This study examines the role of politics on decentralization and service delivery in South Africa, with a specific focus on Johannesburg and Cape Town. The research delineates how national decentralization has affected service delivery responsibilities and resources, determines whether service delivery is affected by whether or not a city is governed by an opposition party, and considers what t...

It is now upwards of three years since my friend Mr Frederick Wienand of Bellevue, Bedford, Cape Colony, forwarded to me the two specimens of plants I submit to the Society, but various circumstances delayed me making use of them. The first was the difficulty I experienced in getting the plants identified. The second, my unsuccessful efforts to learn further particulars regarding their use, or ...

A 9-yr dataset of continuous sea noise recording made at the Cape Leeuwin station of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty hydroacoustic network in 2002-2010 was processed to detect calls from pygmy blue whales and to analyze diurnal, seasonal, and interannual variations in their vocal activity. Because the conventional spectrogram correlation method for recognizing whale calls in sea noise...

In a biogeographical context, the term Macaronesia broadly embraces the North Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, the Canary Islands, and Cape Verde. The peculiar arid climatic conditions in some of these places have led to the development of marine salt exploitations, which can be counted among the hypersaline habitats of the brine shrimp Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca)....

An epidemic uncurbed: tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 1910–2010 Robin Wood & Linda-Gail Bekker To cite this article: Robin Wood & Linda-Gail Bekker (2017) An epidemic uncurbed: tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa, 1910–2010, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 72:3, 234-241, DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2017.1290709 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919...

Relationships among the historically isolated lineages of Pseudobarbus were reconstructed using molecular and morphological data. Contradictions between the molecular and morphological phylogenies suggest convergent evolution and homoplasy in some morphological characters. The earliest divergence in Pseudobarbus was between P. quathlambae in Lesotho and the rest of the genus associated with the...

The Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) held its first conference in 1989 in Cape Town. The most recent and 10th Biennial WISA Conference was held in May 2008 at Sun City, South Africa. The WISA 2008 conference theme, ‘Confluence of the Water Industry’ set the scene for a wide range of presentations with regards to the South African water industry and research in related fields. In keepin...

The Cape Snoek, or Thyrsites atun, is a species of fish that has a significant presence in the history of the Western Cape and the development of Cape Town. The snoek is a lively creature that is historically, culturally, economically, and ecologically active in the Western Cape. I argue that in the case of the Cape snoek, the fish and the Cape are performed together; through acts of differenti...

BACKGROUND There is limited global and South African research on parents' perceptions of therapeutic horseback riding (THR), as well as their perceptions of the effect of the activity on their children with disabilities. OBJECTIVE To explore and describe parents' perceptions and experiences of THR as an activity for their children with disabilities. METHOD Twelve parents whose children atte...

BACKGROUND In South Africa, pregnant women are diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at antenatal clinics and simultaneously initiated on antiretroviral treatment (ART). An HIV diagnosis together with the initiation of ART has an emotional impact that may influence how pregnant women cope with pregnancy and their adherence to a treatment plan. The aim of the study was to explore the...