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Abrahams, R. (2003) Spinning around: the South African music industry in transition. (Social Cohesion & Integration, Occasional paper no. 3). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
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Adam, H. (2002) Peace-making in divided societies: the Israel-South Africa analogy. (Social Cohesion & Integration Research Programme, Occasional paper no. 2). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
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Adams, W. & Moila, B. (2004) Service delivery & economic expansion in Mbombela (Nelspruit). (Paper presented at the 5th Joint Population Conference, 4-8 October 2004, Royal Hotel, Durban).
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Adams, W.J., Aliber, M.A., Cross, R.C., Drimie, S.E., Modiselle, D.S., Randela, R., Tlabela, K.R.U. & Zama, S.B. (2002) The impact of HIV/AIDS on land issues in Kwazulu-Natal province South Africa: case studies from Muden, Dondotha, Kwadumisa and Kwanyuswa. (Report commissioned by the Sub-regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)).
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Adams, W.J. (2000) Report on the Perdekop (Mpumalanga) Globe teachers' training workshop. (Paper presented at the Globe teachers' training workshop at Vukuzenzele combined school, 23-24 May).
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Report on the Perdekop GLOBE Teachers training workshop held at the Vukuzenzele Combined School during May 2000. Focuses on basic scientific protocols and the learning activities that support and compliment these protocols.
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Adar, K.G. (2002) Constitutionalism in Kenya. Conflict trends. 52-55.
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Adar, K.G. & Ajulu, R. (eds). (2002) Globalization and emerging trends in African states' foreign policy-making process. Aldershot: Ashgate.
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Adar, K.G., Daniel, A.J.C. & Southall, R.J. (2002) In the shadow of power: the role of ex-presidents in Africa. (Report to the Nelson Mandela Foundation).
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Adar, K.G. & Onyango, M.O. (2002) Post-cold war Zimbabwe's foreign policy and foreign policy-making process. In Globalization and emerging trends in African states' foreign policy-making process: a comparative perspective of Southern Africa. Adar, K.G. & Ajulu, R. (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate. 263-280.
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Adar, K.G. & Ajulu, R. (eds). (2002) Southern African states' foreign policy and foreign policy-making process: an introductory contextualisation. In Globalization and emerging trends in African states' foreign policy-making process: a comparative perspective of Southern Africa. (eds). Adar, K.G. & Ajulu, R. (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate. 1-10.
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Adar, K.G. (2002) Zambian foreign policy-making process in the post-1991 multi-party dispensation: the Chiluba presidency. In Globalization and emerging trends in African states' foreign policy-making process: a comparative perspective of Southern Africa. Adar, K.G. & Ajulu, R. (eds). Aldershot: Ashgate. 240-262.
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Adar, K.G. (2001) Ethno-religious nationalism in Sudan: the enduring constraint on the policy of national identity. In Shifting African indentities. (Identity?: theory, politics, history ; v. 2). Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. 81-114.
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Adar, K.G. (2000) Assessing democratisation trends in Kenya: a post-mortem of the Moi regime. Commonwealth & comparative politics. 38(3):103-130.
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Adar, K.G. (2000) Conflict resolution in a turbulent region: the case of the inter-governmental authority on development (IGAD) in Sudan. African journal on conflict resolution. 1(2):39-66.
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Adar, K.G. (2000) The interface between political conditionality and democratization: the case of Kenya. Politics administration and change. 33:1-24.
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This study assesses the impact of donor political conditionality on democratization in Kenya. Specifically, it examines the extent to which President Moi's regime has instituted democratic institutions as a result of political conditionality imposed by the donors since 1991. The study is divided into tow broad parts. Part one puts into proper conceptual framework the meaning of political con...
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Adar, K.G. (2000) The internal and external contexts of human rights practice in Kenya: Daniel Arap Moi's operational code. African sociological review. 4(1):74-96.
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Adar, K.G. (1999) Human rights and academic freedom in Kenya's public universities: the case of the universities academic staff union. Human rights quarterly. 21(1):179-206.
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Adar, K.G. (1999) States and the inter-state system. In Power, wealth and global order: an international relations textbook for Africa. Nel, P. & McGowan, P.J. (eds). Cape Town: University of Cape Town. 71-87.
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Adar, K.G. (1998) Ethnicity and ethnic kings: the enduring dual constraint in Kenya's multiethnic democratic elecoral experiment. Journal of the third world spectrum. 5(2):71-96.
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Adar, K.G. (1998) From nations to nation-state to nations: the withering away of Somalia. Politics administration and change. 30:30-47.
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Afenyadu, D., King, K. & McGrath, S.A. (2002) Learning to compete in Ghana: education, training and enterprise development. In: King, K. & McGrath, S.A. (eds). Learning-led competitiveness: education, training and enterprise in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa. (Occasional papers; no. 93). Edinburgh: 1-19.
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Africa, A., Dawes, A., Swartz, L. & Brandt, R. (2003) Criteria used by family counsellors in child custody cases: a psychological viewpoint. In The fate of the child: legal decisions on children in the new South Africa. Burman, S. (ed). Lansdowne: Juta. 122-157.
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As a result of the high South African divorce rate, and its consequential impact on the need to protect the interests of affected children, the basis on which custody decisions are made is an important area o study. Such research can illuminate current practice, point to problems and provide suggestions for improvement. Child custody placement is a practice that draws on the knowledge of seve...
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Agu, V., Correia, A.N. & Behbehani, K. (2007) Strengthening international health co-operation in Africa through the regional economic communities. African Journal of Health Sciences. 14(3-4):104-113.
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The Regional Economic Communities (RECs) are the pillars of the African Union (AU), and have been recognized by the AU as the key vehicles for economic integration and cooperation in Africa. The 2003 Session of the AU Conference of African Ministers of Health (CAMH) considered and adopted, inter alia, recommendations on a proposal to establish Health and Social Affairs Desks within the RECs. Th...
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Agu, V.U. (2010) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: PMTCT country report: Mauritius. (March).
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mauritius is concentrated, characterized by prevalence below 1% among the general population and a higher prevalence of generally above 5% in specific vulnerable groups such as commercial sex workers (CSWs) and injecting drug users (IDUs).
The country is experiencing a rapid increase in incidence due to the high vulnerability of IDU. During recent years, the epidemi...
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Agu, V.U. (2010) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: PMTCT country report: South Africa. (March).
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Using data drawn for various sources, Rehle et al. (in press) summarised the HIV and PMTCT situation in South Africa as follows. In South Africa, HIV prevalence surveillance among pregnant women attending public health clinics has been conducted on an annual basis since 1990 and served as the primary source for monitoring trends of HIV in the country. HIV prevalence data collected from the lat...
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Agu, V.U. (2010) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: HTC country report: Mauritius. (March).
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According to the Republic of Mauritius UNGASS report (2008) , based on 2007 sentinel surveillance data provided by the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life (MOHQL), the total cumulative HIV/AIDS cases for Mauritius amount to 3258, of whom 3107 are residents. Among the residents detected as positive, 2574 are male and 533 female, resulting in a male to female sex ratio of 5:1. Death among resi...
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Agu, V.U. (2009) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: PMTCT country report: Zambia. (March).
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Zambia is one of the sub-Saharan African countries worst affected by HIV/AIDS pandemic. Estimates of HIV prevalence in 2007 for people aged 15 to 49 are 15.2% (UNICEF) and 14.3% (ZHDS). Estimates from sentinel surveillance data for 15-24 year olds are 6.5% (ZDHS, 2007) and 12.5% (SADC, 20081). Ninety-three percent of the population has access to antenatal care (UNICEF, 2008).
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Agu, V.U. (2009) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: PMTCT country report: Namibia. (March).
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HIV infection prevalence among young women between 15 and 24, which can be used as a proxy for incidence, has shown a slight decline from 17.9 in 2002 to 15.2 in 2004, to 14.2 percent in 2006, but there is marked variation between sites and years.
The National Policy on HIV/AIDS was approved in March 2007 and Guidelines for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission published in July 200...
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Agu, V.U. (2009) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: PMTCT country report: Lesotho. (March).
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The main aim of this consultancy is to develop regional harmonized minimum standards for policies, protocols and guidelines for PMTCT in the SADC region.
To achieve this, the project team of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA) - see appendix 1 - is reviewing and analysing policies, protocols and guidelines for PMTCT in each SADC member state (MS), in collaboration with...
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Agu, V.U. (2009) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: HTC country report: Namibia. (March).
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The estimated HIV prevalence for adults (15-49) in 2007 was 15.3% (UNICEF, 2008). Estimates based on sentinel surveillance data in 2007 indicated a prevalence of 14.0% for 15-24 year-olds (SADC, 2008).1 NDHS figures indicate that 18 - 25% of the population was tested for HIV. NDHS figures indicate that slightly more females than males were tested (the female figure stands at 28%).
In July 2007...
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Agu, V.U. (2009) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: HTC country report: South Africa. (March).
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According to the South African UNGASS report for 2006-20071, the international protocol on HIV testing, including rapid tests is used at South African health facilities. During 2006/2007, 1 610 775 men and women were tested at public health facilities. Approximately 578 0002 pregnant women were tested in 2007. The majority (90%) attending VCT services receive their results the same day. Post-te...
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Agu, V.U. (2009) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: HTC country report: Zambia. (March).
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Voluntary Counselling and Testing Services were established on a larger scale in Zambia in 1999. The programme was initiated in 21 pilot sites evenly distributed in each of the nine provinces of Zambia and the major funding in this pilot phase was provided by the Norwegian Government through NORAD. The Government of the Republic of Zambia provided the required human resources through the establ...
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Agu, V.U. (2009) The development of harmonized minimum standards for guidance on HIV testing and counselling and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in the SADC region: HTC country report: Lesotho. (March).
