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Platform Work in a High‐Crime City: Navigating Violence and Gendered Safety Strategies Among Uber Drivers in Johannesburg

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 102-110, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how male and female Uber drivers in Johannesburg navigate safety and violence within a high‐crime urban context, highlighting the gendered dimensions of digital platform work. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 30 Uber drivers (15 male and 15 female), the study reveals that while all drivers face threats such as ...
Percyval Bayane
wiley   +1 more source

Verdien Homo naledi ‘n plek in ons familie-album? ‘n Teologiese besinning oor die evoluering van spiritualiteit met spesifieke verwysing na die begraafplaasteorie van Lee Berger en die ‘Rising-Star’-ekspedisie

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
The discovery of a new homonin species called Homo naledi evoked unprecedented interest, even outside the scientific disciplines who are researching extinct homonin species. The reason for this is that Prof.
Kobus Pienaar
doaj   +1 more source

Release From Captivity Allows African Savannah Elephant Movement Patterns to Converge With Those of Wild and Rehabilitated Conspecifics

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.
African Savannah Elephants from captivity were rewilded and their movement patterns were compared with those of rehabilitated and wild elephants during the 3‐year soft release. The movement patterns of the captive elephants changed after release and were less different from most of the movement patterns of rehabilitated elephants and some of the ...
Murphy Tladi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

HEAD IN THE STARS, FEET ON THE GROUND: Scale and Astronomy Initiatives in Southern Africa

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 571-596, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores the evolution of radio astronomy in South Africa and Madagascar, focusing on how “scale” functions as both a way of understanding the world and marking differences in existence. In outer space research, the ground is crucial but often overlooked.
HANNA NIEBER, DAVIDE CHINIGÒ
wiley   +1 more source

Has evolution ‘prepared’ us to deal with death? Paleoanthropological aspects of the enigma of Homo naledi’s disposal of their dead

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
The Homo naledi discovery introduced questions that had not been previously posed regarding fossil finds. This is because, apart from their fascinating physiology, they seemingly deliberately disposed of their dead in a ritualised way.
Cornel W. du Toit
doaj   +1 more source

Fiscal Autonomy and the Path to Sustainable Local Economic Development: A Multilevel Municipal Analysis in South Africa

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 7336-7362, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite fiscal reforms aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goal Target 17.1—strengthening domestic resource mobilization for development—the impact of fiscal autonomy on local economic development (LED) in South Africa remains underexplored. Therefore, this study examines the impact of fiscal autonomy across 248 municipalities from 2009
Nara Monkam, Charles Shaaba Saba
wiley   +1 more source

Remains of a barn owl (Tyto alba) from the Dinaledi Chamber, Rising Star Cave, South Africa

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Science, 2018
Excavations during November 2013 in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa uncovered over 1550 specimens of a new hominin, Homo naledi. A total of four modern bird bones were collected from the surface of the Dinaledi Chamber during the first phase of the ...
Ashley Kruger, Shaw Badenhorst
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic analysis of behavioral reactions of African bush elephants to a synthetic honey bee alarm pheromone blend

open access: yesWildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 5, September 2025.
Human–elephant conflict situations continue to be a growing conservation issue. Conflict situations typically arise as the result of elephants traversing places with infrastructure where they become disruptive to human activities. Developing passive options for managing elephant movement and reducing human–elephant conflict situations is a conservation
Mark G. Wright   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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Alzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 22, Issue 6, June 2026.
wiley   +2 more sources

Homo faber or homo credente? What defines humans, and what could Homo naledi contribute to this debate?

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
The transition from pre-human to human has, for a long time, been associated with tool use and construction. The implicit self-definition of humans in this is that of planned control over life world.
Detlev L. Tönsing
doaj   +1 more source

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