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Microbial community function and structure on coal mine discard under rehabilitation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: S. Claassens --- , South Africa K.J. Riedel --- , South Africa L. Van Rensburg --- , South Africa J.J. Bezuidenhout --- , South Africa P.J. Jansen van Rensburg --- , South AfricaThe rehabilitation of coal mine discard is problematic, especially since the lack of measures to evaluate the success of rehabilitation in terms of the self-sustainability of soil ecosystems established on these sites. In this study, the potential for using microbial... -
The effect of canola (Brassica napus) as a biofumigant on soil microbial communities and plant vitality: a pot study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Clarissa Potgieter --- North-West University, South Africa Misha De Beer --- North-West University, South Africa Sarina Claassens --- North-West University, South AfricaCanola (Brassica napus) may be incorporated into soil as a biofumigant for control of pathogens such as Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Yet, the effect of biofumigants on natural microbial communities required to maintain soil functions is still unclear. A pot experiment with... -
On the dynamics of demersal fish assemblages off Namibia in the 1990s
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: G. Bianchi H. Hamukuaya O. AlvheimDemersal fish surveys carried out off Namibia from 1990 to 2000 were used to study the dynamics of demersal fish assemblages on the shelf and upper slope. The study was performed on each major assemblage, i.e. over the shelf (100–300... -
The structure of demersal assemblages off Namibia in relation to abiotic factors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: H. Hamukuaya G. Bianchi D. BairdGroundfish surveys carried out between October 1992 and October 1996 were used to describe the demersal assemblages of the northern Benguela along the Namibian coast. Multivariate analyses indicated a clear separation between shelf and slope habitats, which were divided into... -
POPULATION DYNAMICS AND DEMOGRAPHY OF AN ESTUARINE COPEPOD (PSEUDODIAPTOMUS EESSEI) IN LAKE SIBAYA, A SUBTROPICAL FRESHWATER COASTAL LAKE
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: RC Hart --- , South AfricaPopulation size and stage structure of Pseudodiaptomus hessei (Mrázek) was studied over 27 months at a single site in subtropical Lake Sibaya. Population density varied seasonally from about 1 to 4 individuals per litre, but a fairly stable population structure... -
STUDIES ON THE ZOOBENTHOS OF SOME SOUTHERN CAPE COASTAL LAKES. SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES IN THE BENTHOS OF SWARTVLEI, SOUTH AFRICA, IN RELATION TO CHANGES IN THE SUBMERGED LITTORAL MACROPHYTE COMMUNITY
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: B.R. Davies --- , South AfricaMajor changes in the benthic macro-invertebrate community of the littoral zone of Swartvlei, South Africa, took place between January and April 1978, and the equivalent months of 1980. These changes, which were associated with a collapse of the submerged littoral... -
OBSERVATIONS ON TEMPORAL TRENDS IN PHYTOPLANKTON DIVERSITY IN THE VAAL RIVER AT BALKFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of the Limnological Society of Southern Africa • Authors: A. J.H. Pieterse --- Department of Botany, South AfricaPhytoplankton diversity in the Vaal River at Balkfontein from March to October 1984 was investigated by employing different diversity indices. Most diversity indices showed appreciable variation during the study period indicating specific temporal trends. Greatest diversity was demonstrated for warmer... -
HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND FACTORS AFFECTING THE DISTRIBUTION OF MACROBENTHIC FAUNA IN SALDANHA BAY
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: L.F. Jackson --- , South Africa S. McGibbon --- , South AfricaThe most recent trends in the economic development of Saldanha Bay are towards the tourist and mariculture industries, both of which are dependent on a high quality of water. Yet this water quality is now under threat. In this study,... -
ASPECTS OF COMPARATIVE PLANKTON ECOLOGY IN CASCADING MGENI RIVER RESERVOIRS (MIDMAR, ALBERT FALLS, AND NAGLE): AN OVERVIEW
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: R.C. Hart --- Department of Zoology & Entomology, South AfricaAn overview of a three year study of abundance, community structure and succession of zooplankton and phytoplankton in relation to physical limnological conditions in Lakes Midmar and Albert Falls is presented, along with findings on zooplankton from a nine month... -
THE EFFECTS OF TROUT-FARM EFFLUENTS ON BENTHIC INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN RIVERS IN THE SOUTH-WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: C.A. Brown --- Freshwater Research Unit, Zoology Department, J.M. King --- Freshwater Research Unit, Zoology Department,The south-western Cape is currently responsible for 45% of the total annual trout production in South Africa and further expansion of this industry in the region is likely. A preliminary survey of seven trout farms situated on the upper reaches... -
SALINITY, FLOODS AND THE INFAUNAL MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITY OF THE ST LUCIA ESTUARY, KWAZULU-NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: R. K. Owen --- , , South Africa A. T. Forbes --- , , South AfricaThe St Lucia estuary and lake comprise some 80 % of the estuarine area of KwaZulu-Natal. The system is subject to floods and hypersaline conditions, the latter twice exceeding 100 since 1970. The lake is connected to the sea by... -
MANAGING THE ST. LUCIA ESTUARY—MESSAGES FROM THE MUD
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: R. K. Owen --- , , South Africa A. T. Forbes --- , , South AfricaThe infaunal macrobenthic community of the St Lucia estuary has been exposed to natural disturbance in the form of salinity fluctuations arising from floods and hypersaline conditions, and human-induced interference arising from dredging and beam trawling. The responses of the... -
A LIMNOLOGICAL SYNOPSIS OF BHANGAZI SOUTH, A DYSTROPHIC COASTAL LAKE IN THE GREATER ST LUCIA WETLAND PARK (KWAZULU/NATAL), WITH COMMENTS ON ITS CONSERVATION VALUE.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: R. C. Hart --- , , South Africa C. C. Appleton --- , , South AfricaBase-line limnological and biological data are given for Lake Bhangazi South, a small lake on the coastal plain of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. This shallow (Zmax < 6 m), subtropical lake is a warm and seemingly continuously polymictic system, but experiences... -
What engages the interest of land managers in rangeland monitoring?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: M.H. Friedel G.C. Stuart-Hill D. WalshFor many decades, scientists have been devising and refining ways of monitoring the world's rangelands. Government land management agencies have often been keen contributors to the process because they are custodians of publicly owned land and need to represent the... -
Intra-annual variation of arthropod-plant interactions and arthropod trophic structure in an endangered grassland in the Free State province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: F Buschke --- Centre for Environmental Management, South Africa M Kemp --- Centre for Environmental Management, South Africa M Seaman --- Centre for Environmental Management, South Africa S Louw --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South AfricaArthropods are valuable biological indicators owing to strong relationships with primary producers. The supposition that arthropod-plant interactions are constant over seasons was tested using Mantel tests on correlations between these groups. A total of 78 plant species and 108 arthropod... -
The vegetation of Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve, south-eastern Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: BW Clegg --- The Malilangwe Trust, Research, Zimbabwe TG O'Connor --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Science, South AfricaThe vegetation of Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve in Zimbabwe (39 378 ha) was classified and mapped in 2003 using an integrated approach of ground-based measurement and remote sensing. Environmental variables, structure and composition of the tree, shrub and herbaceous layers were... -
Community Forestry—Project Implementation Through Communities as a Whole or Through Interest Groups?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: Cori Ham --- Faculty of Forestry, Francois Theron --- Department of Public and Development Management,The term community forestry, as in the case of “community development”, can easily be misinterpreted as forestry and a development approach that must be implemented and managed by a community as a whole. The diverse groupings within a community, as... -
Community Psychology in Africa: Views From Across the Continent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- University of Western Cape, South Africa Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa Regis Chireshe --- Masvingo State University, Zimbabwe Kathleen Myambo --- American University in Cairo, Egypt Charity Akotia --- University of Ghana, Ghana Andrew Mogaji --- University of Lagos, Nigeria Theresa Tchombe --- University of Buea, CameroonThis article presents the findings of a descriptive survey conducted for the purposes of exploring whether and how community psychology has developed in the African region. In particular, the focus was on identifying whether and how community psychology has developed... -
Training of Professional Psychologists for Africa: Community Psychology or Community Work?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Olaniyi Bojuwoye --- University of Kwazulu-Natal, South AfricaIf the practice of psychology is to be relevant to environmental realities and context sensitive then conscious consideration must be given to the psychology training programme. Training programmes should give due recognition to the historical, political, social, economic and cultural... -
Community Psychology: The Case of Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Therese Tchombe --- University of Buea, Cameroon Raul Kassea --- ENS University of Yaoundé, CameroonCommunity psychology in Cameroon is a budding discipline even its practice, given the scarcity of professionals with specialised training. However, this paper highlights public and private community-oriented projects that resonate with the principles of community psychology. The demands are high... -
Community Psychology in Ghana: Challenges, Successes and Prospects
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Charity S. Akotia --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Kofi Bobi Barimah --- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, GhanaCommunity psychology gained formal recognition in Ghana when a few students were admitted to Wilfrid Laurier University, in Canada, to pursue master's degree in the early 1990s. In Ghana, community psychology is enacted through the operations of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)... -
Teaching Community Psychology into Obscurity: A Reflection on Community Psychology in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ronelle Carolissen [AN0001]The terms “community” and “community psychology” need to be examined within the context of human diversity in order to understand the apparent marginalisation of community psychology in South Africa. Community psychology might be marginalized as the term “community” tends to... -
Community Psychology and Quality of Life in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Paula Gormley --- Teosilo Kisanji University, Tanzania Tuntufye Mwamwenda --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThe purpose of this study was to explore the status of community psychology and its contribution to the quality of life in Tanzania. The study was based on both literature review and interviews. First, social responses to problems such as... -
Development of Community Psychology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Florence Chamvu --- University of Zambia, Jacqueline P. Jere-Folotiya --- University of Zambia, Kalima Kalima --- University of Zambia,The growth and development of community psychology in Zambia has been necessitated by many social problems encountered by Zambians be they health, economic or psychological. The work of governmental and nongovernmental organizations at community level has contributed to the development... -
Community Psychology in Zimbabwe: Past, Present and Future
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Regis Chireshe --- Masvingo State University, Zimbabwe Joseph M. Kasayira --- Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Pilot Mudhovozi --- Masvingo State University, Zimbabwe John Mapfumo --- Africa University, Zimbabwe Calvin Gwandure --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThe study describes and evaluates community psychology in Zimbabwe. We distinguish between a professional with the title ‘community psychologist’ and the practice of the field of community psychology in Zimbabwe. Community psychology services in Zimbabwe include the provision of education... -
Addressing Urgent Community Mental Health Needs in Rwanda: Culturally Sensitive Training Interventions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lisa Lopez Levers --- Duquesne University, USA Desire Kamanzi --- Kigali Health Institute, Rwanda Donatilla Mukamana --- Kigali Health Institute, Rwanda Kirrily Pells --- Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Dan-Bush Bhusumane --- Duquesne University and University of Botswana,Rwandan leaders in the health and educational sectors have begun to discuss the necessity for establishing culturally appropriate community-based mental health counselling services in Rwanda, especially trauma counselling. The need for a community psychology approach is anchored in the lingering... -
Broadening Mental Health Services to Disadvantaged Communities in South Africa: Reflections on Establishing a Community Based Internship
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sherine van Wyk --- Psychology Department, South Africa Anthony V. Naidoo --- Psychology Department, South AfricaThe need to provide mental health services in disadvantaged communities remains a priority in South Africa. This paper illustrates how in consultation and partnership with the peri-urban community of Jamestown, a counselling psychology internship was established to provide a range... -
Challenging the Frontiers of Community Psychology: A South African Experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ilse Ruane --- Department of Psycology, South AfricaThe development of community psychology is of vital importance in South Africa because of the historical context, questions about the relevance of mainstream western psychology and the current social change in the country in the post-apartheid era. Accordingly successful community... -
Promoting Inter-Relational Reflexivity with Psychosocial Workers in Community Work: A Case Study from Burundi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yvonne Sliep --- School of Psychology, University of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Andrew Gilbert --- Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre, South AfricaWe explore the practice of creating reflexive spaces within community work with psychosocial workers living in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A central idea is inter-relational reflexivity—reflexivity within relationships that leads to collective action. Theoretical ideas related... -
Still Photography Provides Data for Community-Based Initiatives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohamed Seedat --- UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences, Loni Baadjies Ashley van Niekerk Thoko MdakaWe use community psychology's accent on methodological pluralism and giving voice to the marginalised as a platform to critically examine the utility and outcome of photography as a data collection and community engagement method. Accordingly we focus on two community... -
Community Psychology in Africa: The Way Forward?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lynne Marks --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThis article offers a reflective comment on the topics presented in this special issue. These topics address the concept of community psychology from various perspectives presented in three thematic categories: The states and form of community psychology; the application of... -
The Effects of Kenyan Child-Raising Practices on Adult Life
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Emmy M. Gichinga --- Nairobi International School of Theology,The study investigated the effects on adult behavior of child-raising practices in Nairobi, Kenya. The research sample consisted of 11 adult men and women from polygamous (five), monogamous (five) and single parent (one) backgrounds. Additionally, the sample included adult participants... -
The Reliability of the Dyadic Satisfaction (DS) Subscale in a Low-income Semi-rural South African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Elmien Lesch --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Sarah-Kate Engelbrecht --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaThis study investigated the reliability of the Dyadic Satisfaction (DS) subscale of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) in a South African setting. One-hundred heterosexual, coloured, low-income, semi-rural couples with a mean age of 43.59 years and limited formal education participated... -
The Experience of Stress and Trauma: Black Lesbians in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marlene Arndt --- University of Johannesburg, Helena Hewat --- University of Johannesburg,The qualitative study explored the socio-cultural experiences of Black lesbians in South Africa. Participants were ten Black lesbians living around Johannesburg, Gauteng Region. Their ages ranged between 20 and 37 years. We used a phenomenological approach. The interview technique adopted... -
Community Counselling: Values and Practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa and University of Western Cape, South Africa Donna Baptiste --- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article focuses on community counselling, specifically in African contexts. A community psychology approach is used as a framework for this discussion. This approach, linked to a critical perspective, highlights the importance of going beyond individualist assessments and interventions towards... -
Community Counselling in African Contexts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa & University of Western Cape, South Africa Donna Baptiste --- University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article explores community counselling as a form of professional practice for psychologists, with a particular focus on practices that are relevant in African contexts. The discussion identifies and discusses various models of practice identified in community psychology, including an... -
Positive Adaptation in a Community of Postgraduate Students: Applying the Mmogo-method™
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Vera Roos --- North-West University, South Africa Grant Strong --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study explored the experiences of postgraduate psychology students exposed to continuous challenges and described their positive adaptation as a community. Three males and 14 females (age range: 23–30 years; 1 black, 3 coloured, 2 Indian and 11 white) took... -
Support Group Needs for People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in Communities around Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shandir Ramlagan --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Karl Peltzer --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya --- Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa Jean Francois Aquilera --- UNAIDS, South AfricaThe study constructed a participant centred perspective of what members of a support group for people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) desired from their group meetings. The study sample (n = 34) was from three support groups of PLWHA... -
Community Psychology Doctoral Theses: A South African University Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anthony L. Pillay --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Jabulani D. Thwala --- University of Zululand,The present investigation analysed the Community Psychology doctoral thesis trends with respect to student demographics, thesis topics, research methodology, research participant demographics, rural/urban focus, community empowerment focus, and programme development and evaluation at one institution. Of the 51 students who... -
Bridging the Gap in Psychological Service Delivery for a Developing Country: Teaching the Bachelor of Psychology Degree in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ilse E. Plattner --- University of Botswana, Sophie Moagi-Gulubane --- University of Botswana,This paper presents a Bachelor of Psychology (B.Psych.) programme as offered in Botswana since 2004. The B.Psych. programme is a relatively new approach and aims to bridge the gap between the country's need for psychological services and its lack of... -
Psychological Implications of Participatory Community Development Projects and their Relevance for Poverty Alleviation in Rural Communities in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nana Adu-Pipim Boaduo --- Walter Sisulu University,This article addresses the psychological foundations of participatory and effective community development projects in rural communities in Africa aiming at poverty alleviation. Psychological implications of such projects include improved collective self-esteem of individuals and groups in those communities. Positive community... -
Student Teachers' Reflections of a Community Service Learning Experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Özge Hacifazlioǧlu --- Bahcesehir University, Turkey Nesrin Özdemir --- Bahcesehir University, Turkey Hüseyin Uzunboylu --- Near East University, Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusThe study examined student teachers' reflections on being involved in a social responsibility project in a community setting. Participants were 71 beginning students in two sequential cohorts (cohort 1 = 34, cohort 2 = 37). Data on their community learning... -
Narrative-Based Responses: Discrepant Experiences in Research among the ‡Khomani San
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Willy Nel --- North West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaIn this article data on narrative-based responses by two female ‡Khomani San community members were used to explore the presence of life design issues contained in that data. Data were analyzed thematically for discrepant experiences (Said, 2001). Findings suggest the... -
The Effect of the Lifeplan® Programme on the Psychological Wellbeing of a Rural Community in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Annelize Bonthuys --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Karel F. H. Botha --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Alida W. Nienaber --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Fazel E. Freeks --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa Annamarie Kruger --- North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South AfricaThis study explored the effect of the Lifeplan® programme on a rural South African community's psychological wellbeing. Participants were adult individuals (N=99) between 20 and 83 years (mean age = 43 years, SD=13.28). A mixed method sequential explanatory research design... -
Childhood Exposure to Community and Domestic Violence: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Posttraumatic Outcomes in a South African Student Sample
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Steven J. Collings --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThe effects of exposure to direct and vicarious community and domestic violence on the posttraumatic adjustment of 323 South African students were examined. Data were collected using self-administered questionnaires, with the relationship between exposure to violence and posttraumatic outcomes being... -
Responsible Teenage Fatherhood in a South African Historically Disadvantaged Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Malose Langa --- Department of Psychology, Nicole Smith --- Department of Psychology,This study explored the meaning of teenage fatherhood in a historically disadvantaged South African community. Open ended interviews on teenage fatherhood were conducted with sixteen teenage fathers aged between 16 and 21 years. The data were analysed using thematic content... -
Community Engagement as Liberal Performance, as Critical Intellectualism and as Praxis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article aims to illustrate that engagement is a dynamic and evolutionary process, moulded by contesting ideological, social actor and contextual forces. For purposes of illustration, I draw on a university-affiliated, participatory enactment of community engagement as a case example... -
Ukuphepha: A Multi-level Community Engagement Model for the Promotion of Safety, Peace and Health
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Rodney Eksteen --- University of South Africa, South Africa Abdulsamed Bulbulia --- University of South Africa, South Africa Ashley van Niekerk --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Ghouwa Ismail --- University of South Africa, South Africa Royal Lekoba --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article aims to describe a theoretically-informed community engagement model which delivers a suite of child safety, peace and health interventions.We provide an overview of critical concepts that inform the community engagement approach that underpins the implementation of the Ukuphepha... -
