Announcements
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SASSB 2017 Location information:
Emalahleni, Mpumalanga to Pretoria National Botanical Garden - Google-Maps
Garden Map with SASSB annotations
Map to Pretoria
OR-Thambo to Pretoria National Botanical Gardens
Polokwane, Limpopo to Pretoria National Botanical Garden - Google-Maps
Wits university to Pretoria National Botanical Garden - Google-Maps
SASSB 2017 Preliminary programme
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SASSB 2017 Abstract guidelines
SASSB 2017 1st announcement
History
The SASSB was formally established at the Inaugural Conference of the SASSB in January 1999. The
formation of the Society was initially proposed by Professor Peter Linder, formerly of the Botany
Department of the University of Cape Town. There was concern that, following global trends, in South
Africa systematics was a discipline that was in decline in terms of capacity and resources, mainly as
a result of the lack of understanding of the critical role of taxonomy, systematics and natural
history collections play in science and society.
Objectives of SASSB
To promote and represent the activities and interests of all biological systematists, evolutionary
biologists, curators and managers of natural history collections in South Africa.To increase
appreciation in the general community of the importance of systematics and natural history
collections.To lobby government agencies and granting agencies for funding for research and
training.To foster the training of systematists / taxonomists.To hold meetings that deal with issues
in systematic biology.
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