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According to the Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey (DHS, 2004), the national average HIV prevalence (age 15-49) for Lesotho is 23.3%, with the highest prevalence in districts closest to Maseru (Lesotho DHS, 2004). There has been a steady increase in uptake of HTC since 2004, in part resulting from the major 'Know Your Status' campaign. By the end of 2008, about 28% of the population knew t...
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Aiello, H. & Ural, I. (2000) Formative evaluation and monitoring of curriculum 2005 implementation in Gauteng: workshop for educators & principles. (Report prepared for Gauteng Institute for Curriculum Development).
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Aihoon, K. & Aliber, M. (2007) A guide to alternative possible business entities for DST's poverty reduction projects. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, May).
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No abstract available due to confidential status.
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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.
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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...
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2004) Recent trends in South African socio-economic development: policy driven by context: the constraints to transformation. (Paper presented at the IUED, University of Geneva, 20 January 2004).
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2004) Report of international visit: Institut Universitaire D'Etudes Du Developpement (IUED), Graduate Institute of Development Studies. (Report of international visit to Geneva, Switzerland, 20 January to 4 February 2004).
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2004) Where are we now, ten years later: complexity of South African social transition. (Paper presented at the Conference on the Reform of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Gaborone, Botswana, 4-6 August 2003).
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2003) Conference report: Conference on the Reform of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). (Report on the Conference on the Reform of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Gaborone, Botswana, 4-6 August 2003).
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Akoojee, M.S.A. & McGrath, S.A. (2003) Globalisation and education and training in South Africa: on being GEAR(ed)!. (Paper prepared for the RUIG research programme "Le defi social zu developpment/The social challenge of development".).
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2003) Institutional profile.
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2003) Observational inventory.
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This inventory requires you to observe and describe the infra-structure and facilities of the institution.
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2003) Private further education and training: nature, form and context. (Presentation at the Symposium: To Staff and Post Graduate Students, Johannesburg, University of Witwatersrand, 12 September 2003).
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2003) Staff interview schedule.
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Akoojee, M.S.A. (2002) Quality with access in South African higher education: the challenge for transformation. (HERSDA quality conversations. Annual international HERSDA conference, Perth, Western Australia, 7-10 July).
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Akoojee, S. (2009) Intermediate-level public sector skills provision and FET colleges: expanding the agenda and widening impact. Journal of Public Administration. 44(1):30-43.
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Public sector skills development in South Africa has been brought into sharp focus as both parts of the general skills deficiency as well as the need to ensure efficient and effective service delivery. Improving capacity requires the development of skills at all tiers of public service at national, provincial and local spheres. Intermediate-level skilling (the level for functional and routine s...
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Akoojee, S. (2008) FET college lecturers: the 'devolving' link in the South African skills development equation. Journal of Vocational Education and Training. 60(3):297-313.
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National attention on the role of skills development has focused on the role of Further Education and Training (FET) colleges in providing intermediate-level education and training necessary to meet the South African national development challenge. In particular, attention has been focused on reorganisation and rationalisation of college structures, through infrastructural development using re...
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Akoojee, S., McGrath, S. & Visser, M. (2008) Further education and training colleges. In: Kraak, A76. & Press, K. (eds). Human resources development review 2008: education, employment and skills in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 254-277.
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Public further education and traing (FET) in South Africa is a sector in transition. It has undergone a process of insitutional transformation but is stull challgenged with becoming more responsive to market demand and a state-led development vision. This chapter documents the changes made in the sector since the publication of the first Human resources development review in 2003, drawing pri...
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Akoojee, S. (2008) ICT mid-level skills: lively demand matches steady supply. HSRC Review. 6(1):3.
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The importance of ICT skills to the economic, social and political trajectory of South Africa in a global context cannot be underestimated, says SALIM AKOOJEE in a new study that examines the supply of intermediate-level ICT skills, providing insight into key elements of demand.
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2008) The marketing of public FET colleges in South Africa: issues for policy and practice. Journal of Education. 45:131-154.
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This paper considers the rising trend of introducing marketing practices into public education through the lens of South African further education and training colleges. It provides a review of the international literature on 'for-profit' and 'non-profit' marketing of products and services. It examines some of the key aspects that need to be considered in an education and training context for...
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Akoojee, S. (2008) Post-school private education and training providers in South Africa: What works!. VOCAL: The Australian Journal of Vocational Education and Training in Schools. 7:97-105.
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This article is based on data collected in 2002-03. Quantitative evidence was based on data gathered in a pre-registration exercise conducted by the Department of Education and followed up by qualitative case studies conducted at a number of provider sites nationally. The article begins with an assessment of the South African economic developmental context. This is followed by a brief assessmen...
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2008) Skills development for poverty reduction: can FET colleges deliver?. In: Maile, S. (ed). Education and poverty reduction strategies: issues of policy coherence: colloquium proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 199-213.
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This chapter begins by establishing the envisaged role of FET colleges in the national development trajectory. This is followed by an analysis of the current form, context and challenges facing the sector in South Africa. It concluded by examining the potential and challenges facing the sector in the South African education and training framework.
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Akoojee, S. & Nkomo, M. (2007) Access and quality in South African higher education: the twin challenges of transformation. South African Journal of Higher Education. 21(3):385-399.
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Higher education transformation in South Africa requires a synergy of creative strategies to engage issues of redress. Access to higher education remains one mechanism for achieving this in South African higher education. While there is clearly a need to enable access by improving student success (access with success), as opposed to simply ensuring their participation (access as participation),...
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Akoojee, S., Arends, F. & Roodt, J. (2007) ICT skills at the intermediate level in South Africa: insights into private provision and labour market demand. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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Both the government and the private sector have recognised the invaluable role that information and communication technology (ICT) plays in responding to national socio-economic imperatives. The importance of ICT skills to the economic, social and political trajectory in a globalised context cannot therefore be over-emphasised. The potential of, and limitations to, intermediate-level ICT skills...
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2007) Public and private further education and training in South Africa: a comparative analysis of the quantitative evidence. South African Journal of Education. 27(2):209-222.
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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. (2006) Integrating the non-formal education (NFE) agenda into the formal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector: rekindling the promise - avoiding the perils!. Manpower Journal. XLI(4):121-136.
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This paper argues for the inclusion of the non-formal education (NFE) agenda into the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) sector. For TVET, inclusion holds promise of inserting a more deliberative social development purpose, while for NFE it represents a national response to a clientele which has fallen through the cracks of national education provision. In addition, the exclus...
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2006) Marketing and communication units at FET colleges: an appraisal. (May).
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Akoojee, S. (2006) Private technical and vocational education in South Africa: current realities - future challenges. EdInvest news. January:1-5.
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2006) Technical vocational education and training in Botswana: the challenge of joining-up policy. Africa insight. 36(1):46-52.
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Akoojee, S. (2005) Botswana: united in purpose, diverse in practice. In Vocational education and training in southern Africa: a comparative study. Akoojee, S., Gewer, A. & McGrath, S. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 9-31.
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Botswana is widely seen as one of the economic success stories of Africa. However, behind the very real successes lie challenges both of reducing inequality, poverty and unemployment and of diversifying away from a continued dependence on mining. These
challenges point to the importance of expanding and refocusing the national skills development system. The focus of this chapter is on progress...
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2005) Post-basic education and training and poverty reduction in South Africa: progress to 2004 and vision to 2014. (Post-basic education and training working paper series, no. 2, October).
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Akoojee, S. (2005) Private further education and training in South Africa: the changing landscape. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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Private provision of Technical and Vocational Further Education and Training (TVET) in the Further Education and Training (FET) band in the South African education system is an issue of national importance. To date however, information about the precise nature of this sector has been, at best, speculative.
This study sets about constructing a comprehensive picture of the private post-school ...
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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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Akoojee, S., Gewer, A. & McGrath, S. (eds). (2005) Vocational education and training in southern Africa: a comparative study. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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While Vocational Education and Training (VET) systems are increasingly seen as an important element of national socio-economic strategies internationally, the field of VET has been badly neglected in southern Africa, especially given the donor fascination with basic education since the World Conference on Education for All in 1990. Internationally VET in particular has been identified as an imp...
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2004) Assessing the impact of globalization on South African education and training: a review of the evidence so far. Globalization, societies and education. 2 (1):25-45.
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This article reviews the effects of globalization on South Africa a decade after the transition to a post-apartheid system. It brings together some of the recent literature of the performance of the economy and concomitant changes in education. It shows the pervasive force of globalization on South African education and training and explores in particular show this has affected the political ...
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2004) The challenges of vocational education and training reform in southern Africa. (Paper presented at the HSRC Research Conference, Birchwood, Benoni, 27-28 July).
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Akoojee, S. (2004) Design meeting for DFID-funded project: the contribution of post-basic education and training (PBET) to poverty reduction: evidence from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. (Report on a workshop held at the Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 22-25 May 2004).
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Akoojee, S. (2004) Integrating non-formal training programmes in the TVET system: perils and promises!. (Address delivered at the regional conference on TVET reform in the SADC region, Le Meridien Capital Hotel, Lilongwe, Malawi 25-26 November).
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2004) The multiple roles of skills development in the formal sector in relation to poverty reduction. (Paper presented at the workshop: The contribution of post-basic education and training (PBET) to poverty reduction: evidence from South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, Edinburgh, 22-25 May 2004).
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Akoojee, S. (2004) Namibian TVET system response. (Paper presented to the "Connecting policy to practice: vocational education and training in the SADC region (International) "regional seminar, Le Victoria Hotel, Mauritius, 18-22 July).
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Akoojee, S. (2004) Private further education and training. (Paper presented to post graduate staff and students at University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Education, 12 March 2004).
