University of the Free State

Bassey’s blunder: Shirley Bassey, Welsh anti‑apartheid activism, and the cultural boycott against South Africa

Based on archival research carried out with the papers of the Welsh Anti-Apartheid Movement (WAAM) and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), this article contributes to the burgeoning project of provincializing the history of domestic anti-apartheid activism. In particular,...

A targeted review on pollution, sources and risks associated with PCBs in soil and sediment in Nigeria

ABSTRACT A graphical diagram showing the sources, exposure routes and health risk of PCBs in contaminated soil and sediment in Nigeria. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) pose significant environmental risks globally, particularly in underdeveloped countries with inadequate waste h...

Registering A Company [Some Countries of Interest]

We are investigating how to register a company. Many options and countries are of interest (some examples are given).

Gut bacteria and their metabolites may influence our decisions, intelligence, cognition, and consciousness

The human gut hosts approximately 38 trillion bacteria, representing 400 to 500 species. Gut bacteria are in constant communication with the central nervous system (CNS) via the enteric nervous system (ENS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), the autonomic nervous system (ANS),...

Registering A Company [Some Countries of Interest]

We are investigating how to register a company. Many options and countries are of interest (some examples are given).

Registering A Company [Some Countries of Interest]

We are investigating how to register a company. Many options and countries are of interest (some examples are given).

Registering A Company [Some Countries of Interest]

We are investigating how to register a company. Many options and countries are of interest (some examples are given).

A reflexive thematic analysis of how South African men make sense of suicidal distress and recovery

Men consistently account for the majority of suicide deaths globally, and South African men are no exception, however the cultural and personal meanings these men attach to their own suicidal experiences remain underexplored. This qualitative study, informed by phenomenological s...

A checklist of the spiders of the Witsand Kalahari Game Reserve in the Northern Cape, South Africa

This paper presents the first comprehensive annotated checklist of the spider fauna in the Witsand Kalahari Nature Reserve in the Northern Cape, South Africa. Historically, 45 species were sampled in the reserve. Recent collecting efforts since 2017 included pitfall trapping surv...

Goshawk Genomics: Genome Wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms ( SNPs ) Confirm Species Status of Astur gentilis and Astur atricapillus

ABSTRACT The Astur [ gentilis ] superspecies comprising five species has a long record of taxonomic debate. Recent evidence based on mitochondrial data, limited genomic data and bioacoustics suggested a Nearctic‐Palearctic split of the former Holarctic species Astur gentilis , le...

Direct aqueous mineral carbonation of cementitious fines derived from hardened ready-mix concrete waste: Process performance and carbon accounting

The growing need to mitigate anthropogenic CO 2 emissions is driving the development of low-energy carbon capture and utilization technologies. Hardened ready-mix concrete waste represents an underexplored alkaline feedstock for direct aqueous mineral carbonation, offering opport...

Application to Dalhousie University September 2026 : A Quick Note About Information System Classifications

We have started an Application into The Dalhousie University English Program. We notice for the first time a very intelligent information system. Some documents that we did save in our Google Drive Account [but not published elsewhere*] have contributive value in the system. As f...

Rates of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in a highly exposed South African blood donor cohort, 2022–2023

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A cohort of South African repeat blood donors was established to leverage the repeated presentation of blood donors for longitudinal serological surveillance of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections and reinfection inci...

Multi-scale risk factors for unsafe agrochemical handling and environmental exposure in Guinea

Abstract In Sub-Saharan Africa, the availability of highly hazardous pesticides on local markets and their extended use by non-trained farmers pose severe threats to human and environmental health. The study aimed to identify and analyze the interconnection between individual, co...

Outlier-Robust Copula Regression for Bivariate Continuous Proportions: An Application to Cushion Plant Vitality

Abstract Continuous proportions measured on the same experimental unit often pose two challenges: influential interior extremes that inflate variance beyond the beta ceiling and residual dependence that invalidates independent-margin models. We introduce a Bayesian copula modelin...

Climate change and the rising threat of Macrophomina phaseolina: implications for food security, food safety, and sustainable crop health management

Abstract Macrophomina phaseolina is a destructive soil-borne necrotrophic fungal pathogen that causes substantial yield losses in a wide range of economically important crops worldwide. Disease severity is strongly enhanced under drought, high temperature, and salinity stress, co...

Considering Agentic Engagement in Higher Education: A Scoping Review

Agentic engagement is an often-overlooked dimension of student engagement in higher education, despite its association with various positive academic outcomes. Therefore, the exploration and mapping of this concept may contribute to higher education scholarship on teaching and le...

Rural women as place-makers through informal waste collection in QwaQwa, South Africa

Purpose This study aims to investigate the livelihood approaches, socio-economic effects and challenges related to informal waste collection, focusing on informal women waste collectors in rural QwaQwa, South Africa. It addresses gaps in gender and rural–urban divides by position...

Online Discourses of Protest and Identity Negotiations in Phuthaditjhaba

Through critical discourse analysis, this study analysed how the selected social media packaging of protest discourses construct representations of identity negotiations and socioeconomic challenges in Phuthaditjhaba. It focused on protest messages posted by X accounts in Phuthad...

Building a Stack for Systems Deployment

We are introducing few lines of methodology to start building Models & Systems for Deployment. We start first with Asana Platform and the Automated Fact-Checker [here]. More Collaboration Invitation will be sent to participate in the project.