{"id":7,"date":"2018-03-13T14:40:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2018-05-17T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:47:39","slug":"about-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/about-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About me<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-93 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/IMG_3922-1-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/IMG_3922-1-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/IMG_3922-1-768x819.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/IMG_3922-1-960x1024.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/IMG_3922-1.jpg 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SIYABONGA R. MATHEBULA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><strong>Siyabonga Reginald Mathebula<\/strong> is from South Africa, Mpumalanga and\u00a0 currently he&#8217;s doing his MSc in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food security at NUI Galway. He&#8217;s doing his MSc research at CSIR (Hydrosciences Research Group) in Stellenbosch, South Africa . His focus is on the\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><strong>Impacts of invasive alien trees on recharge into the Atlantis aquifer on the West Coast of South Africa<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Qualifications<\/strong>: Siyabonga did his Bsc and Msc in Agriculture Crop science at North West University, South Africa. He has a Diploma in plant production from the Lowveld College of Agriculture, with experience in Citrus , Banana and sugarcane production. His interests on research focus more on the challenges facing South African aquifers, (Transpiration and WUE) and water-related risks of invasive species.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/blog-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/blog-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/blog-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/blog-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2018\/04\/blog.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About me Siyabonga Reginald Mathebula is from South Africa, Mpumalanga and\u00a0 currently he&#8217;s doing his MSc in Climate Change, Agriculture and Food security at NUI Galway. He&#8217;s doing his MSc research at CSIR (Hydrosciences Research Group) in Stellenbosch, South Africa . His focus is on the\u00a0Impacts of invasive alien trees on recharge into the Atlantis &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/about-page\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/siyabonga-reginald-mathebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}