Rhodes>Pharmacy>People>Academic Staff

Dr L Sethoga

Senior Instrumentation Scientist
lesibana.sethoga@ru.ac.za
046 603 8127

Qualifications:
BSc, BSc Hons (UL), MSc (SMU), PhD (UL)

Teaching:

  • Instrumental analysis

Research Interests:

  • Environmental Chemistry and Nanotechnology: Monitoring and Remediation. 
    • (Pesticide analysis in water and other solid matrices with a focus on preparation and characterization of adsorbents using carbon nanotubes)

Selected publications:

  • Sethoga, LS, Magadzu, T, Ambushe, AA, Pre-concentration of pesticides in water using isophorone diamine-multi-walled carbon nanotubes based solid phase extraction technique and analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, J. Environ. Sci. Tech., 21, 2881-2896, 2023. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13762-023-05160-9
  • Adeniran, OM, Sethoga, LS, Gololo, SS, Shai, LJ. Anti-glycation and phytochemical properties of cinnamon stem-bark water extract, J. Chem., 35(9), 2237-2242, 2023. https://doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2023.28084.
  • Adeniran, OM, Mogale, MA, Sethoga, LS, Gololo, SS, Shai, LJ, Abstract 2534: Evaluation of the antiglycation effect and AGEs-protein cross-link breakage ability of cinnamon stem-bark water extract. Bio. Chem., 299(3S), 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbc.2023.103335.
  • Adeniran, OI, Musyoki, AM, Sethoga, LS, Mogale, MA, Gololo, SS, Shai, LJ, Phytochemical profile, anti-glycation effect, and advanced glycation end-products protein cross-link breaking ability of Sclerocarya birrea stem-bark crude extracts, Herbmed. Pharmacol., 11(4), 529-539, 2022. https://doi.org/10.34172/jhp.2022.61.
  • Areo, OM, Olowoyo, JO, Sethoga, LS, Adebo, AO, Njobeh, PB, Determination of pesticide residues in rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) teas in South Africa. Determination of pesticide residues in rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) teas in South Africa, Reports, 9, 852-859, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxrep.2022.04.001.
  • Gololo, SS, Chepape, S, Olivier, MT, Sethoga, LS, Mathe, EH, Maseko, RB, Metabolite Profiling of Different Tissues of Barleria dinteri through the GC-MS Analysis. Asian J. Chem., 33(6), 1336-1340, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14233/ajchem.2021.23192.
  • Gololo, SS, Mapfumari, NS, Sethoga, LS, Olivier, MT, Shai, LJ & Mogale, MA, Muganza, F, Disparities in the Phytochemical Constituents of the Leaf Samples of Senna italic (Mill) collected from four different locations. Book Chapter: Pharmacol. Med. Herbs, Chapter: 1, 2017, Publisher: Lenin Media Pvt. Ltd.
  • Gololo, SS, Mapfumari, NS, Sethoga, LS, Olivier, MT, Shai, LJ & Mogale, MA, Identification of phytochemical constituents within the n-hexane leaf extract of Senna italica (Mill) using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis,  Pharmaceutical Sci. Research, 8(10), 1141-1143, 2016.

Professional Affiliations:

  • SACNASP
  • SACI
  • ChromSA