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Lessons from Life Esidimeni apply to workplace: mentally impaired are entitled to dignity

Hart, T. (2019-04-04)

Prior to the closure of the the Life Esidimeni homes, which resulted in the deaths of at least 144 mentally impaired patients, families marched to the Gauteng Department of Health to hand over their memorandum to then ...

The retail sector growth, expansion, employment and income inequality: a case study of Shoprite and Pick 'n Pay in South Africa and Namibia

Mathekga, M.J.; Maciko, L. (2018-11-14)

The South African and Namibian economy is liberalised, and there is a movement of big companies from outside Africa to South Africa and Namibia. Some South African firms are operating in Namibia. Shoprite and Pick n Pay ...

Choice of language in education: do we know what South Africans want?

Gordon, S.L.; Harvey, J. (2019-01-21)

A key factor in providing quality education is the main language of instruction (M-LoI). This creates a challenging situation for education policymakers in post-colonial multilingual countries such as South Africa. ...

Unpacking policy gridlocks in Africa's development: an evolving agenda

Mugwawa, J.; Banda, G.; Bolo, M.O.; 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'This revolution has women, lesbians and gays, queers and trans bodies. Remember that!'

Reygan, F. (SUN Media, 2019-03-04)

The growing research base in relation to sexual and gender diversity in schools paints a rather bleak picture of hostility, lack of educator training and support, lack of affirming representation in learning and teaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dispora collaboration and knowledge production in Africa: reflections on caveats and opportunities

Fongwa, S. (2019-03-12)

Irrespective of its conceptualisation, diaspora contributes to the development of the homelands through diverse forms of collaboration. The increase in remittances and diaspora involvement in fostering democratic values ...

Towards an expanded discourse on graduate outcomes in South Africa

Fongwa, S. (University of South Africa Press, 2019-03-12)

With a growing culture of accountability and institutional 'managerialism' at universities and other higher education institutions, graduate employability and actual employment outcomes have become key indicators for higher ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Africa's social contract: the Economic Freedom Fighters and the rise of a new constituent power?

Adams, R. (2019-02-27)

Taking the South African constitution as an eminent symbol of the South African social contract, and noting the opinion of many that the contract has failed to deliver, this article explores the concept of the social ...

Deconstructing the paradoxes of South Africa's emerging discourse and framework on ICTs and internet governance

Darch, C.; Adams, R.; Ke, Y. (Earthscan, 2019-02-27)

This chapter examines the development of the White Paper, setting this within a historical framework of ICT policies in South Africa, before critiquing the new policy positions against recent developments within the ICT ...

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 ...

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