I am tired of these duck-footed Leydeners, who daren't wink at a donkey lest he should bray.

A key preserved male specimen of the midwife toad was eventually shown to have been injected with India ink in the region of the normally pigmented nuptial pad.

This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.

Biosedimentation processes are more intensive in biologically productive zones (in particular coastal and shelf regions).