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Socio-economic and demographic factors related to HIV status in urban informal settlements in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Liana Steenkamp --- HIV&AIDS Research Unit, South Africa Danie Venter --- Unit for Statistical Consultation, South Africa Corinna Walsh --- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, South Africa Pelisa Dana --- Eastern Cape AIDS Council, South AfricaThe prevalence of HIV&AIDS is embedded in social and economic inequity and the relationship between social determinants and HIV incidence is well established. The aim of this study was to determine which socio-economic and demographic factors are related to HIV... -
An argument for either excluding death as a capital gains tax event or abolishing estate duty
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: J J Roeleveld --- Department of Finance and Tax,South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that imposes both estate duty and capital gains tax on the assets of a person on death. This paper presents an argument for the abolishment of estate duty in... -
The Nature of the South African Corporate Economy: A need to review company objectives?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: D Botha --- University of Cape Town,The maximisation of shareholders’ wealth as the primary goal of the firm is the cornerstone of modern financial theory which has its source mainly from USA. The South African corporate economy has significantly different characteristics compared with that of the... -
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... -
Mining morals, muck and Akan gold in New York City
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jane Parish --- Sociology, United KingdomAmong Akan spirit preachers at shrines in New York, gold and gold weights are at the centre of the creation of new moral topographies in a fluid and contested context. In a get-rich-quick New York marketplace, the preachers appeal to... -
Corporate social responsibility, market competition, and shareholder wealth
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Doowon Ryu --- Business School, Korea University, Korea Doojin Ryu --- Department of Economics, Korea Joon Ho Hwang --- Business School, Korea University, KoreaThis paper examines the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR), product market competition (PMC) and shareholder wealth by analysing CSR and market data from January 2006 to December 2012 (excluding 2009) in Korea. We focus on the role of PMC,... -
“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... -
Traditions of kinship, marriage and bridewealth in southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Adam Kuper --- Anthropology, United KingdomIn the pre-colonial period, and in most parts of Southern Africa throughout the nineteenth and well into the twentieth century, marriage, the family and the homestead were embedded in economic, political and religious institutions. The household was the hub of... -
Household wealth and adoption of Integrated Striga Management (ISM) technologies in northern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: L. J. S. Baiyegunhi --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Discipline of Agricultural Economics, South Africa M. B. Hassan --- School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Discipline of Agricultural Economics, South AfricaAgricultural households in developing countries often are unable and unwilling to adopt new technologies due to the deterrents to adoption imposed by numerous socio-economic, institutional and ecological factors. However, economic theory predicts that relatively wealthy households have better ability to... -
Addressing education inequality in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Folorunso Obayemi Temitope Obasuyi --- Department of Development Studies, Malaysia Rajah Rasiah --- Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, MalaysiaThis paper examines the impact of wealth inequality on education inequality in the sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, including by decomposing inequality across gender. Specifically, it analyzes the impact of wealth concentration on the distribution of educational attainment using a sample... -
Beef cuts amongst the Bangwaketse: the case of motlhakanelwa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Thapelo Otlogetswe --- , BotswanaThe Setswana wedding is characterised by ritual intensity. Whilst some rituals are changing rapidly, one particular event that has remained relevant is the handling and sharing of the motlhakanelwa beast. Kgomo ya motlhakanelwa, the beast that is shared, is one... -
Gendered actual controlling shareholders and family business emotional attachment influences on business operational violations: A propensity score matching analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Xiaoyu Liao --- , China Bei Lyu --- , China Jiayu Fan --- , ChinaThis study aimed to ascertain how gendered family emotional attachment of actual controlling shareholders influenced business violation and its boundary functions. Our study participants were 1 707 actual controlling shareholders of Chinese listed family companies. For the data analysis, we... -
‘Bahari Imekufa, The Sea is Dead’: Local Perceptions of Ocean Health and Ocean Wealth among Fishers on the Kenyan Coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Jacky Kosgei --- WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaUsing narratives that I recorded in June/July 2021 on Kenya’s south coast with fishers belonging to three different generations, this paper provides insights into local articulations of changes that have happened in the sea over time. These changes — which... -
Contagion from crypto exchange hacks: Wealth effect or portfolio rebalancing?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Dung Thi Ngoc Pham --- College of Technology and Design, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Chune Young Chung --- Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam Doojin Ryu --- Sungkyunkwan University, KoreaThis study explores the contagion mechanism from the cryptocurrency market to stock markets of 30 countries with the highest Bitcoin trading volumes, focusing on cyberattacks targeting cryptocurrency exchanges. We identify investor-induced contagion through the wealth effect as the primary transmission...