husselman, Madeleen, Cocks, Michelle L
- Authors: Wiersum, K Freerk , Dold, Anthony P , Husselman, Madeleen , Cocks, Michelle L
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141489 , vital:37979 , ISBN 9781402054488 , https://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/frontis/issue/view/232
- Description: This paper describes the assumptions and results of a study to assess whether cultivation of medicinal plants can serve as a tool for combined biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. The study was carried out in the Amatola region of Eastern Cape, South Africa, where sustained beliefs in medicinal plant use, also under non-traditional conditions, has resulted in an increase in commercial demands. It was based on the assumption of poverty alleviation not only referring to an increase in income and labour, but also an increase in social capital and human dignity. The study assessed the local perceptions of the use and cultivation of medicinal plants and the need for conservation of these plants, as well as the features of already ongoing cultivation practices and options for increased cultivation. It consisted of participatory assessments in three villages involving around 250 persons and participatory trials with 14 rural women selling medicinal plants on urban markets. The study indicated that the growing demand for medicinal plants is related to the great cultural significance attached to medicinal plants.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Wiersum, K Freerk , Dold, Anthony P , Husselman, Madeleen , Cocks, Michelle L
- Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141489 , vital:37979 , ISBN 9781402054488 , https://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/frontis/issue/view/232
- Description: This paper describes the assumptions and results of a study to assess whether cultivation of medicinal plants can serve as a tool for combined biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. The study was carried out in the Amatola region of Eastern Cape, South Africa, where sustained beliefs in medicinal plant use, also under non-traditional conditions, has resulted in an increase in commercial demands. It was based on the assumption of poverty alleviation not only referring to an increase in income and labour, but also an increase in social capital and human dignity. The study assessed the local perceptions of the use and cultivation of medicinal plants and the need for conservation of these plants, as well as the features of already ongoing cultivation practices and options for increased cultivation. It consisted of participatory assessments in three villages involving around 250 persons and participatory trials with 14 rural women selling medicinal plants on urban markets. The study indicated that the growing demand for medicinal plants is related to the great cultural significance attached to medicinal plants.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010
Deepen the strategic relationship between the SACP and COSATU, with and for the workers and the poor
- Authors: Nzimande, Blade E
- Date: 2003-09-16
- Subjects: Cosatu -- Congresses , Labour unions -- South Africa -- Congresses , Industrial relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66245 , vital:28922
- Description: Cde President, Willie Madisha, Cde Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary and all COSATU national office-bearers, leadership of COSATU affiliates, leadership of the ANC present, Cde Jeremy Cronin and the SACP delegation, local and international guests, cde delegates. As the SACP we are deeply honoured by the invitation to come and address your congress. This occasion might go down in history as one of the most important congresses in the history of this Federation, this, the 8th Congress of the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2003-09-16
Deepen the strategic relationship between the SACP and COSATU, with and for the workers and the poor
- Authors: Nzimande, Blade E
- Date: 2003-09-16
- Subjects: Cosatu -- Congresses , Labour unions -- South Africa -- Congresses , Industrial relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Economic conditions -- 21st century , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66245 , vital:28922
- Description: Cde President, Willie Madisha, Cde Zwelinzima Vavi, General Secretary and all COSATU national office-bearers, leadership of COSATU affiliates, leadership of the ANC present, Cde Jeremy Cronin and the SACP delegation, local and international guests, cde delegates. As the SACP we are deeply honoured by the invitation to come and address your congress. This occasion might go down in history as one of the most important congresses in the history of this Federation, this, the 8th Congress of the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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- Date Issued: 2003-09-16
Description and osteology of a new eel of the genus Bathymyrus from off Mozambique
- Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John), Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology
- Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology
- Date: 1968-05
- Subjects: Eels , Bathymyrus smithi , Marine fishes -- Mozambique
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69552 , vital:29548 , 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 Rhodes University, Department of Ichthyology, No. 4 , A commercial haul off the Limpopo River mouth in 260 - 270 fathoms collected 35 eels of the genus Bathymyrus Alcock, 1889, described here as B. smithi sp. nov. This has a shorter head and pectoral and a more posterior dorsal origin relative to the pectoral fin than in B.echinorhynchus Alcock, 1889 from the Bay of Bengal and B.simus Smith, 1965 from the South China Sea. B.smithi is also distinct in having extra-oral rostral teeth present but less conspicuously developed, more numerous vertebrae (150 — 155, compared with about 125 — 130 in the other species) and drab coloration. An osteological study shows that, although it has certain unique features, B.smithi is very closely similar to congrids of the subfamily Anagoinae. There are valid reasons for using the term Bathymyrinae for this group of congrid eels.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1968-05
- Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology
- Date: 1968-05
- Subjects: Eels , Bathymyrus smithi , Marine fishes -- Mozambique
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69552 , vital:29548 , 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 Rhodes University, Department of Ichthyology, No. 4 , A commercial haul off the Limpopo River mouth in 260 - 270 fathoms collected 35 eels of the genus Bathymyrus Alcock, 1889, described here as B. smithi sp. nov. This has a shorter head and pectoral and a more posterior dorsal origin relative to the pectoral fin than in B.echinorhynchus Alcock, 1889 from the Bay of Bengal and B.simus Smith, 1965 from the South China Sea. B.smithi is also distinct in having extra-oral rostral teeth present but less conspicuously developed, more numerous vertebrae (150 — 155, compared with about 125 — 130 in the other species) and drab coloration. An osteological study shows that, although it has certain unique features, B.smithi is very closely similar to congrids of the subfamily Anagoinae. There are valid reasons for using the term Bathymyrinae for this group of congrid eels.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1968-05
Descriptions of two new species of West African amphiliid catfishes (Siluroidei: Amphiliidae)
- Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey), J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey) , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1989-08
- Subjects: Catfishes , Siluridae , Fishes -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70324 , vital:29645 , 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. 48 , Two new amphiliid catfish species from west Africa are described. A new Paramphilius from the Little Scarcies River basin in Guinea, is the third species of the genus from that area. It has a relatively deeper body and longer fins than other upper Guinean Paramphilius species. The new species of Doumea from the Cross River in Nigeria and Cameroons is characterised by a long predorsal length and a relatively short stout caudal peduncle.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1989-08
- Authors: Skelton, Paul H (Paul Harvey) , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1989-08
- Subjects: Catfishes , Siluridae , Fishes -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70324 , vital:29645 , 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. 48 , Two new amphiliid catfish species from west Africa are described. A new Paramphilius from the Little Scarcies River basin in Guinea, is the third species of the genus from that area. It has a relatively deeper body and longer fins than other upper Guinean Paramphilius species. The new species of Doumea from the Cross River in Nigeria and Cameroons is characterised by a long predorsal length and a relatively short stout caudal peduncle.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1989-08
Indigenous polycentric and nested customary sea-tenure (CST) institutions: a Solomon Islands case study
- Authors: Aswani, Shankar
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178964 , vital:40100 , ISBN 9780429628283
- Description: In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources. Renewable natural resources are under pressure, with over-exploitation and degradation raising concern globally. Understanding governance systems and practice is essential for developing effective and fair solutions. This book introduces readers to key concepts and issues concerned with the governance of renewable natural resources and illustrates the diversity of approaches, theories and frameworks that have been used to analyse governance systems and practice. Each chapter provides an introduction to an area of literature and theory and demonstrates application through a case study. The book covers a range of geographical locations, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries, and several types of natural resources. The approaches and theories introduced include common property theory, political ecology, institutional analysis, the social -ecological systems framework and social network analysis. Findings from across the chapters support an analytical focus on institutions and local context and a practical focus on diverse, flexible and inclusive governance solutions. The book serves as an essential introduction to the governance of renewable natural resources for students, researchers and practitioners.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Aswani, Shankar
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178964 , vital:40100 , ISBN 9780429628283
- Description: In one volume, this book brings together a diversity of approaches, theory and frameworks that can be used to analyse the governance of renewable natural resources. Renewable natural resources are under pressure, with over-exploitation and degradation raising concern globally. Understanding governance systems and practice is essential for developing effective and fair solutions. This book introduces readers to key concepts and issues concerned with the governance of renewable natural resources and illustrates the diversity of approaches, theories and frameworks that have been used to analyse governance systems and practice. Each chapter provides an introduction to an area of literature and theory and demonstrates application through a case study. The book covers a range of geographical locations, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries, and several types of natural resources. The approaches and theories introduced include common property theory, political ecology, institutional analysis, the social -ecological systems framework and social network analysis. Findings from across the chapters support an analytical focus on institutions and local context and a practical focus on diverse, flexible and inclusive governance solutions. The book serves as an essential introduction to the governance of renewable natural resources for students, researchers and practitioners.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Is contemporary art postdevelopmental?: a study of ‘art as NGO’
- Authors: Tello, Verónica
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146365 , vital:38519 , ISBN 9780429959981
- Description: Book abstract. Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice.
