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Environmental ethics and crime in the water affairs of the Wonderfontein Spruit Catchment, Gauteng, South Africa
(2008)
This article provides an analysis of the water history regarding the Wonderfontein Spruit
Catchment in the former Far West Rand in South Africa. The major scope for discussion
is a short analysis of environmental ethics ...
Water and the human culture of appropriation: the Vaal River up to 1956
(2006)
There is discernable evidence of the human presence having historically
appropriated the 1300 kilometer long Vaal River of South Africa as it extends itself
from the Drakensberg Plateau into the arid Karoo region. This ...
Some human actions in the destruction and construction of culture and nature – the Merafong region as a case study
(2006)
For at least the past 180 years the Merafong Municipal region in the Gauteng
Province of South Africa, (of which the Wonderfontein Catchment forms a part) has
strongly relied on the primary sector for its economic existence ...
The Vaal River Barrage, South Africa’s hardest working water way: an historical contemplation
(2007)
South Africa’s Vaal River is the country’s hardest working rivers. It has been
instrumental in securing valuable water supplies in the development of the country’s
economic hub – the Gauteng Province. Since the mid-twentieth ...