"It's in Our Veins": Gendered Natures and Caring Entrepreneurship in a Peri-Urban Settlement in South Africa

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Swartz ◽  
Christopher Colvin ◽  
Thomas Leatherman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Settlement

scholarly journals Exploring adaptation and agency of mothers caring for disabled children in an urban settlement in South Africa: A qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 102271
Author(s):  
Elise J. van der Mark ◽  
Ina Conradie ◽  
Christine W.M. Dedding ◽  
Jacqueline E.W. Broerse
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Urban Settlement

scholarly journals Longitudinal effects of poverty on men’s perpetration of partner violence in South Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Hatcher ◽  
Torsten Neilands ◽  
Dumisani Rebombo ◽  
Sheri Weiser ◽  
Nicola Christofides
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Dynamic Panel ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Longitudinal Effects ◽  
Ipv Perpetration ◽  
Over Time

Introduction: Although poverty is often viewed as a driver of intimate partner violence (IPV), few studies have examined how changes in poverty influence men’s IPV perpetration over time. One sensitive marker of poverty is food security, or the ability of households to obtain adequate nutrition. The influence of food security has been associated with IPV in cross-sectional studies, but here we examine whether a causal relationship exists.Methods: We followed a cohort of 2,479 men living in a peri-urban settlement near Johannesburg, South Africa during the period of February 2016-August 2018. Using self-completed audio-assisted questionnaires, men responded at baseline (T0), 12 months later (T1), and 24 months later (T2). Questions about current food security, household type, childhood conditions, and past-year IPV perpetration were asked. We used cross-lagged dynamic panel modeling to assess whether food insecurity changes influenced men’s IPV perpetration over time.Results: A large proportion of men (46.9%) reported perpetrating IPV at baseline, but this proportion reduced over time (39.2% and 26.5% reported IPV at midline and endline, respectively). Less than half (41.4%) of participants reported food insecurity at T0, and this stayed consistent at T1 and T2. In cross-sectional bivariate analysis, food insecurity was higher among those men perpetrating IPV than among those who used no violence at all three time-points. In a cross-lagged dynamic panel model, food insecurity predicted men’s use of IPV one year later. Food insecurity was associated with a small, but significant, longitudinal impact on men’s IPV use (standardized coefficient=0.08, p=0.035) and the model fit indices were strong (RMSEA=0.027, CFI=0.993). This longitudinal association between food insecurity and IPV perpetration persisted in a final model controlling for housing status, age at baseline, and childhood exposure to abuse (coef=0.10, p=0.022) that had strong fit (RMSEA=0.015, CFI=0.998). In a separate model, IPV perpetration did not predict later food security, suggesting a causal relationship from poverty to IPV perpetration.Conclusions: Food insecurity and housing, as distinct markers of poverty, had small but persistent longitudinal effects on men’s perpetration of IPV in a peri-urban settlement in South Africa. Addressing IPV perpetration will require examination of broader structural challenges, such as livelihoods and food security, particularly in settings with endemic poverty. Future interventions should consider livelihood strategies to improve health outcomes for both women and men.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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