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Contribution of Tithonia diversifolia to yield and nutrient uptake of maize in Malawian small-scale agriculture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: R.P. Ganunga --- , Zambia O.A. Yerokun --- , Zambia J. D. T. Kumwenda --- , MalawiLocally available non-traditional green manure plants could potentially contribute to reversing the trend of declining soil fertility and raise maize yield in small-scale farms. In this study, Tithonia diversifolia was tested as a low cost green manure in Malawi. In... -
BREEDING BEHAVIOUR OF THE MPASA, OPSARIDIUM MICROLEPIS (GUNTHER) (PISCES:CYPRINIDAE), IN LAKE MALAWI
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: D. Tweddle --- Fisheries Department, MalawiObservations on the breeding behaviour of mpasa, a commercially valuable cyprinid endemic to Lake Malawi, were conducted in the Bua and North Rukuru Rivers. The spawning run takes place over an extended period during and after the rains, with an... -
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE GROWTH RATE OF MPASA, OPSABIDIUM MICROLEPIS (GUNTHER, 1864) (PISCES: CRYPRINIDAE), BY LENGTH FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: D. Tweddle --- Fisheries Department, MalawiThe mpasa, Opsaridium microlepis, is an important commercial species in areas of Lake Malawi near major inflowing rivers during annual spawning migrations. Plots of length frequency data collected over a series of years from mpasa catches in the Bua and... -
Indigenous Healing Practices in Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Andrew Simwaka --- University of Malawi, Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council & University of Limpopo, Dixie Maluwa-Banda --- University of Malawi,One of the most important areas of African culture in which the significant presence of traditional beliefs can be seen is through sickness and healing. In many traditional cultures, illness is thought to be caused by psychological conflicts or disturbed... -
South African Law of Evidence as it Applies to the Child Witness: A Critical Evaluation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nicci Whitear-Nel --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This article examines aspects of the South African criminal justice system which are of particular relevance to the child witness, and the reception of testimony by the court. The author focuses on: 1) the need to prepare the child witness... -
Gender Differences in PTSD diagnostic Criteria and Suicidal Ideation in a South African Police Sample
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Renier Steyn --- University of South Africa,The study examined gender effects on PTSD symptoms to predict of suicidal ideation in a sample of South African police. A male (N = 161) and a female group (N = 56) of South African police officers were assessed by... -
The Criminal Liability of Child Soldiers: In Search of a Standard
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Pieter Brits --- Department of Mercantile and Public Law, Faculty of Military Science, Michelle Nel --- Department of Mercantile and Public Law, Faculty of Military Science,Despite the recent focus on the problem of the recruitment and use of child soldiers, there is still no clarity on the criminal liability of child soldiers who participate in conflict. In this article, we analyze the criminal liability of... -
Group Invariant Solution And Conservation Law for a Steady Laminar Axisymmetric Free Jet
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: I. Ruscic D.P. MasonA group invariant solution for a steady laminar axisymmetric free jet is derived. The general form of the group invariant solution is first obtained by considering a linear combination of the Lie point symmetry generators of Prandtl's momentum boundary layer... -
HIV/AIDS and the South African Bill of Rights, with specific reference to the approach and role of the courts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: JohnC MubangiziAn outstanding feature of the 1996 South African Constitution is the inclusion of a Bill of Rights, which contains all the categories of human rights that are ordinarily included in most international human rights instruments. Section 27 provides for, among... -
HIV and AIDS vulnerability in fishing communities in Mangochi district, Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Joseph Nagoli --- , Katrien Holvoet --- , Michelle Remme --- ,The fisheries sector contributes significantly to Malawi's national economy and to the livelihoods of the poor as certain activities in the sector have relatively low barriers to entry. Various studies have shown that the fisheries sector suffers from high HIV... -
Bioaccumulation of selected inorganic substances in the tissue of Oreochromis shiranus from Bunda Dam, Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PP Mumba JW Banda E Kaunda C Ndamala G GhambiA study to assess and monitor the concentrations of sulphate, sodium, magnesium, calcium, chloride, iron and nitrate in Bunda Dam was carried out from May to November 1998. The same parameters, except nitrate and chloride, were also determined in the... -
The artisanal fishery of Metangula, Lake Malawi/Niassa, East Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: JoséS Halafo RobertE Hecky WilliamD TaylorThe artisanal fishery of Metangula, on the remote Mozambique coast of Lake Malawi/Niassa, was studied for four months during the rainy season from December 1998 to March 1999. Catch, catch composition and fishing effort were determined for the most important... -
