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Factors affecting caregivers' perceptions of the mode of transport for school going children in rural areas : a case study of Emmaus area.
(2005)The role transport plays in enabling people access to services is very important. However, transport for school going children in rural areas has not been given much attention. Transport programmes aimed at improving access ... -
Factors affecting maternal health seeking behaviour in a Yoruba community of Nigeria: an analysis of socio-cultural beliefs and practices.
(2019)The significance of mothers to the overall sustenance of maternal health care cannot be overemphasized, despite this fact, however, there is an increasing gap between the developed and the developing countries in terms of ... -
Factors influencing infant feeding practices of mothers living with HIV : a case study of Project Masihambisane.
(2016)This paper aims to explore the factors that influence infant feeding practices of HIV positive mothers who participated in Project Masihambisane. Secondary data analysis (data collected in 2012) was done to analyse and ... -
The family and formal education and the social functioning of the mentally disabled Indian child.
(1991)No abstract available. -
Focusing on caregivers: the experiences of women caregivers caring for orphans and vulnerable children at Crossroads Child and Youth Care Center, Matatiele.
(2019)The concept of caregiving is at the centre of current political, social, cultural and economic debates globally. Under capitalism, care and caregiving are socially necessary and integral to reproduction and production but ... -
Fragmented, frustrated and trapped : nurses in post-apartheid transition at King Edward VIII hospital, Durban.
(2000)This ethnographic study of nurses at King Edward VIII Hospital in Durban, South Africa was designed to seek insights into the lives of women as nurses during the socio-political transition of the 1990's. It suggests ... -
From paternalism to participation : evolving techniques of management control in the South African gold mining industry.
(1992)The South African gold mining industry has since its inception, relied on an authoritarian and paternalistic form of labour control. This inheritance is due to a number of reasons; the nature of the process of gold mining ... -
Gender and difference : a comparative case study of grade nine students from five schools in the greater Pietermaritzburg area.
(1999)South African society is characterised by race, class and gender inequality. Social inequality is at the root of individual social identity formation affecting how individuals feel, think and relate to others. This study ... -
Gender as a mechanism of social control amongst Black workers in the textile industry in the Durban metropolitan area.
(1988)No abstract available. -
Gender essentialism : a conceptual and empirical exploration of notions of maternal essence as a framework for explaining gender difference.
(2010)The study sought to explore gender essentialism conceptually and empirically, and to specifically examine the concept of maternal essence as a framework for explaining gender difference. Gender, gender difference, gender ... -
Gendered impact of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods among infected and affected farm households in a selected community in Koinadugu District, in Sierra Leone.
(2016)This study explores the impact of HIV and AIDS on farming households in Koinadugu District, Sierra Leone. There is a strong relationship between HIV/AIDS and nutrition; as poor nutrition reduces the immune system’s ability ... -
Global transformation of the contemporary labour market for merchant navy seafarers: case studies of Filipino, South African and British seafaring labour markets.
(2008)The central aim of this thesis is to investigate how and why labour markets are formed in specific ways under contemporary global capitalism. This thesis achieves this through a sociological analysis and explanatory ... -
Globalisation and consumption of material and symbolic goods by black Africans Zulu-English speakers in DMA : clothing and its power of symbolisation within popular culture.
(2005)This dissertation is an attempt to shed light on the impact that global cultural consumption has had in the transformation of perceptions of material and symbolic consumption in everyday life among urban black African ... -
Grade 9 students' accounts of conflicts and abuses in a formerly Indian school near Durban.
(2007)The aim of my study was to investigate the nature of possible conflicts between Grade nine learners. Focus group discussions were conducted with about forty learners; boys and girls, Black and Indian, aged between fourteen ... -
Health sector transformation : an investigation of community participation in public health policy formulation at a local level in Mpumuza, KwaZulu-Natal.
(2007)The basis of my study is the belief that governance of the local delivery of health could usefully include full and wide community representation and participation by the stakeholders and the larger community. The study ... -
A history of college libraries in the Transkei from 1882-1994.
(1999)This study is a brief history of college libraries in the former Transkei, from 1882 (the period of the missionaries) to 1994 (the year when Transkei was reincorporated into the Republic of South Africa). The history of ... -
Household structure as a determinant of infant mortality in South Africa.
(2002)Infant mortality rates are used as indicators of a group or population's well being. A high rate indicates poor access to social services such as health care provision, and other socioeconomic factors. Sub-Saharan Africa ... -
The impact of government and non-government organizations’ economic empowerment programmes with respect to poverty reduction and gender equality in Manonyane rural community in Lesotho between 2010 and 2015.
(2016)Poverty, unemployment and gender inequality remain huge global problems despite measures to eliminate the scourges. In Lesotho, poverty and unemployment are particularly endemic in the rural areas. Economic empowerment is ...