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Nazira Karodia obtained her B.Sc. (Honours) degree at the University of Natal, South Africa. She went on to obtain a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, under the supervision of Dr. R. Alan Aitken. Following a successful thesis defense in 1995, she took up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Florida, US, under the supervision of Professor Alan R. Katritzky. She was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Bradford in 1998 and is now senior lecturer in chemistry. 

Lyne, M. C. and Darroch, M. A. G. (2003). Land redistribution in South Africa Past performance and future policy. In "The challenge of change Agriculture, land and the South African economy", (W. L. Nieuwoudt and J. Groenewald, Eds). University of Natal Press, Durban. 

Urszula Domahska has been professor. Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology since February 1995. She has been the Head of the Physical Chemistry Division since September 1991 and vice director of the Institute of Fundamental Chemistry (1988-1990). She had long-term scientific visits as visiting professor Laboratoire De Thermodynamique Ft D Analyse Chimique, University of Metz, France University of Turku, Finland Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Natal, South Africa Department of Chemical Engineering, Louisiana State University, United States. Her interests have included such areas of physical chemistry as thermodynamics, especially thermodynamics of phase equilibria, VLE, LLE, SLE, high-pressure SLE, separation science, calorimetry, correlation and prediction of physical-chemical properties, and ionic liquids. She is a member of the Polish Chemical Society member of the Polish Association of Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis member of lUPAC Commission on Solubility member of International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics and scientific advisor at the Journal of Chemical Engineering Data. 

Department of Chemistry, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, and Sugar Milling Research Institute, Durban, South Africa... 

Schwikkard, G.W., Winship, S.J., and Buckley, C.A., Sonochemical Degradation of Hydantoin Chemicals, Project Report, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Natal, Republic of South Africa, 1990. 

Professor Emeritus University of Natal Durban, South Africa... 

Bhoola KDN. A clinicopathological and biochemical study of the toxicity of Callilepsis laureola (impila). MD thesis. University of Natal 1983. 

Defejice Standards Laboratories, Maaribymong, Victoria, Australia t University of Natal, Durban, S. Africa... 

M. S. Rushin, Mathematical Modelling and Optimization of a Three Phase Autohydrolysis Reactor, M. Sc. Thesis, University of Natal, Durban, 1992. 

D. Raiqjugemath Professor, Dr, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa Tel. +27 2603128 e-mail ramjuger nu.ac.za. 

Hutchings, A. Scott, A.H. Lewis, G. Cunningham, A. Zulu Medicinal Plants. An Inventry, University of Natal Press Scottsville, ZA, 1994. 

Ogbomtia, S.O. An Evaluation of Plants Used in Eastern Nigeria in the Treatment of Epilepsy and Convulsion. PhD thesis, 2003, The University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. 15-30... 

This work was supported by the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology imder the Creative Research Initiatives Program. We thank Professor Michael Laing (University of Natal) for allowing us to reproduce Figure 4. 

Le Roux, I. G. (1997). Patterns and rate of woody vegetation cluster development in a semi-arid savanna, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. M.S. thesis, Department of Botany, University of Natal. 

Fenyes, T. and Meyer. N. (2003) Structure and Production in South African Agriculture. In Nieuwoudt L and Groenewald, J. (eds) The Challenge of Change agriculture, land and the South African economy. University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, pp. 21 -46. 

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KENNETH WESTLAKE is a member of the Institute of Waste Management, where his work on landfill control and techniques is respected world-wide. A graduate with a B.Sc.(Hons) in Applied Biology followed by M.Phil., both from Nottingham Trent University (formerly Trent Polytechnic). He read for his doctorate as Lecturer in Biochemistry in south Africa at the University of Natal and subsequently he became, in 1983, Agricultural Research Officer to the South African Animal and Dairy Science Research Institute. 

The author thanks the Educational Activities Department of the American Chemical Society for permisaon to reproduce material from his audiotape and book Coordination Chentistty Its History Through tiie Time of Werner, ACS Audio Courses, History of Chemistry Series, Schubert, L. Kauffman, G. B., Eds., Washington, DC, 1977. He also thanks Professor Michael Laing of the University of Natal for his kind invitation to present this paper as a plenary lecture at the 7Sth Anniversary of the Sooth African Chemical Institute, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, July 7,1987. This article is reprinted with permission from Spectrum October 1987,25(4), S-14. 

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