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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2006) Afrique du Sud: reduction des depenses sociales et deterioration de la qualite de l'enseignement. In Le defi social du developpement: globalisation et inegalites. Carton, M., Fluckiger, Y., Mackintosh, M. & Merrien, F. Geneve: IUED. 138-142.
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Akoojee, S., Gewer, A. & McGrath, S. (2005) South Africa: skills development as a tool for social and economic development. In Vocational education and training in southern Africa: a comparative study. Akoojee, S., Gewer, A. & McGrath, S. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 99-117.
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In this chapter, we explore the efforts that have been made to overcome the legacy of educational and economic segregation and failure. We consider the extent to which new policies, institutions and delivery mechanisms are succeeding in building a new, inclusive and high-quality skills development system, and highlight some of the key weaknesses that still remain.
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Altman, M., Mokomane, Z., Wright, G. & Boyce, G. (2012) Policy framework on social security for youth in South Africa. (Commissioned by the Directorate of Family Benefits, National Department of Social Development, March).
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Taking cognizance of the importance of young people for the advancement of society the South African government has, over the last 17 years, spearheaded policies, strategies, and plans of action to improve the well-being of youth. Poverty and a lack of work opportunities are the greatest threat to young South Africa's social capital development. To address this issue, the National Department of...
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Amoateng, A.Y. & Richter, L.M. (2007) Social and economic context of families and households in South Africa. In: Amoateng, A.Y. & Heaton, T.B. (eds). Families and households in post-apartheid South Africa: socio-demographic perspectives. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 1-26.
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Barnes, H., Wright, G., Noble, M. & Dawes, A. (2007) The South African index of multiple deprivation for children: census 2001. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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The detrimental impact of poverty on child development, educational outcomes, job prospects, health and behaviour is well known, and governments worldwide have committed themselves to eradicating child poverty as well as the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Yet more than 60% of South African children live in households with annual incomes below $1 360 (2006 value) and mortality and ma...
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Booyens, I. (2012) Creative industries, inequality and social development: developments, impacts and challenges in Cape Town. Urban Forum. 23:43-60.
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Creative industries are often regarded as avenues for urban regeneration, economic development and job creation. The growth of creative industries is linked to post-Fordist economic restructuring in cities. As a result, the economic base of cities has moved away from manufacturing to knowledge-intensive and service-based industries. While countries in the Global South generally contribute margi...
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Carter, J. & Petersen, E. (2008) Community networks and social development: a case study. (Paper presented at the PAU-DST Workshop, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, May).
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Cartwright, A., Gastrow, M., Lorentzen, J. & Robinson, S. (2009) Limpopo Integrated Innovation Strategy (LIIS). (Prepared for the Limpopo Provincial Government and the Department of Science and Technology, July).
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This paper aims at identifying a way for Limpopo province to harness the power of innovation to meet its economic and social development goals.
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Du Toit, R. (2005) Employment creation through the provision of social development services: exploring the options. Development Southern Africa. 22(5):657-671.
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Habib, A. (2007) Speaking to global debates with a national lens: South African social movements in comparative perspective. (Paper presented to the 10th Anniversary Conference on "Towards a three-sector society?", 13-15 March).
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Hemson, D. (2009) Social mobilisation and community development. (Paper presented to DST, 15 July).
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Higson-Smith, C., Richter, L. & Altman, M. (2004) Care as vocation and occupation. In: Watson, R. & Swartz, L. (eds). Transformation through occupation. London: Whurr Publishers. 254-267.
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the most important policy for socially equitable development is full employment. The unemployed are not just a statistic or an underutilized resource that could have increased gross domestic product. They are people, and no numbers can convey the degree of disruption that unemployment brings to their lives, their livelihoods, and the well-being of their families. Although safety nets and tar...
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Hoadley, U. (2007) The reproduction of social class inequalities through mathematics pedagogies in South African primary schools. Journal of Curriculum Studies. 39(4):1-28.
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It has long been clear that the school reproduces social class differences. However, how this happens remains something of a black box. I set out to contribute to our understanding of schooling processes and the reproduction of inequality by focusing on pedagogy. I elaborate a technique for the analysis of classroom observation and student performance data that is rooted in sociological theory....
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Hoadley, U. (2006) Social class and pedagogy: a model for the investigation of pedagogic variation. (Paper presented at the Fourth Basil Bernstein Symposium, Newark, New Jersey, July).
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Hoadley, U. & Ensor, P. (2005) Teachers' social class, professional dispositions and pedagogic practice. (Paper presented at the Kenton Educational Association Conference, Mbekweni , 27 October).
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Human Sciences Research Council (2004) Monitoring and evaluation of DANIDA support to education and skills development (SESD) programme: second impact study: Vuselela College, North West, March.
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Kiragu, S., Swartz, S., Chikovore, J., Lukhale, F. & Oduro, G. (2011) Agency, access, silence and ethics: how young people's voices from Africa can contribute to social and educational change in adult-dominated societies. In: Day, C. (ed). The Routledge international handbook on teacher and school development. (Routledge International Handbooks of Education). London: Routledge.
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Makiwane, M. & Rama, S. (2004) Research study on the social relief of distress programme. (Commissioned by the Department of Social Development, April).
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This study describes the implementation of Social Relief of distress in each of the nine provinces. It also evaluated the implementation of the programme with respect to cost benefit and cost effectiveness and assess the impact of social relief of Distress with respect to its demand, availability and adequacy in addressing destitution.
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Mitchell, C., Pithouse, K. & Moletsane, R. (2009) The social self in self-study: author conversations. In: Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (eds). Making connections: self-study & social action. (Studies in the postmodern theory of education; v. 357). New York: Peter Lang. 11-24.
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Knowing more about ourselves as teachers and teacher educators change us, provokes growth, jolts us out of complacency -sometimes radically, in ways that can seem transformative. IN the course of examining one's practice systematically, a pivotal "aha' moment can occur, a jolting of the kaleidoscope that shifts our view when we reach one of those precise or fuzzy points at which we are irrevoc...
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Mokomane, Z. (2010) A social policy framework for Africa. HSRC Review. 8(1):19.
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African Union Commission (AUC) asked the HSRC to formulate a Social Policy Framework with a brief that it should be comprehensive, analytical and clearly reflect Africa's key social development challenges and suggest strategies to effectively address them. ZITHA MOKOMANE, who led the HSRC team, reports.
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Padayachee, V. (ed). (2006) The development decade?: economic and social change in South Africa, 1994-2004. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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Covering an impressive breadth of issues, the international development specialists who have contributed to this volume significantly deepen our understanding of the key socio-economic issues in the first decade of South Africa?s democratic governance.
Locating the South African challenges within a broader international perspective, the issues covered include all the major economic growth c...
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Peltzer, K. (2008) Injury and social determinants among in-school adolescents in six African countries. Injury Prevention. 14:381-388.
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There is a lack of data on injury and its social correlates among in-school adolescents in Africa. The objectives of this study was to estimate the prevalence of injury among adolescents in six African countries, and to examine the consistency of associations cross-nationally between socio-demographics, social risk factors, and the occurrence of adolescent injury in Africa.
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Phaswana-Mafuya, N., Seager, J., Peltzer, K., Jooste, S. & Mkhonto, S. (2010) Social determinants of HIV in the Eastern Cape. (Commissioned by the Eastern Cape Socio-Economic Consultative Council, March).
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This report was prepared for the Eastern Cape Socio Economic Consultative Council to review the Social Determinants of HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape with the aim of proposing programmes and research agenda for the scale up of effective HIV prevention. The report is based on a rapid review of available and accessible literature, both published and unpublished ('grey literature'), of HIV/AIDS stu...
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Pillay, S. (2006) Confounding phenomenology, epistemology and the place of race. CODESRIA bulletin. 3&4:53-54.
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Richter, L.M. (2009) Can and should cash transfers be linked to social welfare?. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies. 4(S1):72-76.
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There are proposals that social welfare services be developed in concert with expanding cash transfers to mitigate the impact of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome and poverty on children and families in sub-Saharan
Africa. However much the target population might benefit from welfare services, the arguments for pairing services with transfers are not convincing. ...
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Richter, L.M. (2006) Studying adolescence. Science. 312(5782):1902-1905.
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Young people in their teens constitute the largest age group in the world, in a special stage recognized across the globe as the link in the life cycle between childhood and adulthood. Longitudinal studies in both developed and developing countries and better measurements of adolescent behavior are producing new insights. The physical and psychosocial changes that occur doing puberty make man...
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Rochat, T., Mitchell, C. & Richter, L. (2008) The psychological, social and development needs of babies and young children and their caregivers living with HIV and AIDS. (Commissioned by the National Department of Health (Maternal, Child and Women's Health and Nutrition Cluster) and supported by UNICEF).
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The early years of a child's life are critical. Over the last few decades, science has significantly enhanced what we know about the needs of infants, toddlers and young children, underscoring the fact that experiences and relationships in the earliest years of life play a critical role in a child's ability to grow up healthy and ready to learn. Research shows that it is during the first three ...
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Schwabe, C.A. (1999) Core datasets for the state of the environment reporting in SARDC. (Paper presented at SARDC Core Data Workshop, Harare 20 October 1999).
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Setswe, G., Peltzer, K., Banyini, M., Skinner, D., Seager, J., Maile, S., Sedumedi, S. & Gomis, D. (2007) Report and policy brief from the 4th Africa Conference on social aspects of HIV/AIDS research: innovations in access to prevention, treatment and care in HIV/AIDS, Kisumu, Kenya, 29 April-3 May 2007. Sahara J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 4(2):640-651.
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This report and policy brief summarises the key findings and suggested policy options that emerged from rapporteur reports of conference proceedings about the following themes:
1. Orphans and vulnerable children
2. Treatment
3. Prevention
4. Gender and male involvement
5. Male circumcision
6. People living with HIV/AIDS
7. Food and nutrition
8. Socio-economics
9. Politics/Policy
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Sibanyoni, M.C. (1999) The consolidation of democracy in South Africa. (Paper presented at the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies Conference, New School University, New York, 17 December 1999).
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Argues that with a sustainable economic growth and declining socio-economic inequalities, social conflict is less likely to adversely affect democratic consolidation in South Africa.
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Simbayi, L.C. (2011) Prevalence and incidence of HIV and its impact on the social and economic development of South Africa. (Paper presented at the seminar: Project: "Go Africa.. Go Germany", Tropicana Hotel, Durban, 23 March).
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Swartz, L.P. (2003) Disability assessment tool. (Commissioned by the National Department of Social Development, Pretoria, South Africa).
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Turok, I. (2011) Limits to the mega-city region: conflicting local and regional needs. In: Neumann, M. & Hull, A. (eds). The futures of the city region. Oxon: Routledge. 77-94.
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This chapter analyses the tension within large or mega-city reguins between local needs and regional interests, using the United Kingdom's Thames Gateway as an example.
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Ward, C. (2007) Young people's violent behaviour: social learning in context. In: Burton, P. (ed). Someone stole my smile: an exploration into the causes of youth violence in South Africa. Cape Town: Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention. 9-35.
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This chapter explores the nature and risk and protective factors influencing children's development in South Africa and the implications for levels of violent behaviour. It examines the different contexts in which children learn how to behave, the factors that increase and reduce the likelihood of them becoming violent, and how the social environment in South Africa contributes to the levels o...
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Wildschut, A. (2011) HWSETA case study 2011: skills development for the health and social development sectors. (Commissioned by the Department of Labour Research Project, October).
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The overall objective of this project is to measure the impact of the South African learnership and apprenticeship systems as they support employed and unemployed learners in the acquisition of scarce skills to enter employment. Unlike most university or FET college qualifications, learnership and apprenticeship qualifications rely on complex institutional and structural arrangements. A tripar...
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