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SSAG centennial conference, 25 – 28 September 2016, Stellenbosch

STIAS (Wallenberg Centre)

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Sunday 25 September

SUNDAY

16:00-17:30 Registration Stellenbosch University Museum Stellenbosch University Museum: Ryneveld Street

17:30 for 18:00 Conference and 100 Geographies art exhibition opening - Opening: Mike Meadows Stellenbosch University Museum: Ryneveld Street

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Monday 26 September – Conference venue: STIAS centre (Marais Street)

Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton

8:00 -

8:20

Late registrations/Coffee & Tea

8:20 -

8:30 Welcome: SSAG President, Kevin Mearns

8:30 -

8:50

Book launch and handover to SSAG President: The Origin and Growth of Geography as a Discipline at South African Universities - Visser, Donaldson & Seethal

8:50 -

9:10 South African geographers and the International Geographical Union - Meadows

09:10 -

10:10

Keynote address - Jennifer Robinson: Post-colony meets post-democracy: Thinking urban politics from Johannesburg to London Chair - Parnell

10:10 -

10:30

Coffee/Tea Break

Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot Seminar room: John Wellington

10:30 -

11:50

Future cities? – Chair: Pirie Parnell - The new urban agenda: implications for urban research Sitas - Towards an affective urban Studies Abrahams - The urban policy agenda in South Africa: The role of South African Cities Network Butcher - Urban Geography, meet Economic Geography: Sub-disciplinary dialogue in the age of Economic Freedom Fighters Ballard - Imagining Gauteng: A conceptual framework Session ends 12:40

EIA: past and present – Chair: Sandham Wessels - Learning from 20 years’ evolutionary changes to ISO14001-based Environmental Management Systems Simpson - A capabilities approach to environmental assessment: Enhancing the justice considerations of human development and well-being Steenkamp et al - The performance of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) screening in South Africa Johnson et al - ISO 14001 certification - A cost benefit analysis within the South African Manufacturing Sector

Paleo and Antarctica environments – Chair: Hedding Fitchett et al - Holocene Palaeoenvironments in Eastern Lesotho: Synoptic Drivers of Rainfall Variability Rabumbulu - Paleo-depositional environment reconstruction of the western Free State panfield South Africa Rudolph et al - Towards a glacial reconstruction of sub-Antarctic Marion Island using cosmogenic nuclide dating Meiklejohn - Why Antarctica; The rationale for current research

Geographical Knowledges and Techniques: Present, Past, Future – Chair: Flugel Van Dijk & Krygsman - Mobile data collection techniques in Africa: possible futures of geographic research Pretorius et al - Tweeting for environmental awareness: Social media’s contribution De Vivo - Conversation with a geographer: Exploring the discipline’s past through oral history Stanley - Chance encounter and a long-term relationship

IT Tools in geographic teaching and research – Chair: Lombard Goldschagg -The potential roles of citizen science and smartphone apps in geographical and environmental education based on a study of apps currently available for use in the classroom Cilliers et al - Interactive-GIS-Tutor (I-GIS-T): Facilitating GIS learning in FET-phase Geography Munch - Using blended learning to teach geospatial techniques Okosun - Cartographic method as a tool in the illustration of research data: a case study of Delta University Abraka - Nigeria

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10 min break (11:50-12:00)

Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot Seminar room: John Wellington

12:00 - 13:20

Session starts at 12:50 Geographies of enterprise development – Chair: Irvine Tichaawa - Business tourism in Africa: The case of Cameroon Rogerson - Re-energising South Africa's SMME economy: a place for business incubation Boekstein - A framework for thermal spring health tourism product development in the Western Cape

Spatial clustering and the urban: Part 1 – Chair: Lemanski Horn & Van Eeden - Measuring urban sprawl in the Western Cape province, South Africa: an urban sprawl index for comparative purposes Tshabalala & Mini - Spatial amalgamation of Municipalities: Theory and experiences in contemporary South Africa Geyer - Determining the micro-effects of dimensionality on agent mobility in Polycentric City Regions using fractal scaling Krygsman - Cape Town: An emerging polycentric

metropolis?

