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  • Energy impoverishment and burns: The case for an expedited, safe and inclusive energy transition in South Africa 
    Van Niekerk, Ashley; Kimemia, David; Seedat, Mohamed; Annegarn, Harold (SAJS, 2022-03-29)
    Energy poverty is the constrained access to modern forms of energy. In South Africa, energy impoverished communities are dependent on a mixture of solid fuels (e.g. wood or coal) and hydrocarbons such as paraffin. These, ...
  • Energy poverty, shack fires and childhood burns 
    Kimemia, David; Van Niekerk, Ashley (2017)
    Burn injuries are a persisting challenge in South Africa. Energy poverty, prevalent in under-resourced communities, is a key contributor to the problem. The energy-poor rely on solid fuels and flammable hydrocarbons, ...
  • Energy Transitions in the Global South and Africa: Policy Imperatives, System Dynamics and Challenges 
    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 ...
  • Engaging minibus taxi drivers in the quest for child safer roads 
    Janmohammed, Aliasgher; Van Niekerk, Ashley; Samuels, Ruwayda; Naidoo, Marcella (2019)
    South Africa has double the world average child road fatality rate, with at least 1 300 children killed every year. A leading contributor to this public health challenge is the lack of safe public transport that enables ...
  • EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RISK OF ROAD 
    Sukhai, Anesh; Jones, Andy; Haynes, Robyn (South African Geographical Journal, 2009)
    In view of the large and increasing road traffic fatality burden in South Africa, this study describes the distribution of the risk of fatal road traffic injuries according to population and rural-urban characteristics ...
  • Epidemiology of fatal burns in rural South Africa: A mortuaryregister-based study from Mpumalanga Province. 
    Blom, Lisa; van Niekerk, Ashley; Laflamme, Lucie (Elsevier, 2011)
    Aim: The study investigates the epidemiology of fatal burns in the predominantly rural province of Mpumalanga, South Africa. Method: The study is cross-sectional and investigates region specific data extracted from ...
  • Evaluating the construct validity of the KIDSCREEN-52 Quality 
    Taliep, Naiema; Florence, Maria (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)
    The absence of a suitable measure to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents in South Africa, led to the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire, which was developed and standardised ...
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Complex, Multi-component, Dynamic, Community Based Injury Prevention Interventions: A Statistical Framework 
    Bangdiwala, Shrikant I; Hassem, Tasneem; Swart, Lu-Anne; Van Niekerk, Ashley; Isobell, Deborah; Taliep, Naiema; Bulbulia, Samed; Suffla, Shahnaaz; Seedat, Mohamed (2018)
    Dynamic violence and injury prevention interventions located within community settings raise evaluation challenges by virtue of their complex structure, focus, and aims. They try to address many risk factors simulta ...
  • Examining the Dynamics of Belonging and Alienation in Higher Education Through Photovoice 
    Cornell, Josephine; Kessi, Shose; Ratele, Kopano (Sage Publishing, 2022-03-14)
    The higher education system globally is inherently inequitable. Discriminatory practices and oppressive power dynamics are particularly prevalent in the South African higher education landscape, which is characterized by ...
  • Expanding conceptions of liberation: Holding Marxisms with liberation psychology 
    Malherbe, Nick (2018)
    By considering how psychologists are able to hold (that is, support distinctive ontologies) Liberation Psychology (LP) with Marxisms, this article interrogates psychological approaches to liberation in two ways. First, ...
  • Fanon’s Decolonial Transcendence of Psychoanalysis 
    Maldonado-Torres, Nelson; Fanon Mendes France, Mireille; Suffla, Shahnaaz; Seedat, Mohamed; Ratele, Kopano (Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-17)
    Coloniality continues to invade the psychomaterial lives of the condemned. Invoking psychoanalysis and phenomenology to engage with modern psychopathologies and race, gender, and sexuality, Fanon developed seminal ideas ...
  • Fatal drowning in the Western Cape, South Africa: a 7-year retrospective, epidemiological study 
    Saunders, Colleen Jayne; Adriaanse, Robyn; Simons, Abigail; Van Niekerk, Ashley (2019)
    Introduction Drowning is a neglected public health threat in low-income and middle-income countries where the greatest drowning burden is observed. There is a paucity of drowning surveillance data from low-resource ...
  • Female homicidal strangulation in urban South Africa 
    Suffla, Shahnaaz; van Niekerk, Ashley; Arendse, Najuwa (BioMed Central, 2008-10-21)
    Background: Female strangulation in South Africa occurs in a context of pervasive and often extreme violence perpetrated against women, and therefore represents a major public health, social and human rights concern. ...
  • Fidelity of implementation of the building bridges mentoring intervention to prevent violence among youth in low income settings 
    Taliep, Naiema; Ismail, Ghouwa; Bulbulia, Abdulsamed (Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-10-26)
    Violence among youth is a major health and safety burden globally. There is a dearth in the development and evaluation of targeted interventions that addresses the multi-faceted nature of youth violence to ensure effectiveness ...
  • Fire-arm Related Homicides in Gauteng 
    Ratele, Kopano; Seedat, Mohamed; van Niekerk, Ashley; Pretorius, Karin; Suffla, Shahnaaz (MRC-UNISA, 2013-02)
    This fact sheet reports on firearm-related homicide, recorded by the National Injury Mortality Surveillance System (NIMSS), at nine forensic pathology services in the province of Gauteng for 2011, the latest year for ...
  • Four (African) psychologies 
    Ratele, Kopano (2017)
    n “What is African psychology the psychology of?,” Augustine Nwoye asks a question that continues to trouble those with an interest in psychology in relation to African societies. This question, in various semblances, ...
  • Frequently asked questions about African psychology 
    Ratele, Kopano (2017)
    Recent work on African psychology (Long, 2016; Makhubela, 2016; Nwoye, 2015) has restaged, and at times perhaps worsened, the decades-old confusion about the definition, scope, impetus for, and ultimate aims of an ...
  • From Gender Regimes to Violence Regimes: Re-thinking the Position of Violence 
    Hearn, Jeff; Strid, Sofia; Humbert, Anne Laure; Balkmar, Dag; Delaunay, Marine (Oxford Academic, 2020-09-08)
    What happens when we focus primarily on violence as a central question—either within the gender regime approach or by making violence regime an approach in itself? The article first interrogates gender regimes theoretically ...
  • From Gender Regimes to Violence Regimes: Re-thinking the Position of Violence 
    Hearn, Jeff; Strid, Sofia; Humbert, Anne Laure; Balkmar, Dag; Delaunay, Marine (2020)
    What happens when we focus primarily on violence as a central question—either within the gender regime approach or by making violence regime an approach in itself? The article first interrogates gender regimes theoretically ...
  • General Psychology Otherwise: A Decolonial Articulation 
    Decolonial Psychology Editorial Collective (Sage Publishing, 2021-10-18)
    Critics have faulted the project of general psychology for conceptions of general truth that (1) emphasize basic processes abstracted from context and (2) rest on a narrow foundation of research among people in enclaves ...

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