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‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Progressive policies protecting women’s rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all ...
Knowledge, values, and beliefs in the South African context since 1948: An overview
(Wiley, 2015)
In this contribution, an overview of the distinct waysin which the interplay between knowledge, values, and beliefs tookshape in the South African context since 1948 is offered. This is framedagainst the background of the ...
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: Children’s reflections on living in Symphony Way temporary relocation area
(National Inquiry Services Centre, 2015)
This paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the
Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows
that solutions to illness and health problems ...
New imperatives for librarianship in Africa
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)
Africa, in colonial times regarded as the “Dark Continent,” faces
many challenges, whether infrastructural, cultural, or political. Despite these challenges, countries on the continent cannot afford to
be complacent. The ...
An aligned alliance in allegiance to the drum beat of higher education's transformation agenda: A critical discourse lens
(MCSER Publishing, 2014)
This paper includes an overview of transformation challenges faced by Higher Education globally, nationally and provides concluding remarks of the urgency that all staff who works in this sector understands and exemplify ...
Desert ethics, myths of nature and novel form in the narratives of Ibrahim al-Koni
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This broadly comparative essay contrasts environmentalism in the fiction in English translation of the Libyan writer, Ibrahim alKoni, with dominant trends in contemporary environmentalism. An analysis of three of the most ...
The centre for multilingualism and diversities research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
There is an urgency in theorising how
diversity is negotiated, communicated,
and disputed as a matter of everyday
ordinariness that is compounded by the
clear linkages between diversity, transformation,
voice, agency, ...
Traditional health practitioners’ perceptions, herbal treatment and management of HIV and related opportunistic infections
(BMC, 2014)
In South Africa, traditional health practitioners’ (THPs) explanatory frameworks concerning illness
aetiologies are much researched. However there is a gap in the literature on how THPs understand HIV-related
opportunistic ...
Narratives of HIV disclosure and masculinity in a South African village
(Routledge, 2012)
This paper describes men’s experiences of disclosing their HIV status, arguing thatdisclosure restored their social respect, which was previously undermined by an illnessfrom AIDS. Results are from a 14-month ...