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Title: Contextual factors and constraints that influence black teachers in South Africa when implementing the curriculum : a case of geography teachers
Creator: Nduna-Watson, Noelette N. (Noelette Nonhlanhla)
Date: 1994
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Desegregation in a former "whites only" school in South Africa
Creator: Grootboom, Nomalanga P.
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: AbstractDesegregation in former white schools of South AfricabyNomalanga P. GrootboomAfter decades of racially segregated education under apartheid in South Africa, the process of school desegregation commenced in 1990's with the view equalize education for all, and fostering better relationships and making available equal opportunities for all learners. The process of desegregation not has been without problems as it is apparent with race related incidents of racial conflicts and tension in...
Show moreAbstractDesegregation in former white schools of South AfricabyNomalanga P. GrootboomAfter decades of racially segregated education under apartheid in South Africa, the process of school desegregation commenced in 1990's with the view equalize education for all, and fostering better relationships and making available equal opportunities for all learners. The process of desegregation not has been without problems as it is apparent with race related incidents of racial conflicts and tension in certain desegregated schools. Despite the intentions of policy makers, educators, parents and the success of desegregated schooling needs to be seen through the experience of learners in such schools. This study examines cross racial interaction of learners in a formerly "whites only" high school in South Africa and seeks to explore their day to day school life over a period of six months. Data were obtained from several sources including interviews with students, teachers, and administrators, focus group discussions, and observations. Key findings from the study revealed critical factors that impact the educational experiences of learners in this school, and how these can inform the process of educational change, as well as serve as useful indicators for planning and decision making. Lessons learned from this study provide an opportunity for further comparative studies with respect to the diverse aspects of the teaching-learning for diverse and monoculture learner in different settings of the new (post-apartheid) South African school system.
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Title: The role of non-governmental organizations in helping African students gain access to tertiary education in South Africa
Creator: Mashinini, Mkhize Timothy
Date: 1997
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Women and militancy : narratives from Guatemala, India, and South Africa
Creator: Deb, Basuli
Date: 2007
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The influence of demand model selection on household welfare estimates : an application to South African food expenditures
Creator: Bopape, Lesiba Elias
Date: 2006
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Adverse drug reactions and resultant health-related quality of life during multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in South Africa
Creator: Kelly, Ana Maria
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACTADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS AND RESULTANT HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE DURING MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT IN SOUTH AFRICAByAna Maria KellyBackground/Significance: The incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is on the rise globally. MDR-TB takes a minimum of 2 years to treat and the treatment regimen produces many adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for further research on the treatment of community-based MDR-TB...
Show moreABSTRACTADVERSE DRUG REACTIONS AND RESULTANT HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE DURING MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS TREATMENT IN SOUTH AFRICAByAna Maria KellyBackground/Significance: The incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is on the rise globally. MDR-TB takes a minimum of 2 years to treat and the treatment regimen produces many adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for further research on the treatment of community-based MDR-TB patients as care is being decentralized to outpatient settings. In the WHO’s TB progress report for 2015, they note there is a dearth of literature about anti-TB drug-induced mortality, morbidity and loss in quality of life, particularly in low-resource settings. Purpose: This study directly addresses this gap in knowledge by examining the effect of ADRs from MDR-TB treatment on heath-related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients in a low-resource, high HIV-burden population in South Africa. Methods: A cross-sectional, observational study design was used to: 1) describe patient and clinical characteristics of community-based MDR-TB patients; 2) examine the relationship between Aim 1 characteristics and ADRs; and 3) examine the effect of each ADR on HRQOL, controlling for Aim 1 characteristics. MDR-TB patients in the initial intensive phase of treatment were recruited using convenience sampling from an outpatient MDR-TB clinic in South Africa. Patient interviews were conducted in English or isiZulu and included questions on individual characteristics (age, sex, education, employment, relationship status, alcohol/smoking, stigma, and adherence) and environmental