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(Bridgewater State College, 2022-02)Efforts at guaranteeing gender equality and women’s empowerment in Nigeria reached its crescendo with the approval of the National Gender Policy (NGP) in 2006 by the Federal Executive Council, which came into effect in ...
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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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Against imperial social policy : recasting Mkandawire’s transformative ideas for Africa’s liberation (Sage, 2023-05)Forty years have passed since the implementation of the pernicious neoliberal structural reforms on the African continent in 1981. If 2021 marked a 40-year commemoration of a diabolical neocolonial project such as ...
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(Emerald, 2023-06)PURPOSE : This paper illustrates how Guba and Lincoln’s parallel criteria for establishing trustworthiness, can be adapted and applied to qualitative research on indigenous social protection systems. It provides insights ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-09)Studies of inequalities in child health have given limited attention to household structure and headship. The few existing reports on child outcomes in male and female-headed households have produced inconsistent results. ...
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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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(Routledge, 2022)Social media have created electronic media platforms like Instagram that enables snapshots of offline lives to be commemorated online. The very nature of social media platforms allows for the accepted limits of humanity ...
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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, 2024)Post-Apartheid South Africa shifted to a culture of consumption, originating with a transition to a neoliberal society [Sana, V. (2022). Bits of bytes and bites of bits: Instagram and the gendered performance of food ...
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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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