Surface water is used for domestic and agricultural activities in Musina region and other surrounding areas. This is because of the shortage of potable water. As a result, the people living in the region and its surrounding ...
In this work, new clean sorbent that has greater selectivity was used in the determination of pesticides residues in complex matrices at the desired limits of quantification. This work is divided into 3 papers focusing on ...
The age distribution of a population is one of the most important demographic factors that plays a major role in describing and making projections about the population. Age distribution determine life expectancy, fertility ...
The research mainly focused on the determination of global solar radiation using temperature-based model by Hargreaves and Samani for the Northern regions of Limpopo Province of South Africa. The daily maximum and minimum ...
This study was focused on determining groundwater recharge and groundwater potential for Mhinga area in South Africa, which is a rural area that depends mainly on groundwater for domestic water supply. Numerical modelling ...
Background: Human gut microbiota are microorganisms that reside in the gastrointestinal tract of humans. Gut microbiota provide various functions in the gut including protection from invasion of pathogenic microbes, shaping ...
In this study, three sampling sites (Tshipise thermal spring, Mphephu thermal spring
and Siloam borehole) in Limpopo Province South Africa were considered for an
investigation into the mineral composition of their water ...
In other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, Traditional Councils (TCs) have always been central to the
governance of rural communities. In South Africa, they were restructured in 2003 in order to
promote effective leadership ...
Declining underground water, unpredictable rainfall patterns and high temperatures pose a threat to future food and water security. Water security is also threatened by the growing demand for water in the agriculture sector ...
Seasonal variation and long-term change in climate have a direct impact on the form, scale, spatial and temporal effects on maize farming. Adaptation is key to reducing the effects. Several costs accompany the adaptation ...
An increase in population and migration to urban centres remains a threat to effective solid waste management mostly in developing countries. Informal settlements usually do not have effective waste collection system as ...
Approximately, 780 million of people in the world lack access to safe water for domestic use. Out
of these, 37 % are found in sub-Saharan Africa. Because of the negative impact of climate
variability and change, scarcity ...
The purpose of this thesis is to develop coupled multi-scale dynamics of infectious disease systems. An
infectious disease system consists of three subsystems interacting, which are the host, the pathogen, and
the ...
South Africa has many abandoned mines which seriously affect the environment and the livelihood of the host communities. The lack of in-depth knowledge of the problems of these mines, limited resources for their rehabilitation, ...
Improved access to modern affordable, sustainable and reliable energy supply is fundamental in the development of any economy and in the achievement of sustainable development goals. However, energy as a resource is ...
The biggest environmental challenge affecting developing countries is the rapid growth of solid waste and its consequent poor management. Management of waste requires data from different entities associated with solid ...
Background: Heat energy is essential for the anaerobic digestion of organic materials such as household, human or agricultural waste. Many developing countries have witnessed efforts to implement anaerobic digestion ...