The plant is monoecious with both sexes in each flower. Beetles are probably the creatures responsible for pollinating the flowers. The plant grows on poorly drained and wet soil in dongas and ditches in miombo woodland.
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Mechanised farming and over-grazing led by 1910 to the appearance of immense dongas in the countryside, which carried away soil and scarred the landscape, and contributed to dustbowls across South Africa in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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2012; Cook 1974 Acheulian Stone Age tools such as handaxes and cleavers have also been found here.Clark 1974; Brink et al. 2012 Recent research document excavations of a fossil bone bed, possibly resulting from the accumulation by hyaenas and redepostion by dongas (i.e., gullies).
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'No peace' for family after Fortescue cleared of cyclone deaths, WA Today, 18 February 2011. The Magistrate dismissed all charges and when that decision was appealed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia the appeal was also dismissed, with Justice Stephen Hall finding that Fortescue had met their duty to provide a safe workplace by engaging "qualified and experienced experts" to manage the dongas.Worksafe cyclone appeal dismissed , Nine MSN, 23 March 2013. Both courts had heard that the company contracted to build the dongas, NT Link, had given assurances to Fortescue that the dongas had been constructed to industry standards when it had not.
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Morcombe, Michael (2003). Field Guide to Australian Birds, p. 273,397. Pascal Press, Glebe. . They are sometimes recorded in other open or shrubby habitats, often near wetlands: low mulga, low buloke woodland; open acacia scrubland; dongas (steep-sided gullies) vegetated with tall shrubs or small trees including mulga, dead finish, belah or sugarwood; grassland; or sedgeland.
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In Australia, small portable accommodation buildings are often called dongas. In Australia the word "demountable" in particular refers to portable classrooms. In the United Kingdom the words "Portakabin", "Portacabin", "Bunkabin" and "terrapin" are commonly used to describe these buildings. However, the use of these words as generic descriptions of portable buildings has caused contention amongst some manufacturers.
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Various buildings exist, some dating back to the early 1950s: Sleeping quarters are in Southern Aurora Dongas (SAD), Garden Cove (Dorm), Hasselborough House and Cumpston's Cottage. A combined mess and kitchen adjoin the doctor's surgery. Storage exists in the main store shed and a large field store shed. The various trades there have their own workshops.
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Accommodation is available at the town's caravan park or the Junction Hotel. If employed on a farm, accommodation is often available in small 'dongas' or barracks. Public transport from Cairns is possible, although infrequent, on Trans North's bus service which stops at Mareeba, from Dimbulah. The Savannahlander tourist train stops in Dimbulah as well but does not operate year-round.
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The deaths occurred when strong winds knocked over temporary accommodation shelters known as dongas. The second death occurred at Indee station, located between Port Hedland and the mining camp. The man died from severe internal injuries while escaping from his wrecked donga, trying to seek help at the main station homestead.WA police launch probe into third cyclone death, ABC News Online, 15 March 2007.
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These tracks were ill-formed and only used occasionally by traders. They turned to quagmires in the rain and were occasionally broken by steep sided dongas (dry river beds). River fords (locally known as drifts) were impassable in high water and quickly ruined when trafficked heavily. Engineering teams would be necessary to maintain the tracks and drifts to allow the columns to pass through and supplies to reach the troops.
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There are two stores, one school, and a health centre. Accommodation is available through Norah's Guest House, and the council run 'five star' dongas. The effective community language is Brokan (Torres Strait Creole), though many people also still speak Meriam Mir, the traditional language. Darnley Island became better known around Australia in 2015 when the acting school principal asked via social media for donations of books to assist her primary school children and their education.
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Davis was temporarily closed on 25 January 1965 in order to make resources available for the rebuilding of Casey Station. It was reopened on 15 February 1969 and has been continuously occupied since that time. The original small huts ("dongas") fell into disuse and disrepair from the late 1970s / early 1980s, with a major rebuilding program. Davis has become the busiest of Australia's Antarctic stations supporting a wide variety of scientific research in both the local and surrounding areas during the summer time.
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Kingsnorth was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and St Anne's College, Oxford, where he studied modern history. During this period he became involved in the Dongas road protest group at sites including Twyford Down, Solsbury Hill, and the M11 link road protest in east London. After chaining himself to a bridge alongside fifty others, Kingsnorth was arrested, and event that solidified the importance of protest for him.Paul Kingsnorth's official website At Oxford, Kingsnorth edited the University's longest-running student newspaper, Cherwell.
