Transactional sex among young women in rural South Africa: prevalence, mediators and association with HIV infection. [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Young adolescent women in sub-Saharan Africa are three to four times more likely to be HIV-positive than boys or men. One of the relationship dynamics that is likely to be associated with young women's increased vulnerability to HIV is ...
Amanda Selin +69 more
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The use of technology to preserve indigenous languages of South Africa
Indigenous languages in South Africa must be preserved to ensure that they do not lose their identity and become extinct. The four indigenous languages with the fewest speakers among South Africa’s 12 official languages are: Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenḓa ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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Traditional Knowledge and Biodiversity in South Africa : CSIR case [PDF]
The focus of this paper is traditional knowledge (TK) and indigenous biological resources protection in South Africa, through the analysis of the existing policies and legislations, in order to provide a useful insight for a developed country such as ...
Bareetseng Sechaba +2 more
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Policies towards Horizontal Inequalities in Post-Conflict Reconstruction [PDF]
inequality, conflict, reconstruction ...
Stewart, Frances
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Datasets for South African Languages: Bilingual Aligned and Monolingual Data for Machine Translation
This data paper describes machine translation datasets built for the Autshumato project. The datasets contain both bilingual aligned data between English and all other official written languages of South Africa, namely Afrikaans (ISO 639-3: afr ...
Tanja Gaustad +2 more
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South African English: oppressor or liberator? [PDF]
[From Conclusion] The advent of Nelson Mandela’s government in 1994 brought about rapid changes in the balance between English and Afrikaans in government and the media, and also increased the use of African languages on television.
Silva, Penny
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Towards the marking of noun class 8 and its agreement morpheme in Xitsonga
The purpose of the study was to examine the noun class associated with the generic agreement morpheme in Xitsonga and to unpack whether the noun class and its agreement morpheme can be discussed in terms of the theory of markedness.
Sikheto J. Kubayi
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Social Networks and Ethnic Niches: An Econometric Analysis of the Manufacturing Sector in South Africa [PDF]
This paper analyses the link between social networks and ethnic occupational niches in the manufacturing sector in South Africa. To this end, it employs the methodology of Bertrand et al.
Andre Hofmeyr
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Lexicography in a Multilingual South Africa Leksikografie in 'n meertalige Suid-Afrika
<p>On 12 April 1996 the State Language Services organized a language planning seminar, Lexicography as a Financial Asset in a Multilingual South Africa, held at the Bureau of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal in Stellenbosch. A special feature
Various Various
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Human capital inequality and electoral outcomes in South Africa
This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vertical human-capital inequality in South Africa since the end of apartheid. Using census data from 1996, 2001, and 2011, we use different measures of years of schooling to examine the ...
Bedasso, Biniam, Obikili, Nonso
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