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Akoojee, S. (2004) Private further education and training in South Africa: is the difference (all) consuming!. (Paper presented at the HRD NPA meeting, HSRC, Pretoria, 22 June).
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Akoojee, S. & Arends, F. (2004) Private further education and training: giving form to the phenomenon. (Paper presented at the Internal HSRC Seminar, 1 June).
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Akoojee, S. (2004) Unity of purpose, diversity in practice: understanding TVET in Botswana. (Paper presented at the regional seminar: Connecting policy to practice: vocational education and training in SADC region, Le Victoria Hotel, Mauritius, 18-22 July 2004).
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Akoojee, S. (2004) Where are we ten years later?: the complexity of South African education transition. (Paper presented at the HSRC Research Conference, Birchwood Hotel, Benoni, 27-28 July 2004).
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Akoojee, S. & McGrath, S. (2003) Challenges facing VET transformation in the SADC region. (Paper presented at the Conference on the Reform of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Gaborone, Botswana, 4-6 August).
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Across the globe, vocational education and training (VET) systems have experienced a period of almost unprecedented transformation since the beginning of the 1990s. The SADC region is no exception and the process of transformation is continuing across member states. This paper highlights seven aspects of the far-ranging reform agenda and raises a series of challenges that lie ahead for the re...
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Akoojee, S. (2003) Management interview schedule.
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Akoojee, S. (2003) Private further education and training. In Human resources development review 2003: education, employment and skills in South Africa. Human Sciences Research Council Cape Town: HSRC Press. 396-415.
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This chapter reports ion the nature of private post-school technical; and vocational education and training (TVET) within the further education and training (FET) band in the South African education system. It provides, for the first time, hard information regarding the participants, location, ownership, programmes offered, and the delivery of private TVET provision. Results show that the sect...
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Akoojee, S. Private further education and training: fieldwork guide.
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This study explores the nature, form and context of provision and assess the extent to which it is responsive to national needs. The study is expected it contribute to understanding and engage debate on the extent of the private post-school Vocational Education and Training (VET) provision in South Africa. AS a follow up of the quantitative component conducted previously this study will attem...
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Akoojee, S.. (2003) Student focus group interview schedule.
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Alberts, T., Bentley, K., Bezuidenhout, A., Cherry, J., Dexter, P., Edcross, G., Habib, A., Lutchman, J., Mafunisa, J., Maphunye, K., Modisha, G., Morrow, S., Naidoo, V., Reitzes, M., Sanchez, D. & Southall, R. (2005) Overcoming the legacy of discrimination in South Africa: final report. (Report of the Democracy and Governance Programme of the HSRC in partnership with SWOP (Wits) and SCI (HSRC) to the Presidency, South Africa, February).
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Alcock, R., Burgess, R., Letsoalo, E., Hart, T., de Villiers, H., Saruchera, M. & Sithole, V. (2004) Prolinnova South Africa: PROromoting Local INNOVAtion in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural resource management. (Catalogue of farmer innovations). Pretoria: Agricultural Research Council.
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Alexander, L., Ward, C.L., Lombard, C.J. & Gwebushe, N. (2006) How stressed are emergency workers?. Crisis response journal. 3(1):50-51.
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Aliber, M. & Hart, T. (2010) Understanding the role and value of subsistence farming. HSRC Review. 8(1):20-21.
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The South African agricultural sector is dualistic in nature. On the one hand, it comprises a vibrant, highly capitalised, mainly white commercial sector, of about 40 000 commercial farm units (Stats SA, 2009). On the other hand, there are about 4 to 4.5 million blacks involved in farming at some scale, of whom about 93 to 95% do so mainly for subsistence purposes, and the rest are mainly comme...
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Aliber, M. (2009) Exploring Statistics South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about household-level food security. Agrekon. 48(4):384-388.
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This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of household-level food security in South Africa using publicly available household survey data from Statistics South Africa. The two datasets that are used in particular are the General Household Survey,
an annual household survey that began in 2002, and the Income and Expenditure Survey of 2005/06. Because these surveys are not designed fo...
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Aliber, M. (2009) Exploring statistics: South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about food security and subsistence agriculture. (March).
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This paper seeks to complement CPEG?s broader investigation into food security in South Africa by exploring the usefulness of some of Statistics South Africa's (Stats SA's) household surveys as sources of information about household-level food insecurity and the related theme of subsistence agriculture. Notwithstanding their limitations, these surveys have the potential advantage of being large...
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Aliber, M. & Hart, T.G.B. (2009) Should subsistence agriculture be supported as a strategy to address rural food insecurity?. Agrekon. 48(4):434-458.
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At first glance South Africa's black farming sector appears to contribute rather minimally to overall agricultural output in South Africa. However, despite the complexity involved in this sector and the often marginal conditions in which agriculture is practised it appears to be important to a large number of black households. Furthermore, the significance they attach to subsistence agriculture...
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Aliber, M. (2009) Strategies to support South African smallholders as a contribution to government's second economy strategy. (March).
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Aliber, M., Baipheti, M. & Jacobs, P. (2007) Agricultural employment scenarios. (August).
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This paper seeks to re-examine the potential of agriculture to contribute to job creation and poverty reduction in South Africa. It does so mainly through simple spreadsheet-based 'scenario analysis' that seeks to illustrate what is conceivable, complemented by commentary as to what is feasible and likely. It is a re-examination in the sense that there have been various earlier attempts to do m...
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Aliber, M. (2007) Clarification of the numbers of claims and land reform projects to be settled or achieved.
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Aliber, M. & Mayson, D. (2007) Clarification of the numbers of claims and land reform projects to be settled or achieved: final report. (Commissioned by Phuhlisani Solutions, April).
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Aliber, M., Davids, Y.D., Sedumedi, S., Mazibuko, S., Mncwango, B. & Diko, M. (2007) The economic impact of welfare grants on selected KwaZulu-Natal communities: final report. (Commissioned by the Department of Economic Development KwaZulu-Natal, November).
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This is a report of a study commissioned by the Department of Economic Development (DED) of KwaZulu-Natal to help them better understand the role of social grants within the provincial economy.
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Aliber, M., Aihoon, K. & Karuri, G. (2007) Evaluation of poverty reduction projects funded by the Department of Science & Technology: revised final draft. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, May).
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Aliber, M. (2007) HIV/AIDS, land reform and land-based livelihoods in three provinces in South Africa: summary of phase 1 findings and preliminary findings from phase 2. (August).
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Aliber, M. (2007) Land reform in South Africa: policy trends and project realities. (Paper presented at the Rural Economic Development Workshop, UKZN, 7 November).
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Aliber, M. & Mosoetsa, S. (2007) Poverty scenarios 2019. (Commissioned by the President's Office).
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Aliber, M. (2007) Poverty scenarios 2019. (Paper presented at the 2019 Scenarios Research Conference, 12 June).
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Aliber, M. (2007) A proposed system of M&E indicators for the DoA and the agricultural sector. (Paper presented on the 28 August, Department of Education).
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Aliber, M., Mosoetsa, S., Karuri, G. & Aihoon, K. (2007) Report on the evaluation of government's poverty reduction programme. (Commissioned by the Office of the Public Service Commission).
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Aliber, M. (2007) The state of poverty and human development in Limpopo Province. (Paper delivered in August).
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Aliber, M., Reitzes, M. & Roefs, M. (2006) Assessing the alignment of South Africa's land reform policy to people's aspirations and expectations: a policy-oriented report based on a survey in three provinces. (Report for the Metagora Pilot Project, October).
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The purpose of this study is to shed light on people's aspirations and expectations in respect of redistributive land reform, as well as their general, less personal attitudes as to what land reform means for South Africa. It thus seeks to inform the debate about land reform and land reform policy in a particular way, e.g. Not assessing delivery performance relative to targets, nor assessing i...
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Aliber, M. (2006) Case studies of redistributed land reveal patchy results. HSRC review. 4(4):4-6.
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Aliber, M., Makomane, C., Mazibuko, S. & Roefs, M. (2006) Establishing baseline statistics and data collection methods for the monitoring and evaluation system of the National Department of Agriculture: final draft. (Submitted to Department of Agriculture, Directorate: Monitoring and Evaluation, July).
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The Department of Agriculture is seeking to develop a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system through which to measure and track its progress in respect of its vision and mission. As an intermediate step in this large task, in 2005 the Department sought to define performance measures/indicators linked to objectives as set out in its 2005 Strategic Plan. The Department commiss...
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Aliber, M. & Makomane, C. (2006) Farmland price trends in South Africa, 1994-2005. (Commissioned by the Department of Land Affairs, September).
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Aliber, M. & Walker, C. (2006) The impact of HIV/AIDS on land rights: perspectives from Kenya. World development. 34(4):704-727.
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Aliber, M., Kirsten, M., Maharajh, R., Nhlapo-Hlope, J. & Nkoane, O. (2006) Overcoming underdevelopment in South Africa's second economy. Development Southern Africa. 23(1):45-61.
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This paper is a synthesis of the July 2005 Development Report published by the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Human Sciences Research Council and United Nations Development Programme (DBSA, HSRC and UNDP). The Report asks why, if the origins of economic dualism are rooted in the cheap, forced, migrant labour introduced by the mining industry and reinforced during apartheid, does dualism p...
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Aliber, M. & Makomane, C. (2006) Poverty trends and poverty reduction in South Africa. (Commissioned by OPMAC to assist with a report to the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, June).
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This report provides an overview of South Africa's poverty reduction framework. It summarises what is known (or not known) about inequality trends in South Africa. It aslo summarises findings/arguments from other studies as to the relationship between poverty and inequality and economic growth in South Africa. Finally, it sketches an overview of the impact donor and NGO development initiative .
