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The opinion of patients at a local South Africa teaching hospital on physician-industry relations
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: R Wise --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, RN Rodseth --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,Objectives: This study aimed to determine how South African patients at a regional state hospital perceived the practice of physicians accepting gifts from the pharmaceutical industry. The physician-patient relationship is built on trust, with an understanding that the physician will... -
The valorisation of symbolic labour: the articulation of proper womanhood in post-apartheid Potchefstroom
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Pia Bombardella --- School for Social and Government Studies, North West University,Drawing on ethnographic data gleaned from nine months of research conducted among elderly, middle-class, Afrikaans- speaking members of a voluntary woman's organisation that aims at providing adult education to women, pertaining to womanhood, wifehood and motherhood, this paper shows how... -
“Giving God his due?” Understanding tithing and its function within the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Evan Carl Edward Jacobs --- NRF Chair in History Programme: “Local Histories and Present Realities,”, South AfricaThis paper focuses on the practice of tithing as an extraordinary form of religious giving. Tithing involves habitually giving ten percent of one's income to the church, and since this is such a significant portion of a person's income, its... -
“Slow marriage,” “fast bogadi”: change and continuity in marriage in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jacqueline Solway --- Department of International Development Studies and Department of Anthropology, CanadaClassic work on Tswana marriage emphasises that it is a process of becoming, involving a series of rituals and prestations characterised by a long period of socially productive ambiguity in which the status of the union, the spouses, their children... -
Love matters: exploring conceptions of love in Rwanda and Swaziland and relationship to HIV and intimate partner violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Allison Ruark --- Department of Medicine, USA Erin Stern --- Department of Global Health and Development, UK Thandeka Dlamini-Simelane --- Institute for Health Measurement, Swaziland Marie Fidele Kakuze --- Independent Consultant, SwazilandHealth risks such as intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV infection often occur within intimate sexual relationships, yet the study of love and intimacy is largely absent from health research on African populations. This study explores how women and men... -
Teacher identified giftedness qualities in a Ghanaian school setting: A brief report
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kingsley Nyarko --- Department of Teacher Education, Ghana Nuworza Kugbey --- Department of Family and Community Health, Ghana Christopher M. Amissah --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Michael Ansah-Nyarko --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Fred Boateng --- Department of Educational Leadership, GhanaThis study explored the nature and indicators of giftedness in school children from the perspective of Ghanaian school teachers (n = 30, females = 40%; age range = 24 to 60years). The teachers responded to semi-structured interviews. Results from thematic analysis of the data revealed that... -
Trauma and the Migrant Archive: Reading The Last Gift Through Second-Generation Memory
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jacinta Matheka --- Makerere University, UgandaThis paper reads Abdulrazak Gurnah's The Last Gift to unearth the intersection of migrants’ trauma, memory and identity. I explore migrants’ trauma in reconciling silenced histories with their present states in the quest for an identity. Abdulrazak Gurnah's migrant-centred narratives...