‘They do not understand us’: a psychosocial analysis of the everyday lived experiences of a CYCC care worker in semi-rural South Africa
- Authors: Pieters, Cinnamon-Paige
- Date: 2022-04-07
- Subjects: Child care workers South Africa Attitudes , Narrative inquiry (Research method) , Intersubjectivity , Free association (Psychology) , Child care South Africa Psychological aspects , Burn out (Psychology) South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/294482 , vital:57225
- Description: This paper employs a psychosocial framework to analyse the everyday lived experiences of a child and youth care worker in semi-rural South Africa. The aim is to provide a new perspective of care work by drawing on narrative analysis alongside a psychoanalytic approach to qualitative research. With an emphasis on the socially constructed nature of reality, the researcher aims to elucidate the rich unconscious depths of being a care worker and the dynamics of the intersubjective reality of care work. Employing a free association narrative interview technique allows the researcher to gain understanding of the narratives that the care worker draws on in the construction of his identity as a care worker. The use of a psychosocial approach enables the researcher to pay attention to both the social context that influences the narratives that he draws on, but also the psychological ‘pay offs’ of these constructions. Most notably, the study highlights how the care worker’s identity is mediated by a defended subjectivity and argues that his failures in mentalization might stem from the way he is treated as a care worker by other professionals as a result of their mindblindness. This maintains his narrative of invisibility, and the pervasive feeling of being misunderstood as a professional in his own right. The findings are discussed in terms of their contribution to understanding some of the challenges that CYCC care workers face. , Research Article (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-04-07
- Authors: Pieters, Cinnamon-Paige
- Date: 2022-04-07
- Subjects: Child care workers South Africa Attitudes , Narrative inquiry (Research method) , Intersubjectivity , Free association (Psychology) , Child care South Africa Psychological aspects , Burn out (Psychology) South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/294482 , vital:57225
- Description: This paper employs a psychosocial framework to analyse the everyday lived experiences of a child and youth care worker in semi-rural South Africa. The aim is to provide a new perspective of care work by drawing on narrative analysis alongside a psychoanalytic approach to qualitative research. With an emphasis on the socially constructed nature of reality, the researcher aims to elucidate the rich unconscious depths of being a care worker and the dynamics of the intersubjective reality of care work. Employing a free association narrative interview technique allows the researcher to gain understanding of the narratives that the care worker draws on in the construction of his identity as a care worker. The use of a psychosocial approach enables the researcher to pay attention to both the social context that influences the narratives that he draws on, but also the psychological ‘pay offs’ of these constructions. Most notably, the study highlights how the care worker’s identity is mediated by a defended subjectivity and argues that his failures in mentalization might stem from the way he is treated as a care worker by other professionals as a result of their mindblindness. This maintains his narrative of invisibility, and the pervasive feeling of being misunderstood as a professional in his own right. The findings are discussed in terms of their contribution to understanding some of the challenges that CYCC care workers face. , Research Article (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-04-07
Online Appendix: The Best and Worst Times of Life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well-being using Bernheim’s ACSA
- Moller, Valerie, Roberts, Benjamin J
- Authors: Moller, Valerie , Roberts, Benjamin J
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67024 , vital:29021
- Description: Online appendix to the authors’ paper published in Social Indicators Research under the title: ‘The Best and Worst Times of Life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well‐being using Bernheim’s ACSA’. From the introduction: The Anamnestic Comparative Self‐Assessment (Bernheim’s ACSA), a measure of personal well‐being, was applied in the 10th annual round of the nationally representative South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), a research infrastructure that has been administered by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) since 2003. The target population for the survey was individuals aged 16 and over who live in South Africa. The multi‐stage sampling frame used by SASAS is based on census enumerator areas and data is weighted to the South African population using Statistics South Africa’s mid‐year population estimates as a benchmark. A total of 2’521 persons were interviewed in October and November 2012 by