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- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Tello, Verónica
- Date: 2019
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146365 , vital:38519 , ISBN 9780429959981
- Description: Book abstract. Postdevelopment in Practice critically engages with recent trends in postdevelopment and critical development studies that have destabilised the concept of development, challenging its assumptions and exposing areas where it has failed in its objectives, whilst also pushing beyond theory to uncover alternatives in practice.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Know your rights! A basic guide for domestic workers in South Africa
- Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 2010-06
- Subjects: Household employees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa , Household employees -- Employment -- South Africa , Labour contract -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60041 , vital:27725
- Description: The demand for domestic services has increased globally during the last two decades and today domestic workers constitute a large portion of the workforce, especially in developing countries. Yet domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated, and many domestic workers are underpaid and unprotected. This has been recognised by international organisations, such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The struggle of domestic workers has lead to improvements to their rights and conditions in many countries. Yet working conditions and wages remain poor in many countries, including South Africa. This booklet sheds light on this problem. There are 888 000 domestic workers in South Africa, which accounts for 7% of total formal employment (Labour Force Survey, May 2010). The vast majority of these workers do not belong to a trade union and do not partake in collective bargaining or are unaware of their rights to bargain and to join trade unions. The South African Domestic Services and Allied Workers Union (SADSAWU) is a trade union for domestic workers in South Africa and campaigns for the improvement of rights and conditions of domestic workers. It recognises that it is not as powerful as it could be and it would have a bigger influence on the legislating authorities if there were more members which were strongly organised. There are numerous difficulties to organise domestic workers, some are related to the education level of the workers and some lies within the nature of the work (many are live-in workers and therefore have no contact with other domestic workers as a natural part of their work). However, SADSAWU has over many years built up a lot of experience and developed a solid vision to build a strong domestic workers movement, and is therefore well placed to fight these difficulties. This booklet also serves as an organising tool for domestic workers. The aim is to raise awareness of the rights of domestic workers and to encourage workers to organise.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010-06
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 2010-06
- Subjects: Household employees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Africa , Household employees -- Employment -- South Africa , Labour contract -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60041 , vital:27725
- Description: The demand for domestic services has increased globally during the last two decades and today domestic workers constitute a large portion of the workforce, especially in developing countries. Yet domestic work is undervalued and poorly regulated, and many domestic workers are underpaid and unprotected. This has been recognised by international organisations, such as the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The struggle of domestic workers has lead to improvements to their rights and conditions in many countries. Yet working conditions and wages remain poor in many countries, including South Africa. This booklet sheds light on this problem. There are 888 000 domestic workers in South Africa, which accounts for 7% of total formal employment (Labour Force Survey, May 2010). The vast majority of these workers do not belong to a trade union and do not partake in collective bargaining or are unaware of their rights to bargain and to join trade unions. The South African Domestic Services and Allied Workers Union (SADSAWU) is a trade union for domestic workers in South Africa and campaigns for the improvement of rights and conditions of domestic workers. It recognises that it is not as powerful as it could be and it would have a bigger influence on the legislating authorities if there were more members which were strongly organised. There are numerous difficulties to organise domestic workers, some are related to the education level of the workers and some lies within the nature of the work (many are live-in workers and therefore have no contact with other domestic workers as a natural part of their work). However, SADSAWU has over many years built up a lot of experience and developed a solid vision to build a strong domestic workers movement, and is therefore well placed to fight these difficulties. This booklet also serves as an organising tool for domestic workers. The aim is to raise awareness of the rights of domestic workers and to encourage workers to organise.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010-06
Probing the potential of social ecosystemic skills approaches for green skills planning: Perspectives from Expanded Public Works Programme studies
- Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/392924 , vital:68812 , ISBN 9780429279362 , https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279362
- Description: The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa is an extensive governmental intervention to provide work opportunities. The EPWP context is a significant site of green skills emergence in South Africa, especially at the elementary occupation level. The training associated with these programmes has, to date, been largely top down, and little nuanced understanding exists on the training and learning pathways potential development for these green skills. There is a paradox between the top down approach to training, and the primarily regional implementation platforms of EPWP job opportunities and their developmental intent. To reconcile this paradox, I draw on social ecosystemic skills research to probe the potential for such a conceptual and theoretical framework for guiding green skills research for the EPWP. I share some methodologies and insights developed in EPWP green skills research projects that offer potential for providing insight into a social ecosystemic model for green skills research in EPWP programmes. Social ecosystemic models in skills research seek to develop skills development approaches that forge stronger connections between working, living and learning, foregrounding regional, place-based models for skills planning that require interfacing with vertical facilitatory mechanisms and horizontal connectivities.