Community-Based Participatory Research a Low-Income Setting: An Illustrative Case of Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sandy Lazarus --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Naiema Taliep --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Abdulsamed Bulbulia --- University of South Africa, South Africa Shaun Phillips --- Hearts of Men, Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article describes a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach in a low-income setting. Using the SCRATCHMAPS project as a case example and with literature control, we show that CBPR is influenced by dynamics relating to knowledge and power, resources and... -
Photovoice as Community Engaged Research: The Interplay between Knowledge Creation and Agency in a South African Study on Safety Promotion
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shahnaaz Suffla --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Debra Kaminer --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Umesh Bawa --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThis article aims to describe Photovoice as a method and process of enacting community engaged research. The multi-dimensional nature of Photovoice is illustrated though a case application, focused on safety promotion in two South African low-income communities. Twenty youth, evenly... -
The Use of Concept Mapping in Engaging Women to Identify the Factors that Influence Violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sarah Crawford-Browne --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Debra Kaminer --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaThis study used concept mapping to characterise the factors influencing violence as perceived by a sample of women community dwellers. Participants were 50 women (aged between 18 and 65 years) living in a high violence area of a major South... -
The Philosophical Assumptions, Utility and Challenges of Asset Mapping Approaches to Community Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sherianne Kramer --- University of South Africa, South Africa Taryn Amos --- University of South Africa, South Africa Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa, South Africa Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis literature review is a discussion of asset-based approaches to community engagement. Following a literature search, we identified several asset mapping approaches: Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD); Participatory Inquiry into Religious Health Assets, Networks and Agency (PIRHANA); Community Health Assets Mapping... -
Merging Professional Training and Community Engagement Agendas: A Case Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Tanya M. Graham --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Kerry J. Gordon --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Sarah A. Uren --- Independent Counselling and Advisory Services, South Africa Lauren Fitchet --- Independent Counselling and Advisory Services, South Africa Victoria A. Hall --- Independent Counselling and Advisory Services, South Africa Malose Langa --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaThis case study explored the emancipatory foundations of community work through a schools-based peer support intervention. We use a case study approach to describe the context in which the intervention was developed, its emancipatory theoretical foundations, and the project's implementation... -
An Ethic of Care in Participatory Research in School Community Settings
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Estelle Swart --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Marietjie Oswald --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaWe explored the manifestation and development of an ethic of care in school communities using a variety of participatory research methods. The qualitative data from this ethnographic case study were analysed using constructivist grounded theory. Our findings suggest that an... -
Community as Outsider Witness: Utilising Community Members in the Reconstitution of Problem-Saturated Identities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Trudy Meehan --- Rhodes University, South Africa Kirsten Farquharson --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThis study explored community members' ability to enlist discourses affirming of psychiatric patients' quest for generative identities. The participants were members of the public who attended an exhibition of psychiatric patients' artwork (n = 7, age range 18–55). A Foucauldian... -
Teaching Community Psychology as Community Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Angelo Fynn --- University of South Africa, South Africa Martin Terre Blanche --- University of South Africa, South Africa Eduard Fourie --- University of South Africa, South Africa Johan Kruger --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis report describes a model for teaching community psychology as a form of community engagement and the related practices to encourage active engagement between students and their communities. As active community learners, students need to explore self, family and community... -
Community Centred Learning: A Pathway to Community Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lebogang Lorraine Phiri --- University of South Africa, South Africa Natasha Hendricks --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaWe report on the experiences of participants on a course which represented a pathway to community engagement. The 76 participants (20 males, 46 females), from two low-income South African communities, were part of a multi-lingual group representing English, Africans, isiZulu... -
“…Here We Help Each Other”: Sense of Community of People Subjected to Forced Removals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shingairai Chigeza --- North-West University, South Africa Vera Roos --- North-West University, South Africa Karen Puren --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study examined the sense of community of people with experience of forced removals in a South African setting. The participants were 200–108 men (54%) and 92 women (46%) between 18 and 61 years of age and selected using systematic... -
Counselling on Rails: Social Accountability Learning Among South African Psychology Students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Annelize Bonthuys --- North-West University, Itumeleng P. Khumalo --- North-West University, Lynette Flusk --- Transnet-Phelophepa Health-Care Train,This study investigated the utility of train transportation health care service in a North Eastern South African region. Participants were seven psychology graduate students at a South African university. They completed reflective journals on their subjective experience and objective reporting... -
Community Participation in Tobacco Control in a Nigerian Setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Catherine O. Egbe --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Inge Petersen --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Anna Meyer-Weitz --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThis study explored the role of cultural factors in tobacco use in a Nigerian setting. Participants were 27 community members: community leaders (5), political analysts/officials of non-governmental organisations (4) and 18 young tobacco users (age range 18 and 24 years)... -
South African Eastern Cape Contexts Influencing the Quality of Community Home-Based Care
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: David Morton --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Thoko Mayekiso --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Peter Cunningham --- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University,This study explored the perceptions of the quality of community home-based care (CHBC) as provided by volunteer caregivers in a South African Eastern Cape district. Data on perceptions regarding quality of care were collected from 76 community informants (32 volunteer... -
Research Agenda to Facilitate Community Participation In HIV Vaccine Research: A Participatory Approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anthea Lesch --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Sagri Singh --- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Country and Regional Programmes, USA Zuhayr Kafaar --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Leslie Swartz --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa Alexandre Menezes --- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Country and Regional Programmes, USAThis article reports on a participatory process to generating a research agenda to guide research on community participation in HIV vaccine research. Community members representing stakeholder parties involved in the HIV vaccine research enterprise were invited to participate in the... -
Community-Based Collaboration in Support of Older Persons
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Martha J. Watson --- North-West University, South Africa Hester C. Klopper --- North-West University, South Africa Annamarie Kruger --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study describes the processes for community-based collaboration in support of the older person living in the world of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Secondary data from study from 333 older persons (> 60 years) and 28 leaders of community agencies... -
Holistic Psychology: A Brief Primer
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D. Edwards --- University of Zululand, South AfricaThis article explicates the foundations, essential themes and healing principles of holistic psychology; an approach which provides a corrective for such trends in modern scientific psychology as disciplinary perspectives, the overemphasis on the economics and politics of professionalism. Holistic psychology... -
AIDS communications through social networks: catalyst for behaviour changes in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Daniel Low-Beer RandL StoneburnerObjective: To investigate distinctive communications through social networks which may be associated with population behaviour changes and HIV prevalence declines in Uganda compared to other countries. -
Containment and contagion: How to strengthen families to support youth HIV prevention in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Zubeda Paruk Inge Petersen Arvin Bhana Carl Bell Mary McKayThere has been little research done in South Africa that investigates how families nested within communities can be strengthened to support the prevention of HIV infection in youth. A focused ethnographic case-study approach was employed to better understand how families... -
The impact of participatory and non-participatory evaluations on meeting project objectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mercy Niba J Maryann GreenThis study investigates the value of participation on meeting a project's objectives by comparing the impact of participatory and non-participatory evaluation frameworks. We assessed HIV/AIDS projects that shared similarities in terms of objectives and implementation strategies, but differed in their... -
Relationships, partnerships and politics in the lives of the urban poor in AIDS-afflicted Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lynne JonesThis paper seeks to better understand how poor urban families caring for children are able to access help from beyond the kinship group in a setting where HIV prevalence has risen to over 40%. The fieldwork shows that livelihoods were... -
Breaching cultural silence: enhancing resilience among Ugandan orphans
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marguerite Daniel Hellen Malinga Apila Rune Bjørgo Gro Therese LieCultural silence is frequently the outcome of deep-seated taboos regarding adults talking to children about sex and death. This paper examines the impact of cultural silence on the resilience of children orphaned by AIDS in Uganda. Cultural silence is often... -
Young Malawians on the interaction between mental health and HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jerome Wright Fred Lubben Mac Bain MkandawirePrevious research has identified high levels of mental health problems among people affected by HIV. This study surveys specifically adolescents in southern Malawi on their experience of the impacts of living with HIV or AIDS on one's mental health. At... -
Behaviour and communication change in reducing HIV: is Uganda unique?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Daniel Low-Beer --- , United Kingdom RandL Stoneburner --- , United KingdomThe clearest example of declines in HIV prevalence and changes in sexual behaviour comes from Uganda. Are there lessons to learn for other countries or is Uganda unique? In this paper, we assess the epidemiological and behavioural data on Uganda... -
Contexts of vulnerability: Sex, secrecy and HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: EleanorM Preston-Whyte --- , South AfricaWritten before the announcement of a national roll out of antiretroviral treatment in South Africa, this paper uses three illustrative vignettes to draw attention to some major areas of HIV/AIDS vulnerability related to the themes of sex and secrecy within... -
Mismatches between youth aspirations and participatory HIV/AIDSprogrammes in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Andrew Gibbs --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa Catherine Campbell --- , United Kingdom Sbongile Maimane --- Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN), South Africa Yugi Nair --- Centre for Rural Health, South AfricaAlthough youth participation is a pillar of international HIV/AIDS policy, it is notoriously difficult to facilitate. We explore this challenge through a case study of a community-led HIV/AIDS management project in a South African rural area, in which anticipated youth... -
Human-rights perspectives on caregiving of people with HIV: the case for the Kanye home-based care programme, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: SimonM Kang'ethe --- Department of Adult Education, Centre for Continuous Education, BotswanaThe article discusses the human rights associated with caregiving to people with HIV or AIDS, based on empirical findings about a community home-based care programme in Kanye, Botswana. The study was explorative in nature and qualitative in design and used... -
A critical historical analysis of the South African Catholic Church's HIV/AIDS response between 2000 and 2005
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Stephen Muoki Joshua --- School of Religion and Theology, Department of History of Christianity, South AfricaThe South African HIV and AIDS experience is unique in many ways considering the country's delayed and robust epidemic, the apartheid context, and successive HIV-denialist government regimes. While the struggle for democracy may have overshadowed the enormity of the unfolding... -
Exploring the role of cognitive and structural forms of social capital in HIV/AIDS trends in the Kagera region of Tanzania – a grounded theory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gasto Frumence --- Department of Development Studies, Tanzania Malin Eriksson --- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Sweden Lennarth Nystrom --- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Sweden Japhet Killewo --- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Tanzania Maria Emmelin --- Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, SwedenThe article presents a synthesis of data from three village case studies focusing on how structural and cognitive social capital may have influenced the progression of the HIV epidemic in the Kagera region of Tanzania. Grounded theory was used to... -
The influence of antiretroviral treatment on willingness to test: a qualitative study in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Zipho Phakathi --- , South Africa Heidi Van Rooyen --- , South Africa Katherine Fritz --- , United States Linda Richter --- , South AfricaPrevious quantitative studies suggest a mutually reinforcing relationship between HIV counselling and testing (HCT) and antiretroviral treatment (ART). HCT is the entry into ART, and access to ART appears to increase HIV-testing uptake in settings with historically low uptake. Adopting... -
Determinants of age at sexual debut and associated risks among South African youths
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Khangelani Zuma --- , South Africa Thembile Mzolo --- , South Africa Elias Makonko --- , South AfricaThe research uses data from a representative national survey to explore the determinants of age at sexual debut among South African youths in the age group 15–24 years. A random sample of 5 708 youths were interviewed and 92% responded... -
The ‘Fish Trader+’ model: reducing female fish traders’ vulnerability to HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: SaskiaMC Hüsken --- , Zambia Simon Heck --- , ZambiaAnalysis from research and practice in Africa shows that fishing communities are hardly reached by HIV-related services, education, and business services, partly because of the efforts and costs involved and a lack of good practice in reaching out to these... -
Transactional sex in the fishing communities along Lake Victoria, Kenya: a catalyst for the spread of HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: ZacharyA Kwena --- Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Elizabeth Bukusi --- Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Enos Omondi --- Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Musa Ng'ayo --- Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya KingK Holmes --- Department of Global Health, United StatesThe study describes the nature, context and implications of a unique form of transactional sexual relationships in the fishing communities along Lake Victoria in Kisumu County, Kenya. We conducted 12 focus group discussions and 17 key informant interviews among fishermen,... -
Understanding the agency of home-based care volunteers: establishing identity and negotiating space in AIDS-home-based care in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Thirusha Naidu --- Department of Behavioural Medicine, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, South Africa Yvonne Sliep --- School of Psychology, South AfricaIn traditional Zulu communities, caregiving is rooted in compassionate and hardworking personal identity precepts and the traditional identity expectations of women. Home-based-care volunteerism in the community represents the performance of this identity. Data from a series of interviews with 15... -
Children's caregiving of HIV-infected parents accessing treatment in western Kenya: challenges and coping strategies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Louise Buhl Andersen --- London School of Economics and Political Science, United KingdomThis article describes qualitative research carried out in rural western Kenya in a setting characterised by poverty and high HIV prevalence. It discusses the responsibilities and challenges that children face when becoming the primary caregiver to an HIV-infected parent enrolled... -
The use of rites of passage in strengthening the psychosocial wellbeing of orphaned children in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Masego Thamuku --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, Norway Marguerite Daniel --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, NorwayChildren who have been bereaved in the context of AIDS may experience many challenges to their psychosocial wellbeing. Programmes to help orphaned children are usually anchored in child rights. As the individual focus of rights-based approaches is inept in African... -
Coping with hardship through friendship: the importance of peer social capital among children affected by HIV in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Morten Skovdal --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, Norway Vincent Onyango Ogutu --- , KenyaChildren living in households affected by HIV face numerous challenges as they take on significant household-sustaining and caregiving roles, often in conditions of poverty. To respond to their hardships, we must identify and understand the support systems they are already... -
Questioning the use-value of social relationships: care and support of youths affected by HIV in child-headed households in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Diana Van Dijk --- Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), The Netherlands Francien Van Driel --- Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), The NetherlandsThe opinion that the extended family can fulfil its supportive role in assisting child-headed households continues to exist. How these households encounter support, what this support entails, and how they experience this support is an under-researched subject. Most research literature... -
Some aspects of the ecology of the Groot Letaba River in the Northern Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: W Vlok JS EngelbrechtThe aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the current ecological status of the Groot Letaba River and to compare this information with historical data. The objective was to determine the effects of various impacts on the fish populations... -
Initiating community participation: the stakeholder communication and environmental education programme
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MJM GabrielUnder the new National Water Act the River Health Programme has Stakeholder Communication and Environmental Education (SCEE) as one of its components. This programme seeks to develop tools to help water resource managers involve previously disadvantaged communities in managing river... -
A comparison of several methods of assessing river condition using benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: CA BrownThis paper attempts to address some of the problems that are faced in the endeavour to minimise the time and financial costs of environmental monitoring. At the same time, it aims to assess the usefulness to freshwater studies of some... -
Zooplankton community changes in Nhlabane estuary, South Africa, induced by man-made structures and drought
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: HL JerlingThe Nhlabane estuary and coastal lake system has suffered a number of man-made impacts since 1977, when the lake and estuary were separated by the construction of a barrage. More recent man-made events included the construction of temporary sand walls,... -
Status of the estuarine fish fauna in the St Lucia Estuarine System, South Africa, after 30 months of mouth closure
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Digby Cyrus Leon VivierThe Lake St Lucia Estuarine System, South Africa, has been under pressure due to recent drought conditions, which led to extreme low lake levels, hypersaline conditions and closure of the mouth. The estuary mouth closed in June 2002 and has... -
Benthic faunal distribution and abundance in the Mfolozi–Msunduzi estuarine system, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: SG Ngqulana --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa RK Owen --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa L Vivier --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South Africa DP Cyrus --- Coastal Research Unit of Zululand, Department of Zoology, South AfricaThe Mfolozi–Msunduzi estuarine system historically shared a common mouth with the St Lucia estuarine system. In 1952, a separate mouth was created, 1.5 km south of St Lucia mouth, to prevent silt carried by the Mfolozi River from entering Lake... -
The effect of largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides on aquatic macro-invertebrate communities in the Wit River, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PSR Weyl --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa FC de Moor --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa MP Hill --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa OLF Weyl --- , South AfricaFish predation is one of the driving forces of freshwater invertebrate community structures, with alien predators having a pronounced effect. A quantitative assessment of aquatic invertebrates in the Wit River, Sundays River catchment, Eastern Cape, South Africa, was undertaken to... -
Water quality status and phytoplankton composition in Soetendalvlei, Voëlvlei and Waskraalsvlei, three shallow wetlands on the Agulhas Plain, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: N Gordon --- Botany Department, South Africa JB Adams --- Botany Department, South Africa F Garcia-Rodriguez --- , UruguayThree wetlands on the Agulhas Plain, for which no limnological information was available, were investigated in order to provide baseline data on their present water quality and phytoplankton community structure. Physicochemical variables were assessed and phytoplankton biomass and community analyses... -
Seasonal distribution of phytoplankton in the Aby lagoon system, Ivory Coast, West Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: NM Seu-Anoï --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Côte d'lvoire A Ouattara --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Côte d'lvoire YJ-M Koné --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Côte d'lvoire G Gourène --- Laboratoire d’Environnement et de Biologie Aquatique, Côte d'lvoireSeasonal variability of phytoplankton species composition, abundance and physical and chemical factors influencing phytoplankton dynamics were investigated in the Aby lagoon system, south-eastern Ivory Coast, covering the main climatic seasons in 2006–2007. Seasonal and spatial variability of nutrient concentrations in... -
