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Patterns of distribution and conservation status of freshwater fishes in South Africa

- Skelton, Paul H, Cambray, James A, Lombard A, Benn, G

Authors: Skelton, Paul H , Cambray, James A , Lombard A , Benn, G
Date: 1995
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447318 , vital:74610 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA00445096_904
Description: The combined fish collection databases of the Albany Museum and the J.l.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology are used to identify hotspots of endemism and threatened fish distributions in South Africa. Hotspots of fish species richness occur in the north-eastern lowveld sectors of South Africa and along the ecotone between the tropical/ subtropical and temperate faunal zones. Hotspots of endemic fish richness occur within both the tropical and temperate faunal regions, notably in the Olifants River system, Western Cape and in areas of high relief such as the Cape Fold Mountains, the Amatola-Winterberg (Eastern Cape), and the Drakensberg Escarpment (Kwazulu/ Natal-Eastern Transvaal). Threatened taxa are concentrated in the hotspots of endemic species richness which coincide largely with areas of major river conservation concern. There is limited scope for fish conservation within the ambit of formal (or informal) declared reserves, and the survival of the fauna depends on the success of river catchment conservation management. The value of museum collections in identifying areas of conservation concern for freshwater fishes is emphasized, and highlights the importance of well-preserved voucher specimens for biodiversity conservation.
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Date Issued: 1995

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A comparison of the ichthyofaunas in two permanently open eastern Cape estuaries

- Whitfield, Alan K, Paterson, Angus W, Bok, Anton H, Kok, H M

Authors: Whitfield, Alan K , Paterson, Angus W , Bok, Anton H , Kok, H M
Date: 1994
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447364 , vital:74618 , https://www.ajol.info/index.php/az/article/view/154297
Description: The Kowie and Great Fish estuaries are situated less than 30 km apart, yet they differ considerably in terms of riverine inflow, turbidity, food resources and habitat availability. The ichthyofauna of the two estuaries were sampled using plankton, seine and gill nets. A greater ichthyofaunal richness (R) was recorded in the Kowie estuary and this is attributed to the wider range of habitats and greater degree of marine influence in this system. In contrast, all three sampling gears revealed an approximate 3:1 ratio between fish abundance in the Great Fish and Kowie estuaries.
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Date Issued: 1994

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Fishing Policy development consultative meeting

- FAWU

Authors: FAWU
Date: Dec 1994
Subjects: FAWU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118446 , vital:34632
Description: On 27 October 1994 we met at the Good Hope Centre with the purpose of launching a process for developing a fisheries policy. The call of the meeting was driven by the problems and the situation faced by Fisher folk. Communities in the coastal areas are starving and living under bad conditions. These resources are not utilised to address these problems at present as stated in the RDP. The present system creates conflict between individuals and between regions. Since the appointment of Mandla Gxanyana at the Good hope centre meeting lots of things have happened, consultation with regions, forums, organisation and individuals on how to take up this process and the formation of the committee. There was final agreement of bottom up approach. This approach encouraged region like Eastern Cape to take up the process and reported into the siting of the legislature of the Eastern Cape region. In KwaZulu Natal process of creating forum have started which include all the players. I hope this process will create a national Fishing Forum, which shall have committee in the different coastal communities, because RDP outline how our resource should be managed, that our communities are great pillar for the management of our resources.
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Date Issued: Dec 1994

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CWIU Congress resolutions 1993 - Draft

- Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU)

Authors: Chemical Workers Industrial Union (CWIU)
Date: 1993
Subjects: CWIU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/170159 , vital:41863
Description: The CWIU recognises the need to develop a long term organisational vision, develop and implement creative and effective strategies, prioritise campaigns/activities in order to be able to sustain these, adapt and change by a process of restructuring, deal effectively with political and economic issues. Development of a long term Vision Congress reaffirms our objective of a socialist future Our programmes must therefore reflect this vision. The trade union movement as a working class organisation has a major role in any socialist programme. The labour movement must remain independent. This independence must not be compromised. Overall strategy for trade union movement The current direction of Cosatu towards so called "Strategic Unionism" must be thoroughly discussed. A progamme of discussion on this must be implemented in the Union. We confirm our belief in the following principles and any strategy must be based on these: worker control, accountability of leadership a combination of negotiations,mass action and struggle as the means to achieve our goals/demands.
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Date Issued: 1993

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SADTU - Teachers strike back

