Population growth, migration, economic growth and poverty in Gauteng since 1970 [PDF]
To describe the trends in migration, population growth and urbanization and their effects on the demographics of magisterial districts and to analyze them in relation to levels of poverty and poverty alleviation in the Gauteng Province.
Charles Simkins
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The impacts of tourism on two communities adjacent to the Kruger National Park, South Africa [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores the socioeconomic impacts of tourism associated with the Kruger National Park, South Africa's flagship national park, on the neighbouring villages of Cork and Belfast.
Freitag-Ronaldson, S. +2 more
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Distance no impediment for funerals: Death as a uniting ritual for African people � A pastoral study [PDF]
, 2014 An African funeral is a very social event for the entire community in which the deceased lived.Regardless of whether the deceased was a Christian or not, death has always been a reunion forlong-separated relatives, believers and non-believers.
Magezi E. Baloyi
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Indigenous and institutional profile: Limpopo River Basin [PDF]
River basins / Water resource management / History / Institutions / Social aspects / Legal ...
Earle A +5 more
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Diversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa [PDF]
, 2015 We draw on Rampton's Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of 'crossing' to explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at the University of the Western Cape (UWC),
Banda, Felix, Peck, Amiena
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The Consonant Inventory of Proto-Tsonga-Copi
LanguagesRecent studies have greatly furthered our understanding of the Southern Bantu languages, but questions about the internal relationships of the Southern Bantu language subgroups and the validity of the clade as a whole still remain. This study attempts to reconstruct the consonant inventory of one proposed genetic clade, that of Tsonga-Copi (S50–S60 ...
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Coins for blood and blood for coins: Towards a genealogy of sacrifice in the Transvaal Lowveld, 1930-1993 [PDF]
, 1994 African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 14 March 1994.In 1889 Tylor defined sacrifice as a form of gift-giving to spiritual beings (Tylor 1958:461).
Niehaus, Isak A.
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Globalization and the Returns to Speaking English in South Africa [PDF]
This paper takes a novel approach to trying to disentangle the impact of globalization on wages by focusing on how the return to speaking English, the international language of commerce, changed as South Africa re-integrated with the global economy after
James Levinsohn
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Witchcraft, whites and the 1994 South African elections: Notes on the symbolic constitution of power in an Eastern Transvaal lowveld village [PDF]
, 1995 African Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 27 February 1995.The relationship between colonialism and witchcraft, as depicted in the ethnographic literature of central and southern Africa, presents an intriguing puzzle.
Isak A, Isak A.
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Ethnoveterinary medicine practices among Tsonga speaking people of South Africa
Onderstepoort J Vet Res, 2006 Rapid Rural Appraisal methods were used to collate and code the indigenous knowledge on animal healthcare of Tsonga speaking people of South Africa. There was a rapport between local disease names as described by their clinical signs by the farmers and the local veterinary services important disease list.
D. Luseba, D. Van der Merwe
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