Items in UNISA Institutional Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Please acknowledge publications according to acceptable standards and norms.
Throughout its history, capitalism has undertaken its extractive, imperial, and expropriative
operations under the sign of democracy. Psychology has played a part in the ideological
consolidation of capitalist democracy, ...
For many, anti-capitalism signifies too much and thus lacks the political conviction
needed to inform left-wing strategy and tactics. What remains neglected, though, is
how anti-capitalism can function as an organisational ...
The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a
profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially
devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A ...
Globally, the appraisal of educators remains a contested issue as the process, which aims to provide support
and development to educators, is generally considered a punitive measure for educators. Within the South
African ...
Assuming an autoethnographic orientation and a shifting performative lettering style, I write posthumously to my mother
in response to her question, what do professors do? The letter is a reflexive contribution to ...
The novel virus SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, has had a profound global impact on health, social wellbeing, and economies, with especially devastating effects on vulnerable populations. A ...
Mohamed, Hamza E. A.; Khalil, Ali T.; Hkiri, Khaoula; Ayaz, Muhammad; Abbasi, Jamil A.; Sadiq, Abdul; Ullah, Farhat; Nawaz, Asif; Ullah, Ikram; Maaza, Malik(2023-02-25)
Abstract
Hyphaene thebaica fruits were used for the fabrication of spherical erbium oxide nanoparticles (HT-Er2O3 NPS) using a one-step simple bioreduction process. XRD pattern revealed a highly crystalline ...
Kimemia, David; Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo; Van Niekerk, Ashley(2022)
Energy poverty is pervasive with significant health and well-being ramifications,
especially for the Global South (United Nations Environment Program [UNEP], 2021).
Energy-impoverished communities are those that are ...
Within a dynamic global political arena, the economic ramifications of the
COVID-19 pandemic, energy impoverishment, ever-increasing global
awareness of climate change, energy justice and just energy transition have ...
Cornell, Josephine; Malherbe, Nick; Seedat, Mohamed; Suffla, Shahnaaz(Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice,, 2022)
Researchers have played a significant role in influencing the public’s critical engagement with the South African Police Service (SAPS). Resultantly, SAPS officers tend to be wary and/or untrusting of researchers. In the ...
Swart, Lu-Anne; Taliep, Naiema; Ismail, Ghouwa; Van Niekerk, Ashley(BMC Public Health, 2022)
Background: This study assessed the influence of social, economic, and psychological factors on South African’s
responsiveness to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the South African government responded quickly to manage ...
The high levels of protest in South Africa have produced varied academic literature on the subject. Although political and structural determinants of protest are readily acknowledged, social actors who comprise protest ...
Van Niekerk, Ashley; Govender, Rajen; Kimemia, David(Taylor & Francis, 2022-04-27)
Assault burns comprise a significant subset of burns, with a greater risk of severe injuries. This South African study used a national dataset from major hospitals to identify risks and injury characteristics of assault ...
Ikem, Patrick Afamefune; Oladejo, Abiodun Omotayo(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-05-25)
Although Nigerian elections are sufficiently observed by domestic and international observer groups, the frequent pronouncements of religious leaders claiming to have supernatural insights into election outcomes have never ...
A month after I was raped I am sitting in the waiting room of the Heideveld Thutuleza Care Centre waiting
to have an HIV test. On the couch opposite me, there is another womxn.1 She looks about eighteen. She is
Black. ...
How might an African based knowledge critically cast doubt upon globally
hegemonic notions and traditions in understanding and theorizing men and
masculinities? This essay examines this question through a critical ...