The agriculture sector in Africa is dominated by small-scale farmers who account for about 80% of the total farms. However, are vulnerable to climate change and variability. Their high susceptibility emanates from their inadequate ability adapt change. As a result, generally adversely impacted due over-reliance on rainfed natural resources. This exposure susceptibility, however, differ across r...

Lithic assemblages immediately following the Howiesons Poort, often loosely referred to as ‘post-Howiesons Poort’ or MSA III, have attracted relatively little attention when compared other well-known phases of South African Middle Stone Age (MSA) sequence. Current evidence from sites occurring in widely-differing environments suggests that these are marked by temporal and technological variabil...

The KwaZulu-Natal yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis) is an abundant cyprinid, endemic to KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. In this study, we developed a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) dataset from double-digest restriction site-associated DNA (ddRAD) sequencing of samples across the distribution. We addressed several hidden challenges, primarily focusing on proper filtering of RAD da...

Data from a survey of nematodes associated with sugarcane conducted in South Africa in 1978 (Spaull, 1981) were re-examined in combination with associated soil, climatic and topographic data. The objective was to identify associations between the distribution of the nematodes and soil, climatic and topographic factors in sugarcane fields in KwaZulu-Natal. The procedures used in the survey are s...

The current study constituted part of a larger, longitudinal, South African-based study, namely, The Road and Aircraft Noise Exposure on Children's Cognition and Health (RANCH-South Africa). In the context of a multicultural South Africa and varying demographic variables thereof, this study sought to investigate and describe the effects of gender, socioeconomic status and home language on prima...

In order to provide care to the increasing number of people infected with HIV, there is a need for scaling up the number of treatment sites. For the public health officials and planners, there is a need for a defined methodology to do this taking into consideration the national targets as enacted by the National Department of Health (NDOH) of South Africa. This commentary is about an evaluation...

HIV-1 transmitted drug resistance (TDR) could reverse the gains of antiretroviral rollout. To ensure that current first-line therapies remain effective, TDR levels in recently infected treatment-naive patients need to be monitored. A literature review and data mining exercise was carried out to determine the temporal trends in TDR in South Africa. In addition, 72 sequences from seroconvertors i...

The access of rural Mental Health Care Users in South Africa to specialist psychiatrists and quality mental health care is currently sub-optimal. Health professionals and planners working in psychiatry lack a well-defined and feasible outreach model to facilitate the delivery of services to remote and rural areas. In response to this challenge, a three-year action research telepsychiatry study ...