Childcare arrangements of migrant mothers in an urban township in South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Thobelani Majola ◽  
Shanaaz Dunn ◽  
Pranitha Maharaj
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Township

scholarly journals Child Support Grant access and receipt among 12-week-old infants in an urban township setting in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanga Zembe-Mkabile ◽  
Tanya Doherty ◽  
David Sanders ◽  
Debra Jackson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Child Support Grant ◽  
Urban Township

Household coal use in an urban township in South Africa

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Balmer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Line Energy ◽  
Housing Design ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
Urban Township ◽  
Energy Survey ◽  
Fuel Source

Coal is used as a domestic source of energy by low-income households in South Africa. Coal is an affordable fuel source and provides a dual utility – it warms the house and allows cooking to take place in the same appliance utilising only one fuel. Despite affordability and accessibility of the fuel, the use of coal results in extremely high levels of air pol-lution and concomitant respiratory diseases – an estimated $160 million per annum in South Africa. Access to electricity does not result in households switching away from coal since electricity and elec-trical appliances are regarded as unaffordable. This paper presents information collected during a base-line energy survey in an electrified urban township in South Africa, and outlines the way in which coal is used and purchased by poor households. An alternative fire lighting method, proven to reduce smoke and air pollution form coal fires has been demonstrated to households with promising results. An integrated approach, addressing energy efficient housing design, the supply of clean and efficient energy appliances together with the use of the alter-native fire lighting method, is recommended to address pollution from household coal use.

scholarly journals Determinants of obesity in an urban township of South Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Malhotra ◽  
C Hoyo ◽  
T Østbye ◽  
G Hughes ◽  
D Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Urban Township

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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