Management advice for the Diplotaxodon limnothrissa (Teleostei: Cichlidae) resource in the south-east arm of Lake Malawi, based on per-recruit analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: GeoffreyZ Kanyerere AnthonyJ Booth OlafLF WeylDiplotaxodon limnothrissa is a widely distributed species occurring throughout Lake Malawi and is probably the most abundant cichlid in the pelagic zone of the lake. The species is exploited commercially in the south-east arm of the lake, but since the... -
Potential impacts of alien freshwater crayfish in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: I de Moor --- , South AfricaThe habitat preferences and life history characteristics of four alien species of freshwater crayfish (Cherax tenuimanus, C. destructor, C. quadricarinatus and Procambarus clarkii) are reviewed. The potential impact of these species on South African freshwater ecosystems is assessed and the... -
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE GROWTH RATE OF MPASA, OPSABIDIUM MICROLEPIS (GUNTHER, 1864) (PISCES: CRYPRINIDAE), BY LENGTH FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: D. Tweddle --- Fisheries Department, MalawiThe mpasa, Opsaridiwm microlepis, is an important commercial species in areas of Lake Malawi near major inflowing rivers during annual spawning migrations. Plots of length frequency data collected over a series of years from mpasa catches in the Bua and... -
Innovation and Growth in Ugandan Manufacturing Firms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Aggrey Niringiye --- School of Economics, Uganda Eria Hisali --- School of Economics, UgandaThe aim of this study was to establish the effects of innovation on the growth of Ugandan manufacturing firms' using pseudo panel data. Little is known about the relationship between innovation and firm growth in Sub-Saharan African countries. This study... -
Feynman's Electromagnetic Fields Induced by Moving Charges and the Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to the N-Body Problem of Electrodynamics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: VictorM. Bogdan --- Department of Mathematics, USAGiven n charges interacting with each other according to Feynman's law. Let (r j (t), v j (t)) denote the position and velocity of the charge q j . The list y(t) of all such vectors is... -
Ethics and the law relating to post-birth rituals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: D Knapp van Bogaert --- Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics, Faculty of Health, GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Faculty of Health Sciences,Placental rituals and other birth-by rituals are common in various societies. They often include culturally determined behavioural sequences which operate as anxiety-releasing mechanisms. They also serve to offer a spiritual means of “control” over the future health and welfare of... -
The South African labour market and the incubation of small businesses in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Zeleke Worku --- Business School, Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaSince April 1994, the South African Government and the trade unions have been working together as a means of realising sustained economic growth and development, job creation and the alleviation of poverty among the unemployed youth. The uneasy relationship between... -
Preliminary examination of hatching season and growth of Engraulicypris sardella (Pisces: Cyprinidae) larvae and juveniles in Lake Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Shinsuke Morioka --- Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi Emmanuel Kaunda --- Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, Bunda College of Agriculture, MalawiThe hatching period and the growth of Malawian cyprinid Engraulicypris sardella larvae and juveniles collected from two sites along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Malawi were investigated using otolith increment information. The lapillus was used to determine the age in... -
Molecular diversity and phylogenetic relationships of the gastropod genus Melanoides in Lake Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Louise Von Gersdorff Sørensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Center for Biodiversity and Health, DBL — Institute for Health Research and Development, Denmark Aslak Jørgensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Center for Biodiversity and Health, DBL — Institute for Health Research and Development, Denmark Thomas K. Kristensen --- Mandahl-Barth Research Center for Biodiversity and Health, DBL — Institute for Health Research and Development, DenmarkThe freshwater snails belonging to the genus Melanoides Olivier, 1804 are widespread across tropical regions of the world and endemic species have evolved in the African Lakes Malawi, Mweru and Tanganyika. The endemic Melanoides species of Lake Malawi have been... -
Preliminary study on the culture and breeding of Bulinus nyassanus (Mollusca: Pulmonata) under laboratory conditions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Mary Lundeba --- Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Department, Malawi Jeremy S. Likongwe --- Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Department, Malawi Henry Madsen --- DBL Institute for Health Research and Developmemnt, Denmark Jay R. Stauffer --- School of Forest Resources, Penn State University, U.S.A.We successfully artificially cultured and bred Bulinus nyassanus, endemic to Lake Malawi and an intermediate host of Schistosoma haematobium. The laboratory culture of this snail species is essential in relation to further experiments on the feasibility of using facultative snail-eating... -
Potential of Metriaclima lanisticola (Teleostei: Cichlidae) for biological control of schistosome intermediate host snails
