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CHANGES IN URBAN RESIDENTIAL LAND IN THE RIETSPRUIT CATCHMENT, SOUTHERN TRANSVAAL
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Aquatic Sciences • Authors: M.J. Silberbauer --- Department of Water Affairs, South Africa J. Moolman --- Department of Water Affairs, South AfricaInformal settlements have become an important and rapidly-expanding component of urban development in South Africa. In the Rietspruit catchment, south-west of Johannesburg, average growth rates in urban land cover of up to 2.7 km2 per year (1972–1991) were measured from... -
Traumatic Experiences and PTSD Among Adolescent Congolese Refugees in Uganda: A Preliminary Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Joseph Ssenyonga --- Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda Vicki Owens --- World Food Programme, Uganda David Kani Olema --- Mbarara University of Science and Technology, UgandaThe study examined experienced traumatic events and the related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) amongst a sample of 89 adolescent Congolese refugees (56 females and 33 males) at a refugee camp in Uganda. Data was collected using a questionnaire, and analyzed... -
Settlement patterns, size and growth of puerulus and juvenile rock lobster Jasus lalandii at an oyster farm in Saldanha Bay, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JC Groeneveld --- , South Africa CL Greengrass --- Marine Biology Research Institute, Department of Zoology, South Africa DL van Zyl --- Branch Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa GM Branch --- Marine Biology Research Institute, Department of Zoology, South AfricaTrends in the abundance, size and growth of newly settled pueruli and early juveniles of the rock lobster Jasus lalandii were determined from samples obtained from mesh bags used for oyster mariculture in Saldanha Bay, South Africa. Totals of 3... -
Non-random habitat use by coral reef fish recruits in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: KC Garpe MC ÖhmanThe habitat use by nearly 3 000 reef fish recruits, comprising 56 taxa, at seven sites in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania, were examined. The study was carried out following the 1998 global coral bleaching event and all sites but... -
Further refutation of the primary-secondary settlement hypothesis for the brown mussel Perna perna
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: KE Reaugh JM Harris GM BranchThe primary-secondary settlement hypothesis, that mussels first settle in algae and then move to mussel beds, was rejected as the only mode of recruitment for the brown mussel Perna perna in a previous study at one location over one year... -
Morphological identification of primary settlers and post-larvae of three mussel species from the coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: S Bownes NP Barker CD McQuaidThe study of mussel settlement and recruitment requires the ability to identify the larvae of co-existing species. On the south coast of South Africa, an introduced (Mytilus galloprovincialis) and two indigenous (Choromytilus meridionalis and Perna perna) mussel species co-exist and... -
Capitalising on privilege: home-based businesses and informal settlements as a post-apartheid phenomenon in Indian dominated residential areas in Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Anand Singh --- School of Sciences and Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThis paper is an ethnographic account of fieldwork that began in 1999 when African squatter camps in the Greater Durban metropolitan area accommodated people almost equal in number to the settled tax-paying Indian residents in the vicinity. While their numbers... -
Reconsidering displacement in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Chris de Wet --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaIn the light of developments in the southern African region over the last number of years, the paper argues for a reconsideration, and an extension, of the way in which the concept of ‘displacement’ has conventionally been understood. It considers... -
Understanding the association between the non-geniculate coralline red alga Spongites discoidea and the mollusc Oxystele sinensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: R Eager --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa C Puckree-Padua --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South Africa GW Maneveldt --- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, South AfricaNearly all adult winkles Oxystele sinensis encountered in the Kalk Bay (Western Cape province, South Africa) shallow subtidal zone were observed to bear a thick, convoluted form of the non-geniculate coralline red alga Spongites discoidea. To understand this association, various... -
Predictors of tuberculosis treatment defaulting in informal dwellers within the eThekwini municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases • Authors: A Rajagopaul --- Department of Community Health Studies Faculty of Health Sciences, E J Kistnasamy --- Department of Community Health Studies Faculty of Health Sciences, P Reddy --- Department of Community Health Studies Faculty of Health Sciences,Globally, tuberculosis causes more than 2-million deaths annually. Despite the implementation of the directly observed treatment strategy (DOTS) in South Africa, cure and defaulter rates have not reached World Health Organization (WHO) target rates. This causes concern as it may... -
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... -
Spatio-temporal patterns of coral recruitment at Vamizi Island, Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: E Sola --- School of Life Sciences, South Africa I Marques da Silva --- Faculdade de Ciências Naturais, Moçambique D Glassom --- School of Life Sciences, South AfricaSpatial and temporal patterns of recruitment of reef corals were assessed for the first time in Mozambique by deploying settlement plates at various spatio-temporal scales between October 2012 and October 2013. The abundance of juvenile corals (5−50 mm in diameter) was... -
(Dis)empowered whiteness: un-whitely spaces and the production of the good white home
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Christi Kruger --- Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South AfricaThis paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a white informal settlement in South Africa, to explore the ways in which poorer whites with perceived notions of whiteness and blackness negotiate living in informal settlements. In doing this, I argue, they... -
Reassessing the invasion of South African waters by the European shore-crab Carcinus maenas
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CA Mabin --- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa JRU Wilson --- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa JJ Le Roux --- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, South Africa TB Robinson --- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, South AfricaThe European shore-crab Carcinus maenas has been present in South Africa since 1983. Despite this species’ international reputation as a biological invader, its distribution in this region has only been considered by three outdated ‘snapshot surveys.’ The present study is... -
“There is life in this place”: “DIY formalisation,” buoyant life and citizenship in Marikana informal settlement, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Hestia Victor --- Department of Social Anthropology, South AfricaTheir shack settlement labelled “too informal” to receive basic service provision, the residents of Marikana informal settlement, in Potchefstroom, North West province, South Africa, planned and executed what was locally referred to as “DIY formalisation” in order to politically appeal... -
Violence of science and development: Withering away of the displaced Van Gujjars in and around Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Prerna Sah --- , India Sambit Mallick --- , IndiaThis paper examines the displacement of the semi-nomadic pastoral community of the Van Gujjars from the Protected Area of Rajaji National Park, displacement falling under the rubric of ‘development-induced displacement’. The study carried out was based on qualitative data collection... -
Exploring the infant feeding experiences of mothers living in selected Tshwane informal settlements: a qualitative study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Tshegofatso Betty Mohlala --- University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Sithabile Nombulelo Mathunjwa --- University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Heather Modiehi Legodi --- University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Mamakwa Sanah Mataboge --- ,Objective: The study aimed to explore and describe the infant feeding experiences of mothers of children aged 3 to 24 months, living in two selected informal settlements in Tshwane, South Africa. -
Coastal topography and rates of mussel recruitment: a comparison of bay versus open-coast sites
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CD McQuaid --- Rhodes University, South Africa M Buresch --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe recruitment of intertidal benthic organisms that have planktonic larvae is influenced by hydrodynamics at multiple nested spatial scales, ranging from tens of centimetres to kilometres. Intertidal mussel populations on the south coast of South Africa are known to exhibit... -
Nairobi’s Marginal Postcolonial Homes: The House Signifier in Meja Mwangi’s Fiction
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jairus Omuteche --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, KenyaThis paper uses Meja Mwangi’s novels Cockroach Dance and Going Down River Road to assess the author’s portrayal of ‘house’ as a versatile signifier for the alienation of Nairobi’s postcolonial urban space. In other words, the paper examines how far...