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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Northern Cape, South Africa"”.
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Environmental change in Riemvasmaak, Northern Cape, South Africa twenty years after resettlement
… located north of the Orange River within the Northern Cape Province, is an important case study with regard to land restitution and livestock impacts upon arid rangelands hypothesized to be at disequilibrium. As part of a 'black spot' removal program during apartheid, about 1,500 people from …
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Community giving among the !xun san group in Platfontein, Northern Cape, South Africa
… the !Xun San community in Platfontein in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The principal aim of the study was to understand the practices of Community Giving and their meaning to the givers and the recipients in a specific community. The motivations of both giving and receiving were …
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Predation impacts on livestock in a communal area of Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa
… caracal) commonly inhabit agricultural landscapes in southern Africa, threatening goat and sheep herds. The communal area of Paulshoek, in the Northern Cape of South Africa provided a model system to study this, as farmers in this region are dependent on livestock farming as a livelihood. 47 …
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The geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Saltpeterkop carbonatite complex near Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa
… magmatic feature located approximately 20 km southeast of Sutherland in the Northern Cape. It is unusual among southern African carbonatite complexes in that it has not been deeply eroded, and retains a significant vestige of its original volcanic features. The main geologic expression of the …
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Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa
Southern Africa is a critical location for understanding the origins of modern human behaviour in the Middle Stone Age (MSA), about 300 to 40 ka. Current evidence from excavated, often coastal, cave sites indicates the emergence of complex technological, social and symbolic behaviours at least 100 …
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Megacryst suite from the Salpeterkop carbonatite complex, Sutherland, Northern Cape, South Africa: an in-depth geochemical study
… megacryst suite from the Salpeterkop complex, South Africa. The clinopyroxene, amphibole, phlogopite and ilmenite megacrysts all appear to be cogenetic, and based on known mineral relationships and intergrowths from xenoliths in the complex, the apparent order of mineral crystallisation is as …
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The impact of South Africa's largest photovoltaic solar energy facility on birds in the Northern Cape, South Africa
… risks to bird populations and guilds at one of South Africa's largest PV developments. Firstly, in order to identify functional and structural changes in bird communities in and around the development footprint, bird transect data were gathered, representing the solar development, boundary, and …
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From missionary to merino: Identity, economy and material culture in the Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa, 1800 - ca. 1870
… of Kerkplaats, a farm in the central Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa. Over this period different colonialisms of varying power and effect were introduced. The first was to local Khoe, San and Griqua communities in the form of one of the first London Missionary Society stations in the early …
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The impact of a 'trough' Concentrated Solar Power facility on birds and other animals in the Northern Cape, South Africa
… CSP facility - Bokpoort CSP Power Plant - in the Northern Cape, South Africa. To assess the changes in functional and structural changes in bird communities, bird counts in the solar fields (mirror arrays) were compared with transects from rangelands adjacent to the CSP plant. Invertebrates were …
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An investigation of the tufa deposits at Ga-Mohana Hill in the Northern Cape, South Africa: palaeoenvironmental context for Late pleistocene and holocene human occupation in the Southern Kalahari
There is a rich record of human occupation in the southern Kalahari, but the palaeoclimatic backdrop to early human activity in this area is poorly understood. Secondary calcium carbonates, including tufa, are common in the Kalahari, yet their palaeoclimate potential remains relatively unexploited. …
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An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis
… the last centuries before incorporation into the Cape Colony, the Riet and Orange River areas of the Northern Cape, South Africa were inhabited by communities of hunter-gatherers and herders whose life ways are little understood. These people were primarily of Khoesan descent, but their large …
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The influence of temperature on parental investiment in Common Fiscal and consequences for nestling growth
… increase in the Earth’s temperature by 2100. Africa, especially southern Africa, is expected to experience not only an increase in average temperatures but also an increase in the frequency and duration of extreme temperature events. Increasing temperatures will result in increased …
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DFI funding and infrastructure development In South Africa: A case of under resourced schools in Northern Cape
… deficits in under-resourced schools in the Northern Cape, South Africa, and their impact on educational performance. The research problem is centred on the persistent lack of adequate infrastructure in schools, which hinders access to quality education and exacerbates educational …
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Xri: A study of contact, and phonetic and phonological change
… language spoken among the Griekwa people of the Northern Cape, South Africa, and was thought until recently to be extinct. Fieldwork conducted in 2018 and 2019 documented Xri spoken by 27 semi-speakers and rememberers, the last speakers of this dying language. The absence of satisfactory studies …
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Prevalence of gynaecological disease in women with an HMLH1 mutation in the Northern Cape province: Survey of a population with Lynch Syndrome in South Africa
… A cohort of patients with Lynch syndrome in the Northern Cape, South Africa has been identified and followed up. According to recommendations by the International Collaborative Group on HNPCC (ICGHNPCC); women affected with the gene mutation warrant full gynaecological assessment to exclude …
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The palaeoredox condition and morphological variation of microbialites from the Nama Group, South Africa
… played a vital role in shaping this oxygen landscape. It is possible that cyanobacteria within the reefs created local oxygen oases within a generally low oxygen environment. Here, I test this hypothesis using a suite of microbialites from a section of the Nama Group that crops out in the …
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Improving chronic disease monitoring in resource limited settings: simulation and economic evaluation approaches
… on Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2D), using South Africa as a case study. Methods: A mixed-methods approach including a literature review, analytic studies, and a formal economic evaluation, was used to address the aim of the thesis. A comparative analysis of monitoring guidelines from LMIC …
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Population structure and the molecular genetics of petal spot pigmentation in Gorteria diffusa
… many plant lineages, but petal spots of the South African daisy species Gorteria diffusa are unusually complex. These elaborate structures are richly pigmented, deeply textured, and include three distinct cell types. G. diffusa petal spots function in attracting male bee-fly pollinators, in …
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The effects of fluoride levels in potable water: case studies in the Northern Cape and Mitchell's Plain
… of dental caries in selected towns in the Northern Cape and Westen Cape. It also examined the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to oral health data.