scholarly journals Using IBBS Survey Data and Stakeholder Consensus to Estimate Population Size of Female Sex Workers in Three South African Cities: Results and Recommendations From the 2013-14 South Africa Health Monitoring Survey (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Grasso ◽  
Albert E Manyuchi ◽  
Maria Sibanyoni ◽  
Alex Marr ◽  
Tom Osmand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Population Size ◽  
South African ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Point Estimates ◽  
Stakeholder Consensus ◽  
South African Cities ◽  
Size Estimates

BACKGROUND Robust population size estimates (PSEs) for female sex workers (FSW) and other key populations in South Africa face multiple methodological limitations, including inconsistencies in surveillance and programmatic indicators; this has consequently challenged appropriate allocation of resources and benchmark-setting necessary to an effective HIV response. A 2013-14 Integrated Biological and Behavioral Surveillance (IBBS) survey from South Africa showed alarmingly high HIV prevalence among FSW in South Africa’s three largest cities of Johannesburg (71.8%), Cape Town (39.7%), and eThekwini (53.5%). The survey also included several multiplier-based population size estimation (PSE) methods. OBJECTIVE To present the selected PSE methods used in an IBBS survey and subsequent participatory process used to estimate the number of FSW in three South African cities. METHODS In 2013-14 we used respondent driven sampling (RDS) to recruit independent samples of FSW for IBBS surveys in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and eThekwini. We embedded multiple multiplier-based PSE methods into the survey, from which investigators calculated a range of PSEs for each city’s FSW population. Following data analysis, investigators consulted civil society stakeholders to present survey results and PSEs and facilitated stakeholder vetting of individual PSEs to arrive at consensus point estimates with upper and lower plausibility bounds. RESULTS A total of 2,180 FSW participated in the SAHMS survey. To perform the size estimate exercise, investigators calculated preliminary point estimates as the median of the multiple estimation methods embedded in the IBBS survey, and presented these to a civil-society convened stakeholder group. Stakeholders vetted all estimates in light of other data points, including programmatic experience, to ensure that only plausible point estimates were included in the calculation of the median. After vetting, stakeholders adopted three consensus point estimates with plausible ranges (PR): Johannesburg 7,697 (plausible range (PR) 5,000 - 10,895); Cape Town 6,500 (PR 4,579-9,000); eThekwini 9,323 (PR 4,000-10,000). CONCLUSIONS Through the use of several PSE methods embedded in an IBBS survey and a participatory stakeholder consensus process, SAHMS produced FSW size estimates representing approximately 0.48%, 0.49% and 0.77% of the adult female population in Johannesburg, Cape Town and eThekwini. In data-sparse environments, stakeholder engagement and consensus is critical to vetting of multiple empirically-based PSE procedures to ensure adoption and utilization of data-informed PSEs for coordinated national and sub-national benchmarking. Incorporating stakeholder consensus in PSE methodology has the potential to increase coherence in national and key populations-specific HIV responses, and decrease the likelihood of duplicative and wasteful resource allocation. We recommend building cooperative and productive academic-civil society partnerships around PSE and other strategic information dissemination and sharing to facilitate the incorporation of additional data as it becomes available in order to increase accuracy and precision over time, and decrease biases inherent in any single, investigator calculated method.

Slang registers, code-switching and restructured urban varieties in South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajend Mesthrie ◽  
Ellen Hurst
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
African Cities ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
South African Cities

This paper examines the status of an informal urban variety in Cape Town known as Tsotsitaal. Similar varieties, going by a plethora of names (Flaaitaal, Iscamtho, Ringas) have been described in other South African cities, especially Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban (see also Sheng in Kenyan cities). This paper seeks to describe the essential characteristics of Cape Town Tsotsitaal, which is based on Xhosa, and to argue for its continuity with similar varieties in other South African cities. However, this continuity eventually calls into question many of the previous assumptions in the literature about Tsotsitaal and its analogues: e.g. the thesis that these varieties necessarily involve code-switching, or that they are pidgins, even ones that are creolising in some areas. More generally, this paper serves several purposes: (a) to comment on and elucidate why there is a proliferation of often contradictory names, (b) to examine the degree and types of switching in the different varieties, and (c) to clarify the relationship between what are essentially tsotsitaal registers and the urban languages they are part of.

YOUTH WELLBEING IN SOUTH AFRICA: WHAT DIMENSIONS SHOULD WE MEASURE?