characteristics (housing status, food insecurity, social support and discrimination). ADRs and symptom bother over the past month of treatment were collected using a symptom checklist and HRQOL was collected using the EQ-5D. A medical chart data abstraction was conducted to capture MDR-TB treatment, HIV/AIDS status and treatment, co-morbidities, BMI, and laboratory values. Results: Aim 1: The majority of participants (n=121) were co-infected with HIV (75%), female (51%), and did not have enough food to eat everyday (51%). Aim 2: All but two participants reported at least one ADR (98%) with an average of 8.6 per person. In the multivariable analysis, being female and starting MDR-TB treatment with elevated liver enzymes were significantly related to an increase in total ADRs. There was no significant difference in ADRs by HIV status. Aim 3: An increase in total ADRs was significantly related to a decrease in HRQOL. Of the 18 ADRs assessed, six were associated with a decrease in HRQOL in the final model: tinnitus, gastrointestinal symptoms: nausea/vomiting and diarrhea, and symptoms affecting movement: myalgia, arthralgia, and peripheral neuropathy. Patient and clinical characteristics that remained significant were the loss of relationship and hospitalization during treatment, with past hospitalization associated with increased HRQOL. Implications: This study helps fill the knowledge gap on the effect of ADRs from MDR-TB treatment on HRQOL. For clinicians, findings reinforce the need to improve detection, documentation and management of ADRs. Further research is needed to determine effective ADR management techniques to improve HRQOL outcomes for patients on this lengthy and challenging treatment.
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Title: Behavioral development of black South African children : an ecological approach
Creator: Goduka, Ivy Nomalungelo
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Non-state security, state legitimacy and political participation in South Africa
Creator: Carter, Danielle
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation explores the political consequences of non-state security provision in the context of South Africa. In the developed and developing world alike, many individuals rely on various forms of non-state security including commercial security companies, voluntary associations, and faith and community-based organizations to meet their security needs. This reliance is especially pronounced in developing countries where the state's capacity to provide security is often weak. Though...
Show moreThis dissertation explores the political consequences of non-state security provision in the context of South Africa. In the developed and developing world alike, many individuals rely on various forms of non-state security including commercial security companies, voluntary associations, and faith and community-based organizations to meet their security needs. This reliance is especially pronounced in developing countries where the state's capacity to provide security is often weak. Though reliance on non-state security is quite widespread in South Africa (and the developing world more generally), little is known about the political consequences of this reliance. This dissertation therefore seeks to probe the attitudinal and behavioral consequences of non-state security reliance. I begin by testing the effect of non-state security reliance on individuals' perceptions of state legitimacy. Using original survey data collected in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa, I find that individual reliance on non-state security may strengthen or undercut perceptions of state legitimacy, depending on how individuals view the state's normative role in service delivery. Where individuals feel the state should be responsible for the direct, day-to-day production of security, individual reliance on non-state security decreases perceptions of a legitimate state. But where individuals feel that the state should play more of a facilitative role in security provision, individual reliance on non-state security increases perceptions of a legitimate state. I then test the effect of non-state security reliance on political participation using Afrobarometer survey data. I examine five types of political participation including joining, collective action, contacting, protesting and voting. I argue that non-state security reliance should increase most forms of political participation (except protest), but only when the state is viewed as legitimate. I find that those who rely on non-state security and see the state as legitimate, are less likely to vote, but more likely to engage in non-electoral forms of participation such as protest and collective action. These results suggest that non-state security provision is key to shaping individual political attitudes and behavior in South Africa and other sub-Saharan African countries.
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Title: Traditional terrain : land, gender, and cultural biodiversity preservation in Venda, South Africa
Creator: Ross, Kimberly Bernita
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study examines the colonial and apartheid frameworks manifest in South Africa's land act legacies and the specific impact on land administration, gender, and the environment in the former apartheid homeland of Venda, South Africa. These historical forces shape present-day neocolonialism and globalization in the region which challenge the rights and citizenship of Black South African women within traditional leadership structures--concurrent with the country's democracy. In Venda,...
