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Narratives of sexual abstinence: A qualitative study of female adolescents in a Cape Town community

Author: Kahn, Lauren Date: 2006 Abstinence from sexual intercourse is the ‘A’ in the ‘ABC’ of mainstream interventions to address HIV/AIDS in South Africa. These interventions have been informed by social cognitive mode ls of sexual behaviour that emphasise the individual ... Read more
On the micro-ecology of racial division: A neglected dimension of segregation

Author: Dixon, John ; Tredoux, Colin ; Clack, Beverley Date: 2005 This article provides a general background to this special focus section of the journal on ‘racial interaction and isolation in everyday life’. It reviews both the geographic literature on segregation and the psychological literature on the ... Read more
Open Education and the Open Scholarship Agenda, a University of Cape Town Perspective

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Cox, Glenda ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Sep 2014 At the University of Cape Town open education and open scholarship activities and projects have taken place in several guises over the past seven years. They have been loosely connected, driven by champions and enabled by external grant ... Read more c b
Out of Harm's Way? Tracking child abuse cases through the child protection system at five selected sites in South Africa - Research Report

Author: Jamieson, Lucy ; Sambu, Winnie ; Mathews, Shanaaz Date: 01 May 2017 The study aims to document how the child protection system processes reported cases of child abuse, and make recommendations about how child protection services could be strengthened, to reduce the risk of trauma to children and breaking the ... Read more
The Political Economy of Human Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Akokpari, John Date: Oct 2007 Dramatised in deepening poverty; food and nutritional insufficiency; health and educational crisis; bad governance; violent and intractable conflicts; rising numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons; and environmental bankruptcy ... Read more
Prospects of family group conferencing with youth sex offenders and their victims in South Africa

Author: Gxubane, Thulane Date: 2016 This chapter explores family group conferencing with youth sex offenders within a residential diversion framework, and draws on the findings of a broader study which the author conducted in this area of restorative justice practice in South ... Read more
Rape Unresolved: Policing Sexual Offences in South Africa

Author: Smythe, Dee Date: 01 Jan 2015 More than 1 000 women are raped in South Africa every day. Around 150 of those women will report the crime to the police. Fewer than 30 of the cases will be prosecutedand no more than 10 will result in a conviction. This translates into an ... Read more
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development in the Global South: Project landscape

Author: Arinto, Patricia ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; King, Thomas ; Cartmill, Tess ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Dec 2017 The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was proposed to investigate in what ways and under what circumstances the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) could address the increasing demand for accessible, ... Read more c b
A rights-based approach to monitoring the well-being of children in South Africa

Author: Bray, Rachel ; Dawes, Andrew Date: 2007 Read more
A silent revolution: South African voters during the first ten years of democracy, 1994-2004

Author: Schulz-Herzenberg, C Date: 2008 Read more
A Silent Revolution: South African voters, 1994 - 2006

Author: Schulz-Herzenberg, Collette Date: 2007 Read more
South Africa, settler colonialism and the failures of liberal democracy

Author: Reddy, Thiven Date: 2015 South Africa is a society driven by guilt, fear and anger. In a society that is so clearly a product of injustice for so long, the past cannot but be deeply etched upon everything. One part lives in a world of comfort, fear and guilt. The ... Read more c b n d
South African Child Gauge 2016: Children and Social Assistance

Author: Delany, Aislinn ; Jehoma, Selwyn ; Lake, Lori Date: Nov 2016 The South African Child Gauge® is an annual publication of the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town. It aims to report on and monitor the situation of children in South Africa, in particularly the realisation of their rights. The ... Read more
The state of the economy: A crisis of employment

Author: Nattrass, Nicoli Date: 2003 In his ‘State of the Nation’ address in February, President Mbeki (2002) argued that macroeconomic stability had been achieved, the structure of the economy had changed for the better, and that the basis for sustainable growth and poverty ... Read more
UCT Author-date Reference Guide: based on the Harvard Referencing style

Author: De Jager, Karin ; Dianne, Steele Date: 2016 An important characteristic of academic writing is the acknowledgement of other writers’ words or creations through citing and referencing all sources of information used. Citing is the practice of quoting from, or referring to other writers’ ... Read more c b n d
Visual hulls from single uncalibrated snapshots using two planar mirrors

Author: Forbes, Keith ; Voigt, Anthon ; Bodika, Ndimi Date: 2004 Two mirrors are used to create five views of an object: a view onto the object, two reflections and two reflections of reflections. The five views are captured in a single snapshot. Epipolar geometry of the object’s five silhouettes is ... Read more
The Way of All Flesh: Reflections on the entropy at work on the buildings of Roelof Uytenbogaardt

Author: Kevin, Fellingham Date: 2017 Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future. Instead of being made of natural materials, such as marble, granite: plastic, chrome, and electric light. They are ... Read more
"A Woman Is A Strong Person”: The Lived Experiences Of Rural Women Activists

Author: Motala, Ayesha ; Sihlali, Nokwanda Date: 2021 On 25 May 2021, the Land and Accountability Research Centre in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Cape Town hosted a virtual launch of the booklet: “A Woman Is A Strong Person”: The Lived Experiences Of Rural Women Activists. The ... Read more