English: Municipal employees as well as the Unions see the restructuring of Local Government in South Africa as the main cause of unemployment while it is a process of making municipalities more efficient and effective. ...

An assessment of uranium trial mining on four mining sites in the Karoo Uranium Province, South Africa revealed localised above-background values for U, Mo, Pb, Cu, As and Fe in surface - and ground water, soils, sediment ...

The cytochrome P-450 monooxygenase and b-oxidation systems of alkane-utilizing yeasts have been studied extensively, whereas very little is known about the fatty (long chain) alcohol and fatty aldehyde oxidizing enzymes. ...

English: Genetic evaluation systems require accurate estimates of genetic parameters. The genetic, phenotypic and environmental parameters for objectively measured wool, subjectively assessed wool and conformation traits ...

Projects are regarded as vehicles for development; developments are meant to enhance the quality of human life. Various types of development projects are carried out depending on the prevailing problems or opportunities, ...

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English: Since the initiation of a product oriented breeding programme aimed at improving maize for drought prone mid altitudes of southern Africa, CIMMYT developed several inbred lines and single cross hybrids using ...

English: A method is described in this study whereby dose distributions calculated by a treatment planning system (TPS) were evaluated by using dose distributions calculated with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. The MC ...

Near-isogenic genotypes 1684/Tugela and 2199/Tugela containing D. noxia resistance ex SA1684 [PI 137739 (Dn1)] and SA 2199 [PI 262660 (Dn2)] were studied in terms of antibiosis, antixenosis and tolerance, population ...

Land evaluation is currently important in South Africa. Soilscape surveys can make a contribution in this connection by bridging the gap between land type surveys and detail surveys. Land Type Dc17 (area = 237 651 ha) east ...