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The National Indigenous Knowledge Management System (NIKMAS) supports the processes and structures developed through the National Indigenous Knowledge Registration System (NIKRS) and is responsible for the recording, storing, management and dissemination of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and related information.Featured Community
Khomani San Communal Property Association
The community land is situated 60km’s south of the Tweerivieren camp of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier park in the Northern Cape. The area falls under the jurisdiction of Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality within the Siyanda region about 25km’s from the closest town, Askham. It is about a 200km’s north from Upington. The six farms is are located at the intersection of the main road from Upington to Rietfontein in Mier and the road from Noeniput to Tweerivieren.<br/><br/> The Kalahari system, in which the #Khomani properties falls, can be described as an arid to semi-arid area. The rainfall pattern is spatially and temporarily unavailable and highly erectic. Most rainfall is recorded in the summer, with the majority falling between January and April. The seasonal range of temperature in the Kalahari is large. In summer 45 degrees Celsius and in winter -10 degrees Celsius. The area is covered by Kalahari sands of which five groups are recognised. A characteristic of the Kalahari is the number of large shallow depressions or pans which holds water periodically during the wet season. The region has distinctive long sand dunes that run in parallel rows in a north-east, south-east direction in some places rise 15 – 30 metres above the dune valleys or so called “streets” between them. The area is underlain by large aquifer systems containing water that generally have a high level of salts not yet formally tested for human consumption but used by us as #Khomani.Fast Facts
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