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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
Willie Tang
65 Corydon Dr.
Miami Springs
Florida 33166, USA
Email:wlmtang@earthlink.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 2008
 

Local members
(residents of South Africa)

R 160

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

R 275
 

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

R 240

Foreign members
Air mail delivery

R 275
US$ 45
A$ 60
€ (Euro) 33

Foreign members
Surface mail delivery

R 240
US$ 40
A$ 50
€ (Euro) 30

 

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 Dr Xander de Kock
P.O. Box 21
0787 Faunapark
Tel: 015 291 1381
Cell: 082 465 8432
xanvet@netactive.co.za
Secretary-treasurer
Back copies officer
Ian Bassingthwaighte
P.O.Box 176
0159 Montana Park
Pretoria
cycad@cycadsociety.org
Editor of Encephalartos Alicia Krige
Principal Scientist (Leguminosae)
National Herbarium (PRE)
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Private Bag X101 Pretoria
0001
krige@sanbi.org
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
082 557 0943
vanderwaltD@tsb.co.za
KwaZulu-Natal Danie Nel
P.O.Box 45
3730 Umlaas Road
Tel: 0332 51 0478
Cell: 082 925 4540
Cell: 082 924 6969
cycadcenter@mweb.co.za
Northern Cycad Working Group Piet De Bruyn
P.O. Box 3896
Mokopane 0600
Cell: 083 447 5979
iti30622@mweb.co.za
Transvaal Mark Crooks
Cell: 082 376 7916
obeatery@mweb.co.za
Western Cape Jaap Viljoen
Cell: 082 900 5455
jnjv@telkomsa.net
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
Lowveld Robert Kunitz
082 808 5721
rob@waytogrow.co.za
Kwazulu - Natal Dr. Rudi van Niekerk
P.O.Box 252
5277 Southbroom
Tel: 039 316 6238 H
Cell: 082 854 1623
arsvanniekerk@tiscali.co.za
Western Cape Eben Swanepoel
Cell: 082 887 2808
Fax: 021 982 3511
renemonitor@proloan.co.za
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@earthlink.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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