The influence of pool size on species diversity and water chemistry in temporary rock pools on Domboshawa Mountain, northern Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: A Anusa --- Tropical Resources Ecology Programme (TREP), Department of Biological Sciences, Zimbabwe HGT Ndagurwa --- Tropical Resources Ecology Programme (TREP), Department of Biological Sciences, Zimbabwe CHD Magadza --- Tropical Resources Ecology Programme (TREP), Department of Biological Sciences, ZimbabweThe effect of pool size (area and depth) on species diversity and physicochemical characteristics of rock pool habitats on Domboshawa Mountain, northern Zimbabwe, was studied from December 2006 to May 2007. Pools were categorised based on maximum depth. Pool duration... -
Use of a small, intermittently-open estuary by waterbirds: a case study of the East Kleinemonde Estuary, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AI Terörde --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa JK Turpie --- , South AfricaLittle is known of the use and importance of South African small, intermittently-open estuaries to waterbirds. Waterbird activities were monitored in a section of the East Kleinemonde Estuary on the south-east coast of South Africa from June 2004 to May... -
Macroinvertebrates associated with two submerged macrophytes, Lagarosiphon ilicifolius and Vallisneria aethiopica, in the Sanyati Basin, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe: effect of plant morphological complexity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: C Phiri --- , Zimbabwe A Chakona --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa JA Day --- Freshwater Research Unit, Department of Zoology, South AfricaVallisneria aethiopica and Lagarosiphon ilicifolius are common and abundant submerged macrophytes in Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. The two species have distinct structural morphologies, with Vallisneria consisting of long ribbon-like leaves, while Lagarosiphon has filiform stems with numerous small alternate leaves. This... -
Fish health status, research and management in East Africa: past and present
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: P Akoll --- Department of Biological Sciences, School of Biosciences, Uganda WW Mwanja --- Department of Fisheries, UgandaThis paper reviews the state of research on fish pathogens in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda from the early 1900s, the period when fisheries management started in the region, to date, and evaluates the current policy, regulatory frameworks, management... -
A preliminary survey of biotic composition of the Olifantspruit catchment, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: ZCC Khoza --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa MJ Potgieter --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa W Vlok --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaAs a major tributary of the Nyl River, and ultimately for the Nylsvley wetland, the Olifantspruit, Limpopo province, South Africa, was investigated during the summer (high flow) and winter (low flow) of 2007 at three sites. This preliminary study used... -
An integrated remote sampling approach for aquatic invertebrates associated with submerged macrophytes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PSR Weyl --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa JA Coetzee --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South AfricaA sampling method and apparatus for collecting meaningful and quantifiable samples of aquatic macroinvertebrates, and the macrophytes they are associated with, are presented. Where physical danger from wildlife is a significant factor, especially in Africa, this apparatus offers some safety... -
Effects of 17-α-estradiol on a free-living marine nematode community: a microcosm experiment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: N Essid --- Laboratory of Environment Biomonitoring, Coastal Ecology and Ecotoxicology Unit, Tunisia F Boufahja --- Laboratory of Environment Biomonitoring, Coastal Ecology and Ecotoxicology Unit, Tunisia H Beyrem --- Laboratory of Environment Biomonitoring, Coastal Ecology and Ecotoxicology Unit, Tunisia P Aïssa --- Laboratory of Environment Biomonitoring, Coastal Ecology and Ecotoxicology Unit, Tunisia E Mahmoudi --- Laboratory of Environment Biomonitoring, Coastal Ecology and Ecotoxicology Unit, TunisiaA microcosm experiment was used to examine the effects of 17-α-estradiol on a nematode community. Four 17-α-estradiol concentrations (0.15, 0.31, 0.62 and 1.24 ppm) were tested, and effects were examined after 30 days. Significant differences were noted between nematode assemblages... -
Effects of fishing on the size and dominance structure of linefish of the Cape region, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D. Yemane J. G. Field M. H. GriffithsA dataset of linefish catch, effort and fish size distribution records has been assembled from archives to cover three short periods over the 100 years from 1897 to 1998 in four regions of the former Cape Colony, South Africa. Linefish... -
Biogeographic patterns in rocky intertidal communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: KJ Sink GM Branch JM HarrisOn the east coast of southern Africa, marine biogeographic boundaries have previously been unresolved. This paper analyses large-scale patterns of community structure of rocky intertidal shores along the whole of the KwaZulu-Natal coast, based on abundance data covering 220 macroalgal... -
Interactions between Zostera capensis and Callianassa kraussi: influences on community composition of eelgrass beds and sandflats
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: T Siebert GM BranchEelgrass beds have been postulated to support different faunal communities from unvegetated sandflats, in part because of the stabilisation of sediments in eelgrass beds and their destabilisation in sandflats due to bioturbation. More specifically, eelgrass beds have been hypothesised to... -
Patterns of diversity along experimental gradients of disturbance and nutrient supply—the confounding assumptions of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MC Pfaff --- Department of Zoology, South Africa C Hiebenthal --- , Germany M Molis --- , Germany GM Branch --- Department of Zoology, South Africa M Wahl --- , GermanyA model of the interactive effects of disturbance and productivity on diversity predicts peak diversity to shift towards higher disturbance regimes as productivity increases, confining the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis to intermediate productivity levels. We conducted a two-factorial (disturbance, nutrients) field... -
Socio-economic implications of the KwaZulu-Natal sardine run for local indigenous communities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: J Myeza --- , South Africa RB Mason --- Department of Marketing, VM Peddemors --- School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, South AfricaThe economic and social effects of the annual sardine run on the indigenous community on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, were assessed using data gathered from questionnaires and personal interviews with 329 members of the community. Their knowledge,... -
Structure of a toothed cetacean community around a tropical island (Mayotte, Mozambique Channel)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: J Kiszka --- Observatoire des Mammifères Marins, Mayotte PJ Ersts --- , USA V Ridoux --- Observatoire des Mammifères Marins, MayotteWe describe the structure of a toothed cetacean community around the island of Mayotte (South-West Indian Ocean, 45°10′ E, 12°50′ S), using data collected from small boat-based surveys conducted between July 2004 and June 2006. In all, 16 odontocete species... -
Identifying management preferences, institutional organisational rules, and their capacity to improve fisheries management in Pemba, Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: TR McClanahan --- , USA JE Cinner --- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Australia C Abunge --- , USAThe potential to improve the management of fisheries in Pemba, Mozambique, were explored by evaluating stakeholder's preferences for management and the key institutional design elements of the fisheries organisations or community councils of fisheries (CCPs). We interviewed fishers, community leaders... -
Diversity and coverage of seagrass ecosystems in south-west Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JMO Hantanirina --- , UK S Benbow --- , UKSeagrass meadows provide important nursery and feeding grounds for many commercially valuable fish species. Here, we address the paucity of published information on the status of seagrasses in Madagascar by documenting the results from ecological surveys of 11 seagrass beds... -
Local community perception of joint forest management and its implications for forest condition: the case of Dambwa Forest Reserve in southern Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: M Phiri --- Forestry Department, Zambia Forest Research Division, Zambia PW Chirwa --- Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, South Africa S Watts --- , South Africa S Syampungani --- School of Natural Resources, ZambiaThis study conducted at Dambwa Forest Reserve in Livingstone, Zambia, evaluated the perception of local people about joint management of the forest reserve in the area and if there had been improvements to the livelihoods of the community and the... -
The role of the forestry industry for the success of community forestry: a comparative input–output analysis across India and the Philippines
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Jungho Suh --- Geography, Environment and Population, AustraliaThis paper uses the 'input–output analysis' technique to investigate why the Joint Forest Management program in India has expanded while the uptake of the Community-based Forest Management program in the Philippines has been relatively slow. The forward linkage of the... -
Building partnerships to support community-led HIV/AIDS management: a case study from rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Yugi Nair Catherine CampbellThe importance of partnerships between marginalised communities and support agencies (from the public sector, private sector and civil society) is a pillar of HIV/AIDS management policy. Such alliances are notoriously difficult to promote and sustain. We present a case study... -
Representations of HIV/AIDS management in South African newspapers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Catherine Campbell Andy GibbsIn South Africa, numerous strong policy statements emphasise the importance of involving communities in HIV/AIDS management, yet in practice such involvement tends to be tokenistic and minimal. Social representations in the public sphere constitute the symbolic dimension within which responses... -
Facilitating health-enabling social contexts for youth: qualitative evaluation of a family-based HIV-prevention pilot programme
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Zubeda Paruk Inge Petersen Arvin BhanaThis paper reports on a post-intervention qualitative evaluation of the pilot intervention of the AmaQhawe Family Project, in South Africa, which is a cartoon-based, manualised intervention delivered to multiple family groups over 10 sessions, aimed at preventing HIV in adolescents... -
Exploring the relationship between HIV and alcohol use in a remote Namibian mining community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Elizabeth Lightfoot --- School of Social Work, United States Maretha Maree --- Department of Human Science, Namibia Janet Ananias --- Department of Human Science, NamibiaIn southern Africa, the use of alcohol is increasingly seen as creating a context of risk for HIV transmission. This qualitative study investigates the links between alcohol use and higher-risk sexual behaviours in a remote southern Namibian mining-town community. Using... -
Mobilising indigenous resources for anthropologically designed HIV-prevention and behaviour-change interventions in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: EdwardC Green --- , United States Cedza Dlamini --- , South Africa NicoleC D'Errico --- Graduate School of Humanities, Private Bag, South Africa Allison Ruark --- , United States Zoe Duby --- Departments of Anthropology and Epidemiology, United StatesHIV prevention is often implemented as if African culture were either nonexistent or a series of obstacles to overcome in order to achieve an effective, gender-equitable, human rights-based set of interventions. Similarly, traditional or indigenous leaders, such as chiefs and... -
Home-based care for people living with AIDS in Zimbabwe: voluntary caregivers' motivations and concerns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Alexander Rödlach --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, United StatesSimilar to the healthcare systems of other resource-constrained countries with a high prevalence of HIV and AIDS, Zimbabwe's healthcare system encourages communities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to support the public healthcare sector by initiating home-based care activities and training volunteers... -
Experiences of collaboration, coordination and efficiency in the delivery of HIV/AIDS home-based care in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: John Mazzeo --- Department of Anthropology, United States Loveness Makonese --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaThe difficulties of achieving successful collaboration between stakeholders can lead to uncoordinated and fragmented outcomes for HIV/AIDS programming, which has consequences for the immediate health and livelihood security of the intended beneficiaries. This article examines the collaboration between local, national... -
The community composition and biomass of pelagic ciliated protozoa in East African lakes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: AndrewW Yasindi WilliamD Taylor DenisH LynnThe community composition and biomass of planktonic ciliates were studied in 17 tropical East African lakes varying from freshwater to saline, and from oligotrophic to eutrophic. The conductivity of the lakes varied from 207μS cm−1 to 70 000μS cm−1. Chlorophyll... -
Variation in benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in Ologe Lagoon, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: TundeOT ImoobeThe community structure, diversity and seasonal variation of the benthic macroinvertebrates in Ologe Lagoon were studied at four sites during the dry and wet seasons of 2003 to provide environmental baseline data for the lagoon. The community comprised 29 taxa... -
Zooplankton composition, abundance and distribution in selected south and west coast estuaries in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PH Montoya-Maya --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa NA Strydom --- , South AfricaIn order to contribute to the understanding of estuarine zooplankton dynamics in cool-temperate systems, zooplankton samples were collected by plankton tows, using two modified WP2 nets, in nine estuaries on the south and west coasts of South Africa, seasonally between... -
Community participation in river monitoring using diatoms: a case study from the Buffelspoort Valley Conservancy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: J Taylor --- School of Environmental Sciences and Development (Botany Division), South Africa N Pope --- , South Africa L van Rensburg --- School of Environmental Sciences and Development (Botany Division), South AfricaThis study was undertaken to determine the present ecological state of rivers and streams in the Buffelspoort Valley Conservancy (BVC), against which later potential changes in, and impacts on, water quality could be measured. After very brief training, all field... -
Ecological integrity assessment of the fish assemblages of the Matigulu/Nyoni and Umvoti estuaries, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: GC O'Brien --- Centre for Aquatic Research, Zoology Department, South Africa R Swemmer --- Centre for Aquatic Research, Zoology Department, South Africa V Wepener --- Centre for Aquatic Research, Zoology Department, South AfricaThe estuarine fish community index (EFCI) and an estuarine fish guild assessment (EFGA) were used in 2004 and 2008 to determine the ecological state and effects of selected ecosystem variables on the Umvoti and Matigulu/Nyoni estuaries. The EFCI indicated that... -
Effects of fishing on a temperate reef community in South Africa 2: benthic invertebrates and algae
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: A Götz --- , South Africa SE Kerwath --- Department of Environmental Affairs, South Africa CG Attwood --- Marine Research Institute, Department of Zoology, South Africa WHH Sauer --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaThe effect of fishing on benthic reef communities was studied by comparing reefs within and outside the Goukamma Marine Protected Area (MPA) on the South African warm-temperate south coast. Although study sites were similar in terms of bathymetry and oceanographic... -
Institutions for sustainable land management: reflections on institutional aspects of implementing the UNCCD in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: G von Maltitz --- Natural Resources and the Environment, South AfricaBy its nature, combating desertification is a complex, multidisciplinary activity that requires coordinated responses at a multitude of levels spanning both scientific disciplines and government departments. In the final analysis, it is at the level of the land user where... -
Perceptions of forest resource use and management in two village communities in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: NM Gugushe IM Grundy F Theron PW ChirwaRural communities in South Africa are similar to communities in other parts of the developing world in terms of their use and management of natural forest resources as a means of sustaining their livelihoods. Participatory surveys were conducted with communities... -
Chronic pain in the community: a survey in a township in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: EU Igumbor --- School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa TR Puoane --- School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, South Africa SA Gansky --- Division of Oral Epidemiology, USA O Plesh --- Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Science, USABackground: Comprehensive information is needed on the epidemiology and burden of chronic pain in the population for the development of appropriate health interventions. This study aimed to determine the prevalence, severity, risk indicators and responses of chronic pain among adults... -
Participatory action research in the training of primary health care nurses in Venda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Van Deventer --- Southern District, North-West and Witwatersrand University, JFM Hugo --- Department of Family Medicine,Background: The aim of this study was to understand and be part of a process of change in the training of primary health care nurses in Venda. -
Perceptions of the role of the clinical nurse practitioner in the Cape Metropolitan doctor-driven community health centres
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: R Kapp --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care, RJ Mash --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Care,Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of the clinical nurse practitioner (CNP) in a doctor- driven primary health care setting. A descriptive study was undertaken, using both a quantitative and a qualitative methodology. The study... -
How cheap is primary health care? Cost per script at the Heidedal Community Health Centre and National District Hospital in Bloemfontein
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: H Dippenaar --- Department of Family Medicine, G Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics, C Van Rooyen --- Department of Biostatistics,Background: It is essential to manage and budget for primary health care in order to deliver a sustainable, accessible and quality health service to the majority of the population. The aim of the study was to establish the cost per... -
Perceptions of hospital managers regarding the impact of doctors' community service
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: OB Omole --- Dept. of Family Medicine & PHC, South Africa G Marincowitz --- Dept. of Family Medicine & PHC, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Dept. of Family Medicine & PHC, South AfricaBackground: In South Africa, the distribution of doctors is skewed in favour of the urban areas, but it is not uncommon to find many peri-urban facilities in short supply of doctors. In 1997, the South African government introduced compulsory community... -
Community perception of traditional circumcision in a sub-region of the Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: BL Meel --- Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,The ritual of traditional male circumcisions (initiation) of young adults goes back generations among Xhosa people of South Africa. Xhosa tribe is committed to preserving the old cultural traditions. Recently, this ritual has been tarnished by serious complications that have... -
Evaluation of the effect of the introduction of a hypertension club on the management of hypertension at a community health centre in the Cape Town Metropole
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: N Slingers --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, PJT De Villiers --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care,Background: Hypertension is a widespread problem of immense economic importance in sub-Saharan Africa because of its high prevalence in urban areas, its frequent under-diagnosis, and the severity of its complications. A systematic review of interventions used to improve the management... -
The retention of community service officers for an additional year at district hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: A Ross --- Department of Family Medicine, S Reid --- Centre for Rural Health,Background: Community service (CS) is an effective recruitment strategy for underserved areas, using legislation as the driver; however, it is not a retention strategy. By the end of each year, most CS officers working in district hospitals (DHs) are skilled,... -
Features of integrated professional training for physically disabled people in a community-based rehabilitation programme in the rural and urban areas of Congo
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: MP Lutala --- Département de Médecine de Famille, Congo (DRC) VP Masika --- Université Catholique Graben Butembo, Congo (DRC) MC Kasereka --- Université Catholique Graben Butembo, Congo (DRC) EK Kasagila --- Department of Community Health, MalawiBackground: The rehabilitation of physically disabled people has been explored from the perspectives of patients, health professionals, rehabilitation agencies, etc. However, no study has linked disability types, training programmes and career prospects. In this study, we therefore evaluated the professional... -
Reconstructed Living Lab: supporting drug users and families through co-operative counselling using mobile phone technology
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: MB Parker --- Faculty of Informatics and Design, South Africa J Wills --- School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom GB Wills --- School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, United KingdomBackground: There is a recognised problem with drug taking in South Africa. In socially deprived areas immediate help for drug users and their families is a problem. As part of their work in a community in tension, Impact Direct Ministries... -
Community-based education for registrars in family medicine at Walter Sisulu University
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: P Yogeswaran --- Department of Family Medicine, D O'Mahony --- Department of Family Medicine, K Mfenyana --- Faculty of Health Sciences, -
Use of traditional medicine versus use of the community-based primary health care clinic by the San community at Platfontein
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: GF De Jager --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, EAM Prinsloo --- Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, G Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences,Introduction: Working amongst a San community led to the observation that, despite the availability of modern healthcare, high mortality and morbidity associated with disease, such as dehydration, malnutrition and tuberculosis, still prevailed. This study aimed to determine how traditional beliefs... -
Validating that palliative care giving is a stressful occupation: the case of the Kanye community home-based care programme, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SM Kang'ethe --- Bachelor of Business Administration Programme, Department of Distance Education, Centre for Continuous Education, BotswanaBackground: It remains an incontrovertible fact that the phenomenon of HIV/AIDS has not only posed major health and development challenges, but is also a stressor experienced at local, regional and global levels. This article explores the stress-related challenges facing volunteer... -
Gender discrepancies in the HIV/AIDS Community Home-Based Care Programme in Kanye, Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SM Kang'ethe --- Social Work Department, RSAThe aim and objective of this paper is to discuss the gender discrepancies associated with caregiving based on empirical findings from the Kanye HIV/AIDS Community Home-Based Care (CHBC) Programme. The research study was explorative and descriptive in nature and qualitative... -
The role of Ubuntu in families living with mental illness in the community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: C Engelbrecht --- School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, MI Kasiram --- School of Social Work and Community Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal,Background: Families living with mental illness are a vulnerable group in the community. In the African culture, it is accepted that families are embedded safely in a community. In accordance with the principles of Ubuntu, people with mental illness should... -
