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The MCSA was founded in 1891 and hence is one of the oldest mountaineering clubs in the world. Since its establishment, the MCSA has been embedded with and reflected, the political ideology and interests of the social and governing class during the colonial and segregation eras. This situation
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prevailed for most of the apartheid era, when the club finally opened its membership to all, regardless of race and the first black member was admitted in 1986. The MCSA is the only mountain club in
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throughout the world. Since its inception, the MCSA has published an annual journal. The MCSA Journal is one of the oldest mountain club journals still being published on an annual basis.
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The objectives of the Mountain Club of South Africa are to further the interests of mountaineering in South Africa and elsewhere, and in doing so inter alia to:
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Farieda Khan 2018: A Century of Mountaineering: Race, Class and the Politics of climbing Table Mountain, 1890 - 1990. Acta Academica, 50 (2), pp.52-74.
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Promote the study of mountains and their environments, the preservation of historical and
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sites on them and the dissemination of information on mountains and mountaineering.
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character of mountains and to promote their effective conservation management
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Procure and protect real rights in and access to mountains and mountain areas
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Initiate and support actions towards protecting the natural beauty and
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Club facilitating mountaineering, search and rescue and conservation
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of mountain areas, and procurement of access for mountaineering.
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South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee
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Mountain Club of South Africa
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South Africa
Mountaineering
www.mcsa.org.za
International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation
mountaineering
South Africa
mountaineering
climbing
hiking
search and rescue
training
conservation
Africa
UIAA
mountain ranges
South Africa
Namibia
wilderness
search and rescue
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Keppel Harcourt Barnard
Elsie Elizabeth Esterhuysen
Johannes de Villiers Graaff

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