Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

The abietane-type diterpenoid (+)-ferruginol, a bioactive compound isolated from New Zealand's Miro tree (Podocarpus ferruginea), displays relevant pharmacological properties, including antimicrobial, cardioprotective, anti-oxidative, anti-plasmodial, leishmanicidal, anti-ulcerogenic, anti-inflammatory and anticancer. Herein, we demonstrate that ferruginol (1) and some phthalimide containing an...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of browse tree leaves meals on growth performance and parasite load naturally parasitized yearling goats. Thirty-six Arsi-Bale bucks which were with helminths randomly allocated one following feeding treatments; T1 = Chloris gayana grass hay ad lib + 100g concentrate, T2 dried Acacia tortilis leaves, T3 seyal T4 senegal T5 Millettia ferruginea T6...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

We evaluated the potential effects of homoplasy, ancestral polymorphism, and hybridization as obstacles to resolving phylogenetic relationships within Nomonyx-Oxyura stiff-tailed ducks (Oxyurinae; subtribe Oxyurina). Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region sequences from 94 individuals supported monophyly of mtDNA haplotypes for each of the six species and provided no evidence of extant incomp...