Evaluation of a project to reduce morbidity and mortality from traditional male circumcision in Umlamli, Eastern Cape, South Africa: outcome mapping
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: O Nwanze --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, R Mash --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care,Background: Traditional circumcision is common among the amaXhosa in Umlamli, Eastern Cape. Circumcision is associated with high morbidity and mortality. The need to reduce complications was identified as a priority by the local community. The aim was to design, implement... -
Review of final-year medical students' rural attachment at district hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal: student perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: P Diab --- Department of Rural Health, PD McNeill --- Centre for Rural Health, AJ Ross --- Department of Family Medicine,Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the views of students involved in rural community-based medical attachments during their final year at medical school. The programme has been in existence for some time, but no formal evaluation thereof has yet taken... -
Consultation outcomes for musculoskeletal conditions at two community health centres in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: MK Namane --- Metro District Health Services, Western Cape Department of Health, Community Health Division and Family Medicine Division, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch and Family Medicine Division, Faculty of Health Sciences, AA Kalla --- Head of Unit, Rheumatic Diseases Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, TN Young --- Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Community Health Division Faculty of Health Sciences,Objectives: To compare the proportion of patients with documented diagnoses and management plans when they presented with musculoskeletal complaints at two community health centres (CHCs) using two models of care: one with a rheumatology outreach service and the other with... -
Felicitas Publica and community well-being: nourishing relational goods through dialogic conversations between deprived and privileged populations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Helena Águeda Marujo --- School of Social and Political Sciences, Portugal Luis Miguel Neto --- School of Social and Political Sciences, PortugalThis article discusses the theoretical justifications, presumed relevance and value of using community interventions designed to be appreciative and strengths based, participatory and conversational, context sensitive and value driven, to promote well-being actions and coordinated meaning between privileged persons and... -
Effects of plantation residue management on the community structure of wattle regeneration invertebrate pests in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Prem Govender --- Research Directorate, Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaThere is a limited availability of land for the expansion of South African black wattle plantations. One way to increase productivity is to ensure the survival of seedlings during regeneration, thereby increasing the stocking of compartments. Soil invertebrate pests constitute... -
Tangible skill building and HIV youth prevention intervention in rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jill Hanass-Hancock --- Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaThere have been countless youth programmes throughout Africa resulting in increased knowledge of HIV, but all too often there is a discrepancy between knowledge and behaviour change. According to available literature, successful projects need to consider the context in which... -
Effect of organic and conventional practices on carbon-substrate utilisation by the soil microbial community in a ‘Cripps Pink’/M7 apple orchard
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: André H Meyer --- Agricultural Research Council–Infruitec/Nietvoorbij, South Africa John Wooldridge --- Agricultural Research Council–Infruitec/Nietvoorbij, South Africa Joanna F Dames --- Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, South AfricaChanges in microbial community metabolic profiles potentially can be used to identify differences in soil characteristics caused by dissimilar orchard floor management practices. The impacts of orchard floor management practices on the microbial community metabolic diversity (CMD) were examined in... -
Instant mutuality: the development of Maboneng in inner-city Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Alice Nevin --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaIn the context of strategies of urban renewal and gentrification in Johannesburg in a time of rapid urbanisation, the question of how urban renewal and gentrification affect people and their everyday lives must be considered. At present there are numerous... -
Dealing and sharing: the construction of community in a Pretoria public park
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Dennis Edward Webster --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThis paper describes how a group of men, who are invisible to the state because they possess no formal legal documentation, such as ID books or passports, and do not take part in the formal economy, live in a public... -
Integral approach to South African psychology with special reference to indigenous knowledge
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Stephen D Edwards --- Psychology Department, South AfricaIn order to redress imbalances in South African psychological service provision, honor indigenous, transpersonal, community based perspectives, and introduce fresh insights and direction, this article presents an integral approach to psychology in South Africa. Areas highlighted for future research and... -
The experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in Gaborone, Botswana: stigma, its consequences and coping mechanisms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Vincent Setlhare --- Department of Family Medicine, Botswana Anne Wright --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa Ian Couper --- Department of Family Medicine, South AfricaBackground: This study was carried out in Bontleng, Extension 14 and Old Naledi, which are low-income residential areas of Gaborone, Botswana. The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of people living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency... -
Appreciative inquiry evaluation of child and adolescent community interventions in South Africa and United Kingdom
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: David J. Edwards --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis international, qualitative study comparatively evaluated South African and United Kingdom child and adolescent community interventions. Appreciative inquiry information was gathered from five staff members in community centres in each country. South African practitioners represented various psychology categories, student, educational,... -
Spring diet and trophic partitioning in an alpine lizard community from Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Miguel A. Carretero --- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO/UP), Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal Anna Perera --- Departamento de Biologia Animal, Spain D. James Harris --- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO/UP), Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal Vasco Batista --- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO/UP), Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal Catarina Pinho --- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO/UP), Campus Agrário de Vairão, PortugalOukaïmeden Plateau is a herpetologically rich locality in the High Atlas (Morocco) where four lizard species coexist in strict sympatry: three lacertids (Lacerta perspicillata chabanaudi, L. andreanszkyi and Podarcis vaucheri – formerly P. hispanica vaucheri) and one gekkonid (Quedenfeldtia trachyblepharus)... -
The leaf-litter earthworm fauna (Annelida: Oligochaeta) of forests in Limpopo Province, South Africa: diversity, communities and conservation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Johanna L. Horn --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa J. Danuta Plisko --- Natal Museum, South Africa Michelle L. Hamer --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaA qualitative survey of the leaf-litter earthworm fauna of 11 selected indigenous forests in Limpopo Province, South Africa, was conducted to identify the species present, to describe the communities and to assess the relationship between indigenous and exotic species. A... -
Predator control, mesopredator release, and impacts on bird nesting success: a field test
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Penn Lloyd --- Percy FitzPatrick Institute, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, South AfricaThe mesopredator release hypothesis predicts that reductions in top-predator abundance in a community will increase the abundance or activity of smaller ‘mesopredators’, and increase predation pressure on mesopredator prey, including bird nests. Top predators have been extensively controlled in rangelands... -
Zonation of benthic communities on the subtropical Aliwal Shoal, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: J. M. Olbers --- Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife, South Africa L. Celliers --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa M. H. Schleyer --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South AfricaAliwal Shoal is a subtropical, algal-dominated reef in a marine protected area located south of Durban, South Africa. The shoal has historically been heavily utilized by fishermen and SCUBA divers. In this study, a survey was undertaken to describe and... -
Description of larval fish composition, abundance and distribution in nine south and west coast estuaries of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: P. H. Montoya-Maya --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa N. A. Strydom --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South AfricaThe composition, abundance and distribution of larval fishes from nine south and west coast estuaries from South Africa was investigated by plankton tow once per season between June 2003 and March 2004. A total of 49 274 early stage fishes... -
Fish utilization of surf-zones. Are they changing? A case study of the Sheltered, warm-temperate King’s Beach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Gavin M. Rishworth --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Nadine A. Strydom --- Department of Zoology, South Africa Warren Potts --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South AfricaSurf-zone fish communities and their shifts over time are generally poorly understood. The aim of this study was to compare the current surf-zone fish assemblage at King's Beach, South Africa, to a similar study conducted three decades ago, before the... -
Meso-zooplankton movement through the newly constructed Mfolozi channel into and out of the St Lucia Estuary, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Sean van Elden --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, South Africa Michael J. Dyer --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, South Africa Nicola K. Carrasco --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, South Africa Renzo Perissinotto --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, South AfricaThe historical canalization of the Mfolozi River resulted in the St Lucia Estuary losing its main freshwater source. This, combined with the recent drought, led to low water levels, hypersaline conditions and dramatic losses in biodiversity. The excavation of a... -
Support for volunteer caregivers and its influence on the quality of community home-based care in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: David Morton --- Department of Nursing Science, South Africa Thoko Mayekiso --- Vice Chancellor's Office, University of Mpumalanga, South Africa Peter Cunningham --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaThe factors influencing the quality of community home-based care (CHBC) were explored from the perspective of volunteer caregivers, their clients and key informants in a South African Eastern Cape district. Focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews were used to collect... -
Benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in mangroves and open intertidal areas on the Dar es Salaam coast, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: C Rumisha --- Department of Biological Sciences, Tanzania H Shukuru --- Department of Biological Sciences, Tanzania J Lyimo --- Department of Biological Sciences, Tanzania JD Maganira --- Department of Biological Sciences, Tanzania A Nehemia --- Department of Biological Sciences, TanzaniaThe assemblages of benthic macroinvertebrates in mangroves and open intertidal areas of the Dar es Salaam coast, Tanzania, was investigated in 2013–2014, revealing 56 species. Higher density, species richness and diversity were recorded in open intertidal areas, compared to nearby... -
The role of community health workers in the re-engineering of primary health care in rural Eastern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Karl le Roux --- Zithulele Hospital, South Africa Ingrid M le Roux --- Philani Maternal, South Africa Nokwanele Mbewu --- Philani Maternal, South Africa Emily Davis --- Semel Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, USABackground: Primary Health Care in South Africa is being re-engineered to create a model of integrated care across different levels of the health care system. From hospitals to clinics, in the community and in the home, health care will focus... -
Aesthetics of Muslim public and community formations in Cape Town: observations of an anthropologist
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Ala Rabiha Alhourani --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThis paper explores the implications of the arrival of Muslim Somali immigrants for the emergence of other Muslim communities in post-apartheid Cape Town. The ethnography unpacks the complexity and diversity of Somali identity formation, their culturally distinct politics of aesthetics... -
Influences on life aspirations among adolescents in a low-income community in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Gaironeesa Hendricks [cor1] Shazly Savahl --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Kulthum Mathews --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Claudia Raats --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Labeeqah Jaffer --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Arnold Matzdorff --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Bianca Dekel --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Christelle Larke --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Tapiwa Magodyo --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Megan van Gesselleen --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Athena Pedro --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to determine the influences on adolescents’ aspirations from a low-income community in Cape Town. A sequential mixed method exploratory design was used following two distinct phases. The qualitative phase comprised focus group interviews with... -
The roots and complexity of the land issue and of land claims in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: FC de Beer --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,Land reform and land restitution are current and emotional issues in South Africa and a scrutiny of the antecedent events and processes is crucial for an understanding of the complexities involved. Comprehending the land issue requires a reflection on the... -
Exclusivity, hybridity and community: negotiating place, ethnicity and South African realities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael de Jongh --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,Living on a tract of land in the Soutpansberg allocated to them in 1888 by President Paul Kruger for ‘services rendered’ to the erstwhile Transvaal Republic (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek), is the hybrid and largely exclusive Buys community. As descendants of Jean... -
Locating community participation in a water supply project—the Galanefhi Water Project (Eritrea)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Solomon Haile Gebremedhin --- Department of Economic Development, Central Region, Eritrea Francois Theron --- School of Public Management and Planning, University of Stellenbosch,Water projects, like sustainable development projects in general, often tend to become unsustainable because they are guided by top-down strategies which exclude the input, influence and ownership of projects by their beneficiaries. For attaining sustainable development, the social capital of... -
New knowledge and the university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Martin Hall --- Centre for Social Justice Research,What forms of knowledge have legitimacy in the contemporary university? By using Actor-Network Theory to unravel the strands in a recent dispute about access to skeletons from a burial ground in Cape Town, this paper shows how circulating systems of... -
Greeting rituals as everyday management of differences among RasTafari groups in Stellenbosch
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Lennox Olivier --- Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University,Greeting is a meaningful part of everyday interaction among individuals from different RasTafari groups in Stellenbosch, since it contributes to the construction and maintenance of the identity and boundaries of groups. Drawing upon extensive participant observation, I first look at... -
The politics of the liminal and the liminoid in transfrontier conservation in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Marja Spierenburg --- Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The NetherlandsNature conservation in South(ern) Africa was for a long time dominated by white males and funded by a white elite. In postapartheid South Africa, government and conservation organisations have attempted to transform the sector by promoting the idea that local... -
Community perceptions of tourism in the Tshivhase area of the Limpopo Province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C.C. Boonzaaier --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, J.H.F. Grobler --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,In the past, Third World places and peoples have been promoted largely by First World tourism agents who relied heavily on stereotyped images from a colonial past, consequently depriving local communities of opportunities and the right to define their own... -
Reckoning HIV/AIDS care: A longitudinal study of community home-based caregivers and clients in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Robin Root --- Department of Sociology & Anthropology, USA Arnau Van Wyngaard --- Department of Science of Religion and Missiology, South Africa Alan Whiteside --- CIGI Chair in Global Health Policy, CanadaThe article is a descriptive case study of a community home-based care (CHBC) organisation in Swaziland that depicts the convergence of CHBC expansion with substantially improved health outcomes. Comprised of 993 care supporters who tend to 3 839 clients in... -
Characterisation of staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia at Tygerberg hospital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Epidemiology and Infection • Authors: H. Orth --- Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, Z.S. Dreyer --- Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Stellenbosch University, E. Makgotlho --- Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, W. Oosthuysen --- Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, B. Sinha --- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Groningen, E. Wasserman --- Pathcare Laboratories,To elucidate the local epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia, we characterised blood culture isolates using molecular methods and prospectively collected clinical data to determine the occurrence of community-acquired, methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). Consecutive S. aureus blood culture isolates were collected... -
The benefits of using a community-engaged research approach to promote a healthy lifestyle in three Nigerian urban slums
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: O P Akinwale --- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria J O Oyefara --- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Nigeria P E Adejoh --- Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lagos, Nigeria A A Adeneye --- Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Nigeria A K Adeneye --- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria Z A Musa --- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria K S Oyedeji --- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Nigeria M A Sulyman --- Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, NigeriaSlums are a wide range of low-income settlements with poor living conditions. The quality of the dwellings varies from simple shacks to permanent structures, while access to water, electricity, sanitation and other basic services and infrastructure tends to be limited... -
Invasion of Langebaan Lagoon, South Africa, by Mytilus galloprovincialis – effects on natural communities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: T.B. Robinson --- Zoology Department and Marine Biology Research Institute, South Africa C.L. Griffiths --- Zoology Department and Marine Biology Research Institute, South AfricaIn 1992 the invasive mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis began establishing beds on the centre sandbanks of Langebaan Lagoon. This global invader had previously been restricted to rocky shores along the South African coastline. In order to investigate the effect of the... -
Assessing the threat of avian predation on a small viperid snake
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Bryan Maritz --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, South Africa Samantha Scott --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, South AfricaPredators are important because they influence survival rates, population density and behaviour of prey species. However, assessing the predation pressure facing a particular species is difficult when that species faces a suite of predators. We aimed to characterize the suite... -
A Profile of the East African Community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Frederick Onyango Ogola --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya George N. Njenga --- Strathmore University Business School, Kenya Peter C. Mhando --- The Pennsylvania State University, USA Moses N. Kiggundu --- Carleton University Sprott School of Business, CanadaRegional integration in East Africa dates back more than a hundred years. This article provides a general synopsis of the East African Community (EAC) and traces the evolution of regional integration in Eastern Africa from colonial times to the present... -
The role of the community conversation approach in facilitating HIV/AIDS competence and utilisation of testing services in Africa: the case of Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Yeshambel T Nigatu --- Department of Health Sciences, the Netherlands Solomon Abera --- Department of Medical Laboratory and Pathology, Ethiopia Medhanit G Mekonnen --- Amref Health Africa, Ethiopia Wondiber N Melesse --- Department of Statistics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, EthiopiaBackground: HIV/AIDS is a global epidemic. Although unpublished studies showed that the number of AIDS related deaths has fallen by 39% between 2005 and 2013 in sub-Saharan Africa, the region still accounted for 74% of all the people dying from... -
Making meaning in the time of AIDS: longitudinal narratives from the Malawi Journals Project
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Amy Kaler --- Department of Sociology and School of Public Health, Canada Susan Cotts Watkins --- California Center for Population Research, USA Nicole Angotti --- Department of Sociology and Center on Health, Risk and Society, USAThe Malawi Journals Project is one of the longest-running observational field studies in rural sub-Saharan Africa, ongoing since 1999. The journals provide real-time accounts of the unfolding epidemic, from the days when AIDS was considered by rural Malawians to be... -
The ambivalence of neighbourhood in urban Burkina Faso
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jesper Bjarnesen --- The Nordic Africa Institute, SwedenIn the informal settlement of Sarfalao, in the city of Bobo-Dioulasso in south-western Burkina Faso, relations between newcomers and long-term residents in the neighbourhood were strained by the competition for living space and the opportunities to build a livelihood in... -
Saldanha Bay, South Africa II: estimating bay productivity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: GC Pitcher --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa ME Smith --- Marine Remote Sensing Unit, Department of Oceanography, South Africa TA Probyn --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South AfricaSaldanha Bay is a narrow-mouth bay on the west coast of South Africa linked to the southern Benguela upwelling system. Bay productivity was investigated by use of the conventional light-and-dark bottle oxygen method, and, for comparison, through assimilation of the... -
