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Abrahams, Z. (2011) What's in the lunchbox?. HSRC Review. 9(3):5.
Preparing a lunchbox for school-going children may have significant advantages for their eating behaviour and long-term health prospects, says ZULFA ABRAHAM and her research team, following a study at disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape.
Abrahams, Z., De Villiers, A,, Steyn, N.P., Fourie, J., Dalais, L., Hill, J., Draper, C.E. & Lambert, E.V. (2011) What's in the lunchbox?: dietary behaviour of learners from disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. Public Health Nutrition. 14(10):1752-1758.
To identify and describe factors associated with food shop (known as tuck shop in South Africa) and lunchbox behaviours of primary-school learners in South Africa. Analysis of data collected in 2008 from a cross-sectional survey. Sixteen primary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. A total of 717 grade 4 learners aged 10-12 years. A 24 h recall established that 69% of learners carried a...
Airhihenbuwa, C., Okoror, T., Shefer, T., Brown, D., Iwelunmor, J., Smith, E., Adam, M., Simbayi, L., Zungu, N., Dlakulu, R. & Shisana, O. (2009) Stigma, culture, and HIV and AIDS in the Western Cape, South Africa: an application of the PEN-3 cultural model for community-based research. Journal of Black Psychology. 35(4):407-432.
HIV- and AIDS-related stigma has been reported to be a major factor contributing to the spread of HIV. In this study, the authors explore the meaning of stigma and its impact on HIV and AIDS in South African families and health care centres. They conducted focus groups and key informant interviews among African and colored populations in Khayelistsha, Gugulethu and Mitchell's Plain in the Wes...
Aliber, M., de Swardt, C., du Toit, A., Mbhele, T. & Mthethwa, T. (2005) Trends and policy challenges in the rural economy: four provincial case studies. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Deepening rural poverty is of great concern. Yet, too little is known about how people survive in the rural areas of South Africa, and in particular how people 's survival strategies are adapting to changing economic circumstances. This study sheds light n the experience of rural dwellers in respect of four areas of economic activity in four provinces, Limpopo, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Kw...
Arends, F. (2004) The importance of intermediate and high skills development in the Western Cape: background paper 1: the underpinning infrastructure: public schooling in the Western Cape. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Micro Economic Strategy Project, October).
This is one of three background papers written to inform the HSRC's report on the significance of intermediate and high-level skills development for micro-economic development strategy in the Western Cape. The focus of this paper is on schooling as it provides the basic infrastructure for human resources development in the Western Cape. The authors focused on the issue of migration and its im...
Bowers, Y., Nel, E., Jacobs, N., Davids, A.S., Rendall-Mkosi, K. & London, L. (2010) Community health and GIS: using GPS and GIS for fetal alcohol syndrome education and outreach in the Bergriver Municipality in the Western Cape, South Africa. (Paper presented at the MapAfrica 2010 Conference, Cape Town, 23-25 November).
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Bowers, Y., Nel, E., Jacobs, N., Davids, A., Rendall-Mkosi, K. & London, L. (2010) Community health and GIS: using GPS and GIS for foetal alcohol syndrome education and outreach in the Bergriver Municipality in the Western Cape, South Africa. (Poster presented at the Sixth PHASA Conference, East London. 29 November-1 December).
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Davids, A., Mogale, M., Kekana, Q., Naidoo, Y., Setswe, G., Asmal, S., Kollipara, A., Bishop, M., Mbuya-Brown, R., Mallas, E., Househam, K.C., Ledwaba, J., Arendse, J.J., Newman, S., Dyeshana, M., Pienaar, D., Shaikh, N. & Qotole, M. (2010) Know your HIV prevention response (KYR) analysis report for component 3: Western Cape provincial report. (Commissioned by the World Bank, November).
This report summarises all relevant information about component 3 of the KYR analysis in the Western Cape Province. The report outlines the objectives, scope of work, types of data collected, data collection and analysis processes, data collection tools, and also summarises the roles and responsibilities of the HSRC as the service provider.
Dawes, A. (2008) An integrated care and protection plan for children in the Western Cape. (Paper presented to the Minister of Social Development of the Western Cape, Paarl, 26 January).
Dawes, A. (2007) An integrated care and protection plan for children in the Western Cape. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Provincial Government, May 2007).
