Vol. 105 No. 1/2 (2009)

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Published: 2009-12-11

News

Management shows contempt for academic freedom at UKZN

Craig McKune
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The universe: yours to discover

Kevin Govender
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South African scientists can now engage fully with Third World Academy

Wieland Gevers
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Obituary

A.P. Fairall (1943 - 2008)

Patrick Woudt
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Book Reviews

Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan Macleod Cormack

Robin Cherry
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Bad Science

Wieland Gevers
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Tobias in Conversation: Genes, fossils and anthropology

Alan Morris
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News and Views

Southern African science in the year 1909 - 100n

Cornelis Plug
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Observing the present and considering the past to ponder the future

Roderick Brown

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How innovative is South Africa?

William Blankley, Cheryl Moses
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Coping with drought - do science and policy agree?

Colleen Seymour, Philip Desmet
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News Feature

Curiosity first, applications later

Robert Berold, Janice Limson
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Correspondence

Stormy skies for South African research

Nicola Illing, Mark Gibbons
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Review Articles

When to stay, when to go: trade-offs for southern African arid-zone birds in times of drought

W.R.J. Dean, P. Barnard, M.D. Anderson
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Drought, change and resilience in South Africa's arid and semi-arid rangelands

Susanne Vetter
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Human response and adaptation to drought in the arid zone: lessons from southern Africa

P.J. O'Farrell, P. Anderson, S. Milton, W. Dean
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Water resources in the Klein Karoo: the challenge of sustainable development in a water-scarce area

David Le Maitre, Christine Colvin, Ashton Maherry
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Global sugar, regional water, and local people: EU sugar regime liberalisation, rural livelihoods, and the environment in the Incomati River Basin

Jo Lorentzen

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Research Articles

Drought, climate change and vegetation response in the succulent karoo, South Africa

M. Hoffman, P. Carrick, L. Gillson, A. West
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Agriculture production's sensitivity to changes in climate in South Africa

James Blignaut, Liza Ueckermann, James Aronson
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Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer is predicted to contribute towards colorectal cancer in young South African blacks

L. Cronjé, P.J. Becker, A.C. Paterson, M. Ramsay
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Research Letters

Preference for dry sex, condom use and risk of STI among HIV-negative black women in the Western Cape province, South Africa

Priscilla Reddy, Dorina Saleh-Onoya, Sibusiso Sifunda, Delia Lang, Gina Wingood, Bart van den Borne, Robert Ruiter
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The structural characterisation of HWCVD-deposited nanocrystalline silicon films

Bibhu Swain
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