Erosive processes and geomorphology – Chair: Kakembo Le Roux - Gully erosion mapping and sediment yield contribution modelling in South Africa’s only large river network without a dam Mokgoebo - The investigation of the factors driving gully development at Dopeni village of the Nzhelele Valley, Limpopo Province Pretorius et al - Sediment yield modelling in the Upper Tsitsa Catchment

Urban renewal and its diverse practices – Chair: Spocter Block - Unmasking Soweto renewal: a case study of two unique streets Hoogendoorn & Gregory – Instagrammers, urban renewal and the Johannesburg inner city Martel & Sutherland – An examination of the knowledge production process in a spatial planning exercise: The case study of the Back of Port Project in Durban, South Africa Scott - Neoliberalising historic urban cores: A comparative study of urban heritage planning in Europe

Geographies of adaptation – Chair: Magagula Stander et al - Vaalharts: Environmental aspects of agricultural land and water use practices Fajji et al - Relevance of climatic variables and management systems to spatial variation in rangeland productivity in semi-arid environments Ebhuoma & Simatele - ‘We know our terrain’: Indigenous knowledge systems preferred to climate change risk communication in adapting to climate variability and change in Nigeria

13:00 -

14:00 Lunch

14:10 - Wine or craft beer tour (Busses depart at 14:00 from STIAS main gate)

18:00 for 18:45

Entertainment evening - Hofmeyer Hall, Church Street. Informal evening with wine, waterblommetjie bredie, music and Mark Bank’s comical take on things in life

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Tuesday 27 September

Time

Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot

Seminar room: John Wellington

8:00 -

11:10

Tourism motivations, perceptions and strategies – Chair: Rogerson J Nhlabathi - Motivations to engage in dark tourism: the case of selected sites in South Africa Van der Merwe - Tourist guides’ perceptions of cultural heritage tourism in South Africa Giddy et al - American tourists' experiences of weather in South Africa: implications for future climate change

Housing geographies and the Southern city – Chair: Horn Lemanski - Infrastructural citizen: State-subsidised housing extensions in Cape Town, South Africa Mgushelo & Darkey - Land acquisition and growth of informal settlements in South Africa: The case of informal settlements in Mamelodi, City of Tshwane, 1994-2014. Olaniran & Erwin - Mixed-income housing in Nigeria and South Africa: a comparative literature review Yakubu - Residential mobility practices: a revolving door syndrome among low-income families in the global south?

Special session: The South African economy: are we innovating or closing down? Hosted by Gina -Smith: Part 1 – Chair: Weir-Smith Green - Geographic trends in unemployment in the UK Gregory & Rogerson – Unpacking the geography of the creative industries in Johannesburg Wellman and Ferreira - Saldanha: Sea Harvest 'back [fish] bone' in the local economy Booyens & Rogerson - Global-local trajectories for regional competitiveness: tourism innovation in the Western Cape

Geographies of health and vulnerability – Chair: Rule Lindeque et al - The health and economic benefits of interventions to reduce residential solid fuel burning on the Highveld Mthembu - Traditional health care services in Umkhanyakude District Municipality: An alternative option of health care Azong & Kelso - Life history: An alternative methodology for vulnerability research?

Remote sensing applications: Part 1 – Chair: Munch Dlamini et al - Detecting and mapping the impacts of subsistence farming on floodplain wetlands using high-resolution remote sensing data Mugwena - Using remote sensing to identify and map vegetation ecotones Jjaggwe & Kakembo - An assessment of the spatial and temporal changes of the Mabira tropical forest reserve in Central Uganda

10 min break (9:40-9:50) Geography in and beyond the university – Chair: Pretorius, R Bass & Houghton - Geographers beyond Geography Departments in South Africa Zweig - Awkward conversations in small towns: Experimenting with student-led research projects Wafer - Thinking geographically – redefining the discipline in the South African undergraduate curriculum Oldfield - High stakes: Building collaborative urban geographies

Coastal management and contested development – Chair: Brooks Gammage et al - Responding to a changing fishery system: insights from a place based analysis of the small scale handline fishery of the Southern Cape Sowman et al - Coasts at risk: a governance and social justice perspective of coastal erosion at Milnerton beach, Cape Town Williams - Fisheries in transition: Fishers’ perceptions of the new South African small-scale fisheries policy (SSFP) and its implementation Kakembo et al - Understanding socio-political and ecosystem vulnerabilities in smallholder communities: A comparison of the Keiskamma and Mkomazi catchments in South Africa and Tanzania