In spite of existing legislation, policies, strategies and interventions, the incidence of reported violations against children in the province is very serious and has been so far a number of years. Almost each day, the public is confronted with extensive media coverage the violence against children. This holds true for the entire country and even truer for the Western Cape Province. Childre...
Dawes, A., Ward, C., Alexander, L. & Long, W. (2007) Joining the dots? Use of multiple data sources to estimate child maltreatment incidence in the Western Cape: 2002-2005. (Paper presented at the 16th SA ACAPAP Biennial Conference, Cape Town, 1-14 September).
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Dawes, A., Long, W., Alexander, L. & Ward, C. (2006) A situation analysis of children affected by maltreatment and violence in the Western Cape. (Commissioned by the Research Directorate, Department of Social Services & Poverty Alleviation: Provincial Government of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, May).
This report commences with a brief conceptual framework that outlines a systemic approach to the understanding of risks to wellbeing posed to children by poverty and exposure to violence and maltreatment. The findings follow thereafter, presenting data on child maltreatment first, followed by domestic violence, violence in schools and finally in the wider community. The report concludes with a...
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Deglon, U. & Swartz, S. (2005) Clients' perceptions of the service offered by a public mental health clinic in the Western Cape. (Paper presented at the PsySSA Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 20-23 September).
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Dewing, S., Mathews, C., Cloete, A., Schaay, N., Louw, J. & Simbayi, L. (2011) "It's important to take your medication everyday okay?": an evaluation of counselling for ARV adherence support in the Western Cape. (Poster presented at the MRC Research Day).
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Dewing, S., Mathews, C., Schaay, N., Cloete, A., Louw, J. & Simbayi, L. (2011) Behaviour change counselling for ARV adherence support within primary health care facilities in the Western Cape, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior. October:Online.
Health care systems have been described as ideal settings for behaviour change counselling interventions. There is little research evaluating the feasibility of implementing such interventions in routine practice in primary care facilities. We implemented an intervention called Options for Health within routine adherence counselling practice in 20 antiretroviral facilities in Cape Town, South ...
Dewing, S., Mathews, C., Schaay, N. & Cloete, A. (2010) Options for health: Western Cape: preliminary findings on the feasibility of incorporating options in to routine adherence counselling practice. (Report prepared for feedback meeting between the Options Research Team and Stakeholders, HSRC, 1 July).
In response to a recent finding that 44.7% of people initiating ARV treatment in public health clinics in Cape Town had had unprotected sex at last sex (Eisele et al., 2009), we conducted a process evaluation of Options for Health: Western Cape, an intervention delivered by ARV adherence counsellors and aimed at reducing sexual risk behaviour and optimising ARV adherence among people on ARV tre...
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Dewing, S., Mathews, C., Schaay, N., Cloete, A. & Simbayi, L. (2010) Translating research into practice: the implementation of options for health: Western Cape. (Poster presented at the 6th PHASA 2010 Conference, 29 November - 1 December).
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Diko, N. (2011) Enhancing teaching and learning in schools through assessment: challenges and possibilities (The 3Rs project). HSRC Review. 9(3):20-21.
As part of the literacy and numeracy project, the HSRC conducted a qualitative case study to investigate how the Gauteng and Western Cape Provincial Departments of Education (GDoE and WCDoE) prepare and support teachers to cope with the demands of the curriculum and assessment practices. We also looked at how the information collected is used to improve the quality of teaching and learning. NOL...
Diko, N., Haupt, G. & Molefe, M.R.M. (2011) Reviewing the role of the provincial and district offices in the implementation of assessment policies in the Gauteng and Western Cape provinces. (Commissioned by the Department of Education, Funding received from the Royal Netherlands Embassy to South Africa, March).
A robust, reliable and continuous classroom assessment system is crucial for improving learning and is a critical function of governments and schools. Between January 2010 and May 2010, the HSRC conducted a study to investigate how the Gauteng and Western Cape Provincial Departments of Education (i) prepare and support teachers to cope with the demands of the curricula and assessment practices ...
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Goeiman, H., Labadarios, D. & Steyn, N.P. (2011) Who is the nutrition workforce in the Western Cape?. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 24(2):90-98.
