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CSIR senior researcher

Van Niekerk is a CSIR senior researcher in the urban and regional planning group.

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CSIR senior researcher

Holloway is a senior statistician at the CSIR. She has more than 20 years’ research experience.

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Date: 
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 00:00

Up to 50% of the annual inflows into the Western Cape’s Berg River Dam catchment and Limpopo’s De Hoop Dam catchment could be used up by alien plants over a period of 45 years, if they are left uncleared. This is the warning issued by water experts Dr David Le Maitre of the CSIR; Dr James Blignaut of Stellenbosch University; Prof. Lynette Louw, Prof. Tally Palmer and Mr Ian Preston of Rhodes University in a recent paper published by the Water Research Commission in the Water SA journal, titled Impact of invasive alien plants on water provision in selected catchments

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CSIR senior engineer

Johakimu holds an MSc (Chemical Engineering) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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CSIR principal engineer

Kalombo’s research focus is particle engineering for any medical applications (therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines) as well as water treatment and phase-change materials.

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CSIR senior researcher

Kapangaziwiri holds a PhD in hydrology from Rhodes University.

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CSIR senior researcher

Kwezi holds a PhD in biotechnology, with a focus on plant biotechnology, proteomics, cell signalling and molecular biology.

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CSIR senior researcher

Le Roux holds an MSc in microbiology from the University of Pretoria.

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CSIR senior researcher

Lopis holds MSc and PhD degrees in chemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cape Town.

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CSIR senior researcher

Lück-Vogel has a PhD in Geography (Remote Sensing) from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany.