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South African Journal of Science volume 117 number 1/2 High lightning risk for rural communities in SA Predicting take-up of home loans using tree-based ensemble models Monitoring and conservation of terrestrial and marine ecosystems in SA Hominin lower limb bones from Sterkfontein Caves HIV self-testing is user-friendly and accurate Volume 117 Number 1/2 January/February 2021 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Jane Carruthers Academy of Science of South Africa MANAGING EDITOR Linda Fick Academy of Science of South Africa ONLINE PUBLISHING South African SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Nadia Grobler Journal of Science Academy of Science of South Africa ASSOCIATE EDITORS Margaret Avery Cenozoic Studies, Iziko Museums of South Africa, South Africa Priscilla Baker eISSN: 1996-7489 Department of Chemistry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa Pascal Bessong HIV/AIDS & Global Health Research Leader Programme, University of Venda, South Africa Celebrating multidisciplinarity Jennifer Case Jane Carruthers ....................................................................................................................... 1 Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA Book Reviews Teresa Coutinho Department of Microbiology and Invasion science in South Africa: The definitive collection Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, South Africa Philip E. Hulme ........................................................................................................................ 2 Tania Douglas The University of Cape Town: Between apartheid and academic freedom Division of Biomedical Engineering, Tilman Dedering ....................................................................................................................... 3 University of Cape Town, South Africa Bettine van Vuuren In the footsteps of famous family forebears to a respected polymath through Department of Zoology, Centre moral courage for Ecological Genomics and Cas H. Prinsloo ........................................................................................................................ 4 Wildlife Conservation, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Amanda Weltman Scientific Correspondence Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of What the science of child and adolescent development contributes to Cape Town, South Africa understanding the impacts of COVID-19 Yali Woyessa Mark Tomlinson, Linda Richter & Wiedaad Slemming ............................................................... 6 Department of Civil Engineering, Central University of Technology, Artificial intelligence enhanced molecular databases can enable improved user- South Africa friendly bioinformatics and pave the way for novel applications ASSOCIATE EDITOR Chenjerayi Kashangura ............................................................................................................. 8 MENTEES Ntombizodwa Mathe Commentary National Laser Centre, CSIR, South Africa Snapshot Safari: A large-scale collaborative to monitor Africa’s remarkable Sandiswa Mbewana biodiversity Department of Molecular and Cell Lain E. Pardo, Sara Bombaci, Sarah E. Huebner, Michael J. Somers, Herve Fritz, Biology, University of Cape Town, South Africa Colleen Downs, Abby Guthmann, Robyn S. Hetem, Mark Keith, Aliza le Roux, Nokubonga Mgqatsa, Craig Packer, Meredith S. Palmer, Daniel M. Parker, Salmina Mokgehle Vegetable and Ornamental Plants, Mike Peel, Rob Slotow, W. Maartin Strauss, Lourens Swanepoel, Craig Tambling, Agricultural Research Council, Nairobi Tsie, Mika Vermeulen, Marco Willi, David S. Jachowski & Jan A. Venter ......................... 10 South Africa Engagement for airborne geophysical survey within a transdisciplinary baseline Sydney Moyo Department of Zoology and programme in the Eastern Cape Karoo Entomology, Rhodes University, Barry Morkel, Moctar Doucouré, Martin Bentley, Divan Stroebel & Maarten de Wit ................... 14 South Africa Karoo research update: Progress, gaps and threats EDITORIAL ADVISORY M. Timm Hoffman, Richard M. Cowling, Hana Petersen & Cherryl Walker ................................. 18 BOARD Stephanie Burton Opening the floor for discussion: A perspective on how scholars perceive Professor of Biochemistry and attitudes to science in policymaking in South Africa Professor at Future Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa Molly V. Czachur, Melvi Todd, Tainã Gonçalves Loureiro, James M. Azam, Felix Dakora Siphokazi Nyeleka, Amanda Alblas & Sarah J. Davies ............................................................... 21 Department of Chemistry, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa Saul Dubow Profile Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Cambridge, UK Professor D.P. Mason (MASSAF, FRSSAF) on the occasion of his 75th birthday: A lifetime contribution to the development of Applied Mathematics in Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Trauma Studies in Historical Trauma South Africa and Transformation, Stellenbosch Ebrahim Momoniat, Marcia Moremedi & Fazal M. Mahomed .................................................... 25 University, South Africa Robert Morrell School of Education, University of Review Article Cape Town, South Africa Lightning monitoring and detection techniques: Progress and challenges in Hassina Mouri South Africa Department of Geology, University of Maqsooda Mahomed, Alistair D. Clulow, Sheldon Strydom, Michael J. Savage Johannesburg, South Africa & Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi ................................................................................................... 27 Catherine Ngila Deputy Vice Chancellor – Academic Affairs, Riara University, Nairobi, Kenya Research Article Lungiswa Nkonki Department of Global Health, The altitude of sprites observed over South Africa Stellenbosch University, South Africa Dakalo C. Mashao, Michael J. Kosch, Jozsef Bór & Stanislaus Nnadih ...................................... 34 Brigitte Senut The North-West University’s High Altitude Radiation Monitor programme Natural History Museum, Paris, France Moshe G. Mosotho, Roelf D. Strauss, Rendani R. Nndanganeni & Jacobus P. van den Berg ...... 42 Benjamin Smith Centre for Rock Art Research and Constraints on improving higher education teaching and learning through Management, University of Western funding Australia, Perth, Australia Temwa Moyo & Sioux McKenna ................................................................................................ 51 Himla Soodyall Academy of Science of South Africa, Predicting take-up of home loan offers using tree-based ensemble models: A South Africa South African case study Lyn Wadley Tanja Verster, Samistha Harcharan, Lizette Bezuidenhout & Bart Baesens ................................. 58 School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of Performance assessment of four HIV self-test devices in South Africa: A cross- the Witwatersrand, South Africa sectional study Cherryl Walker Mohammed Majam, Alex E. Fischer, Naleni Rhagnath, Vanessa Msolomba, Department of Sociology and Social Willem D.F. Venter, Laura Mazzola & Samanta T. Lalla-Edward .................................................. 66 Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Hominin lower limb bones from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa (1998–2003 Published by excavations) the Academy of Science of Travis Rayne Pickering, Jason L. Heaton, Ron J. Clarke, Dominic Stratford & A.J. Heile ............ 72 South Africa (www.assaf.org.za) with financial assistance from the The cryptic case of Otomys sloggetti (Sloggett’s vlei rat): Interpreting murid Department of Science & Innovation. molar morphology in the fossil record Design and layout Thalassa Matthews & Turid H. Nel ............................................................................................ 82 SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein T: 051 444 2552 Water security and rangeland sustainability: Transdisciplinary research insights E: [email protected] from Namibian–German collaborations Correspondence and Robert Luetkemeier, Meed Mbidzo & Stefan Liehr .................................................................... 90 enquiries [email protected] Identified main fire hotspots and seasons in Côte d’Ivoire (West Africa) using MODIS fire data Copyright All articles are published under a Tionhonkélé D. Soro, Moussa Koné, Aya B. N’Dri & Evelyne T. N’Datchoh ................................. 99 Creative Commons Attribution Licence. Copyright is retained by the authors. Research Letter Disclaimer The publisher and editors accept no Rates and patterns of habitat loss across South Africa’s vegetation biomes responsibility for statements made by the authors. Andrew L. Skowno, Debbie Jewitt & Jasper A. Slingsby ............................................................ 112 Submissions Teatime in Kruger: Tailoring the application of the Tea Bag Index approach to an Submissions should be made at African savanna www.sajs.co.za Loewan L. Erasmus, Helga van Coller & Frances Siebert .......................................................... 117 Possible causes of a substantial decline in sightings in South Africa of an ecologically important apex predator, the white shark Robin Fisher ............................................................................................................................ 123 Cover caption As we enter the UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2031) with the goal “to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems on every continent and in every ocean”, several articles in this issue report on the need

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