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South African HIV/AIDS programming overlooks migration, urban livelihoods, and informal workplaces
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jo Vearey --- , South Africa Marlise Richter --- , South Africa Lorena Núñez --- , South Africa Khangelani Moyo --- , South AfricaSouth Africa has the largest population of people living with HIV globally and is associated with high population mobility. The majority of migrants move in search of improved livelihood opportunities, and many who migrate (both internally and across borders) move... -
A framework for analyzing workforce dynamics in forest harvesting in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Southern African Forestry Journal • Authors: Killian Tendai Manyuchi --- Forest Engineering: Department of Forestry Sciences, South Africa ReinoE. Pulkki --- Forest Engineering: Department of Forestry Sciences, South Africa R.P.F --- Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, CanadaPeople are the industry's most valuable asset. However, due to its dynamic nature, labour cannot be owned but only rented. A framework for measuring, monitoring and managing labour dynamics is used and tested in forest harvesting operations in South Africa... -
Second-stage primary Caesarean deliveries: Are maternal complications increased?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: J Moodley --- Women's Health and HIV Research Unit and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, J Devjee --- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, SM Khedun --- Women's Health and HIV Research Unit and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, T Esterhuizen --- Programme of Biostatistics, Research Ethics and Medical Law, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal,Background: Second-stage Caesarean sections (CSs) are known to be associated with increased complications but most reports originate from tertiary hospitals, which attend to high-risk patients. Complication rates may differ in district hospitals, which attend to low-risk patients. -
Knowledge of life: health, strength and labour in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Thomas Cousins --- Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, South AfricaThe article examines the production of new modes of calculation, calibration and measurement of bodies at work in the timber plantations of northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa — modes that echo older, diverse technologies of self and health while producing new... -
Drivers for the effective management of HIV and AIDS in the South African construction industry — a Delphi study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nishani Harinarain --- School of Engineering, Property Development Programme, South Africa Theo Conrad Haupt --- School of Engineering, Property Development Programme, South AfricaDifferent industries manage the threats presented by HIV and AIDS in different ways. The construction industry is particularly vulnerable to the pandemic because of its large unskilled labour force, high labour turnover and the migratory nature of the workforce. The... -
Rethinking technological choices and knowledge production in the mines and on the factory floor: Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha's experiences in central India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Radhika Krishnan --- Centre for Studies in Science Policy, IndiaThis paper seeks to locate in the experiences of the Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, a workers’ collective in Central India, an alternative model of technological transfer. Responding to the proposal of large-scale mechanisation of the iron ore mines in Central India,... -
Confronting stereotypes in the fishing industry in post-apartheid South Africa: A case study of women on the West Coast in the Western Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Sharon Groenmeyer --- Centre for the Study of Democracy, South AfricaDrawing on research conducted in fish processing and allied industries, the women in this study engage in shoreline activities collecting mussels, red bait, shellfish, seaweed; catching crayfish and fish or cleaning fish and mending nets. Women's role in fishing is... -
Labour epidural analgesia audit in a teaching hospital in a developing country
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: G.G. Jacobs-Martin --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa J.L. Burke --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa A.I. Levin --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa A.R. Coetzee --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, South AfricaBackground: Neuraxial analgesia is currently considered to be the most effective method of intrapartum analgesia, causing little maternal and foetal sedation. While epidural analgesia has been well studied in developed countries, it is uncertain whether or not the results, particularly... -
The South African labour market and the incubation of small businesses in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Zeleke Worku --- Business School, Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaSince April 1994, the South African Government and the trade unions have been working together as a means of realising sustained economic growth and development, job creation and the alleviation of poverty among the unemployed youth. The uneasy relationship between... -
Patterns in financial performance indicators of capital and labour intensive enterprises during an upswing and a decline in the economic cycle
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: JZ Bloom --- Department of Business Management, IJ Lambrechts --- Department of Business Management, NJ le Roux --- Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science,The objective of this paper is to investigate patterns in the behaviour of various financial performance indicators for capital intensive (CI) and labour intensive (LI) enterprises during an upswing (1987–1989) and a decline (1990–1992) phase of the economic cycle, as... -
The ‘picaninny wage’. An historical overview of the persistence of structural inequality and child labour in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: S.L. Levine --- Department of Social Anthropology,This paper considers the recruitment of children and youths in colonial and post colonial South Africa. It explores the early legislation that transformed the nature of childhood in pre-colonial South Africa, and contributes to emerging scholarship on social constructions of... -
