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The National Indigenous Knowledge Management System

The National IK Registration System formerly known as the National Recordal System and the National IK Management System (NIKMAS), represents an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) platform for the management of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) as governed by the Protection, Promotion, Development and Management of Indigenous Knowledge Act No 6 of 2019. The IK Registration System is the technology platform that is connected to IKS Documentation Centres that support communities to record their indigenous knowledge. The IK information accessed and published through the national IK Registration System has ownership vested in communities. Accessing these through the IK Registration System requires permission and authorisation. Click here for more information

Future systems that will be available via the NIKSO Portal include the IK Register of Designations.

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*IKSDC - Indigenous Knowledge Systems Documentation Centre

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NIKMAS Fast Facts

Operations provided by NIKMAS are as follows:


Explore indigenous knowledge (IK)
  • African Traditional Medicine
  • Food Security


Pharmacopoeia

The Pharmacopoeia is a prior art database which holds information on the use, quality, efficacy and safety of traditional African medicines in South Africa. The database draws on published resources on plants, its botanical distribution and its uses for medicinal purposes, which are digitised to provide information, cross-referencing and research outputs for use by researchers, community members, traditional healers and a wide range of global users. This database is not intended for medical or health advice and may not be used as a substitute for professional consultation from experts. Click here for more information

Featured Plant

Typha capensis (Rohrb.) N.E.Br.

This is a robust, perennial, leafy, reed-like aquatic plant which can reach a height of up to three metres. The leaves are hairless, simple, long, bluish grey to green, strap-shaped and with parallel veins. T. capensis has thick, fleshy, creeping rhizomes with erect, long strap-like stems. The stems terminate in dense, distinctive, velvety-brown flower-spikes.The characteristic flower stalk has minute male flowers towards the tip and equally minute female flowers tightly packed into a thick brown mass just below the male part. The inflorescence is a dense spike of closely packed flowers, yellow at first, turning brown later. The fruit is one-seeded, minute and has many hairs which aid wind dispersal.

References:

1 South African National Biodiversity Institute. (2007). Typha capensis (Rohrb.)N.E.Br.

2 Van Wyk, B-E. and Gericke, N. (2007). People’s plants: a guide to useful plants of southern Africa. Briza, Pretoria.

Operations provided by Pharmacopoeia are as follows:


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