The aim of the present study was to determine the current nutrition staffing profile of the Integrated Nutrition Programme (INP) in Department of Health in the Western Cape, and establish whether it is adequate to meet the objectives of the INP. Method: Self-administered questionnaires compiled in English were used as the main data collection instrument for nutrition staff in districts and at...
Harker, N., Kader, R., Myers, B., Fakier, N., Parry, C., Flisher, A.J., Peltzer, K., Ramlagan, S. & Davids, A. (2008) Substance abuse trends in the Western Cape: a review of studies conducted since 2000. (Commissioned by the Department of Social Development, Cape Town).
A consortium of researchers from the South African Medical Research Council, Human Sciences Research Council, University of Cape Town and Dopstop was established to identify, summarise and integrate findings from substance abuse research conducted in the province over the last eight years. A review of research conducted since 2000 was done and compiled into a summary report of key findings on s...
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Hart, T., Billet, A. & Burgess, R. (2005) South Africa: a smallholder's innovative approach to producing and exporting fruit. IK notes. 78:1-4.
Hart, T. & Burgess, R. (2004) How a smallholder farmer entered and remained in the export market for thirty years. (Paper presented in a presentation made at the PROLLINOVA SA training feedback workshop at Pietermaritzburg, 10-11 November).
Heugh, K., Diedericks, G.A.M., Prinsloo, C.H. & Herbst, D.L. (2007) Assessment of the language and mathematics skills of grade 8 learners in the Western Cape in 2006. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Education Department, March).
The purpose of this study and service was to develop instruments to assess the language and mathematics skills in English and Afrikaans of approximately 75 000 Grade 8 learners in all schools from the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) during 2006, and to analyse and report on the results of the tests. This was in order for the WCED to benchmark learners, prioritise learners with potentia...
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Human Sciences Research Council (2005) Monitoring and Evaluation of DANIDA Support to Education and Skills Development (SESD) Programme: College of Cape Town, Western Cape. (Commissioned by DANIDA, September).
Human Sciences Research Council (2005) Monitoring and Evaluation of DANIDA Support to Education and Skills Development (SESD) Programme: South Cape College, Western Cape. (Commissioned by DANIDA, September).
Human Sciences Research Council (2004) Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA support to education and skills development (SESD) programme: second impact study: College of Cape Town, Western Cape, March.
Human Sciences Research Council (2004) Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA support to education and skills development (SESD) programme: third impact assessment: South Cape College, Western Cape, November.
Kaplan, D., Daniels, R., Morris, M. & Lorentzen, J. (2009) Micro-Economic Development Strategy (MEDS) for the Western Cape: a composite report: 2005-2009. (Commissioned by the Department of Economic Development and Tourism, October).
Kaplan, D., Keswell, M., Lorentzen, J. & Morris, M. (2005) Micro-economic development strategy for the Western Cape: synthesis report:version 1: July 2005. Cape Town: Western Cape Department of Economic Development.
Kruss, G. (2004) The importance of intermediate and high skills development in the western Cape: background paper 3: the contribution of higher education to a western Cape regional innovation system. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Micro Economic Strategy Project, October).
Lorentzen, J., Manamela, A., Muller, L. & Gastrow, M. (2010) A technology gap analysis of leading firms in Cape Town. (Background paper for the study on Cape Town's future competitiveness and the global knowledge economy, October).
This paper focuses on technology gaps between leading firms in Cape Town and the global frontier. In each sector we establish frontier technologies through a review of the literature, as well as examples of global firms that make use of them. Although knowledge evidently exists not only at but also below the frontier, the increasing importance of innovation for competitiveness underlines the i...
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Makgamatha, M.M., Heugh, K., Prinsloo, C.H. & Winnaar, L. (2010) Towards a framework for accommodating linguistic diversity among learners in large-scale assessments: lessons learnt from the WCED Grade 8 assessment study. (Paper presented at the 5th Annual RASA 2010 Conference, Nelson Mandele Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, 1-3 October).
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Makoae, M. (2010) Western Cape Department of Social Development 2009 Audit of Early Childhood Development Facility Quality: final report. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Department of Social Development, February).
