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   First detected isolate of glycopeptide-intermediate resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a renal unit at a central academic hospital in Kwazulu-Natal

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: K SweSwe-Han --- Department of Medical Microbiology, N Naidoo --- Department of Medical Microbiology, P Mahabeer --- Department of Medical Microbiology, K Mlisana --- Department of Medical Microbiology,

   Staphylococcus aureus is an important and common cause of healthcare and community-associated infections. Reduced susceptibility to glycopeptides in methicillin-resistant S. aureus is well documented. We report on the frst glycopeptide-intermediate S. aureus (GISA) isolate from a renal unit at a...

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   Contesting the Subaltern Narrative: The Trickster Trope in the Kenyan Political Autobiography

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Stephen Mutie --- , Kenya

   This article is a critique of the idea of subalternity 1 as it is used in the Kenyan political autobiographies of leaders who have reigned but never ruled. 2 The study is largely located within postcolonial theory, with particular emphasis...

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   Innovative reworkings of ancestor ritual as a response to forced villagisation: an Eastern Cape example

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Chris J. de Wet --- , South Africa Eric A. Mgujulwa --- , South Africa

   In the mid-1960s, the people of the rural settlement of Cata in the Keiskammahoek district of the then Ciskei bantustan were moved by the apartheid government’s “betterment planning” programme, from their small patrilineal-kinship-based residential clusters into larger, more concentrated residential...

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   ChiShona lexical interference in Zimbabwean isiNdebele: A case of selected schools in Gweru

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Cordial Bhebe --- University of the Free State, Martha Khosa --- University of the Free State,

   The study explores syntactic interference involving isiNdebele and ChiShona in the teaching and learning of isiNdebele in a dominant ChiShona-speaking environment. The study was undertaken in secondary schools in Gweru in Zimbabwe. The investigation adopted a qualitative paradigm, while the...

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