With female names, voices and characters, artificially intelligent Virtual Personal Assistants such as Alexa, Cortana, and Siri appear to be decisively gendered female. Through an exploration of the various facets of ...
In South Africa, public research institutes (PRIs) face the dual challenge of linking their national system of innovation (NSI) to global knowledge flows and the frontiers of science, while seeking solutions to context-specific ...
This third report of the African Innovation Outlook (AIO-3) covers a period during which major developments have taken place in the African Union policy processes. In 2013, the African Union adopted the Agenda 2063 which ...
Kanyane, M.; Rule, S.; Wentzel, M.; Viljoen, J.; Adonis, C.; Mdlongwa, T.; Ngungu, M.; Majikijela, Y.; Isaacs, N.(2020-02-25)
South Africa is experiencing a rise in local government-related political violence directed at municipal councillors and officials. Threats, intimidation, malicious damage to property and political assassinations sometimes ...
To contribute to the discussion about the role, place and significance of the South African university in the country's political economy in the context of the discussion about decolonisation, the author undertakes a ...
Bank, L.J.; Posel, D.; Wilson, F.(HSRC Press, 2020-02-25)
South Africas migrant labour system, enforced by the hated pass laws, was a fundamental component of the apartheid political economy as it developed during the 20th century. In its heyday, the system structured black lives ...
The role of public research institutes (PRIs) in innovation and development is typically researched as a linked couplet with universities, but there is little empirical research on PRIs specifically. The article investigates ...
Marais, L.; Toefy, Y.; Thompsen, S.; Diwan, V.; Skinner, D.; Mofolo, N.; Lenka, M.; Cloete, J.(Taylor and Francis, 2020-02-25)
Male circumcision is considered by some to be an acceptable global approach to reduce HIV infections. Consequently, many governments in sub-Saharan Africa run voluntary male circumcision programmes. South Africa also ...
This contribution reflects on the value of the HIV-AIDS discussion on the decolonisation debate in higher education. It looks at how a critical engagement with the insights generated in the HIV-AIDS curriculum discussion ...
This paper interrogates the relationship between South Africa's most important piece of educational policy, the South African Schools Act (SASA) (Republic of South Africa, 1996b), and learner identity. It seeks to understand ...
Crowley, T.; van der Merwe, A.; Skinner, D.(Earthscan, 2020-02-25)
Adolescence is a complex developmental phase, made more complex by chronic disease. When dealing with treatment and the health impact of chronic diseases, adolescents need to learn to self-manage an array of challenges. ...
This article revisits the Marikana massacre of 2012 in order to address the meaning of the cultural politics of ethnicity, migrancy and nationalism at the time of the massacre. In the aftermath of the Marikana massacre, ...
Informal rental housing is growing rapidly in cities of the global South. Changing needs and circumstances of diverse urban populations produce new forms of rental accommodation and landlord-tenant relations. Focusing on ...
In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers' Party of South Africa and the Non-European Unity Movement, embarked on a remarkable public education and cultural project they called the New ...
Fluks, L.L.; Naidoo, A.(Oxford University Press, 2020-02-24)
Studies on community engagement (CE) focus on its benefits but not enough on termination and difficulties experienced at the personal level with exiting projects. A study on CE with service-learning students and volunteers ...
In resource-limited settings, HIV infection is often diagnosed using 2 rapid tests. If the results are discordant, a third tiebreaker test is often used to determine HIV status. This study characterized samples with ...
Intermittent monitoring of health risk behaviours at the population level is important for the planning and evaluation of national health promotion intervention programmes. The study aimed to provide trend estimates on the ...
Oil, gas and mineral discoveries often bring hopes for wealth and better livelihoods, but for most African countries, managing such wealth has proven challenging. Appropriate and functional institutions remain key to ...