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"ln the new social order emerging A classic in marine biology

in this country there is nothing Eddie Koch
pape$ tn international journals.
In l95l Wits University helped erect a perma-
A NATURAL HISTORY OF INHACA ISLAND, nent building, on a beautiful bay some 5km
that can do so much for so many in IVOZAIUBIQUE edited by tVlargaret Kalk south ofthe only hotel on the island, with teach-
(Witwatersrand University Press, R1 20) ing, researeh and accommodation facilities. The
/ess time . . . and for longer, than research ttrat took place at Inhaca's natural his-
1(\IX thousand years ago, when the level of tory museum culminated in a joint congress of
\the Indian Ocean rose steadily along the South African and Mozambican biologists -
envi ro n m enta t ly ba la nced to u rism \-.feast coast of Africa, it cut a narrow gulf where the first edition of ANahrrrollilistory oJ
through a sandstone peninsula that protected Inhaco Island., Mozambiqrrcwas traunched.
development for the benefit of all." the Bay of ltlaputo, as it is now known, from the
sea's crashingrtraves.
A second, revised edltlon was published in
1969 and it rapidly became a classic in African
That vras tlre origin oflnhaca Island, 6O square marinebiologr.
kilometres of topography and animal life that
- a civil
The end of Mozambique's dark ages
has been the subject ofscientific fascination for" war that all but isolated most of the country for
hundreds ofyears. Its tropical features and nearly two decades has now allowed the old
Rob Angel, 1994 -
diversity of coral reefs, sea meadows, mangirove contact between ecologists from the two neigh-
svramps and sandy shores have attracted biolo- bouring states to revive itself.
CEO, Engen Limited gists, students and ecologically minded tourists
since the turn of tfre century.
The third edition of the book, heavily
reworked and rewritten by Professor Margaret
FIom 1922, students from SouthAfrican uni- Kalk so that it is accessible to scientists and seri-
versities made regular trips to tJre island and in ous travellers alike, celebrates the restoration of
the mid-1930s the Biologr Faculty at the Uni- these old ties.
versity ofthe Witrratersrand conducted a regu- It takes a fresh look at one of the most idylllc
lar set of winter vacation erpeditions spots in the Indian Ocean, describing the envi-
This generated prolitrc collaboration between rjonmental setting, the animal and plant life, the
Mozambican and South African scientists, who history oflnhaca, and the social and economic
publirshed a substantial collection of academic challenges that now confront its natural beauty.

Getting it together receipts in tourism -- a mere 1,8 percent.. Nr:r1h

African countries fltnisia, Algeria and Morocco)
still dominate the continent in terms of tourism
lFrom PAGE 1 receipts, although South Africa is now in lhr:
number two slot after Tunisia in the top 20
have a cornmon cause and neilher the private Afican destinations.

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nor the public sector can do it on its own." Fears that South Africa may be snatching the
Tourism ministers, as well as most private market share tiom other SADC countries are
operators, at least agree that marketing South- groundless, says Zimbabwean Minister of Envi-
em Afi:ica as a region, rather than on an individ- ronment and Tor-rrism Chen Chimuteng5vende:
ual national level, may well be instrumental in 'What fears? There are none. We work together."
upping Aftica's very small share of the interna- A major task for Retosa is to eliminate unnec-
tional tourism pie. essarybordercontrols and to look atways ofpro-
In 1994, Afi:ica as a whole accor.mted for only viding a sin$e re$onalvisa for foreignvisitors to
$6,3-billion of the $337-billion total worldwide SouthemAfrica.

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