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Mary Lundeba --- Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Department, Malawi Jeremy S. Likongwe --- Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Department, Malawi Henry Madsen --- DBL Center for Health Research and Development, Denmark Jay R. Stauffer --- School of Forest Resources, Penn State University, U.S.A.Metriaclima lanisticola, a native cichlid of Lake Malawi, was studied under laboratory conditions to evaluate its possible role as a predator of snails (Bulinus spp.). Bulinus globosus, B. nyassanus and B. tropicus were used as prey. B. globosus and B... -
HIV-related stigma: implications for symptoms of anxiety and depression among Malawian women
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Charles Kamen --- Behavioral Medicine Unit, USA Jill Arganbright --- Center for AIDS Intervention Research, USA Eliza Kienitz --- PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, USA Melissa Weller --- PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, USA Anna Khaylis --- British Columbia Operational Stress Injury Clinic, Canada Tammy Shenkman --- PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium, USA Sarah Smith --- Center for AIDS Intervention Research, USA Cheryl Koopman --- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, USA Cheryl Gore-Felton --- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, USAAn estimated 11% of the adult population in Malawi, Africa, is living with HIV/AIDS. The disease has taken a toll on communities, resulting in high morbidity and mortality. Malawian women carry the burden of being caretakers for individuals infected with... -
Business rescue replacing judicial management: An assessment of the extent of problems solved
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: C Lamprecht --- Department of Accounting,The South African Companies Act 46 of 1926 introduced judicial management as a statutory corporate rescue procedure for companies to be used before liquidation, where appropriate. It was retained in the South African Companies Act 61 of 1973, even though... -
IFRS 3 “grey area” regarding contingent liabilities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Eloise de Jager --- Department of Accounting, South AfricaAll South African listed companies must prepare their financial statements using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Although IFRS aims to provide a framework that can be applied to ensure comparable financial information, there are “grey areas” where judgement needs to... -
South African Statements of Accounting Practice as Part of a User-oriented Framework
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: J.A. Miller --- University of Natal-Durban,In this third and final article on a suggested Hierarchy of Objectives for Financial Reporting the author deals with Statements of Accounting Practice as the operational level thereof, implementing concepts and principles towards achieving the objectives defined. As a consequence... -
Formal and informal dispute resolution in the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C. S. van der Waal --- Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology,The study of customary law benefits from a focus on both its formal rules and mechanisms and the informal aspect. The complexity of ‘living law’ is best captured by considering process and context. The working of the three-leveled formal traditional... -
The Constitutional right to culture and the judicial development of Indigenous Law: a comparative analysis of cases
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Joan Church --- Department of Jurisprudence, Jacqueline Church --- Department of Procedural Law, Faculty of Law,Although integral to the culture of indigenous peoples in South Africa, indigenous law was historically only recognised as a personal law subservient to the general law. This is no longer so. In the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa,... -
Widow ‘dispossession’ in northern Namibian inheritance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robert J. Gordon --- Department of Anthropology,This paper examines ‘asset stripping’ which is said to occur particularly in matrilineal societies when young widows are stripped of their late husband's possessions. Contrary to many scholars who see asset stripping as a recent phenomenon and who believe that... -
Good or bad, my heritage: customary legal practices and the liberal constitution of postcolonial states
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Thomas Widlok --- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, NetherlandsThe post-colonial constitutions of Namibia (1990) and of South Africa (1996) in principle allow for ‘indigenous’ or ‘customary’ law within the framework set by constitutional law. Developments in recent years, in particular in the course of debates surrounding the reform... -
On law and legality in post-apartheid South Africa: insights from a migrant street trader
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jürgen Schraten --- The Human Economy Project, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaThis article focuses on the experience of law and legality by a migrant street trader in post-apartheid South Africa. The experiences of this stall vendor are analysed alongside theoretical notions of law and the legal system. The ways that law... -
Asymmetric interspecific territorial competition over food resources amongst Lake Malawi cichlid fishes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Atsushi Maruyama --- Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Japan Bosco Rusuwa --- Department of Biology, Malawi Masahide Yuma --- Faculty of Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, JapanThe rock-dwelling cichlids in Lake Malawi comprise the most diverse freshwater fish community in the world. Individuals frequently interact with heterospecifics through feeding territoriality. Underwater observations and experiments were conducted to examine interspecific variation in the frequencies of territorial behaviour... -
