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Rural land redistribution in South Africa: Contrasting visions and models
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)There is widespread agreement that land reform in South Africa is in deep trouble. However, there are very different perspectives on what should be done to address the failure to meaningfully redistribute land and resolve ... -
Rural livelihoods in South Africa: complexity, vulnerability and differentiation
(Blackwell Publishing, 2013)The livelihoods of South Africa’s rural African poor have long been characterized by diverse activities, and intertwined with urban opportunities. This paper examines the interlinked nature of land, employment and rural ... -
Rural resource grabs or necessary inward investment? The politics of land and water in Africa
(International Institute for Environment and Development, 2015)What has happened since the furore broke over the corporate land rush in Africa? Field-based research has exposed new realities that challenge the linear suggestions of a ‘grab’. As the process unfolds and our understanding ... -
Rural settlement
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2004)The focus of South Africa s land reform programme is the acquisition of land and securing tenure rights. Land reform has provided many people with land. However, access to land is only one component of settlement. Settlement ... -
Rural Wireless Mesh Network Analysis on Mobile Devices
(Telkom SA, 2014)The aim of this research effort is to build an efficient and accurate mobile traffic generator based on open source computer-based traffic generator software. A high performance mobile traffic generator would make the ... -
Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa: Cultural competence, lay-beliefs in narratives of diabetes among the rural poor in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
(CODESRIA, 2017)Rural-urban disparities in health and health care in Africa have been well described; yet, they remain relatively of less concern among many issues in health and health care in Africa. The disparities have been documented ... -
Rutin as a potent antioxidant: implications for neurodegenerative disorders
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2018)A wide range of neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and prion diseases, share common mechanisms such as neuronal loss, apoptosis, mitochondrial ... -
RuxNb1-xO2 catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction in proton exchange membrane water electrolysers
(Elsevier, 2013)Bimetallic catalyst system of ruthenium oxide (RuO2) and niobium oxide (Nb2O5) was prepared using the Adams method and the hydrolysis method. Physical and electrochemical characterizations of the catalysts were studied ... -
S v Mthethwa: Justice for sex workers in the face of criminalisation
(Routledge, 2020)In 2017 the Western Cape High Court convicted acclaimed painter, Zwelethu Mthethwa, of the brutal murder of sex worker, Nokuphila Khumalo. This profile offers a feminist-legal analysis of the judgment and sentence handed ... -
S.V. Petersen se tydskrifverhale: 'n joernaal vir die geesteswetenskappe
(Stellenbosch University, 2008)S.V. Petersen (1914-1987) is bekend vir sy poësie en word beskou as die eerste swart Afrikaanse digter. Sy skryfloopbaan het begin met 'n aantal kortverhale en sketse wat gepubliseer is in joernale en tydskrifte. Hierdie ... -
SA part of a charge to develop a vaccine for Covid-19
(Independent online, 2020)Cape Town - With infections of the coronavirus surpassing the 1.3million mark and deaths at 76507 worldwide, the rush to find a cure is increasing, with South Africa playing its part. Globally, more than 35 companies and ... -
Safeguarding Children in the Developing World—Beyond Intra-Organisational Policy and Self-Regulation
(MDPI, 2020)Safeguarding in the context of development and humanitarian assistance has received heightened international attention since 2018. Emerging literature has not yet investigated the extent to which responses are evolving in ... -
SALGA takes issue with draft regulations on senior managers' appointment and conditions of service
(Local Government Bulletin, 2012-06)The Municipal Systems Amendment Act envisages regulations to provide for the competency requirements, appointment, duties, remuneration, benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of municipal managers and ... -
Salicylaldiminato chromium complex supported on chemically modified silica as highly active catalysts for the oxidation of cyclohexene
(Elsevier, 2013)Immobilization of chromium complexes on modified silica support was achieved via two different synthetic routes using 3-aminopropyl triethoxysilane (APTS) as a linking group. The FTIR spectra, elemental and solid-state NMR ... -
Salinity of irrigation water in the Philippi farming area of the Cape Flats, Cape Town, South Africa
(Water Research Commission, 2013)This paper explores the nature, source and spatial variation of the salinity of water used for irrigation in a coastal urban farming area in Cape Town, South Africa, where water from the Cape Flats aquifer is drawn into ... -
Sample variance, source clustering and their influence on the counts of faint radio sources
(Oxford University Press, 2013)The shape of the curves defined by the counts of radio sources per unit area as a function of their flux density was one of the earliest cosmological probes. Radio source counts continue to be an area of astrophysical ... -
Sampling bias in reptile occurrence data for the Kruger National Park
(AOSIS, 2020)To effectively conserve and manage species, it is important to (1) understand how they are spatially distributed across the globe at both broad and fine spatial resolutions and (2) elucidate the determinants of these ... -
Sampling bias in reptile occurrence data for the Kruger National Park
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)To effectively conserve and manage species, it is important to (1) understand how they are spatially distributed across the globe at both broad and fine spatial resolutions and (2) elucidate the determinants of these ... -
Sandstone reservoir zonation of the north-western Bredasdorp Basin South Africa using core data
(Elsevier, 2021)This study delineates sandstone reservoir flow zones in the north-western Bredasdorp Basin, offshore South Africa, using conventional core porosity and permeability data. The workflow begins by integrating sedimen- tology ... -
Santu Mofokeng, photographs: 'the violence is in the knowing'
(Wiley - Blackwell Publishing, 2009)Born in 1956, Santu Mofokeng formed part of the Afrapix Collective that engaged in exposé and documentary photography of anti-apartheid resistance and social conditions during the 1980s in South Africa. However, Mofokeng ...