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South African birds in a Canadian museum: the legacy of colonial service by Lionel E Taylor

- Craig, Adrian J F K, Dean, W R J

Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K , Dean, W R J
Date: 2024
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/449550 , vital:74829 , https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2024.232
Description: The Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, holds a collection of 498 specimens of 275 bird species presented by Lionel E Taylor, who worked in South Africa for the Department of Forestry from 1902 to 1911. Most specimens are in very good condition, and many have date and locality information; about one-third were collected around Irene, outside Pretoria, in Gauteng province, where Taylor lived before relocating to Canada. Full details can be accessed from the museum’s website. The history and composition of this collection is described here briefly.
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Date Issued: 2024

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Distribution and impact of the Asian seed beetle, Megabruchidius tonkineus (Pic, 1904)(Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) on Gleditsia triacanthos L. seeds in South Africa

- Salgado, Sara E, Martin, Grant D

Authors: Salgado, Sara E , Martin, Grant D
Date: 2023
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/452266 , vital:75116 , http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2254-8854/2023/a13386
Description: Honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos (Fabaceae) is a fast-growing deciduous tree native to North America. The tree has been introduced worldwide and has become invasive in South Africa. In 2017, it was listed as one of the nine fastest-spreading weeds in South Africa. Once established, it competes with and displaces indigenous species and dense stands can significantly reduce stream flow. The Asian seed-feeding bruchid, Megabruchidius tonkineus (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) was introduced into South Africa and has subsequently taken honey locust as a host plant. The beetle damages honey locust seeds and is therefore considered a biological control agent, despite no host-specificity or impact studies having been conducted. This study shows that M. tonkineus has established across the entire G. triacanthos population range in South Africa, damaging approximately 9% of seeds. Laboratory studies show that M. tonkineus completes its larval development in the seeds of G. triacanthos in about 66.80±0.69 SE days before emerging. This study is the first to describe the distribution and impact of this alien insect in South Africa.
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Date Issued: 2023

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Feminism and women in African philosophy

- Etieyibo, Edwin, Tabensky, Pedro

Authors: Etieyibo, Edwin , Tabensky, Pedro
Date: 2023
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/453305 , vital:75244 , https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2023.2283674
Description: In this preamble, we highlight some of the more recent work on gender and sexuality in African philosophy. We do this as a way of introducing the special issue on “African Philosophy, Women, and Feminism”. In particular, we outline and highlight the trajectory and intellectual landscape of several discussions on women and feminism in African philosophy in the issue, and in this way, build on some previous work on gender, women, sexuality and African philosophy.
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Date Issued: 2023

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The (Slow) Urgency of Socio-cological Justice in ESE–Listening to Children in Marginalized Positions in ESE

- Jørgensen, Nanna J, James, Anna

Authors: Jørgensen, Nanna J , James, Anna
Date: 2022
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437526 , vital:73391 , ISBN
Description: As a contribution to discussions about how ESE research respond to increasing urgency and climate emergencies, this essay discusses the relation between education and the pursuit of societal transformation with a view to questions of socio-ecological justice. Our research interest centers on young children’s participation and voice, on the inequalities which constitute barriers to this participation, and on the potentials of a more fine-tuned pedagogy which listens to children’s voices and their relations with the non-human environment in our research practices. This listening is a radical process of unlearning and rethinking ‘urgency’. The essay is based on an ongoing dialogue about how research on sustainability education might respond to the voices of children in marginalized positions across two very different geographical and socio-cultural settings–the Danish welfare state and post-apartheid South Africa (see James and Jørgensen, forthcoming). Here we draw attention to the dangers of assumptions underlying urgency (dualism and instrumentalism) and the voices of young children in research as a practice that resists these dangers.
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Date Issued: 2022

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Low‐temperature physiology of climatically distinct south African populations of the biological control agent Neochetina eichhorniae

- Rogers, Daniel J, Terblanche, John S, Owen, Candice A

Authors: Rogers, Daniel J , Terblanche, John S , Owen, Candice A
Date: 2021
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/444421 , vital:74239 , https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12935
Description: Neochetina eichhorniae is the most widely established biocontrol agent on water hyacinth populations around South Africa. However, some N. eichhorniae populations have failed to adequately control their host population, specifically those exposed to cold conditions. The aim of this study was to determine whether two climatically distinct populations of N. eichhorniae in South Africa differ in their low‐temperature physiol-ogy, which tests whether local-climate adaptation has occurred.
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Date Issued: 2021

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Reconsidering the Rhodesian war through white soldier-writers’ stories

- Baines, Gary F

Authors: Baines, Gary F
Date: 2021
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/450070 , vital:74880 , https://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/hist/v66n2/08.pdf
Description: The title of Luise White’s new book recalls the truism that every war is fought twice over: it is waged in the first instance on the battlefield and, thereafter, contested via representations such as books, films and social media. White's focus is on the memoirs and novels of Rhodesia's civil war written and (often self-) published by veterans. These soldier-authors participated in a war of counterinsurgency against guerrillas of the Zimbabwean liberation movements and, subsequently, mounted a rearguard struggle to monopolise the story of the Rhodesian war through their writings. White reflects that their stories of counterinsurgency were “more successful as a story than they were in practice” (p 223). This does not, ipso facto, invalidate their personal experience of war nor the entire corpus of Rhodesian memoirs as evidence. But evidence of what? White reckons that they “reveal soldiers’ ideas about and analysis of wartime practices” (p 31). In other words, memoirs serve not as historical records per se but as experiential evidence of how the war was conducted by soldiers as actors in their own right. Only in this sense can the memoirs be treated as primary sources.
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Date Issued: 2021

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Teacher Contexts as Amplifiers and Filters to Environmental Pedagogical Content Knowledge within a Professional Development System

