Can the gender equality norm stand out as a game-changer in shaping a countrys foreign policy and diplomatic engagements? African states, like many other nations globally, often influence regional and global processes ...
Groenewald, C.; Essack, Z.(Taylor and Francis, 2019-08-13)
Background: Whoonga is a new craze drug that young people in South Africa are increasingly using. It consists of a cocktail of drugs and is considered to be highly addictive. Yet, there is a paucity of research that describes ...
Steven, A.D.L.; Vanderklift, M.A.; Bohler-Muller, N.(Taylor and Francis, 2019-08-13)
The terms Blue Economy and Blue Carbon are, it seems, popping up everywhere, but what do they mean, and are they linked? They are usually considered separately in discussions about policy and action, which has resulted in ...
Van Zyl, C.; Kombe, F.; Okonta, P.; Rossouw, T.(Springer, 2019-08-13)
Research in the social sciences provides insights into human behaviour and social interactions. Evidence from such research may inform policies and decisions affecting the lives of many. It requires trust between the ...
Conceptualizing both economic well -being (EWB) and children's development as multidimensional constructs, the present study examines their association using bioecological developmental theory and structural equation ...
Sexual agreements between same-sex practising men facilitate communication about health promotion activities, including HIV prevention. In African contexts, male couples negotiate their sexual agreements in relation to ...
Beginning with the relevance of policies, the analysis of Zambia's retail sector in the chapter by Mwanda Phiri and Francis Ziba reminded us of the challenges that local suppliers face when trying to plug into value chains ...
Worldwide, violence claims more than 1.4 million lives each year, accounting for 1 in 40 of all deaths globally. Alarmingly, South Africa (SA) recorded a homicide rate of 35.8 per 100 000 people in 2017/18, which is the ...
Organized hypocrisy (henceforth shortened to OH) as a concept brings to the fore the importance of understanding how organizations manage conflicting forces. These forces might otherwise render an organization incapable ...
Xenophobic violence poses a clear threat to South Africa, especially in light of the country???s treaty commitments to ???open borders??? following the 30th Ordinary Assembly of the African Union. Civil society organizations ...
The Sub-Saharan Africa region still remains the epicentre of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. With regards to new paediatric HIV infections, almost 90% of new HIV infections are among children (aged 0-14 years), largely through ...
Liberal, western approaches to non-normative sexuality and gender have been roundly critiqued by queer education theorists for their regulation of sexuality and their perpetuation of cisgenderism and heteronormativity. ...
Manyaapelo, T.; Van den Borne, B.; Ruiter, R.; Sifunda, S.; Reddy, P.(2019-07-31)
Two studies evaluating the same behavioural intervention were conducted in two areas in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa using a randomized pre-test post-test control group design for study 1 (peri-urban) and a ...
To examine the association of psychological distress with serum C-reactive protein (CRP) in a South African cohort. Data were analysed on individuals aged older than 15 years from the South African National Health and ...
Achieving universal health care coverage will require greater investment in primary health care, particularly in rural and under served populations in low and middle-income countries. South Africa has invested in training ...
Jonas, K.; Roman, N.; Reddy, P.; Krumeich, A.; Van den Borne, B.; Crutzen, R.(Elsevier, 2019-07-31)
In Sub-Saharan Africa access to and utilization of sexual and reproductive healthcare is unsatisfactory. Consequently, rates of teenage pregnancy and unsafe abortions among adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa, including in ...
The aim of the study was to determine which anthropometric indices can best predict the presence of common cardiovascular risk factors among young adults in the rural village of Ellisras in the Limpopo Province, South ...