Effect of temperature on growth, survival and reproduction of Bulinus nyassanus (Smith, 1877) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Lake Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Godfrey K. Kubirizajournal --- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Uganda Henry Madsen --- Mandahl Barth Research Centre for Biodiversity and Health, DBL Centre for Health Research and Development, Faculty of Life Sciences, Denmark Jeremy S. Likongwe --- Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Department, Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi Jay R. Stauffer Jr --- School of Forest Resources, U.S.A. Jeremiah Kang????Ombe --- Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Department, Bunda College of Agriculture, Malawi Fanuel Kapute --- Aquaculture and Fisheries Science Department, Bunda College of Agriculture, MalawiBulinus nyassanus, endemic to Lake Malawi, is an intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium and plays an important role in transmission of this parasite along some shorelines on the Nankumba Peninsula in the southern part of the lake. Density of B... -
Household market participation and stunting in preschool children in Lilongwe, Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Al Howard --- Department of Global and Community Health, Mk Komwa --- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, R. Yohane --- Kanengo AIDS Support Organization, Kh Jacobsen --- Department of Global and Community Health,Background: Stunting among Malawian preschool children continues to be a concern. -
Weight gain, physical activity and dietary changes during the seven months of first-year university life in Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: G. Takomana --- Department of Home Economics and Human Nutrition, Aa Kalimbira --- Department of Home Economics and Human Nutrition,Objective: The objective of the study was to assess weight gain, physical activity and dietary changes during the first year of university life in Malawi. -
Consumption and wastage of home-fortified maize flour products in northern Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: G Mphwanthe --- Department of Human Nutrition and Health, Malawi AA Kalimbira --- Department of Human Nutrition and Health, Malawi NC Geresomo --- Department of Human Nutrition and Health, MalawiObjective: The objective of the study was to determine the amount of home-fortified maize flour products consumed and wasted by women aged 15–49 years, and children aged ≤ 5 years. -
Converting Achebe’s Africa for the New Tanzanian: Things Fall Apart in Swahili Translation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Meg Arenberg --- Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, USAGiven the centrality of Chinua Achebe’s work in the early debates surrounding language choice in African fiction and Achebe’s own claims about the necessary transformation of English in representing African reality, what happens when his most acclaimed and archetypal novel... -
Habitat preference of the eastern population of the Short-clawed Lark Certhilauda chuana in the Limpopo province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Sean M Marr --- Department of Biodiversity, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, South Africa Joseph I Grosel --- Department of Biodiversity, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, South Africa G Derek Engelbrecht --- Department of Biodiversity, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, South AfricaThe southern African endemic Short-clawed Lark Certhilauda chuana has two geographically isolated populations. Little is known about the smaller eastern population, which is restricted to the Polokwane Plateau, South Africa. To provide input for a conservation strategy for the eastern... -
“I am Malawian, Multicultural or British”: Remote acculturation and identity formation among urban adolescents in Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kim T. Ferguson --- Psychology Faculty, USA Yuna L. Ferguson --- Department of Psychology, USA Gail M. Ferguson --- Department of Human Development and Family Studies, USAWe aimed to better understand multidimensional remote acculturation to South African, United States of America (US), and United Kingdom (UK) cultures among 144 thirteen- to seventeen-year-old (M = 15 0.28, SD = 1.06; 43.1% female; 36.6% Black African, 23.9% Southeast... -
Legal responses to HIV and AIDS: lessons from Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Musa N Shongwe --- University of Swaziland, SwazilandSince 1999, the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Swaziland has been declared a national disaster, and today HIV and AIDS still pose a great threat to the survival and development of Swaziland and its people. The impact of the pandemic... -
Mother- and daughter-in-law relationship within a South African context: Influence of family systems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tebogo Rosina Nganase --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Wilna Basson --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored family system influences on mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships in a South African setting. A convenience sample of 20 mothers-in-law (age range from 40 to 86) and 20 daughters-in-law (age range from 20 to 60) were informants. They... -