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- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Lotz-Sisitka, Heila
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/392924 , vital:68812 , ISBN 9780429279362 , https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279362
- Description: The Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa is an extensive governmental intervention to provide work opportunities. The EPWP context is a significant site of green skills emergence in South Africa, especially at the elementary occupation level. The training associated with these programmes has, to date, been largely top down, and little nuanced understanding exists on the training and learning pathways potential development for these green skills. There is a paradox between the top down approach to training, and the primarily regional implementation platforms of EPWP job opportunities and their developmental intent. To reconcile this paradox, I draw on social ecosystemic skills research to probe the potential for such a conceptual and theoretical framework for guiding green skills research for the EPWP. I share some methodologies and insights developed in EPWP green skills research projects that offer potential for providing insight into a social ecosystemic model for green skills research in EPWP programmes. Social ecosystemic models in skills research seek to develop skills development approaches that forge stronger connections between working, living and learning, foregrounding regional, place-based models for skills planning that require interfacing with vertical facilitatory mechanisms and horizontal connectivities.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Systematics and distribution of eels of the Muraenesox group (Anguilliformes, Muraenesocidae): a preliminary report and key
- Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John), Williamson, Gordon R, Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Williamson, Gordon R , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1975-05
- Subjects: Fishes -- Classification , Muraenesox -- Classification , Muraenesocidae -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69746 , vital:29575 , 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. 15 , A study of the eels which have been referred to Muraenesox McClelland clarifies taxonomic confusion in this group and shows it to contain three genera and seven species. M cinereus (Forsskål, 1775) occurs from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean northwards to Japan . M. bagio (Hamilton, 1822) has a wider distribution from South Africa throughout the Indo-west Pacific north to Japan and south to Sydney. Congresox Gill is revived for C. talabon (Cuvier, 1829) and C. talabonoides (Bleeker, 1853) both of which occur in the central Indo-west Pacific. Cynoponticus Costa is represented by C. savanna (Bancroft, 1831) in the West Atlantic, C. ferox Costa, 1845 in the East Atlantic and Mediterranean and C. coniceps (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) in the central East Pacific.
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- Date Issued: 1975-05
- Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Williamson, Gordon R , Rhodes University. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
- Date: 1975-05
- Subjects: Fishes -- Classification , Muraenesox -- Classification , Muraenesocidae -- Classification
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69746 , vital:29575 , 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. 15 , A study of the eels which have been referred to Muraenesox McClelland clarifies taxonomic confusion in this group and shows it to contain three genera and seven species. M cinereus (Forsskål, 1775) occurs from the Red Sea across the Indian Ocean northwards to Japan . M. bagio (Hamilton, 1822) has a wider distribution from South Africa throughout the Indo-west Pacific north to Japan and south to Sydney. Congresox Gill is revived for C. talabon (Cuvier, 1829) and C. talabonoides (Bleeker, 1853) both of which occur in the central Indo-west Pacific. Cynoponticus Costa is represented by C. savanna (Bancroft, 1831) in the West Atlantic, C. ferox Costa, 1845 in the East Atlantic and Mediterranean and C. coniceps (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) in the central East Pacific.
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- Date Issued: 1975-05
Targeting conserved pathways as a strategy for novel drug development: disabling the cellular stress response:
- Edkins, Adrienne L, Blatch, Gregory L
- Authors: Edkins, Adrienne L , Blatch, Gregory L
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165129 , vital:41211 , ISBN 978-3-642-28174-7 , DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28175-4_4
- Description: The ability to respond to and cope with stress at a molecular level is essential for cell survival. The stress response is conserved across organisms by the expression of a group of molecular chaperones known as heat shock proteins (HSP). HSP are ubiquitous and highly conserved proteins that regulate cellular protein homeostasis and trafficking under physiological and stressful conditions, including diseases such as cancer and malaria. HSP are good drug targets for the treatment of human diseases, as the significant functional and structural data available suggest that they are essential for cell survival and that, despite conservation across species, there are biophysical and biochemical differences between HSP in normal and disease states that allow HSP to be selectively targeted. In this chapter, we review the international status of this area of research and highlight progress by us and other African researchers towards the characterisation and targeting of HSP from humans and parasites from Plasmodium and Trypanosoma as drug targets.
