1 Department of Environmental and Occupational Studies, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. 3 Department of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape T...

Cancer is a huge public health concern in South Africa and the rest of Africa. According to the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA), more than 100 000 South Africans are diagnosed with cancer every year. Among women, the leading cancers include breast, cervical, colorectal, and kaposi sarcoma while prostate, kaposi sarcoma, lung, and colorectal cancers top the list of cancers affecting men.

Heartwater was first recognised and recorded in South Africa as early as 1838. Since then the disease has been described from almost all the countries in Africa south of the Sahara, from certain islands around Africa and from a number of islands in the Caribbean. Most of the research on the disease, at least until fairly recently, was conducted in South Africa. Progress in research on the disea...

Author details Cardiovascular Pathophysiology and Genomics Research Unit, School of Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Private Bag 3, Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa. Milpark Hospital, P. O. Box 91155, Auckland Park 2006, Johannesburg, South Africa. Department of Rheumatology, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences...

L. FELLER, R.A.G. KHAMMISSA, N.H. WooD, Y. JADWAT, R. MEYERoV, J. LEMMER Department of Periodontology and oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo, Medunsa Campus, South Africa; * School of Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo, Medunsa Campus, South Africa Professor Emeritus: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Universi...

1 Sonke Gender Justice, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 4 Vaccine Evaluation Centre, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, 5 Médecins Sans Frontières, Khayelitsha, Cape To...

Author Addresses: Lead Author: V. Pieterse, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0001, South-Africa; [email protected] Co-authors: D.G. Kourie, Department of Computer Science, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0001, South-Africa; [email protected] Andrew Boake, CERA@UP, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Pretoria, 0001, South-...

M. Lehmann, R. Meeske and C.W. Cruywagen 1 Department of Agricultural Management, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University: George Campus, Private Bag X 6531, George 6530, South Africa 2 Department of Agriculture, Western Cape, Outeniqua Experimental Farm, P.O. Box 249, George 6503, South Africa 3 Department of Animal Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, Stellenbosch 7602...

1t d reid, 2H Ipp, 3L Becker, 1R H Glashoff. 1Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa; 2Division of Haematology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University & NHLS, Cape Town, South Africa; 3Desmond Tutu Foundation for HIV Research, University of...

M. van der Laan1, J.G. Annandale1*, C.C. du Preez2 and S.A. Lorentz3 1 Department of Plant Production and Soil Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa 2Department of Soil, Crop and Climate Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa 3School of Bioresources Engineering and Environmental Hydrology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 3209...