- Brundit, Susan, Schudel, Ingrid J

Authors: Brundit, Susan , Schudel, Ingrid J
Date: 2021
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/435141 , vital:73133 , ISBN 9781928502241 , https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64082
Description: The chapter draws on the contextual work underpinning a broader study that aimed to understand how environmental pedagogical content knowledge is supported and constructed in the Fundisa for Change teacher professional development (TPD) courses (Brundrit 2018). Necessary to this was an understanding of the contextual realities (amplifiers and filters) of the system in which the course occurs, leading to the question: How do school and classroom contexts act to amplify and filter the environmental pedagogical content knowledge learning of teachers in a teacher professional development programme?.
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Date Issued: 2021

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The forest avifauna of Arabuko Sokoke Forest and adjacent modified habitats

- Chiawo, David O, Kombe, Wellington N, Craig, Adrian J F K

Authors: Chiawo, David O , Kombe, Wellington N , Craig, Adrian J F K
Date: 2021
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/449953 , vital:74867 , https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.19.440426
Description: Arabuko Sokoke Forest (ASF) is the largest area of coastal forest remaining in East Africa and a major Important Bird Area in mainland Kenya. The study analysed data from point count surveys over 15 months in three land use types; primary forest (PF), plantation forest (PL), and farmlands (FM), and compared these to the first comprehensive bird checklist for the forest, as well as recent surveys from other studies. Avifaunal diversity and abundance were compared using multivariate analysis to determine bird responses to different land use characteristics. The primary forest held a distinctive bird community, while the bird communities of farmlands and plantation forest were more similar to each other. Land use had a significant effect on overall avian diversity and abundance. The current forest avifauna was divided into forest specialists (16 species), forest generalists (26 species) and forest visitors (30 species). Seven species of forest specialist and generalists recorded prior to 1980 may no longer occur in the forest. Of 38 specialists and generalists recorded in our point counts, 19 were also recorded on farmland and 28 in plantations. One forest specialist, the Green Barbet, was most encountered outside the forest. Future research should focus on habitat use by these bird species, and the extent of movement by forest birds between the remaining patches of coastal forest. Patterns of habitat use by birds in the area suggest that vegetation heterogeneity and habitat complexity are especially significant in sustaining diverse and abundant bird populations. The management of plantations and farmland will be critical for the conservation of forest generalists and forest visitors.
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Date Issued: 2021

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F-and F+-band radioluminescence and the influence of annealing on its emission spectra in Al2O3: C, Mg:

- Chithambo, Makaiko L, Kalita, Jitumani M, Finch, A A

Authors: Chithambo, Makaiko L , Kalita, Jitumani M , Finch, A A
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/150130 , vital:38942 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2020.106306
Description: Radioluminescence spectra of Al2O3:C,Mg monitored at temperatures up to 400 °C is reported. Measurements were made on samples either as received or on ones annealed at 1200 °C. Radioluminescence is observed at 410 nm for the unannealed sample but principally at 330 and 410 nm in the annealed sample with the emission at 330 nm dominant. Both bands are subject to thermal quenching but the change for the F+ band is atypical. Temperature induced effects on these and other bands are discussed, as are complementary measurements of thermoluminescence spectra.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Preferences of resettled refugees on pictograms describing common symptoms of illness:

- Bellamy, Kim, Dowse, Roslind, Ostini, Remo, Martini, Nataly, Kairuz, Therese

Authors: Bellamy, Kim , Dowse, Roslind , Ostini, Remo , Martini, Nataly , Kairuz, Therese
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle} , vital:40086 , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/s10903-019-00908-3
Description: Illustrated health resources are useful for people who have limited English linguistic ability. The aim was to compare the preferences of resettled refugees from Africa and non-African countries, on pictograms describing common symptoms of illness. Data were collected in two cities in Queensland, Australia. Participants indicated their preference for three types of pictograms depicting seven symptoms. Pictogram sources included the International Pharmaceutical Federation, royaltyfree stock images, and pictograms designed in South Africa.
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Date Issued: 2020

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[Post] Colonial Histories: Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War

- Baines, Gary F

Authors: Baines, Gary F
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125752 , vital:35814 , https://doi.10.1080/03612759.2019.1587342
Description: In 2007, a former South African Defence Force (SADF) paratrooper, Marius van Niekerk, embarked on a journey to confront his shameful memories relating to his role in the Angolan Civil War. From Sweden (where he had gone into exile), Van Niekerk returned to Angola, where he had been deployed during the mid-1980s, and recruited three other veterans of the war to join his party: Patrick Johannes, who had been coerced to fight for the Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA); Samuel Machado Amaru, who was forcefully enlisted by the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA); and Mario Mahonga, who had fought for the Portuguese colonial army before he was recruited by the SADF to fight against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) regime. Van Niekerk had been conscripted at the age of seventeen, and the others had been coerced into their respective militias at more tender ages. It is not clear how the three Angolans were induced to participate in the project, whose objectives they evidently did not share.
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Date Issued: 2019

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Exhibition review: Site of memory: Berni Searle’s-aplace-in-the-sun

- Muvhuti, Barnabas, Zhang, Lifang

Authors: Muvhuti, Barnabas , Zhang, Lifang
Date: 2019
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146937 , vital:38578 , https://artthrob.co.za/2019/07/31/site-of-memory-berni-searles-a-place-in-the-sun/
Description: Commissioned by the National Arts Festival, Berni Searle created a four-screen multi-channel video installation, A Place in the Sun, which cooperated perfectly with the four wall compartments of the rotunda-shaped Gallery in the Round in the basement of the 1820 Settlers Monument. With the shifting of lights, the video symbolically indicates a full day at a drained swimming pool, from morning to sunset until the whole scene turns into ashes and darkness.
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Date Issued: 2019

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