Southern Cape forest fires pose serious risk to sustainability of regional timber industry: A total of 7 643 hectares of predominantly pine plantations belonging to private timber growers in the Southern Cape region have either been totally or partially destroyed in the fires that raged in the Outeniqua Mountains between 25 October and 16 November 2018 Photo: Forestry SA A … [Read more...] about Southern Cape forest fires pose serious risk to sustainability of regional timber industry
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Southern African nations need to up their groundwater management game | The Conversation
Southern African nations need to up their groundwater management game: A woman draws water from a hand pumped well in northern Ghana. Axel Fassio/CIFOR/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDWhen you think of a country’s water resources, you may not realise that there are many kinds. Some is surface water, such as dams and rivers. There’s also groundwater, which includes aquifers and, in some … [Read more...] about Southern African nations need to up their groundwater management game | The Conversation
Southern Africa must brace itself for more tropical cyclones in future | The Conversation
Southern Africa must brace itself for more tropical cyclones in future: Heavy rains driven by a cyclone in Sana’a, Yemen. EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHABAs 2018 draws to a close, powerful tropical cyclones continue to make headlines. In August, tropical cyclone Lane wrought huge damage in the US; it was quickly followed by Hurricane Florence. Most tropical cyclones – the word is used … [Read more...] about Southern Africa must brace itself for more tropical cyclones in future | The Conversation
Muckracking journalists who shaped southern Africa over three centuries | The Conversation
Muckracking journalists who shaped southern Africa over three centuries: New book extends the canon of investigative journalism from 1706 through to 2017. shutterstockIt was a modest, soft-spoken Catholic nun from the US, Sister Janice McLaughlin, who exposed the “protected villages” set up by the Rhodesian government in 1977. The villages were ostensibly to protect civilians … [Read more...] about Muckracking journalists who shaped southern Africa over three centuries | The Conversation
11th Southern African Online Information Meeting
11th Southern African Online Information Meeting Image by mstephens7 Note addition of "Hyperlinked Libraries" to the word cloud! This Gauteng South Africa image was automatically curated and published with WP Robot plugin - CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for Wordpress - a massive time and money saver. Visit the MyPE YouTube Channel. … [Read more...] about 11th Southern African Online Information Meeting
