Cape Town
Depressed mood in pregnancy: Prevalence and correlates in two Cape Town peri-urban settlements
... Methods: This study reports on baseline data collected from the Philani Mentor Mothers Project (PMMP), a community-based, cluster-randomized controlled trial on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. The ...
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Claiming Cape Town. Ethnographic interpretations of Khoisan activism and land claims
... Referring to yourself as a Khoisan then changes your self-perception as a “bystander of the unfolding drama of South African history” (Adhikari 2009b: 8) to an “Ancestral Land Owner,” supported by the UN in a struggle ...
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No. 05: Mapping the Informal Food Economy in Cape Town, South Africa
... To generate a spatial representation of the nature and distribution of informal food retail within the two sites, the research team conducted a mapping exercise using GPS units and a basic survey tool. Current ward maps ...
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Meaning and Purpose in the Occupations of Gang Involved Young Men in Cape Town.
... in Cape Town that catered for 200 young men aged 13 to 17 years who were charged with committing crimes and in need of restrictive placement whilst awaiting ...
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Employee perceptions on service quality at a selected outsourcing company in Cape Town
... All these activities are linked with outsourcing functions within organisations. For the past decades, South Africa has progressively gained a remarkable place in the global business process outsourcing industry. This ...
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Molecular Epidemiology of Noninvasive and Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections in Cape Town
... Cape Town. GSH (Groote Schuur Hospital [including state hospitals Cape Town and Western Cape, South Africa, and Groote Schuur Hospital]) provides care to more than 560,000 referrals and ...
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Racial Disparities in Schooling: Evidence From Cape-Town, South Africa
... from Cape Area Panel Study (CAPS), a rich longitudinal study of the lives of youths in the post-apartheid era in metropolitan Cape Town, South ...
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Research to action to address inequities: the experience of the Cape Town Equity Gauge
... ments, and, apart from some minor maintenance prob- lems which were easily remediable, they were found to work well. Assessing the acceptability of the toilets by the community was the responsibility of the Cape ...
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Rouge Flânerie: Cultural Takhawalu in Urban Extremes: Cape Town & Dakar
... However, the way such a fragmented composite unfolds on their respective landscape is quite singular. Cape Town as a South African city scarred by the apartheid era is rather marked by a persisting spatial ...
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Inequitable access to substance abuse treatment services in Cape Town, South Africa
... Regardless of the reasons for these findings, it is clear that improvement in treatment uptake among people from disadvantaged communities will occur only when these geographic access and financial barriers are reduced. ...
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Fostering change through effective leadership: a case study of the City of Cape Town
... 16 Development Plan (IDP) and vision can be achieved. This theme is to “move the organisation from its current state to a future state”. The underlying principle that the CoCT has adopted is that there needs to be ...
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Adoption of cloud computing services amongst the micro-enterprise sector in Cape Town
... This research study examines human feelings regarding an innovation (in this case cloud computing). It is noted that the notion of human feeling and perception is an important element in researching how cloud computing ...
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The psychological well-being of children orphaned by AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa
... This study found no evidence of higher levels of self reported emotional and behavioral problems in orphans, using the SDQ. This must be understood within the con- text of deprivation affecting both orphaned and non- ...
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Characteristics and outcome of children with juvenile dermatomyositis in Cape Town: a cross-sectional study
... The study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committees (HREC) of the Universities of Cape Town (HREC/REF: 062/2014) and Stellenbosch (Ref: S14/04/080). Permission to carry out the study and access ...
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The Influence of Load Shedding on the Productivity of Hotel Staff in Cape Town, South Africa
... This research study was undertaken to ascertain the influence of load shedding on the productivity of hotel staff in Cape Town at Hotel X. As a clear indication from the literature reviewed, it is evident ...
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A praxis based approach to theological training in Cape Town
... The theological education called for here is the kind of vocational preparation that can assist students to interact with the complex of urban challenges faced by marginalised individuals and communities. Such a focus ...
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Women’s Experiences of Street trading and Well-being in Cape Town
... Ethical clearance for the study was granted by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. Data were gathered through participant observa- tion and field ...
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The prevalence of hearing impairment within the Cape Town Metropolitan area
... Population-based surveys that estimate the magnitude of hearing impairment are generally few, despite the fact that hearing impairment is considered to be a leading contributor to the burden of disability (Stevens et ...
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Adoption of new ICT innovation by SMMEs in Cape Town
... The objective of collecting quantitative data was to determine the level of understanding SMME owners and managers have of the role evaluation plays in the adoption process of a new technology, with their perception of ...
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An analysis of challenges in running micro-enterprises: a case of African foreign entrepreneurs in Cape Town, Western Cape
... Thus far, in South Africa, there is no official estimate of immigrant-owned businesses (Tengeh, 2010:20). Obtaining a reliable estimate of the population size in studies of this class is difficult, thus, drawing a sample ...
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