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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"South African Youth"”.
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Behavioural preferences and labour market attachment among South African youth
Youth unemployment in South Africa remains a persistent and multifaceted challenge. This study explores how behavioural preferences—specifically risk aversion and probability weighting—vary across employment categories among South African youth. Using structural estimates from incentivised Multiple …
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Exploring the experiences of South African youth living with myasthenia gravis
This study explored experiences of South African youth living with Myasthenia Gravis (MG). Myasthenia gravis is a rare autoimmune disease marked by skeletal muscle weakness caused by the breakdown of communication between nerves and muscles at the neuromuscular junction. The aim was to understand …
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Addressing Injustices through MOOCs: A study among peri-urban, marginalised, South African youth
… preferences, and aspirations of marginalised South African youth and address the material, cultural-epistemic, political, and geopolitical injustices they face. To evaluate what South African peri-urban youth desire in their education and futures, as well as the challenges they experience, a …
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The nature and impact of cyberbullying among South African youth : an explanatory analysis
… and the extent of the problem is unknown in South Africa. Furthermore, inconsistencies between the various definitions has added to our understanding of the problem, and factors influencing cyberbullying are not comprehensively known. This dissertation proposes an alternate definition which …
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Prevalence and correlates of cyber-victimization in a nationally representative sample of South African youth
… in a nationally representative sample of South African children. We aim to determine the lifetime prevalence and last-year prevalence (i.e., annual incidence) of cyber-victimization, as well as the association of cyber-victimization with its correlates, based on a nationally representative …
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Prevalence and correlates of cyber-victimization in a nationally representative sample of South African youth
… in a nationally representative sample of South African children. We aim to determine the lifetime prevalence and last-year prevalence (i.e., annual incidence) of cyber- victimization, as well as the association of cyber-victimization with its correlates, based on a nationally …
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The power of peers: mobile youth culture, homophily and informal learning among a group of South African youth
… mobile literacies of a group of young people in South Africa. These young people (ages 13-17, n=18) were asked how they were learning about and using ICTs. The sample lived in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, and were members of a non-profit youth development organisation, Ikamva Youth, participating in …
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A small push goes a long way: An evaluation of the cumulative effects of a cash transfer on South African youth
… to reduce poverty and increase human capital. South Africa launched the child support grant (CSG) in 1998, an unconditional cash transfer for children below the age of seven. By 2017, the program boasted twelve million beneficiaries, with an upper age limit of eighteen. Globally, initial …
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Sport-related Concussion Incidence and Mechanism of Injury in Male and Female Players at the South African Youth Week Rugby Tournaments: 2011-2018
… popular international sport for male and female youth and adult players (6). Injury incidence including sport-related concussion (SRC) is high in youth rugby (7, 8) . This is concerning as youth are more vulnerable to SRC and take longer to recover from SRC than adults (9, 10). Females are also …
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Enabling a generation of social entrepreneurs: A study to establish if the practice of social entrepreneurship offers inclusive self-employment opportunities for disenfranchised South African youth
… to solutions that address the problems of youth unemployment, inequality and poverty in South Africa, specifically among those youth who are being marginalised from participating equally in mainstream economic activities. It argues that financial and digital exclusion, as well as poor …
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Greed or grievance : why is South African youth crime so violent in nature? : First world taste on a third world budget or simply marginalised from centre-stage?
… theory assist in making sense of the youth subcultures that are involved in criminal activity of a violent nature in the contemporary South African context? - T.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-219).
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Call on me : the cell phone : a multi-media tool of communication amongst South African youth and how it can be used to platform youth stories for media and advertising
… as a multimedia tool of communication amongst South African youth and looks at how it can be used to platform youth stories for media and advertising. The youth's connection to the cell phone has come to mean so much more than its actual technological functions. This media dissertation …
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Exploring South African youths' on/offline political participation
… study is located between the contradiction that youth is politically disinterested and that youth is very much politically engaged. Some scholars have argued that youth political disinterest is a threat to the life of the traditional public sphere and democracy. Against the notion of the youth's …
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Exploring perceptions of rural youth participation in political elections: A case study of Thulamela Municipality
Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa held elections every five years to promote democratic engagement and allow citizens to choose their representatives. Despite this democratic foundation, the political landscape revealed a concerning trend: South African youth increasingly became …
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A Theory and Process Evaluation of the Yabonga GAP Year Student Programme
… a significant need for positive outcomes amongst South African youth, especially given that they make up a considerable proportion of the population. This group is highly vulnerable and faced with a multitude of socio-economic challenges, particularly lack of resources and job opportunities, …
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Factors influencing the intention of youth to adopt electronic voting in South Africa
… In 2020, the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa stated its intention to introduce e-voting to lower the costs of voting, improve electoral transparency and efficiency, and to improve overall voter participation. There is, however, little research to explain the factors that could …
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The power of civic education in democratic socialization: an investigation of Cape Town high schools
Over the past 20 years, South Africa has utilized education as a means of promoting democracy and civic engagement in young learners. Previous research has shown that this socialization project has been ineffective at influencing South African youth towards civic responsibility, yet there is a lack …
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New distinctions : the impact of class and race on the cultural preferences of youth in Cape Town and Belo Horizonte
… of the reproduction of social inequality in South Africa largely focus on its historical, political and economical aspects while references to popular culture are commonly used to describe differences, often in combination with racial discourse, rather than explain them. As a result much of …
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An exploratory study of the experiences of young people in becoming agents of social change in Cape Town
… of social change stimulates personal growth, youth development, and improves future prospects for young people from developing communities. The young agents of social change in this study are mainly active within civil society and, like most South African youth, do not engage much with party …
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Factors that Influence Career Choice in South African Township High School Students
… in the lack of educational resources for Black South African high school students and the occupational deprivation they experience.</p> <p><strong>Objectives of Study:</strong> To collect data on students’ perceptions of career choice in township high schools, barriers prohibiting students from …
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