226 The Pterocarpus angolensis DC. based woodcraft industry in the Bushbuckridge district- Environmental Science Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown,
6140 South Africa. E-mail: [email protected] - The term lowveld refers to the relatively flat, low-lying, semi-arid
savannah region in the north-east of the country positioned between the
Drakensburg escarpment in the west and the Mozambique border in the east. - Homelands, constituting 13% of the surface area of South Africa, were
created as labour reserves legitimated by a complex of apartheid ideals and
policies that emphasised the importance of separate development. They were
the only areas where black people could access land, which was held in ‘trust’
by the state and administered through the tribal authorities. In the early
1990s, all homelands were reincorporated into South Africa. - Working for Water is a national programme of the Department of Water
Affairs and Forestry aimed at clearing invasive alien vegetation from catch-
ment areas and riverine zones to enhance water production, biodiversity and
local employment opportunities. - Calculated using the function: percent annual basal area increment = –
0.161 (stem circumference) + 14.49 (r = 0.984; p<0.001), and assuming a starting
stem circumference of 3 cm. - Net income in this case is calculated as the cash income generated from
the sales of products minus costs including consumables, tools, transport to
market, wood harvesting and wage labour. Cost of own labour is not included.
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