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Knowledge, Power, and Policy: Constructing a Political Economy of Innovation and Research in Post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa has long been a leader in scientific research and innovation on the African continent.
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Breaking the ice: how integrating cryogenic Electron Microscopy can overcome historical scientific isolation and enable local pharmaceutical and vaccine Development in South Africa.
With the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three pioneers in cryogenic electron microscopy, the world was awakened to the cutting-edge technology of 'cryo-EM'.
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Targeting alternative splicing for cancer therapy using South African medicinal plants and phytocompounds
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide including South Africa.
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Temporality and Technologies in South African Social Grant Life, 2020 and Beyond
In 2018, the South African government instituted a social assistance payment and registration system that it would administer through a public entity: the South African Post Office (SAPO).
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Money from nothing: popular economies and indebtedness in South Africa
This project explores the over-indebtedness of South African consumers, set against the longer history of exploitation of South African black people by the forces of capitalism, and interrogates how these currently manifest themselves in an allegedly ‘neoliberal’ social order.
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Towards understanding the dilemma of Food Security in the rural areas of South Africa
Although South Africa is food secure on a country level, large numbers of households within the country remain food insecure.
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Human skin pigmentation: Further studies of its evolution, biological consequences, and social meaning
Recent research on the topic explored the effects of skin pigmentation on human health and social well-being, and upcoming projects will focus on these aims.
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Towards a New Humanism
Why do we simply fail to establish a more human society in South Africa?
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Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa
Nustad, K. G., Brown, D., & Swanson, H. A. 2025. Bodies in Landscapes: Entanglements of trout and waters in South Africa. Environment an...
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Complexities and Challenges Affecting the Progress of Community Development in South Africa’s Changing Sociopolitical Landscape
Gray, Mel and Antoinette Lombard. 2024. Complexities and Challenges Affecting the Progress of Community Development in South Africa’s Changi...
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Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistributive Justice in South Africa
Zenker, Olaf, Cherryl Walker and Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel. (Eds.). 2024. Beyond Expropriation Without Compensation: Law, Land Reform and Redistrib...
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Can South Africa use Land-based Financing for Biodiversity Conservation?
Globally there are calls for incentives for biodiversity conservation, including the mobilization of financial resources to implement biodiversity targets effectively.
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Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Ownership in South Africa
Nustad, Knut G., Duncan Brown and Heather A. Swanson. 2023. Hatching Conflicts: Trout Reproduction, Properties of Water, and Property Owners...
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Revisiting fiscal deficit sustainability in South Africa
Ndoricimpa, Arcade. 2022. Revisiting fiscal deficit sustainability in South Africa. Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences. https:/...
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Threshold effects of public debt on economic growth in South Africa: an application of a regression kink with an unknown threshold
Ndoricimpa, Arcade. 2022. Threshold effects of public debt on economic growth in South Africa: an application of a regression kink with an u...
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The health impact of free access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa
Burger, Cobus, Ronelle Burger and Eddy van Doorslaer. 2022. The health impact of free access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa. Soci...
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Changing Inequalities in Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy by Income and Race in South Africa
Bredenkamp, Caryn, Ronelle Burger, Alyssa Jourdan and Eddy Van Doorslaer. 2021. Changing Inequalities in Health-Adjusted Life Expectancy by ...
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Who is more likely to return for TB test results? A survey at three high-burden primary healthcare facilities in Cape Town, South Africa
Burger, Ronelle, Judy Caldwell, Mareli Claassens, Khanya Mama, Pren Naidoo, Matthias Rieger, Laura Rossouw, Eddy van Doorslaer and Adam Wags...
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Trauma, vulnerability and mental health problems in South Africa and Sweden
Globally, mental illness is more responsible for extreme distress than poverty or unemployment, and, to compound the problem, mental illness interacts with poverty and unemployment in socially and economically impactful ways that create reinforcing cycles.
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The Anthropocene, the Climate Emergency and International Relations: Brazil and South Africa in a Changing World Order
The main objective of this project is the finalization of a monograph analysing the linkages between the anthropocene, climate change and International Relations.
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Understanding communities’ perceptions, demographics and uses of wetlands in Vhembe Biosphere Reserve, South Africa
Dalu, Mwazvita T. B., Onica Mukhuwana, Ross Cuthbert, Thomas Marambanyika, Ashley W. Gunter, Florence M. Murungweni and Tatenda Dalu. 2022. ...