trained fieldworkers in their homes. Each interview was conducted in the respondent’s home language. ACSA was translated into the eleven official national languages. The SASAS 2012 study of ACSA follows on two earlier South African studies conducted in the Eastern Cape Province: a small pilot study conducted in 2005/6, followed by a larger representative community survey with some 1’000 respondents in 2007. ACSA uses a self‐anchoring scale. SASAS 2012 survey respondents were asked to think, first of their best period in life, and then of their worst period in life. These two periods represent the anchors of an 11‐ point scale running from ‐5 over a mid‐point (0), to +5. Text placed above the negative ‐5 anchor of the scale read: ‘As bad as the WORST period in my life’; text above the positive +5 anchor read: ‘As good as the BEST period in my life’. The respondents were asked to rate their present well‐being relative to these two periods on the scale. Their descriptions of these two extreme periods were recorded verbatim at the time of the interview. Later they were classified by domain in life based on the guidelines for the standard multiple‐choice format provided for recording ACSA anchors. This classification system is recommended by the ACSA scales’ initiator, Jan Bernheim and his colleagues. This online appendix to our Social Indicators Research article (‘The best and worst times of life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well‐being using Bernheim’s ACSA’) reports in greater detail the substantive contents of the survey responses to the ACSA anchoring process. The anchors of the ACSA scale serve as the reference standards for evaluating one’s life. Importantly, our 2012 SASAS survey respondents were invited to make explicit their choice of reference standards when reviewing their lives. This data offers a unique opportunity to gain rich insights into what matters for South Africans when they think about their quality of life and personal well‐being.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Moller, Valerie , Roberts, Benjamin J
- Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/67024 , vital:29021
- Description: Online appendix to the authors’ paper published in Social Indicators Research under the title: ‘The Best and Worst Times of Life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well‐being using Bernheim’s ACSA’. From the introduction: The Anamnestic Comparative Self‐Assessment (Bernheim’s ACSA), a measure of personal well‐being, was applied in the 10th annual round of the nationally representative South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), a research infrastructure that has been administered by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) since 2003. The target population for the survey was individuals aged 16 and over who live in South Africa. The multi‐stage sampling frame used by SASAS is based on census enumerator areas and data is weighted to the South African population using Statistics South Africa’s mid‐year population estimates as a benchmark. A total of 2’521 persons were interviewed in October and November 2012 by trained fieldworkers in their homes. Each interview was conducted in the respondent’s home language. ACSA was translated into the eleven official national languages. The SASAS 2012 study of ACSA follows on two earlier South African studies conducted in the Eastern Cape Province: a small pilot study conducted in 2005/6, followed by a larger representative community survey with some 1’000 respondents in 2007. ACSA uses a self‐anchoring scale. SASAS 2012 survey respondents were asked to think, first of their best period in life, and then of their worst period in life. These two periods represent the anchors of an 11‐ point scale running from ‐5 over a mid‐point (0), to +5. Text placed above the negative ‐5 anchor of the scale read: ‘As bad as the WORST period in my life’; text above the positive +5 anchor read: ‘As good as the BEST period in my life’. The respondents were asked to rate their present well‐being relative to these two periods on the scale. Their descriptions of these two extreme periods were recorded verbatim at the time of the interview. Later they were classified by domain in life based on the guidelines for the standard multiple‐choice format provided for recording ACSA anchors. This classification system is recommended by the ACSA scales’ initiator, Jan Bernheim and his colleagues. This online appendix to our Social Indicators Research article (‘The best and worst times of life for South Africans: Evidence of universal reference standards in evaluations of personal well‐being using Bernheim’s ACSA’) reports in greater detail the substantive contents of the survey responses to the ACSA anchoring process. The anchors of the ACSA scale serve as the reference standards for evaluating one’s life. Importantly, our 2012 SASAS survey respondents were invited to make explicit their choice of reference standards when reviewing their lives. This data offers a unique opportunity to gain rich insights into what matters for South Africans when they think about their quality of life and personal well‐being.