- SADTU

Authors: SADTU
Date: June 1993
Subjects: SADTU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134635 , vital:37185
Description: During the past few months, we experienced the mass mobilisation of 70 000 teachers, nationally. This collective showing of unity and strength forced the State to listen to the grievances of teachers. In the Western Cape, militant teachers took to the streets to picket, held successful sit-ins at Regional Offices, participated in mass marches and rallies. We saw unprecedented mass mobilisation of teachers on three occasions. Firstly, a SADTU meeting at the Athlone Civic Centre where a resolution was adopted to intensify ttie campaign against unilateral restructuring and retrenchments. Secondly, after consultations with other teacher organisations in the Western Cape, we embarked on an ‘ambitious’ plan of uniting all organisations against rationalisation, merit awards and our fight for a Living Wage. This culminated in the historic meeting at the Good Hope Centre which drew approx. 10 000 teachers together to demonstrate the anger of teachers at the racist education departments and the intransigent State. Thirdly, The Western Cape Region of SADTU supported the call by National to suspend the strike regarding the Living Wage demand but agreed to continue with strike action, 24 25 May, around the issue of rationalisation and retrenchments. This was in accordance with SADTU National position. On the 26 May, at a SADTU mass rally at the Athlone Stadium, (psst! the Civic Centre was too small !) approx. 9 000 teachers, from as far as Bredasdorp, Swellendam, Ceres, Tulbagh, Vredendal, Malmesbury and Atlantis braved the inclement weather to hear a report-back from our comrade chairperson, Vivienne Carelse who was part of the SADTU National Negotiating Team with the Department of National Education
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Date Issued: June 1993

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SADTU Western Cape Bulletin - Vol 2

- SADTU

Authors: SADTU
Date: June 1993
Subjects: SADTU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134624 , vital:37184
Description: During the past few months, we experienced the mass mobilisation of 70 000 teachers, nationally. This collective showing of unity and strength forced the State to listen to the grievances of teachers. In the Western Cape, militant teachers took to the streets to picket, held successful sit-ins at Regional Offices, participated in mass marches and rallies. We saw unprecedented mass mobilisation of teachers on three occasions. Firstly, a SADTU meeting at the Athlone Civic Centre where a resolution was adopted to intensify the campaign against unilateral restructuring and retrenchment. Secondly after consultations with other teacher organisations in the Western Cape, we embarked on an ‘ambitious’ plan of uniting all organisations against rationalisation, merit awards and our fight for a Living Wage, This culminated in the historic meeting at the Good Hope Centre which drew approx. 10 000 teachers together to demonstrate the anger of teachers* at the racist education departments and the intransigent State.
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Date Issued: June 1993

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ROB report to the COSATU Western Cape Regional Congress

- COSATU

Authors: COSATU
Date: Mar 1991
Subjects: COSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135365 , vital:37261
Description: In this report we have focused more on policy issues than on an assessment of problems in the region, as we need to use our Regional Congresses in preparation for the issues which will be debated at National Congress. The government and the bosses are also trying to stop us making further gains. How do we respond? STATE OF THE NATION In the past year, a number of gains have been made by COSATU, some demands have been won, but many new areas of struggle have opened up. In the past year, a number of gains have been made by COSATU, some demands have been won, but many new areas of struggle have opened up. In October 1990, the SCN accord was signed, which gave us back the old Unfair Labour Practice definition, and also set the scene for introducing new legislation for farm, domestic and public sector workers. Since then, a number of unions have been meeting with sub-committees of the National Manpower Commission as well as the Commision for Administration (CFA) to argue for basic rights and legislation for these workers. COSATU now has a national Public Sector Forum under the COSATU Organising Department, and we are gearing up for this struggle as well as the struggle for an entirely and progressive Labour Relations Act.
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Date Issued: Mar 1991

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The Behaviour Of Palewinged Starlings And A Comparison With Other Onychognathvs Species

- Craig, Adrian J F K, Hulley, Patrick E, Walter, Grenville H

Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K , Hulley, Patrick E , Walter, Grenville H
Date: 1991
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447868 , vital:74680 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1991.9639648
Description: Pairs of Palewinged Starlings associate throughout the year and roost at the nest sites. Flock sizes are generally small, even during the non-breeding season. Allofeeding and allopreening have not been recorded. Wing displays emphasize the white region of the primaries. The territory appears to be restricted to the nest site. Interspecific aggression occurred between Redwinged and Palewinged Starlings, and was also directed at other Ed species frequenting the cliff. A form of ceremonial gathering occurs re in Palewinged Starlings. A review of the literature suggests that on behavioural grounds the Palewinged Starling shows no close affinity to the Redwinged Starfng or to any other member of the genus.
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Date Issued: 1991

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Epinephelus suborbitalis, a new species of grouper (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Kyushu-Palau ridge, western Pacific

- Amaoka, Kunio, Randall, John E, 1924-, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Amaoka, Kunio , Randall, John E, 1924- , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1990-04
Subjects: Epinephelus suborbitalis , Serranidae -- Classification
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70335 , vital:29646 , 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. 49 , The grouper Epineplielus suborbitalis is described from a single specimen 950 mm in standard length collected in deep water on the Kyushu-Palau Ridge in the Western Pacific Ocean. It is characterized as follows: dorsal fin rays XI,14; anal fin rays III,8; pectoral fin rays 19; lateral-line scales about 63; ctenoid scales; no auxiliary scales; naked maxilla; 3 rows of teeth on midside of lower jaw; enlarged posterior nostril; deeply incised spinous dorsal membranes, slightly rounded caudal fin, and uniform colour.
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Date Issued: 1990-04

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MORB-related dolerites associated with the final phases of Karoo flood basalt volcanism in southern Africa.

