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Accountability of School Stakeholders in Ensuring Orphaned Children's School Attendance
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Ogina, Teresa A.; Ramare, Norman M. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2019
Background: In recent years, there appears to have been more interest than ever in the education of orphaned children, especially in terms of their school attendance. Although some studies have reported on the efforts of caregivers, teachers, government, Non-Governmental Organisations and others in providing the educational needs of orphaned…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Children, Stakeholders
Gender Differences in Risk for Intimate Partner Violence among South African Adults
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Gass, Jesse D.; Stein, Dan J.; Williams, David R.; Seedat, Soraya – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Despite a high prevalence of intimate partner violence in South Africa, few epidemiological studies have assessed individual risk factors and differential vulnerability by gender. This study seeks to analyze gender differences in risk for intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration according to childhood and adult risk factors in a…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Low Income, Incidence, Educational Attainment
HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for Child Rape Survivors in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Who Qualifies and Who Complies?
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Collings, Steven J.; Bugwandeen, Shikaar R.; Wiles, Wendy A. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: Our objective was to audit the provision and utilization of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to child rape survivors in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Methods: A prospective design was used to collect data from a convenience sample of 200 consecutive cases of child rape referred for medico-legal assessment to a state…
Descriptors: Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Countries, Therapy
Children at War.
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Hickson, Joyce – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1992
Describes experiences of children and adolescents in South Africa who have been subjected to the violence of the apartheid state. Discusses detention of children and torture and assault of detained children. Against this backdrop, explores the effects of violence on children, psychological trauma, counseling interventions, and applications of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Apartheid, Child Abuse, Children
Street Children in South Africa: Findings from Interviews on the Background of Street Children in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Le Roux, Johann – Adolescence, 1996
Findings from interviews of street children in Pretoria, South Africa, are presented, discussed, and compared with past research. Indicates the average age of South African street children is 13 years. Most are males of African origin; have been on the streets three years or longer; and cited family violence, parental alcoholism, abuse, and…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
Rights of the Child in South Africa: Violence against Girls in South Africa.
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Benninger-Budel, Carin – 2000
This report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child contains observations of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) concerning the application of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child by the nation of South Africa. Noting that the Convention is the only "mainstream" human rights instrument that…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Safety, Child Welfare