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Are cardiovascular health measures heritable across three generations of families in Soweto, South Africa? A cross-sectional analysis using the random family method
Ware, Lisa J., Innocent Maposa, Andrea Kolkenbeck-Ruh, Shane A. Norris, Larske Soepnel, Simone Crouch, Juliana Kagura, Sanushka Naidoo, Wayn...
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Development from below? Islands of effectiveness or Enclaves in South Africa today.
What influence does living or working in a given area, an area delimited –even if informally - from its surroundings, have on those inside and those outside this distinct area?
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Land Reform and Rural Production in South Africa
The Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture (2019) argued that ‘land reform must be oriented around growing the agricultural sector to foster economic development, and not purely be an endeavour to transfer land’.
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The Responsive University and the Crisis in South Africa
Brink, Chris. (Ed.). 2021. Responsive University and the Crisis in South Africa. BRILL. https://brill.com/view/title/60379
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When Custom Divides “Community”: Legal Battles over Platinum in North West Province
Mnwana, Sonwabile. 2021. When Custom Divides “Community”: Legal Battles over Platinum in North West Province. In W. Beinart, R. Kingwill, &a...
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Politics of Language in COVID-19: Multilingual Perspectives from South Africa
Rudwick, Stephanie, Zameka Sijadu and Irina Turner. 2021. Politics of Language in COVID-19: Multilingual Perspectives from South Africa. Pol...
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Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa’s rural mining frontier
Mnwana, Sonwabile and Andrew Bowman. 2021. Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa’s rural mining frontier. The Extra...
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Redistribution and indebtedness: a tale of two settings
James, Deborah. 2020. Redistribution and indebtedness: a tale of two settings. In C. Hann & D. Kalb (Eds.), Financialization: Relational...
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Medicine Knowledge and Purchasing Behaviour in a South African Township: Lessons Learnt From a Pilot Study on Awareness of Substandard and Falsified Medical Products
Lui, Rui, Susanne Lundin, Thumakele Gosa, Elmi Muller, Paul Roviss Khambule and Anja Smith. 2020. Medicine Knowledge and Purchasing Behaviou...
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Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes risk in black Africans: a South African perspective
Goedecke, Julia H. and Tommy Olsson. 2020. Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes risk in black Africans: a South African perspective. Journal of I...
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Medicine Knowledge and Purchasing Behaviour in a South African Township: Lessons Learnt From a Pilot Study on Awareness of Substandard and Falsified Medical Products
Lui, Rui, Susanne Lundin, Thumakele Gosa, Elmi Muller, Paul R Khambule and Anja Smith, A. 2020. Medicine Knowledge and Purchasing Behaviour ...
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Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa
Posel, Dorrit, Mark Hunter and Stephanie Rudwick. 2020. Revisiting the prevalence of English: language use outside the home in South Africa....
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Health through human settlements: Investigating policymakers’ perceptions of human settlement action for population health improvement in urban South Africa
Weimann, Amy, Noxolo Kabane, Tracy Jooste, Anthony Hawkridge, Warren Smit and Tolu Oni. 2020. Health through human settlements: Investigatin...
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Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid blackness in South Africa
Ndlovu, Thabisani. 2020. Shuttling between the suburbs and the township: the new black middle class(es) negotiating class and post-apartheid...
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Occupational Health and Well-being in the Performing Arts in South Africa: The formation of an interdisciplinary Performing Arts Health network led by the universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria
This project aims to consolidate and develop a national Performing Arts Health network led by Stellenbosch University and the University of Pretoria for interdisciplinary scholarly activity in the field of performing arts health in South Africa.
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A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Interventions in South Africa, a Rapidly Urbanising Middle-Income Country
Weimann, Amy and Tolu Oni. 2019. A Systematised Review of the Health Impact of Urban Informal Settlements and Implications for Upgrading Int...
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Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa
Harris, Leila M. 2019. Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Af...
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The Health Impact of a Decade of Free ART Access in South Africa.
Burger, Cobus, Ronelle Burger and Eddy van Doorslaer. 2019. The Health Impact of a Decade of Free ART Access in South Africa. The Lancet. ht...
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TRACES D’AVENIR: Mémoires musicales et ré conciliation en Afrique du Sud
Denis-Constant Martin. 2008. TRACES D’AVENIR: Mémoires musicales et ré conciliation en Afrique du Sud. Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie, 22/2008: ...
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Hearing loss in a South African pediatric traumatically brain injured population: A record review and case study
C Penn, J Watermeyer and K Schie. 2009. Hearing loss in a South African pediatric traumatically brain injured population: A record review an...