Perceptions of why Malawians engage in concurrent sexual partnerships among a select population of radio listeners: findings from an exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Rupali J Limaye --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Maryland Amanda Berman --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Maryland Jane Brown --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, Maryland Triza Kakhobwe --- Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, MalawiConcurrent sexual partnerships have been identified as a potential driver in the HIV epidemic in Southern Africa. This study utilised an innovative approach to explore perceptions of why Malawians may engage in these relationships, and their suggestions for reducing the... -
Anaesthetists’ knowledge of South African Law pertaining to informed consent in an academic centre
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: A Mamoojee --- Department of Anaesthesia, South Africa A Alli --- Department of Anaesthesia, South AfricaBackground: Anaesthetists require knowledge of informed consent laws to mitigate the risk of litigation. The knowledge of South African anaesthetists regarding informed consent law is unknown. -
Informal transit, socio-spatial exclusion, and changing geographies of HIV/AIDS in urban Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Paul Mkandawire --- Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Human Rights Program, Carleton University, Canada Godwin Arku --- Department of Geography, Canada Isaac Luginaah --- Department of Geography, Canada Josephine Etowa --- University of Ottawa School of Nursing, CanadaThe role played by the transport sector in the regional spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa is well known, yet attention has remained confined to entertainment hotspots and stopping places along long-distance highways and cross-border transport corridors. This paper draws... -
Tales of Political Monuments in Malawi: Re-storying National History
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Junior Lipenga --- English Department, MalawiCountries in Africa have many monuments memorialising specific figures and events in the history of their nations. Statuaries feature prominently among these monuments. This paper examines the positioning of three statues in Malawi. One of the statues is that of... -
A brief review of the legal protection of vultures in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Lindy J Thompson --- Birds of Prey Programme, Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa Andrew C Blackmore --- Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, South AfricaVulture numbers are globally in a decline and many species are considered as either endangered or critically endangered. The same applies to vultures in South Africa, raising concerns about the long-term persistence of these ecologically important birds in this country... -
Celebrity Politics, Political Cynicism and Contestations of Credibility in Lucius Banda’s Songs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Syned Mthatiwa --- Department of English, MalawiLucius Banda is one of the renowned popular musicians in Malawi. His songs explore a wide range of political and social issues. In 2003 he joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) party and decided to run for parliament representing Balaka... -
A case of inheritance: from citizens’ forum to magisterial justice in Botswana’s customary courts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Pnina Werbner --- , United Kingdom Richard Werbner --- , United KingdomBotswana’s customary courts were known in the past for their procedural openness to debate. The presiding judge allowed members of the court, usually in ascending order of seniority, to express their views on the case, before finally reaching a judgement... -
Xenopus laevis as UberXL for nematodes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Anneke L Schoeman --- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Tracy-Lee Joubert --- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Louis H du Preez --- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Roman Svitin --- African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South AfricaThe effect of invasive species on local parasite dynamics is often overlooked. The African Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis (Daudin, 1802) (Anura: Pipidae) is a global invader, with established populations on four continents and is a domestic exotic in southern Africa... -
Shelf-life characteristics of Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.)Verdc) probiotic beverage
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Yvonne Yeukai Murevanhema --- , South Africa Victoria Adaora Jideani --- , South AfricaTwo Bambara groundnut probiotic beverages (BGNPB), fermented with (1) Lactobacillus bulgaricus and (2) Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Lactobacillus plantarum were assessed for their shelf-life characteristics. During the shelf-life study, sampling of the BGNPB was done at two-days interval for 28 days... -
The Sasol Oil case – Would the present South African GAAR stand up to the rigours of the court?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Teresa M. Pidduck --- , South AfricaSouth Africa finds itself vulnerable to exploitation by the measures taken by multinational enterprises (MNEs) who seek to enter into tax avoidance schemes that artificially shift profits to low- or no-tax jurisdictions. While common law, specific and general anti-avoidance measures... -
The Prophet in Music: Lyrical Representations of the Shepherd Bushiri Discourse
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Junior Lipenga --- , MalawiMusic plays various roles in contemporary Africa. This paper examines a specific role — how songs contribute to the public image of a specific personality, Prophet Shepherd Bushiri. The paper argues that the image that people have come to know... -
