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Indigenous
Healing
Plants
A
revised edition, co-
authored by the late
Margaret Roberts and
her daughter Sandy,
Indigenous Healing Plants, is a
fascinating compilation of the
uses of more than 140
indigenous plants, from well-
known garden favourites such
as agapanthus and scented
geraniums to lesser known
plants like agt-dae-
geneesbossie and the
naturalised ashwaganda.
The book is the last one
Roberts worked on before her
death earlier this year.
The story of each plant's
history is given and its various
uses ~ medicinal, in cooking,
as natural insect repellents
and deodorisers ~ along with
tried-and-tested recipes, as
well as brief notes on how to
grow it in the garden.
The plants are illustrated by
Sandy Roberts' full-colour
photographs, alongside
Margaret's delicate line
drawings.
This fully updated and
expanded edition of
Indigenous Healing Plants,
which was first published in
1995, now includes an
additional 15 indigenous
medicinal plants as well as a
new section on naturalised
BOOKSHELF
haphazard and reactive.
weeds and foraged food
plants.
Recommended selling price is
R375.00.
Environment
laws in SA
W
orried that your
smallholder
activities may fall
foul of current environmental
laws (which are something of
a minefield for amateurs)? To
make our lives easier there is
a compendium available for
free download which
introduces and reproduces
the main legislative provisions
dealing with the environment
in South Africa.
Published by Pretoria
University Law Press, this is a
quick, easy and user-friendly
reference guide to our laws
and norms applicable to
environmental management.
Over the centuries our
environmental law has been
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However that changed with
the SA Constitution Act of
1996, which gives every
person the right to an
environment which is not
harmful to their health and
well-being.
The compendium provides an
alphabetical list of national
and provincial legislation
relevant to environmental
protection. It then provides
descriptions of all the
environmental laws and the
full texts of selected environ-
mental acts. So if you want to
know about the law concern-
ing environmental manage-
ment, conservation,
biodiversity, forests, water,
agriculture, animals, fisheries,
land, pollution, waste
management, energy
resources, mining – it's all
there.
You can download it from the
Gauteng Smallholder website.
Go to www.sasmallholder-
.co.za.