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- Date Issued: 2018
The emergence of the South African farm crime novel : socio-historical crimes, personal crimes, and the figure of the dog
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:26325 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53776 , https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eia/article/view/142930 , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
- Description: Crime fiction is an established and popular literary genre in South Africa that has gained international recognition and acclaim. The genre continues to expand and develop in terms of thematic concerns and experiments in form. One such notable development is the farm crime novel, which extends the tradition of the South African plaasroman. Recent texts, such as Elaine Proctor’s The Savage Hour and Karin Brynard’s Weeping Waters, quite deliberately set their respective murder mysteries on remote farms, and both novels particularise details of farm life. This article argues that the main concerns of the farm crime novel are, on one level, socio-historical – that is, the crimes perpetrated are the result of relationships to the land, land claims and land re-distribution, and the complex, evolving relationship between landowner and labourer. On another level, true to the conventions of crime fiction, the farm crime novel also explores interpersonal or intimate relationships that result in crimes of passion. Of particular interest is the observation that common to both thematic levels is a profound rendering of the link between human-animal relations and human-human relations. Drawing on Karla Armbruster’s work on the cultural significance of narratives about dogs and the need for more just and ethical relationships with animals, the article then demonstrates how this rendering occurs, often, through the figure of the dog. To conclude, some comments are offered on the position of the farm crime novel in a post-apartheid literary landscape
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2016
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:26325 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/53776 , https://www.ajol.info/index.php/eia/article/view/142930 , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
- Description: Crime fiction is an established and popular literary genre in South Africa that has gained international recognition and acclaim. The genre continues to expand and develop in terms of thematic concerns and experiments in form. One such notable development is the farm crime novel, which extends the tradition of the South African plaasroman. Recent texts, such as Elaine Proctor’s The Savage Hour and Karin Brynard’s Weeping Waters, quite deliberately set their respective murder mysteries on remote farms, and both novels particularise details of farm life. This article argues that the main concerns of the farm crime novel are, on one level, socio-historical – that is, the crimes perpetrated are the result of relationships to the land, land claims and land re-distribution, and the complex, evolving relationship between landowner and labourer. On another level, true to the conventions of crime fiction, the farm crime novel also explores interpersonal or intimate relationships that result in crimes of passion. Of particular interest is the observation that common to both thematic levels is a profound rendering of the link between human-animal relations and human-human relations. Drawing on Karla Armbruster’s work on the cultural significance of narratives about dogs and the need for more just and ethical relationships with animals, the article then demonstrates how this rendering occurs, often, through the figure of the dog. To conclude, some comments are offered on the position of the farm crime novel in a post-apartheid literary landscape
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- Date Issued: 2016
Curriculum Vitae of Prof Tebello Nyokong (OMB)
- Authors: Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:7233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006180
- Description: Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National Research Foundation (NRF) Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Nyokong, Tebello
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:7233 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006180
- Description: Department of Science and Technology (DST) and National Research Foundation (NRF) Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 2013
Prof Nyokong to address The World Academy of Sciences
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7176 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006174
- Description: Rhodes University’s Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong will discuss the use of combined therapies to fight cancer in Africa at the yearly General Meeting of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) on Thursday 3 October 2013, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7176 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006174
- Description: Rhodes University’s Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong will discuss the use of combined therapies to fight cancer in Africa at the yearly General Meeting of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) on Thursday 3 October 2013, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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- Date Issued: 2013
Three tales of Theal: biography, history and ethnography on the Eastern Frontier
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:24529 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/36216 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/23267873?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Naidu, Samantha
- Date: 2012
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:24529 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/36216 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/23267873?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents , https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9456-8657
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- Date Issued: 2012
Prof Nyokong receives another Science award
- Authors: Matiwana, Zamuxolo
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello , International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materiel (ICFPAM)
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:7182 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006267 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: The Rhodes University professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, Tebello Nyokong, says the Award for her Scientific Achievements by the International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materiel (ICFPAM) is an honour, especially since it is awarded in memory of the centenary of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to a woman: Marie Curie.
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- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Matiwana, Zamuxolo
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello , International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materiel (ICFPAM)
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:7182 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006267 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: The Rhodes University professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, Tebello Nyokong, says the Award for her Scientific Achievements by the International Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materiel (ICFPAM) is an honour, especially since it is awarded in memory of the centenary of the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to a woman: Marie Curie.
