Solanum lycopersicon (the cultivated tomato) is a commodity of great economic importance in South Africa (SA) as well as worldwide. A destructive viral disease known as Tomato curly stunt virus, ToCSV-[ZA:Ond:98], belonging ...

INTRODUCTION: Cervical cancer continues to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in women in the developing world, due to the lack of effective population screening. It has proven difficult to ...

African Explosives Limited (AEL) is involved with the Hybrid Stress Blast Model (HSBM) project in the characterisation of its bulk explosives and part of this involves the collection of unconfined detonation velocities ...

The American Defense Institute for Medical Operations (DIMO) states that deaths associated with disasters have increased by 50 percent each decade and as Alexander (2002) notes, although disasters require special organization, ...

This research report is an account of the results of investigations into the critical analysis of the private sector’s Financial Sector Charter (FSC) and the government’s Community Reinvestment Bill (CRB) in comparing ...

In 2008, 1.8 million children under the age of 15 were living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The same report estimates that in 2008, there were 390 000 new infections in children below the age of 15 in Sub- Saharan ...

School-going children have unique health challenges that deserve a focused attention from policy makers, commonly done through the provision of school health programmes. The education system provides the most comprehensive ...

International research indicates that the practice of environmental management may lead to profitability and competitive advantage for the firm. But this theory has not been tested in South Africa. This lack of empirical ...

INTRODUCTION: Maternity services are a priority for all health care services but in most cases there have been serious challenges experienced through service performance. The National District Hospital (NDH)‟s key performance ...

Anthracites are utilised in the reduction of ilmenite in most South African ilmenite processing plants. The smelting mechanism reported by Pistorius (2008) involves the reduction of iron oxide and titanium dioxide, in ...