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COVID-19 et travail informel: les enseignements d'une étude sur la situation dans onze grandes villes

- Chen, Martha A, Grapsa, Erofili, Ismail, Ghida, Rogan, Michael, Valdivia, Marcela, Alfers, Laura C, Harvey, Jenna, Ogando, Ana C, Reed, Sarah O, Roever, Sally

Authors: Chen, Martha A , Grapsa, Erofili , Ismail, Ghida , Rogan, Michael , Valdivia, Marcela , Alfers, Laura C , Harvey, Jenna , Ogando, Ana C , Reed, Sarah O , Roever, Sally
Date: 2022
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: French
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/473861 , vital:77688 , https://doi.org/10.1111/ilrf.12230
Description: Les auteurs présentent les conclusions d'une étude dirigée par le réseau Femmes dans l'emploi informel: globalisation et organisation (WIEGO) sur les effets de la crise du COVID‐19 sur les travailleurs informels. L'analyse porte sur quatre professions et onze grandes villes de cinq régions. Il y est question du travail et des revenus, de l'accès à l'alimentation et de la faim, des responsabilités familiales et domestiques, ainsi que des stratégies d'adaptation des ménages. Les auteurs évoquent également les mesures de soutien proposées par les gouvernements et les organisations de travailleurs informels. Enfin, ils énoncent une série de principes devant guider l'action en faveur de ce groupe.
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Understanding the food crises in southern Africa and the ways of transitioning the food systems to combat hunger

- Chakona, Gamuchirai, Mushangai, Dandira

Authors: Chakona, Gamuchirai , Mushangai, Dandira
Date: 2021
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , working paper
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433956 , vital:73014 , ISBN working paper
Description: Globally, almost one billion people are estimated to face hunger on a regular basis (Poppy et al., 2014) and more than two billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies (Barrett, 2010; FAO et al. 2020). The number of food-insecure people has been on the rise with subSaharan Africa having the greatest number of individuals who are both hungry (about 237 million people) and malnourished (almost 23% of the population) (FAO, 2018). Beyond hunger, FAO et al. (2020) noted that a growing number of people have had to reduce the quantity and quality of the food they consume. This makes it almost impossible to have a world with zero hunger by 2030 and achieve SDG 2 target 2.1 of ensuring access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food for all people and target 2.2 of eradicating all forms of malnutrition (UN 2015). Most governments globally have pledged to eradicate hunger in their nations by 2030, and one of their solutions is to increase agricultural productivity to meet the needs of all their people. However, Poppy et al. (2014) argued that increased yields and food supplies do not assure food security for all as some poorer societies and communities may not have access to sufficient quantity or quality food (Iram and Butt, 2004), which is a challenge in many African communities, especially in South Africa. This highlights the complexity of the food system within many countries.
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Date Issued: 2021

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Regulation of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Biology by Host Molecular Chaperones:

- Kirigin, Elisa, Ruck, Duncan Kyle, Jackson, Zoe, Murphy, James, McDonnell, Euan, Okpara, Michael O, Whitehouse, Adrian, Edkins, Adrienne L

Authors: Kirigin, Elisa , Ruck, Duncan Kyle , Jackson, Zoe , Murphy, James , McDonnell, Euan , Okpara, Michael O , Whitehouse, Adrian , Edkins, Adrienne L
Date: 2020
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/165385 , vital:41239 , ISBN , https://0-doi.org.wam.seals.ac.za/10.1007/7515_2020_18
Description: Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is a gammaherpesvirus associated with development of the human diseases Kaposi’s sarcoma, Primary Effusion Lymphoma and Multicentric Castleman’s Disease. KSHV establishes a chronic latent infection in hosts, with periods of viral lytic replication, where both latent and lytic virus cycles contribute to malignancy, most often in the immunodeficient host.
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Date Issued: 2020

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Academic discourse: An inter-disciplinary dialogue

- Martin, J R, Maton, Karl, Doran, Y JR

Authors: Martin, J R , Maton, Karl , Doran, Y JR
Date: 2019
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445880 , vital:74439 , ISBN 9780429280726 , https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429280726-1/academic-discourse-martin-karl-maton-doran
Description: This volume has been designed to showcase the cutting-edge of the ever-growing dialogue between systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT) and the insights into academic discourse this brings. This opening chapter reviews the foundations of this dialogue and positions the work presented throughout the book within this context. First it steps through the development of SFL work in education, focusing on the register-variable field and how it has been impinged upon by successive developments in Bernstein’s code theory and subsequently LCT. It then introduces how LCT extends and integrates Bernstein’s work to embrace a greater range of phenomena within a more systematic framework. It does this by introducing the dimensions of Specialization and Semantics, and showing the insights these conceptual tools can bring to academic knowledge and academic discourse. Finally, it introduces the chapters that make up the volume and positions them in relation to the ways the LCT–SFL dialogue has driven their understandings. This opening chapter lays the foundations for what is to follow and gives a flavour of energy and explanatory power this dialogue generates.
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Date Issued: 2019