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- Date Issued: 2011
Ameliorating poverty in South Africa through natural resource commercialisation : how can NGO's make a difference?
- Authors: Shackleton, Sheona E
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6615 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016222
- Description: [From Introduction] Some of the poorest rural people in South Africa are turning to the natural resource base for income generation. Using traditional skills they are converting a variety of wild resources into commodities that are sold in the market place. Wood and woven craft, medicines, fresh and processed wild foods, alcoholic beverages, building materials, fuelwood, dried mopane worms, cultural artefacts and brooms are just some examples of the array of natural resource products increasingly seen for sale in local and external markets. Many of the participants in this trade have minimal education, few assets to draw on, and little access to alternative sources of income or jobs. A significant proportion are women, with more than half heading their own households. Many come from households devastated by HIV/AIDS. The cash earned from selling natural resource products, however modest, is of critical importance to the households involved, preventing them from slipping deeper into poverty. “Since I have been making brooms my children no longer go to bed crying of hunger” observed one broom producer. NGOs, particularly those involved in rural development, can play an important role in assisting producers overcome some of the obstacles they face and in enhancing the opportunities to grow this informal sector. , This policy brief is based on the original brief made available for a workshop in August 2006. It draws on, amongst other sources, the results of several case studies of natural resource commercialisation undertaken across South Africa. The project was funded by the South Africa-Netherlands Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD), BP South Africa and the National Research Foundation (NRF). The Center for International Forestry Research, with support from SIDA, provided the funding to share these findings with key stakeholders including government policy and decision makers.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Shackleton, Sheona E
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6615 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016222
- Description: [From Introduction] Some of the poorest rural people in South Africa are turning to the natural resource base for income generation. Using traditional skills they are converting a variety of wild resources into commodities that are sold in the market place. Wood and woven craft, medicines, fresh and processed wild foods, alcoholic beverages, building materials, fuelwood, dried mopane worms, cultural artefacts and brooms are just some examples of the array of natural resource products increasingly seen for sale in local and external markets. Many of the participants in this trade have minimal education, few assets to draw on, and little access to alternative sources of income or jobs. A significant proportion are women, with more than half heading their own households. Many come from households devastated by HIV/AIDS. The cash earned from selling natural resource products, however modest, is of critical importance to the households involved, preventing them from slipping deeper into poverty. “Since I have been making brooms my children no longer go to bed crying of hunger” observed one broom producer. NGOs, particularly those involved in rural development, can play an important role in assisting producers overcome some of the obstacles they face and in enhancing the opportunities to grow this informal sector. , This policy brief is based on the original brief made available for a workshop in August 2006. It draws on, amongst other sources, the results of several case studies of natural resource commercialisation undertaken across South Africa. The project was funded by the South Africa-Netherlands Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD), BP South Africa and the National Research Foundation (NRF). The Center for International Forestry Research, with support from SIDA, provided the funding to share these findings with key stakeholders including government policy and decision makers.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Plants for health, life and spirit in Africa : implications for biodiversity and cultural diversity conservation
- Cocks, Michelle L, Dold, Anthony P
- Authors: Cocks, Michelle L , Dold, Anthony P
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6617 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016225
- Description: [From Introduction] Natural resources are often only perceived as contributing to rural livelihoods through food production and household welfare. There is a growing wealth of information capturing the direct-use values of the environment and consequent recognition of natural resources as being “the poor man's overcoat”. These approaches, however, have failed to fully account for the various ways in which different groups of people make use of, and find value in biodiversity. New developments within the field of anthropology have begun to explore the relationship between biodiversity and human diversity. This view has largely come about because many of the areas of highest biological diversity are inhabited by indigenous and traditional people, providing what the Declaration of Belem (1988) calls an 'inextricable link' between biological and cultural diversity (Posey 1999). The term bio-cultural diversity was introduced by Posey in 1999 to describe the concept denoting this link. , Funding was received from the South Africa-Netherlands Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) and the International Foundation of Science (IFS)
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Cocks, Michelle L , Dold, Anthony P
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6617 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016225
