Something new, again

Abstract

In March 2011, I wrote the first editorial for a new publication by the Emergency Care Society of South Africa. The publication, which was not peerreviewed and more in the style of a quarterly magazine, was called Sanguine. In writing that editorial I quoted the Roman author and natural philosopher Pliny the Elder who said ‘ex Africa semper aliquid novi’ – there is always something new out of Africa. The Society continued to publish Sanguine for the next five years, and then made a decision to move in the direction of a peer-reviewed scientific journal as my colleague Simpiwe Sobuwa alludes to on page 2 of this issue. And so, almost a decade after the start of something new, here we are again.