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After South Africa’s battle with the record-breaking drought of 2015, Prof Andries Jordaan from our Disaster Management Training and Education Centre for Africa(DiMTEC) saw room for improvement in dealing with this kind of disaster.
Drought impact
Commercial farmers who are usually net exporters of food crops and communal farmers who own the bulk of the country’s livestock, were all hit hard in 2015. Most of the latter had no resources to spare as the drought progressed. The concern about the drought’s impact on the country’s food production and availability resulted in a joint goal of preventing food scarcity during future droughts.
Prof Jordaan’s visit to the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) in Lincoln, Nebraska, in the US, several years ago prepared him to better equip communities in South Africa to deal with drought situations. “I recognised that in spite of the impact DiMTEC has been able to make on disaster preparedness, a gap remained in disaster response in South Africa.”
Sharing knowledge
In August this year Prof Jordaan again visited the NDMC. This time he requested a few key players in South Africa’s agriculture and disaster response communities to join him. With him were Janse Rabie, head of Natural Resources at AgriSA, a nonprofit organisation that functions as an interface between the government and about 28 000 South Africa farmers, and Moses Musiwale Khangale, director of Fire Services for the South African Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs.
The South African delegation met with and learnt from climatologists, geospatial technologists, and outreach and planning analysts.
Intervarsity: Kovsies vs Pukke - 4 & 5 August 2006
2006-08-03
Programme
Friday 4 August 2006:
RUGBY: |
16:15 |
Medix vs PUK Engineer |
UFS field 5 |
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17:30 |
Armentum vs Heimat |
UFS field 4 |
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17:30 |
Vishuis vs De Wilgers |
UFS field 5 |
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18:45 |
Karee vs Patria |
UFS field 4 |
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18:45 |
Veritas vs Overs |
UFS field 5 |
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20:00 |
Reitz vs Veritas |
UFS field 4 |
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20:00 |
JBM vs Villagers |
UFS field 5 |
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NETBALL: |
15:00 |
UFS 2 vs PUK 3 |
UFS court 1 (Callie Human) |
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16:15 |
UFS 1 vs PUK 2 |
UFS court 1 (Callie Human) |
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16:15 |
UFS(Qwa-Qwa) vs PUK o/19B |
UFS court 2 (Callie Human) |
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17:30 |
UFS 3 vs PUK 4 |
UFS court 1 (Callie Human) |
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18:45 |
Kovsies vs PUK |
UFS court 1 (Callie Human) |
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BADMINTON: |
17:00 |
UFS vs PUK ( 2 SASSU TEAMS) |
UFS Badminton Hall |
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SOCCER: |
17:30 |
UFS 2(Qwa-Qwa) vs PUK 2 |
UFS field 6 |
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17:30 |
UFS ladies vs PUK ladies |
Shimla Park |
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19:30 |
Toast |
Shimla Park |
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19:40 |
UFS 1 vs PUK 1(men) |
Shimla Park |
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Saturday: 5 August 2006: |
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GOLF: |
7:30 |
UFS vs PUK (8 men) |
Bloemfontein GC |
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VOLLEYBALL: |
8:30 |
UFS men vs PUK men |
UFS Badminton Hall |
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SQUASH: |
8:30 |
UFS ladies vs PUK ladies |
UFS Sqauah Courts |
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8:30 |
UFS men vs PUK men |
UFS Squash Courts |
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CHESS: |
8:30 |
UFS vs PUK (5 men & 3 ladies) |
Kovsiesport boardroom |
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CROSS COUNTRY: |
8:30 |
UFS vs PUK (5 men & 4 ladies) |
Pellies Park |
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BASKETBALL: |
8:30 |
UFS ladies vs PUK ladies |
UFS Basketball court |
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9:30 |
UFS men vs PUK men |
UFS Basketball court |
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TENNIS: |
8:30 |
UFS ladies vs PUK ladies (8 players) |
UFS Tennis courts |
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8:30 |
UFS men vs PUK men (8 players) |
UFS Tennis courts |
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HOCKEY: |
8:30 |
Sonnedou vs Bellatrix |
UFS Oval 2 |
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8:30 |
Roosmaryn vs Eikenhof |
UFS Oval 1 |
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9:30 |
Vergeet My Nie vs Wanda |
UFS Oval 2 |
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9:30 |
Emily Hobhouse vs Wag-‘n-Bietjie |
UFS Oval 1 |
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10:30 |
Wag-‘n-Bietjie vs Heide |
UFS Oval 1 |
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NETBALL: |
8:30 |
Kestell vs Heide |
UFS court 4 |
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8:30 |
Medix vs Wanda 2 |
UFS court 3 |
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8:30 |
Roosmaryn vs Minjonet |
UFS court 2 |
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8:30 |
Marjolein vs Karlien |
UFS court 1 |
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9:30 |
Soetdoring vs Kasteel |
UFS court 4 |
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9:30 |
Sonnedou vs Dinki |
UFS court 3 |
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9:30 |
Wag-‘n-Bietjie vs Wag-‘n-Bietjie |
UFS court 2 |
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9:30 |
Vergeet My Nie vs Vergeet My Nie |
UFS court 1 |
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10:30 |
Emily Hobhouse vs Wanda |
UFS court 1 |
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RUGBY: |
10:10 |
UFS Colts vs PUK academy |
UFS field 5 |
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10:10 |
UFS Ritsims vs PUK 3 |
UFS field 4 |
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10:10 |
UFS U.19 vs PUK U.19 |
Shimla Park |
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11:40 |
UFS U.21 vs PUK U.21 |
Shimla Park |
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13:10 |
Irawas vs Ibbies |
Shimla Park |
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14:40 |
Toast |
Shimla Park |
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15:00 |
Shimlas vs PUKKE |
Shimla Park |