Special session: The South African economy: are we innovating or closing down? Part 2 – Chair: Ferreira Weir-Smith - Unemployment and poverty in South Africa: spatial dynamics Rogerson - New directions in the South African beer industry: neolocalism and the rise of craft beer Du Plessis - Spatial clustering trends of economic activities in South African cities Lombard & Ferreira - The spatial distribution of renewable energy infrastructure in three particular provinces of South Africa

Spatial planning and urban growth – Chair: Mwathunga Perold et al - Grounded architectural practice: Exploring spatial capacity building in informal settlement upgrading Yamungu - The theory of street-level bureaucracy: Planning professionals’ discretion in the implementation of urban planning policies in the global south Van Eeden - Participatory GIS as a technique that may strengthen outcomes of public sector urban planning: Cape Town, South Africa Oteng-Ababio et al - Increased crime prevention through environmental designs and the amplification of violent crimes: a case of trust deficit

Session continues Bangira et al - Remote sensing for flood mapping: a case study of the Caprivi Basin, Namibia De Klerk et al - Using remote sensing in support of environmental management: a framework for selecting products, algorithms and methods

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11:10-11:25

Coffee/Tea Break

11:30- 12:25 Keynote address: Abdi Samatar - Africa's First Democrats Chair: Oldfield

12:30 –13:30

Lunch (Chair: Maharaj - SANC of IGU meeting in John Wellington)

Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot

Seminar room: John Wellington

13:30 -

14:45

Special session: Food: A lens to understand dynamics of African urbanism. Hosted by the Consuming Urban Poverty Project, African Centre for Cities: Part 1 – Chair: Ballard Battersby - Why food? Using food as a lens to understand urban development trajectories: An analysis of food in the New Urban Agenda Duminy - The problem of food: Examining the history of food security policy in Kenya and Zambia, c1920 to 1974 Skinner & Haysom - The informal economy’s role in feeding cities - A missing link in policy debates? Toriro - Food governance in Harare: The law vs.practice

Spatial clustering and the urban: Part 2 – Chair: Rubin Horn - The real (hi)story of spatial planning in Cape Town, South Africa Drummond - From Mafeking to Mahikeng: the growth and transformation of a South African provincial capital Brand & Verhoef - Millennia of mapping censuses – 1911 towards 2011

Special session: Urban Water Governance: Reflections from Cape Town and Durban hosted by Dianne Scott – Chair: Harris Ziervogel et al - Gravel platforms in a flood-prone informal settlement in Cape Town: Adaptive practice or short term gains? Scott et al - The making of waterscapes: the politics of water and sanitation technologies in Cape Town and Durban Rodina & Harris - Water resilience and equity in Cape Town: Trends and tensions in rethinking the urban water cycle Taylor - Governing Cape Town’s stormwater in a changing climate: Understanding adaptation as a process of decision-making Sutherland et al - Social constructions of environmental services in a rapidly densifying area of eThekwini Municipality

Drylands geomorphology – Chair: Rudolph Van der Merwe - Barchan shape as an aid to process explanation: An historical overview Von Holt et al - Aeolian dust emission in the Namib desert: Measurements of small-scale erodibility controls Odhiambo & Kori - Origin of desert sands: The use of converging evidence to re-construct palaeoenvironments Earth surface processes Denis & Kakembo - Characterization of the morpho-hydrological, pedological and anthropogenic parameters underpinning spatial landslide hazard occurrence in Kigezi highlands south western Uganda

Land and the politics of access – Chair: Mini Werner - Transforming Namibia’s communal lands: from ‘illegal’ fencing to legal enclosures Thakoli - Grabbing land in the frontier, a land tenure regime perspective Davis - Inclusive business models in South African land restitution: great expectations and ambiguous outcomes explored. Bwalya - Underclass by choice: Speculative land occupation in Ichimpe, Kalulushi Narsiah - Land tenure and access to water and sanitation in Chatsworth, Durban

14:45 -

15:10

Coffee/tea break

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Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot

Seminar room: John Wellington

15:15 -

16:35

Special session: Food: A lens to understand dynamics of African urbanism. Hosted by the Consuming Urban Poverty Project, African Centre for Cities: Part 2 – Chair: Wafer Haysom - Urban food economies, for whom, why and who plans such economies? Tawodzera - Tracking basic foodstuffs central to household food security in Epworth, Zimbabwe Sibanda & Von Blottnitz, - Studying food value chains in secondary African cities: The example of fish in Kisumu, Kenya Final slot: A roundtable discussion

Debating development: Rhetoric vs reality – Chair: Butcher Benjaminsen TA & Svarstad - HNorway and REDD+ in Tanzania: Knowledge claims, concealed practices and the creation of a success story Mashinini - Sustainable development goals in Lesotho: reality or rhetoric?

Urban governance: Limits and possibilities – Chair: Sutherland Marrengane - Local governance in the context of HIV and AIDS in one African City: The case of Mbabane, Swaziland Rubin - The limits of litigation: Court cases and urban governance in Delhi and Johannesburg Rule - Geography and voting: the growth of urban opposition two decades after South African democratisation Spocter - Privatisation of municipal golf courses in small towns in the Western Cape

Land and the politics of conservation – Chair: Williams

Rowntree - Transforming landscapes from the village level to the catchment: an achievable outcome or wishful thinking? Kamuti & Brookes - The changing geography of wildlife conservation in contemporary South Africa under private game farming Sekhele - Assessing cumulative environmental and socio-economic impacts of livestock grazing in the Clarens Nature Reserve Sinthumule - Contested land in peace parks: The case of Greater Mapungubwe

Geography: Literacy and learning – Chair: Goldschagg Carolissen & Dyssel - Traversing first year students’ mental maps: The quest for graphicacy and numeracy competence Pretorius - Teaching and learning in Geography? How, why? Smit - Military environmental literacy in the South African Army Raselimo - Situating the Lesotho secondary school geography in curriculum relevance debate Milaras - Action research driving a scaffolded Pedology curriculum

10 min short break

16:45 -

17:45

Political Geography Journal Plenary Lecture Ramutsindela - Greening Africa’s borderlands: the symbiotic politics of land and borders in Peace Parks Chair: Benjaminsen Sponsored by Elsevier

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Wednesday 28 September Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot Seminar room: John Wellington

8:00 -

11:10

Geographical Information Technology development and techniques – Chair: Mashimbye Van Niekerk - Lessons learned in developing a 2m resolution digital elevation model of South Africa Mtshawu - Estimating the distribution of surface soil texture using LANDSAT 8 data Van Niekerk et al - Developing and verifying an irrigated agriculture map of South Africa using earth observation methods

Informality and the everyday city: Part 1 – Chair: Darkey Mehlomakhulu et al - Forgotten places: Setting the context for a forgotten relocation camp Rink & Klaas - Living with aeromobility: Relational geographies of flying and informality in Freedom Farm, Cape Town Mwathunga - Henri Lefebvre in a postcolonial city of Lilongwe in Malawi Siyongwana - Post-apartheid transformation of the South African ‘hidden urbanites’: Reflections from Mdantsane township, Buffalo City

Rural geographies: development dynamics – Chair: Bwalya Van Rooyen & Van Westen - “Translocality” – contributing to rural change Mzitshi - The changing rural economy and development: The case of selected rural areas in the Eastern Cape Ndimande - Rural governance and space production in the City of UMhlathuze, South Africa Todani - An evaluation of institutional capacity for implementation, coordination and monitoring of comprehensive rural development programme at Muyexe

African regional climatology – Chair: De Waal Abiodun et al- Potential impacts of climate change on extreme rainfall over three African coastal cities Kabanda - Long-term rainfall trends over the Tanzania Coast (1950 -2011) Sibanda et al - Spatio-temporal trends and variability in temperature and extreme weather events in Mzingwane catchment, Zimbabwe Van der Walt & Barker - A spatial-analytical investigation of seasonal rainfall and temperature patterns over southern Africa