Memory, landscape and event: How Ndebele labour tenants interpret and reclaim the past
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Chris J van Vuuren --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology,The article discusses the roots of memory of former Ndebele labour tenants, and how these memories manifest in landscape, object and event. Recognising the role of history that bound most of the Ndundza community into labour tenancy, the author unpacks... -
Principals’ experiences of being disempowered by union members
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Chris Myburgh --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Marie Poggenpoel --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Veronica Mapitso Kgabo --- Department of Educational Psychology, South AfricaThis study explored school principals’ experience of managing unionised schools in South Africa. Qualitative in-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted with a purposeful selected sample of 13 school principals of unionised schools (age range 36-60 years). The school principals responded to... -
The rise and fall of Liqhobong Diamond Mine Cooperative in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Esther Makhetha --- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaDiamond mining in the rural highlands of Lesotho has taken different forms over the past century: unregulated diamond digging by locals and “migrant” diggers in the early 1950s; regulated diamond mining by a state-sponsored diamond cooperative from 1978 onwards; and... -
Increasing the labour epidural rate in a state hospital in South Africa: challenges and opportunities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia • Authors: Stephanus F van Zyl --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, South Africa Jonathan L Burke --- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, South AfricaBackground: A 2012 audit on labour epidural analgesia rates in Tygerberg Hospital (TBH) revealed that only 2.2% of labouring parturients received epidural analgesia. This unacceptably low number necessitated a dedicated epidural service that was subsequently initiated in June 2014 by... -
“Taming” Bushman farm labour: a villeinous era in neo-feudal Namibia?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robert Gordon --- Anthropology Department, South AfricaThis paper examines how “wild” Bushmen became “tame” farm labour in Namibia during a situation where policy encouraged massive white farm settlement while undergoing significant administrative personnel downscaling. Downscaling led to an increase in unrecorded informal violence because farmers were... -
Whose ethics? The international regulation of labour practices on South African export fruit farms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Janie Swanepoel --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper concerns private labour regulation services in the form of ethical audits. By describing the development and nature of ethical audits in the South African fruit export industry, it juxtaposes the complex relations between farm workers and farmers, shaped... -
Automation and employment: The case of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Daniel B. le Roux --- Cognition and Technology Research Group, South AfricaIn the two centuries since the Industrial Revolution technological progress has had a major impact on the types of work humans perform. The invention of increasingly advanced machinery decreases, on one hand, the need for certain forms of manual labour... -
Between globalisation and Brexit: Migration, pay and the road to modern slavery in the UK hospitality industry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Steve French --- Institute for Social Inclusion, United KingdomNeo-liberal economic globalisation has promoted deregulation and a weakening of the role of the state in regulating the national economy. The perceived benefits of competition have been used to justify strategies to reduce operational costs and promote a “race to... -
Understanding how millennial hospitality employees deal with emotional labour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Hester Visser --- Stenden Hospitality Management School, The NetherlandsQualified employees are the most valuable assets in today’s environment and this requires that employers understand and engage their employees. One process that might influence their happiness at work is emotional labour. Emotional labour entails that an employee tries to... -
Does the body modified appearance of front-line employees matter to hotel guests?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Verena Hopf --- International Hospitality and Service Management, The NetherlandsThe hospitality industry is all about providing service. This service provision takes place in the employee and guest encounter. Hence, this interaction is crucial for the hospitality industry. The employees in this interplay are expected to represent the company and... -
An assessment of antiretroviral drug initiation to pregnant women of unknown HIV status during labour and delivery in Cameroon
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Anastasia Yenban Bongajum --- Ministry of Public Health, Cameroon Divine Mbiydzenyuy Dufe --- Merck Animal Health, The Netherlands Paul Théodore Biyaga Tjek --- Ministry of Public Health, Cameroon Daniel Ter Goon --- Department of Nursing Sciences, Céline Nguefeu Nkenfou --- “Chantal Biya” Reference Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management, Cameroon Julius Mbekem Nwobegahay --- Cameroon Military Health Research Center (CRESAR), Cameroon Robinson Mbu --- Department of Family Health, Ministry of Public Health, CameroonBackground: Evidence from previous research has shown that antiretroviral (ARV) drug initiation to seropositive pregnant women could significantly contribute to eliminating new paediatric infections even when started during labour and delivery. This study therefore seeks to assess missed opportunities for... -
