Author:Koelble, ThomasDate:28 May 2015The paper argues that in order to adequately analyse the development of postcolonial
democracy – in this case South Africa – a theoretical model has to take
into account the context within which that democratic experiment finds itself in.
This ...Read more
Author:Leibbrandt, Murray; Finn, Arden; Woolard, IngridDate:28 May 2015This paper describes the changes in inequality in South Africa over the post-apartheid period, using income data from 1993 and 2008. Having shown that the data are comparable over time, it then profiles aggregate changes in income inequality, ...Read more
Author:Ross-Gillespie, Andrea; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Jul 2018Details are provided of the changes that have been made to the South African hake Reference Case assessment model since the time of the 2017 MSC audit.Read more
Author:Ntuli, Miracle; Wittenberg, MartinDate:28 May 2015This paper investigates the changes that occurred in black South African women's labour force participation (LFP) over the 1995–2004 post-Apartheid period. Using regression analysis of individual cross-section data for 1995, 1999 and 2004, ...Read more
Author:Vellios, Nicole; van Walbeek, CorneDate:28 May 2015This paper investigates the individual and household variables that influence the decision to start smoking. The data was drawn from wave 1 of the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) of 2008 and the analysis was performed using survival ...Read more
Author:Visser, Martine; Booysen, FrikkieDate:28 May 2015This paper analyses differences in the choice of health care facility by individuals in HIV/AIDS-affected households in the Free State province of South Africa. Illness is more prevalent and severe amongst poorer affected households. The ...Read more
Author:de Moor, Carryn; Coetzee, Janet; Butterworth, DouglasDate:2022Prior distributions for the bias of the hydro‐acoustic survey estimates of the biomass of the South African round herring are developed by considering the bias associated with the individual sources of errorRead more
Author:Larcom, Shaun; Sarr, Mare; Willems, TimDate:06 Jun 2017History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behaviour significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe) as well as dictators who displayed remarkable improvements (like Jerry Rawlings of Ghana). We show that such mutations ...Read more
Author:Maughan-Brown, Brendan; Nyblade, LauraDate:28 May 2015Although HIV-related stigma in general is known to deter HIV-testing, the extent to which different dimensions of stigma independently influence testing behaviour is poorly understood. We used data on young black men (n = 553) and women (n = ...Read more