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Xenophobia across the class divide: South African attitudes towards foreigners 2003-2012

Gordon, S. (2016-04-22)

In May 2008 anti-immigrant riots in South Africa displaced more than a hundred thousand people. Despite the media attention that the riots attracted, there has been no study that presents trend data on anti-immigrant ...

Xenophobia and school history textbooks

Chisholm, L. (2015-08-25)

In the same week that xenophobic attacks were launched against foreigners in Gauteng, Zulu ethnic nationalists burnt history textbooks in KwaZulu-Natal. Xenophobes were characterised as `the class of 1994. The link between ...

Xenophobia in South Africa: understanding the humanitarian attitude and role of Islam and Muslims in the recent xenophobic attacks on 'foreigners'

Mataar, Y. (2015-08-25)

South Africa is a constitutional democracy that strives to protect "everyone" with regard to "equality and human dignity" including minorities, namely religious minorities such as Muslims, and even 'foreigners' via the ...

Xenophobic attitudes, gender and sexuality

Sanger, N. (2015-08-25)

'Foreigners are stealing our women', was one of the justifications provided for the xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa last year. A small pilot study revealed strong xenophobic hostility towards foreigners ...

Yesterday and today, but what of tomorrow?

Pillay, S. (2015-08-25)

You are playing with your life everyday: military men's likelihood for violence perpetration & victimisation?

Mankayi, N. (2015-08-25)

You are what you eat and you eat what you can afford

Labadarios, D.; Tshitangano, F.; Shisana, O. (2015-08-25)

Despite the significant improvements in food security recorded since 2008, food security and hunger remains a serious issue in the country. And many do not eat enough healthy food, Demetre Labadarios, Fred shitangano and ...

You are where you live: matric results 2017

Zama, S. (2018-09-18)

You became afraid to tell them that you are gay: health service utilization by men who have sex with men in South African cities

Rispel, L.C.; Metcalf, C.A.; Cloete, A.; Moorman, J.; Reddy, V. (2015-08-25)

We describe the utilization of health services by men who have sex with men (MSM) in South African cities, their perceptions of available health services, and their service preferences. We triangulated data from 32 key ...

"You become afraid to tell them that you are gay": availability and utilisation of health services by men who have sex with men (MSM) in the Johannesburg/eThekwini men's study

Metcalf, C.; Rispel, L.; Cloete, A.; Reddy, V. (2015-08-25)

Background: The Johannesburg/eThekwini Men's Study (JEMS) was conducted to provide information on HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM) in two South African cities (Johannesburg and Durban) and to assess the availability ...

"You can't write in Kaapse Afrikaans in your question paper ... the terms must be right": race- and class-infused language ideologies in educational places on the Cape Flats

Cooper, A. (2018-05-24)

Language is integral to educational processes because it forms the basis for classroom communication and the medium for knowledge transfer. However, language is imbued with race- and class-related ideologies: ideas about ...

'You don't want to die. You want to reach your goals': alternative voices among young black men in urban South Africa

De Lannoy, A.; Swartz, S. (Routledge, 2016-04-28)

Drawing on a longitudinal in-depth study, this chapter argues for the need to hear and understand alternative masculinities in post-apartheid South Africa, and to bear in mind that even hyper-masculine, violent identities ...

"You get HIV because there is no hope": qualitative assessment of transgender women's HIV vulnerabilities in three South African cities

Savva, H.; Cloete, A.; van der Merwe, L.A. (2019-01-03)

"You have to bow right here": heteronormative scripts and intimate partner violence in women

Sanger, N.; Lynch, I. (2017-06-29)

Intimate partner violence is increasingly recognised as occurring not only between heterosexual partners but also in same-sex relationships. Heterogendered relationship norms have been identified as intersecting with other ...

'You have to keep reproducing success': South African student's constructions of success & agency in higher education

Morison, T.; Rule, C. (2015-11-30)

You know most of the time they do sex work, transgender women, because of issues like acceptance

Cloete, A. (2019-01-03)

"You travel faster alone, but further together": learning from cross country collaboration from a British Council Newton Fund Grant

Reddy, P.; Desai, R.; Sifunda, S.; Chalkidou, K.; Hongoro, C.; Macharia, W.; Roberts, H. (2018-09-05)

Providing universal health coverage (UHC) through better maternal, neonatal, child and adolescent health (MNCAH) can benefit both parties through North-South research collaborations. This paper describes lessons learned ...

"You will be discriminated because of like your sexual preference": are public health care practitioners sensitized to providing care, treatment and counselling to key populations in South Africa?

Mehlomakulu, V.; Cloete, A.; Simbayi, L.C.; Duda, T.; Chikovore, J.; Mthembu, J.; Naidoo, D.; Guerra, F. (2015-08-25)

Young adults, the target of below-the-line advertising

Panday, S.; Richter, L.; Bhana, A. (2015-08-25)

South Africa has instituted some of the most progressive tobacco control legislation in the world through promulgation of the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act of 1999, which inter alia banned advertising and promotion ...

The young and the discontented: youth views on unemployment

Mabotja, L.; Mangqalaza, H. (2015-08-25)

Between February and October 2012, a group of HSRC research interns embarked on a study entitled the Youth-Driven Development Project. The study sought to bring together unemployed graduates to express their views on current ...

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