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'Asijiki' and the capacity to aspire through social media: The #feesmustfall movement as an anti-poverty activism in South Africa
(ACM, 2016)
South Africa has been a democratic country for 21 years, yet
racial and economic transformation appears to have stagnated.
Recently, the accumulation of frustration and injustice amounted
to a wave of student-led protests, ...
Telecentre functionality in South Africa: re-enabling the community ICT access environment
(Journal of Community Informatics, 2013)
Despite the availability and capabilities of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in low and middle-income countries, the use of these constantly evolving tools remains limited for the majority of resource-poor ...
Can deliberate efforts to realise aspirations increase capabilities? A South African case study
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This paper takes up Appadurai's suggestion that aspirations could be used as a key to unlock development for people who are economically marginalised, and that their capabilities could be increased by this approach. The ...
Child rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: a call for a right-based global research agenda
(University of Stellenbosch, 2013)
Despite many achievements regarding child rights over the last 20 years, including improvements in many indicators such as the significant reduction in infant and child mortality; the more positive way of thinking about ...
Role of development communication in fostering social change: evidence from Lesotho
(KRE Publishers, 2013)
A number of programmes have been implemented in the field of development communication with the specific aim of promoting social change among communities. Series of studies have also illustrated the positive effects of ...
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 ...
The impact of educational attainment on household poverty in South Africa: A case study of Limpopo province
(Routledge, 2019)
Poverty is a phenomenon that is multidimensional in nature and its meaning varies from one individual to another (Alkire and Foster 2011; Batana 2013; Bossert, Chakravarty, and D'Ambrosio 2013; Jansen et al. 2015). It can ...
Exploring adaptation and agency of mothers caring for disabled children inan urban settlement in South Africa: A qualitative study
(Elsevier, 2019)
Mothers of disabled children who are living in poverty face multiple interlinked disadvantages in relation togender, care, disability, and poverty. Yet, their experiences have been largely neglected in academic literature.This ...
Seasonal food insecurity among farm workers in the Northern Cape, South Africa
(MPDI, 2019)
Very little is known about seasonal hunger in South Africa, or about the food security and nutritional status of farm workers. This article identifies a pathway to seasonal hunger—through intra-annual fluctuations in ...
Challenging the odds of vulnerability and resilience in lone migration: Coping strategies of Zimbabwean unaccompanied minors in South Africa
(Routledge, 2019)
Childhood vulnerability attracts more societal and scholarly attention than
child resilience. This article presents experiences of some Zimbabwean
Unaccompanied Minors (ZUMs) in South Africa as an example of
children ...