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Socio-economic transitions influence vegetation change in the communal rangelands of the South African lowveld
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Range & Forage Science • Authors: W C TwineThe importance of the human dimensions of vegetation change in rangelands is increasingly being acknowledged. However, surprisingly little research is directed at advancing our understanding of the relationships between socio-economic factors and state of the vegetation in these systems. There... -
Sex, disease and stigma in South Africa: historical perspectives
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Peter Delius Clive GlaserThis paper attempts to analyse historically why stigma and denial around HIV/AIDS is so powerful in South Africa, so powerful that ailing family members can be shunned and evicted. For many observers, the answer lies simply in its being a... -
Childcare in poor urban settlements in Swaziland in an era of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Lynne JonesThis paper explores the role of the family in caring for orphans and other children in poor urban communities having some of the highest levels of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world. A range of family forms in Swaziland was found... -
Human rights and access to AIDS treatment in Mozambique
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Erling HøgThis article explores key issues related to the agitation for human rights in Mozambique and its weak performance power. I define human rights in the context of HIV/AIDS as well as rights-based approaches to development and health. Based on fieldwork,... -
HIV/AIDS in South Africa: caring for vulnerable children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: H Loening-Voysey --- , South AfricaSouth Africa currently has the fastest growing HIV/AIDS pandemic in the world. Efforts to manage the plight of children affected by HIV/AIDS have however been thwarted by two ubiquitous factors—poverty and inefficient state services. Caregivers, who are generally not public... -
Church mobilisation and HIV/AIDS treatment in Ghana and Zambia:a comparative analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: AmyS. Patterson --- Department of Political Science, United StatesThis article compares Ghanaian and Zambian church mobilisation on HIV and AIDS. It analyses why long-term interest in HIV and AIDS has declined in Ghana but increased in Zambia, and why church involvement in promoting access to HIV/AIDS treatment has... -
Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: M Sowman --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa D Scott --- School of Built Environment and Development Studies, Howard College Campus, South Africa L J F Green --- Department of Social Anthropology, South Africa M M Hara --- Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa M Hauck --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa K Kirsten --- Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, South Africa B Paterson --- Marine Research Institute, South Africa S Raemaekers --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa K Jones --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa J Sunde --- Environmental Evaluation Unit, Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, South Africa J K Turpie --- Anchor Environmental, South AfricaThis paper provides an overview of social science research in the marine environment of South Africa for the period 1994–2012. A bibliography based on a review of relevant literature and social science projects funded under the SEAChange programme of the... -
Wellness programme and health policy development at a large faith-based organisation in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: ElizabethD ArendThis paper presents a case study of wellness programme and health policy development based on an HIV/AIDS organisation's Khayelitsha site in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The study examines the different challenges that the organisation faces in relation to... -
Anthropological perspectives on the challenges to monitoring and evaluating HIV and AIDS programming in Lesotho
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: David Turkon --- Department of Anthropology, United States David Himmelgreen --- Department of Anthropology, United States Nancy Romero-Daza --- Department of Anthropology, United States Charlotte Noble --- Department of Anthropology, United StatesThis article focuses on how numerous international nongovernmental organisations (INGOs) have stepped forward to provide services related to HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment in Lesotho. We highlight some widely recognised challenges associated with the INGO approach and describe how... -
Evaluating the rural health placements of the Rural Support Network at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: CS Naidu --- Primary Healthcare Directorate, Faculty of Health Sciences, J Irlam --- Primary Healthcare Directorate, Faculty of Health Sciences,Objectives: The Rural Support Network (RSN) is an undergraduate student society that aims to raise awareness among the student body of the plight of rural health in South Africa, and organises individual and group placements in rural hospitals during vacations... -
