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What happened to the Child Justice Bill? The process of law reform relating to child offenders
(Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2006)
Children who are accused of crimes in South Africa are governed by the same legislation as adults. The urgent need to develop a separate child justice system culminated in the release of the draft Child Justice Bill in ...
Well worth the wait? The Sexual Offences Bill in 2006
(Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2006)
The Sexual Offences Bill finally seems to be winding its way to conclusion in parliament. It has taken three years to reach this point since its first introduction in 2003, raising serious questions about the government's ...
Ability to manage diabetes – community health workers’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs
(SEMDSA (Society for Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of SA), 2006)
BACKGROUND: Diabetes constitutes a significant health problem in South Africa. Early detection and good
management can prevent or delay complications, with national guidelines for diabetes treatment now available
to ...
"Nothing new": responses to the introduction of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006)
Interviews conducted in South Africa found that
awareness of antiretroviral therapy was generally
poor. Antiretroviral drugs were not perceived as
new, but one of many alternative therapies for
HIV/AIDS. Respondents ...
Writing from the margins - and beyond
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2006)
In 1987 José F. A. Oliver published his first poetry volume Auf-Bruch in Germany. His standing as a German-speaking poet from Spanish-Andalusian stock was linked to the Gastarbeiterliteratur, or migrant worker literature ...
A tensor approach to the estimation of hydraulic conductivities in Table Mountain Group aquifers of South Africa
(Water Research Commission, 2006)
Based on the field measurements of the physical properties of fractured rocks, the anisotropic properties of hydraulic conductivity (HC) of the fractured rock aquifer can be assessed and presented using a tensor approach ...
Evaluating the relevance of the “Real Access” criteria as a framework for rural HCI research
(ACM, 2006)
Developing ICT software that is useful and usable in a rural context poses many problems. One of the major difficulties is understanding the real needs of the target users and the constraints imposed by the rural environment. ...
Socially aware software engineering for the developing world
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2006)
While the social effects of Information Technology (IT) have received much attention there is very little work on targeted methodologies to develop IT applications and content in a developing world environment. This paper ...
The time is burning: The right of adults to basic education in South Africa
(Journal of Education, 2006)
The government has neglected the constitutional right of adults to basic education over the last decade. This paper examines the bases for holding the government to account in the constitutional court for its performance. ...
Over-expression of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 3b protein induces both apoptosis and necrosis in Vero E6 cells
(Elsevier, 2006)
The genome of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus encodes for eight accessory viral proteins with no known homologues in other
coronaviruses. One of these is the 3b protein, which is encoded by the second ...