- Description: [From Introduction] Natural resources are often only perceived as contributing to rural livelihoods through food production and household welfare. There is a growing wealth of information capturing the direct-use values of the environment and consequent recognition of natural resources as being “the poor man's overcoat”. These approaches, however, have failed to fully account for the various ways in which different groups of people make use of, and find value in biodiversity. New developments within the field of anthropology have begun to explore the relationship between biodiversity and human diversity. This view has largely come about because many of the areas of highest biological diversity are inhabited by indigenous and traditional people, providing what the Declaration of Belem (1988) calls an 'inextricable link' between biological and cultural diversity (Posey 1999). The term bio-cultural diversity was introduced by Posey in 1999 to describe the concept denoting this link. , Funding was received from the South Africa-Netherlands Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD) and the International Foundation of Science (IFS)
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- Date Issued: 2009
Promoting indigenous vegetables in urban agriculture & livelihoods : policy lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa
- Shackleton, Charlie M, Pasquini, Margaret W, Ambrose-Oji, Bianca, Drescher, Axel W
- Authors: Shackleton, Charlie M , Pasquini, Margaret W , Ambrose-Oji, Bianca , Drescher, Axel W
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6619 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016227
- Description: [From Introduction] Globally, the growth of urbanised areas continues at an exponential rate, and most spectacularly in the developing world. The global urban population will increase from 2.9 billion in 2000 to 5.0 billion by 2030. The mean rate of urban growth in non-OECD countries between 2000 and 2005 was just under 3% per annum, compared to 0.5 % for rural regions of the same countries (UN-Habitat 2006). Although the proportion of Africans currently living in urban areas is the lowest in the world (+ 40%), because of this low base it is not unsurprising that the rates of urbanisation are among the highest at approximately 4.3% per annum. Projections vary, but sometime in the mid- 2020s over 50% of Africa's population will be living in urban areas, as compared to just 15% in 1950 and 34% in 1994. As urbanisation takes place another important trend is revealed, namely the locus of poverty in Africa is slowly shifting from rural to urban areas. For example, it is estimated that more than 56% of the world's absolute or chronic poor will be concentrated in urban areas (WRI 1996). Since as much as 60-80% of the income of the urban poor is spent on the purchase of food (Maxwell et al. 2000), the issue of food supply, both its quantity and quality, is increasingly a central issue in poverty reduction debates and strategies. In rural areas, a common strategy to alleviate poverty is to call for measures to boost small-holder food production. Surprisingly, this is less common in urban poverty alleviation programmes, despite the widespread promise of urban and household agriculture in contributing to improved food security.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Shackleton, Charlie M , Pasquini, Margaret W , Ambrose-Oji, Bianca , Drescher, Axel W
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6619 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016227
- Description: [From Introduction] Globally, the growth of urbanised areas continues at an exponential rate, and most spectacularly in the developing world. The global urban population will increase from 2.9 billion in 2000 to 5.0 billion by 2030. The mean rate of urban growth in non-OECD countries between 2000 and 2005 was just under 3% per annum, compared to 0.5 % for rural regions of the same countries (UN-Habitat 2006). Although the proportion of Africans currently living in urban areas is the lowest in the world (+ 40%), because of this low base it is not unsurprising that the rates of urbanisation are among the highest at approximately 4.3% per annum. Projections vary, but sometime in the mid- 2020s over 50% of Africa's population will be living in urban areas, as compared to just 15% in 1950 and 34% in 1994. As urbanisation takes place another important trend is revealed, namely the locus of poverty in Africa is slowly shifting from rural to urban areas. For example, it is estimated that more than 56% of the world's absolute or chronic poor will be concentrated in urban areas (WRI 1996). Since as much as 60-80% of the income of the urban poor is spent on the purchase of food (Maxwell et al. 2000), the issue of food supply, both its quantity and quality, is increasingly a central issue in poverty reduction debates and strategies. In rural areas, a common strategy to alleviate poverty is to call for measures to boost small-holder food production. Surprisingly, this is less common in urban poverty alleviation programmes, despite the widespread promise of urban and household agriculture in contributing to improved food security.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Taking education and training to higher levels
- Authors: Phiri, Aretha
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7203 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006400
- Description: Professor Tebello Nyokong of the Chemistry Department has won yet another prestigious award. She was voted "the most influential women in business and government" in the category of education and training, in an event sponsored by CEO Magazine.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Phiri, Aretha
- Date: 2009
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7203 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006400
- Description: Professor Tebello Nyokong of the Chemistry Department has won yet another prestigious award. She was voted "the most influential women in business and government" in the category of education and training, in an event sponsored by CEO Magazine.
