South Africa's National Party, which ruled the country from 1948 until 1994, itself coined the term apartheid to veil or mask the oppressive elements of its policies and practices. The concept of separateness in itself ...

1.1 Aim To assess whether Apolipoprotein L-I (APOL1) G1 and G2 genotypes are associated with renal disease or Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) in a cohort of Black South African patients with SLE. 1.2 Methods One ...

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a complex trait with both environmental and genetic contributors. Genome-wide association studies have identified several variants that are robustly associated with obesity and body mass index (BMI), ...

This report investigates the viability of satellite remote sensing in monitoring the rehabilitation of coal discard dumps. Four levels of thermal monitoring data were assessed in this project. These were: ground and below ...

Acceptance of the amendment to the Employment Equity Act in August 2014 brings a renewed emphasis on the importance of utilizing psychometrically sound measuring instruments in the South African context to ensure that ...

The experience drawn from development programmes, has shown that the translation of policy and theory into workable action programmes, is an art form that is little understood and seldom practised successfully, Within ...

Southern Africa has embarked on substantial expansion of its water supply network in order to ensure safe, reliable, convenient and sufficient water for everyone. To achieve this, new systems are being built and many ...

Thermo-gravimetric analysis was carried out on a vitrinite-rich coal (VC), highveld grass (HG) and pine wood (PW) chars, and coal-biomass char blends of each. The analysis was carried out on combustion and gasification ...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most prevalent neurodegenerative disease. The candidate aetiological agent for this disease is the 4kDa amyloid beta (Ab) peptide which is derived from the proteolytic cleavage of the amyloid ...

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