The southern African species of the water beetle genus Hydraena Kugelann, 1794, are revised. Twenty-eight new species are described, and redescriptions and new collection records are given for three previously described species, based on the examination and databasing of 11,534 specimens from 488 localities/events. Male genitalia are illustrated, and high resolution habitus images of the holoty...

Twenty-three new species of the Afrotropical sac spider genus Cheiramiona Lotz & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1999 are described: C. baviaan sp. nov. (♀, South Africa), C. boschrandensis sp. nov. (♀, South Africa), C. debeeri sp. nov. (♂, South Africa), C. haddadi sp. nov. (♂, South Africa), C. hlathikulu sp. nov. (♂, South Africa), C. hogsbackensis sp. nov. (♀, ♂, South Africa), C. ibayaensis sp. nov. ...

KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 3 National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa 4 National Health Laboratory Service, Durban, South Africa 5 eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality Health Unit, Durban, South Africa 6 School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 7...

Robert J. M. Crawford*, Azwianewi B. Makhado, Philip A. Whittington, Rod M. Randall, W. Herman Oosthuizen and Lauren J. Waller 1 Branch Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Animal Demography Unit, Department of Natural Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa 3 Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Eli...

Background The United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is a milestone in the recognition of the human rights of persons with disabilities, including the right to health and rehabilitation. South Africa has signed and ratified the CRPD but still has a long way to go in reforming policies and systems in order to be in compliance with the convention. This p...

1. Freehouse International Ltd., Gibraltar 2. StopTB, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland 3. Department of Health, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 4. South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch, South Africa 5. Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa 6. Academic Complex Business Unit, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Natio...

1 Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 Vaccines for Africa Initiative, In...

Purpose:  The paper aims to focus on South Africa’s poor economic performance and the regular downgrades of the country’s economic and financial rating by international rating agencies. It attempts to show that these continuous downgrades are a recipe for economic and financial disaster in the long – run; that the continuance of this phenomenon will stymie the implementation of the National Dev...

Department of Animal, Wildlife and Grassland Sciences, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. Department of Hematology and Cell Biology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein, 9300, South Africa. Department of Animal and Wildlife Sciences, University of Pretori...

1 AIDS Virus Research Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, University of Venda, South Africa. 2 College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa. 3 Department of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Medical School, Tohoku University, Tohoku, Japan. 4 Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa. 5 Division of Ac...