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- Date Issued: 2009
Ameliorating poverty in South Africa through natural resource commercialisation
- Authors: Shackleton, Sheona E
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6651 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007062
- Description: This short policy brief advocates for more attention to be paid to the potential of natural resource commercialisation as a means to livelihood security and poverty alleviation in rural South Africa. It is one of a set of four policy briefs based on the findings of several case studies across the country.
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- Date Issued: 2006
- Authors: Shackleton, Sheona E
- Date: 2006
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6651 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007062
- Description: This short policy brief advocates for more attention to be paid to the potential of natural resource commercialisation as a means to livelihood security and poverty alleviation in rural South Africa. It is one of a set of four policy briefs based on the findings of several case studies across the country.
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- Date Issued: 2006
2009 L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science: Africa-Arab State
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7190 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006354
- Description: Old Rhodians in the news
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- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7190 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006354
- Description: Old Rhodians in the news
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2009/2010 CEO (Celebrating excellence in organisations) Most Influential Women in Business and Government (MIW) in the Education and Teaching Sector
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7178 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006184 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: Professor Tebello Nyokong was awarded the 2009/2010 CEO (Celebrating excellence in organisations) Most Influential Women in Business and Government (MIW) in the Education and Teaching Sector and was named as a runner-up in the Quality of Life category of the Department of Science and Technology's (DST) 2009 Distinguished Woman Scientist Award. Holding a DST/NRF South African Research Chairs Initiative Chair in Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, she is also the Director of the DST/Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Centre (NIC) for Sensors. Her pioneering research into photodynamic therapy to harness light for cancer therapy and the early detection of human diseases and environmental clean-up continues to draw attention for more reasons than are immediately apparent.
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- Authors: Rhodes University
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7178 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006184 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: Professor Tebello Nyokong was awarded the 2009/2010 CEO (Celebrating excellence in organisations) Most Influential Women in Business and Government (MIW) in the Education and Teaching Sector and was named as a runner-up in the Quality of Life category of the Department of Science and Technology's (DST) 2009 Distinguished Woman Scientist Award. Holding a DST/NRF South African Research Chairs Initiative Chair in Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, she is also the Director of the DST/Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Centre (NIC) for Sensors. Her pioneering research into photodynamic therapy to harness light for cancer therapy and the early detection of human diseases and environmental clean-up continues to draw attention for more reasons than are immediately apparent.
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An ambassador of science in Africa
- Authors: Peter, Kerry
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006355
- Description: Rhodes University's Professor Tebello Nyokong, has won the Africa-Arab State 2009 L'Oreal-Unesco Award for Women in Science for her pioneering research into photodynamic therapy which looks at harnessing light for cancer therapy and environmental cleanup. Prof Nyokong is the third South African Scientist to receive this award, and reaffirms Rhodes' place as one of the top research institutions in the country.
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- Authors: Peter, Kerry
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7191 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006355
- Description: Rhodes University's Professor Tebello Nyokong, has won the Africa-Arab State 2009 L'Oreal-Unesco Award for Women in Science for her pioneering research into photodynamic therapy which looks at harnessing light for cancer therapy and environmental cleanup. Prof Nyokong is the third South African Scientist to receive this award, and reaffirms Rhodes' place as one of the top research institutions in the country.