Community-based agricultural interventions in the context of food and nutrition security in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: M. Faber --- Nutritional Intervention Research Unit, C. Witten --- Nutritional Intervention Research Unit, S. Drimie --- Regional Coordinator, RENEWAL,Despite South Africa being a food-secure country in terms of aggregate food availability, it is listed by the World Health Organization as one of 36 high-burden countries, home to large numbers of stunted children. Recent findings, in the context of... -
Food availability and accessibility in the local food distribution system of a low-income, urban community in Worcester, in the Western Cape province
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Ja Roos --- Department of Industrial Engineering, Ga Ruthven --- Department of Industrial Engineering, Mj. Lombard --- Research and Information Division of Human Nutrition Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mh McLachlan --- Research and Information Division of Human Nutrition Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,Objectives: The objective was to understand the local food distribution system in Avian Park, with a focus on food availability and accessibility. -
Impact of Prosopis (mesquite) invasion and clearing on vegetation species composition and diversity in semi-arid Nama-Karoo rangeland, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Thabisisani Ndhlovu --- Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, South Africa Suzanne J Milton --- DST/NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, South Africa Karen J Esler --- Centre for Invasion Biology and Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, South AfricaThe Nama-Karoo biome occupies 28% of South Africa’s land area. Alien leguminous trees of the genus Prosopis have invaded large tracts of Nama-Karoo rangeland. We evaluated the impact of Prosopis invasion and clearing on vegetation species composition and diversity (alien... -
An evaluation of the Mental Health Facilitator programme in rural Uganda: Successes and recommendations for future implementation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: James M. Van Leeuwen --- Global Livingston Institute, Sara Adkins --- Colorado School of Public Health, Tavia Mirassou-Wolf --- Colorado School of Public Health, Wendi K. Schweiger --- NBCC International, Ryan Grundy --- Global Livingston Institute,This study evaluated the impact of a Mental Health Facilitator training protocol conducted with individuals from a local community in rural Uganda. The training programme is designed to facilitate the development and delivery of basic mental health services in under-served... -
Funding of community-based interventions for HIV prevention
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nana K Poku --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South Africa René Bonnel --- Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division (HEARD), South AfricaSince the start of the HIV epidemic, community responses have been at the forefront of the response. Following the extraordinary expansion of global resources, the funding of community responses rose to reach at least US$690 million per year in the... -
(Re)politicising and (re)positioning prevention: community mobilisations and AIDS prevention in the new AIDS era
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Imara Ajani Rolston --- Department of Social Psychology & Centre for the Study of Human Rights, United KingdomAn increasing focus on the relationship between AIDS prevalence and socio-economic inequality signals the need for a revaluation of the role of “politics” and “power” in AIDS prevention. This revaluation bears great significance when considering the future trajectories of the... -
A brief overview of the ACEP project: Ecosystem Processes in the KwaZulu-Natal Bight
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ST Fennessy --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa MJ Roberts --- Branch: Oceans and Coasts, South Africa AW Paterson --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South AfricaThis introductory paper lays the basis for this supplementary issue by briefly presenting the state of knowledge on the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Bight at the start of this multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional, ship-based research project that ran from 2009 to 2013. The rationale... -
Distribution and feeding modes of macrobenthos within three oceanographic feature areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Bight, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CB Untiedt --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa CF MacKay --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South AfricaThe composition and distribution of macrobenthic communities was investigated in three areas in the KwaZulu- Natal Bight, a section of shelf off the east coast of South Africa. Areas were pre-selected on the basis of three known oceanographic features, posited... -
Learners’ perceptions and experiences of respect in educator-learner relationships
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lucie Grimova --- Centre for Child, Youth and Family Studies, South Africa Izanette Van Schalkwyk --- Centre for Child, Youth and Family Studies, South AfricaThe aim of the study was to explore and describe secondary school learners’ perceptions and experiences of respect in educator-learner relationships within a high-risk South African neighbourhood context. A qualitative research design was used in this study. The 15 participants... -
Community ecology of the metazoan parasites of snoek Thyrsites atun (Euphrasen, 1791) (Perciformes: Gempylidae) off South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MAI Nunkoo --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa CC Reed --- Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa SE Kerwath --- Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaThe parasite assemblage of snoek Thyrsites atun, a commercially important fish in the Benguela system, was examined over a one-year period. In all, 16 parasite taxa including eight new host records (Bolbosoma vasculosum, Caligus coryphaenae, Caligus dakari, Corynosoma australe, Hatschekia... -
Habitat associations of birds at Mara Naboisho Conservancy, Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Ara Monadjem --- All Out Africa Research Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, Swaziland Munir Z Virani --- The Peregrine Fund, KenyaHabitat associations of birds were quantified through fixed-radius timed bird counts at Mara Naboisho Conservancy within the Greater Mara Region, Kenya. We conducted 73 timed counts in four distinct habitats (riparian, woodland, rocky outcrop and plains) in both dry and... -
Characteristics of tuberculosis patients and the evaluation of compliance to the national TB management guidelines at clinics in a rural community from Mpumalanga province, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Jolly Musoke --- Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, South Africa Anita L. Michel --- Faculty of Veterinary Science, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, South AfricaThis study serves as baseline investigation into tuberculosis (TB) patient population characteristics and the compliance of clinics in rural settings to the national TB guidelines in terms of diagnosing the disease. A total of 62 TB positive patients’ files were reviewed... -
Leadership and governance: learning outcomes and competencies required of the family physician in the district health system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: R Mash* --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa J Blitz --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa Z Malan --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South Africa K Von Pressentin --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, South AfricaThe South African National Development Plan expects the family physician to be a leader of clinical governance within the district health services. The family physician must also help to strengthen the services through leadership in all his/her other roles as... -
Factors leading to orphans and vulnerable children living in community-based homes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jace Pillay --- South African Research Chair: Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education,This study explored the influences on living arrangements of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) housed at a community-based home in Johannesburg, South Africa. A total of 50 OVC (males = 36%, females = 64%; age range 11 to 18 years)... -
Understanding and management of epilepsy in a rural community in South Africa: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Rudzani Marry Mhlari --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Tholene Sodi --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThe aim of the study was to explore how people living with epilepsy in an indigenous rural South African community understood and managed their epilepsy. Six people with epilepsy were informants (male = 3, female = 3; age range =... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices in the control and prevention of malaria in four endemic provinces of Zambia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Nzooma M. Shimaponda-Mataa --- Department of Biomedical Sciences, Zambia Enala Tembo-Mwase --- School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Zambia Michael Gebreslasie --- School of Agriculture, Earth and Environmental Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Samson Mukaratirwa --- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThis study sought to determine malaria knowledge levels, attitudes and practices of the communities in four malaria endemic provinces of Zambia. A cross-sectional survey on knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) on malaria transmission, prevention and control was conducted among 584... -
University-driven inclusive innovations in the Western Cape of South Africa: Towards a research framework of innovation regimes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Sara Grobbelaar --- DST-NRF CoE in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, South Africa Robert Tijssen --- Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST), South Africa Marjolijn Dijksterhuis --- Stellenbosch Business School, South AfricaInclusive innovation refers to the improvement of living conditions and creation of employment opportunities for the poor through the development or co-creation of new products, services, processes and business models aimed at resource poor communities. Based on an empirical study... -
Community-level institutions in the management of palm-forest resources in Southeastern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Edlyne E. Anugwom --- Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Nigeria Eddie Igbokwe --- Department of Agricultural Extension, Nigeria Noble Nweze --- Department of Agricultural Economics, NigeriaThe study examined the role of community-level institutions in the management of palm-forest resources in Southeastern Nigeria. Southeastern Nigeria is undoubtedly the palm-forest and palm oil belt of Nigeria where these resources have been managed for at least the last... -
Practising anaesthesia as a community service doctor: a survey-based assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Belinda Kusel --- Department of Anaesthesia, South Africa Zane Farina --- Clinical Department, Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Management, South Africa Colleen Aldous --- Postgraduate Research, UKZN, South AfricaBackground: Anaesthesia-related maternal mortality remains unacceptably high, especially in district hospitals. Community service doctors (CSDs) play an important role in the provision of anaesthesia in these hospitals. The purpose of this study was to understand the experience of doctors providing... -
Evaluation of the sustainability of participatory management of forest plantations: the case study of Wari-Maro Forest Reserve, Republic of Benin
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Kisito Gandji --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Valère K Salako --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Achille E Assogbadjo --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Vincent OA Orekan --- Laboratory of Biogeography and Environmental Expertise, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences, Republic of Benin Romain L Glèlè Kakaï --- Laboratory of Biomathematics and Forest Estimations, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of Benin Brice A Sinsin --- Laboratory of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Republic of BeninThis study assessed ecological and socio-economic impacts of a participatory forest management project in the Republic of Benin. The study focused on the Wari-Maro Forest Reserve and the ‘Projet d’Aménagement des Massifs Forestiers’ five years after its completion. A forest... -
Socio-economic factors influencing household dependence on forests and its implication for forest-based climate change interventions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Chidiebere Ofoegbu --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, South Africa Paxie W Chirwa --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, South Africa Joseph Francis --- Institute for Rural Development, University of Venda, South Africa Folarannmi D Babalola --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, South AfricaIn most African countries, forest-based climate change intervention initiatives such as nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) and national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) are widely accepted. This is mainly due to the fact that they are relevant in addressing multiple... -
Developing primary health care and public health competencies in undergraduate medical students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Stephen E Knight --- School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, South Africa Andrew J Ross --- School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, South Africa Ozayr Mahomed --- School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, South AfricaBackground: The Selective Programme (Selectives) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is a three-year longitudinal, community-based programme within the undergraduate medical curriculum, which aims to develop primary health care (PHC) and public health competencies in students using the community-oriented primary... -
Rural realities in service provision for substance abuse: a qualitative study in uMkhanyakude district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: DM Mpanza --- School of Health Sciences, Discipline of Occupational Therapy, South Africa P Govender --- School of Health Sciences, Discipline of Occupational Therapy, South AfricaBackground: Substance abuse is recognised as a worldwide concern, contributing significantly to morbidity and mortality in South Africa. There is minimal research that has considered influences in mental health care service delivery in rural and disadvantaged communities in South Africa. -
Sand-mediated divergence between shallow reef communities on horizontal and vertical substrata in the western Indian Ocean
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: SN Porter --- Oceanographic Research Institute, South Africa GM Branch --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa KJ Sink --- Marine Programme, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation, South AfricaDistinctions are rarely made between vertical and horizontal surfaces when assessing reef community composition, yet physical differences are expected because of hydrodynamic differences and sediment accumulation on flat surfaces. As sand often diminishes biotic cover, we hypothesised that vertical surfaces... -
Appropriate technology and ethical obligations of the university: W.E.B. Du Bois on the Africana university mission
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: C. Verharen --- Department of Philosophy, USA G. Kadoda --- Independent Researcher, Sudan F. Bugarin --- Department of African Studies, USA J. Fortunak --- Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, USA J. Tharakan --- Department of Chemical Engineering, USA D. Schwartzman --- Department of Biology (Professor Emeritus), USA E. Wensing --- Department of Human Development, USA G. Middendorf --- Department of Biology, USAWorking on the Encyclopedia Africana under the sponsorship of Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, W.E.B. Du Bois reversed his conviction that only the ‘talented tenth’ could profit from a university education. He proposed that virtually all humans have a right to... -
Boulder shores in South Africa – a distinct but poorly documented coastal habitat type
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: L Tucker --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa CL Griffiths --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa F Schroeter --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa HD Vetter --- Marine Research Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaThis study compares the composition, species richness and biomass of macrofaunal and algal assemblages on intertidal boulder shores as compared with those on adjacent rock-platforms, at six sites along the southwest coast of South Africa. Of 214 species identified, 175... -
Community service for misdemeanours in Accra: Preferences of offenders, victims, judiciary, and community members
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Feikoab Parimah --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Joseph Osafo --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Kingsley Nyarko --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Nkansah Anakwah --- Department of Psychology, GhanaTaking religiosity into account, the study explored preferences for community service sentencing by victims, offenders, judiciary, and community members from Accra, Ghana. One hundred and ninety respondents were sampled (females = 38.42%, offenders = 5.26%, victims = 58.95%, law enforcement... -
A Place for Individuals: Positive Growth in Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Hannah Grayson --- School of Modern Languages, UKThis article introduces the Rwandan Stories of Change research project, and uses data collected jointly with the Aegis Trust to argue for the value of in-depth studies on individual Rwandans’ positive growth. It seeks to explore the place of individual... -
Trends in diagnostic techniques and factors associated with tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Lesotho, 2010–2015
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: Eltony Mugomeri --- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Lesotho Bisrat S Bekele --- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Pharmacy, Lesotho Charles Maibvise --- Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Swaziland Clemence Tarirai --- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, South AfricaTuberculosis is a global public health problem. Lesotho, a sub-Saharan country with high HIV and tuberculosis burden, launched the Three I’s programme of the World Health Organization in 2013. However, the outcomes of this intervention are scarcely known. This study... -
Medico-legal documentation of rape or sexual assault: are community-service doctors equipped for the task?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Fouché --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa J Bezuidenhout --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa C Liebenberg --- Department of Forensic Medicine, South Africa AO Adefuye --- Division of Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South AfricaBackground: Following upon two-year internship, community-service doctors make mistakes when they deal with evidence of medico-legal examinations in various settings. These mistakes result in alleged perpetrators being released by courts. This study investigated undergraduate clinical forensic medicine training, based on... -
Game fence presence and permeability influences the local movement and distribution of South African mammals
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Tara J Pirie --- People and Wildlife Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, UK Rebecca L Thomas --- People and Wildlife Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, UK Mark DE Fellowes --- People and Wildlife Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, UKFences are utilised throughout the world to restrict the movements of wildlife, protecting them from threats and reducing human–wildlife conflict. In South Africa the number of privately-owned fenced game reserves has greatly increased in recent years, but little is known... -
Medico-legal aspects regarding drunk driving: experience and competency in practice of community service doctors
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: L Fouché --- Division Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa J Bezuidenhout --- Division Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South Africa C Liebenberg --- Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, South Africa AO Adefuye --- Division Health Sciences Education, Office of the Dean, South AfricaBackground: Drunk driving has been reported to increase the risk of road traffic accidents associated with death and severe injury. In South Africa, an increase in blood alcohol concentration of as little as 0.01 g per 100 ml above the legal limit... -
Structural barriers to South African volunteer home-based caregivers providing quality care: the need for a policy for caregivers not affiliated to primary healthcare clinics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: David Morton --- Department of Nursing Science, South Africa Thoko Mayekiso --- Vice Chancellor’s Office, South Africa Peter Cunningham --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaCommunity home-based care (CHBC) is a critical component of non-formal care in communities in Africa that have a high prevalence of HIV and tuberculosis (TB). Community carers consisting primarily of volunteers are critical role players in African healthcare systems and... -
The role of community health workers in supporting South Africa’s HIV/ AIDS treatment programme
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Shauna Mottiar --- Development Studies, South Africa Tom Lodge --- Development Studies, South AfricaCommunity health workers deployed around South Africa’s primary health care clinics, supply indispensable support for the world’s largest HIV/AIDS treatment programme. Interviews with these workers illuminated the contribution they make to anti-retroviral treatment (ART) of HIV/AIDS patients and the motivations... -
Community perceptions of the socio-economic structural context influencing HIV and TB risk, prevention and treatment in a high prevalence area in the era of antiretroviral therapy
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nothando Ngwenya --- Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa Dumile Gumede --- Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa Maryam Shahmanesh --- Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa Nuala McGrath --- Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, South Africa Alison Grant --- Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, South Africa Janet Seeley --- Africa Health Research Institute, School of Nursing and Public Health, South AfricaFollowing calls for targeted HIV prevention interventions in so-called “hotspots”, we explored subjective perceptions of community members in places considered to be high HIV and tuberculosis (TB) transmission areas and those with low prevalence. Although more people now have access... -
Factors associated with prelacteal feeding practices in a rural northern Nigerian setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: AO Jimoh --- Department of Paediatrics, Nigeria SE Adaji --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nigeria HA Adelaiye --- Department of Paediatrics, Nigeria AA Olorukooba --- Department of Paediatrics, Nigeria C Garba --- Community midwife, CBS Research Group, Nigeria AL Mfuh --- Department of Nursing Sciences, Nigeria U Bawa --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nigeria S Idris --- Department of Community Medicine, Nigeria OS Shittu --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, NigeriaIntroduction: Prelacteal feeding practice contravenes the recommendation of World Health Organisation that breastfeeding be initiated within an hour of childbirth. Consequently, the health, social, emotional and economic benefits of optimal breastfeeding are limited. Therefore, to break this vicious cycle of... -
Unemployment experiences in context: A phenomenological study in two townships in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melinda du Toit --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Hans De Witte --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Anja Van den Broeck --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThis study aimed to explore the unemployment experience of residents of a historically disadvantaged South African neighbourhood. Informants were twelve black community members (females = 75%; age ranges: 20 to 29 = 58.3%, and 30 to 39 = 33.3%). Individual interviews were conducted with the participants... -
Community reintegrating former child soldiers in Northern Uganda: A qualitative study on the road to recovery
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: James M. Van Leeuwen --- Global Livingston Institute, USA Laurie Miller --- Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, USA Maira Zamir --- Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, USA Ryan Grundy --- Global Livingston Institute, USA Jerry Amanya --- Global Livingston Institute, USA Clifford Chen --- Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, USA Michael Feinberg --- Africa Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USAThis study aimed to profile the qualities of a holistic community reintegration program for former child soldiers (FCS) in the Lira region of Northern Uganda. Informants were a convenience sample of 37 FCS (age range 17 to 34, mean age... -
