List of Titles

Quick View

The timing of breeding and wing‐moult of four African Sturnidae

- Craig, Adrian J F K

Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K
Date: 1983
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/465549 , vital:76619 , https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1983.tb03120.x
Description: Wing‐moult of the Cape Glossy Starling, Red‐winged Starling, Pale‐winged Starling and Pied Starling was examined primarily from speci-mens in southern African museums. Breeding data were obtained from nest record cards. The Cape Glossy Starling breeds from October to March, with the moult period from December to May. There is no evi-dence of moult‐breeding overlap in individual birds. The Red‐winged Starling breeds from September to March, while the moult takes place between November and April, overlapping with the second broods. The Pale‐winged Starling breeds from October to April and moults between November and May. The Pied Starling moults between November and April, while breeding varies regionally, occurring concurrently with moulting in some areas.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 1983

Quick View

Suggestions: For consideration at Meeting of Preliminary Convention Committee, Cape Town: Monday 11th September, 1961

- Daniels, J C A, South African National Convention Movement. Council.

Authors: Daniels, J C A , South African National Convention Movement. Council.
Date: 1961-08-30
Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/32082 , vital:24009 , MS 10 812 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
Description: Suggestions for consideration at the Meeting of Preliminary Convention Committee, placed before the Council of the South African National Convention Movement.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 1961-08-30

Quick View

South African Coloured National Convention, Claremont Civic Centre, 7th to 10th July 1961

- Convention Central Office

Authors: Convention Central Office
Date: 1961
Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31245 , vital:23928 , MS 10 801 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
Description: Programme outline for the South African Coloured National Convention, which took place in Claremont Civic Centre, Cape Town, from the 7th to the 10th of July 1961.
Full Text:
Date Issued: 1961

Quick View

Iodine nutrition status in Africa: Potentially high prevalence of iodine deficiency in pregnancy even in countries classified as iodine sufficient

- Charles Bitamazire Businge, Benjamin Longo-Mbenza, Andre Pascal Kengne

Authors: Charles Bitamazire Businge , Benjamin Longo-Mbenza , Andre Pascal Kengne
Date: 03-8-2020
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11260/3377 , vital:43336 , https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrition/article/iodine-nutrition-status-in-africa-potentially-high-prevalence-of-iodine-deficiency-in-pregnancy-even-in-countries-classified-as-iodine-sufficient/B3DCB06E75CDDD8EAD410BE090198BA4
Description: Objective: To assess the burden of iodine deficiency in pregnancy in Africa using estimated pregnancy median urinary iodine concentration (pMUIC). Design: pMUIC for each African country was estimated using a regression equation derived by correlating the school-age children (SAC) median UIC (mUIC) and pMUIC from countries around the globe, and the SAC mUIC data for African countries obtained from the Iodine Global Network (IGN) 2017 and 2019 Score cards. Setting: Iodine deficiency was endemic in many African countries before the introduction of iodine fortification, mainly through universal salt iodisation programmes about 25 years ago. There is a scarcity of data on the level of iodine nutrition in pregnancy in Africa. Women living in settings with pMUIC below 150 μg/l are at risk of iodine deficiency-related pregnancy complications. Participants: Fifty of the fifty-five African countries that had data on iodine nutrition status. Results: A cut-off school age mUIC ≤ 175 μg/l is correlated with insufficient iodine intake in pregnancy (pregnancy mUIC ≤ 150 μg/l). Twenty-two African countries had SAC mUIC less than 175 μg/l, which correlated with insufficient iodine intake during pregnancy (pMUIC less than 150 μg/l). However, nine of these twenty-two countries had adequate iodine intake based on SAC mUIC. Conclusions: There is likely a high prevalence of insufficient iodine intake in pregnancy, including in some African countries classified as having adequate iodine intake in the general population. A SAC mUIC ≤ 175 μ
Full Text:
Date Issued: 03-8-2020

Quick View

Confinement and labouring women: a persistent struggle against nature

- James, Sindiwe

Authors: James, Sindiwe
Subjects: Childbirth , Labor (Obstetrics) , f-sa
Language: English
Type: text , Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/40028 , vital:35730
Description: Nature in its essence is frequently viewed as a thing of beauty and the ultimate truth of perfection. Unfortunately, this view of nature is often undermined when it comes to the concept of women in confinement and labour. Women, naturally by virtue of being females, have the capacity to become pregnant and thus to bear children. However, in many instances this capacity becomes limited, or misunderstood. In such cases, humans start viewing or considering confinement and labour in terms of ‘being wrong and incorrect’. They only see issues around age and marital status while losing sight of the fact that nature has ordained that all women have a uterus, which has a potential to conceive, but under ‘suitable’ conditions. Yes, the uterus does not know about age and health restrictions, but will expel its contents when the time comes, and suitability around that expulsion unfortunately becomes the concern of humans (midwives or family members). Very often young girls who are in confinement are received and treated differently by these two categories of humans because they are deemed not to be at the correct age for falling pregnant and to be in labour, or they are regarded as having been ‘naughty’.
Full Text:

Quick View

Showing items 301 - 318 of 318