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(OTASA: Occupational Therapy Association of South Africa, 2007)Since 1994 disability organisations, like other organisations in the country, have had to face significant transformation. While the disability sector achieved major success in including issues surrounding recognition of ...
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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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Voting behaviour in the SA local government elections of 2006 with specific reference to the youth (EISA, 2007-06)This paper provides an overview of the third local government elections in South Africa, held on 1 March 2006. Three broad explanations are given for voting behaviour (rational choice, party identification, and the ...
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(CODESRIA, 2008)The key determinant of young Namibian women’s contraceptive use emerging out of this study was whether (or not) they communicated on matters of sex and reproduction with their mothers. The quantitative data analysis revealed ...
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(Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2008-01)In this article, the researcher considers ways in which qualitative methods could be used when engaging in research on reproductive and sexual practices. The primary method in South African demographic research is the ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-07)The purpose of this study was to examine the presentation of AIDS-related stigma and knowledge within the political context of the South African government’s response to the AIDS epidemic. It was during the 2000 - 2004 ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2009-02)OBJECTIVE: To investigate the comparative effect of social, economic, health and environmental characteristics on the nutritional status of children, aged 3 years, in Central Asia. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis using ...
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(Duke University Press, 2011)On July 1, 1909, Gandhi was on board the liner Kenilworth Castle en route from Cape Town to Southampton. The prosperous Johannesburg lawyer had recently emerged as a noted figure in the politics of the British Empire, ...
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(Routledge, 2011)In the period preceding the May 2011 municipal elections there was speculation in the South African media about how widespread dissatisfaction with economic insecurity and poor service delivery would affect voting behaviour. ...
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(Routledge, 2011)Since the late 1990s retrenched Basotho mineworkers have been returning in steady numbers to the rural areas of Lesotho. While marital and household relations have been rekindled in the process, there is currently much ...
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(Routledge, 2011-04-11)The pre-1996 anti-homosexuality laws have been repealed and today South Africa's constitution recognises and protects the rights of all people, regardless of their sexual orientation. Despite equality in terms of the law, ...
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(Routledge, 2011-08)The institution of domestic work and the figures of the domestic worker (the ‘maid’) and the employer (the ‘madam’) – both of which are always raced and gendered – seem to carry a powerful and affective metaphoric and ...
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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, 2012)Americans examining the South African upheaval of 1976 to 1994 are often prone to read that period of dramatic change as the analogue of the Civil Rights Movement. There may perhaps be some justification for making that ...
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(Routledge, 2012)Bieler makes this assessment of Grounding Globalization (GG): the book ‘constitutes a significant contribution to our understanding of neo-liberal globalization, its impact on workers and the possible ways of resisting’. ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012-03)No abstract available
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(Routledge, 2012-06)The 2011 conference of the South African Historical Society was a remarkably invigorating event. Professional conferences can often be bland; but this one was characterised by the presentation a rich crop of work of ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2012-11)South African state policy in the 1940s moved in significantly new political directions that were not simply the prelude to apartheid. This shift, under the leadership of Jan Smuts, towards a welfarist management of black ...
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(EASA, 2013-08)I reflect on the methodological processes underpinning a dissertation that investigated male learners' reasons for leaving high school early and the strategies they employed to negotiate everyday life. A qualitative case ...
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(Duke University Press, 2014)Hyslop’s article criticizes Julian Go’s approach to the historical analysis of empires. It views his work as an example of comparative historical sociology and contrasts it with the methods of transnational historians. ...
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