Critical environmental dynamics: Climate, air, water – Chair: Abiodun Hardy & Nel - MODIS Land Surface Temperature Reconstruction Based on Local Climate Zone Classification Lawal et al - Climate variability and carbon flux in Southern African semi-arid ecosystems Piketh & Burger Characterizing ambient air quality in dense, low-income areas in South Africa

10 min break (9:40-9:50)

GIS application: Mapping and analysis – Chair: De Klerk Kemp - Growing applications of spaceborne radar imagery for mapping and monitoring South Africa’s land and ocean surfaces Mashimbye - Salinity mapping at catchment scale using terrain attributes Mbatha et al - Stratosphere-troposphere exchange climatology over Southern Africa using ERA-Interim data set and AIRS/Aqua satellite data Munch - Evaluating temporal landscape change through intensity analysis and trend analysis

Informality and the everyday city: Part 2 – Chair: Seethal Gama - Violence and insecurity at the hostel in Kwazulu Natal Willemse - A new lease of life, or not? Determining the changes in the living conditions of SADC migrants in four metropolitan areas from 2001 to 2011 Memela & Maharaj - Changing gender division of labour, place and hardships: A case study of single refugee women in Albert Park area, Durban Dawson & Culwick - Making a life in Gauteng: Changing economic and household arrangements in a context of rapid urbanisation Olaniran & Erwin - Factors responsible for the shaping of low-cost housing in South Africa: a literature review

Contested urban social dynamics – Chair: Rink Ah Goo - Gentrification and displacement: a phenomenological approach Darkey & Ibsen - ‘The path of the mother is trodden by the daughter’: Stepping stones for entry into the middle class in the new South Africa. Hamann - The central-south citadel and the dynamic periphery: (De)segregation and inequality in the City of Tshwane, South Africa Irvine - Town and gown: Studentification, urban restructuring and contested spaces in Grahamstown, South Africa

Tourism governance – Chair: McKay Khuzwayo - Governance of tourism in KwaZulu-Natal Hoogendoorn & Fitchett - Tourism and climate change: Threats and adaptation strategies for South Africa Visser - The South African tourism system: Reflections on student research Rogerson - Tourism planning of the past: Apartheid on the beaches of South Africa Bordelon & Ferreira - Reading the Winelands through the tourist lens

Environment and the question of security – Chair: Piketh Cavanagh - Critical ecosystem infrastructure: Securitizing the forests-water nexus in the Kenyan highlands Kelso - Environmental history and vulnerability: Lessons from the past Nel - Anarchy in the forest: Conflict, warmachines and forest management Nel et al - Towards understanding the effects of informal harvesting of Sand Forest in Maputaland, South Africa Urban ecology Anderson - Domestic gardeners as key ‘actors’ in the urban ecological fabric of the City of Cape Town

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Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot Seminar room: John Wellinton

11:10 -11:25

Coffee/tea break

11:30 -

12:30

ESRI Keynote address and special session Keynote: Patrick McKivergan (Managing Director Esri South Africa) - Why GIS needs Geographers Sanet Eksteen, Education and Training Manager - Empowering GISc education in South Africa

Rentia McLaughlin, GIS Specialist - Geography, your location platform

Chair: Van Niekerk

Sponsored by ESRI South AFrica

12:35 -

13:20

Serton memorial lecture: Etienne Nel - Dealing with difference: responses to uneven geographical development, reflections from South Africa and beyond – Chair: Maharaj

13:30-14:25 Lunch

Time Auditorium 1: James Hutcheon Auditorium 2: Piet Serton Manor House: Francis Plummer Breakaway room: William Talbot Seminar room: John Wellington

14:30 -

15:50

Special session: Geographical perspectives on corruption hosted by Seethal – Chair: Davis Maharaj – Corruption: A geographical perspective: South African reflections Ellero - Crumbling housing and failed promises: A critical study of corruption in low cost housing in Phoenix, eThekwini Municipality Rajah - Collusion, cadres and corruption: A critical study of the procurement sector and corruption in local government - the case of eThekwini Municipality Seethal & Ngwira - Governance and the just city: The case of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa (c2000-2015)

Transport, mobility, and the city - Chair: Narsiah Baffi - Public transports in South Africa: From

segregation to inclusion tools?