Future prospects and challenges of intensifying dairy production systems in Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Habtamu Didanna --- Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia Ashenafi Wossen --- Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia Berhanu Shano --- Wolaita Sodo University, EthiopiaA number of market-oriented smallholder dairy farms have appeared mainly in the urban and peri-urban areas of Ethiopia. Dairy intensification provides both opportunities and challenges that need to be managed accordingly in order to improve milk production in a sustainable... -
Ethnographic evidence versus theoretical models: reminiscences and reflections on a linear proletarianisation model for Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Andrew D. Spiegel --- , South AfricaConceptualising what was seen as the proletarianisation of Southern Africa’s working people was a significant analytical preoccupation of the social sciences in the 1970s. Considering that the region’s political economy was dependent on migrant labour, anthropologists and others sought to... -
African international students’ career and job satisfaction: The case of China
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Dennis Fiifi Darko --- , China Zheng He --- , China Evans Asante Boadi --- , China Isaac Owusu Asante --- , ChinaWe aimed to examine the influence of international education career preparation on job acquisition (JA), skilled labour (SL), and job satisfaction (JS) among African student graduates of Chinese universities. Participants were 708 graduates from Ghana who attended Chinese higher education... -
Child learners of parents in employment sojourn: Their lived experiences in separation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ricanos Jaure --- , South Africa Alfred H. Makura --- , South AfricaThis study explored the lived experiences of adolescent learners of work sojourn parents. We interviewed six left-behind Zimbabwean learners (three boys and three girls; age range = 15 to 18 years) about their lived experiences with parental absence due to... -
Emotional labour influences on psychological health: The moderating role of religiosity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Collins Badu Agyemang --- , GhanaThe present study examined the direct association between emotional labour and psychological health, and the moderating role of religiosity among media practitioners in Ghana. Using a cross-sectional design, 336 media practitioners (female = 31%) completed a survey on emotional labour... -
“Just smile and wave”: Workplace requirements and emotional labour of academic staff at a South African university
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Susanna Maria O’Neil --- , South Africa Jeshika Gopal --- , South AfricaEmotional labour is a part of all work situations, and how people manage it influences their quality of work-life. We aimed to study lived emotional labour and sustainable work participation of a sample of 15 South African university lecturers (females=... -
Representations of Indian Ocean Ecologies, Heritage and Kinship in Banaadiri Fishing Poems and Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ayan Salaad --- University of Southampton, UKThis article brings Yvonne Owuor’s 2019 novel The Dragonfly Sea into conversation with nine Banaadiri fishing poems called geeraarro, a form of classical Somali oral poetry in the maanso category. I explore the ways in which ideas of labour, kinship,... -
Memorandum on the problem of farm labour (1937)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: H. Max Gluckmann [AN1] Isak Niehaus --- Brunel University London, UKIn 1937, Max Gluckman submitted a memorandum to a commission of inquiry into the shortage of farm labour in South Africa. In the memorandum, he criticised the presumption that the government should induce African male migrants from the reserves to... -
Does parental education moderate the association between personal growth initiative, purpose in life and subjective well-being among Chinese college students?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xiaoxia Huang --- Huzhou Vocational and Technical College, China Hong Li --- Zhoukou Vocational and Technical College, China Yungui Guo --- Hunan University of Science and Technology, ChinaWe investigated the moderating effect of parental education on the relationship between personal growth initiative, purpose in life, and subjective well-being. Two-wave time-lagged data with an interval of three months were collected from 491 students (mean age = 19.58 years,... -
How psychological contract breach relates to façades of conformity: The mediating role of emotional labour
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Feng-Hua Yang --- Da-Yeh University, Taiwan Huai-Liang Liang --- Da-Yeh University, TaiwanWe investigated the relationship between psychological contract breach (PCB) and façades of conformity and mediation by surface acting and deep acting. Employees (n = 255) from a large bank in Taiwan were surveyed (female = 58.80%; mean age = 36.30... -
Unemployment in Nigeria: The significance of optimizing benefits of innovation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fisayo Fagbemi --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria John Oluwasegun Ajibike --- The Polytechnic, Nigeria Teniola Abosede Adesanya --- The Polytechnic, NigeriaReflections on the problems facing the labour market in Nigeria and the need to proffer solutions to the high unemployment rate in the country call for an assessment of the possible relationship between innovation and unemployment between 1990 and 2020... -
Assessment of compliance level with the International Labor Organization child labour utilization regulation: Evidence from cassava farmers in Osogbo ADP Zone, Osun State, Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Lateef Olatunbosun Jimoh --- Osun State University, Nigeria Timothy Olusola Agboola --- Osun State University, Nigeria Olaide Kamila Akintunde --- Osun State University, Nigeria Kaothar Modupe Idris-Adeniyi --- Osun State University, Nigeria Francis Oluwadamilare Ajayi --- Osun State University, Nigeria Festus Adelekan Oyeniyi --- Osun State University, NigeriaInvestigating the compliance level of International Labor Organization (ILO) regulation on child labour use among cassava farming households in Osogbo ADP Zone, Osun State, Nigeria, the study determines the factors influencing child labour usage among cassava farmers in the study...