Pigeonpea production constraints and farmers’ trait preferences in Malawi: implications for variety design
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Esnart Nyirenda Yohane --- , South Africa Hussein Shimelis --- , South Africa Mark Laing --- , South Africa Admire Shayanowako --- , South Africa Isack Mathew --- , South Africa Justus M Chintu --- , MalawiPigeonpea Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. is the most important legume cash crop grown in Malawi. However, productivity is low due to biotic and abiotic stresses and socioeconomic constraints. The objectives of this study were to determine farmers’ perceived constraints to... -
A human rights-based approach to coercive public health interventions: lessons from the HIV and COVID-19 pandemics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Petronell Kruger --- University of Witwatersrand, South Africa Safura Abdool Karim --- , South AfricaThe SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and its impact on countries across the globe has been unprecedented. The lack of pharmaceutical interventions to prevent or treat infection have left States with limited avenues to control the spread of the virus. Many countries have... -
Names of Contemporary Wooden Boats of Coastal East Africa: Origins and Meanings
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Elgidius B. Ichumbaki --- , Tanzania Gastor Mapunda --- , Tanzania John P. Cooper --- , United Kingdom Sinyati R. Mark --- , Tanzania Elinaza A. Mjema --- , Tanzania Lucy Blue --- , Thomas J. Biginagwa --- , TanzaniaThe coast of eastern Africa, commonly referred to as the Swahili coast, has a rich artisanal heritage of boats — both in their building and use. This iconic history is marked by the presence of various boat types that have... -
The Elephant Marsh, Malawi – Part 1: reconstruction of the historic hydromorphology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AL Birkhead --- , South Africa CA Brown --- , South Africa H Bukhari --- , South Africa MK Reinecke --- , South Africa WO Mgoola --- , Malawi JK Nyirenda --- , MalawiThe Elephant Marsh lies on the floodplain of the lower Shire River, in southern Malawi. It is both a cultivated, seasonal floodplain and an area of permanent shallow lakes. The marsh is highly biodiverse, has a productive fishery and supports... -
“Lydiate is now our home of a sort”: perceptions of place amongst ageing first-generation Malawian migrants in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Johannes Bhanye --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThe notion of “home” amongst the diaspora is complex, with some scholars asserting that home in the diaspora is not singular or exclusionary but that migrants are torn between multiple “homes.” Other scholars highlight that it is not always the... -
Life covers, risk and security — anthropological perspectives of social insurances: a case study from Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sabine Klocke-Daffa --- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, GermanyWith the end of apartheid in Namibia, private insurance companies opened their product range to what they call the “black market.” The increased demand for social insurance is not only because of a lack of security and state-provided welfare programmes... -
Women in Chinsapo, Malawi: vulnerability and risk to HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Jayati Ghosh --- Division of Business, Dominican University of California, Ezekiel Kalipeni --- Geography and African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,Malawi, a very poor country located in southern Africa, is no exception to the growing trend and severity in HIV prevalence. By the end of 2003 there were 900 000 adults and children in Malawi living with HIV/AIDS. Adult prevalence... -
Equity in access to ARV drugs in Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Pierson R.T. Ntata --- University of Malawi,This paper discusses the issue of equity in the distribution of ARV drugs in the Malawi health system. Malawi is one of the countries most severely affected by HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. It is also one of the poorest countries... -
Gender differences in university students' HIV/AIDS-related knowledge and sexual behaviours in Malawi: a pilot study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Pierson RT Ntata --- Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Adamson S Muula --- Flinders University Medical School, Australia Seter Siziya --- Medical Biostatistics in the School of Medicine, University of Zambia, Edrinnie E Kayambazinthu --- English Department, Chancellor College, University of Medicine,A cross-sectional study was conducted among first-year university students in Malawi to determine distributions of HIV/AIDS related knowledge, and sexual behaviours. A total of 314 (199 male and 115 female) students were eligible to participate, and of these 221 (70.4%)... -
Assessing the effects of anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda on HIV prevention, treatment, and care services
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Paul Semugoma [d194e18] Chris Beyrer Stefan BaralUganda's response to the HIV epidemic has been lauded for its robustness and achievements. However, a key component of HIV prevention programming has been missing, for men who have sex with men (MSM). The main reason cited has been criminalization... -