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Collaborators of Prof Tebello Nyokong
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7180 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006187
- Description: Aticles published in the Rhodos about different collaborators who visited Prof Nyokong between 2001 and 2012
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- Authors: Rhodes University
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7180 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006187
- Description: Aticles published in the Rhodos about different collaborators who visited Prof Nyokong between 2001 and 2012
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Distinguished Professor title for Prof Nyokong
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7181 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006188 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: The Mrica-Arab State 2009 L'Oreal-Unesco Award for Women in Science recipient and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, Tebello Nyokong, has been honoured by her own institution for her outstanding scholarly reputation and productivity. Rhodes University formerly conferred the title of Distinguished Professor on Professor Nyokong for her academic excellence and productivity at its recent Graduation ceremony.
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- Authors: Rhodes University
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7181 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006188 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: The Mrica-Arab State 2009 L'Oreal-Unesco Award for Women in Science recipient and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology, Tebello Nyokong, has been honoured by her own institution for her outstanding scholarly reputation and productivity. Rhodes University formerly conferred the title of Distinguished Professor on Professor Nyokong for her academic excellence and productivity at its recent Graduation ceremony.
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Nyokong puts women in Science on the map
- Authors: Matiwana, Zamuxolo
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7171 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006076
- Description: Tebello Nyokong has again been honored for her outstanding work in the field of Science when she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from The University of South Africa recently. Nyokong is a professor at Rhodes University and currently DST / NRF Research Professor of medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology and Director of the DST/ Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Centre -Sensors. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tromso in Norway.
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- Authors: Matiwana, Zamuxolo
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7171 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006076
- Description: Tebello Nyokong has again been honored for her outstanding work in the field of Science when she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from The University of South Africa recently. Nyokong is a professor at Rhodes University and currently DST / NRF Research Professor of medicinal chemistry and nanotechnology and Director of the DST/ Mintek Nanotechnology Innovation Centre -Sensors. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tromso in Norway.
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Nyokong wins Prestigious L'Oreal - Unesco Award for Woman in Science
- Authors: Peter, Kerry
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7192 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006356
- Description: Rhodes University’s Professor Tebello Nyokong, has won the Africa-Arab State 2009 L’Oréal-Unesco Award for Women in Science for her pioneering research into photodynamic therapy which looks at harnessing light for cancer therapy and environmental clean-up. Nyokong is the third South African Scientist to receive this award, and reaffirms Rhodes’s place as one of the top research institutions in the country. University of Cape Town’s Professor Jennifer Thompson was previously recognised for her work on genetic engineering while Wits University’s Professor Valerie Mizrahi was recognised for her tuberculosis research.
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- Authors: Peter, Kerry
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7192 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006356
- Description: Rhodes University’s Professor Tebello Nyokong, has won the Africa-Arab State 2009 L’Oréal-Unesco Award for Women in Science for her pioneering research into photodynamic therapy which looks at harnessing light for cancer therapy and environmental clean-up. Nyokong is the third South African Scientist to receive this award, and reaffirms Rhodes’s place as one of the top research institutions in the country. University of Cape Town’s Professor Jennifer Thompson was previously recognised for her work on genetic engineering while Wits University’s Professor Valerie Mizrahi was recognised for her tuberculosis research.
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Prof Nyokong to sit on UNESCO panel
- Authors: Matiwana, Zamuxolo
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7175 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006084 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: Tebello Nyokong, DST/NRF Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology at Rhodes and a 2009 'L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science' Laureate, has been invited by Ms Irina Bokova, the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Director-General, to sit on the newly announced UNESCO High Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development.
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- Authors: Matiwana, Zamuxolo
- Subjects: Nyokong, Tebello
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:7175 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006084 , Nyokong, Tebello
- Description: Tebello Nyokong, DST/NRF Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Nanotechnology at Rhodes and a 2009 'L'Oreal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science' Laureate, has been invited by Ms Irina Bokova, the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Director-General, to sit on the newly announced UNESCO High Panel on Science, Technology and Innovation for Development.
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