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Aims of the society
  • To encourage the cultivation and propagation of cycads
  • To disseminate information on cycads by various means, inter alia through the regular publication of a magazine
  • To arrange the legal exchange of plants, seedlings, seed, and pollen of different cycad species between members.
  • To encourage scientific research on cycads
  • To promote all aspects of cycad conservation
  • To foster and maintain links with organisations having similar aims on an international basis


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How to join

At the moment this website does not support online membership application and payment. Please follow these steps to join:

If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download, in PDF format, and print an English or Afrikaans copy of the membership form.  Fill in this form and send it, with the necessary payment, to the relevant person listed below.

South Africa
USA
Australia
Ian Bassingthwaighte
P.O.Box 176
0159 Montana Park (Pretoria)
South Africa
Email: cycad@cycadsociety.org

Tel: +27 12 548 1152
Willie Tang
65 Corydon Dr.
Miami Springs
Florida 33166, USA
Email:
wlmtang@bellsouth.net
Paul Kennedy
21 Sierra Road
Engadine
NSW 2233, Australia
Email:cycads@awwwesome.com.au
 
NOTE: New members receive all issues of the journal "Encephalartos" for the year in which they join!

If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader, download a free copy by clicking on the icon:   

Membership fees for 2013
 

Local members
(residents of South Africa)

R 220

 

 

 

 

 

 

Southern African members
(
Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, etc.)
Air mail delivery

R 340
 

Southern African members
(
Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, etc.)
Surface mail delivery

R 300

Foreign members
Air mail delivery

R 370
US$ 5
6
A
U$ 55
€ (Euro)
40
£ (GBP) 34

Foreign members
Surface mail delivery

R 330
US$ 49
AU$ 48
€ (Euro) 38
£ (GBP)
29

 

Should you require further details, or wish to receive back copies of the quarterly magazine, please contact Ian Bassingthwaighte




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Council Members

President Dirk van der Walt
Tel: 013 792 4581
Cell: 082 557 0943
vdwaltD@tsb.co.za

Secretary-treasurer
Back copies officer
Ian Bassingthwaighte
P.O.Box 176
0159 Montana Park
Pretoria
cycad@cycadsociety.org

Tel: +27 12 548 1152
Editor of Encephalartos Wynand van Eeden
P.O.Box 176
Tygerpark, 7536
wynand@ananzi.co.za
Co-opted member (Webmaster) Dr Pieter van der Walt
P.O.Box 913
2158 Olivedale
webmaster@cycadsociety.org
Regional Branch Representatives  
Lowveld Dirk van der Walt
Tel: 013 792 4581
Cell: 082 557 0943
vdwaltD@tsb.co.za
KwaZulu-Natal Hein Hoft
082 406 8756
hein.hoft@bcx.co.za
Northern Cycad Working Group Piet De Bruyn
P.O. Box 3896
Mokopane 0600
Cell: 083 447 5979
iti30622@mweb.co.za
Sentraal (Transvaal) John Kloppers

cycad@mweb.co.za
Eastern Cape Marius Helm
P.O. Box 2296
Konani 5322
Tel & Fax: 045 838 3544
Cel: 082 807 1029
mhelm@vodamail.co.za
Western Cape Johan Kotze
Tel: 021 919 2434
Cell: 084 627 9645
johankotze@webmail.co.za
Pollen & seed bank officer  
Northern Province and Country-wide Diekie de Klerk
P.O.Box 2234
0700 Polokwane
Tel: 015 297 3196/7 W
Cell: 083 292 4310
Faks: 015 297 4627
deklerkk@mweb.co.za
Sentraal (Transvaal) Richard Potter
Cell: 073 432 0021
Fax: 011 807 3773
richard@hilltop215.co.za
Lowveld Robert Kunitz
082 808 5721
rob@waytogrow.co.za
Kwazulu - Natal  
Eastern Cape Deon Hauman
Port Elizabeth
Tel:
041 3711 789
Cel: 082 870 8232
deonhaumann@telkomsa.net
Western Cape Jaap Viljoen
Cell: 082 900 5455
jnjv@telkomsa.net
Overseas correspondents  
Australia Paul Kennedy
21 Sierra Road
Engadine
New South Wales 2233
cycads@awwwesome.com.au
USA/Canada Willie Tang
65 Corydon Drive
Miami Springs, Florida 33166
Tel: +305 667 1651
wlmtang@bellsouth.net





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Copyright Notice
No part of this web site (text, photographs, code or layout etc.) may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database retrieval system without the prior written permission of the Cycad Society of South Africa.

The Society has obtained permission from the authors to use "Cycads of the World" by David L Jones and "Cycads of Africa" by Douglas Goode as references for the Species pages.  The utmost care has been taken to represent the original text and points of view in the best way possible.  The photographs on this site may not be downloaded, reproduced, distributed, copied, stored or saved to disk, or manipulated in any way without written permission from the copyright owner of the photographs.  The sole exception to these restrictions are that the images:

  • may be downloaded and saved to disk by your Internet Browser and
  • may be backed up in the course of normal backup procedures and
  • these downloaded images are for personal use only.

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