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Aliber, M., Greenberg, S., Eveleth, A., Kleinbooi, K., Lahiff, E. & Tom, B. (2006) Rural municipality case studies: land reform, farm employment and livelihoods. (Summary of research repots supported with funding from the National Treasury, USAID and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), July).
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Aliber, M. (2006) Small-scale agriculture and micro-enterprise remain best hope for rural poor. HSRC review. 4(1):6-7.
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Aliber, M., Mosoetsa, S., Karuri, G., Moroka, T. & Aihoon, K. (2006) Strategic guidelines for social impact investments of the Departrment of Science & Technology. (Commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology, October).
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Aliber, M. (2005) Addressing the challenges of the second economy in South Africa. (A discussion paper for the Office of the Deputy President, December).
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Aliber, M., Roefs, M. & Reitzes, M. (2005) Auditing the realisation of democracy and human rights in the context of rural land reform in South Africa: a component of the Metagora pilot project: final technical report. (Commissioned by the Metagora Project, managed by the OECD, October).
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The aim of this project was to design a survey methodology to measure the realisation of democracy and human rights in the context of South Africa's land reform process. The project sought to design, test, evaluate, and refine this methodology, bearing in mind the diverse nature of the South African land question, the variety of different stakeholders in the land question, and the particular ne...
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Aliber, M. Closer look at land records and race. Cape Times. (29 July 2005)
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Aliber, M. & Mokoena, R. (2005) Farmland price trends in South Africa, 1994-2003. (Commissioned by the Department of Land Affairs, July).
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The purpose of this document is to provide DLA staff with information about market activity, particularly in terms of average prices, for farmland. It must be stressed from the outset that the figures in this report cannot substitute for on-site investigation, consultation with knowledgeable local sources, or a professional valuation . Rather it provides summary statistics related to recent sa...
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Aliber, M., Tlabela, K., Drimie, S. & Walker, C. (2005) HIV/AIDS, land-based livelihoods, and land reform in South Africa. (Report to the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Department of Land Affairs, South Africa, December).
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Aliber, M., De Klerk, M., Mini, S. & Walker, C. (2005) IRRD: land and Agrarian reform research. (Paper presented to the National Treasury, 9 February).
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Aliber, M. (2005) Overcoming underdevelopment in South africa's second economy: 2005 development report. (Prepared for the UNDP, Southern Africa and the DBSA, July).
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The point of departure for this Report is a simple question. Why, if the origins of economic dualism are rooted in the system of heap, forced, migrant labour introduced with the beginnings of the mining industry and reinforced during apartheid, does dualism persist
under democracy when all the relevant laws and many of the practices of the past have been abolished? In addressing this question...
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Aliber, M. Reform getting bogged down. Business Day. (26 July 2005)
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Aliber, M. (2005) Report on the evaluation of government's poverty relief programme. (Commissioned by the Public Service Commission).
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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.
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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...
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Aliber, M. (2005) Who's buying our land?: the use of the Deeds Registry to track race and nationality of land purchasers. HSRC review. 3(2):8-9.
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Aliber, M., Walker, C., Machera, M., Kamau, P., Omondi, C. & Kanyinga, K. (2004) The impact of HIV/AIDS on land rights: case studies from Kenya. Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
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This study explores the relationship between HIV/AIDS and land rights in Kenya, with a particular focus on women as socially vulnerable group. Combining participatory research techniques, household surveys, and in-depth person-to-person interviews, the study examines three village case studies in different parts of Kenya, and attempts to distinguish the role of HIV/AIDS in precipitating or agg...
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Aliber, M., du Toit, J., Langa, Z., Msibi, M., Parthab, S., Roberts, B. & Thaba, F. (2004) Poverty on our doorstep: understanding the situation of the individuals who spend the night in front of 134 Pretorius Street and the possible implications of erecting a fence to keep them out.
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Aliber, M. (2004) Revised final report on development of M&E system for the Community-based Rural Land Development Project in Malawi. (Commissioned by the World Bank).
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Aliber, M. (2003) Chronic poverty and employment. Labour market review. May:19-22.
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The extent of chronic poverty in South Africa is not known with certainty. Whether the statistics we have is representative of the country is difficult to say. What is probable, however, is that much of poverty in South African is indeed chronic.
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Aliber, M., Bohloa, T. & Makhakhe, T. (2003) Economic implications of a new land act for Lesotho. (Commissioned by the APCBP Lesotho Land Policy Law Harmonisation and Strategic Plan Project).
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Aliber, M. & Mokoena, R. (2003) Farmland Price Trends in South Africa, 1994-2003: draft. (Commissioned by the DLA).
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The purpose of this document is to provide DLA staff with information about market activity, particularly in terms of average prices, for farmland. It must be stressed from the outset that the figures in this report cannot substitute for on-site investigation, consultation with knowledgeable local sources, or a professional valuation . Rather it provides summary statistics related to recent sa...
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Aliber, M. & Mokoena, R. (2003) The land question in contemporary South Africa. In State of the nation: South Africa 2003-2004. Daniel, J., Southall, R. & Habib, A. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 330-346.
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The purpose of this chapter is to offer a critical perspective on the government's record on land reform since 1994, and point to the chief challenges that remain unresolved.
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Aliber, M. & O'Donovan, M. (2003) The social wage in South Africa. (A review on behalf of the Social Cluster Task Teams on Free Basic Services and the Comprehensive Social Security Framework, Iterim Report, December).
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Aliber, M. & O' Donovan, M. (2003) Synthesis report on social and economic impacts of government programmes since 1994: based on papers 6.2 and 6.7 of the ten year review research programme. (Prepared for the Policy Coordination and Advisory Services, Office of the President, December).
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Aliber, M. (2003) What went wrong?: a perspective on the first five years of land redistribution in South Africa, with homily for the next five.
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Aliber, M. (2002) Consultant's report: mission to review the project implementation and donor support scheme for the land policy reform process - possible roles for the delegation of the European Commission. (M. Aliber on behalf of the delegation of the European Commission in the Republic of Malawi, 11-19 March).
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Aliber, M. (2002) Poverty-eradication and sustainable development. (Integrated Rural and Regional Development Research Programme, Occasional Paper 1). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
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An examination of the government's array of anti-poverty initiatives, programmes and projects and of the factors that currently impede the attainment of the goal of poverty eradication.
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Aliber, M., Baiphethi, M. & Jacobs, P. (2009) Agricultural employment scenarios. In: Hall, R. (ed). Another countryside?: policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa. Cape Town: PLAAS: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies. 133-163.
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This chapter seeks to re-examine the potential of agriculture to contribute to job creation and poverty reduction in South Africa. It does so mainly through a simple scenario-analysis that seeks to illustrate that is conceivable, complemented by commentary as to what is feasible and likely.
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Aliber, M.A. (2003) Chronic poverty in South Africa: incidence, causes and policies. World development. 31(3):473-490.
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Aliber, M.A. (2003) Empowerment and land reform. In Annual review of black economic empowerment. Johannesburg: Businessmap.
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Aliber, M.A. (2003) Review of Botswana national land policy: final report. (Republic of Botswana; Ministry of Lands and Housing & Department of Lands).
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Aliber, M.A. (2003) Small-scale agriculture as revealed by the labour force survey. (Think piece written for the National Employment & Unemployment Statistics working group February 2003).
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Aliber, M.A. (2003) Testimony before the TCOE tribunal. (Testimony on the 11 December 2004).
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Aliber, M.A. Botswana: land hitting the black market. Mail & Guardian. (17 May 2002)
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Aliber, M.A. (2002) Informal finance in the informal economy: promoting decent work among the working poor. (ILO working paper on the informal economy; no. 14). Geneve: International Labour Organization.
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Aliber, M.A. (2002) Informal finance in the informal economy: promoting decent work among the working poor. (Working paper on the informal economy: employment sector; 2002/14). Geneva: International Labour Office.
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This book throws light on the ambivalent nature of informal finance. It makes economic transactions amongst the working poor possible, it uses different forms of social capital innovatively, but it can also reinforce dependencies and exploitation.
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Aliber, M.A. & Mokoena, M.R. (2002) The interaction between the land redistribution programme and the land market in South Africa: a perspective on the willing-buyer/willing-seller approach. (Land reform and agrarian change in Southern Africa. Occasional paper; no.21). Bellville: University of the Western Cape.
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Aliber, M.A. & Adams, W.J. (2002) Links between poverty and technology: a discussion note with selected bibliography version 1. (Discussion document for SATPOR task team October 2002).
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Aliber, M.A. (2002) Overview of the incidence of poverty in South Africa for the 10-Year Review. (Paper commissioned by the President's Office).
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Aliber, M.A. & Modiselle, D.S. (2002) Pilot study on methods to monitor household-level food security. (Study commissioned by the National Department of Agriculture November 2002).
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Aliber, M.A. (2002) Poverty eradication and sustainable development. (Integrated Development and Rural Development Research Programme, Occasional paper no. 1). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
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An examination of the government's array of anti-poverty initiatives, programmes and projects and of the factors that currently impede the attainment of the goal of poverty eradication.
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Aliber, M.A. SA still needs strategy to reduce poverty. Business Day. (26 August 2002)
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Aliber, M.A. (2002) Working paper on land market issues contribution to the national land policy review of Botswana. ( November 2002).
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Alidou, H., Boly, A., Brock-Utne, B., Diallo, Y.S., Heugh, K. & Wolff, H.E. (2006) Optimizing learning and education in Africa - the language factor: a stock-taking research on mother tongue and bilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Allais, C., Combrinck, H., Connors, D., Jansen van Rensburg, M., Ncoyini, V., Sithole, P., Wentzel, M., Barolsky, V., Hadland, A. & Tilley, V. (2010) Tsireledzani: understanding the dimensions of human trafficking in southern Africa. Pretoria: National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa.
