Sports Development: Obstacles and Solutions in South Africa

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

Obstacles to success – doctoral student attrition in South Africa

The article explores doctoral attrition in South Africa, investigating and comparing the attributions of attrition of doctoral students and PhD programme leaders. The article is based on secondary data analysis of two large studies on doctoral education in South Africa. The main point of the article is that the different understandings of the students and the PhD programme leaders, as well as t...

Private investment in AIDS vaccine development: obstacles and solutions.

The development of vaccines for the prevention of AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other diseases requires both public and private investment. Private investment, however, has been far lower than might have been hoped, given the massive human toll of these diseases, particularly in the poorest countries. With a view to understanding this situation and exploring potential solutions, the World Ba...

Health Tourism: Opportunities, Constraints, Obstacles and Solutions

The development of cardiology in South Africa

The discipline of cardiology in South Africa has advanced rapidly over the last 70 years. This editorial gives a perspective on this process. A highlight in the development of the discipline of cardiology was the establishment of the South African Heart Association (SAHA) in 1957. This was the first professional medical association to be formed in South Africa. The founding members Nellen, a pr...