What do the xenophobic attacks reveal about the health of South African society?

Analysis of Cybercrime and Cyber Attacks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic was a remarkable and unprecedented event that changed the lives of billions of citizens around the world and resulted in what is known as a new term in terms of social norms and lifestyles. In addition to the tremendous impact on society and business in general, the epidemic created a unique set of cybercrime circumstances that also affected society and business. Increased...

Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa

Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa * We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, collected in Mozambique in summer 2008, a few months after a series of xenophobic attacks in South Africa kil...

Mistaking the Map for the Territory: What Society Does With Medicine; Comment on “Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine”

Van Dijk et al describe how society’s influence on medicine drives both medicalisation and overdiagnosis, and allege that a major political and ethical concern regarding our increasingly interpreting the world through a biomedical lens is that it serves to individualise and depoliticize social problems. I argue that for medicalisation to serve this purpose, it would have to exclude the possibil...

High Stakes Require More Than Just Talk: What to Do About Corruption in Health Systems; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

Reluctance to talk about corruption is an important barrier to action. Yet the stakes of not addressing corruption in the health sector are higher than ever. Corruption includes wrongdoing by individuals, but it is also a problem of weak institutions captured by political interests, and underfunded, unreliable administrative systems and healthcare delivery models. We ur...

Harassment: what it is and what you can do about it.