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Multiple exostoses and an osteochondroma in a Pliocene canid from Langebaanweg 'E' Quarry (South Africa). [PDF]

J Anat
Overview of XS of pathological radius. Using anatomical descriptions, CT scanning and bone histology, we investigate several skeletal overgrowths of bone (exostoses) in the skeleton of a jackal‐like canid from the world famous Langebaanweg, a Mio‐Pliocene locality in South Africa.
Chinsamy A, Valenciano A.
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Population Ecology and Harvesting of Rooibos (<i>Aspalathus linearis</i>) and Its Ecotypes in the Wild, South Africa. [PDF]

Plant Environ Interact
ABSTRACT Aspalathus linearis (‘rooibos’) is a polymorphic perennial shrub native to the drier, northwestern part of the Fynbos Biome in the Cape Floristic Region. It is cultivated on a large scale and wild‐harvested on a small scale to produce rooibos tea, a traditional herbal drink.
Kraaij T, Pretorius GCP.
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The black female body: Representation of the erotic in contemporary visual art in Africa

E-REA, 2021
Black sexual politics and its interaction with the eroticized female body in African art are still surprisingly underexplored topics in African academia (“African” not “Africanist”, to follow the distinction made by Jones in “African Scholarship ...
Tayler FRIAR
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Integrasieprosesse in die vroeë Kaapkolonie (1652-1795) binne vergelykende konteks – ‘n historiografiese studie

Contree, 2010
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a number of European countries founded settlements on the American and African continents. The colonizing powers sent settlers from Europe and slaves from Africa and Asia to their colonies.
Pieter De Klerk
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Selected 20th and 21st century representations of tribalism and modernity in South African literature: reassessing socio-historical process through (re)considerations of works of verbal art

Ilha do Desterro, 2011
  Opening with a brief historical contextualisation, the article takes the reader back to humanity’s prehistoric origins in southern Africa, then to its (and mankind’s) earliest known culture, that of the San/Bushmen, followed by the (returning ...
Annie Gagiano
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STRATEGIC MILITARY COLONISATION: THE CAPE EASTERN FRONTIER 1806–1872

Scientia Militaria, 2012
The Cape Eastern Frontier of South Africa offers a fascinating insight into British military strategy as well as colonial development. The Eastern Frontier was for over 100 years a very turbulent frontier.
Mark Oranje, Linda Robson
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“THE WAR TOOK ITS ORIGINS IN A MISTAKE”: THE THIRD WAR OF DISPOSSESSION AND RESISTANCE IN THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE COLONY, 1799–1803

Scientia Militaria, 2014
The early colonial wars on the Cape Colony’s eastern borderlands and western Xhosaland, such as the 1799–1803 war, have not received as much attention from military historians as the later wars.
Denver Webb
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Indigenous Common Names and Toponyms in Southern Africa

Names, 2017
The primary process of toponymic formation by the earliest indigenous inhabitants of the African sub-continent, the Bushmen and Khoikhoi, was evolutionary.
Peter E. Raper
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Multilingual Place Names in Southern Africa

Names, 2019
Numerous place names in southern Africa reveal cultural and language contact between Bushmen (San), Khoikhoi, Bantu and European language speakers over many thousands of years.
Lucie A. Möller
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Engraved in the Landscape: The Study of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Field Names in the Changing Landscape

Names, 2019
The importance of toponym studies for understanding the relationship between people and the place they inhabit has been emphasized by several studies.
Nadja Penko Seidl
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