Lockhat & Kotze - Rea Vaya in Johannesburg: the reality of an underperforming Bus Rapid Transit System Mpungose - Geographies of megaprojects: What will be the Impacts of port expansions in Durban? Olanibi & Olafiaji - Impacts of land-use pattern on road traffic in Akure Metropolis, Nigeria

Critical environmental dynamics: Air, water, sand – Chair: Barker Mulaudzi - An evaluation of the feasibility of establishing Regional Waste Facilities in Bojanala Platinum District Municipality Ruhiiga - Interface management in municipal waste delivery systems Mudau & Ruhiiga - A waste process interface response framework Schoeman & Schmidt - Household recycling behaviour in the City of Johannesburg

Tourism and tourism product type – Chair: Hoogendoorn Van der Merwe - The geography of heritage tourism in South Africa Stander - Arts festivals in the South African context: what we know and what we don’t Tichaawa - The geography of festival and tourism development: The Case of Cameroon McKay - The geography of the South African adventure tourism industry

Governing poverty, building security? – Chair: Tawodzera Wuyep & Kotze - The contribution of urban poultry farming to food security and employment in Jos, Nigeria Yakubu et al - Impact of urban agriculture in poverty reduction in Osogbo, Nigeria Lortyom & Pillay - The economic impact of Fadama III Project on beneficiaries in Benue State: A Case of Makurdi Local Government in Nigeria

16:00 -

17:00

Venue: Manor House: Francis Plummer - SSAG Biennial General Meeting

18:30 for 19:00

Conference banquet: STIAS Banquet Hall

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Poster presentations (throughout conference)

Angula et al - Understanding pastoralists knowledge of environmental and climate change in arid Namibia; Dhau et al - Comparative analysis of random forest forward variable selection and guided regularized random forest techniques for optimum band selection; Donaldson & Lombard - Cultural mapping of the creative arts industries in Cape Town; Flugel - Mapping Axis submarine attacks off the coast of southern and eastern Africa during the Second World War (1939 – 1945); Fox - The expanding horizon: Geography theses Rhodes University 1950-2015; Hansen et al - A note on frost mounds observed in the Jutulsessen, Antarctica; Hedding et al - Intra-annual variations in aeolian sediment movement rates at sub-Antarctic Marion Island; Knox - An investigation into chemical weathering on selected nunataks, in Western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica; Magagula - Persistent challenge: Environmental protection and military activities; Manjoro - Use of sediment source fingerprinting to assess the role of subsurface erosion in the supply of fine sediment in a degraded catchment in the Eastern Cape, South Africa; Masebe - Fundamental atmospheric drivers that affect ground thermal regimes in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica; Massey & Pretorius - The Green Box project: Environmental education in a crate; Meiklejohn et al - Two decades of geographical research in the Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic; Nsubuga - Detecting changes in surface water area of lake sub-basins found in climate change impacted areas of Sub-Saharan Africa; Potgieter - Adaptation to rainfall variability and drought of commercial dairy farmers in the Tugela catchment for the period between 1982-2015, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa; Rowntree et al - Guiding landscape rehabilitation through research in the Tsitsa catchment; Smart et al - Rainfall variability on drought in the central and northern Drakensberg; Tawodzera et al - Surviving on the margins: Poverty and food insecurity among the poor in Polokwane; Van der Merwe - Geography of a cosmic event in South Africa: the Koue Bokkeveld meteor fall (1838); Wilmot - The periglacial geomorphology of selected Nunataks in Western Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

Session chairpersons:

Monday morning: Flugel; Hedding; Irvine; Kakembo; Lemanski; Lombard; Magagula, Parnell; Pirie; Sandham; Spocter

Tuesday morning: Brooks; Ferreira; Horn; Munch; Mwathunga; Oldfield; Pretorius R; Rogerson J; Rule; Weir-Smith

Tuesday afternoon: Ballard; Benjaminsen; Butcher; Goldschagg; Harris; Mini; Rubin; Rudolph; Sutherland; Wafer; Williams

Wednesday morning: Abiodun; Bwalya; Darkey; De Klerk; De Waal; Harris; Mashimbye; McKay; Rink; Piketh; Seethal; Van Niekerk

Wednesday afternoon: Barker; Davis; Hoogendoorn; Maharaj; Narsiah; Tawodzera

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Orientation map

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