Show moreThis study examines the colonial and apartheid frameworks manifest in South Africa's land act legacies and the specific impact on land administration, gender, and the environment in the former apartheid homeland of Venda, South Africa. These historical forces shape present-day neocolonialism and globalization in the region which challenge the rights and citizenship of Black South African women within traditional leadership structures--concurrent with the country's democracy. In Venda, politicians, traditional leaders, and multinational corporations reinforce colonial and apartheid gender ideologies which undermine Vhomakhadzi roles and eco-cultural knowledge practices. Vhomakhadzi are women who have historically played a central role in their clans by advising Vhamusanda (chiefs) on community affairs and presiding over customs that connect with environmental sustainability. Yet today, leaders and politicians ignore Vhomakhadzi warnings that development projects threaten biodiversity and food and water security in the region-- instead commencing with deals to establish foreign coal mines, commercial farms, casinos, and tourist resorts. This empirical study in particular investigates the environmental and community activism and cultural biodiversity preservation strategies of Vhomakhadzi of the community-based organization Dzomo La Mupo. Through ethnographic-style interviews, participant observation, and archival research, this scholarship analyzes the historical and present-day gender politics that have diminished cultural biodiversity. The study reveals that colonial social formations historically confronted the role of makhadzi and continues to undermine her authority today in a globalized, post-apartheid era.
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Title: The causes and consequences of electoral administrative reform in Africa
Creator: Kerr, Nicholas N.
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: In emerging democratic settings, scholars and policy experts regard electoral management bodies (EMBs) as one of the most important institutions in guaranteeing that political actors adhere to the rules of the electoral contest and that the substantive outcome of elections is not predetermined. Unfortunately, systematic and thorough assessment of EMBs has largely escaped the spotlight of democracy scholars.My dissertation probes two critical questions concerning the important, yet...
Show moreIn emerging democratic settings, scholars and policy experts regard electoral management bodies (EMBs) as one of the most important institutions in guaranteeing that political actors adhere to the rules of the electoral contest and that the substantive outcome of elections is not predetermined. Unfortunately, systematic and thorough assessment of EMBs has largely escaped the spotlight of democracy scholars.My dissertation probes two critical questions concerning the important, yet understudied role of electoral management bodies in emerging democracies. First, what factors influence the design of electoral administration in Africa? Second, what are the consequences of electoral administrative design and performance on the quality of elections in Africa?To answer the first question, I propose a theoretical framework, grounded in historical institutionalism, which attributes election administrative reform to the strategic interactions of domestic and international actors along with the path dependency of institutional legacies during different stages of democracy. Through a comparative analysis of election administrative reforms in a cross-section of African countries, I emphasize the complexity of the reform process and highlight various models of institutional reform. I argue, however, that incumbents are more likely to enact reforms that enhance the autonomy and capacity of electoral administration when they face credible and enduring pressure from a coalition of opposition parties, civil society groups and international actors.In subsequent chapters, I turn my attention to the consequences of electoral administrative design and performance. Primarily, I consider how EMB design and performance may shape the incentives and behaviors of political elite and regular citizens. Using cross-national data on election administrative design and performance in Africa from 1990 to 2008 and data on elites' and citizens' perspectives of election quality, I find EMB performance has the greatest impact on electoral attitudes and behavior. That is, EMBs that display higher levels of actual autonomy and capacity are more likely to enhance electoral integrity by reducing opportunities for electoral fraud, lowering the incidence of procedural irregularities and enhancing citizens' quality of participation in electoral processes. In the penultimate chapter of the dissertation, I rely on survey data from the 2007 and 2011 Nigerian elections to consider whether citizens' personal evaluations of electoral administrative autonomy and capacity are positively associated with their perceptions of election quality. The findings confirm my expectations, even after accounting for Nigerians' experience with electoral irregularities and their political preferences.I use a variety of methods in my dissertation. These include large-n statistical analysis of survey data and other data, as well as small-n comparative analysis of election management in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe using process tracing and content analysis. This multi-method approach also includes collecting original cross-national data on election administrative design in Africa, conducting elite interviews in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and observing elections in Ghana (2008) and Nigeria (2011).
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