This study investigated the adjustment of twenty boys a year after they had been disengaged from Boys Town (SA). An exploratory descriptive design was used. Two questionnaires were administered, one to the twenty boys ...

The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act 53 of 2003 sought to redress the socioeconomic imbalances caused by South Africa’s apartheid laws. The Act included different strategies to give preference to ...

One of the population groups most acutely infected and affected by HIV/AIDS are adolescent females. Coercive practices and gender inequalities have been cited as important determinants of women’s HIV risk. This research ...

The main aim of the study was to investigate adolescents’ perceptions of the paternal/father figures’ involvement in their sexuality education. Other aims included to determine adolescents’ perception of paternal/father ...

Unplanned adolescent pregnancy is one of the challenges that South Africa has been dealing with for years. This challenge is further complicated by the soaring HIV/AIDS infection rates, particularly among young people. ...

The phenomenon of internal displacement dwarfs the refugee crisis world-wide. Forced migration, and more specifically internal displacement, looms as one of the largest and most poorly understood humanitarian challenges ...

Abstract We find giant graviton solutions in Frolov’s three parameter generalization of the Lunin-Maldacena background. This class of backgrounds provide a nonsupersymmetric example of the gauge theory/gravity correspondence ...

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ABSTRACT Organic wastewaters have always been a problem due to their increasing toxic threat to humans and the environment. The removal of organic compounds has become an important issue due to stringent measures introduced ...

BACKGROUND: Globally, perinatal mortality accounts for a large proportion of child deaths. Perinatal mortality rate (PNMR) is taken as an index of efficient obstetric care, and also serves as an indicator for the Millennium ...