This report presents the findings of an audit of the quality of ECD service provision in formal centre based services that cater for infants and toddlers and for older children in the years before school. Included in the study are formal ECD sites that are registered with the Department; those receiving the daily subsidy for their eligible children; and those that are neither registered nor in ...
Makoae, M., Tamasane, T. & Mdakane, T. (2009) An appraisal of the 2007 Integrated Care and Protection Plan for Children in the Western Cape. (Commissioned by the Department of Social Development, Western Cape, October).
The Integrated Provincial Care and Protection Plan for Children (Department of Social Development, 2007) was implemented as a framework that guides delivery of services to children and families by all role players - government departments, child protection organisations and civil society in the Province. Specifically, the Plan marked "a shift from the premise that parents and families are centr...
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Makoae, M., Ward, C. & Dawes, A. (2009) Suffer the children: child maltreatment in the Western Cape. HSRC Review. 7(2):6-7.
Child neglect and abuse is often related to family circumstances, especially the social and economic situation of child carers, according to a study by Mokhantso Makoae, Catherine Ward and Andrew Dawes. The study, commissioned by the Provincial Department of Social Development in the Western Cape, investigated factors related to the statutory removal of children in four magisterial districts in...
Makoae, M., Dawes, A., Loffell, J. & Ward, C.L. (2008) Children's court inquiries in the Western Cape. (Final report to the Research Directorate, Department of Social Development, Provincial Government of the Western Cape, June).
Part I of the research undertaken on Children's Court Inquiries in the four magisterial districts in the Western Cape presents the findings with regard to the prevalence of child neglect and abuse in the areas under study by providing annual statistics of children who were brought before the children's courts in 2006, and the profiles of the children and their caregivers. The report also prese...
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McGrath, S. (2004) The importance of intermediate and high skills development in the western Cape: background paper 2: challenges of intermediate skilling in the western Cape. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Micro Economic Strategy Project, October).
Morphet, T., Davids, Y.D., Prosalendis, S. & Hadland, A. (2006) "Red door" SMME development strategy: impact study report. (Prepared for Department of Economic Development and Tourism, Western Cape, October).
This HSRC report on the impact of the Red Door intervention begins with an assessment of SMME needs and performances in South Africa set in an international context, incorporates both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the 9 offices in the Western Cape and ends with some recommendations, especially in the light of new national SMME initiatives. The Red Door faces the challenge of dealin...
National Education Quality Initiative & Education, Science and Skills Development (2005) Grade 6 systemic evaluation: Western Cape province. (Commissioned by the Department of Education, December).
Systemic evaluation studies offer a powerful lens through which to view the performance and health of the education system. In particular, the Grade 6 Systemic Evaluation study is intended to serve three purposes, first to determine the level of achievement of learners within the system, second, to highlight specific areas/issues within the system that require further attention/investigation, a...
Ojo, O.A., Louwagie, G., Morojele, N., Rendall-Mkosi, K., London, L., Olorunju, S. & Davids, A. (2010) Factors associated with female high-risk drinking in a rural and urban South African site. South African Medical Journal. 100(3):180-182.
Objective. To assess and compare the extent of high-risk drinking and factors associated with high-risk drinking in the adult female population of a rural and an urban region in South Africa. Design. Cross-sectional household survey using multistage sampling methods. Setting. A rural wine farming area of the Western Cape and an urban site in Gauteng. Subjects. Women of reproductive age (18 - 44...
Onoya, D., Reddy, P., Ruiter, R., Sifunda, S., Wingood, G. & Van den Borne, B. (2011) Psychosocial correlates of condom use consistency among isixhosa-speaking women living with HIV in the western Cape province of South Africa. Journal of Health Psychology. June:Online.
Many HIV-positive South African women continue to have unprotected sex. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess correlates of condom use consistency among Xhosa-speaking HIV-positive women in South Africa. One hundred and twenty women were recruited from five primary care clinics and completed a questionnaire. Regression analyses indicated that assertive negotiation and self efficac...
Parker, Z & Dawes, A. (2003) Child sexual abuse in Atlantis: a research report. (Commissioned by the Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, July).
Parker, Z. & Dawes, A.R.L. (2003) Child sexual abuse in Atlantis: the scale of the problem. (Paper presented to the 25th Anniversary Conference of the Child Accident Prevention Foundation of South Africa (CAPFSA): Towards a Child Safe South Africa, Cape Town, 15-17 October).