Latitudinal gradients and poleward expansion of mangrove ecosystems in South Africa: 50 years after Macnae’s first assessment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: N Peer --- DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow-Water Ecosystems, South Africa A Rajkaran --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa NAF Miranda --- DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow-Water Ecosystems, South Africa RH Taylor --- Department of Hydrology, South Africa B Newman --- CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment, South Africa F Porri --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa JL Raw --- Department of Botany, South Africa SP Mbense --- Department of Botany, South Africa JB Adams --- Department of Botany, South Africa R Perissinotto --- DST/NRF Research Chair in Shallow-Water Ecosystems, South AfricaMangroves occur in South African estuaries at their poleward distribution limits, extending into temperate habitats. In 1963, William Macnae published the first comprehensive assessment of mangrove swamps in South Africa and made firsthand observations of these mangrove ecosystems. This article... -
Perceived HIV-related stigma among university students in South Africa: implications for HIV testing
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Firoza Haffejee --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Brendan Maughan-Brown --- Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, South Africa Thulasizwe Buthelezi --- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Ayesha B M Kharsany --- Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaHIV-related stigma, and particularly perceived stigma, has a negative impact across the HIV care continuum. This study adds to our understanding of stigma by assessing how perceived stigma varies from one context to another and how such differences are associated... -
Procalcitonin kinetics in the first 48 hours of ICU admission is associated with higher mortality in critically ill patients with community-acquired pneumonia in a setting of high HIV prevalence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: K Naidoo --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa K De Vasconcellos --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa DL Skinner --- Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, South AfricaBackground: Severe community acquired pneumonia (CAP) commonly results in ICU admission and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Procalcitonin (PCT) may assist risk stratification and prediction of aetiology but is not well studied in critically ill patients with a... -
Triggers of phytoplankton bloom dynamics in permanently eutrophic waters of a South African estuary
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: DA Lemley --- Botany Department and the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South Africa JB Adams --- Botany Department and the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South Africa NA Strydom --- Zoology Department, South AfricaThe permanently eutrophic Sundays Estuary experiences recurrent harmful algal blooms (HABs) of Heterosigma akashiwo (Raphidophyceae). This study aimed to identify the environmental variables shaping phytoplankton community composition and succession patterns during a typical spring/summer harmful algal bloom (HAB) period. Monitoring... -
Community-acquired pneumonia in patients admitted to National District Hospital in Bloemfontein: guideline adherence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: Thornton Ford --- School of Medicine, South Africa Johané Potgieter --- School of Medicine, South Africa Jana Van der Walt --- School of Medicine, South Africa Monette Van Schalkwyk --- School of Medicine, South Africa Maresa Van Lill --- Department of Family Medicine, South Africa Gina Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics, South AfricaBackground: Patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) are managed according to treatment guidelines. This study aimed to determine the guideline adherence of health professionals at National District Hospital (NDH), Bloemfontein. -
‘Telephone Triage’: a possible means of managing the after-hours patient load at primary health care facilities in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: AA Adeniji --- Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa, LH Mabuza --- Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, South Africa.,The rate at which routine patients are using the emergency department (ED) as a path to enter into the healthcare system in South Africa’s community healthcare facilities and district hospitals is alarming. The increasing number of acutely presenting, less stable... -
Antecedents of risk-taking behaviour among South African adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marizé de Jager --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Luzelle Naudé --- Department of Psychology, South AfricaThis study aimed to investigate contextual predisposition to risk-taking behaviour among South African adolescents. Participants included 194 black adolescents from central South Africa (female = 50.5% between the ages of 16 and 19 years). The adolescents completed a youth risk... -
South African community-based tourism operational guidelines: Analysis and critical review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Andrea Giampiccoli --- Department of Hospitality and Tourism, South Africa Melville Saayman --- Tourism Research in Economics, Environs and Society (TREES), North-West University, South AfricaCommunity-based tourism (CBT), similar to tourism in general, is growing in relevance and importance as a field of research. The growing interest in CBT has led to the production of various handbooks, manuals and/or guidelines on CBT development. The tourism... -
Communities’ perceptions of benefit-sharing mechanisms for forest-based land reform models in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Ratsodo Phillip Tshidzumba --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, South Africa Paxie W Chirwa --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, South Africa Folaranmi D Babalola --- Forest Science Postgraduate Programme, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, South AfricaOne of the dominant challenges facing the South African forestry sector is the issue of land restitution. The aim of this study was, therefore, to assess the perception of beneficiaries of benefit-sharing modalities for forest-based land reform initiatives in their... -
Sustainable development practices for the hotel industry in Nigeria: Implications for the Ilaro area of Ogun State
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Edwin Chigozie Nwokorie --- Department of Hospitality Management, Nigeria Judipat Nkiru Obiora --- Department of Hospitality Management & Tourism, NigeriaSustainable development practices of 15 hotels were investigated in this study in which a 41 point questionnaire, prepared in 10 sub-scales, was administered to 350 respondents selected from employees of the hotels and residents of the host community to ascertain... -
Awareness of the Ward Based Outreach Team and the services offered by the programme in the Tshwane health district, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: T Bongongo --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care, South Africa JV Ndimande --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care, South Africa AT Masango-Makgobela --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care, South Africa SN Nyalunga --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care, South Africa I Govender --- Department of Family Medicine & Primary Health Care, South AfricaBackground: The Ward Based Outreach Team (WBOT) is an organised team approach to a healthcare system based on the principles of epidemiology, primary health care, preventive medicine and health promotion. Globally, it has become a primary care response to many... -
The bionomics of whitegrub species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) affecting commercial forestry re-establishment in representative areas of the South African summer-rainfall region
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Derian Echeverri-Molina --- Department of Biology, School of Science and Technology, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa Prem Govender --- Research and Postgraduate Studies Directorate, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South AfricaSouth African commercial forestry plants mainly Eucalyptus, Pinus and Acacia species. Invertebrate pests play a significant role in the establishment phase of these exotic trees. Whitegrubs, in particular, are known to affect seedling survival during this period. Their pest status... -
Behind the emergence of management scholarly communities in Asia and Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: David B. Zoogah --- Williams College of Business, South Africa Mike W. Peng --- Jindal School of Management, USA Bruce T. LamontManagement scholarly communities have recently emerged in Asia and Africa. What are the antecedents behind their rise? What are the processes that facilitate their acceptance by internal and external stakeholders? Drawing on the sociology of science literature, this article develops... -
National versus ethnic identification in countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Elirea Bornman --- Department of Communication Science, South AfricaThis study investigated relationships between national and ethnic identities in eleven countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Ethnic versus national identification, experiences of unfair treatment of ethnic groups, and like versus dislike of out-group neighbours were investigated. Round... -
A methodological framework for sustainable development with vulnerable communities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Lucas F.V. Ribeiro --- Environmental Systems Engineering, Canada Dena W. McMartin --- Environmental Systems Engineering, CanadaThe Smart Community Development Framework (SCDF) is a methodological framework that selectively identifies and optimizes sustainable development approaches such as permaculture, sustainable livelihood approaches, community-based social marketing, environmental impact assessments and project management to effectively design and introduce clean social... -
Protected nearshore shallow and deep subtidal rocky reef communities differ in their trophic diversity but not their nutritional condition
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: ER Heyns-Veale --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa NB Richoux --- Department of Zoology and Entomology, South Africa ATF Bernard --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa A Götz --- Elwandle Node, South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), South AfricaLarge physical changes that alter reef macrobenthos and fish assemblages occur with increasing depth, so the biological processes that regulate communities at different depths are expected to diverge. We used analyses of stable isotopes (δ13C and δ15N) and fatty acids... -
Peaceful waters: Community action in sustainable scarce resource management in a rural Zimbabwean setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Evans Shoko --- School of Social Sciences, South AfricaI explored community collation approaches to sustainable water management by a rural Zimbabwean community for social justice and equity with inclusivity. Informants were a convenience sample of 27 community dwellers; including villagers (n = 20), community leaders (n = 2),... -
Households’ satisfaction with the healthcare services rendered by a ward-based outreach team in Tshwane district, Pretoria, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: AT Masango Makgobela --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa JV Ndimande --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, South Africa G Ogunbanjo --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa T Bongongo --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South Africa SN Nyalunga --- Family Medicine and Primary Health Care Department, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, South AfricaIntroduction: Households’ satisfaction is an important and commonly used indicator for measuring quality in health care. An amelioration of primary health care services at the level of households, by utilising community health workers, has led to a good healthcare system... -
Comparison of socio-economic and ecological benefits of bamboo and trees: the perspectives of local communities in south-western Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Richard Osei --- Earth and Life Institute, Belgium Michael Ansong --- Department of Silviculture and Forest Management, Ghana Stefan Zerbe --- Faculty of Science and Technology, ItalyNatural forests are disappearing in many tropical countries, resulting in loss of biodiversity and erosion of forest-dependent livelihoods. The maintenance and restoration of forests as well as a search for alternative natural resources that can concurrently improve the environment and... -
Sustainable indicators for adventure tourism destinations: A case of Waterval Boven
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ndivhuwo Tshipala --- Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Department of Tourism Management, South Africa Willem Johannes Coetzee --- Department of Tourism, New Zealand Marius Potgieter --- Department of Marketing, South AfricaIn South Africa and around the world, the development of sustainable tourism indicators has been advocated by many authors and has resulted in a number of indicators. Indicators are distinguished by factors such as social, environmental as well as economic... -
Perceptions of community health workers on their training, teamwork and practice: a cross-sectional study in Tshwane district, Gauteng, South Africa.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: SLN Nyalunga --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa JV Ndimande --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa A Masango-Makgobela --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa T Bogongo --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South AfricaBackground: In 2011, South Africa established ward-based outreach teams (WBOTs) comprising Community Health Workers as part of strategies to strengthen primary healthcare. The new community health workers (CHWs) lacked experience of the programme. This study aimed at assessing perceptions of... -
Integrating East Africa Through Arts and Culture: A Report of the EASTAFAB Tours and Exhibitions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Kiagho B. Kilonzo --- Department of Creative Arts, TanzaniaIntegrating the East African region through culture has probably not been given much thought or made much of a priority in East Africa and Africa as a whole. Though integration of the East African nations began during the colonial era... -
Community healthcare workers’ satisfaction with ward-based outreach team services in Tshwane district, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: JV Ndimande --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa GA Ogunbanjo --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa SN Nyalunga --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa A Masango-Makgobela --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South Africa T Bongongo --- Discipline of Family Medicine, South AfricaBackground: The incorporation of community healthcare worker (CHW) involvement in the management of patients is in line with the 2006 World Health Report, which advocates increased community participation and the systematic delegation of tasks to less specialised cadres. For CHWs... -
Social cognitive drivers of farmer learning behaviour in the student-to-farmer university outreach in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Stephen W. Kalule --- Department of Extension and Innovations Studies, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kampala, Uganda Haroon Sseguya --- Department of Extension and Innovations Studies, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kampala, Uganda Duncan Ongeng --- Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Gulu, Uganda Gabriel Karubanga --- Department of Extension and Innovations Studies, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Kampala, UgandaGlobally, universities are repositioning themselves for community outreach although with difficulty in responding to the unpredictable social features of host communities. Accordingly, this study aims to assess the role of social cognitive factors in farmer learning behaviour during university outreach... -
“Physiologically, I am hearing, but psychologically, I am Deaf.” Identity: Lived experiences of hearing children born in families with Deafness in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nomfundo Moroe --- Speech Pathology and Audiology Department, South AfricaThe aim of this study was to explore hearing children of Deaf adult’s (CODAs) experiences of belonging and affiliation within the Deaf and hearing community. Respondents consisted of 10 CODAs between the ages 21 and 40 years of age, recruited... -
Towards the development of a community-based model for promoting cervical cancer prevention among Yoruba women in Ibadan Nigeria: application of PEN-3 model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Gynaecological Oncology • Authors: AD Olanlesi-Aliu --- School of Nursing, University of Western Cape, South Africa PD Martin --- School of Nursing, University of Western Cape, South Africa FM Daniels --- School of Nursing, University of Western Cape, South AfricaObjective: Through the identification of the barriers to the uptake of prevention services for cervical cancer and ways to promote prevention of cervical cancer in the community, this research study purposed the development of a community-based model for promoting cervical... -
HIV treatment support services in Tanzania: a cost and efficiency analysis at facility and community levels
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Steven Forsythe --- Avenir Health, United States of America Bryant Lee --- Palladium Group Inc., United States of America Kuki Tarimo --- Palladium Group Inc., United States of America Boniface Silvan --- Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Tanzania Marianna Balampama --- Palladium Group Inc., United States of America Julie Chitty --- Palladium Group Inc., United States of America Sara Bowsky --- Palladium Group Inc., United States of AmericaDifferentiated service delivery models provide an opportunity to reduce the cost of HIV treatment while increasing the focus on advanced patients. Also, stable patients who need less attention can visit facilities less frequently, saving time and money and reducing overcrowding... -
Seasonal and successional patterns of phytoplankton in Epe Lagoon, Lagos, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: OA Kunrunmi --- Department of Botany, Nigeria TA Adesalu --- Department of Botany, NigeriaVariations in phytoplankton species abundance and composition are regulated by changes in physico-chemical factors. A study of biodiversity and successional sequences was carried out monthly from November 2012 to April 2014 to determine the environmental factors controlling phytoplankton assemblages in... -
Mechanisms of interference and exploitation competition in a guild of encrusting algae along a South African rocky shore
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Vanmari --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa GW Maneveldt --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South AfricaWithin the marine benthos, space is considered an absolute requirement that is often in limited supply. The often-low availability of this essential resource causes species to interact competitively through mechanisms of interference and exploitation. Species of encrusting algae, in particular,... -
A community-based HIV counselling and testing programme found a decreasing proportion of new HIV testers in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Simukai Shamu --- Foundation for Professional Development, South Africa Thato Farirai --- Foundation for Professional Development, South Africa Jean Slabbert --- Foundation for Professional Development, South Africa Geoffrey Guloba --- Foundation for Professional Development, South Africa Nomea Masihleho --- USAID, South Africa Julius Kamera --- USAID, South Africa Nkhensani Nkwashu --- Foundation for Professional Development, South AfricaThis article assesses the history of HIV testing among community-based HIV counselling and testing (CBCT) clients between 2014 and 2018 in 13 South African districts. Consenting clients were tested for HIV and interviewed to categorise as first-time testers or repeat... -
Physico-chemical and microalgal gradients change rapidly in response to mouth closure in a predominantly open estuary
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: DA Lemley --- Botany Department and the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South Africa JB Adams --- Botany Department and the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, South AfricaA third of South Africa’s freshwater flow no longer reaches the coast, yet few systems have shifted from being permanently open to temporarily closed. For the first time since 1969, the Gamtoos Estuary mouth closed in June 2018, because of... -
Effects of prolonged mouth closure in a temporarily open/closed estuary: a summary of the responses of invertebrate communities in the uMdloti Estuary, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: UM Scharler --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa K Lechman --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa T Radebe --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa HL Jerling --- Department of Zoology, South AfricaProlonged mouth closure in estuaries is often associated with hypersalinity, mainly as a result of reduced freshwater inflow. However, on the KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa, temporarily open/closed estuaries have a tendency towards hyposalinity during closed mouth conditions, primarily because of... -
Contrasting patterns in the abundance of fish communities targeted by fishers on two coral reefs in southern Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: T Sancelme --- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Australia J Goetze --- Global FinPrint Project, Australia S Jaquemet --- Université de La Réunion, UMR 9220 ENTROPIE [Tropical Marine Ecology Laboratory], Réunion MG Meekan --- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Australia A Flam --- Marine Megafauna Foundation, Marine Megafauna Research Center, Mozambique AM Watts --- Marine Megafauna Foundation, Marine Megafauna Research Center, Mozambique CW Speed --- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, AustraliaCoastal populations of maritime countries in eastern Africa rely on fish as a primary source of protein, but baseline information on the abundance of fish communities on these coastlines is often lacking. We used baited remote underwater video stations to... -
Nematode assemblages and soil microbial communities in soils associated with glyphosate-resistant soybean
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Chantelle Girgan --- Nematology Unit, Biosystematics Division, Agricultural Research Council-Plant Health and Protection, South Africa Sarina Claassens --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South Africa Hendrika Fourie --- Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, South AfricaThe introduction of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant (GR) crops led to increased use of glyphosate, with potential long-term effects on biological soil communities. Abundance and diversity of plant-parasitic and non-parasitic nematodes, as well as microbial community structure in the rhizosphere of... -
Mau Mau Author in Detention: The Subversive ‘We’ in a Colonial Era Detention Diary
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ken Walibora Waliaula --- , KenyaIn seeking an answer to the question as to why Kenyan author Gakaara wa Wanjau penned Mau Mau Author in Detention, we may consider the fact that he wrote other works as well — before, during, and after his detention... -
Regional efficiency disparities in rural and community banks in Ghana: A data envelopment analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joy Say --- , China Hongjiang Zhao --- , China Francisca Sena Agbenyegah --- , Ghana Angela Abena Nusenu --- , China Evans Asante Boadi --- , China Samuel Morkporkpor Egbadewoe --- , USAThis study measured the level of rural and community banks’ (RCBs) efficiency in Ghana to ascertain whether there were regional disparities in the levels of efficiency using Charnes-Cooper-Rhodes (CCR) and Barker-Charnes-Cooper (BCC) models. We collected data from 127 banks over... -
Volunteerism influences on student resilience and gratitude
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ian I. Llenares --- , Philippines Jay A. Sario --- , Philippines Daisy Bialba --- , Philippines Joey M. Dela Cruz --- , PhilippinesWe assessed the relative impact of volunteerism on the resilience and gratitude of students based on participation. A convenience sample of 80 students (female = 53.75%; age range = 18-25 years) participated in the study, of which 38 (47.50%) had... -
Exploring the key components of a contemporary hospitality servicescape: Architecture, theology and community
