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Tuition fees and the challenge of making higher education a popular commodity in South Africa
(Springer Verlag, 2012)
The funding of higher education in South Africa has in the recent past been a subject of animated debate. This debate has ranged from the adequacy of government funding of higher education, the suitability of the funding ...
‘… The Agapanthi, Asphodels of the Negroes…’: Life-writing, landscape and race in the South African diaries and poetry of George Seferis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
The Greek poet George Seferis (1900-1971) spent 10 months in South Africa
during WWII as a senior diplomatic official attached to the Greek government
in exile. Drawing on his diary entries, correspondence and poetry ...
Narratives of transactional sex on a university campus
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
Given the imperatives of HIV and gender equality, South African researchers have foregrounded transactional sex as a common practice that contributes to unsafe and inequitable sexual practices. This paper presents findings ...
Talking South African fathers: a critical examination of men’s constructions and experiences of fatherhood and fatherlessness
(Sage Publications, 2012)
The absence of biological fathers in South Africa has been constructed as a problem for children of both sexes but more so for boy-children. Arguably the dominant discourse in this respect has demonized non-nuclear, ...
Evaluating the construct validity of the KIDSCREEN-52 Quality of Life questionnaire in a South African context
(Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)
The absence of a suitable measure to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents in South Africa, led to the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire which was developed and standardised in ...
Applying a framework for assessing the health system challenges to scaling up mHealth in South Africa
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: Mobile phone technology has demonstrated the potential to improve health service delivery, but
there is little guidance to inform decisions about acquiring and implementing mHealth technology at scale in
health ...
Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross sectional study
(BioMed Central, 2012)
Background: In low-resource settings, patients’ use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care
and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand. However, little is known ...
Explaining migrant wages: the case of Zimbabwean day labourers in South Africa
(The Clute Institute, 2012)
There has been an increasing inflow of migrants and refugees into South Africa during the last two decades. The origin of these migrants is mainly from South Africa’s long-established sources of migrant workers, including ...
HIV/AIDS knowledge, behaviour and beliefs among South African university students
(2012)
Globally, South Africa has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS. In the absence of cure, prevention is the only available method to reduce HIV prevalence rates. This can only be obtained through behavioural change, which is ...
Practice guidelines for videoconference-based telepsychiatry in South Africa
(OMICS Publishing Group, 2012)
Telepsychiatry, the practice of psychiatry over distance using information and communication technologies is, after teleradiology, the most practiced form of telemedicine in the world. As with any new technology, clinical ...