• Factors that contribute to student protests at a South African university 

  Morwe, K.G.; Garcia-Espana, E.; Luescher, T.M. (2018-10-19)

  No one could have foretold that the soiling of the Cecil John Rhodes statue with human excrement at the University of Cape Town (UCT) on March 9th, 2015 would spiral South African Universities and the general public into ...
• Research as freedom: using a continuum of interactive, participatory and emancipatory methods for addressing youth marginality 

  Swartz, S.; Nyamnjoh, A. (2018-10-19)

  This article offers an analysis of a continuum along which interactive, participatory and emancipatory inquiries may be placed in critical qualitative research with a social justice focus. It draws on critical distinctions ...
• Tackling energy, climate and development challenges in Africa 

  Mutanga, S.; Quitzow, R.; Steckel, J.C. (2018-10-19)

  In order to fulfill multiple sustainable development targets, most prominently human development, poverty eradication and climate change mitigation, African countries need infrastructure that cover basic needs while at the ...
• The spatial concentration and stability of crime in a South African township 

  Breetzke, G.D.; Edelstein, I. (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018-10-19)

  The law of crime concentration at places motivates that a small number of locations are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime. Research applying the law has largely been confined to the United States and Europe ...
• Development and validation of the youth violence potential scale 

  Edelstein, I. (2018-10-19)

  The assessment of violence risk among youth remains a priority for researchers and practitioners globally. The absence of scales designed or validated in developing countries drives the need for a psychometrically sound, ...
• A five country study of gender and sexuality diversity and schooling in southern Africa 

  Francis, D.A.; Reygan, F.; Brown, A.; Dlamini, B.; McAllister, J.; Nogela, L.; Mosime, S.T.; Muller, M.; Thani, G.T.Q. (2018-10-18)

  The importance of quality education provision for all is a globally acknowledged principle for the creation of sustainable learning environments at primary and secondary levels. This article reports on a study that aimed ...
• Creative tourism: South African township explorations 

  Booyens, I.; Rogerson, C.M. (ASEAN Institute for Health Development, 2018-10-18)

  The purpose of this paper is to explore creative forms of tourism in South African townships. The developmental potential of slum tourism is contested. One challenge is to reconfigure extant forms of slum tourism into more ...
• Assimilation and celebration?: discourses of difference and the application of critical diversity literacy education 

  Reygan, F.; Walton, E.; Osman, R. (Routledge, 2018-10-18)

  This chapter offers a critical engagement with these discourses, specifically as they manifest in education, and the discussion draws on some recent South African events. We then propose the development of a Critical ...
• South African research ethics committee review of standards of prevention in HIV vaccine trial protocols 

  Essack, Z.; Wassenaar, D.R. (2018-10-17)

  HIV prevention trials provide a prevention package to participants to help prevent HIV acquisition. As new prevention methods are proven effective, this raises ethical and scientific design complexities regarding the ...
• Speaking through pictures: canvassing adolescent risk behaviours in a semi-rural community in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa 

  Groenewald, C.; Essack, Z.; Khumalo, S. (2018-10-16)

  Adolescent risk behaviours, such as substance abuse and unprotected sex, are leading social and health challenges in South Africa (SA. The objective of the article is to investigate adolescents's perspectives on the ...
• Cost of integrating non-communicable disease screening into home-based HIV testing and counseling in South Africa 

  Golovaty, I.; Sharma, M.; Van Heerden, A.; Van Rooyen, H.; Baeten, J.M.; Celum, C.; Barnabas, R.V. (2018-10-02)

  Integrated HIV-non-communicable disease (NCD) services have the potential to avert death and disability, but require data on program costs to assess the impact of integrated services on affordability. We estimated the ...
• Using mHealth to deliver a home-based testing and counselling program to improve linkage to care and ART adherence in rural South Africa 

  Comulada, W.S.; Wynn, A.; Van Rooyen, H.; Barnabas, R.V.; Eashwari, R.; Van Heerden, A. (2018-10-02)

  Community-based HIV testing and counseling (HTC) programs have become an important part of the healthcare system in South Africa and other low- and middle-income countries with a high HIV prevalence and strained primary ...
• Using qualitative tools as interventionist research strategies for emancipation 

  Mahali, A.; Swartz, S. (2018-10-02)

  As much as South African struggles for freedom and transformation can be termed emancipatory, not all attempts to research and record them can be similarly described. This article documents the research methods employed ...
• The South African urban system 

  Baffi, S.; Turok, I.; Vacchiani-Marcuzzo, C. (Springer, 2018-09-28)

  South Africa is often considered an unusual and extreme case in geography. One difficulty is whether to label this a developing country (like its neighbouring countries), a former colony (like the United States and Australia) ...
• Identifying micro-level generative mechanisms of ICT-enabled performance improvement in resource-constrained healthcare organisations: a critical realist perspective 

  Buchana, Y.; Garbutt, M.; Seymour, L.F. (2018-09-27)

  Healthcare studies in the information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) domain have attempted to understand how technology can be used to support healthcare organisations in developing countries; ...
• Parental involvement, health behaviour and mental health among school-going adolescents in seven Pacific Island countries 

  Pengpid, S.; Peltzer, K. (2018-09-27)

  The study aimed to estimate the relationship between parental involvement, health behaviour and mental health among school-going adolescents in seven Pacific Island countries. Data utilized were from the cross-sectional ...
• Water provision in Nyanga: the community needs to be on board 

  Nomdo, A.; Davids, Y.D.; Sanchez-Betancourt, D. (2018-09-26)

  Access to safe water is a basic human right, but not a given in many of South Africa's informal settlements. The drought in Cape Town and a fast-growing population put further pressure on the city to provide water in places ...
• Bullying: reduced when learners feel like they belong in a school 

  Winnaar, L.; Beku, U. (2018-09-26)

  Research has found that creating a healthy social context within schools is vital for learner success. Are South African schools ensuring that the social needs of learners are met? Based on data from the 2015 Trends in ...
• "We were not consulted": triggers of school arson in Vuwani 

  Kanyane, M. (2018-09-26)

  In May 2016, widespread violent protests broke out in the Vuwani community in Limpopo. Twenty-seven schools were burned down or damaged. What drives a community to destroy infrastructure that is crucial for their children's ...
• Workbook and textbook availability: adding learners' voices 

  Zuze, L. (2018-09-26)

  In 2012, Limpopo was at the centre of a media storm when textbooks were not delivered to schools in the province. After high-profile litigation, many schools only received their books toward the second half of the year. ...

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