In a study appearing in Science Advances, researchers analyzed genetic samples from individuals who self-identified as South African Colored, a term denoting mixed ancestry. The researchers found that modern populations of this group in the Western and Northern Cape provinces retain majority Khoe-San genetic ancestry, exceeding 48%.
In a study appearing in PLOS Global Public Health, UC Davis researchers investigated the epidemiological risk factors, outside of HIV, associated with TB in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province.
A new study in history is the first full-length academic article to describe the life of a once-influential veterinarian who has been overlooked first because of prejudice in the Cape Colony region and the subsequent apartheid that divided the nation of South Africa between white and non-white people.