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Feasibility Study: Imagining A Cultural/Healing Centre for the Northern Areas of Nelson Mandela Bay: Oral accounts of people affected by the 1990 Uprising

Date: 2016-10
Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/41251 , vital:36422 , Bulk File 7
Description: The Northern Areas History and Heritage Project consists of a variety workshops and materials examining the history of this part of Port Elizabeth to which people of colour had been removed in the 1970s. The materials include a book and DVD on the Northern Areas Uprising; six booklets entitled ‘Feasibility Study: Imagining a Cultural/ Healing Centre for the Northern Areas of Nelson Mandela Bay’ covering topics such as the Northern Areas Uprising, healing through memorialisation, architecture, non-profit organisations, archives and databases; 35 DVDs consisting of interviews with individuals, communities and focus groups, as well as a Winter School Project on Apartheid and the Group Areas Act. Also included are two maps relating to the area’s history.
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Date Issued: 2016-10

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Audit, investigation, search, seizure and access to information

- Arendse, Jacqueline A, Clegg, David, Williams, Robert C

Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
Date: 2016
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131245 , vital:36541 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
Description: Chapter 5 of the Tax Administration Act, which supplements the various fiscal statutes, empowers SARS to call for information on taxpayers, conduct audits, investigations and in certain instances to search premises and seize goods and records. For this purpose, taxpayers are required to keep proper books and records (see § 8.2 and § 4). The purpose of a tax audit is to verify the accuracy and timing of an assessment, but more specifically to ensure accuracy and full disclosure in terms of the law. In the event that an audit reveals non-compliance, criminal and/or civil charges may be initiated by SARS (see § 8.5).
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Date Issued: 2016

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Politics and discourse in South Africa:

- Hunt, Sally

Authors: Hunt, Sally
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139249 , vital:37719 , ISBN 9789027206565 , https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.65
Description: The discourses of the post-apartheid South Africa embody symbols of change and promises of new lessons in history. This is the first volume that brings together analyses of a variety of discourses produced in South Africa through which we follow the evolution of transitional processes in the country’s political institutions and in the opinions of its populace. The book offers to the reader a visit to the Parliament, a peek into the internet forums, analyses of the country's official papers and speeches, and the media accounts. Through all these discourses we see the burning questions – "Who Are We Now?" and "Who Do We Want To Be?" – being repetitively examined and identities cross-formed while the country deals with new, post-apartheid challenges, as well as successes.
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Date Issued: 2015

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“Mother of the Nation”: representations of womanhood in South African media

- Hunt, Sally

Authors: Hunt, Sally
Date: 2015
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139229 , vital:37717 , ISBN 9789027206565 , https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.65
Description: The discourses of the post-apartheid South Africa embody symbols of change and promises of new lessons in history. This is the first volume that brings together analyses of a variety of discourses produced in South Africa through which we follow the evolution of transitional processes in the country’s political institutions and in the opinions of its populace. The book offers to the reader a visit to the Parliament, a peek into the internet forums, analyses of the country's official papers and speeches, and the media accounts. Through all these discourses we see the burning questions – "Who Are We Now?" and "Who Do We Want To Be?" – being repetitively examined and identities cross-formed while the country deals with new, post-apartheid challenges, as well as successes.
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Date Issued: 2015

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An overview of normative frameworks for the protection of development-induced IDPs in Kenya.

- Juma, Laurence

Authors: Juma, Laurence
Date: 2013
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/127112 , vital:35957 , https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12342016
Description: Based on the assumption that development induced displacement brings new challenges that the existing protection frameworks may not be aptly suited to deal with, this article analyses how the existing laws have met this challenge and the prospects for further improvement. While its focus is on Kenya, it evaluates the normative quality of protection and standards offered by regional instruments against the existing, as well emerging, parameters for implementation at the domestic level. In this regard, the article examines the propriety of Kenya’s newly promulgated law on internal displacement in providing for protection for the development induced IDPs, the implementation programme that it establishes and its prospects for furthering the vision of the UN Guiding Principles on Internally Displaced and other regional instruments.
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Date Issued: 2013

