Biologists challenge museum shake-up plan

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Biologists in South Africa disagree with a proposal put forward by a task force set up by the Minister for Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, which would declare two national museums to be located in capital cities of Cape Town and Pretoria. According to the proposal, ten of the total eighteen museums in the country will be under the aegis of national museums. Biologists argue that three national museums with natural history collections excluded from the list will be put under provincial control due to the proposal putting financial constraints on the museums.

Monuments, Natural history museums

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Beyond apartheid - on the cheap

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South Africa's scientists are reacting to the imminent collapse of apartheid by reestablishing their links with the international scientific community, which had long treated South Africa as a pariah because of its racist policies. In particular, the South African government's decision to accept the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty eased relations with the US and other nuclear powers and cleared the way for scientific cooperation. However, funding limitations and politics are likely to constrain such cooperation in the near future.

International aspects, International relations, Science, Scientists

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Tectonic rift 'may threaten' Lesotho dam

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The Katse dam, a part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, is situated in the inception boundary between two tectonic plates, and may be in danger from earthquakes. A crack has appeared from the edge of the reservoir through the Ha Mapeleng village following an earthquake of magnitude (M) 2.5. The dam has been made to withstand an M6.5 earthquake. Some geologists feel that the dam should be able to withstand any seismic event up to M7.2, if it is situated in a zone between two plates of the Earth's lithosphere.

Observations, Natural history, Plate tectonics, Dams, Earthquake damage, Lesotho

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