- Duncan, Andrew R, Armstrong, R A, Erlank, Anthony J, Marsh, Julian S, Watkins, R T

Authors: Duncan, Andrew R , Armstrong, R A , Erlank, Anthony J , Marsh, Julian S , Watkins, R T
Date: 1990
Language: English
Type: text , conference paper
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143299 , vital:38222 , https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetailampidt=6938249
Description: The Rooi Rand dyke swarm is approximately 200km long and up to 20km wide. It crops out in the southern portion of the Lebombo monocline where the dykes intrude basalts of the Sabie River Basalt Formation which is the major basaltic unit in the eastern portion of the Karoo volcanic succession. The Horingbaai dolerites form thin dykes and sills which intrude the base of the Etendeka lava pile (considered part of the Karoo Volcanics, but correlated with the Serra Geral Formation of Brazil) along the coast of Namibia. Both the Rooi Rand and Horingbaai magma types are similar in composition to enriched MORB and are compositionally distinct from most of the Karoo-basalts they intrude.
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Date Issued: 1990

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Travelling stallions in and adjacent to Brycheiniog

- Lewis, Colin A

Authors: Lewis, Colin A
Date: 1989
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6696 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006732
Description: [From the introduction]: Horses played a major role in the transport system in Britain until, in the years following the conclusion of the First World War, they were gradually ousted by motor vehicles. In 1917, when the first reasonably complete equine census of Britain was undertaken, there were 2,650,773 horses in the country, 1,115,920 of which were used for agricultural purposes (Chivers, 1976). Horse breeding was therefore of great importance and a variety of attempts was made to improve the quality of horses by subsidising stallions that travelled the countryside during the breeding season, and that were available, at a fee, for the service of mares. This paper describes some of the routes followed by stallions that formerly travelled in Brycheiniog and adjacent counties.
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Date Issued: 1989

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A stability-indicating liquid chromatographic method for the analysis of erythromycin in stored biological fluids using amperometric detection

- Stubbs, Christopher, Haigh, John M, Kanfer, Isadore

Authors: Stubbs, Christopher , Haigh, John M , Kanfer, Isadore
Date: 1987
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6430 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006592
Description: A simple, sensitive and reliable high-performance liquid chromatographic procedure has been developed for the determination of erythromycin in human serum and urine using amperometric detection. A solid-phase extraction procedure was used followed by chromatography on a reverse-phase column. The mean recovery of erythromycin from serum and urine was 80%. This method allows both erythromycin and its principle degradation product, anhydroeythromycin, to be determined during a period of sample storage at 4 degree C and minus 15 degree C. The method is sufficiently sensitive and precise and is thus highly suited for use in both pharmacokinetic and stability studies.
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Date Issued: 1987

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A new gobiid fish, Fusigobius duospilus, from the tropical Indo-Pacific

- Hoese, Douglass F, Reader, Sally, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Hoese, Douglass F , Reader, Sally , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1985-01
Subjects: Gobiidae -- Classification
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70180 , vital:29631 , 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. 36 , Fusigobius duospilusis described as a new species from several localities in the tropical Pacific and Indian oceans. This species differs from other species of Fusigobius in pectoral ray and gill-raker counts, coloration, reduced pelvic frenum, branching of the pelvic rays, presence of two large black spots on the first dorsal fin and shape of the first dorsal fin. The species is free living on sand. Males average a larger size than females. Sex ratios are uneven, with about twice as many females as males. Fusigobius longispinus Goren is recorded from several localities in the western Indian Ocean, where populations differ morphologically from Red Sea populations. Fusiogobius neophytus africanusls regarded as a synonym of F. neophytus.
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Date Issued: 1985-01

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The distribution and identification of mormyrid fishes in Malawi, with notes on the synonymy of Marcusenius nyasensis and M. livingstonii (Mormyriformes: Mormyridae)

- Tweddle, D S C, Willoughby, N G, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology

Authors: Tweddle, D S C , Willoughby, N G , J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology
Date: 1982-09
Subjects: Fishes -- Identification , Fishes -- Malawi
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/69929 , vital:29596 , 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. 24 , Electrofishing surveys throughout Malawi have increased the number of mormyrid species known to occur in the country, expanded known ranges of the species and cast doubts on some earlier records. The distribution of each of the eight recorded species is given, and a key is provided for the identification of the species. The available evidence suggests that Gnathonemus nyasensis Worthington, 1933 is a junior synonym of Marcusenius livingstonii (Boulenger, 1898) a species described from the Ruvuma River of Tanzania. Geological evidence supports fish distribution evidence that indicates links between Lake Malawi and East Coast Rivers. Some affinities are also noted between Lake Malawi and Upper Zambezi/Zaire faunas.
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Date Issued: 1982-09

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