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Real acts, imagined landscapes
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2011)
Why do we want land and agrarian reform? Why should its policies be supported? Much can be said about its stated purposes and goals, but why do those goals matter — and to whom? If, as James Ferguson remarked earlier in ...
Lone Mothers in South Africa - The role of social security in respecting and protecting dignity.
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The purpose of this document is to define the group of people whom we are considering as
part of the project ‘Lone Mothers in South Africa: The role of social security in respecting
and protecting dignity’. Setting to ...
Identification of HIV and AIDS-related competencies for nurse graduates in South Africa
(AFAHPER-SD, 2014)
Three decades after the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the global community has not been able to halt the epidemic of HIV infection. Various organisations have devised a number of policies and guidelines ...
Perceived parental control, restructuring ability, and leisure motivation: a cross-cultural comparison
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Leisure is viewed worldwide as an important developmental context for adolescents. As leisure research and programs are shared across nations, it is crucial to examine the cultural equivalence of leisure-related constructs ...
South-Africa (Goodstart III) trial: community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
In light of South Africa’s generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic coupled with high infant mortality, we undertook
a cluster Randomized Control Trial (2008–10) assessing the effect of Community Health Worker
(CHW) antenatal and ...
Substance abuse and maxillofacial injuries
(South African Dental Association, 2014)
Some of the major causes of maxillofacial injuries are assault/
inter-personal violence (IPV), motor vehicle accidents
(MVAs), work-related injuries, sporting accidents and falls.
However, the epidemiological data for ...
How to build science-action partnerships for local land-use planning and management: Lessons from Durban, South Africa
(Resilience Alliance, 2016)
The gap between scientific knowledge and implementation in the fields of biodiversity conservation, environmental
management, and climate change adaptation has resulted in many calls from practitioners and academics to ...
Children’s discourses of natural spaces: considerations for children’s subjective well-being
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
Based on the evidence provided in the literature, it is manifest that increased time spent in nature increases various aspects of children’s well-being. Using discourse analysis on focus group interviews with 28 children ...
Factors influencing the infant feeding choices of HIV-positive mothers at a level two hospital in Cape Town
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2015)
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Following the decision by the South African
Department of Health in 2012 to withdraw the provision of free
infant formula milk to HIV-exposed infants, policy makers have
grappled with the need to develop ...
Implications of the official designation of Muslim clergy as authorized civil marriage officers for Muslims polygynous interfaith and same sex marriage in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2017)
From 2014 to 2017 some 227 South African Muslim clergy, including three females, graduated as civil marriage officers in terms of the Marriage Act 25 of 1961. Although now vested with dual capacity to perform both Muslim ...