Family biography, fertility and memory-making in an AIDS-affected South African site
- Authors: Naidoo, Kammila
- Date: 2014-11-21
- Subjects: Family biography , Life history , AIDS (Disease)
- Type: Article
- Identifier: uj:5605 , ISSN 1081602x , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14336
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‘Getting involved on campus’ : student identities, student politics, and perceptions of the Student Representative Council (SRC)
- Authors: Nyundu, Tony , Naidoo, Kammila , Chagonda, Tapiwa
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Student Representative Council (SRC) , Gender differences , Racial identity
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/69599 , uj:17888 , Citation: Nyundu, T., Naidoo, K. & Chagonda, T. 2015. ‘Getting involved on campus’ : student identities, student politics, and perceptions of the Student Representative Council (SRC).
- Description: Abstract: Since 1976 when school students in Soweto took to the streets in active defiance of the apartheid state, students as a political constituency have always been admired, noted and feared for the political positions they have taken and campaigns launched. South African student organisations in the 1980s and 1990s a ligned themselves with mass democratic movements and engaged with and shaped their agendas. Commentators suggest however, that the nature and character of student organisations have changed in post-apartheid South Africa, and consequently, also students’ interest in ‘getting involved’. With regard to SRCs, while many authors argue that SRCs are no longer a ‘revolutionary force’ and have become either retrogressive or disempowered, others suggest that more effort needs to be made to understand the content of ‘new’ SRCs in post-apartheid South Africa and their appeal to diverse student populations. This paper seeks to establish the attitudes of University of Johannesburg (UJ) students towards voting for, and supporting, the Students Representative Council (SRC), and, for involving themselves in student politics at UJ. In making sense of students’ perceptions, the paper probes differences and similarities in terms of four key factors: gender, race, year of study, and residential background.
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Traditional healers , their services and the ambivalence of South African youth
- Authors: Nyundu, Tony , Naidoo, Kammila
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Young men in Chiawelo , Traditional healers , Indigenous knowledge systems
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/225054 , uj:22721 , Citation: Nyundu, T. & Naidoo, K. 2016. Traditional healers , their services and the ambivalence of South African youth. Commonwealth youth and development, 14(1):144–155. , ISSN: 1727-7140
- Description: Abstract: In the aftermath of the Marikana massacre in 2012, a number of observers raised questions about young men’s traditional beliefs. Did young miners apply muthi on their bodies believing that they would be invincible in the face of police bullets? How do young men generally, in the course of wrestling everyday challenges, draw on ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ medicine? The findings in the literature seem to be contradictory and mediated by age differentials, educational levels, and place of residence. In this article, both qualitative and quantitative evidence is drawn upon to offer insight into the views of young men in a particular site: Chiawelo, in Soweto. The study suggests that while young men do not hold a special place for traditional healers in their lives, their insecure life circumstances and the dynamics of the groups to which they affiliate, lead them when necessary to consult traditional healers for immediate or out-of-the-ordinary help, particularly if trusted institutions do not provide satisfactory assistance. The study links and uses the theoretical constructs, ‘socialisation’, ‘habitus’ and ‘anomie’.
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Vulnerability and resilience of female farmers in Oku, Cameroon, to climate change
- Authors: Azong, Matilda , Kelso, Clare J. , Naidoo, Kammila
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Vulnerability , Cameroon , Gender
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/276054 , uj:29522 , Citation: Azong, M., Kelso, C.J. & Naidoo, K. 2018. Vulnerability and resilience of female farmers in Oku, Cameroon, to climate change. In African Sociological Review, 22 (1): 31‐53.
- Description: Abstract: The experience of climate change is filtered through ones existing cultural, social and economic vulnerabilities. The rural poor in natural resource dependent communities in various African countries are likely to be negatively affected by climate change. In many cultures female farmers are considerably worse off than their male counterparts. This study makes use of a life history methodology in order to examine the particular nature of the vulnerability experienced by rural women in Oku in the Bamenda Highlands region of Cameroon. Gender is linked to vulnerability through a number of factors. These include access to and control over land, division of labour, marriage relationships, access to education and responsibility for dependents. Participants’ life histories show how vulnerability in the region develops over time and is both complex and non‐linear. Nevertheless, the participants expressed how they used their agency, both individual and collective, in coping with vulnerability. They narrate different adaptation strategies employed including livelihood diversification, and changing farming practices. Understanding the role of gender in shaping women’s vulnerability is useful in informing the design and implementation of adaptation policies. This article makes an empirical contribution to the discussions on the need to engender climate change research, policy and actions.
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Engaging the 'Missing Men' in the HIV treatment cascade : creating a tailored intervention to im-prove men's uptake of HIV care services in rural South Africa : a study protocol
- Authors: Adeagbo, Oluwafemi , Naidoo, Kammila
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: Men , Stigma , HIV care , Candidacy framework
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/487837 , uj:44423 , Citation: Adeagbo, O.; Naidoo, K. Engaging the ‘Missing Men’ in the HIV Treatment Cascade: Creating a Tailored Intervention to Improve Men’s Uptake of HIV Care Services in Rural South Africa: A Study Protocol. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 3709. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ijerph18073709 , DOI: 10.3390/ijerph18073709
- Description: Abstract: Men, especially young men, have been consistently missing from the HIV care cascade, leading to poor health outcomes in men and ongoing transmission of HIV in young women in South Africa. Although these men may not be missing for the same reasons across the cascade and may need different interventions, early work has shown similar trends in men’s low uptake of HIV care services and suggested that the social costs of testing and accessing care are extremely high for men, particularly in South Africa. Interventions and data collection have hitherto, by and large, focused on men in relation to HIV prevention in women and have not approached the problem through the male lens. Using the participatory method, the overall aim of this study is to improve health outcomes in men and women through formative work to co-create male-specific interventions in an HIV-hyper endemic setting in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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