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Participants' evaluation of DST-HSRC seminars on innovation for inclusive development

Yu, K.; Masiza, M.; Rule, S.; Adonis, C. (2019-02-07)

This report presents a retrospective evaluation of participants in a selection of the IID seminars which were facilitated by the Research Use and Impact Assessment (RIA) Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council ...

South African Voter Participation Survey (VPS), 2015 - All provinces

Human Sciences Research Council

Topics covered in the questionnaire are: democracy and governance issues, municipal attitudes and performance, Identity documents, voter registration, voting history, most recent voting experience, voting irregularities, ...

Migrants in Cape Town: settlement patterns

Rule, S. (Africa Institute of South Africa, 2019-01-29)

Before 1994, most foreign migrants to the Western Cape came from the UK and Europe, but in recent decades, new streams have arrived from Zimbabwe, the DRC, Nigeria, Somalia, Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan. However, ...

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. ...

Embracing positive living for our people: 'We do not feel safe as women if [we] go there': how unsafe spaces in South African townships contribute to the HIV vulnerability of women

Cloete, A.; Sigida, S.; Zungu, N.; Lukhele, P.; Naidoo, D.; North, A.; Ntsepe, Y.; Mabaso, M.; Simbayi, L. (2019-01-10)

Who is welcoming and who is not?: an attitudinal analysis of anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa

Gordon, S. (2019-01-07)

Recurrent xenophobic violence in South Africa highlights the strong undercurrent of popular opinion opposition to international immigrants. This article examines public attitudes towards the international immigrant community ...

The changing nature of statues and monuments in Tshwane (Pretoria) South Africa

Fubah, M.A. (2019-01-04)

This paper examines the changing nature of statues and monuments in post-apartheid South Africa with special focus on newly constructed statues and monuments at the Groenkloof Nature Reserve (GNR) in Tshwane. The paper ...

User assessments and the use of information from MomConnect, a mobile phone text-based information service, by pregnant women and new mothers in South Africa

Skinner, D.; Delobelle, P.; Pappin, M.; Pieterse, D.; Esterhuizen, T.M.; Barron, P.; Dudley, L. (2019-01-04)

MomConnect was designed to provide crucial health information to mothers during pregnancy and in the early years of child rearing in South Africa. The design drew on the success of the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action's ...

How clinicians experience a simulated antiretroviral therapy adherence exercise: a qualitative study

Engelbrecht, J.G.; Mukinda, F.K.; Green, B.; Skinner, D. (2019-01-04)

With the shift of paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) from tertiary to primary health care, there has been a need to train clinicians working in primary health care facilities to support adherence to treatment. An ...

You know most of the time they do sex work, transgender women, because of issues like acceptance

Cloete, A. (2019-01-03)

Embracing positive living for our people: the Trans Women HIV Bio-Behavioural Survey: a baseline assessment among trans women in the Cape Town and Johannesburg metropolitan areas, and Buffalo City Metro Municipality, South Africa

Cloete, A. (2019-01-03)

Nobody accepted them for who they are and those are the kinds of stories that you hear

Cloete, A. (2019-01-03)

Lifetime spousal violence victimization and perpetration, physical illness, and health risk behaviours among women in India

Pengpid, S.; Peltzer, K. (2019-01-03)

The aim of this study was to assess the association between lifetime spousal violence victimization, spousal violence perpetration, and physical health outcomes and behaviours among women in India. In the 2015-2016 National ...

Early adolescent patterns of alcohol and tobacco use in eight association of South-East Asian nations (ASEAN) member states

Hong, S.A.; Peltzer, K. (2019-01-03)

Though alcohol and tobacco are the most commonly used substances among adolescents, little is known about the patterning of early adolescent substance use in Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states. ...

"You get HIV because there is no hope": qualitative assessment of transgender women's HIV vulnerabilities in three South African cities

Savva, H.; Cloete, A.; van der Merwe, L.A. (2019-01-03)

Do healthcare systems in South Africa provide for the healthcare needs of gay, lesbian & transgender populations?

Cloete, A. (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019-01-03)

Prevalence and social and health correlates of insomnia symptoms among middle-and older-age persons in rural South Africa

Pengpid, S.; Peltzer, K. (2019-01-03)

This study investigated the prevalence and social and health correlates of insomnia symptoms among middle- and older-adults in rural South Africa . We analysed baseline survey data from the Health and Aging in Africa: A ...

Consolidating South Africa's emerging democratic developmental state through developmental local government

Khambule, I. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019-01-02)

This policy brief focuses on the role of developmental local government in consolidating South Africa's emerging democratic developmental state. The brief illustrates how the country's developmental local government system, ...

Lessons learnt from transgender women's participation in the HIV Bio-Behavioural Surveys (BBS) South Africa

van der Merwe, L.A.; Cloete, A. (2019-01-02)

The day of prayer and its potential for engendering public ecclesiology ecumenism in Zambia

Kaunda, C.J. (2019-01-02)

This article argues that while the National Day of Prayer in Zambia has its inception in political context, it has obligated the institutional churches to break out of their religiously fixed spaces, forcing them to suspend ...

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