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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 ... -
Southern African Lesbian and Bisexual Women Responses to Symptoms of Sexually Transmitted Infections
(Archives of Sexual Behavior volume, 2020)Sexually transmitted infection (STI) in lesbian and bisexual women is a relatively unexplored topic, particularly for women from low- and middle-income countries. Despite perceptions that women who have sex with women (WSW) ... -
Southern African perspectives on banning corporal punishment – a comparison of Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Brill Nijhoff, 2019)This chapter reviews recent judicial and legislative developments concerning steps towards – and against – the abolition of corporal punishment in four closely connected southern African jurisdictions: South Africa, ... -
Sovereignty without sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independence
(Springer, 2008)This article questions the common assumptions in legal theory regarding Derrida’s well-known Declarations of Independence. Through a close reading of this text, well-known ground such as the relation between speech and ... -
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Malawi
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Agriculture plays a significant role in Malawi’s national economy, contributing 35% to gross domestic product, 90% to foreign exchange earnings and providing employment to more than 80% of the labour force. Particularly ... -
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Malawi country report
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)There is a growing literature on the links between farm and non-farm employment activities in rural societies and the important roles played by rural non-farm employment in poverty reduction (Lanjouw, 2001; Davis et al., ... -
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: South Africa
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Growth in the agricultural sector has long been assumed to automatically benefit the rural non-farm sector, mainly through production or consumption ‘linkages’, including expenditure by farmers and their workers. However ... -
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: South Africa country report
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Throughout much of the developing world, including sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture is frequently viewed as central to efforts to foster development and reduce poverty. Key conceptual and policy issues accordingly raised ... -
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Zimbabwe
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Growth in the agricultural sector has long been assumed to automatically benefit the rural non-farm sector, chiefly through various production or consumption expenditure ‘linkages’ including local expenditure by farmers ... -
Space, markets and employment in agricultural development: Zimbabwe country report
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2015)Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has undergone several phases of land redistribution, generally to communal and working people. The latest phase was the Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP), which began in 2000 ... -
Space/place matters
(CMDR 2017, 2017)This special issue of Multilingual Margins on the theme of “Space/ place matters” has its origin in a doctoral summer school organised in December 2016 by the Department of Linguistics and the Centre for Multilingualism ... -
Spaces of exception: southern multilingualisms as resource and risk
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)In this paper we draw attention to people who journey from one temporal and spatial setting towards another in the ‘South’, who aspire to a reconfigured sense of belonging, prosperity and wellbeing, and their multilinguality ... -
Spatial characterisation of vegetation diversity in groundwater-dependent ecosystems using in-situ and sentinel-2 msi satellite data
(MDPI, 2022)Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) are under threat from groundwater overabstraction, which significantly impacts their conservation and sustainable management. Although the socio-economic significance of GDEs is ... -
Spatial clustering of vegetation fire intensity using modis satellite data
(MDPI, 2022)This work analyses the spatial clustering of fire intensity in Zimbabwe, using remotely sensed Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) active fire occurrence data. In order to investigate the spatial pattern ... -
Spatial Land-Use Planning and Management Bill
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2012)The Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform has introduced the Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management Bill (SPLUMB) (14 of 2012) in Parliament. The Bill, which is likely to be fast-tracked, will have very serious ... -
Spatial modelling and mapping of female genital mutilation in Kenya
(BMC, 2014)Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is still prevalent in several communities in Kenya and other areas in Africa, as well as being practiced by some migrants from African countries living in other parts of the world. ... -
Spatial monitoring and reporting tool (smart) in mid-Zambezi valley, Zimbabwe: Implementation challenges and practices
(Wiley Open Access, 2021)Biodiversity monitoring and data-management technologies can enhance the protection of persecuted species, such as African elephants (Loxodonta africana), through providing management-relevant information. Implementing these ... -
The spatial practices of school administrative clerks: making space for contributive justice
(University of the Western Cape, 2012-12)The article aims to contribute to our analysis of social justice by suggesting that we broaden our focus on social justice to include issues of contributive justice. It highlights how those who are denied contributive justice ... -
Spatiotemporal green water dynamics and their responses to variations of climatic and underlying surface factors: A case study in the Sanjiang Plain, China
(Elsevier, 2023)The Sanjiang Plain (SJP), located at the confluence reaches of the Heilong, Songhua, and Wusuli Rivers in Northeast China. his study aimed to quantify the effects of varying climate and land-use/land-cover (LULC) dynamics ... -
Spatio–temporal variation of vegetation heterogeneity in groundwater dependent ecosystems within arid environments
(Ecological Informatics, 2022)Climate change, land cover change and the over–abstraction of groundwater threaten the existence of Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems (GDE), despite these environments being regarded as biodiversity hotspots. The vegetation ...