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The Geological Society of South Africa (GSSA) is a learned society for geological science that was founded in 1895, making it one of the oldest such societies in Africa.The GSSA publishes the peer-reviewed scientific journal, the South African Journal of Geology, and annually awards the Draper Memorial Medal (in honour of David Draper) to recognise achievement in geology, and the Des Pretorius ...
The Genealogical Society of South Africa (GSSA) was founded on 18 June 1964 with the inspiration of Philip Myburgh, a keen genealogist. Mr. Myburgh invited eight others with similar or allied interests to partake in the traditional hospitality of his farm Joostenberg, Muldersvlei on the outskirts of Stellenbosch, to discuss the setting up of a body devoted to the study of genealogical and ...
The South African Journal of Geology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Geological Society of South Africa that was established in March 1896 as the Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa, obtaining its current title in 1987. Incorporated into the volumes up to and including volume 73 (1970) were ...
The geology of South Africa is highly varied including cratons, greenstone belts, large impact craters as well as orogenic belts. The geology of the country is the base for a large mining sector that extracts gold, diamonds, iron and coal from world-class deposits. The geomorphology of South Africa consists of a high plateau rimmed to west ...
Intercontinental organizations. Anthropocene Working Group. Association for Women Geoscientists ( AWG) Association of Applied Geochemists. Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society. Geochemical Society. International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment. International Association for Mathematical Geosciences ( IAMG)
Following the formation of a committee in 1992 by the GSSA to compile a South African Code for the reporting of mineral resources and mineral reserves, a draft was presented for discussion at the 15th Conference of the Council of Mining and Metallurgical Institutions (CMMI), at Sun City, South Africa in 1994.
Robert Burns Young. Categories: Presidents of learned societies. South African geologists.
The South African Social Security Agency ( SASSA) is a national agency of the South African government created in April 2005 to administer South Africa's social security system, including by distributing social grants, on behalf of the Department of Social Development (DSD). It is under the oversight, but not the operational control, of DSD and ...