• Association between the Human Development Index and Millennium Development Goals 6 indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2014: implications for the new Sustainable Development Goals 

  Mabaso, M.L.H.; Zuma, T.P.; Mlangeni, L.; Mbiza, S.; Mkhize-Kwitshana, Z.L. (2019-02-15)

  It is important to assess whether regional progress toward achieving the millennium development goals (MDGs) has contributed to human development and whether this has had an effect on the triple burden of disease in the ...
• Innovation in a changing South Africa: extant debates and critical reflections 

  Booyens, I.; Hart, T.G.B. (Springer, 2019-02-15)

  Economic and social imperatives of innovation are increasingly becoming intertwined and important, especially in the global South. While South Africa has a nucleus of innovating enterprises, key challenges with respect to ...
• Putting the T in LGBT: trans and gender-diverse (in)visibility and activism in South Africa 

  Essack, Z.; van der Pol, N.; Ndelu, S.; Schoole, J.; van der Merwe, L.L.A.; Van Rooyen, H. (Routledge, 2019-02-14)

  The aim of the chapter is to engage with historic and contemporary forms of trans resistance and activism and to understand the ways in which the trans movement in South Africa intersects with other social movements. The ...
• Evaluating Interventions by the Department of Human Settlements to facilitate access to the city by the poor (Ref:VA 50/259): summary report. 

  Bank, L.; Patterson, M.; Ndinda, C.; Hart, T. (2019-02-14)

  In the absence of a specific policy to test, this report has explored the question of access to the city from a theoretical and empirical point of view by focusing on the broad variety of experiences of life on the urban ...
• Perspectives of healthcare professionals of the neuropsychiatric side effects associated with efavirenz and its management 

  Gaida, R.; Truter, I.; Grobler, C. (2019-02-12)

  Efavirenz is associated with neuropsychiatric side effects. The consequences of using efavirenz in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients with mental illness has not been conclusively established, the concern ...
• Foreword: towards a new sociology of higher education: South African offerings 

  Soudien, C. (SUN Media, 2019-02-12)
• Producing knowledge to raise rural living standards: how universities connect with resource-poor municipalities in South Africa 

  Jacobs, P.T.; Habiyaremye, A.; Fakudze, B.; Ramoroka, K.; Jonas, S. (2019-02-11)

  This article explores the extent to which South African universities partake in science and innovations designed to raise the living standards of poor rural residents. It concentrates on how well universities have fulfilled ...
• Socio-demographic and behavioural profile of woman in polygamous relationships in South Africa: a retrospective analysis of the 2002 population-based household survey data 

  Mabaso, M.L.H.; Malope, N.F.; Simbayi, L.C. (2019-02-07)

  The prevalence and effect of polygamous relationships may have serious reproductive and /or health consequences for women. In South Africa, unlike in other sub-Saharan countries, no nationwide survey has investigated ...
• Since 1652: tortured souls and disposed bodies 

  Khanyile, B. (Taylor and Francis, 2019-02-11)

  The article has three movements. First, it draws out some of the contours of historical trauma suffered by Black and Brown people in South Africa since the 17th century as 'bodily and psychic wounds'. Second, the article ...
• Factors associated with physical activity in South Africa: evidence from a national population based survey 

  Mlangeni, L.; Makola, L.; Naidoo, I.; Chibi, B.; Sokhela, Z.; Silimfe, ZM; Mabaso, M. (2019-02-11)

  The health benefits of regular physical activity and exercise have been widely acknowledged. Yet physical inactivity remains an issue in South Africa. This study examines factors associated with physical activity amongst ...
• Reflections on demonstrating development-oriented innovations in South Africa 

  Hart, T.G.B.; Booyens, I.; Fakudze, B.; Sinyolo, S. (2019-02-11)

  Innovation demonstrations are an important means of first-time testing and fine-tuning innovations outside of the laboratory. Through demonstrations, scientists shift the focus from research and innovation quality and ...
• Completion of the tuberculosis care cascade in a community-based HIV linkage linkage-to-care study in South Africa and Uganda 

  Shapiro, A.E.; Van Heerden, A.; Schaafsma, T.T.; Hughes, J.P.; Baeten, J.M.; Van Rooyen, H.; Tumwesigye, E.; Celum, C.L.; Barnabas, R.V. (2019-01-29)

  Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of HIV-associated mortality in Africa. As HIV testing, linkage to care and antiretroviral treatment initiation intensify to meet UNAIDS targets, it is not known what effect these ...
• Mapping participation of disabled youth in sport and other free-time activities to facilitate their livelihoods development 

  Lorenzo, T.; McKinney, V.; Bam, A.; Sigenu, V.; Sompeta, S. (2019-01-29)

  The benefits of engaging in sport and other free-time activities empower youth to learn social and life skills. There is little research evidence that participation builds competence for livelihoods development of youth ...
• Alcohol use and relationship quality among South African couples 

  Woolf-King, S.E.; Conroy, A.A.; Fritz, K.; Johnson, M.O.; Hosegood, V.; Van Rooyen, H.; Darbes, L.; McGrath, N. (2019-01-29)

  The HIV literature has largely ignored the importance of alcohol use in the quality of intimate relationships in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), despite evidence of alcohol's role in relational behaviors that increase risk for ...
• Mapping participation of disabled youth in sport and other free-time activities to facilitate their livelihoods development 

  Lorenzo, T.; McKinney, V.; Bam, A.; Sigenu, V.; Sompeta, S. (Sage, 2019-01-29)

  The benefits of engaging in sport and other free-time activities empower youth to learn social and life skills. There is little research evidence that participation builds competence for livelihoods development of youth ...
• The significance of new humanism for education and development 

  Soudien, C. (2019-01-24)

  The purpose of this contribution is to consider what the significance of the new discussion taking place around humanism is for the ways in which we think about development and education. It attempts to hold the idea of ...
• Unpacking policy gridlocks in Africa's development: an evolving agenda 

  Mugwawa, J.; Banda, G.; Bolo, M.; Kilonzo, S.; Mavhunga, C.; Mjimba, V.; Muza, O.; Teka, Z. (2019-01-24)

  Policies are not an end in themselves, but deliberate systems of principles to guide decisions and achievement of rational outcomes. Many factors inherent in or transcending policy processes have dramatic consequences for ...
• The role of social grants on commercialization among smallholder farmers in South Africa: evidence from a continuous treatment approach 

  Sinyolo, S.; Mudhara, M.; Wale, E. (2019-01-24)

  This study examined the role of social grants to smallholder producers' incentives to sell maize marketable surplus. The study used the generalized propensity score (GPS) matching method to analyse the data collected from ...
• Institutionalising racial segregation in the South African school: the School Board Act, 1905 

  Soudien, C. (2019-01-24)

  This essay attempts to show how the Social Darwinist thinking of white racial superiority, and so, ultimately, white supremacy, came to be institutionalised in law in South Africa. It looks specifically at the making and ...
• Becoming and being an academic in the post-apartheid university 

  Soudien, C. (SUN Media, 2019-01-24)

  The purpose of this chapter is to reflect on one key element involved in the process of becoming an academic, that of obtaining the doctoral degree - the coveted "license" in the current era for presenting oneself as an ...

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