The Socio-Economic Trajectories of Migrant Street Vendors in Urban South Africa

Dietary pattern analyses allow assessment of the diet as a whole. Limited studies include both a priori and a posteriori dietary pattern analyses. This study aimed to explore the diet of pregnant women in urban South Africa through both a priori and a posteriori dietary pattern analyses and associated maternal and household factors. Dietary data were collected during early pregnancy using a quantified food frequency questionnaire from 250 pregnant women enrolled in the Nutrition During Pregnancy and Early Development (NuPED) cohort. A priori dietary patterns were determined using the Diet Quality Index-International (DQI-I), and a posteriori nutrient patterns using exploratory factor analysis. Based on the DQI-I, the study population followed a borderline low-quality diet. Three a posteriori nutrient patterns were identified: Pattern 1 “plant protein, iron, thiamine, and folic acid”; pattern 2 “animal protein, copper, vitamin A, and vitamin B12”; pattern 3 “fatty acids and sodium”. Pattern 1 was associated with higher dietary quality (p < 0.001), lower maternal educational level (p = 0.03) and socioeconomic status (p < 0.001). Pattern 3 was significantly associated with lower dietary quality. The low dietary quality among pregnant women residing in urban South Africa should be addressed to ensure optimal maternal and offspring health outcomes.

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Stuips, spuits and prophet ropes: The treatment of abantu childhood illnesses in urban South Africa

Social Science & Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.10.027 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 68 (2) ◽

pp. 343-351 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Natalie Friend-du Preez ◽

Noël Cameron ◽

Paula Griffiths

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Childhood Illnesses ◽

Urban South

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Equity in the use of antiretroviral treatment in the public health care system in urban South Africa

Health Policy ◽

10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.10.016 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 99 (3) ◽

pp. 261-266 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Susan Cleary ◽

Sheetal Silal ◽

Stephen Birch ◽

Henri Carrara ◽

Victoria Pillay-van Wyk ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

South Africa ◽

Health Care ◽

Health Care System ◽

Antiretroviral Treatment ◽

Public Health Care ◽

Public Health Care System ◽

The Public ◽

Urban South ◽

Care System

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Knowledge management according to organisational size: A South African perspective

SA Journal of Information Management ◽

10.4102/sajim.v15i1.526 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Cornelius Kruger ◽

Roy D. Johnson

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

South African ◽

Middle Management ◽

Senior Management ◽

Urban South ◽

Embedded Knowledge ◽

Personal Approach ◽

African Perspective ◽

Insight Into

Background:To date, few studies have focused on how embedded Knowledge Management (KM) is found in the roots of an organisation. Specifically, not much is known whether employees and managers hold similar perceptions regarding KM or if organisational size plays a role in the establishment of KM maturity.Objective: The objective of this article was to determine what role organisational size plays in the establishment of KM maturity and how different managerial levels viewed their organisations KM maturity.Method: The authors gained insight into KM maturity in different industry groupings over a five-year period from a large urban South African University engaged in numerous collaboration programmes with industry. In total, 434 employees were interviewed over three grouping levels (operational, middle and senior management).Results: The findings support arguments that irrespective of organisational size, knowledge orientated issues are applicable to all organisations. However, with significant differences in scores recorded over all maturity sections in South Africa, the findings indicated that different sized organisations address knowledge-orientated issues differently.Conclusion: Findings challenge the argument that the manner in which knowledge-orientated issues are addressed differ only slightly depending on organisational size. Smaller-sized organisations prefer a more personal approach, whilst larger-sized organisations prefer knowledge transfer via technology. Irrespective of organisational size, commitment holds the key to KM success. Commitment shown by middle management regarding KM is a differentiator.

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Factors associated with mortality in HIV-infected people in rural and urban South Africa

Global Health Action ◽

10.3402/gha.v7.25488 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 25488 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Kennedy N. Otwombe ◽

Max Petzold ◽

Tebogo Modisenyane ◽

Neil A. Martinson ◽

Tobias Chirwa

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Infected People ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Urban South

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The Development of a Framework to Evaluate the Management of HIV/AIDS Programmes in Rural and Urban South Africa

Perspectives of Knowledge Management in Urban Health ◽

10.1007/978-1-4419-5644-6_7 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 115-128

Author(s):

Rochelle Sassman ◽

Brian Lehaney ◽

Rajeev K. Bali ◽

Raouf N. G. Naguib ◽

Ian M. Marshall

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Rural And Urban ◽

Urban South ◽

Hiv Aids

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Raumaneignungen, Regeln und Profite in Dhakas Feld des Straßenhandels – Sozialgeographische Erklärungsversuche auf Grundlage von Bourdieus Theorie der Praxis

Geographica Helvetica ◽

10.5194/gh-69-37-2014 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 69 (1) ◽

pp. 37-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

B. Etzold

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Social Space ◽

Physical Space ◽

Social Geography ◽

The State ◽

Street Vendors ◽

Street Vending ◽

Theory Of Practice ◽

Urban South ◽

Spatial Appropriation

Abstract. The paper discusses street vendors' spatial appropriations and the governance of public space in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The much debated question in social geography how people's position in social space relates to their position in physical space (and vice versa) stands at the centre of the analysis. I use Bourdieu's Theory of Practice to discuss this dialectic relation at two analytical levels. On a micro-political level it is shown that the street vendors' social positions and the informal rules of the street structure their access to public space and thus determine their "spatial profits". At a macro-political level, it is not only the conditions inside the "field of street vending" that matter for the hawkers, but also their relation to the state-controlled "field of power". The paper demonstrates that Bourdieu's key ideas can be linked to current debates about spatial appropriation and informality. Moreover, I argue that Bourdieu's theory builds an appropriate basis for a relational, critical, and reflexive social geography in the Urban South.

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

Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis ◽

10.37043/jura.2019.1.1.3 ◽

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.

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