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Precarious, more precarious, most precarious? The quality of life of waste pickers in the Karoo
(2021)
Towns in the Karoo region currently offer few income-generating opportunities, resulting in people seeking
informal waste-picking opportunities on the streets and landfills. This article aims to investigate the level ...
The responsibility of government and society towards social cohesion: A family perspective
(University of Pretoria, 2021)
Social cohesion, the foundation that keeps society together, is influenced by various inter-related factors such as education social, cultural, religious, and business, among others. Current debates ...
Investigating the relationship between financial inclusion and poverty in South Africa
(Routledge, 2021)
The literature on financial inclusion (FI) and poverty connections has received considerable attention, but there exists a scarcity of South African studies examining the relationship between FI and poverty. This study ...
Social resilience, structural vulnerability and capabilities in Genadendal, South Africa
(South African Academy for Science and the Arts, 2021)
The town Genadendal or Genaal as it is called by the residents, is situated in the Western Cape, and was founded by the Moravian Church in 1837. The Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at the University of the Western ...
Understanding Displacement, (Forced) Migration and Historical Trauma: The Contribution of Feminist New Materialism
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021)
Feminist new materialist theory has taken up the challenge of reconfiguring politics, ethics and justice in ways that critically account for contemporary forms of materiality, affect and embodiment at work in the contemporary ...
Perspectives of policymakers and service providers on why fetal alcohol spectrum disorders remain unabated in South Africa: A qualitative study
(Springer, 2021)
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) remains one of the leading sources of non-genetic intellectual and developmental disabilities globally. South Africa (SA) could be considered to bear the greatest burden of FASD ...
The Contribution of a community-based organisation in challenging xenophobia through participation: a perspective from Site C, Khayelitsha
(Cogent, 2022)
This article investigated the contribution of a community-based organisation; Site C, Action Committee Against Xenophobia in Khayelitsha, Site C, in challenging prejudice against African migrants. The purpose of the study ...
Waste characterisation in Stellenbosch Local Municipality, South Africa
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022)
This article demonstrates how household solid waste (HSW) generation patterns differ in neighbourhoods of the same town by determining the composition of the residual portion of the HSW stream in 2017 in Stellenbosch. HSW ...
The myth of livelihoods through urban mining: The case of e-waste pickers in Cape Town
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022)
Waste pickers are widely acknowledged as an integral part of the formal and informal economy, diverting
waste into the secondary resource economy through urban mining. Urban mining in itself is considered
to be a source ...
Exploring community perceptions of illegal dumping in Fisantekraal using participatory action research
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022)
We present the results from two interactive methodologies (interview and focus groups) that were used
as part of a participatory action research (PAR) project to identify the reasons for and solutions to illegal
dumping ...