South Africa has a population of 51.8 million people of which 7.5% over the age of five has a disability according to the latest census data (Statistics South Africa 2014). This statistic on the national prevalence of disability should be interpreted with caution since psychosocial and neurological disabilities are not accounted for (Statistics South Africa 2014). The most recent data on disabi...

M. Klipin1; I. Mare2; S. Hazelhurst3; B. Kramer4 1 Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa; 2 Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa; 3 School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, ...

Author affiliations: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa (M. Venter, S. Human, D. Zaayman, J. Williams, J. Steyl, C. Donnellan); National Health Laboratory Services, Pretoria (M. Venter); Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Institute, Pretoria (G.H. Gerdes); National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa (P. Leman, J.T. Paweska, R. Swanepoel); Chartwell Equine...

Cost of admission for paediatric pneumonia in a setting of human immunodeficiency virus infection Omolemo P Kitchin,1 Cert. Pulm(SA) Paed, Francois Wessels, 2 Ph.D, Refiloe Masekela, 1 Cert. Pulm(SA) Paed, Piet Becker, 3 Ph.D, Robin J Green.1 Ph.D [1]. Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Pretoria, South Africa [2]. Outcomes Consultants cc. Pretoria, South A...

1 SoftFrog cc, PO Box 67, Kei Mouth, 5260, South Africa. Email: [email protected] 2 Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa 3 Marine and Coastal Management, Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Private Bag X2, Rogge Bay 8012, South Africa 4 Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology & Entomology, Un...

M. Nolte, A. Kotzé*, F.H. van der Bank and J.P. Grobler 1 Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park 2006, South Africa 2 ARC Animal Improvement Institute, P. Bag X2, Irene 0062, South Africa 3 Department of Plant Sciences: Genetics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 4 Department of Biodiversity, School of Molecular a...

OBJECTIVE The growth of the older adult population in Africa demands more knowledge about their chronic health problems, such as depression. The aim of this paper is to estimate depression prevalence and identify correlates of depression among older adults in Ghana and South Africa. METHOD The WHO Study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE study) was conducted in Ghana and South Africa fro...

1 Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 2 Department of Dermatology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 3 Department of Anatomical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service Groote Schuur Hospital Branch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 4 Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicin...

This article will argue that South Africa‟s approach to conflict mediation and peace building is informed by the ANC‟s experience of the transition to democracy in South Africa and is widely misinterpreted. This was particularly evident in the Libyan crisis, where South Africa was widely accused of exhibiting a morally duplicitous and ideologically rudderless foreign policy because of the manne...

a South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa b CAIR: Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa c CAIR: Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, CSIR Meraka Institute, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South A...