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 ...

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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. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Technical abilities of primates are typically tested in the laboratory. It has been argued that close contact between animals and humans may lead to an increase in skills due to an 'enculturation' of subjects. Here, we ...