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(Routledge, 2024)Time poverty remains a critical issue for water access across the globe. However, research on the time spent for water collection and the factors associated with collection time inequalities and access heterogeneities is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-07-12)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Against the background of a history of apartheid and colonialism, high levels of unemployment, an established tradition of hegemonic masculinity, pervasive violence, especially gender-based violence, as well as some of the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013-06-28)The legal end of apartheid in South Africa brought about innumerable radical changes, not least so in its implications for the identity dynamics of all citizens. Due to their parents’ and grandparents’ undeniable involvement ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-26)South Africa’s transition to democracy coincided and interlinked with massive global shifts, including the fall of communism and the rise of western capitalist triumphalism. Late capitalism operates through paradoxical ...
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(Elsevier, 2017-03)Against the background of increasing international calls for the development and implementation of age-appropriate programmes that address both quality and access issues to improve adolescent and youth health, this paper ...
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Between market, state and society : labour codes of conduct in the southern African garment industry (Routledge, 2011-12)This paper compares the way garment factory workers in South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho experience the interaction between mechanisms for inspecting labour codes of conduct and government functions and trade unions. ...
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(Routledge, 2024)The late 20th century saw a phenomenal integration of the production and consumption of clothing between the Global North and the Global South. While global integration of mass manufactured garments has been discussed at ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-05)This study illustrates how indigenous social protection systems deal with covariate shocks in Southeastern Nigeria. It emphasises the dimensions, functions, and potential of these indigenous systems in managing the risks ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Julius Sello Malema has persistently presented himself through his statements and actions as a significant voice for the economically disenfranchised in South Africa, particularly the youth. As a former African National ...
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(Routledge, 2021)Rachelle Chadwick has been a crucial voice in theorising and exploring obstetric violence in the global south, especially in South Africa. Chadwick has published widely on reproductive politics, birth narratives, critical ...
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(Routledge, 2021)The concept of ‘obstetric violence’ has emerged as an important legal and activist tool in the global quest for humane, equitable, and respectful maternal and intrapartum care. Over the last decade or so, the term has been ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Car guarding has emerged as one of the informal economic activities that form an integral part of the South African urban landscape. This activity serves as a source of livelihood for many individuals who face limited job ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-01)Using a qualitative, gender-sensitive approach, this particular case study explores the narratives of a group of white, Afrikaans-speaking, women employed in the financial sector of Gauteng. All of the participants were ...
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Challenges to and innovations in state feminism in a post-colonial society : a study of South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2018)The South African National Gender Machinery (NGM) is proclaimed to be more advanced than many of its counterparts across developing and post-industrial contexts. However, while the state has enacted various legislative and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-10-17)The objective of the research is two-fold. Firstly, the research aims to arrive at a meaningful estimate of child labour in South Africa, and secondly, to establish a link between child labour and scholastic retardation. ...
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(Rural Outreach Programme, 2007)About 25% of all children under 5 years in South Africa are severely malnourished. The objective of this study was to assess the comparative effect of person-related and household characteristics on nutritional status ...
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(Routledge, 2024)Pregnancy capacity, and gestational desire are shared by people of different genders and sexes. Yet, gestational embodiment and subjectivity are feminized in the normative cisheteropatriarchal pregnancy imaginary where ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)The national project of the African National Congress (ANC), the National Democratic Revolution (NDR), guides the post-apartheid state’s work to develop a new African middle class through policies such as Affirmative Action ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2016)This paper is concerned with the transnational political activities of Congolese nationals in Pretoria. The relationship between the migrants is marked by ethno-regional and political rivalry between two groups living ...
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