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COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever: The need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(Elsevier, 2022-01)The immunization programs have been jeopardized all over the world due to the stay-at-home constraints imposed, to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This has directly or indirectly placed the global health care ... -
Covid-19: An alternative approach to postgraduate supervision in the digital age
(Stellenbosch University, 2022)Universities globally are facing enormous governmental pressure to increase postgraduate output, and in turn, contribute to the knowledge economy. This pressure is transferred to research supervisors, who have to navigate ... -
COVID-19: An alternative approach to postgraduate supervision in the digital age
(2022)Universities globally are facing enormous governmental pressure to increase postgraduate output, and in turn, contribute to the knowledge economy. This pressure is transferred to research supervisors, who have to navigate ... -
COVID-19: Are community development scientists missing in action or missing the action?
(Routledge, 2020)While the world waits in anticipation for a vaccine against the Covid-19 virus, controlling the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic is all about managing the movement of people. The lockdown principle introduced in many ... -
COVID-19: Can this crisis be transformative for global health?
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The UN has described the health, social and economic consequences of Covid-19 as a global crisis unlike any other encountered in its history. Although a pandemic of this nature was not unforeseeable, its arrival seems ... -
COVID-19: Focus on masks and respirators – Implications for oral health-care workers
(2020)The emergence of the novel human coronavirus (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; abbreviated as: SARS-CoV-2) generally known as COVID-19 is a global health concern.1 On 11 February 2020, the World ... -
COVID-19: The invisible risk to oral healthcare workers in dentistry
(José Frantz, 2021)Oral healthcare workers (OHCW) include any professional who can work in a dental practice setting, for example dentists, dental hygienists, dental therapists, dental assistants and denturists. Dentistry, as a profession, ... -
COVID‑19 Lockdowns: Impact on facility‑based HIV testing and the case for the scaling up of home‑based testing services in Sub‑Saharan Africa
(Springer Nature, 2020)In December 2019, China reported the emergence of a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan [1]. By 7 January 2020, the etiology of the pneumonia was attributed to a virus of the coronavirus family, and later on the disease ... -
Covie community land claim
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2007)The Covie community restitution claim refers to a claim by past and present residents of Covie village, situated within the Tsitsikamma National Park, between Plettenberg Bay and Port Elizabeth in the Western Cape ... -
Cracking the nut of service learning in nursing at a Higher Education Institution
(AOSIS Publishing, 2015)BACKGROUND: The readiness of academics to engage in the service-learning (SL) institutionalisation process is not accentuated in research on SL institutionalisation in South Africa. The argument has been advanced that ... -
Craniofacial, dental, and molecular features of Pyle disease in a South African child
(Springer Nature, 2022)Pyle Disease (PD), or familial metaphyseal dysplasia [OMIM 265900], is a rare autosomal recessive condition leading to widened metaphyses of long bones and cortical bone thinning and genu valgum. We detail the oro-dental ... -
The CRC in South Africa 15 years on: does the new Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 comply with international children’s rights instruments?
(Queens University, Belfast School of Law, 2011)Article 40 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child1 requires states parties to take appropriate measures to ensure that children accused of committing offences are treated in a manner that would ensure ... -
Creating learning and action space in South Africa’s post-apartheid land redistribution program
(SAGE Publications, 2017)This paper uses the case of South Africa’s latest land redistribution strategy known as the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy, to explore whether, and how, research can have direct and positive impacts on beneficiaries ... -
Creating opportunities through science symposia
(South African Assn. For The Advancement Of Science, 2020)For most marine scientists, unless we work in the field of fisheries development or at the interface of science and policy, it is rare to feel that we are making an impact on the lives of people in the wider community. ... -
Creating ‘safe-ish’ learning spaces—attempts to practice an ethics of care
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2018)One way to approach the project of decolonising the university is to employ decolonising pedagogies, which allow the whole of people’s lived experience into teaching and learning spaces, affirm this experience as worthy ... -
Crew members in South Africa’s squid industry: Whether they have benefited from transformation and governance reforms
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2008-10)Although crew members form bedrock of the squid industry, they have not benefited from the transformation and governance reforms because: the harvesting technique necessitates incentivisation of individual effort; they are ... -
Crime and HIV/AIDS in the Western Cape: business support organizations and business owners' perceptions
(Academic Journals, 2007)Economic growth will be severely curtailed if crime and HIV/AIDS is not effectively dealt with. Despite the fact that the business support organizations and the SMME owners are dissatisfied with the crime situation, the ... -
Crime, community and the governance of violence in post-apartheid South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2008)The South African government has embarked on a programme ofencouraging social cohesion in South Africa first to address concerns stemmingfrom high levels of violent crime which characterise the society, and second, ... -
The criminalization of torture in South Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)This article describes the politics related to the criminalization of torture in South Africa. It studies the differences between torture as an international crime and as a crime under international human rights law. The ... -
The criminalization of torture in South Africa
(Journal of African Law, 2016)This article describes the politics related to the criminalization of torture in South Africa. It studies the differences between torture as an international crime and as a crime under international human rights law. The ...