Abstract This study is based on the premise that the media, as one of the primary disseminators of information in a society, is critical to the development and sustenance of democracy. Following on from this, it then ...

South Africa obtained a new constitution in 1994 that enshrined the right to sexual orientation, race and gender equality, as well as – crucially – ensuring the “freedom of the press and other media”. However, consequent ...

Abstract Imraan Coovadia is the author of two novels, The Wedding and Green-eyed Thieves, and has published several short stories and essays. Coovadia's writing is of importance as a product of cultural hybridity, as he ...

Studies on sexual behaviour in Nigeria have rather been lopsided largely focussing on adolescents while neglecting the older men. This may not be unconnected with the fact that the young people are often seen as being ...

This study investigated educators’ perceptions on the abolishment of corporal punishment. Three quarters of the educators in the study were not in favour of the abolition of corporal punishment and gave their reasons for ...

4 Abstract This study seeks to answer: What are the socio-cultural factors contributing, or not, towards positive youth development in HIV/AIDS initiatives in Botswana? It is operating under the assumption that what ...

Objectives • To determine the prevalence of macrosomic babies delivered at Coronation (now Rahima Moosa) Hospital. • To compare the maternal and neonatal outcome of vaginally born macrosomic babies versus vaginally ...

The rocks of the Carboniferous to Jurassic aged main Karoo Supergroup of South Africa preserve an internationally significant and stratigraphically continuous retro-arc foreland depositional sequence. This succession documents ...

Phenylalanine 51 (F51) in the human class alpha GST forms part of a hydrophobic lockand- key intersubunit motif at the dimer interface. Protein engineering techniques were used to replace the phenylalanine key with serine. ...

ARR is an antibiotic resistance protein found in Mycobacterium smegmatis with several homologues in other species and genera. ARR inactivates rifampicin through the transfer of an ADP-ribose group from NAD+ to C23 of ...