Paterson, A. (2005) "The gospel of work does not save souls": the conceptions of industrial and agricultural education for Africans in the Cape Colony, 1890-1930. History of education quarterly. 45(3):377-404.
Peltzer, K., Phaswana-Mafuya, N., Ramlagan, S., Mohlala, G., Seager, J., Nkomo, N., Petros, G. & Mbelle, N. (2006) Baseline assessment: European Union partnerships for the delivery of primary health care programme in South Africa. (Report compiled for European Union Partnership for the Delivery of Primary Health Care Programme in South Africa).
In their quest to strengthen the delivery of PHC services in South Africa, the European Union, the Government of South Africa and UK's Department for International Development collaboratively developed a six year government/NPO partnership programme called Partnership for the delivery of Primary Health Care Programme (PDPHCP). The programme is implemented in 5 provinces, Gauteng, Limpopo, KwaZ...
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Pluddemann, P., Mati, X. & Mahlalela-Thusi, B. (2000) Problems and possibilities in multilingual classrooms in the Western Cape. (PRAESA occasional papers ; no. 2). Cape Town: University of Cape Town.
Research Programme on Human Resources Development (2004) Towards a multi-level skills strategy in the western Cape. (Commissioned by the Western Cape Micro-economic Strategy Project).
Sanger, N. & Clowes, L. (2006) Marginalised and demonised: lesbians and equality - perceptions of people in a local Western Cape community. Agenda: empowering women for gender equity. 67(2/3):36-47.
Scanlon, H. (2007) Representation & reality: portraits of women's lives in the Western Cape 1948-1976. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Drawing on the personal narratives of women from across the political spectrum in the Western Cape, this book presents an unusual and regional perspective on the political history of South African women. Within the context of the broad social and political processes affecting women at the time, the study examines some of the local social and political forces that informed women?s lives in the W...
Shefer, T., Crawford, M., Strebel, A., Simbayi, L.C., Dwadwa-Henda, N., Cloete, A., Kaufman, M.R. & Kalichman, S.C. (2008) Gender, power and resistance to change among two communities in the Western Cape, South Africa. Feminism & Psychology. 18(2):157-182.
This study investigates how women and men in the Western Cape, South Africa, construct their gender identities and roles. As part of the development of an HIV prevention intervention for men, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were conducted. Several themes regarding the construction of gender were identified. First, participants reported that traditional gender relations o...
Steyn, N.P., Lambert, E.V., Parker, W., Mchiza, Z. & De Villiers, A. (2009) A review of school nutrition interventions globally as an evidence base for the development of the Healthkick Programme in the Western Cape, South Africa. South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 22(3):145-152.
Aim: The aim of this study was to review all school interventions having a nutrition component, published in peer-reviewed literature between 1995 and 2006, and to document activities that were successful as well as those that were possible barriers in order to develop a best practice school intervention for the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Methodology: A systematic review of school s...
Strebel, A., Crawford, M., Shefer, T., Cloete, A., Henda, N., Kaufman, M., Simbayi, L., Magome, K. & Kalichman, S. (2006) Social constructions of gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in two communities of the Western Cape, South Africa. Sahara J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 3(3):516-528.
The links between gender roles, gender-based violence and HIV/aids risks are complex and culturally specific. In this qualitative study we investigated women in men in two black communalities in the Western Cape, South Africa, constructed their gender identities and roles, how they understood gender-based violence, and what they believed about the links between gender relations and HIV risk. ...
Ward, C.L., Lombard, C.J. & Gwebushe, N. (2006) Critical incident exposure in South African emergency services personnel: prevalence and associated mental health issues. Emergency medicine journal. 23:226-231.
Exposure to traumatic stressors is potentially an integral part of the job for emergency services personnel. Traumatic stressors, or critical incidents, are those in which personnel are exposed to death or life threatening injury. In addition to the risk of mortality,1 serious mental health and behavioural problems are associated with such traumatic exposure.2?7 These include post-traumatic st...
Weir-Smith, G., Chauke, C., Schwabe, C., Zama, S. & Maloka, R. (2001) Audit of pension pay points in South Africa. (Prepared for the National Department of Social Development; Directorate Social Insurance).