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The South African Journal of Science: A biography
This article provides a chronological account of the South African Journal of Science (SAJS) from its inception in 1903 up to the present. This approach clarifies the shifts in emphasis and purpose as the Journal moved through changing publishing structures. Over the course of a century, the SAJS…
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Henry Selby Hele-Shaw LLD, DSc, EngD, FRS, WhSch (1854-1941): Engineer, inventor and educationist
H.S. Hele-Shaw (1854 - 1941) was one of the most outstanding engineering scientists of his generation and an eminent figure in engineering education during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. His work in hydrodynamics (the Hele-Shaw cell and Hele-Shaw pump) and his important contribution to the…
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Mapungubwe: an historical and contemporary analysis of a World Heritage cultural landscape
The Mapungubwe World Heritage cultural landscape, situated on the farm Greefswald at the junction of the Limpopo and Shashi rivers on the border of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, falls under the management of South African National Parks. This article presents a close examination of…
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Pilanesberg National Park, North West Province, South Africa: Uniting economic development with ecological design – A history, 1960s to 1984
In the late 1970s, a ground-breaking project began in the Pilanesberg district in what is now the North West Province of South Africa to create a wildlife conservation and eco-tourism venture from degraded marginal farmland in an aesthetically attractive extinct volcanic crater. The establishment…
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Romance, reverence, research, rights: Writing about elephant hunting and management in southern Africa, c.1830s to 2008
The protection and management of large mammals in Africa’s national parks is not a matter to be left solely for the attention of natural science and scientists. The way in which the natural world is conceptualised by the humanities and social sciences is also significant, because nature is cultural…
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'Police boys' and poachers: Africans, wildlife protection and national parks, the Transvaal 1902 to 1950
The concentration on pure scientific research in the Kruger National Park has resulted in a neglect of a humanistic approach to nature conservation issues. The lack of human and political dimensions in important scientific contributions are serious short-comings in the light of present…
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Mount Anderson: South Africa’s forgotten gold rush in the first decades of the 20th century situated in regional historical and geomorphological context
Major localities that first attracted gold seekers from many parts of the world to the Transvaal in the 1870s and 1880s were along the river valleys that intersect the great eastern escarpment that rises high above the lowveld. The history of alluvial gold mining in the eastern region of South…
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science – A retrospection: 1958 to 2018
In 2018, Koedoe celebrated an unbroken publication record of 60 years. From uncertain beginnings in 1958, it is now a mature and important internationally recognised scientific journal focussing on conservation and science in national parks in South Africa and beyond into the African continent…
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Entrevista con Jane Carruthers
La entrevista fue hecha durante el VI Simposio de la Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental, SOLCHA, en Villa de Leyva, Colombia, junio de 2012. El suporte técnico fue amablemente ofrecido por los organizadores del Simposio. Disponible en: http://youtu.be/lZVWFUofmpc