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Seasonal food insecurity among farm workers in the Northern Cape, South Africa
(Nutrients, 2019)
Very little is known about seasonal hunger in South Africa, or about the food security and
nutritional status of farm workers. This article identifies a pathway to seasonal hunger—through
intra-annual fluctuations in ...
Violations of farm workers’ labour rights in postapartheid South Africa
(Development Southern Africa, 2019)
Commercial farm workers in South Africa endured centuries of
exploitation and abuse until the 1990s, when progressive
legislation was promulgated that confers rights to workers aimed
at improving their living and working ...
Social grants, remittances, and food security: does the source of income matter?
(Food Security, 2019)
Large numbers of South Africans receive social grants (public transfers) or remittances (private transfers), and yet one in four
South Africans is food insecure. The purpose of this paper is to address two questions: do ...
‘We create our own small world’: daily realities of mothers of disabled children in a South African urban settlement
(Routledge, 2019)
Parents of disabled children face many challenges.
Understanding their experiences and acknowledging
contextual influences is vital in developing intervention
strategies that fit their daily realities. However, studies ...
The impact of educational attainment on household poverty in South Africa: A case study of Limpopo province
(Routledge, 2019)
Poverty is a phenomenon that is multidimensional in nature and its meaning varies from one individual to another (Alkire and Foster 2011; Batana 2013; Bossert, Chakravarty, and D'Ambrosio 2013; Jansen et al. 2015). It can ...
Exploring adaptation and agency of mothers caring for disabled children inan urban settlement in South Africa: A qualitative study
(Elsevier, 2019)
Mothers of disabled children who are living in poverty face multiple interlinked disadvantages in relation togender, care, disability, and poverty. Yet, their experiences have been largely neglected in academic literature.This ...
Seasonal food insecurity among farm workers in the Northern Cape, South Africa
(MPDI, 2019)
Very little is known about seasonal hunger in South Africa, or about the food security and nutritional status of farm workers. This article identifies a pathway to seasonal hunger—through intra-annual fluctuations in ...
Challenging the odds of vulnerability and resilience in lone migration: Coping strategies of Zimbabwean unaccompanied minors in South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)
Childhood vulnerability attracts more societal and scholarly attention than
child resilience. This article presents experiences of some Zimbabwean
Unaccompanied Minors (ZUMs) in South Africa as an example of
children ...
Persistence of the inverse care law in maternal health service utilization: An examination of antenatal care and hospital delivery in Ghana
(PAGEpress, 2019)
The gap in maternal health outcomes, access and utilization between the haves and have-nots continues to be a challenge globally despite improvements over the past decade. Though Ghana has experienced steady gains in ...