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The Humanist Imperative in South Africa
John De Gruchy (editor). 2011. The Humanist Imperative in South Africa. SUN MeDIA.
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Food security in rural areas of Limpopo province, South Africa
N. De Cock, M. D’Haese, N. Vink, C. J. van Rooyen, L. Staelens, H. C. Schönfeldt and L. D’Haese. 2013. Food security in rural areas of Limpo...
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Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa
Ben Cousins. 2013. Smallholder Irrigation Schemes, Agrarian Reform and ‘Accumulation from Above and from Below’ in South Africa. Journal of ...
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Introduction: Agrarian Change, Rural Poverty and Land Reform in South Africa since 1994
Bridget O’Laughlin, Henry Bernstein, Ben Cousins and Pauline E. Peters. 2013. Introduction: Agrarian Change, Rural Poverty and Land Reform i...
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“Deeper into a Hole?” Borrowing and Lending in South Africa
Deborah James. 2014. “Deeper into a Hole?” Borrowing and Lending in South Africa. Current Anthropology, 55 (Supplement 9), S17-S29
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Money From Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa
Deborah James. 2014. Money From Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa. Stanford University Press (Palo Alto) and Wits Press (...
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“Incompleteness” and the Quest for Multiple Identities in South Africa
Lategan, Bernard. 2015. “Incompleteness” and the Quest for Multiple Identities in South Africa. Africa Sprectrum 50(3):81–107. http://journa...
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Strategies for Managing Complex Social-Ecological Systems in the Face of Uncertainty: Examples from South Africa and beyond
Biggs, Reinette Oonsie, Clint Rhode, Sally Archibald, Lucky Makhosini Kunene, Shingirirai S Mutanga, Nghamula Nkuna, Peter Omondi Ocholla, a...
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South Africa and the Human Right to Water: Equity, Ecology, and the Public Trust Doctrine
Takacs, David. 2016. South Africa and the Human Right to Water: Equity, Ecology, and the Public Trust Doctrine. Berkeley Journal of Internat...
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A Lithic Attribute Analysis on Blades from the Middle Stone Age Site, Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, South Africa
Högberg, Anders. 2016. A Lithic Attribute Analysis on Blades from the Middle Stone Age Site, Hollow Rock Shelter, Western Cape Province, Sou...
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South Africa and Japan: Maintaining a Difficult Friendship
Cornelissen, Scarlett. 2016. South Africa and Japan: Maintaining a Difficult Friendship. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 54(2):186–202. ...
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Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.”
Adam, Heribert. 2016. Beyond Shame: The Decline of the “Rainbow Nation.” Pp. 38–43 in Re-engaging the African Diasporas: Pan-Africanism in t...
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Variation in skin reflectance and pigmentation genes in young adults of Xhosa and Cape Mixed ancestry from the Western Cape, South Africa
Jablonski, Nina G., Tina Lasisi, Abhimanyu Abhimanyu, Anna K. Coussens, Celeste E. Naude, George Chaplin, Laurel N. Pearson, Rene Goliath, M...
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Kagisano
Higgins, John. (Ed.). 2017. Kagisano. Council on Higher Education (CHE). https://www.che.ac.za/media_and_publications/kagisano-series/kagisa...
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The Constitutional Court of South Africa and Affirmative Action
Bossuyt, Marc. 2017. The Constitutional Court of South Africa and Affirmative Action. In la [CVDW]. Liber Amicoorum Chris Van den Wyngaert. ...
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Living Together, Living apart? Social Cohesion in a Future South Africa
Ballantine, Christopher, Michael Chapman, Kira Erwin and Gerhard Maré. Eds. 2017. Living Together, Living apart? Social Cohesion in a Future...
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First trimester antenatal depression and anxiety: Prevalence and associated factors in an urban population in Soweto, South Africa
Redinger, S., S. A. Norris, R. M. Pearson, L. Richter, and T. Rochat. 2018. First trimester antenatal depression and anxiety: Prevalence and...
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On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effects in the case of South Africa
Müller, Moritz, Robin Cowan and Helena Barnard. 2018. On the value of foreign PhDs in the developing world: Training versus selection effect...
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Water Materialities and Citizen Engagement: Testing the Implications of Water Access and Quality for Community Engagement in Ghana and South Africa
Harris, Leila M., Danika Kleiber, Lucy Rodina, Sule Yaylaci, Jacqueline Goldin and Germaine Owen. 2018. Water Materialities and Citizen Enga...
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The rise and fall of mortality inequality in South Africa in the HIV era
Haal, Karel, Anja Smith and Eddy van Doorslaer. 2018. The rise and fall of mortality inequality in South Africa in the HIV era. SSM – Popula...