Parenting experiences of couples living with human immunodeficiency virus: A qualitative study from rural Southern Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Belinda Chimphamba Gombachika --- , , Norway Johanne Sundby --- , , Norway Ellen Chirwa --- , , Malawi Address Malata --- , , MalawiThe advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has allowed couples living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to live longer and healthier lives. The reduction in the mother-to-child transmission of HIV has encouraged some people living with HIV (PLWH) to have children... -
Effects of adolescent exposure to behaviour change interventions on their HIV risk reduction in Northern Malawi: a situation analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: M. Mwale --- , , Malawi A. S. Muula --- , , MalawiUnderstanding adolescents’ translation of HIV and AIDS-related behaviour change interventions (BCI) knowledge and skills into expected behavioural outcomes helps us appreciate behaviour change dynamics among young people and informs evidence-based programming. We explored the effects of adolescents’ exposure to BCI... -
A new species of rupicolous Cordylus Laurenti from Malawi (Sauria: Cordylidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: DonaldG. Broadley --- Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, P. le FrasN. Mouton --- University of Stellenbosch, South Africa -
Population structure of the African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis) in maize‐growing areas with atrazine application versus non‐maize‐growing areas in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: LouisH. Du Preez --- North‐West University, South Africa KeithR. Solomon --- University of Guelph, Canada JimA. Carr --- Texas Tech University, JohnP. Giesy --- Michigan State University, USA TimothyS. Gross --- Florida Caribbean Science Center‐USGS‐BRD, USA RonaldJ. Kendall --- Texas Tech University, USA ErnestE. Smith --- Texas Tech University, USA GlenL. Van der Kraak --- University of Guelph, Canada Ché Weldon --- North‐West University, South AfricaThe herbicide atrazine has been suggested to cause gonadal deformities in frogs and could possibly impact on reproduction. Since the early 1960s, atrazine has been used in large amounts in maize production areas of South Africa. These areas overlap with... -
Quantification of the trade in Xenopus laevis from South Africa, with implications for biodiversity conservation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Ché Weldon --- North‐West University, South Africa AthertonL. De Villiers --- Western Cape Nature Conservation Board, South Africa LouisH. Du Preez --- North‐West University, South AfricaHarvesting wild amphibians for animal trade and consequent introductions of exotic species are considered threats to biodiversity. For this study, we evaluated the literature and unpublished data on Xenopus laevis exports from the Western Cape, South Africa, since the onset... -
The value relevance of mandatory sustainability reporting assurance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Maher Jeriji --- IHEC – University of Carthage, Tunisia Ala Nasfi --- Montpellier University, FranceSustainability reporting assurance (SRA) ensures the credibility of sustainability information disclosed by companies. This practice has continued to evolve, particularly within regulatory frameworks. The SRA is widespread among the largest French and South African companies because of the requirements of... -
Transition experiences of candidate attorneys in South African law firms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nokwazi Sibiya --- North-West University, South Africa Velly Ndlovu --- North-West University, South Africa Marius W. Stander --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study explored the school-to-work transition experiences of new candidate attorneys within South African law firms. The participants included a purposive voluntary sample of 13 candidate attorneys (female = 76.9%, black = 69.2%, mean age = 24.7 years). They completed... -
A strong law of large numbers for non identically distributed Pettis integrable random sets in a general Banach space
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: M. El Allali --- University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, FSTF, Morocco F. Ezzaki --- University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, FSTF, MoroccoA multivalued version of Cesàro mean convergence theorem is established. As a consequence, various convergence results of strong law of large numbers for pairwise independent Pettis integrable random sets in a Banach space without any additional geometric condition on the... -
Empowering women in South African law enforcement: Developing authenticity as best-self
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Rochelle Jacobs --- University of South Africa, South Africa Antoni Barnard --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis hermeneutic phenomenological study explored the authenticity experiences of South African women in law enforcement from a best-self perspective. Narrative interviews were conducted with 12 women from police and traffic services, aged between 26 and 55 (25% black, 58% mixed... -
On presheaf submonads of quantale-enriched categories
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Maria Manuel Clementino --- University of Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Fitas --- University of Coimbra, PortugalThis paper focuses on the presheaf monad, or the free cocompletion monad, and its submonads on the realm of V-categories, for a quantale V . First we present two characterisations of presheaf submonads, both using V-distributors: one based on admissible... -