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Evaluating the Wald entropy from two-derivative terms in quadratic actions

- Brustein, Ram, Gorbonos, D, Hadad, M, Medved, Allan J M

Authors: Brustein, Ram , Gorbonos, D , Hadad, M , Medved, Allan J M
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6816 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004326
Description: We evaluate the Wald Noether charge entropy for a black hole in generalized theories of gravity. Expanding the Lagrangian to second order in gravitational perturbations, we show that contributions to the entropy density originate only from the coefficients of two-derivative terms. The same considerations are extended to include matter fields and to show that arbitrary powers of matter fields and their symmetrized covariant derivatives cannot contribute to the entropy density. We also explain how to use the linearized gravitational field equation rather than quadratic actions to obtain the same results. Several explicit examples are presented that allow us to clarify subtle points in the derivation and application of our method.
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Date Issued: 2011

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Late Quaternary environmental phases in the Eastern Cape and adjacent Plettenberg Bay-Knysna region and Little Karoo, South Africa

- Lewis, Colin A

Authors: Lewis, Colin A
Date: 2011
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6712 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006749
Description: Four major climato-environmental phases have been identified in the Eastern Cape, Plettenberg Bay-Knysna region and Little Karoo between somewhat before ~ 40 000 cal. a BP and the present: the Birnam Interstadial from before 40 000 cal. a BP until ~ 24 000 cal. a BP; the Bottelnek Stadial (apparently equating with the Last Glacial Maximum) from ~24 000 cal. a BP until before ~ 18 350 cal. a BP; the Aliwal North (apparently equating with the Late Glacial) from before ~ 18 350 cal. a BP until ~ 11 000 cal. a BP; the Dinorben (apparently equating with the Holocene) from ~ 11 000 cal. a BP until the present. The evidence for, and the characteristics of, these phases is briefly described.
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Date Issued: 2011

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Nathaniel Merriman’s lecture: “Shakspeare, as Bearing on English History”

- Wright, Laurence

Authors: Wright, Laurence
Date: 2009
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: vital:7060 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007424 , http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC48132
Description: preprint , “Shakspeare, as Bearing on English History” is the second of two lectures on Shakespeare given by Archdeacon Nathaniel Merriman in Grahamstown in 1857. The first was delivered in the Court House on the 2nd September 1857, and the second two months later, on Friday 6th November that same year, again in the Court House. The lecture was published in 1858. An article placing the lectures in their local context appeared in Shakespeare in Southern Africa 20 (2008): 25-37, accompanying an annotated edition of the first lecture, “On the Study of Shakspeare”. Readers desiring details of the editorial principles adopted in producing annotated editions of the two lectures are referred to the introductory material prefacing the first lecture.
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Date Issued: 2009

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Ecological thinking: Schopenhauer, J M Coetzee and who we are in the world

- Wright, Laurence

Authors: Wright, Laurence
Date: 2008
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: vital:7031 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007362 , https://doi.org/10.5848/CSP.0926.00001
Description: preprint , For the ecological agenda to make substantive progress, we will have to see powerful people and social agencies turning away from the ecological insanity that threatens us all, and for this to happen, people need to embrace voluntary renunciation, on the understanding that this is not self-sacrifice, but a different and more satisfying way of being in the world. The paper offers some thought, provoked by reading J.M. Coetzee and Arthur Schopenhauer, about what would make this change possible, what might enable it; and secondly why it is implausible that any such ideal might actually come to pass.
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Date Issued: 2008

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Financial development and economic growth in Southern Africa

- Aziakpono, Meshach J

Authors: Aziakpono, Meshach J
Date: 2005
Subjects: To be catalogued
Language: English
Type: text , article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469812 , vital:77297
Description: In the last two decades the link between financial intermediation (FI) and economic growth has generated a great deal of interest among academics, policy makers and economists around the world. Several studies have addressed the potential links between financial development and economic growth (see Levine 1997 for a detailed review). However, despite the rapidly growing literature, the debate concerning the role played by the development of financial intermediaries in economic growth is far from settled. Moreover, much of the empirical evidence on the links between financial development and economic growth comes from a period when cross-border capital movements were very limited and as such were ignored in most analyses. The increasing international interest in economic integration and monetary union has spawned new regional initiatives in every continent. As a result global financial markets are becoming increasingly open and integrated, and international capital mobility has increased. For instance, private capital flows to emerging market economies have grown from close to nothing in the 1970s, to $170 billion in the 1980s, and to $1.3 trillion by the late 1990s (Guiso et al., 2002: 2). The question is: how will this development affect the effectiveness.
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Date Issued: 2005