Standing on the shoulders of colourful giants: 50 years of zoological research in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Peter J. Taylor --- Durban Natural Science Museum, South Africa Michelle Hamer --- South African National Biodiversity Institute, South AfricaOn the occasion of a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa (ZSSA), the history of the Society is outlined in terms of its different ‘growth stages’ under different political dispensations and geographical headquarters, of... -
Koranna struggle against the colonial church: the case of Brandewynsfontein
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Piet Erasmus --- Department of Anthropology,Although Goliath Yzerbek, in his struggle to safeguard the perceived land rights of the Koranna, had to deal with many more obstacles than the colonial church, only the interactions of the Berlin Missionary Society with the Koranna of Brandewynsfontein will... -
Rights, the public and the South African Constitution: civil society and the performance of rights
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Naudé Malan --- Department of Anthropology and Development Studies,The concept of rights holds considerable dominion over the discourses of the state and the public. This situation has left us unable to comprehend, police, and support forms of ‘non-state public action’ as relevant to rights. This article discusses the... -
What does sustainability mean in the HIV and AIDS response?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Gemma Oberth --- Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR), South Africa Alan Whiteside --- Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada and, South AfricaImmense progress has been made in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Achieving and exceeding the AIDS targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was accomplished, in large part, due to an unprecedented financial investment from the international community. Following... -
Sport nutrition: A review of the latest guidelines for exercise and sport nutrition from the American College of Sport Nutrition, the International Olympic Committee and the International Society for Sports Nutrition
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: S Potgieter --- Lecturer, Therapeutic Nutrition, Division of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences,Evidence-based sport nutrition guidelines which explore the connection between nutrition, exercise and well-being form a crucial part of any athlete’s competitive and training programme. Guidelines that are based on sound scientific evidence about the quantity, structure and timing of food... -
Democracy as technopolitical future: delivery and discontent in a government settlement in the South African countryside
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Bernard Dubbeld --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper is concerned with how democracy is understood and experienced in a KwaZulu-Natal municipal administration and one of the settlements it governs. Considering that democracy has a range of popular meanings, and that in South Africa it has been... -
“Bringing back hope”: how faith-based responses to HIV and AIDS differ from secular responses
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Deborah Simpson --- Centre for the Study of Democracy, South AfricaThis article investigates an assertion by faith-based organisations (FBO) that spirituality is the defining feature of their HIV and AIDS interventions. It is based on interviews with 24 people working on the issue of HIV and AIDS in churches or... -
Developing governance models and funding mechanisms of state–civil society partnerships for HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention based on lessons from Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Martin Hushie --- Department of Behavioural Sciences, School of Allied Health Sciences, GhanaThe contribution of civil society organisations (CSOs) to national HIV/AIDS responses in sub-Saharan African countries, with Global Health Initiatives’ (GHIs) funding channelled through National AIDS Commissions (NACs), is well researched. Less well understood are the governance models and funding mechanisms... -
Clean energy transition in a developing society: Perspectives on the socioeconomic determinants of Solar Home Systems adoption among urban households in southeastern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Edlyne Eze Anugwom --- , Nigeria Kenechukwu Nwakego Anugwom --- , Nigeria Oliver Ifeanyi Eya --- , NigeriaThis study identifies factors that constrain the adoption of clean energy sources by urban households in southeastern Nigeria, using the Solar Home Systems (SHS) as a case study. It is premised on the assumption that adoption of innovation is affected... -
Building markets between institutional discontinuities: Intermediation between formal and informal sectors in developing countries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: John M. Luiz --- , UK Baldwin Guchu --- , South AfricaWe explore the role of an intermediary, Palladium, in Zimbabwe as it bridges the divide between formal and informal sectors and the process through which it connects these sectors. We conduct in-depth, qualitative interviews structured around our case study of... -
Wisdom in folktales: Exploring primary marriage counselling in Zimbabwean Ndebele traditions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Lickel Ndebele --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis article interrogates Ndebele folktales to establish how they were/are utilised as a primary marriage counselling vehicle in Zimbabwe’s Ndebele society. The analysis is made against the backdrop of increasing marriage and family instability as shown through domestic violence, divorce,...