PERSONAL

Position: Associate Professor of Anthropology

Employer : University of Pretoria (Department of Anthropology and Archaeology)

Research fellow: Centre for Wildlife Management (University of Pretoria)

QUALIFICATIONS

1980 BA (Anthropology and Applied Anthropology) (extra mural) - University of Pretoria 1982 BA (Hons.) (Anthropology) (extra mural) - University of Pretoria

1990 MA (Anthropology) (study leader: Prof. JB Hartman) - University of Pretoria

1992 Drs. (Anthropology)

1996 D.Phil. (Anthropology) (promoter: Prof. RD Coertze)

- University of Pretoria MA thesis: Inkatha Yenkululeko Yesizwe as Cultural Revitalisation Movement - pp 355 Theoretical and practical emphasis on processes of culture change and acculturation, nativism, and cultural revitalisation against the background of Inkatha's founding and political deployment.

D.Phil. dissertation: Utilisation of renewable natural resources among the Vakamnisi of the Mhala District - pp 533. Emphasis on the utilisation of natural resources and the socio-economic development of communal rural communities adjacent to the Manyeleti and Andover Game Reserves, and the Kruger National Park through sustainable natural resource utilisation.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1978 - 1981 (4 years) Old Mutual Insurance Company - Marketing of group schemes in Townships.

1982 - 1986 (5 years) Ethnologist for KwaZulu-Natal (based in Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal).

1987 - 1992 (6 years) University of Pretoria. Full time permanent lecturer in Anthropology.

1993 - 1999 (5 years) University of Pretoria. Full time permanent senior lecturer in Anthropology. Responsible for Applied Anthropology, Development Anthropology, and Environmental Anthropology.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

(past 5 years) 1991 - 1996 Northern Province (Former Gazankulu) (South Africa) :

- Research on the utilisation of renewable natural resources in the Mnisi of the Mhala district of the Northern Province; - 1994 -- Northern Province (South Africa):

- Establishment of the Bokgobelo Nature Reserve for the Masemola people (Northern Sotho), Nebo district in conjunction with the Centre for Wildlife Management (UP)

- (Nature Reserve in tribal area). North West Province (South Africa): - Co-developer of the PPP-method for capacity building and empowerment of rural communities.

1996 KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa):

- Research for the ARC (Agriculture Research Council) in conjunction with the Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute on the Makatini flats: " A project on sustainable, and acceptable control of ticks and tick-borne disease of livestock, and the development of strategies for the control of ticks and tick-borne diseases of cattle and small livestock that are effective, sustainable and acceptable to the cattle farmers of Zululand."

Kenya: Research programme in conjunction with the Centre for Wildlife Management at the University of Pretoria. Tanzania: Ngorongoro Conservation Area (run by Maasai pastoralists adjacent to the Serengeti National Park;

Zambia: Luangwa Integrated Rural Development Project (LIRDP),

Zambia; the Admi-nistrative Design for Game Management Areas (ADMADE);

Zimbabwe: Com-mu-nal Areas Manage-ment Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) (Kariba dam, Victoria Falls, and Hwange National Park).

1997 Kenya:

- Namunyak Wildlife Conservation Trust, Sarapa and Sapashe Group Ranches, Northern Kenya;

- Ilngwezi Group Ranch in the Ilngwezi location, Laikipia District of Northern Kenya;

1998 Swaziland:

- Community outreach programmes of the Swaziland National Trust Commission in Swaziland. KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa):

- Community Conservation Programme of the former Natal Parks Board. Kosi Bay estuary, St Lucia Wetlands Reserve, Hluhluwe and Umfolozi Game Reserves.

1999 KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa):

- Appointed as programme co-ordinator for two multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary research programmes. Mozambique:

- Anthropologist in research team regarding the Restoration of the Elephant herd in the Tembe Elephant Reserve and the Maputo Elephant Reserve.

PUBLICATIONS BOOKS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

Els, H. 1998. Hoofstuk 62: Voorbeelde van die volhoubare benutting van natuurlike hulpbronne in Afrika. In: Bothma, J du P. (Ed.. Wildplaas Bestuur. (Third Edition). Van Schaik. (Afrikaans translation of Game Ranch Management) pp. 617 - 642. (Chapter 62: Examples of the Sustainable Utilisation of Renewable Natural Resources in Africa)

Els, H. 1998. Hoofstuk 63: Die toepassing van landelike ontwikkeling. In: Bothma, J du P. (Ed.. Wildplaas Bestuur. (Third Edition). Van Schaik. pp. 643 - 645. (Chapter 63: The Application of Rural Development)

Els, H. 1999. Chapter 61: Rural Development in Africa. In: Bothma, J du P. (ed.). Game Ranch Management (Third Edition). Van Schaik. (In press). 65pp.

Els, H. 1999. Chapter 62: Examples of the Sustainable Utilisation of Renewable Natural Resources in Africa In: Bothma, J du P. (Ed.). Game Ranch Management. (Third Edition). Van Schaik. (In press). 66pp.

Els, H. 1998. Chapter 63: The Application of Rural Development. In: Bothma, J du P. (ed.). Game Ranch Management. (Third Edition). Van Schaik. (In press). 54pp.

In addition, Professor Els has authored books and chapters from 1991-1998 and is published in many peer reviewed journals.

MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS

1977 - current: Full member of the South African Association of Cultural Anthropologists.

1994 - 1997: Member of the Board and treasurer of the South African Association of Cultural Anthropologists

1997 - 1999: Member of the Board and Vice Chairperson of the South African Association of Cultural Anthropologists

1996 - current: Editor of the Newsletter of the South African Association of Cultural Anthropologists

1995 - current: Full member of the Society for Anthropology in Southern Africa

1995 - current: Associated member of the Pan-African Association of Anthropologists (Africa)

1996 - current: Associated member of the Society for Applied Anthropology (USA)

1996 - current: Full member of the Development Society of Southern Africa.

1996 - current: Full member of the Southern African Wildlife Management Association.

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Work address : Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria.

Date of birth : 05.05.1953

Citizenship: South African

Languages: English, Afrikaans

E-Mail : hels@postino.up.ac.za