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Understanding Attrition in the South African Integrated Intervention for Diabetes Risk After Gestational Diabetes (IINDIAGO) Study: A Qualitative Study of Postpartum Lifestyle Intervention Disengagement

Reproductive, Female and Child Health, Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Lifestyle interventions can benefit women with gestational diabetes (GDM) to manage the condition during pregnancy and reduce future health risks including the risk of progression to Type 2 diabetes (T2DM). However, future benefits may only be realised if women engage with the intervention (coaching, educational materials ...
Masuluke Irene, Andrea Kolkenbeck‐Ruh, Jean Claude Mutabazi, Christina Zarowsky, Shane A. Norris, Naomi Levitt, Lisa J. Ware   +6 more
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A sociolinguistic analysis of terms of address in Xitsonga literary texts

Literator
Terms of address are typically used by interlocutors in spoken and written discourse. These terms serve a variety of functions across languages and cultures, reflecting social hierarchies, politeness, familiarity, and interpersonal relations. Despite the
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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Xitsonga in Language Shift: A Sociolinguistic Approach

Journal of Social Sciences, 2016
The speakers of Xitsonga in Polokwane city are experiencing a language shift from Xitsonga to English and Northern Sotho.
M. T. Babane, M. T. Chauke
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Contextual Fit? Exploring Diverging Areas of Knowledge Around Infant Rearing in a Home Visiting Intervention in Alexandra Township, South Africa

Infant and Child Development, Volume 34, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT The applied field of “Global Early Childhood Development”, developed in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised Rich and Democratic) settings, asserts universal frameworks and understandings of early childhood development pathways. This field advocates for the roll out of parenting interventions aimed at improving child development outcomes ...
Nicola Dawson, Annemieke Exton, Thandiwe Khumalo, Josien de Klerk   +3 more
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Post-apartheid complexities of Xitsonga and mathematics teaching in rural foundation phase classrooms: A case of number patterns

Interdisciplinary Journal of Sociality Studies
The study conducted in rural Acornhoek, Mpumalanga, addresses the inadequate research and understanding surrounding the teaching of mathematics in the early grades, particularly in rural South African schools where indigenous languages like Xitsonga are ...
Hlamulo Wiseman Mbhiza, Ayanda Zondo, Sibongile Mlangeni, Vuyelwa Brenda Mpitso   +3 more
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Cognate objects of weather verbs in African languages of South Africa –from synchronic variation to a grammaticalization path

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2017
The authors argue that the synchronic variation of cognate objects of weather verbs exhibited in six African languages of South Africa (Sepedi, Sesotho, Tshivenda, isiXhosa, Xitsonga, and isiZulu) has a diachronic explanation, and may be represented as a
Andrason, Alexander, Visser, Marianna W.
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Mutualism Despite Ostensible Difference: HuShamwari, Kuhanyisana, and Conviviality Between Shona Zimbabweans and Tsonga South Africans in Giyani, South Africa

Africa Spectrum, 2020
This ethnographic study explores forms of mutuality and conviviality between Shona migrants from Zimbabwe and Tsonga-speaking South Africans living in Giyani, South Africa.
Tamuka Chekero, Shannon Morreira
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Our law is constitutional law, and it has rights*

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 234-243, November 2024.
Abstract Indigenous Southern Africans say that their laws are fundamentally grounded in the principle of Ubu‐Ntu (humane‐ness), but their communities are found empirically to often show the opposite of that law. Why is this? What is the law to which they lay claim to having? What are its roots and how can we reliably trace and know them?
Sindiso MnisiWeeks
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Evaluating the effectiveness of Xitsonga named entity recognition

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The development of robust Named Entity Recognition (NER) systems for African languages such as Xitsonga remains constrained by limited data availability, complex morphological structures, and orthographic variation.
Kulani Excellent Mhlongo, Respect Mlambo
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Integrating a mental health intervention into PrEP services for South African young women: a human‐centred implementation research approach to intervention development

Journal of the International AIDS Society, Volume 27, Issue S1, July 2024.
Abstract Introduction Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) who may benefit from HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) face high levels of common mental disorders (e.g. depression, anxiety). Common mental disorders can reduce PrEP adherence and increase HIV risk, yet mental health interventions have not been well‐integrated into PrEP delivery.
Jennifer Velloza, Nomhle Ndimande‐Khoza, Lisa Mills, Tessa Concepcion, Sanele Gumede, Hlukelo Chauke, Ruth Verhey, Dixon Chibanda, Sybil Hosek, Bryan J. Weiner, Connie Celum, Sinead Delany‐Moretlwe   +11 more
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