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Surveying the prisons landscape - what the numbers tell us
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
This article will make observations and describe trends using available prison statistics in order to offer a quantitative perspective on the issues of democracy and human rights in South African prisons. In chis sense, ...
Race, gender and socio-economic status in law enforcement in South Africa – are there worrying signs?
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
In the South African context the right to equality has particular significance given the country’s history of statutory unfair racial discrimination. This paper investigates, based on quantitative data, how different ...
Training of trainers module for gender sensitive community engagement in large scale land based investments in agriculture
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2019)
WHY THIS TRAINING OF TRAINERS (ToT) MODULE?
In 2013, the African Union (AU) commissioned an assessment study on the occurrence of large-scale land-based investments in agriculture (LSLBI). The study was commissioned under ...
Gender, politics and sugarcane commercialisation in Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2019)
This article explores relationships between state, corporate capital and local stakeholders in the political economy of sugarcane from a gender perspective. The findings, based on empirical research at the site of Tanzania’s ...
Contestations of the meanings of love and gender in a university students' discussion
(UNISA PressRoutledge, 2013)
Love is a fluid and complex concept that is difficult to define comprehensively. Its expressions, however, show
that love is not only gendered but also influenced by one's social and economic positioning. Family ...
Her-stories in South African sport: gender and sport in the Cape Colony 1806-1910
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
INTRODUCTION: The gendering of South African sport has a point of origin which is not explicitly evident until one
examines the impact of the combined effects of the masculinity-sports relationship during the Victorian ...
Triple disadvantage: disability and gender sensitive prevention of HIV and aids through the eyes of young people with physical disabilities
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
This paper explores the different ways in which disabled girls and young women are disadvantaged and marginalised in expressing sexuality and accessing HIV and AIDS prevention and care services. Disabled young men tend to ...
Agricultural investment, gender and land in Africa: Towards inclusive equitable and socially responsible investment
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2014)
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations; the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC); ...
Women, priests and the Anglican Church in Southern Africa: reformation of holy hierarchies
(Scholars Commons @ Laurier, 2017)
The Anglican Church in Southern Africa (ACSA) is celebrating the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the ordination of women to the priesthood in 2017. The quotation
above is a statement made by the South African Council of ...
Accessing bank finance in relation to human capital, gender and race among SMMEs in a developing economy
(IEEE, 2015)
Small, Micro and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMMEs) contribute to the national economy significantly. However, many SMMEs have difficulties in accessing bank finance due to the lower level of their human capital and scarce ...