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The Café de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa
Hope, Christopher. 2018. The Café de Move-on Blues: In Search of the New South Africa. Penquin Random House South Africa. https://www.pengui...
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STIAS Series Volume 3: Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship and Identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada
Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship and Identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley SUN PRESS (2...
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Mineral Wealth and Distributive Struggles on the Platinum Belt, South Africa
This project explores distributive struggles on the platinum belt in South Africa.
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Urban informality and middle-class aspirations in South Africa and Kenya
This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards.
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Protein deficiency, sarcopenia and cardiometabolic risk in an older urban black South African population: A cross-sectional feasibility study
South Africa (SA) is a low-middle income country (LMIC) with an ageing population and increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD).
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After the Eruption: Reflections on Higher Education in South Africa
At this critical historical conjuncture in South Africa, at the very precipice of tumultuous social change, multiple forces converge onto the stage of higher education in South Africa.
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Deep learning network for South African birdsong and its wider implications on the concept of intelligence
We develop an operational convolutional neural network, that distinguishes 170 different South African birdsongs.
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Expertise and Public Participation in Government Policymaking: South Africa in Comparative Context
The fellowship at STIAS will build on my prior work on comparative administrative law dealing with public participation in policymaking.
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Promoting peace, security and development in Africa: challenges, and constraints to South Africa’s African Agenda
The purpose of this research project is to (further) explore aspects of South Africa’s African policy over the past two decades, specifically within the frameworks of its African Agenda and its white paper on foreign policy, The Diplomacy of Ubuntu.
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What Keeps Society Together? Societal Cohesion, South Africa as a Challenging Case.
My overall research interest is about societal cohesion, what keeps a society together.
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Many Modernities ‐ Religious freedom in South Africa and Sweden
In Europe with a history of religious wars and big national churches, freedom of religion is often understood as freedom from, at least from institutional religion.
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Making primary health care work for the poor
South Africa’s poor health outcomes have traditionally been attributed to poverty, unequal and ineffective spending and the high disease burden, but increasingly it is recognized that the public health system may also be contributing to such problems by delivering services that do not always conform to the stipulated standards.
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Nutritional Security in a Profitable and Sustainable Food System
The South African Food system is designed to ensure that the country’s population is well-nourished, that farming is a viable livelihood and that the environment is protected.
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Science and development: Growth, expansion and role of university systems in emerging economies
The challenge of economic growth for middle income countries includes technological upgrading, which, in turn, demands expansion and improvement of the higher education and science system.
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Understanding clinical quality of care in public primary health care facilities in South Africa
This study considers the reliability of a standardised client approach to inform policy makers about the quality of the clinical encounter at primary healthcare centres in the Western Cape and Eastern Cape metro areas.
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Contingency and Uncertainty: Working with and against the state in South Africa
This project asks the question: under what circumstances, with what political resources, and under what kinds of assumptions are women able to make claims on the state to address gender inequalities?
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Deeply equitable development: water provision and biodiversity offsetting in South Africa
Fulfilling human rights to a clean and healthy environment while sustaining that environment for present and future generations of humans and non-humans is unambiguously worthwhile until a nation tries to achieve these goals simultaneously.
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Food and nutrition security in rural communities
A book is being developed which takes into account multiple objectives of providing enough food at household and individual level, an acceptable monetary income and sustainable production under the constraints of limited access to resources (land, credit, water, technology, information, level of education and more), dependency on remittances and social security programs, and limited access to markets.
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The provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
How society chooses to use land and allocate resources drives economic development and environmental quality.
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Health transition and injury care and prevention
Apart from making important contributions to morbidity and mortality world-wide (WHO), injuries as a health problem have special characteristics (Byass et al.
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Ethnic differences in obesity-related complications in South African women
Obesity is closely linked the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D), a leading cause of death worldwide.
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Falls and related consequences in old age
Older populations are expanding all over the world.
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The Effects of Race
The STIAS Effects of Race project project will address major gaps in our knowledge on race thinking and racialism.
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The State of Mathematical Sciences Research and Research Training at South African Universities
This investigation follows up on two reports that appeared in 2008 and 2009.
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Towards designing and managing food security in South Africa: a critical analysis of a complex situation
While South Africa is food secure at a national level this is not the case for many households.
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mHealth for Burn Diagnostic and Care in South Africa
In resource-poor settings, poor and marginalised populations have little access to burn injury emergency care, which is crucial to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes.