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Africa: signs of hope?

Kirsten, Johan F (Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte / Potchefstroom, 2009)
African female adolescents' experience of parenting and their sense of well-being

Koen, Vicki; Van Eeden, Chrizanne; Venter, Christiaan Adriaan (Elliott & Fitzpatrick, 2011)

The objective of this study was to explore and describe South African, African female adolescents' experience of parent-adolescent relationships and their perceptions of the influence of the parent-adolescent relationship ...
The African interpretations of a set of values in a value-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme

Herbst, Alida Glaudina; Janssen, Amy (AOSIS, 2011)

This article focuses on a qualitative exploration of six core values embedded in the Choose Life Training Programme (CLTP), a value-based HIV and AIDS prevention programme. The article is based on a study that explored the ...
Aftrede as integrasionele taak.

Lotter, George A; Brunsdon, A.R. (Buro vir wetenskaplike tydskrifte / Potchefstroom, 2008)
'Against extremity': Eben Venter's Horrelpoot (2006) and the quest for tolerance

Van Schalkwyk, P L (Routledge, 2009)

Eben Venter's (2006) novel Horrelpoot (Clubfoot) responds to the various forms of degeneration in present-day South Africa, taking it to the extreme and, indeed, right to the deepest heart of fear. Horrelpoot is, ultimately, ...
Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease risk in an African population in transition: The prospective urban and rural epidemiology (PURE) study

Kruger, Annamarie; Loots, Du Toit; Margetts, Barrie Maxwell; Pisa, Pedro; Vorster, Hester Hendrina (Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2010)
Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease risk in an African population in transition: The prospective urban and rural epidemiology (PURE) study

Kruger, Annamarie; Loots, Du Toit; Margetts, Barrie Maxwell; Pisa, Pedro; Vorster, Hester Hendrina (2010)
Alcohol intake and micronutrient density in a population in transition: The transition and health during urbanisation in South Africa (THUSA) study

Kruger, Annamarie; Macintyre, U N A; Pisa, Pedro; Serfontein, Marita; Venter, Christina Susanna (Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2010)
Alcohol metabolism and health hazards associated with alcohol abuse in a South African context: A review

Loots, Du Toit; Nienaber, Cornelie; Pisa, Pedro (Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2010)
Alcohol metabolism and health hazards associated with alcohol abuse in a South African context: A review

Loots, Du Toit; Nienaber, Cornelie; Pisa, Pedro (Medpharm Publications (Pty) Ltd, 2010)
Alliaceae: micromorphology and cytology of Prototulbaghia Siebertii, with notes on its taxonomic significance

Siebert, Stefan John (South African National Biodiversity Institute, 2011)
An alternative interpretation of tense and aspect in Black South African English

Van Rooy, Albertus (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)

Terminology for identifying and describing what counts as a linguistic feature is identified as a problem that prevents an understanding of tense and aspect features in Black South African English (BSAE). In this paper, ...
The ampakine, Org 26576, bolsters early spatial reference learning and retrieval in the Morris water maze: a subchronic, dose-ranging study in rats

Harvey, Brian H; Hamlyn, Eugene; Brand, Linda; Shahid, M (Lppincott, William & Witkins, 2009)

Ampakines have shown beneficial effects on cognition in selected animal models of learning. However, their ability to modify long-term spatial memory tasks has not been studied yet. This would lend credence to their possible ...
Analogical grounding of figurative language: narrative and metaphor and the rhetoric of inquiry

Botha, Marthina Elaine (Sun Media, Bloemfontein, 2011)

Abstract: Storytelling requires clear qualification of context if it is to provide solid knowledge. Combining storytelling or narrative with scientific discourse is to some extent incongruous. Stories and narratives thrive ...
Analysing Southern African food security: Assessing the new variant famine hypothesis.

Van Riet, Gideon (Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte, Potchefstroom, 2008)
Analysis of South African Grade 10 learner's conceptual resources regarding the concept of energy in physics

Lemmer, Miriam (SAARMSTE, 2011)

More than a thousand Grade 10 Physical Science learners from four South African provinces participated in a study that probed their conceptions of energy. The purpose was to determine the learners’ conceptual resources, ...
Analysis of the vegetation of the sandstone ridges (IB land type) of the north-eastern parts of the Mapungubwe national Park, Limpopo Province, South Africa

Kellner, Klaus; Cilliers, Sarel; Götze, Albie R. (South African National Parks, 2008)
Anatomical adaptations of Boerhavia L. and Commicarpus Standl. (Nyctaginaceae) for survival in arid environments of Namibia

Jordaan, Anine; Siebert, Stefan John; Struwig, Madeleen (Versita, 2011)

Members of the Nyctaginaceae Jussieu. are distributed throughout southern Africa. Eight species of the family occur naturally in arid parts of Namibia. These species have acquired the ability to survive and reproduce in ...
Anatomy of the Southern African Boerhavia and Commicarpus species (Nyctaginaceae)

Jordaan, Anine; Siebert, Stefan John; Struwig, Madeleen (Bangladesh Assosiation of Plant Taxonomists, 2011)

The Nyctaginaceae in southern Africa is represented by five genera of which Boerhavia L. and Commicarpus Standl. are the most species-rich. Stem, leaf and anthocarp material was collected in situ and examined with a scanning ...
The ancient drug opium

Dircksen, Marianne Rinske; Julyan, Marlene (University of Stellenbosch, 2011)

The use of papaver somniferum (from the Latin fero ferre = ‘tobear/bring’ and somnium = ‘sleep’) as a narcotic, goes backto the 13th century BC. The works of ancient authors such asDioscorides, Celsus, Galen, Theophrastus ...