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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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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

Harpagophytum procumbens (Burch.) DC.

Colour plate of live plant
Note Illustration from: Jill Adams (1976), Wild Flowers of theNorthern Cape.
Department of Nature and Environmental Conservation of theProvincial Administration of the Cape of Good Hope, CapeTown.
1, 2 Prostrate, mat-forming perennial herb with several annual stems from a succulent taproot, with additional tubers on lateral roots, growing to 1,5m in length; leaves narrowly ovate to ovate, up to 65mm long x 40mm wide, petiole 30-45mm long, pinnately lobed, clothed with glandular hairs, the underside densely pubescent; flowers (Dec-Feb) borne singly in leaf axils, bright pink to magenta, tubular, with corolla limb purple or yellow, up to 7cm long; fruit a large, claw-like, dehiscent bilocular capsule, flattened at right angles to the septum, armed along the edges with four rows of woody arms up to 8cm long and bearing recurved spines.
References:
1 Dyer, R.A. (1975).The genera of Southern African flowering plants. Vol 1. Dicotyledons. BotanicalResearch Institute, Pretoria.
2 Ihlenfeldt, (1988). The genus Harpagophytum. Flora Zambesiaca 8(3): 109-113.

Operations provided by Pharmacopoeia are as follows:


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