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Peter Singleton --- , The Netherlands Erwin Losekoot --- , The NetherlandsThis article aims to contribute to the theoretical understanding of the hospitality servicescape. Through this analysis this article makes recommendations to managers on how they can set about creating a genuine sense of welcome and hospitality in a contemporary setting... -
Carbon stock in the community managed Sal (Shorea robusta) forests of Dadeldhura district, western Nepal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Suresh Prashad Bhatta --- , Nepal Anjana Devkota --- , NepalFour community-managed Sal forests in Dadeldhura district of Nepal were selected for the assessment of carbon stock. The stratified random sampling method was applied to measure the field data from 105 sample plots of 100 m2. The carbon stock of... -
Interactive effects of prescribed fire and livestock grazing on Seriphium plumosum in South African sour bushveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: Michele D Clark --- , United States Carissa L Wonkka --- , United States Urs P Kreuter --- , United States William E Rogers --- , United StatesDocumented increases in woody plant abundance worldwide can reduce land value and grazing capacity. Throughout many grasslands and savannas in South Africa, Seriphium plumosum, an encroaching woody plant, has been rapidly displacing desirable native species. Cost-effective management techniques are required,... -
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) affects the composition and abundance of zooplankton in the littoral region of Koka Reservoir, Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: H Getnet --- , Ethiopia D Kifle --- , Ethiopia T Fetahi --- , EthiopiaWater hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes (Martius) Solms 1883, is a rampant invasive aquatic plant that is recognised as one of the ten worst weeds in the world. Its appearance in Koka Reservoir was reported in 1965 and since then it has... -
Risk factors associated with youth gang involvement: An exploratory criminological case study analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Anni Hesselink --- , South Africa Nigel Bradley Bougard --- , South AfricaThis study explored risk factors for youth gang involvement in the South African setting. Participants were five youth male gang members (between 21 to 24 years) from Gauteng province, South Africa. We interviewed them on childhood experiences they perceived to... -
Complex network to enhance characterization analysis in modelling product development process
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fateh Bencherif --- , Algeria Leila Hayet Mouss --- , AlgeriaNowadays, successful and innovative product development is highly correlated with the company's success and reason for existence. A development process is a major factor influencing cost, timing and quality of product development. It requires additional attention to decisions made about... -
Spatial and ontogenetic variability in the diet and trophic ecology of two co-occurring catsharks (Scyliorhinidae) off South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: GM van der Heever --- , South Africa CD van der Lingen --- , South Africa RW Leslie --- , South Africa MJ Gibbons --- , South AfricaThe Izak catshark Holohalaelurus regani and the yellow-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus capensis both occur over the continental shelf around South Africa and are often caught together as bycatch in demersal trawls. Yet our understanding of their diet is fragmented, which makes... -
The impact of a face-to-face peer-support intervention on adults with type 2 diabetes: a cluster-randomised trial
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: Melanie Pienaar --- , South Africa Marianne Reid --- , South Africa Mariette Nel --- , South Africa -
A case study of rangeland vegetation changes from 1979 to 2016 in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: A El Aich --- , Morocco ME Fernández-Giménez --- , United States M Rouzi --- , Morocco CL Alados --- , SpainThis case study assessed changes in vegetation composition of a 0.8 ha rangeland site over the past four decades, in relation to changes in temperature and to an increase in grazing pressure. The frequency and standing crop (biomass) of species... -
Demersal fish communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, indicate partial congruence with proposed conservation biozones
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: WN Dalton --- , South Africa SN Porter --- , South Africa T-C Livingstone --- , South Africa BQ Mann --- , South AfricaThe KwaZulu-Natal shelf, on the east coast of South Africa, is inhabited by diverse communities of demersal fishes; however, previous studies deeper than 30 m have largely investigated these with extractive techniques. Using baited remote underwater videos (BRUVs), this study... -
Value co-creation intention among consumers at the bottom of the pyramid: A study of rural and community banks in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Angela Abena Nusenu --- , China Wen Xiao --- , China Joy Say --- , China Christian Narh Opata --- , GhanaWe investigated the relationship between consumer satisfaction, trust in firm, interaction, and perceived service quality on value co-creation intention among rural and community bank consumers in Ghana. Participants were a purposive sample of 315 (female = 49. 52%; mean age... -
Characterisation of Eucalyptus rhizospheric communities using fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profile analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Chimdi Nwigwe --- , South Africa Annabel Fossey --- , South Africa Olga de Smidt --- , South AfricaHybrid vigour is exploited in Eucalyptus forestry through the production of interspecific hybrids. Hybrids are deployed via cuttings that often suffer from poor rooting. Rhizospheric microorganisms have been associated with rooting enhancement, therefore knowledge of the diversity of microorganism communities,... -
Training and support relationship influences on volunteers’ public advocacy behaviours: Their mediation by psychological empowerment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Meng Chenli --- , China Eugene Abrokwah --- , ChinaThis study examined how psychological empowerment mediation of training and support relationship influences volunteer public advocacy behaviours. Survey participants were 300 volunteers at community health volunteer organisations (CHVOs) in Shanghai, China (female = 36.94%; mean age = 28.89 years, SD... -
Appropriateness of diabetic down-referral letters to primary healthcare clinics in the uMgungundlovu district municipality of KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes of South Africa • Authors: NG McGrath --- , South Africa S Pillay --- , South Africa -
Social and economic effects of marine protected areas in South Africa, with recommendations for future assessments
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JB Mann-Lang --- , South Africa GM Branch --- , South Africa BQ Mann --- , South Africa KJ Sink --- , South Africa SP Kirkman --- , South Africa R Adams --- , South AfricaResearch on the socio-economic aspects of marine protected areas (MPAs) in South Africa is reviewed to guide evaluation and integration. After a brief international review, we used declaration notices and management plans to determine the extent to which social and... -
Seasonal variation and drivers of zooplankton, macroinvertebrate and littoral fish communities from irrigation ponds in a semi-arid region in the Eastern Cape (South Africa)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: L Mofu --- , South Africa T Dalu --- , South Africa RJ Wasserman --- , South Africa DJ Woodford --- , South Africa D Khosa --- , South Africa OLF Weyl --- , South AfricaIrrigation ponds are increasingly abundant globally, particularly in water-stressed countries with limited natural surface waters, yet knowledge of their ecology is limited. Here, we assessed zooplankton, macroinvertebrate, and littoral fish communities from irrigation ponds located in the Sundays River Valley... -
Seasonal variation in water quality, plankton diversity and microbial load of tropical freshwater lakes in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Ihuoma N Anyanwu --- , Nigeria Confidence A Ezema --- , Nigeria Sowechi Ebi --- , Nigeria Chinyere A Nwajiuba --- , Nigeria Okoro Nworie --- , Nigeria Chioma O Anorue --- , NigeriaSeasonal changes significantly affect tropical ecosystems; hence, verification of how these changes affect water quality is important for waterbodies that serve as water and food sources, particular as such changes are often associated with shifts in plankton diversity and microbial... -
Temporal and spatial variation of the molluscan community structure in Oualidia Lagoon, Moroccan Atlantic coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: F El Asri --- , Morocco A Errhif --- , Morocco MN Tamsouri --- , Morocco H Nhhala --- , Morocco M Maanan --- , France H Zidane --- , MoroccoThe molluscan assemblages inhabiting the coastal waters of Oualidia Lagoon, Morocco, were studied during winter and summer of 2013. The taxonomic composition and diversity were determined at 43 sample sites. Thirty-four mollusc taxa were recorded in total, including 12 species... -
Distribution and community structure of at-risk and Data Deficient elasmobranchs in Zavora Bay, Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: B O’Connor --- , The Netherlands N Cullain --- , United StatesPersistent threats from fishing pressure and increasing habitat degradation, as well as slow recovery rates resulting from K-selected life histories, are putting increasing numbers of elasmobranch species (sharks, rays and skates) at risk of extinction worldwide. Global declines in elasmobranch... -
Uptake of HIV testing among aging adults in Agincourt, South Africa: perception of community, social network, and individual characteristics
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ami R Moore --- , USA Anh Ta --- , USA Megan Lawson --- , USA Foster Amey --- , USAThis cross-sectional study examined the impact of perception of community, social network and individual variables on the likelihood of voluntary HIV testing of people 40 years and older living in Agincourt, South Africa. The data came from Health and Aging... -
Factorial structure of the Community of Inquiry Survey in a South African open and distance e-learning environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ashley Mutezo --- , South Africa Sune Maré --- , South AfricaWe aimed to determine the factor structure and reliability for the Community of Inquiry Survey in a South African Open and Distance e-Learning Environment. Participants were 572 honours students. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed to determine the factorial structures. Structural... -
Traditional authorities, legal power and land disputes in north-west Namibia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Kana Miyamoto --- , JapanThis study considers the revitalisation of traditional authorities, a phenomenon found throughout modern Africa. It analyses and compares court cases involving land disputes amongst herders living in north-western Namibia. Since the 1990s, African nations have pursued land reform to stabilise... -
Knowledge sharing by clinicians using social media: A case study in Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Tesfa Tegegne Asfaw --- , Ethiopia Belisty Yalew Mekonnen --- , EthiopiaSocial media is becoming an integral part of medical information dissemination. Health professionals adopt social media for clinical knowledge sharing and for social networking. However, there is no information specifically about use of social media by Ethiopian clinicians: The purpose... -
Negative social interactions and the persistence of depression: Evidence from the women of Westbury, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cyril Dalene Rathnum --- , South Africa Jacqueline Moodley --- , South AfricaWe explored women’s experiences of depression from the perspective of negative social interactions at the personal, family, and community levels. Informants were seven coloured women from Westbury, Johannesburg, South Africa (aged 28 – 56 years old). The participants answered open-ended... -
Online incentives and customer voice: The mediating role of community identification
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Miaoling Liu --- , China Bingcheng Yang --- , ChinaWe investigated the mediating role of virtual community identification on the relationship between online incentives and customer voice. We surveyed 369 customers from Apple (n = 198) and Huawei (n = 171) virtual communities. Structural equation modelling results showed that... -
Presidential communication approaches and the impact on public health: a comparative analysis of three South African presidents’ communication on AIDS and COVID-19
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nompumelelo Gumede --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Emma Durden --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Eliza Govender --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThe HIV response in the African continent over past decades demonstrates the potency that the words and actions of political leaders have in either expediting or impeding the implementation and adoption of preventive measures at the individual and community levels... -
Fighting COVID-19 and HIV through community mobilisation: lessons from an integrated approach to the Africa CDC Partnership to Accelerate COVID-19 Testing (PACT) initiative in seven countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Adriana Jimenez Cuen --- , Switzerland Agnes Kante --- , Ethiopia Sihaka Tsemo --- , Ethiopia Benjamin Djoudalbaye --- , EthiopiaRecent literature has shown how the HIV architecture, including community systems, has been critical for fighting COVID-19 in many countries, while sustaining the HIV response. Innovative initiatives suggest that fostering the integration of health services would help address the colliding... -
Mediating antiretroviral treatment for HIV during COVID-19: lessons from implementation in Gomba District, Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kenneth Mulondo --- , Uganda Warren Parker --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaInitial and subsequent waves of COVID-19 in Uganda disrupted the delivery of HIV care. In rural areas, village health teams and organisations on the ground had to develop strategies to ensure that people living with HIV could continue their treatment... -
Assessing infant and young child feeding priorities to inform the development of a nutrition social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) strategy during a pandemic threat
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: T Turk --- , Pakistan A Poonawala --- , Switzerland S Shulman --- , USA P Sepoloane --- , Botswana -
Cultural knowledge and perceptions of students towards mental illness in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bianca Lima-Smit --- , South Africa Kathryn Nel --- , South Africa Mokgadi Setwaba --- , South AfricaThis study explored perceptions of mental illness and the mentally ill in a South African setting. Informants were a purposive sample of 16 undergraduate students (female = 10, male = 6; age range = 18 to 25 years). Data were... -
Exploring the impacts of and reactions to HIV diagnosis in older adults: narratives from Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mathew Nyashanu --- , United Kingdom Eucebious Lekalakala-Mokgele --- , South AfricaThere is an increase in prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among older adults. This new emerging social group is being overlooked, owing to the focus on groups that have traditionally been regarded as “high risk”. This article set... -
Engaging HIV-prevention ambassadors to promote oral PrEP among adolescent girls and young women: results of a Zimbabwe field test
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Morgan Garcia --- , USA Definate Nhamo --- , Zimbabwe Nicole Macagna --- , USA Takudzwa Mamvuto --- , Zimbabwe Naledi Katsande --- , Zimbabwe Giuliana Morales --- , USA Michele Lanham --- , USA Joseph Murungu --- , Zimbabwe Imelda Mahaka --- , Zimbabwe Natalie Kruse-Levy --- , Zimbabwe Kristine Torjesen --- , USAThe HIV Prevention Ambassador Training Package for Adolescent Girls and Young Women was created in collaboration with adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) to improve skills, knowledge, and attitudes about oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among peer “ambassadors”. It was field... -
Using riparian plant species to locate the 1:2-year floodline on single channel rivers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: MK Reinecke --- , South Africa CA Brown --- , South Africa KJ Esler --- , South Africa JM King --- , South AfricaRiparian zones can be characterised botanically into two main areas, a wet bank and a dry bank. These areas have been linked to the duration of inundation by river flow, the boundary between the two being the 1:2 year floodline... -
Determinants of ICT adoption and uptake at a rural public-access ICT centre: A South African case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Cecilia Frans --- , Shaun Pather --- ,The global Covid-19 pandemic has created a heightened sense of awareness of the inequalities that prevail in society. Access to real-time information delivered via broadband internet has become critical for survival. However, the reality of the digital divide implies that... -
A Bat Hawk Macheiramphus alcinus pair preyed primarily on bats and birds that forage in clutter-edge and open-air habitat groups
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: G Malan --- , South Africa E Harris --- , South Africa T Harris --- , South Africa A Monadjem --- , EswatiniThis study aimed to analyse the diet of a pair of Bat Hawks Macheiramphus alcinus, based on regurgitated pellets, and the associated habitat-foraging groups that the prey species belonged to. A total of 908 regurgitated pellets were collected from underneath... -
Comparison of physico-chemical parameters with macroinvertebrate and vertebrate fauna of Lake Ogelube and Lake Ojii, Opi-Agu, south-eastern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: IE Onah --- , OJ Ajanwachukwu --- , PO Ubachukwu --- ,The physico-chemical parameters of water provide crucial information on the condition of a waterbody at a point in time. Physico-chemical parameters determine the primary and secondary productivity of an aquatic ecosystem. Data on water temperature, pH, turbidity, water depth, total... -
Behavioural and psychological control during adolescence: An ecological systems perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Elizabeth Cornelia van Damme --- University of the Free State, South Africa Luzelle Naudé --- University of the Free State, South AfricaThis study investigated the extent and the nature of the behavioural and psychological control experienced by adolescents within four contexts (parental, peer, school, and community) of their everyday lives. The adolescents (n = 463; female = 52.5%, black African =... -
A study of local government HIV/AIDS projects in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Leon Swartz --- Population and Development Research, Niel Roux --- Directorate: Population and Development Research,The primary goal of this study was to survey local government HIV/AIDS projects in South Africa. A total of 240 questionnaires were sent to local municipalities nationally between May and July 2002. A total of 44 municipalities returned their questionnaires,... -
HIV/AIDS through the lens of Christianity: Perspectives from a South African urban support group
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Khumbulani Hlongwana --- South African Medical Research Council (MRC), Malaria Research Programme, Sibongile Sylvia Mkhize --- Research Programme of Health Systems Trust (HST),HIV is one of the most obscure viruses that humankind has had to face in recent times. Compounding this obscurity are often contesting perspectives on what it means to be HIV infected, and these perspectives are largely constituted by people's... -
For the common good: Measuring residents' efforts to protect their community from drug- and sex-related harm
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Pedro Mateu-Gelabert --- NDRI, Inc., USA Melissa Bolyard --- Emory University, USA Carey Maslow --- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Milagros Sandoval --- NDRI, Inc., USA Peter Flom --- BrainScope, Samuel R Friedman --- NDRI, Inc., USAPeople in high-risk neighbourhoods try to protect their friends, neighbours, relatives and others from the social and physical risks associated with sex and drug use. This paper develops and validates a community-grounded questionnaire to measure such ‘intravention’ (health-directed efforts to... -
Challenges impacting on the quality of care to persons living with HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses with reference to Kanye community home-based care programme
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Simon M Kang'ethe --- Skill Share International,HIV/AIDS has been found to be a challenging disease to humanity, its challenge spin-offs falling especially on to the caregivers of those infected and affected by the virus. This paper aims to discuss the challenges influencing the state of caregiving... -
Traditional healers as caregivers to HIV/AIDS clients and other terminally challenged persons in Kanye community home-based care programme (CHBC), Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: S. M. Kang'ethe --- Centre for Continuous Education (CCE), University of Botswana,The research study done at the Kanye village of Botswana was qualitative in design and exploratory in nature. While the broad goal aimed at assessing the contributions of caregivers in the Kanye CHBC programme, this article aims at evaluating the... -
The role of community advisory boards in health research: Divergent views in the South African experience
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Priscilla Reddy --- Health Promotion Research and Development Unit, Medical Research Council, South Africa David Buchanan --- School of Public Health and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Sibusiso Sifunda --- Health Promotion Research and Development Unit, Medical Research Council, South Africa Shamagonam James --- Health Promotion Research and Development Unit, Medical Research Council, South Africa Nasheen Naidoo --- Health Promotion Research and Development Unit, Medical Research Council, South AfricaIn the light of the growing involvement of community advisory boards (CABs) in health research, this study presents empirical findings of the functions and operations of CABs in HIV/AIDS vaccine trials in South Africa. The individual and focus group interviews... -
Experiences of people living with HIV and people living close to them of a comprehensive HIV stigma reduction community intervention in an urban and a rural setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Heleen French --- , , South Africa Minrie Greeff --- , , South Africa Martha J. Watson --- , , South AfricaHIV stigma remains high globally. Although there is a selection of HIV stigma reduction interventions discussed in the literature, there is a paucity of research about the effectiveness of these interventions. This study aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of... -
Rethinking HIV-prevention for school-going young people based on current behaviour patterns
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Maretha Visser --- , , South AfricaThe aim of the research was to gain increased knowledge regarding the sexual risk behaviour of school-going young people in South Africa after two decades of HIV-education in schools, to contribute to the development of improved HIV prevention strategies. In... -
Reducing substance use and risky sexual behaviour among drug users in Durban, South Africa: Assessing the impact of community-level risk-reduction interventions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: C.D.H. Parry --- , South Africa T. Carney --- , South Africa P. Petersen Williams --- , South AfricaAlcohol and other drug (AOD) use is increasingly recognised as having a direct and indirect effect on the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, there is evidence to suggest that drug- and sex-related HIV risk-reduction interventions targeted at drug... -
Laughter therapy as an intervention to promote psychological well-being of volunteer community care workers working with HIV-affected families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Irene Hatzipapas --- , , South Africa Maretha J. Visser --- , , South Africa Estie Janse van Rensburg --- , , South AfricaThe study explores the experiences of volunteer community care workers working with HIV-affected families, participating in laughter therapy. Laughter therapy is being used as an intervention to positively influence individuals experiencing various forms of emotional distress. Community care workers play... -
Evaluation of a community-based ART programme after tapering home visits in rural Sierra Leone: a 24-month retrospective study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: J. Daniel Kelly --- , , USA Raphael Frankfurter --- , , USA Gregoire Lurton --- , , USA Sulaiman Conteh --- , Sierra Leone Susannah F. Empson --- , , USA Fodei Daboh --- , Sierra Leone Brima Kargbo --- , Sierra Leone Thomas Giordano --- , , USA Joia Mukherjee --- , , USA M. Bailor Barrie --- , Sierra LeoneEvaluations of community-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes have demonstrated positive outcomes, but little is known about the impact of tapering community-based ART. The objective of this study was to assess 24-month HIV retention outcomes of a community-based ART programme and... -