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The objectives of the study are to: Identify trafficking trends in order to develop appropriate responses; identify national legislative measures, policy frameworks and women's and children's rights instruments; analyse counter-trafficking responses regarding human trafficking in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and other countries with comparative features. In sum, this...
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Altman, M. (2010) The context for career guidance in urban & rural areas addressing the challenge of youth unemployment in South Africa. (Paper presented to the National Career Guidance Conference, 14 May).
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Altman, M., Hart, T. & Jacobs, P. (2010) Food security in South Africa. (March).
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The Human Sciences Research Council led a project to review household food security status in South Africa. This project was aimed at ensuring affordable quality food for poor households and considering the short- and long-term contribution of food
security to the government's poverty and unemployment reduction strategies. This paper offers an overview of the main findings.
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Altman, M. & Jacobs, P. (2010) Household food and nutrition security. (Paper presented at a Food and Security Roundtable, 22 February).
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Altman, M. (2010) Household food and nutrition security. (Paper presented at the AGREKON Launch, 12 May).
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Altman, M. (2010) Jobs and the budget: easing poverty and unemployment. HSRC Review. 8(1):10-11.
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Over the past year or two, politicians have promised a 'developmental state', 'paradigm change', a 'new growth path', and 'decent work'. These forceful words demonstrate a desire by government to ease South Africa's widespread poverty and unemployment. The national budget is the clearest expression of government's policy intentions, writes MIRIAM ALTMAN.
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Altman, M. (2010) Making sense of electricity price increases. HSRC Review. 8(1):12-13.
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The heat generated around proposed electricity price increases is considerable, ignited by Eskom's requests to the regulator for what appear to be stratospheric price increases. MIRIAM ALTMAN analyses the Nersa announcement of the second Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD 2) which is meant to lay the path for the electricity price for the coming three years.
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Altman, M. (2010) A national perspective on household food and nutrition security. (Paper presented to The Challenges of HIV/AIDS and Poverty to Development, JEAPP Dissemination Workshop, Sheraton Hotel, 19 May).
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Altman, M. (2010) Promoting economic development & capacity through procurement. (Paper presented to the 3rd Annual Tshwane International Trade and Infrastructure Investment Conference, CSIR ICC, 24 May).
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Altman, M. (2009) "Working in the cities". (Paper presented to SACN 3rd Urban Conference on State of the Cities, Feathermarket Hall, Nelson Mandela Bay, 24-25 November).
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Altman, M. (2009) Can South Africa's employment targets be met in the context of the global economic crisis?. (May).
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The scenarios are updated in this paper to take into account the potentially dramatic impact of the global economic crisis (GEC). A straight path from historical to future employment figures will no longer be relevant, and therefore need to be interrogated. There is little doubt that employment growth will be affected for at least a few years, and could be affected for a decade. There is absolu...
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Altman, M. (2009) Comment on Eskom's MYPD 2 proposal. (15 December).
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In 2008, the HSRC prepared a study which was funded by TIPS/Commark on the request of the Sector Strategies Co-ordinator in the Presidency. The study investigated the potential economic impact of differently distributed pricing or rationing options aimed at reducing peak electricity usage and electricity consumption. The study also considered the potential impact of different pricing proposals ...
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Altman, M. (2009) Creating jobs in tough times. HSRC Review. 7(1):19-20.
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The global economic downturn poses serious challenges to South Africa's hopes of halving unemployment between 2004 and 2014, a target most recently reaffirmed in the ANC election manifesto, released in January.
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Altman, M. (2009) Employment in the development path. (Paper presented to the Department of Trade and Industry, 13 July).
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Altman, M. & Global Sustainable Development, (2009) Employment through procurement: research report. (May).
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The project involves developing and disseminating a knowledge base of procurement strategies to achieve socio-economic objectives, by working with a reference group of partner large companies.
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Altman, M. (2008) Expanding early childhood development services: labour market challenges. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 78:120-131.
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Altman, M., Hart, T.G.B. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) Household food security status in South Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):345-361.
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The Human Sciences Research Council has established a policy research initiative to monitor household food security and to identify and evaluate policy options. In this special edition, a selection of articles from this project is assembled. While deep chronic
hunger has fallen with the expansion of the social grants, under-nutrition is a very serious and widespread challenge. This special edi...
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Altman, M., Mather, A., Fleming, D. & Harris, H. (2009) The impact of electricity price increases and rationing on the South African economy: potential energy savings: a review by sector: a review of potential incentives for promoting energy efficiency. (February).
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Altman, M. & Potgieter-Gqubule, F. (2009) The state of youth: labour market status & policy challenges. (Commissioned by the Department of Social Development, December).
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South Africa's demographic profile and its youth bulge provides a unique opportunity to make substantial progress over the next decade or so with reducing unemployment and poverty, and to fundamentally change the structure of its labour force. To do
this, requires deliberate policies and interventions to address the situation, which young people continue to face in the post-apartheid labour ma...
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Altman, M. (2009) Tshwane Centre of Excellence on Employment Creation strategic interventions to support youth employability. (November).
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Altman, M. (2009) Youth employability. (Paper presented to the Department of Higher Education, 30 November).
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Altman, M. (2009) Youth employment: challenges and opportunities. (Paper presented to the Tshwane Youth Development Unit Induction & Strategic Planning Workshop, 23 May).
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Altman, M. & Potgieter-Gqubule, F. (2009) Youth population scenarios: phase 1: the status of youth: overview of phase 1 theme papers. (Commissioned by the Department of Social Development, December).
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The theme papers are aimed at providing a foundation for understanding the situation of the post-apartheid generations of youth, aspects of the policy context and the major issues which will influence how the South African demographic transition will
unfold over the next decade or so. These papers are meant to stimulate discussion, and hopefully at the end of the process, provide some guide to...
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Altman, M. (2008) Administered prices study on economic inputs: ports, rail, water: executive summary. (March).
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This report examines the prices of goods and services provided by entities owned by the South African government in water, rail and ports. Prices in these three sectors are referred to as 'administered' due to the public ownership of the entities providing them. Furthermore, each sector provides important economic inputs for firms and consumers in the rest of the economy. Their pricing conduct ...
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Altman, M. (2008) Centre for Poverty, Employment and Growth (CPEG): overview 2008/09 and going forward. (Paper presented to Oxford Graduate Students, October).
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Altman, M. (2008) Comment on Eskom's proposal for price increase in 2008/9. (Paper presented 26 May).
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Altman, M. & Ngandu, S. (2008) Dynamic and follower sectors. (March).
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This paper outlines some of the policy choices that need consideration in promoting the deepening and expansion of dynamic traded goods and services. The specific focus of this paper is to identify how sectors that are typically thought of as "follower" with low potential for productivity growth, might become "leader" or "dynamic" sectors.
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Altman, M. & Marock, C. (2008) Employability of school leavers. (September).
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Altman, M. (2008) Foreword. In: Lorentzen, J. (ed). Resource intensity knowledge and development: insights from Africa and South America. Cape Town: HSRC Press. ix-xi.
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Altman, M. (2008) Formal-informal economy linkages. (Commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Science and Technology, March).
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The persistence of high levels of unemployment, poverty and inequality are widely recognised as major socio-economic challenges for South Africa. The informal economy is often seen as an important component in expanding economic participation. However, the conceptualisation of what this practically means is not always played out. The expansion of the informal economy can have a positive effect ...
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Altman, M. & Burns, J. (2008) Getting incentives right: the role of wage and employment subsidies and job search assistance programmes in reducing youth unemployment. (August).
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Altman, M., Davies, R., Mather, A., Fleming, D. & Harris, H. (2008) The impact of electricity price increases and rationing on the South African economy. (Final report to the National Electricity Response Team (NERT), Economic Impact Task Team, July).
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This report assesses the economic impact of electricity cuts on the South African economy. The study investigates the potential economic impact of differently distributed pricing or rationing options aimed at reducing peak electricity usage and electricity consumption. More specifically, the objective was to:- Assess the economy-wide impact of a reduction in electricity use of up to 10%, diffe...
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Altman, M. Nersa urged to stagger power hikes. Business Day. 2. (28 May 2008)
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Altman, M. (2008) Overview 2008/09, and going forward..... (Paper presented to the Oxford Grad Students, October).
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Altman, M. & Boyce, G. (2008) Policy options to leverage the system of social grants for improved access to economic opportunity. (February).
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This study identifies possible policy options to increase economic participation amongst social grant beneficiary households. It is assumed that the majority of participants would work it they could and that a minority would shirk.
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Altman, M. & Boyce, G. (2008) Policy options to leverage the system of social grants for improved access to economic opportunity. Paper 2: policy instruments and options. (February).
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This study identifies possible policy options to increase economic participation amongst social grant beneficiary households. It is assumed that the majority of participants would work it they could and that a minority would shirk.
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Altman, M. & Burns, J. (2008) Reducing youth unemployment in South Africa: where to intervene?. (August).
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Altman, M. (2008) Reviewing the question. HSRC Review. 6(1):20-21.
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Altman, M. (2008) Revisiting South African employment trends in the 1990s. South African Journal of Economics. 76(2):March.
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This article revisits South African employment trends recorded since 1995. In particular, it investigates whether the job losses and gains recorded by the October Household Survey jobs in the mid-1990s reflect the reality. This is done by comparing the different official data sets, and by exploring alternative sources of information for three sectors that substantially influenced this trend, na...
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Altman, M. & Hemson, D. (2008) The role of expanded public works programmes in halving unemployment. (February).
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This paper reviews the impact of EPWP on unemployment to date. The paper then looks to its contribution in future, particularly in the context of government's commitment to halving unemployment and poverty by 2014. Some of the challenges in scaling up to meet unemployment targets are outlined.
