Cape Province
Diversity of use and local knowledge of wild and cultivated plants in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa
... Eastern Cape province revealed that despite the high level of electrification in the prov- ince, firewood is still used in most households for cook- ing while electricity was mostly used for ...Eastern ...
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AGRICULTURAL EFFICIENCY OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS IN EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
... Ethical Trading Initiatives (2005) and Obi (2011) definition of smallholders adequately describes the state of rural farmers in former homeland states of Transkei and Ciskei located in the Eastern Cape ...
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Smallholder farmers’ awareness of biofuel crops in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
... The study used primary data collected in two municipalities, namely Chris Hani District Municipality and the OR Tambo District Municipality. The OR Tambo district municipality lies on the eastern coast of the Eastern ...
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Genotypic and Phenotypic Characterization of Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates from Rural Districts of the Western Cape Province of South Africa
... gions of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The first available drug-resistant isolate of each case as determined by the indirect proportion method on Lowenstein-Jensen medium (13) was used in this ...
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Developing a Diabetes Risk Score for Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
... Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, that is a simple diabetes risk calculator for use in primary health care, and also by individuals themselves in identifying diabetes ...Eastern Cape ...
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A sectoral approach to the electricity growth nexus in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa
... ABSTRACT: This paper takes a sectoral, panel approach to investigating the electricity-growth nexus for the Eastern Cape province of South Africa between the period of 2003 and 2017. The empirical ...
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Smallholder farmers’ access to credit in the Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
... Provision of credit has being identified as an important instrument for improving the welfare of smallholder farmers directly and for enhancing productive capacity through financing investment by the farmers in their ...
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Challenges of Integrated Water Resources Management in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
... Western Cape Province as a consequence of population growth, climate change and economic development has reportedly been accelerated from year to ...The province has been adhering to the Intergrated ...
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Integrated Studies for Mapping of Uranium Mineralization in Northern Cape Province of South Africa
... Globally, there has been an ever increasing demand for uranium. This generates the need to adopt unique methodologies in order to explore the mineral to its full extent. This paper highlights an in- tegrated approach ...
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Improving access to medicines through centralised dispensing in the public sector: a case study of the Chronic Dispensing Unit in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
... Access to essential medicines is considered a fundamen- tal part of universal health coverage and a key element for the delivery of services and high-quality care [1]. A 2012 assessment of the South African health system ...
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Determinants of Rural Farmers’ Adoption of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: Evidence from the Amathole District Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
... Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, the paper estimated farmers’ climate change adaptation strategies, adaptation portfolio diversity and factors that condition farmers’ adoption ...
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Incidence of human adenoviruses and Hepatitis A virus in the final effluent of selected wastewater treatment plants in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
... In this study, a 12-month sampling program was con- ducted at five WWTPs to determine the prevalence of HAdV and HAV in their final effluents. The identification and confirmation of HAdV serotype 2 (species C) and HAdV ...
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Traditional medicinal animal use by Xhosa and Sotho communities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
... Eastern Cape Province [15, 33]—subsequently greatly improving our understanding of the ...the province [21], and high levels of unemployment [17, ...
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Between the Clinic and the Community: Temporality and Patterns of ART Adherence in Western Cape Province of South Africa
... In an ethnographic study conducted over thirty months in South Africa’s Western Cape Province ending in 2012, we explored ART adherence amongst almost 200 patients attending three clinics. This setting ...
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Moss and Lichen Biomonitoring of Atmospheric Pollution in the Western Cape Province (South Africa)
... Western Cape province; the Cape Winelands (Stellenbosch-Franschhoek) and the Cape Peninsula (Signal Hill—False Bay—Betty’s ...ern Cape province exhibits diverse climatological ...
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The challenges of reshaping disease specific and care oriented community based services towards comprehensive goals: a situation appraisal in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
... Background: Similar to other countries in the region, South Africa is currently reorienting a loosely structured and highly diverse community care system that evolved around HIV and TB, into a formalized, comprehensive ...
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Identification of bacterial contaminants in polyherbal medicines used for the treatment of tuberculosis in Amatole District of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, using rapid 16S rRNA technique
... To the best of our knowledge, the microorganisms present in some of the polyherbal medicines used for the treatment of TB in Amathole District Municipality of the Eastern Cape Province have not been ...
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AN EXPLORATION INTO MARKETING WITHIN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IN THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA
... Marketing is renowned in other industries to be an essential business function (Slater et al., 2010, p. 552); however, when it comes to the construction industry, it appears to be a neglected/untrusted phenomenon as it ...
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School district leadership styles and school improvement : evidence from selected school principals in the Eastern Cape Province
... Eastern Cape school districts support school ...the province; and (2) how do the prevailing leadership style/s appear to support or hinder change and school improvement in the district? The quantitative ...
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Diversity of the rural farming households and policy issues: an analysis based on a case study in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa
... The transition from apartheid to integrated development is a contradictory process characterised by negotiations between an intervention and a market‐driven liberal approach. Regarding agriculture, it was expected that a ...
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