We have reassessed the palynological record of Equus Cave in the Savanna Biome of the southern Kalahari, one of the longest Late Quaternary pollen records for the semi-arid central interior of South Africa. We combined published pollen results from the cave, derived fro...

Abstract On the 6th of February 2016 at 11:00 hours local time (0900 UTC), KwaZulu-Natal was struck by an earthquake of local magnitude ML=3.8. The epicentre of the earthquake was located offshore in the Durban Basin. The earthquake shaking was widely felt within the pr...

ABSTRACT Historians can contribute significantly to education historiography to bolster education transformation. Contemporary scholarship in education, in the main, mostly wrestles with the current dispensation's transformation of education policy endeavours in the pos...

Abstract Continental spring carbonates are perfect examples of the interaction of biotic and abiotic processes, and they preserve evidence of the velocity of the flow and the chemical composition of the spring water. This study focuses on non‐marine carbonates from foss...

ABSTRACT IThe 2013 Education reform in Zambia is one of the significant changes that brought about a shift in assessment. To understand the changes that have taken place in the 2013 revised curriculum, and to determine the claims by the Ministry of General Education tha...

ABSTRACT The paper reports on research on History student teachers' enhancement of Work Integrated Learning (WIL) using online tools like a discussion board and blogs. It draws on the enhancement programme planned for the History student teachers - 78 Bachelor of Educat...

A cursory survey pertaining to the literature on South African cricket will reveal that a surprising omission, when one considers the crucial role of Afrikanerdom in shaping the contours of twentieth-century South African history, is that the changing Afrikaner interest...

This chapter focuses on the establishment of cricket within the diasporic Indian population in South Africa, notably in the province of Natal. Indians began settling there from 1860 and in time set up sporting, religious, cultural, educational and political organisation...

This chapter demonstrates that Vorster, the South African Prime Minister, was determined all along to ensure that D’Oliveira, the South African-born coloured cricketer, did not tour South Africa with the MCC team in 1968/69, but Vorster was anxious to avoid a formal ban...

Theropod dinosaurs are considered the main terrestrial carnivores in the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Their rise to dominance has been linked to, among others, body size changes in their early history, especially across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary. However, to qualitativ...