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Developing evidence-based practice: the role of case-based research

- Edwards, David J A, Dattilio, F M, Bromley, D B

Authors: Edwards, David J A , Dattilio, F M , Bromley, D B
Date: 2004
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6243 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007856
Description: How can practitioners engage in evidence-based practice when the evidence for effectiveness of psychological treatments comes from randomized controlled trials using patient populations different from those encountered in everyday settings and treatment manuals that seem oversimplified and inflexible? The authors argue that important evidence about best practice comes from case-based research, which builds knowledge in a clinically useful manner and complements what is achieved by multivariate research methods. A multidimensional model of the research process is provided that includes clinical practice and case-based research as significant contributors. The authors summarize the principles of case-based research and provide examples of recent technical advances. Finally, the authors suggest ways in which practitioners can apply the case-based approach in researching and publishing their own cases, perhaps in collaboration with university-based researchers.
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Date Issued: 2004

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The land is crying for justice: a discussion document on Christianity and environmental justice in South Africa

- Ecumenical Foundation of Southern Africa (EFSA)

Authors: Ecumenical Foundation of Southern Africa (EFSA)
Date: 2002-06
Subjects: Environmental justice -- Religious aspects -- Christianity , Social justice -- South Africa , Economics -- Religious aspects
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68865 , vital:29333 , ISBN 187491723X
Description: South Africa is a land of extraordinary beauty, ecological diversity and abundance. However, the land that God has entrusted to us is crying for justice. During the years of struggle against apartheid several ecumenical documents addressed the issues of the day. The Letter to the People of South Africa (1968), the Kairos Document (1985), the Evangelical Witness in South Africa (1986), the Road to Damascus (1989) and the Rustenburg Declaration (1990) may be mentioned in this regard. In the same ecumenical and prophetic spirit, this document seeks to address the escalating destruction of our environment that results in immense suffering for people, for other living species and for our land as a whole. In responding to this challenge Christians in South Africa may recognise, acknowledge and learn from the many voices and contributions on environmental concerns coming from all over the world — from churches and ecumenical movements, from the Earth Charter movement, from other religious traditions and from environmental organisations. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) - 26 August to 4 September 2002, Johannesburg - also challenges the churches in South Africa to respond to these concerns. , 1st ed , Ecumenical Foundation of Southern Africa (EFSA)
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Nurses' experience of contesting discourses in HIV/AIDS activities in the primary health care setting

- Tutani, Lumka

Authors: Tutani, Lumka
Date: 2001
Subjects: Primary health care , AIDS (Disease) -- Nursing , AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Counseling of
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:3074 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002583 , Primary health care , AIDS (Disease) -- Nursing , AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Counseling of
Description: This paper explores the experience of nurses who work both as Primary Health Care Providers and counsellors trained in the narrative model of counselling in primary health care settings. Five focus groups were conducted in both Xhosa and English. Discourse analysis was used as a method of analysing the data. Training nurses in the narrative counselling model introduced an alternative discourse, which was experienced as contradicting their usual way of working. Two dominant discourses were the “not knowing” approach, assumed by the narrative model of counselling, and the “knowing” stance, assumed by health education. The institutionalised construction of counselling by doctors and matrons, and their power versus the power of the nurse counsellors was also cited as sources of conflict. Despite the tensions, narrative model of counselling seems to be offering new positions, which may benefit people living with HIV and improve HIV/AIDS activities in the Primary Health Care (PHC) context.
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Date Issued: 2001

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Teenage motherhood and the regulation of mothering in the scientific literature: the South African example

- Macleod, Catriona I

Authors: Macleod, Catriona I
Date: 2001
Language: English
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6256 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007874
Description: The mainstream literature on teenage pregnancy highlights teenagers' inadequate mothering as an area of disquiet. `Revisionists', such as feminist critics, point out that a confluence of negative social factors is implicated in teenagers' mothering abilities. Whether arguing that teenagers make bad mothers or defending them against this, the literature relies on the `invention of "good" mothering'. In this article I highlight the taken-for-granted assumptions concerning mothering (mothering as an essentialized dyad; mothering as a skill; motherhood as a pathway to adulthood; fathering as the absent trace) appearing in the scientific literature on teenage pregnancy in South Africa. I indicate how these assumptions are implicated in the regulation of mothering through the positioning of the teenage mother as the pathologized other, the splitting of the public from the private, domestic space of mothering, and the legitimation of the professionalization of mothering. I explore the gendered implications of the representations of mothering in this literature.
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