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Much of the book recounts Kingsnorth's personal history with the environmental movement and with nature. He starts the book with a description of his upbringing, his engagement with the Dongas road protest group, and with his engagement with environmentalism and journalism through his twenties. Kingsnorth then describes how he pivoted into a cynicism with mainstream environmentalism, a cynicism centered on what Kingsnorth feels is a "single-minded obsession with climate change" that "has trumped all other issues," resulting in "a curious, plastic world." He highlights some of the ways that this has occurred in England.
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Pulleine's response was complicated by Durnford, who had been pinned down while chasing the supposedly retreating enemy force. Pulleine thus had to deploy his troops in such a way as to defend the camp and try to support Durnford in his attempt to break contact with the Zulus and withdraw.; Durnford's exact words to Pulleine 'If you see us in difficulties you must send and support us' are quoted here. The terrain at Isandlwana, consisting of tall grass and ravines, called Dongas, into which the advancing Zulus periodically disappeared, shielded the movements of the Zulu army from view of the British.
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Quamby is a tiny settlement in Northwest Queensland, 44 kilometres from the town of Cloncurry. The town rests on the eastern side of the Burke Developmental Road and these days consists of a solitary hotel, fifteen 'dongas' (single workers accommodation) and a handful of sheds, watertanks and memorabilia from nearby stations. The historic feel extends to the interior of the hotel where old timber and floorboards have been used to make tables while donated saddles, horse shoes and old railway lights add decoration. Quamby is attached to the Parish of Corella in the County of Beaconsfield.
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Cha Cha Cha was derived from the name of the hotel at the township which is called Happy Cha Cha Cha Hotel which was known for all holding concert of Cha Cha Cha dancers during its early days. Cha Cha Cha was an administration centre for the Boers mainly of them farmers during its early days, but was later turned inti a camp for the soldiers during the days of Ian Smith. The idea was to develop it into one of the biggest towns, if not cities since there was a hospital and an 'airport' nearby. The original name was Donga Township due to the vast number of dongas through erosion.
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The personification of Alexandra (the place) as mother-figure allows the speaker to emphasize the bond he has with the place; wherever he goes he carries the 'throb' of Alexandra deep within him – it has made him who he is. He was nourished on the "dirty waters of (her) dongas" and when he is thirsty he cries out for this 'mother', this mother who frightens him and whom he suspects to be cruel. He pleads for answers from this 'mother'; "Do you love me Alexandra?" and "What have you done to me?" Despite not receiving answers he cannot leave although others have distanced themselves from the memories and walked over him to go to "far places".
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They were intended to provide protection to the road and at night mounted a special guard detail over it. Chelmsford left the camp with around half his troops on the morning of 22 January 1879 to conduct a recognisance in force around the Mangeni Falls, where elements of the Zulu army had been spotted. Nolan and the majority of No. 1 Company joined this force to help clear the road for the artillery and assist in the crossing of several dongas on the route. A small detail of one officer and ten men was left behind at the camp where it was caught up in the disastrous British defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana later the same day.
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Lush became an active environmentalist while studying politics at Bristol University and joined the 'Dongas' protest camp at Twyford Down against the construction of one the road schemes, a new section of the M3 motorway being built close to where she grew up in 1992. This was one of many schemes outlined in the Roads for Prosperity white paper which Margaret Thatcher described as 'the largest road building programme since the Romans. Lush successfully challenged the UK Government's Breach of the Peace legislation at the European Court of Human Rights in 1998. In July 1993 Lush and five others (including Emma Must who later went on to win the Goldman Environmental Prize) were imprisoned for a month for breaking a High Court injunction banning them from Twyford Down.
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Out of approximately 200 families with an average household of 6, there are more than 2,000 cattle in Marira, the total area is 20 square kilometres, with 80% of it a crop farming land, the community has to resort to herding cattle more 5 km from the residential places. This has caused overgrazing and erosion in the area thereby creating Dongas (Donga is another name for Cha Cha Cha Shopping Centre). In such location people are struggling to survive, the poor remain poor while the fortunate ones are being taken for by their working children, but due to the overall meltdown of the Zimbabwe economy during the early 90s to current present, there is little that can be done. Marira Village lies on the outskirts of the Great Dyke but employment in the mining sector seem to be benefiting those from afar besides gold panning in the Mutevekwi River, a sizeable river 10 km towards Shurugwi.
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