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R2P and the Protection of Civilians: South Africa’s Perspective on Conflict Resolution

Author: Smith, Karen Date: Mar 2015 This briefing provides an overview of the South African government’s position on the protection of civilians within the context of the ‘responsibility to protect’ (R2P) framework. As South Africa lacks a clearly articulated policy on R2P, any ... Read more
Race and trust in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Burns, Justine Date: 28 May 2015 I examine the impact of racial identity on behavior in trust games played by White, Black and Colored high school students in South Africa. There is a systematic pattern of distrust towards Black partners, even by Black proposers, partially ... Read more
Race, class and inequality in the South African city

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2010 The 'apartheid city' in South Africa stands out as an extreme example of urban social engineering. Urban segregation was pervasive across the colonial world, some other cities in colonial and even post-colonial Africa were subject to massive ... Read more c b n d
Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2007 The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa.? The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under apartheid is that South Africa remains deeply ... Read more c b n d
Race, diversity and pro-social behaviour in a segmented society

Author: Burns, Justine Date: 28 May 2015 This paper examines the impact of racial identity on behavior in trust games played by public high school students in South Africa. There is a systematic pattern of distrust towards Black partners, even by Black proposers, partially attributable ... Read more
Race, inequality and urbanisation in the Johannesburg Region, 1946-1996

Author: Crankshaw, Owen ; Parnell, Susan Date: 2002 The city of Johannesburg lies at the heart of a sprawling metropolis. This metropolis, which we shall call the Johannesburg region, roughly corresponds with the boundaries of Gauteng Province.1 It stretches from Soshanguve in the north to ... Read more c b n d
Race, inequality and urbanisation in the Johannesburg Region, 1946-1996

Author: Crankshaw, Owen ; Parnell, Susan Date: 2002 The city of Johannesburg lies at the heart of a sprawling metropolis. This metropolis, which we shall call the Johannesburg region, roughly corresponds with the boundaries of Gauteng Province.1 It stretches from Soshanguve in the north to ... Read more c b n d
Racial and class discrimination in assessments of “just desert” in post-apartheid Cape Town

Author: Seekings, Jeremy Date: 2007 In multi-racial or otherwise multi-cultural societies, people may discriminate in the allocation of scarce resources against members of particular racial or cultural groups. This paper examines how people in post-apartheid Cape Town – a city ... Read more c b n d
Racial Wage Discrimation in South Africa: Before and After the First Democratic Election

Author: Erichsen, Gaute ; Wakeford, Jeremy Date: May 2001 Apartheid in South Africa was formally discarded by the first free election in 1994. Prior to 1994, discrimination in the labour market was embodied in a number of policies (pass laws, occupational colour barring etc.). While such polices ... Read more c b n a
Raconteur, Jester, Listener, Survivor: Khaba Mkhize's strategies for conflict-reducing journalism in KwaZulu, South Africa

Author: Green, Lesley Fordred Date: 2003 Conflicts polarise people's worlds. In seeking to perpetuate the illusion of objectivity, news journalists narrate conflicts by reducing them to binaries and encouraging polemical debates between them. Yet such a strategy actively foments the ... Read more
Raising electricity service levels in the national infrastructure plan: Financial and economic implications

Author: van Horen, Clive ; Davis, Mark Date: 1996 Read more
Randomised trials for policy: a review of the external validity of treatment effects

Author: Muller, Sean Date: 28 May 2015 The paper provides a first survey of the literature on external validity. The starting point for this are debates regarding the use of randomised evaluations to inform policy. Besides synthesising contributions to the programme evaluation ... Read more
Rapid appraisal of primary level health care services for HIV-positive children at public sector clinics in South Africa

Author: Giese, Sonja ; Hussey, Greg Date: Mar 2002 Read more c b n d
Rapid Assessment: The situation of children in South Africa

Author: Berry, Lizette ; Guthrie, Teresa Date: Nov 2003 Read more c b n d
Rapprochement or resistance?: utilising traditional healing principles and practice to enhance HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa

Author: Wreford, Joanne Date: 2007 Understanding the obstacles to HIV/AIDS treatment Statistics on HIV infection in South Africa record up to 5.2 million people living with the virus. Highest infection rates are reported from the townships and ‘informal settlements’ where the ... Read more c b n d
RAPS component characterisation: Phase II

Author: deV Purcell, C J Date: 1993 Read more
Rarer Actions: Giving and Taking in Third-Party Punishment Games

Author: Halliday, S. Date: 28 May 2015 In attempting to understand cooperation, economists have used the methods of experimental economics to focus on spheres of human behavior in which humans display altruism, reciprocity, or other social preferences through giving and through ... Read more
Re-analysis of the Fisheries Independent Monitoring Survey of the rock lobster resource of South Africa

Author: Brandão, Anabela ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2009 Data from the FIMS surveys carried over the period 1992/93 to 2008/09 have been re-analysed here. This re-analysis was necessary because verification of the data resulted in several corrections. These corrections mainly involved differentiation ... Read more
Re-analysis of the island closure experiment results to implement the suggestions of the December 2020 International Panel

Author: Ross-Gillespie, Andrea ; Butterworth, Doug Date: 2021 The suggestions of the December 2020 International Panel for further analysis of the results from the island closure experiment, in particular to use the same data within a common framework to facilitate comparisons, and to include month as ... Read more
A re-analysis of the squid jig CPUE data

Author: Glazer, Jean Patricia ; Butterworth, Doug S Date: 2006 The catch per unit effort (CPUE) indices from the squid jig fishery have to date been expressed in terms of catch per man-hour (Roel, 1998). Industry has for many years questioned the use of man-hours as the unit of effort since it is alleged ... Read more