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Altman, M. (2008) Time to mobilise frustrated jobless youth. HSRC Review. 6(3):19-20.
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The recent attacks have been described as 'xenophobic' but should really be seen as an expression of frustration. It was a matter of time before large groups of angry marginalised people acted out, says Miriam Altman.
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Altman, M. (2007) 2030 horizon scanning in South Africa: domestic economy. (Commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID), United Kingdom, September).
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No abstract available due to confidential status.
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Altman, M. (2007) Commentary on labour force participation rates. (August).
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic has caused many to believe that the labour force might stagnate or shrink. This might be a realistic assumption in the context of very high rates of infection amongst young women in particular. However, this is an explanation potentially given by a demographer, not a labour market economist. There are many reasons why labour force participation rates might still grow in...
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Altman, M. (2007) Employment scenarios to 2024. (September).
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Unemployment and low levels of economic participation are amongst the greatest challenges facing South African society, economy and therefore government. In this light, the South African government has adopted targets of halving unemployment and poverty by 2014. This would reduce unemployment from about 26% in 2004 to 13% in 2014. This paper assembles a set of possible scenarios for 2024, on th...
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Altman, M. (2007) An employment strategy framework: reducing poverty through scalable job creation. (A paper prepared for the Jobs for Growth Programme of ASGI-SA, April).
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Altman, M. (2007) Evidence-based employment scenarios. Service Delivery Review. 6(1):24.
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This article explains the role of the Employment, Growth and Development Initiative (EGDI) as part of the focus on employment policy. It explains that if government is committed to halving unemployment and poverty this unit will be checking the targets and see to it that the target is met.
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Altman, M. (2007) Evidence-based employment scenarios for South Africa: preliminary findings. (Paper presented to Brookings, 16 April).
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Altman, M. (2007) Evidence-based employment scenarios for South Africa: preliminary findings. (Paper presented to the World Bank, 17 April).
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Altman, M. (2007) Making Alexandra work. Urban Age. 5:5-6.
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Altman, M. (2007) Policy options to leverage the system of social grants for improved access to economic opportunity: executive summary. (December).
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The system of grants offers a powerful instrument that can be leveraged. The state reaches 11 million individuals once per month through a trusted source that reliably gives them money. This may enhance the efficacy of any intervention, it will also enable monitoring and evaluation of any intervention, since beneficiaries have a strong incentive to stay in the system.
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Altman, M. (2007) Public policy in an unequal society: the case of South Africa. (Paper presented to the ILO, 12 April).
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Altman, M. (2007) What are the policy implications of the 'informal sector' becoming the 'informal economy'?. (Paper presented at the IZA/WB Conference on Employment & Development, Bonn, Germany, 8-9 June).
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Altman, M. (2007) Youth labour market challenges in South Africa. (September).
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This paper identifies some labour market challenges facing South African youth. It aims to promote debate as part of the HSRC's Youth Initiative. In South Africa, youth are twice as likely to be unemployed, with 58% of young people aged 15-19 and 50% aged 20-24 unemployed in 2005. However, the South African concept of 'youth' (15-34 years old) might not be very helpful to a discussion about la...
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Altman, M. (2006) Background to employment scenarios. (August).
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Altman, M. (2006) Elements of employment scenario building: how do sources of job creation matter?. (October).
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Altman, M. (2006) Elements of scenario building: do sources of job creation matter?. (November).
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Altman, M. (2006) The employment puzzle: understanding employment & unemployment in SA. (Presentation to the World Bank, 1 March).
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Altman, M. (2006) Identifying employment-creating sectors in South Africa: the role of services industries. Development Southern Africa. 23(5):627-647.
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This paper explores scenarios for employment creation, with an emphasis on services. It considers whether the government?s current policies for the formal services sector will achieve its 2014 target of halving unemployment. New employment has mainly been found in the formal and non-formal services, and future employment will probably come from such sectors as business services,
trade, finance...
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Altman, M. & Valodia, I. (2006) Introduction: Where to for the South African labour market? Some 'big issues'. Transformation. 60:1-5.
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Altman, M. (2006) Labour markets & work places: the case of Alex's labour force. (Paper presented at the Urban Age Conference, Johannesburg, 608 July).
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Altman, M. (2006) Low wage work in South Africa. (Paper presented to IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment & Development, Berlin, Germany, 25 - 27 May).
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This paper offers some initial thoughts about the emerging character of the `working poor? in South Africa, and the implications for economic policy. The theme is particularly relevant for economies whose cost structures are not well aligned to promoting meaningful economic participation.
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Altman, M. (2006) Setting targets for unemployment reduction and employment creation. (November).
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Altman, M. (2006) Wage determination in South Africa: what do we know?. Transformation. 60:58-89.
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Altman, M., Du Toit, R., Sephiri, T. & Kaiser Associates, (2005) Employment through government procurement. (Prepared for the DG Economic & Employment Cluster and the DG Social Cluster, March).
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Altman, M. (2005) Project overview: leveraging services for the growth, employment and equity. (Prepared for the DG Economic & Employment Cluster and the DG Social Cluster, March).
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Altman, M. (2005) Research gaps: labour market function and policy in South Africa. (Final report to SIDA, October).
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Altman, M., Van der Heijden, T. & Mayer, M. (2005) Review of data on trade in services. (Report prepared for the PCAS, Office of the Presidency, Commissioned and funded by German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), 28 April).
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Altman, M., Gostner, K., Lee, D., Tregenna, F., van der Heijden, T. & Onyango, D. (2005) Review of employment & remuneration trends for selected sectors in the SA economy. (Report prepared for the PCAS, Office of the Presidency, April).
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Altman, M. (2005) A review of labour markets in South Africa: references. (Commissioned by SIDA, October).
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Altman, M. (2005) A review of labour markets in South Africa: research gaps: labour market function and policy in South Africa. (Commissioned by SIDA, October).
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Altman, M. (2005) A review of labour markets in South Africa: wage trends and dynamics in South Africa. (Commissioned by SIDA, October).
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Wage formation is a highly sensitive affair. It lies at the heart of a power play between workers and employers, who are always jockeying for position. Wages play an important role in the broader economy from both efficiency and equity perspectives.
As part of a broader labour market review, this paper considers the state of knowledge on wage determination in South Africa (SA).
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Altman, M., van der Heijden, T., Mayer, M. & Lewis, G. (2005) A review of trade in services. (April).
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The flow of trade in services is notoriously difficult to measure, and therefore it is difficult to identify what role it is playing in driving growth and competitiveness in the SA economy. This report therefore reviews the official data on trade in services and compares it to other available sources of information to get a sense of the extent to which the official data might be reflecting the ...
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Altman, M. & Woolard, I. (2004) Employment & unemployment trends in South Africa 1995-2002. (April).
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Altman, M. (2004) Eskom's pricing proposal. (Paper presented to NERSA Public Hearings, Unisa, 27 May).
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Altman, M., Mayer, M., Woolard, I., Du Toit, R., Zuma, K. & Phakathi, S. (2004) Framework for evaluating the expanded public works programme. (Commissioned by the Department of Public Works, April).
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The purpose of this report is to set out a framework for evaluating the impact of the EPWP. The monitoring framework is provided in a separate document. It is important to highlight, at the outset, that the development of a monitoring and evaluation framework for the EPWP prior to its implementation represents best practice both internationally and within national government.
The report provid...
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Altman, M. (2004) Halving unemployment?. HSRC review. 2(3):8-9.
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Altman, M. (2004) Leveraging services for growth, employment and equity. Sisebenza Sonke. 3(2):1-22.
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South Africa has become a services economy. About 70% of GDP and 67% of total employment was generated by services in 2002. Critically, the services sector is growing faster than the primary or secondary sectors. Services grew by an average 3% per annum between 1994 and 2001, against an annual average of 2.4 % for the entire economy.
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Altman, M. & Lee, D. (2004) Meeting equity targets: are there enough graduates?. (January).
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For the purpose of reaching equity targets, a number of sectors have expressed concern that the higher education sector may not be offering sufficient supply of black graduates. This brief offers some baseline data to identify the possible pool learners and graduates from previously disadvantaged groups, from which industry might source its future employees. The information is sourced from HEMI...
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Altman, M. Steps to keep pace with job needs. Cape Times. (26 November 2004)
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Altman, M. (2003) Jobless or job creating growth?: some preliminary thoughts. (Paper presented at the TIPS/DPRU Annual Forum, 8-10 September).
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From a policy perspective, employment depends on both economic growth and the labour-absorption capacity of the economy. Policy must target both of these. Higher growth rates can be achieved through productivity improvements (technology, industry restructuring, improved know-how, etc.) and/or growth in domestic or foreign market demand. Higher growth rates are difficult to achieve, and do not ...
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Altman, M. & Mayer, M. (2003) Overview of industrial policy. In Human resources development review 2003: education, employment and skills in South Africa. Human Sciences Research Council Cape Town: HSRC Press. 64-85.
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This chapter analyses the impact of industrial policy on the demand for labour. Its shows that South Africa?s industrial development has historically been driven by minerals extraction and import-substitution industrialisation, overlaid by apartheid policies aimed at excluding the majority of the population from the economy. This entrenched a growth path characterised by capital-intensive prod...
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Altman, M. (2003) The state of employment and unemployment in South Africa. In State of the nation: South Africa 2003-2004. Daniel, J., Habib, A. & Southall, R. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 158-183.
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This chapter outlines the experience of employment, under employment and unemployment, and then moves on to explain possible causes and policy implications.
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Altman, M. (2002) KwaZulu-Natal economic review. (November).
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This national context both explains the structural changes that are emerging within the KZN economy and creates the parameters within which a provincial-level industrial strategy can be framed.