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Edkins, Adrienne L , Blatch, Gregory L
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165129 , vital:41211 , ISBN 978-3-642-28174-7 , DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28175-4_4
- Description: The ability to respond to and cope with stress at a molecular level is essential for cell survival. The stress response is conserved across organisms by the expression of a group of molecular chaperones known as heat shock proteins (HSP). HSP are ubiquitous and highly conserved proteins that regulate cellular protein homeostasis and trafficking under physiological and stressful conditions, including diseases such as cancer and malaria. HSP are good drug targets for the treatment of human diseases, as the significant functional and structural data available suggest that they are essential for cell survival and that, despite conservation across species, there are biophysical and biochemical differences between HSP in normal and disease states that allow HSP to be selectively targeted. In this chapter, we review the international status of this area of research and highlight progress by us and other African researchers towards the characterisation and targeting of HSP from humans and parasites from Plasmodium and Trypanosoma as drug targets.
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- Date Issued: 2012
The advantages and disadvantages of long-term collective bargaining within the Metal & Engineering Industry and Mining Industry
- Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 2002-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60190 , vital:27745
- Description: This report highlights the advantages and disadvantages of long-term collective bargaining within the Metal & Engineering and Mining industries. It does not aim to set standards but to provide useful information on the experiences of negotiators bargaining for multi-year agreements. To this end a questionnaire was designed to draw commentary from various role-players within the abovementioned industries on the issue under investigation.
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- Date Issued: 2002-11
- Authors: Labour Research Service (LRS)
- Date: 2002-11
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60190 , vital:27745
- Description: This report highlights the advantages and disadvantages of long-term collective bargaining within the Metal & Engineering and Mining industries. It does not aim to set standards but to provide useful information on the experiences of negotiators bargaining for multi-year agreements. To this end a questionnaire was designed to draw commentary from various role-players within the abovementioned industries on the issue under investigation.
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- Date Issued: 2002-11
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
Tracking a bill : the process of passing a bill through parliament
- Authors: Black Sash
- Date: 1995-03
- Subjects: Legislation -- South Africa , Parliamentary practice -- South Africa , Bill drafting -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75554 , vital:30431
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- Date Issued: 1995-03
- Authors: Black Sash
- Date: 1995-03
- Subjects: Legislation -- South Africa , Parliamentary practice -- South Africa , Bill drafting -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75554 , vital:30431
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- Date Issued: 1995-03
Two remarkable eel-larvae from off Southern Africa
- Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John), Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology
- Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology
- Date: 1967-08
- Subjects: Eels , Fishes -- Larvae , Marine fishes -- Africa, Southern
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69251 , vital:29465 , 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 Rhodes University, Department of Ichthyology, No.1 , Ascomana gen. nov., based on A. eximia sp. nov. is described from a single 700mm leptocephalus collected off Cape Town. It displays the following characters which in combination distinguish it from known eel genera: — Jaws moderately produced, hyomandibula essentialy vertical, short postocular region, occipital crest present, slender upwardly-curved lower jaw, pectoral fin with very numerous rays (23-24); larva reaching at least 700mm, eye not telescopic, caudal not attenuated or rounded, very numerous teeth, intestine a straight tube, pigment mainly as a series of large melanophores along the ventral body wall from throat to vent. The new genus and species shows some resemblances to the nessorhamphid eels. An elongate (565mm) leptocephalus, also collected from off Cape Town (that is, in the locality of the Dana "giant" eel-larvae), is identified with Leptocephalus giganteus Castle and is the second undoubted specimen of this species.
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- Date Issued: 1967-08
- Authors: Castle, P H J (Peter Henry John) , Rhodes University. Department of Ichthyology
- Date: 1967-08
- Subjects: Eels , Fishes -- Larvae , Marine fishes -- Africa, Southern
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69251 , vital:29465 , 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 Rhodes University, Department of Ichthyology, No.1 , Ascomana gen. nov., based on A. eximia sp. nov. is described from a single 700mm leptocephalus collected off Cape Town. It displays the following characters which in combination distinguish it from known eel genera: — Jaws moderately produced, hyomandibula essentialy vertical, short postocular region, occipital crest present, slender upwardly-curved lower jaw, pectoral fin with very numerous rays (23-24); larva reaching at least 700mm, eye not telescopic, caudal not attenuated or rounded, very numerous teeth, intestine a straight tube, pigment mainly as a series of large melanophores along the ventral body wall from throat to vent. The new genus and species shows some resemblances to the nessorhamphid eels. An elongate (565mm) leptocephalus, also collected from off Cape Town (that is, in the locality of the Dana "giant" eel-larvae), is identified with Leptocephalus giganteus Castle and is the second undoubted specimen of this species.
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- Date Issued: 1967-08
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