An evaluation of the innovative potentials of a HIV pilot exploring medical pluralism in rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Christopher J. Burman --- , South AfricaThis article reflects on an internal evaluation undertaken to estimate the potentials of a community-university pilot project to be developed into a bonafide innovation that can be applied at scale. The focus of the community-university partnership has been to reduce... -
Fighting against HIV and AIDS within a resource constrained rural setting: a case study of the Ruvheneko Programme in Chirumhanzu, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Christina Tafadzwa Dzimiri --- , , South Africa Patrick Dzimiri --- , , South Africa Kezia Batisai --- , , South AfricaSince reports of the first incidence of the HIV virus in Zimbabwe in 1985, the epidemic has negatively impacted on every facet of human security. Rural areas, by virtue of being the periphery and constrained in terms of resources and... -
Within and between‐site distribution of frog species on the Udzungwa Plateau, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Lucinda Lawson --- University of Chicago, David Moyer --- Wildlife Conservation Society,Amphibian distribution and abundance patterns are linked with environmental factors that define the suitable habitat for each species on both macro and micro scales. Determining the distribution and habitat requirements of species is a necessary first step in monitoring population... -
Namaqua Dwarf Adders are generalist predators
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Bryan Maritz --- , , USA Graham J. Alexander --- , , South AfricaPrey items vary greatly in the total amount of energy they provide and the costs associated with their location, capture, consumption and assimilation. As a result not all prey types are of equal value, and the relative frequency with which... -
Status of diversity, abundance and seasonal variations of gill net catches of cichlids in Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: A Asase --- University of Ghana, Ghana TL Lauridsen --- Aarhus University, Denmark PO Sanful --- University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana EEK Quansah --- University of Ghana, Ghana FKE Nunoo --- University of Ghana, GhanaThe cichlids in Lake Bosumtwi are under increasing pressure with a recent build-up in local fishing pressure. This study was conducted to assess the status and seasonal catch rates of fish species using gillnets over a two-year period. Four species... -
Evaluating the effects and benefits of cover crops in citrus orchards: a review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: Sibongiseni Silwana --- ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij, South Africa Azwimbavhi Reckson Mulidzi --- ARC Infruitec-Nietvoorbij, South Africa Nebo Jovanovic --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaCover crops are used in sustainable agricultural practices to improve soil quality and minimise the effect of climate change, water restrictions and drought. The South African citrus industry produces and exports a diverse range of citrus fruits; however, knowledge of... -
Understanding the effects of climate change on Southern Ocean ecosystems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CD McQuaid --- Rhodes University, South AfricaUnderstanding the future of Southern Ocean ecosystems requires approaches at micro to macro scales. The Southern Ocean has experienced both top-down and bottom-up perturbations driven by man. The removal of whales and finfish was a top-down disruption, removing enormous levels... -
Non-adherence to antiretroviral treatment among migrating fishermen in western Kenya’s islands: a rapid qualitative study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Stephen Okumu Ombere --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Erick Otieno Nyambedha --- Maseno University, KenyaFishing communities in many Sub-Saharan African countries are a high-risk population group disproportionately affected by the HIV epidemic. The association of migration with HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is well documented. Frequent mobility, high consumption of alcohol, multiple sexual... -
Decolonising access for Performing Arts Training at Makerere University: The Legacy of Rose Mbowa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Patrick Mangeni --- School of Liberal and Performing Arts, Makerere University, UgandaAccess and relevance have been central in the pursuit of a university education responsive to the development agenda of post-colonial Uganda. In Makerere University, the drive involved critical engagement with hegemonic constraints predicated by an interplay of historical drivers, many... -
Coping strategies and mental health of adolescents impacted by parental HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Comfort Asanbe --- College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA Maretha Visser --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Anne-Gloria Moleko --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Catherine Makwakwa --- , South AfricaObjective: The study explored whether orphanhood status as well as coping strategies predicted mental health outcomes in orphans and vulnerable adolescents who participated in an NGO-supported programme in rural South Africa. -
Common mental health problems among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Gari Hunduma --- Haramaya University, Ethiopia Yadeta Dessie --- Haramaya University, Ethiopia Biftu Geda --- Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Tesfaye Assebe Yadeta --- Haramaya University, Ethiopia Negussie Deyessa --- Madda Walabu University, EthiopiaBackground and aim: This review examined the prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. -
Exploration of witnessing community violence and recent death on child behavioural outcomes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Doneila McIntosh --- University of Minnesota, Allan D. Tate --- University of Georgia, Jerica M. Berge --- University of Minnesota,Background: Researchers are increasingly interested in understanding potentially traumatic experiences in children’s lives, such as witnessing community violence (WCV) and the recent death of a close family member or friend. These experiences can be distressing and have adverse effects on... -
Macrobenthic fauna of the Agulhas Bank shelf edge
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: S Brandt --- University of Cape Town, South Africa N Karenyi --- University of Cape Town, South Africa K Sink --- South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South AfricaThe deep sea (>200m depth) off South Africa is largely unexplored, with most benthic macrofauna samples limited to depths shallower than 100m. The benthic infaunal diversity of the Agulhas Bank shelf edge has not yet been studied. We analysed seven... -
Beyond the discourses of policy and power: HIV, AIDS, and community perspectives on the lived pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Warren Parker --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaAs HIV unfolded in the 1980s, HIV and AIDS were heard and seen through the lives of those whom it touched directly. Personal histories were foregrounded, centred by the inevitable mortality attached to HIV infection, the courage of circumstance in... -
The interconnection between the global and the local: case study of the indigenous Baka community of Nomedjoh, Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Richard Atimniraye Nyelade --- University of Ottawa, CanadaThe impact of globalisation on local communities is a widely debated topic in sociology and anthropology. This article explores the dynamics and statics of local communities in the context of globalisation using the concepts of deterritorialisation and imagined community. The... -
Site- and habitat-dependent variations in the diversity of polychaetes associated with golden kelp Ecklonia radiata holdfasts along the southeast coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: N Nkohla --- Walter Sisulu University, South Africa TS Dlaza --- Walter Sisulu University, South AfricaPolychaetes are important components of the macrofaunal communities associated with golden kelp Ecklonia radiata holdfasts across different spatial scales. However, the polychaete component varies in different habitat types in response to varying environmental conditions. Here, we compared patterns of variation... -
Species diversity and distribution-pattern determinants of African rivulines (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae) in rainforest streams of southern Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: FD Messu Mandeng --- Higher Teacher’s Training College (ENS), University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon CF Bilong Bilong --- University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon JF Agnese --- University of Montpellier (CNRS, IRD, EPHE), FranceUnderstanding the community structure and ecology of fish populations in rainforest streams is a prerequisite for any actions towards their exploitation, management or conservation. We examined the community structure and species diversity of nothobranchiids (African rivulines) in rainforest streams of... -
Creative arts interventions to enhance adolescent well-being in low-income communities: an integrative literature review
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Dilshaad Begham Bux --- North-West University, South Africa Izanette van Schalkwyk --- North-West University, South AfricaBackground: Globally many young people, especially from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, face significant barriers to achieving optimal life chances. Creative arts interventions are a way of reaching out to adolescents in low-income communities, to encourage positive functioning and enhanced well-being. We... -
Subjective well-being, social network, financial stability and living environment of the displaced community: Implications for an inclusive society
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: R. M. Suresh --- Universiti Malaya, V. G. R. Chandran --- Universiti Malaya, Sonia Kumari Selvarajan --- Universiti Malaya,This study examines the state of subjective well-being (SWB), living and social environment of the displaced community in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The study also explores the determinants of SWB through a survey of 141 households and interviews. The results show that... -
Use and management of seagrass ecosystems in southwestern Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: F Rakotonjanahary --- Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), University of Toliara, Madagascar C Rakotomahazo --- Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), University of Toliara, Madagascar J Nirinamamiko --- Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), University of Toliara, Madagascar T Razakarisoa --- Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), University of Toliara, Madagascar GGB Todinanahary --- Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), University of Toliara, Madagascar T Lavitra --- Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), University of Toliara, Madagascar G Lepoint --- UR FOCUS, University of Liège, Belgium MA Vanderklift --- CSIRO Environment, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Australia L Ranivoarivelo --- Institut Halieutique et des Sciences Marines (IH.SM), University of Toliara, MadagascarMadagascar’s seagrass meadows are among the least-studied ecosystems in the western Indian Ocean region. To facilitate sustainable management, understanding the traditional uses of seagrass areas in relation to current management policies is necessary. This study assessed the uses of, and... -
Hunting the hippo: a brief history of wildlife hunting and the reconfiguration of animal-human relations in Namibia’s Zambezi region
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hauke-Peter Vehrs --- University of Cologne, GermanyThe Zambezi region in north-eastern Namibia is located at the centre of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA), an area that is endowed with a great variety of wildlife and managed not only to protect this asset but also... -
The making, unmaking and adaptation of Mayeyi multispecies entanglements within the Kwando-Linyanti wetlands: eighteenth century to 1990
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jessica-Jane Lavelle --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaThe Kwando-Linyanti wetlands of Namibia are known for their rivers, floodplains and woodlands with abundant wildlife and a diversity of birds and fish. Within these landscapes reside the Mayeyi, a Bantu-speaking people whose culture is closely entangled with the wetlands... -
Group membership, social identification and mental health: A test of social cure or curse narrative in resource-poor communities in Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Francis Agyei --- University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana Ama de-Graft Aikins --- Institute of African Studies (IAS), University College London (UCL), United Kingdom Annabella Osei-Tutu --- University of Ghana, Ghana Francis Annor --- University of Cape Coast, GhanaMainstream psychology research promotes social group membership as a remedy for poor mental health. However, empirical evidence from African communities is limited. Using a survey of 384 respondents (female = 55.7%; mean age = 34.38 years, SD = 14.37 years),... -
Prevalence and neighbourhood determinants of early sexual debut and multiple sexual partnerships among young people in Rwanda, Ghana and South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nebechukwu H. Ugwu --- University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Clifford O. Odimegwu --- University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaBackground: The consequences of engaging in risky sexual behaviours (RSB) can lead to HIV infection, sexually transmitted diseases and unintended pregnancy. The relationship between neighbourhood characteristics and youth involvement in RSB such as early sexual debut and multiple sexual partnerships... -
Mammalian and avian community response to African elephant (Loxodonta africana) habitat disturbance in south-eastern Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Dakota Vaccaro --- Western Kentucky University, United States Bruce A Schulte --- Western Kentucky University, United StatesAfrican elephants (Loxodonta africana) play a significant role in the modification of their habitat, foremost by decreasing woody vegetation cover and density. Little is known regarding the effects of elephant habitat disturbance (EHD) on medium-to-large mammal and bird communities. While... -
Floristic and structural changes in a neotropical urban novel forest over 13 years
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science • Authors: Marcelly de Souza Ventura --- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Thales Castilhos de Freitas --- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Ricardo Montianele de Castro --- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Mariana Couto Cruz --- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Kelly Antunes --- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Taísa Nascimento de Souza --- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Breno Moreira --- Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil Fabrício Alvim Carvalho --- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, BrazilThe ecological importance of non-native species is the main characteristic of novel ecosystems. Pinus elliottii species is highly invasive in tropical forests and is commonly found in secondary forests in Brazil. We investigated the floristic and structural changes in an... -
Research in Hospitality Management: a retrospective and future views, and the case of padel sport
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sjoerd A. Gehrels --- Stenden University Leeuwarden, The NetherlandsHospitality is a phenomenon in society that has attracted a lot of attention in research over the past few decades. The Hotel Management School Leeuwarden (HMSL) is one of the colleges of the Dutch University of Applied Sciences (UAS) NHL-Stenden... -
Leveraging forums as a catalyst for innovation: Driving progress through communities of practice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Priviledge Cheteni --- University of Fort Hare, South Africa Ikechukwu Umejesi --- University of Fort Hare, South AfricaInnovation is a key indicator of growth in a country. South African rural areas increasingly embrace innovation through community of practice (CoP). The study’s main objective was to investigate whether forums can be used as drivers of innovation in the... -
Free-ranging poultry owners’ opinion towards raptors in Plateau State, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Caka Karlsson --- Biota Conservation Hub Foundation, Nigeria Michael M Williams --- Biota Conservation Hub Foundation, Nigeria Josiah Ibrahim --- AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Nigeria Talatu Tende --- AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Nigeria Ulf Ottosson --- AP Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, NigeriaDespite the importance of the poultry sector in Nigeria, limited research has explored free-ranging poultry farmers’ attitudes towards raptors and the factors influencing these perceptions. Perceptions, whether grounded in evidence or not, can shape behaviours and influence conservation outcomes, as... -
Dreamers or schemers? Fears of “town capture” in a rural South African township
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Magnus Godvik Ekeland --- Radboud University, The NetherlandsRecent public corruption scandals in South Africa have created a social landscape where trust in the motives of businesspeople and politicians has sharply declined. I argue that a by-product of this is constraints on local brokers’ potential to act as... -
The added value of community-based organisations in retaining people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the continuum of care in Mali
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marion Di Ciaccio --- Community-based research laboratory, Coalition PLUS, France Mariam Yebedie --- Association pour la Résilience des Communautés pour l’Accès au Développement et à la Santé - ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Kanuya Coulibaly --- Association pour la Résilience des Communautés pour l’Accès au Développement et à la Santé - ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Diane Dondbzanga --- Association pour la Résilience des Communautés pour l’Accès au Développement et à la Santé - ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Djénébou Traoré --- Association pour la Résilience des Communautés pour l’Accès au Développement et à la Santé - ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Mamadou Cissé --- Association pour la Résilience des Communautés pour l’Accès au Développement et à la Santé - ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Bintou Dembélé --- Association pour la Résilience des Communautés pour l’Accès au Développement et à la Santé - ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Laura Rouane --- Community-based research laboratory, Coalition PLUS, France Rosemary M Delabre --- Community-based research laboratory, Coalition PLUS, France Daniel Simões --- Community-based research laboratory, Coalition PLUS, France Daniela Rojas Castro --- Community-based research laboratory, Coalition PLUS, France Luis Sagaon-Teyssier --- Aix Marseille Univ, Inserm, IRD, SESSTIM, Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l’Information Médicale, ISSPAM, FranceBackground: Retention in care of people living with HIV (PLHIV) is a crucial public health issue in Mali. Several barriers to retention have been highlighted, including socioeconomic status, gender, sexual orientation, HIV-related stigma, as well as organisational and structural barriers,... -
HIV stigma in faith communities in South Africa: A cross-sectional study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Germari Kruger --- North-West University, South Africa Eduardus A. J. G van der Borght --- Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Martha T Teijema --- Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, The Netherlands Sabine L van Elsland --- School of Public Health, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Stella L. E Münninghoff --- Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Marceline Tutu van Furth --- Amsterdam University Center, Emma’s Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam Institute for Infectious Diseases and Immunology, The NetherlandsBackground: The role of religion and faith in the context of HIV stigma is complex. It is important to recognise the diversity of religious beliefs and practices and to work with faith communities to promote a compassionate, non-stigmatising response to... -
Ethnic community languages in contemporary social media advertisements in Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Emmanuel Ilonga --- Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE), TanzaniaA speech community’s expectation is to see its language develop. However, such an imaginative prospect may not materialise due to the asymmetrical power dynamics between influential and less influential speech communities. Consequently, less influential societies are forced to depend on... -
Divergent Housing Spatialities and Gender Subjectivities in Transition: Women's Cooperatives and Poverty Eradication Discourse in Dakar, Senegal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Elettra Griesi --- Collaborative Research Centre 1265, Technische Universität Berlin, GermanyThis article examines the dynamic relationship between spaces and subjectivity, demonstrating how they mutually influence each other to produce distinctive housing spatialities. Through ethnographic research in Thiaroye sur Mer, Dakar (Senegal), I analyze how women's subjectivities, responding to historical processes... -
Intrapopulation isotopic niche structure in mammalian carnivores and herbivores across contrasting habitats
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Chanel Lewis --- University of the Free State, South Africa Runè van der Merwe --- University of the Free State, South Africa Chabi AMS Djagoun --- University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Etotépé A Sogbohossou --- University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Daryl Codron --- University of the Free State, South AfricaNatural communities exhibit ecological gradients that result in a variety of competitive interactions and variations in niche patterns. Changes in resource availability affect the size of a species’ niche: it expands when a variety of resources are abundant and contracts... -
Access to PrEP for cis and transgender women: Developing and implementing a community-based intervention adapted to populations exposed to HIV in Mali, Morocco, and Mauritius
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mustapha Sodqi --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Amal Ben moussa --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Rosemary Delabre --- , France Rime Barrakad --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Luis Sagaon Teyssier --- Aix-Marseille University, France Niloufer Khodabocus --- Lutte contre le SIDA, Mauritius Sofia Fathi --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Fodié Diallo --- ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Patrice Monvoisin --- Lutte contre le SIDA, Mauritius Bintou Keita Dembele --- ARCAD Santé PLUS, Mali Annette Treebhoobun --- Lutte contre le SIDA, Mauritius Naoual Laaziz --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Lahoucine Ouarsas --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, Morocco Daniela Rojas Castro --- , France Mehdi Karkouri --- Association de Lutte Contre le Sida, MoroccoBackground: Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is recommended as part of a comprehensive HIV prevention approach, but its uptake among women, particularly those in key populations, remains limited. -
Feasibility, challenges, and lessons learned in implementing antiretroviral adherence club models in Northern Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ramadhani Abdul --- Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Lukas Van Duffel --- Doctors with Africa Collegio Universitario Aspiranti Medici Missionari (CUAMM), Tanzania Giulia Martelli --- Doctors with Africa Collegio Universitario Aspiranti Medici Missionari (CUAMM), Tanzania Edda Ndyamukama Joel --- Doctors with Africa Collegio Universitario Aspiranti Medici Missionari (CUAMM), Tanzania Joyce Zacharia Misesemo --- Doctors with Africa Collegio Universitario Aspiranti Medici Missionari (CUAMM), Tanzania Tobias F. Rinke de Wit --- Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Sayoki Mfinanga --- National Institute for Medical Research, Tanzania Anton Pozniak --- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom Sabine Hermans --- Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsIntroduction: In Tanzania, nearly 1.6 million adults were living with HIV in 2022, with an HIV prevalence rate of 4.4%. We piloted community health worker-managed adherence clubs in two clinics in Shinyanga, Tanzania. We previously demonstrated better stability in care... -
Digital advancement in the East African Community: The impact of information and communications technology on economic growth and energy consumption
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abdikafi Hassan Abdi --- SIMAD University, Somalia Abdikarim Abdullahi Hersi --- SIMAD University, Somalia Abdiwahid Abdullahi Khalif --- SIMAD University, Somalia Mohamed Mire Mohamed --- SIMAD University, SomaliaAs the East African Community (EAC) modernizes and grows its digital infrastructure, it is essential to comprehend the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) on productivity and energy consumption to formulate initiatives that foster sustainable growth. Accordingly, this study...
