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Alcohol consumption amongst young adults living in a low socioeconomic status community in Cape Town
(Society for Personality Research, 2013)
Our aim was to ascertain the extent of risky alcohol consumption amongst young adults
living in a low socioeconomic status community in Cape Town, South Africa. We used a
cross-sectional survey design and the street ...
Food security in Southern African cities: the place of urban agriculture
(Sage Publications, 2011)
Several decades of research on ‘urban agriculture’ have led to markedly different conclusions about the actual and potential role of household food production in African cities. In the context of rapid urbanization, urban ...
Aspirations and human development interventions
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
What role can aspirations play in small-scale human development interventions? In this paper, we contribute to answering that question with both conceptual and empirical work. Aspirations can play at least two roles in ...
Development policy planning in Ghana: The case of health care provision
(European Scientific Institute, 2014)
This paper examines the historical development of health policy in
Ghana within the framework of financial, geographical accessibility and the
availability of health care. Historically, health policy has been
urban ...
What happens during those long hours next to the road? An exploratory study of three informal day labour hiring sites in Tshwane
(University of Stellenbosch, 2012)
The purpose of the study was to describe the nature of socio-economic activities taking place at hiring sites in Tshwane. The research approach and methodology of this study were exploratory, descriptive and qualitative. ...
"Life is not pap and vleis": poverty in child-headed households in Gauteng
(University of Stellenbosch, 2011)
Introduction: The objective of this paper is to describe the socio-economic conditions of child-headed households in Gauteng, so as to measure the extent of poverty among these children. In order to do this, the study ...
The trouble with poverty: reflections on South Africa's post-apartheid anti-poverty consensus
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This paper considers the state of poverty discourse in South Africa since 1994: the ideological frameworks,
narratives and assumptions that have shaped the construction of poverty as an object of academic
knowledge, ...
The role and linkages of buy-back centres in the recycling industry: Pretoria and Bloemfontein (South Africa)
(University of Johannesburg, 2012)
Purpose/objectives: The aim of this paper is to get a better understanding of the role and linkages of buy-back centres (BBCs) in the recycling industry. The first objective is to analyse the institutional profile of the ...
Enabling factors for the existence of waste pickers: A systematic review
(2016)
The paper reports on a systematic review research process to determine the enabling factors for waste pickers to operate in the
informal economy in South Africa. Twenty-eight South African journal articles, theses and ...
Therapeutic recreation as a developing profession in South Africa
(Routledge, 2015)
South Africa experiences socio-economic challenges with a high prevalence of
poverty resulting in disability and non-communicable diseases affecting the health and
welfare of communities. Health services are not always ...