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Altman, M.A. (2004) The state of employment. In State of the nation: South Africa 2004-2005. Daniel, J., Southall, R. & Lutchman, J. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 423-454.
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Altman, M.A., Mayer, M.J. & Tregenna, F. (2003) Employment and basic needs: a framework for job creation in construction, social services and food. (Paper presented to the Economic and Social Cluster).
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Altman, M.A., Mayer, M.J. & Tregenna, F. (2003) Overview of services industries in South Africa. (Paper prepared for the Services Sub-committee of the DG's Economic and Employment Cluster).
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Altman, M.A., Mayer, M., Steyn, G, Roberts, S., Slater, D., Gostner, K., Letlape, L.M., Daniels, R., Meyer, L., Rowe Setz, J., Liddell, D. & Dreyer, L. (2003) Promotion of secondary industrial development & clustering in Mpumalanga stainless steel & chemical cluster: research report. (Prepared for the Department of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mpumalanga Province March 2003).
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Altman, M.A. & Mayer, M.J. (2003) Sector strategies for employment creation: construction, social services and food. (Paper presented at the TIPS/DPRU FORUM 2003, The Challenge of Growth and Poverty: the South African Economy Since Democracy, 8-10 September 2003, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg).
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High and growing rates of unemployment have been a source of great frustration to policy-makers. Although exports have been buoyant and the 1990s has been the first decade of sustained growth, unemployment has been rising by 2 percentage points each year. If the expanded definition is used, the rate of unemployment reached 41.8% in September 2002. In a context where the majority of the unemploy...
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Altman, M.A., Mayer, M.J., Woolard, I.D., Mini, S.E., Vass, J.R., du Toit, R. & Roodt, J. (2003) Strategic review of the Eastern Cape's labour market. (Client report: Eastern Cape Development Corporation. December 2003).
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Altman, M.A. (2002) Employment policy in a minerals economy. In The urgency of full employment. Carlson, E. & Michell, W. (eds). Sydney: CAER-UNSW. 245-263.
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Amoateng, A., Kalule-Sabiti, I. & Lucas, D. (2004) South Africa's human capital in the 1990s. Applied population and policy. 1(2):123-131.
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The unsatisfactory human capital situation in South Africa in the 1990s is reflected by several indicators, notably the high unemployment rates of the African majority and their poor education relative to that the white minority. Much of the data used comes from the 1996 census, the first enumeration to be held after the dismantling of apartheid. African males and females, and especially thos...
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Amoateng, A.Y. & Heaton, T.B. (eds). (2007) Families and households in post-apartheid South Africa: socio-demographic perspectives. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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We know that the structures of families and of households have changed in recent decades and that this has had a profound affect on public policy planning and service delivery in South Africa. The institution of the family interfaces with other social institutions in any society, therefore stands to reason that the political, social and economic transformations resulting through colonialism and...
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Amoateng, A.Y. (2007) Harnessing traditional governance in Southern Africa. (Commissioned by the Economic Commission for Africa, Southern Africa Office, November).
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The context and rationale for this study are the current democratization process and commitment to good governance on the African continent. Against the background of democratization in Africa, traditional forms of authority have come back into the spotlight of interest, especially with respect to the role of chiefs as an intermediary between the state and the citizen. The current opportunities...
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Amoateng, A.Y., Heaton, T.B. & Kalule-Sabiti, I. (2007) Living arrangements 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. 43-60.
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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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Amoateng, A.Y., Kalule-Sabiti, I. & Narayanan, P. (2007) Substance use and sexual behaviour among African adolescents in the North West province of South Africa. African Journal of Drug and Alcohol Studies. 6(1):27-38.
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The relationship between substance use and sexual behaviour is examined using a sample of African high school students in the North West Province of South Africa. Even though the rate of substance use was generally low compared to other groups that have been studied elsewhere in the country, male and older adolescents were much more likely than female and younger
adolescents to use alcohol and...
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Amoateng, A.Y. (2007) Towards a conceptual framework for families and households. In: Amoateng, A.Y. & Heaton, T.B. (eds). Families and households in post-apartheid South Africa: socio-demographic perspectives. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 27-42.
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Amoateng, A.Y., Barber, B.K. & Erickson, L.D. (2006) Family predictors of adolescent substance use: the case of high school students in the Cape Metropolitan area, Cape Town, South Africa. Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. 18(1):7-15.
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Family predictors of tobacco and alcohol use were studied in random samples of school-going Black, Coloured, and White adolescents (total N=1,800) in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area. The subjects ranged in age from 14 to 17 years, with a mean age of 15.95 years. Logistic regression analysis of the data showed invariance across the three racial groups in terms of the specific family variables th...
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Amoateng, A.Y. Home truths about living and loving in South Africa, Healther Downie. The Star. 3. (6 June 2006)
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Amoateng, A.Y., Richter, L.M., Makiwane, M. & Rama, S. (2004) Describing the structure and needs of families in South Africa: towards the development of a national policy framework for families. (Commissioned by the National Department of Social Development, Pretoria, South Africa, September).
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Amoateng, A.Y., Kalule-Sabiti, I. & Ditlopo, P. (2003) Analysing cross-sectional data with time-dependent covariates: the case of age at first birth in South Africa. Journal of biosocial science. 35:353-367.
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Analysing time-dependent independent variables requires the use of process-oriented statistical models. Yet social scientists, especially those in poor countries, have often had to use data collected at a single point in time, making their task difficult. Making several assumptions about the covariates, the present study uses survival analysis and other statistical techniques to analyse the 1...
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Amoateng, A.Y. & Richter, L.M. (2003) The family-politics connection: the implications of the role of dynastic families for governance in the modern African political system. (Paper presented at the CNRS Workshop. Paris, France, 21-29 October).
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Amoateng, A.Y. (2003) Preventing substance abuse among rural African-American and South African youths. Challenges and opportunities of cross-cultural collaboration. (Presented at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Conference on the Southern African Initiative, Cape Town, South Africa, July 1-4).
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Amoateng, A.Y. & Richter, L. (2003) The state of families in South Africa. In State of the nation: South Africa 2003-2004. Daniel, J., Habib, A. & Southall, R. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 242-267.
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The aim in this chapter is to assess the state of the family in South Africa, a task motivated by the watershed democratic transition in 1994. Given the complexity and the multi-dimensional nature of families, four crucial aspects of family life were selected for examination based on secondary analysis of the 1996 population census data and other anecdotal sources. The features of family life...
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Amoateng, Y. & Makoae, M. (2007) Harnessing traditional governance in Southern Africa. (Submitted to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Southern Africa Regional Office, Lusaka, Zambia, October).
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Amoateng, Y. (2007) Traditional leadership: gone and forgotten?. HSRC Review. 5(4):8-9.
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The debate about the relevance of traditional leadership and governance has displayed the glaring absence of factual information so sorely needed to inform public policy with regard to the role of this institution. New evidence has emerged that could further inform discussions on this topic.
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Amoateng, Y. (2006) Chieftaincy and royalty in Ghana: are we throwing away the baby with the bathwater?. www.ghanaweb.com. 16 October:
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Amoateng, Y. (2006) On marrying, mixing and everything else: the changing face of family life in South Africa. HSRC review. 4(2):4-5.
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Amoateng, Y. (2005) Taking the measure of scouting in Gambia. HSRC review. 3(3):14.
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The Africa regional office of the World Scout Bureau, based in Nairobi, Kenya, has designed a leadership training project that it plans to implement in Burundi, Ethiopia, Gambia, Mauritius, Niger and South Africa. The aim is to build the capacity of the national Scout organisations so they benefit their local communities. YAW AMOATENG describes his first trip to Gambia in August
2005 as part ...
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Amoateng, Y. Tying the rainbow knot. Mail & Guardian. 11. (10 September 2004)
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This article focuses on more and more South Africans marrying partners outside their own racial group.
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Anderson, B.A., Romani, J.H., Wentzel, M. & Phillips, H.E. (2008) Recycling behavior among urban South Africans: the role of race and social status. (Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 3 April).
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Anderson, B.A., Romani, J.H., Phillips, H., Wentzel, M. & Tlabela, K. (2007) Exploring environmental perceptions, behaviors and awareness: water and water pollution in South Africa. Population and Environment. 28:133-161.
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Understanding the relationship among perceptions, behaviors and awareness of environmental initiatives is important for both policy makers and social scientists. There is, however, limited consensus among scholars as to the reasons for differences and similarities among ethnic and socio-economic groups in their environmentally-related attitudes and behaviors. South Africa, which has establish...
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Anderson, B.A., Romani, J.H., Phillips, H.E., Wentzel, M. & Tlabela, K. (2007) Exploring environmental perceptions, behaviors and awareness: water and water pollution in South Africa. (Poster presented at the Annual Population Association of America Meeting, New York, 31 March).
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Anderson, B.A., Romani, J.H., Phillips, H.E., Wentzel, M. & Tlabela, K. (2006) Exploring perceptions, behaviors and awareness: water and water pollution in South Africa. (University of Michigan, Population Studies Centre Research Report series, report no 06-596).
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Anderson, B.A. (2003) Fertility, poverty and gender in South Africa: paper 2. In Fertility: the current South African issues of poverty, HIV/AIDS & Youth: seminar proceedings. Child, Youth and Family Development Research Programme Cape Town: HSRC Publishers. 27-56.
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This paper examines the history of the level and trend of fertility in South Africa in a comparative context. It considers how current fertility levels relate to people's fertility desires. Since people want surviving children rather than simply live births, it also examines the level of, and factors related to, infant survival. Household arrangements and the welfare of children are then exa...
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Anderson, B.A. & van Zyl, J.A. (2002) The use of population projections to assess the impact and consequences of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: considerations and recommendations.. (Report prepared for SAHA, HSRC).
