Abstract This dissertation explores four key questions within the HIV/AIDS paradigm1 and the impact it is having on orphans and vulnerable children in the district of Quthing, Lesotho. These questions are: What is the ...

Management and leadership has, over the years, become the critical ingredient in organisational theory and practice. From its earliest conception and as studies of these practices developed, professionals occupying these ...

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Focus in public health research is shifting to the role of socio-economic factors in the promotion of health. Hence, an understanding of the roles socio-economic factors plays in improving health and health-seeking ...

The present study examines the relationship between the practices of schooling and classroom teaching and learning on the one hand and learners’ cognitive development and functioning on the other. The study uses innovative ...

Background: Adolescent fertility is a major health concern because it is associated with higher morbidity and mortality for both the mother and child. In Zambia, the total fertility rate is very high. As a result, adolescent ...

Trauma is the leading cause of death in children. Burns represent the second most common cause of accidental death in children under the age of five. Burns are amongst the most traumatic injuries and may impose significant ...

Abstract While mining has been a source of livelihood for many Basotho families since the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s, have seen progressive decline in the number of migrant mine workers in South Africa’s ...

This qualitative study conducted in South Africa, explores the socio-economic integration of Congolese migrants living in Johannesburg. Drawing on respondents own subjective experiences, this study investigates the way ...

The dissertation employs insights from critical race theory and the environmental justice literature, questioning the sustainability of dominant state policies concerning development of informal settlements. The work ...