Research Articles (Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G))http://hdl.handle.net/2263/518102024-03-28T09:39:43Z2024-03-28T09:39:43Z'Foreign body' : a social history of Implanon in South Africa's Eastern CapeHodes, Rebeccahttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/901542023-11-13T11:03:51Z2023-08-01T00:00:00Z'Foreign body' : a social history of Implanon in South Africa's Eastern Cape
Hodes, Rebecca
This article explores the reception of the contraceptive implant, Implanon, by healthcare workers and patients in family planning units in South Africa’s public health sector. Based on observations conducted at public health facilities in the Eastern Cape Province, and on interviews with nurses and patients in the same province, the study explored real-world experiences of the implant. This article examines the strategies used by nurses to promote use of the device, and explores how patients themselves responded to a widescale, national rollout of the implant within government family planning services. The study examines the reception of Implanon in the context of the post-Apartheid era in South Africa, in which the vestiges of Apartheid-era healthcare provision, and lack thereof, continue to animate personal experiences of contraception.
2023-08-01T00:00:00Z“Even God gave up on them” : a deconstruction of homosexuality discourses in Zimbabwe’s online localesEvans, Henri-CountMawere, Tinashehttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/829592022-11-14T11:32:57Z2021-01-01T00:00:00Z“Even God gave up on them” : a deconstruction of homosexuality discourses in Zimbabwe’s online locales
Evans, Henri-Count; Mawere, Tinashe
Gay or queer relationships in Zimbabwe remain a site of discursive contestation. The rise in human rights advocacy has re/located the subject within the human rights premise, shifting the discussions away but not disconnected from the religious, political and cultural representations. This paper examined the societal constructions and attitudes toward homosexuality by analyzing Twitter exchanges that followed the disclosure on the 21st of September 2018, by a teacher (Neal Hovelmeier) of St John’s College in Zimbabwe, that he was gay. The disclosure prompted substantial online and offline debates on gay and queer relationships (what is popularly known as homosexuality in Zimbabwe) and produced two discursive divisions. The first division was against homosexuality and galvanized support across cultural, political, traditional, religious and social constructions. Though less popular, the other division found support from within the gay or queer community itself, the global North diplomatic missions resident in Zimbabwe, liberal left-leaning and some civil society organizations. The former’s key feature is societal resistance to homosexuality which is constructed by way of inferences to Christianity and traditional belief systems about binary gender and sex categories and sexual relations. The latter has constructed homosexuality from the premise of human rights, acceptance and tolerance.
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZThoughts from the epi(Centre) : interview with Mary CreweReddy, VasuCrewe, Maryhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/822782022-04-08T22:50:32Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZThoughts from the epi(Centre) : interview with Mary Crewe
Reddy, Vasu; Crewe, Mary
This interview engages Mary Crewe, founding Director of the Centre for the Study of AIDS, now known as the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, at the University of Pretoria, by tapping into her archive, representing a series of active commitments in community and university sites that address a life’s work that is still under construction. Vasu Reddy engages Crewe on her shaping experiences with regard to family, gender arrangements, AIDS, and gender inequalities.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZThe #feesmustfall protest : when the camp(u)s becomes the matrix of a state of emergencyKamga, Gerard Emmanuel Kamdemhttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/733512022-04-08T22:50:46Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe #feesmustfall protest : when the camp(u)s becomes the matrix of a state of emergency
Kamga, Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem
The paper examines the state’s response to students’
claim for free education that has rocked South African
tertiary institutions since 2015. These responses
have been characterised by the enforcement of a
de facto state of emergency materialised by an extreme
securitisation/militarisation of campuses and other
public spaces, resulting in human/student rights and
the rule of law being brought to a standstill. The paper
further discusses the background to the #FeesMustFall
protest and attempts to understand why the crisis was
addressed only more than two years after it erupted.
The article proceeds by looking into the aftermath of the
fees must fall campaign characterised by an escalation
of security mechanisms which succeeded in turning the
campuses into camps where fact and law are merged
into one another and where a state of emergency has lost
its exceptional character and became the new normal.
2019-01-01T00:00:00Z