Female Glossina pallidipes Austen and G. m. morsitans Westwood (Diptera: Glossinidae) were treated with deltamethrin or pyrethrum extract through topical application or by exposure to cloth or glass treated with the same ...
Two South African novels, Congo Song (Cloete [1943]1973) and Moxyland (Beukes 2008) comment on the central part played by artists and their work in the midst of a society on the brink of war. Both narratives are set in ...
Social learning is the basis for the formation of traditions in both human and nonhuman animals. Field observations and experiments provide evidence for the existence of traditions in animals but they do not address the ...
The Siloam hot spring is located on the Siloam fault in the northern Limpopo Province of South Africa. Geophysical data were collected over the aquifer hosting the spring with the aim of determining its physical characteristics. ...
The article explores the role that food gardens can play in contributing to the empowerment of rural South African women. The goal of the study was to focus on likely other benefits - beyond economic advantages -realised ...
South Africa's public sector procurement facility is envisaged as one of the key tools to remedy past injustices in that country in which blacks were disadvantaged. Section 217 of the country's Constitution makes express ...
This article aims to describe how xenophobia is experienced by a small selection of immigrant participants in five inner city schools in Johannesburg. The May 2008 xenophobic violence prompted the investigation. Theoretically, ...
This article will show from a theoretical point of view the main reasons why investigating language as social behaviour allows to understand not only the social structure but also language, which is understood as a social ...
Bhaumik M.; Maity A.; Srinivasu V.V.; Onyango M.S.(2011)
Fe
3O
4 coated polypyrrole (PPy) magnetic nanocomposite was prepared via in situ polymerization of pyrrole monomer for the removal of highly toxic Cr(VI). Structure and ...
Nel N.; Muller H.; Hugo A.; Helldin R.; Backmann O.; Dwyer H.; Skarlind A.(2011)
This article is based on joint research, between academics from South Africa and Sweden, comparing the influence of South African and Swedish teachers' attitudes towards the practical application of inclusive education ...
Children are caring for an increasing proportion of orphans and abandoned children in several African countries. Children in child-headed households generally live under poor economic conditions. Given the dire need to ...
In this paper we consider the fair pricing of single stock futures (SSFs) and the effect of dividend risk on the dividend compensation component in the pricing formulas. SSF valuation is subject to the pricing of discrete ...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were synthesised by a conventional chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method using acetylene as carbon source and a bimetallic catalyst of Fe-Co supported on a CaCO3 support. The CNTs were characterized ...
Matabola K.P.; Van Der Merwe E.M.; Strydom C.A.; Labuschagne F.J.W.(2010)
BACKGROUND: The influence of different hydrating agents on the pH of the hydrating solutions, rate of hydration of MgO to Mg(OH)
2 and product surface area was studied as a function of temperature ...
The detection and quantification of four phthalate esters-dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), and diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP)-in water, sediment, and some fish species were carried ...
A highly selective and sensitive phosphate sensor has been fabricated by constructing a crystal disk consisting of variable mixtures of aluminium powder (Al), aluminium phosphate (AlPO4) and powdered copper (Cu). The ...