Optimal system and conservation laws for the generalized Fisher equation in cylindrical coordinates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: A.H. Kara --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Sonia Naseer --- Government College University, Pakistan Ali Raza --- Lahore School of Economics, Pakistan F.D. Zaman --- Government College University, PakistanThe reaction diffusion equation arises in physical situations in problems from population growth, genetics and physical sciences. In many practical situations, the physical domain of the problem is adequately described in cylindrical Coordinates. Therefore, we consider the Fisher equation in... -
The bio-invasion and population dynamics of Cherax quadricarinatus in Zambian waters
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Eva Nambeye --- University of Zambia, Zambia Chibwe Katapa --- University of Zambia, Zambia Bernadette Chimai Mulenga --- University of Zambia, Zambia Hangoma Gordon Mudenda --- University of Zambia, Zambia Marjatta Eilitta --- , United States Michael A Rice --- University of Rhode Island, United StatesSince the 1990s, the exotic Australian redclaw crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus, has been spreading in the Zambezi River basin in Zambia. The population structure of crayfish was determined at locations along the north shore of Lake Kariba 'near Siavonga' and the... -
On a weak law of large numbers and Lp -convergence for general random variables
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Qi Gao --- Henan Normal University, China Yu Miao --- Henan Normal University, ChinaIn the present paper, we consider a sequence of the general random variables, which include the sequences of martingale differences, and establish the weak law of large numbers and the convergence in Lp under some weaker conditions. -
Stabilization of a coupled bridge system with past history and gurtin-pipkin’s heat conduction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Soh Edwin Mukiawa --- University of Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia Johnson D. Audu --- King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia Salim A. Messaoudi --- University of Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesThe asymptotic stability of the vertical vibrations of a suspension bridge and the main cables from which the bridge is suspended by the cables is investigated. The history of the materials of the bridge and the effect of heat governed... -
On the analysis and integrability of the time-fractional stochastic potential-KdV equation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Nida Zinat --- Government College University, Pakistan Akhtar Hussain --- The University of Lahore, Pakistan A.H. Kara --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa F.D. Zaman --- Government College University, PakistanThis study investigates the invariance properties of the time-fractional stochastic potential-KdV (FSP-KdV) equation, intending to enhance our understanding of the dynamics associated with nonlinear photon and optical soliton propagation. The application of the Lie group analysis method enables the derivation... -
Local community knowledge of biodiversity and ecosystem services from Rwanda: motivation for improved community engagement in biodiversity conservation and water resource management
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: V Nsengimana --- University of Rwanda, Rwanda V Nzibaza --- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda, Rwanda A Nzarora --- University of Rwanda, Rwanda P Sanzira Munyandamutsa --- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda, Rwanda PJ Mugume --- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity and Natural Resource Management, University of Rwanda, RwandaAlthough rivers and wetlands are ecologically important as they provide ecosystem goods and services to humans and other living things, few studies globally have focussed on the knowledge of biodiversity and ecosystem services by local communities to assess how it... -
Malawi’s progress towards UNAIDS 95-95-95 fast-track targets: who is lagging?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Bilaal Wilson Matola --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Lovemore Mapahla --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Juliet Charity Yauka Nyasulu --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThe HIV and AIDS epidemic remains a critical global health challenge. Malawi accounts for 2.5% of global HIV cases and is a focus country in the UNAIDS 95-95-95 fast-track initiative. Despite reaching 92-95-94 in 2020, there is a need to... -
Izingqinamba ezibhekene nabalingiswa abathandana nobulili obufanayo emibhalweni yesiZulu: Kugxilwe enovelini ethi Bengithi lizokuna nethi Mthathe Ungowakho!
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Melusi Ernest Msomi --- University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Phindile Dorothy Dlamini --- University of KwaZulu Natal, South AfricaLeli phepha lihlose ukuhlaziya nokucubungula izingqinamba nokungemukeleki kwabalingiswa abathandana nobulili obufana nobabo enovelini ethi Bengithi Lizokuna kanye nethi Mthathe Ungowakho! Inoveli ethi Bengithi Lizokuna ibhalwe nguNakanjani Sibiya, yashicilelwa ngowezi-2008 kanti inoveli ethi Mthathe Ungowakho ilotshwe nguScelo Ntshangase kanti ishicilelwe ngonyaka... -
Conceptualising and revealing political resistance in Zimbabwe through (re)naming roads in Bulawayo
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Nkululeko Sibanda --- Rhodes University, South Africa Progress Dube --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThe Zimbabwe central government issued a directive in November 2019 and early 2020 gazetting three statutory instruments for changes to names of buildings and streets as a directive to all local authorities to comply. In February 2020, the Bulawayo City...
