Mountain Club of South Africa
Mountain Club of South Africa (MCSA) | |
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sport | Rockclimbing |
Founded | September 1891 |
president | Greg Moseley |
societies | 14 sections |
Members | 4,871 (as of 2019) |
Association headquarters | South Africa and ( Namibia ) |
Homepage | MSCA.org.za |
The Mountain Club of South Africa ( MCSA ) German Mountain Club of South Africa is the largest and oldest climbers Club of South Africa. He facilitates and engages in mountaineering , climbing of all kinds, bouldering , hiking , international expeditions , mountain search and rescue , training, preservation of mountain areas and providing access for mountaineers.
history
The MCSA was founded in September 1891, making it one of the oldest mountaineering clubs in the world. Since its inception, the MCSA has been embedded and reflected in the political ideology and interests of the social and government class during the colonial and segregation times. This situation prevailed during most of the apartheid era when the club finally opened its membership to all, regardless of race, and the first black member was accepted in 1986.
In addition to the (Federation Royale Marocaine de Ski et Montagnes) from Morocco, the MCSA is the only mountain club in Africa that is affiliated to the UIAA world climbing association. MCSA members have climbed and hiked all of the world's major mountain ranges. Since its inception, the MCSA has published an annual journal. The MCSA Journal is one of the oldest Mountain Club journals that still appears annually.
The club consists of 14 sections that are spread across South Africa and Namibia and have almost 5000 members.
- Amajuba
- Cape Town
- Eastern Province
- Free State
- Hottentots Holland
- Johannesburg
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Magaliesburg (also known as the Pretoria Section)
- Namibia
- Paarl / Wellington
- South Cape
- Stellenbosch
- Tygerberg
- Worcester
The goals of the Mountain Club of South Africa are to promote the interests of mountaineering in South Africa and elsewhere, including:
- Organize and facilitate mountaineering.
- Obtaining and protecting real rights in and access to mountains and mountain areas.
- To initiate and support measures to protect the natural beauty and wilderness character of mountains and to promote their effective nature conservation management.
- Promoting the safety and training of mountaineers.
- Provide search and rescue resources.
- Promote exploration of the mountains and their surroundings, the preservation of historical and archaeological sites on them and the dissemination of information about mountains and mountaineering.
Significant members
- Keppel Harcourt Barnard
- Edmund February
- Johannes de Villiers Graaff
- Rudolf Marloth
- Cathy O'Dowd
- Edwin Percy Phillips
- Marianne Pretorius
- Jan Smuts
- Thomas Pearson Stokoe
See also
Web links
- MCSA Mountain Club of South Africa
- MCSA Section Eastern Province
- MCSA section Johannesburg
- MCSA section Cape Town
- MCSA Section KwaZulu-Natal
- MCSA section Magaliesberg
- UIAA homepage
literature
2. 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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ TheUIAA.org: Member Associations 2018-2019 - UIAA
- ↑ TheUIAA.org: UIAA website September 2016
- ↑ TheUIAA.org: Federation Royale Marocaine de Ski et Montagnes