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dabesaki Mac-Ikemenjima
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Economic Relationships ◽  
African Cities ◽  
South African Cities ◽  
Selection Of

There is growing interest in the development of measures and indexes of youth wellbeing. However, there has been a limited discussion on indicators to measure and select them. This paper reports on the results of a qualitative study on the selection of indicators to measure the wellbeing of young people in South Africa, and reflects on the relevance of the content of their values in choosing indicators for measuring their wellbeing. The data used in this analysis is based on telephone (9) and email (6) interviews conducted with 15 young people (male=5, female=10) aged 22 to 32 from five South African cities during July 2010. In the interviews, participants were asked to identify five issues they considered important to their lives, after which they were asked to rank them in order of importance. The issues indicated by the participants are described and discussed in six dimensions: economic, relationships, spiritual and health, education, time use and material. The indicators developed from this study are discussed in terms of their relevance for use in a measure of youth wellbeing in South Africa.

Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Jared McDonald
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
The South ◽  
Scholarship Of Teaching ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
The University

Dr Jared McDonald, of the Department of History at the University of the Free State (UFS) in South Africa, reviews As by fire: the end of the South African university, written by former UFS vice-chancellor Jonathan Jansen.    How to cite this book review: MCDONALD, Jared. Book review: Jansen, J. 2017. As by Fire: The End of the South African University. Cape Town: Tafelberg.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, [S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, p. 117-119, Sep. 2017. Available at: <http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=18>. Date accessed: 12 Sep. 2017.   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

scholarly journals Estimating the Number of Sex Workers in South Africa: Rapid Population Size Estimation

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey L. Konstant ◽  
Jerushah Rangasami ◽  
Maria J. Stacey ◽  
Michelle L. Stewart ◽  
Coceka Nogoduka
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Population Size ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Population Size Estimation ◽  
Size Estimation

South African Evictions Today

Contexts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Levenson
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Land Occupation

In Cape Town, South Africa, some residents risk eviction and even arrest by participating in land occupation. However, occupying land for many residents happened out of necessity. This article follows South African residents and their fight for “adequate housing,” freedom from eviction, and a government that will progressively realize both of these goals.

scholarly journals Spirit Which Refuses to Die

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Sipho Sepamla
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
Literary Magazines

One of the most interesting of South African poets, Sipho Sepamla recently published his third collection of verse, The Soweto I Love (Rex Collings, London and David Philip, Cape Town). A teacher by training, he now works for an East Rand company; apart from poetry he also writes short stories and edits two literary magazines. In an interview with the novelist Stephen Gray, broadcast last June by the African Service of the BBC, Sepamla discussed the problems of presentday Black writers in South Africa, showing why poets have now become the chief spokesmen for Black consciousness, represented in earlier years by writers of fiction.

scholarly journals NOTES ON SPATIAL-STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN URBAN SOUTH AFRICA -THE 1990s

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermanus S. GEYER
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Informal Sector ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Structural Evolution ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Urban South ◽  
World Class ◽  
Urban Business ◽  
South African Cities

Informal businesses used to be something that was only tolerated in the former black townships during the years of apartheid. Since then the informal business sector has become an integral part of the central business setup of cities in South Africa. It not only serves to widen the security net of the urban poor in cities, it also represents the outcome of the democratization process in the country over the past fifteen years. Yet, there has been a tendency amongst local authorities to take steps to reduce the footprint of this sector in the urban environment in recent years. This trend ties in with the new approach of government to transform South African cities to become ’world class’ centres - a step that is aimed at making the cities more visually acceptable to visitors from abroad. In this paper an attempt is made to demonstrate the importance of the informal sector within the urban business makeup and to show what role it played in the spatial-structural evolution of the urban economies during the 1990s. The paper analyzes the structure of the urban business sector as a whole and structurally links the formal and informal sectors, demonstrating the importance of both sectors in the economic makeup of the cities. It analyses the structure of the informal sector and shows how different layers of the sector potentially relates to the formal urban sector.

Urban history in the new South Africa: continuity and innovation since the end of apartheid

Urban History ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
VIVIAN BICKFORD-SMITH
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
New South ◽  
New Work ◽  
Small Field ◽  
African Cities ◽  
South African Cities

The Soweto uprising of 1976 confirmed to most observers that the anti-apartheid struggle (in contrast to anti-colonial struggles in many other parts of Africa) would be largely urban in character. This realization gave impetus to a rapid growth in the hitherto small field of South African urban history. Much new work predictably sought to understand the nature of conflict and inequality in South African cities and its possible resolution.

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