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The Economic Burden of Violence against Children in South Africa

The purpose of this study was to estimate the economic burden of violence against children in South Africa. We assembled summative estimates of lifetime prevalence, calculated the magnitude of associations with negative outcomes, and thereby estimated the economic burden of violence against children. According to our calculations, 2.3 million and 84,287 disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) lo...

The Problem of Violence against Women in South Africa

Violence against women is a scourge in our society. Not only does South Africa have one of the highest per capita rates of reported rape in the world,2 but studies that seek to identify the actual level of violence and abuse have documented levels of between 19% and 40% (Jewkes et al:1999).3 These figures correlate with estimates of coercive sex.4 In general, studies in South Africa have found ...

The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

Orthodontic management of achondroplasia in South Africa.

Out of Africa: Lessons from Park Management in South Africa

operations, and policies of park management in South Africa—specifically in regard to wildlife management—and how they contrast with park management in the U.S. Our discussion is especially relevant to protected areas in grassland, savanna, and shrubland biomes because both countries contain those habitat types (Licht et al. 2008). We focus on seven issues that may stimulate thought among U.S. ...