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Anderson, B.A., Romani, J.H., Phillips, H.E. & van Zyl, J.A. (2000) Safe water, access to health care and other factors affecting infant and child survival under African and coloured populations in South Africa. (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles 24 March 2000).
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Andrews, G. (2007) Putting research into policy and practice through partnership building, networking and information dissemination: the role of the SAHARA network. In: Prince, B., Louw, J., Roe, K. & Adams, R. (eds). Exploring the challenges of HIV/AIDS: seminar proceedings. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 2-5.
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Andrews, G., Skinner, D. & Zuma, K. (2006) Epidemiology of health and vulnerability among children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS care. 18(3):269-276.
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa has already orphaned a generation of children, and it is projected that by 2010, 18 million African children under the age of 18 are likely to be orphans from this single cause (UNICEF, 2005, The state of the Worlds Children: Childhood under threat . New York: UNICEF). Results from a Kellogg funded OVC project (Skinner et al., 2004, Definition of orph...
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Annecke, W.J. (2003) One man, one megawatt, one women one candle: women, gender, and energy in South Africa. Energia news. 6 (1):6-8.
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This is a brief overview of the history, over the last hundred years, of women and gender in the energy sector of South Africa. South Africa is a society where race has overruled any other category of social organisation and is thus the key in accessing privileges and resources, and so attention has to be paid to race as well as to gender.
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Arends, F. & Phurutse, M. (2009) Beginner teachers in South Africa: school readiness, knowledge and skills. (Teacher Education in South Africa Series). Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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Despite a strong emphasis on teacher education and development in post-apartheid South Africa, statistics show a low retention of beginner teachers in the teaching profession. This trend has serious implications for learner outcomes, given the contribution teachers can and should make to learner achievement.
Beginner Teachers in South Africa is the first wide-scale study of teachers in the f...
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Arends, F. (2006) Methodological issues in measuring learner flow-through in the education system. In Marking matric: colloquium proceedings. Reddy, V. (ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 90-106.
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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).
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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...
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Arends, F., Paterson, A., van Zyl, J. & Kok, P. (2003) Research project to support the five-year plan for the provision of school infrastructure: Mpumalanga Province. (Paper presented at the Mpumalanga Provincial Dept. of Education, Nelspruit, 13 November 2003).
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Asmal, K & James, W. (eds). (2002) Spirit of the nation: reflections on South Africa's educational ethos. Cape Town: New Africa Education.
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Asmal, K., Chidester, D.S. & James, W. (2003) Introduction. In Nelson Mandela: Fom freedom to the future: Tributes and speeches. Asmal, K., Chidester, D.S. & James, W. (eds). Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. xvii-xxvii.
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This is an introduction to the book, Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tributes and speeches, as a gift to Nelson Mandela on his 85th birthday, 18 July 2003.
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Asmal, K., Chidester, D. & James, W. (eds). (2003) Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future: tribute and speeches. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
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Asmal, K. & James, W. (2002) Editors' introduction. In Spirit of the nation: reflections on South Africa's educational ethos. Asmal, K. & James, W. (eds). Cape Town: New Africa Education. xii-xviii.
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Asmal, K. & James, W. (2002) Education and democracy in South Africa. In: Asmal, K. & James, W. (eds). Spirit of the nation: reflections on South Africa's educational ethos. Cape Town: New Africa Education. 174-189.
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Atkinson, D. (2007) Going for broke: the fate of farm workers in arid South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
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South African agriculture has always been ideologically contested, because of its relationship with controversial land ownership issues. This book takes the question of farm workers? fortunes beyond the land debate, to consider their current and future livelihoods. The book argues that the question of farm workers needs to be understood as part of a broader spectrum of economic and social quest...
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Atkinson, D., Zingel, J., Meyer, M. & Goldman, I. (2004) Beyond schedules 4 & 5. (Submitted to the Department of Provincial and Local Government, 24 May, Pretoria).
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This report is a review of schedules 4 & 5 of the Constitution, phase II.
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Atkinson, D. (2003) CMIP and LEDF: monitoring and evaluation. (Commissioned by the CMIP and LEDF).
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Atkinson, D., Buso, N., Pienaar, D., van Schalwyk, C., Simes, P. & Lekhanya, T. (2003) Evaluation of service delivery: Colesberg. (Submission to the Presidential Review, May).
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This paper discusses the service delivery of Colesberg, in the Northern Cape Province.
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Atkinson, D., Van der Watt, T. & Fourie, W. (2003) Hologram project: role of district municipalities. (Commissioned by the Eden District Municipality, September).
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The relationship between district-level and local-level municipalities has changed significantly since the introduction of Regional Services Councils in 1984. Since December 2000, additional issues and arguments have been heard, which may potentially change the face of municipal government quite profoundly. Consequently, it is necessary to review the past and current practices, to assess the ...
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Atkinson, D., Pienaar, D., van Schalkwyk, C., du Plessis, R. & Wellman, G. (2003) Life on the farm: shifting social and moral foundations of the farming community, October.
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The main purpose of this study was to determine farmers' and farm workers' preferences with regards to on-farm and off-farm residential choices. The underlying reason for this is that service delivery, in a context of limited budgets, needs to be targeted toe either on-farm or off-farm residential areas.
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Atkinson, D., Buso, N., Pienaar, D. & Makgoba, S. (2003) Municipal administrative restructuring in non-metropolitan areas: final report. (Report to the South African Local Government Society and US Agency for International Development, April).
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Three themes are addressed here:
(1) The restructuring of municipal head offices, and the achievement of strategic planning and inter-departmental co-operation at this level
(2) The role of outlying offices (satellite towns) in promoting community-based development
(3) Relationships between municipalities and their residents (i.e. client service).
The concrete innovations described in this ...
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Atkinson, D. (2003) Post-apartheid local government reforms: a small town perspective. (Occasional papers). Johannesburg: Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE).
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Atkinson, D., Abrahams, D., Buso, N., Goldman, I., Makgoba, S., Meyer, M., Mokgoro, J., Olivier, J., Pienaar, D., Reitzes, M.N., Roefs, M.M.I. & Wiechers, M. (2003) Review of schedules 4 & 5 of the constitution, Volume 2, 29 March 2003. (Report to the Department of Provincial and Local Government).
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Atkinson, D., Abrahams, D., Buso, N., Goldman, I., Makgoba, S., Meyer, M., Mokgoro, J., Olivier, J., Pienaar, D., Reitzes, M.N., Roefs, M.M.I. & Wiechers, M. (2003) Review of schedules 4 and 5 of the constitution: executive summary. (Report for the Department of Provincial and Local Government).
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Atkinson, D. (2003) The state of local government: third-generation issues. In State of the nation: South Africa 2003-2004. Daniel, J., Habib, A. & Southall, R. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 118-138.
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The South African local government sphere has seen vast changes since 1990. During this tumultuous periods, a phase of community-based resistance was followed by a complete redesign of local government. The heady period of constitutional negotiations (1992-1996) has been followed by a more businesslike concern with municipal delivery, especially to address questions of poverty, infrastructure...
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Atkinson, D. & Pienaar, D.J. (2003) Thinking global acting local: NEPAD and local government. (Paper presented to the NEPAD and Civil Society in Africa, Electoral Institute of South Africa, 25-26 May 2003, Rose bank, South Africa).
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Atkinson, D. (2002) Institutional and stakeholder analysis: local, provincial and national level. (Report submitted to Department for International Development).
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Atkinson, D., Akharwaray, N. & Benseler, A. (2002) Linking Integrated Development Plans (IDP's) to municipal budgets. (Local Government Support and Learning Network ( LOGOSUL) Department for Local Government and Housing Northern Cape November 2002).
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Atkinson, D. (2002) Local government, local governance and sustainable development: getting the parameters right. (Integrated Rural and Regional Development Research Programme, Occasional paper no. 4). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
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An examination of the transformation of South Africa's apartheid local government system into a development-oriented system of municipal governance, requiring, however, continuing short and long-term interventions on the part of both the central and provincial governments if it is to deliver its desired outputs.
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Atkinson, D. (2002) Municipal capacity building: a framework. (Submitted to the European Union).
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Atkinson, D., McIntosh, A., Smith, K. & de Visser, J. (2002) A passion to govern: Third-generation issues facing local government in South Africa. (Report for the Centre for Development and Enterprise).
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Atkinson, D., Naidoo, V.N. & Reitzes, M.N. (2002) Review of DPLG donor co-ordination and management. (Client report for the Department of Provincial and Local Government).
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Atkinson, D. (2000) Local government in intergovernmental relations:the Northern Cape. In Democracy and governance review: Mandela's legacy 1994-1999. Muthien, Y.G., Khosa, M.M. & Magubane, B. (eds). Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. 119-150.
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The Northern Cape is one of the new provinces created by the 1993 interim Constitution. As such, it began with certain disabilities: the lack of an established provincial administration, the need to consolidate provincial governance in a newly defined area, and an untested revenue base. A further difficulty was the degree of politicisation in the local and provincial government sphere due to th...
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Avalos, L.A., Mertens, J.R., Ward, C.L., Flisher, A.J., Bresick, G.F. & Weisner, C.M. (2009) Stress, substance use and sexual risk behaviors among primary care patients in Cape Town, South Africa. AIDS and Behavior. Online:
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We assessed the relationship between stress, substance use and sexual risk behaviors in a primary care population in Cape Town, South Africa. A random sample of participants (and over-sampled 18-24-year-olds) from 14 of the 49 clinics in Cape Town's public health sector using stratified random sampling (n = 2,618), was selected. We evaluated current hazardous drug and alcohol use and three doma...
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Ayo-Yusuf, O., Peltzer, K. & Mufamadi, J. (2006) Traditional healers' perceptions of smokeless tobacco use and health in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Substance use & misuse. 41(2):1-12.
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