Rainfall characteristics, rainfall reliability and the definition of drought : Baringo district, Kenya
- Authors: Rowntree, K M
- Date: 1989
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6724 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006802
- Description: Monthly rainfall data for Kabarnet District Office, together with comments taken from the Baringo District Annual Report, are used here to examine the relationship between rainfall characteristics and agricultural drought experienced over the period 1915 to 1943 in order to establish the meteorological criteria for a definition of drought applicable to the former Kerio Native Land Unit, Baringo District, Kenya. The concept of reliable rainfall as a drought threshold is also examined. The analysis shows that the occurrence of drought was related to both the rainfall total and to the seasonal distribution. The meteorological criteria for drought and for reliable rainfall were found to differ between the upland cultivators and the lowland pastoralists, the latter experiencing a higher frequency of drought.
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- Date Issued: 1989
- Authors: Rowntree, K M
- Date: 1989
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6724 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006802
- Description: Monthly rainfall data for Kabarnet District Office, together with comments taken from the Baringo District Annual Report, are used here to examine the relationship between rainfall characteristics and agricultural drought experienced over the period 1915 to 1943 in order to establish the meteorological criteria for a definition of drought applicable to the former Kerio Native Land Unit, Baringo District, Kenya. The concept of reliable rainfall as a drought threshold is also examined. The analysis shows that the occurrence of drought was related to both the rainfall total and to the seasonal distribution. The meteorological criteria for drought and for reliable rainfall were found to differ between the upland cultivators and the lowland pastoralists, the latter experiencing a higher frequency of drought.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Eskom 1989 Negotiations report back
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134893 , vital:37215
- Description: Eskom has paid wage increases to salaried staff backdated to 1 April 1989. The NUM has NOT agreed with these increases because they are too low. We are not allowed to go on strike at Eskom - we have to get an arbitrator to decide if the increases must be bigger.
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- Date Issued: 1989
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134893 , vital:37215
- Description: Eskom has paid wage increases to salaried staff backdated to 1 April 1989. The NUM has NOT agreed with these increases because they are too low. We are not allowed to go on strike at Eskom - we have to get an arbitrator to decide if the increases must be bigger.
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- Date Issued: 1989
Eskom wage negotiations for general workers 1989
- NUM
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134916 , vital:37217
- Description: Eskom started the 1989 wage negotiations with an offer of 7% on average. They said this offer is ail they need to make to keep their relative position in the labour market. we believe that the Eskom offer is contrary to the substance and spirit of Arbitration Award which forced Eskom, in 1988, to grant a 14,8% average increase in place of the 10% average increase Eskom implemented unilaterally m July last year. Dr Dry, the Eskom personnel manager, read out from an NUM pamphlet issued after the arbitrators raised the wages. He read out this one sentence. Today, through unity, the minimum wage rates as Eskom are amongst the highest in the country for workers living in compounds.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1989
- Authors: NUM
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: NUM
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134916 , vital:37217
- Description: Eskom started the 1989 wage negotiations with an offer of 7% on average. They said this offer is ail they need to make to keep their relative position in the labour market. we believe that the Eskom offer is contrary to the substance and spirit of Arbitration Award which forced Eskom, in 1988, to grant a 14,8% average increase in place of the 10% average increase Eskom implemented unilaterally m July last year. Dr Dry, the Eskom personnel manager, read out from an NUM pamphlet issued after the arbitrators raised the wages. He read out this one sentence. Today, through unity, the minimum wage rates as Eskom are amongst the highest in the country for workers living in compounds.
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- Date Issued: 1989
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