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Youth entrepreneurial pathways: gendered experiences of African graduates
No full textPaper presented at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum Rabat, Morocco, 10 JulyN/
Bridging innovation and inequality: job losses and African perspectives on artificial intelligence
No full textArtificial intelligence (AI) is transforming South Africa’s labour market, social systems and cultural identity. This article assesses its socio-economic effects from an African perspective, focusing on the voices of marginalised communities. It emphasises the need for ethical governance, inclusive innovation and policies that reflect local culture to ensure AI promotes shared values like ubuntu rather than worsening inequality or undermining human dignity.N/
Innovation trends in the transport, storage and communication sector, 2019-2021
No full textThis brief is one of eight sector-specific analyses drawn from the South African Business Innovation Survey 2019-2021. It provides deeper insight into innovation trends in the transport, storage and communication sector, so that businesses can compare and benchmark their innovation activities. Industry associations and policymakers can use the data in their efforts to mobilise and support innovation activities across the sector
What is really holding back drone adoption in South African agriculture?
No full textAgriculture is undergoing a quiet but radical transformation across the globe. Technologies once viewed as futuristic, such as drones, are rapidly becoming integral tools on modern farms. According to DJI Agriculture’s 2024 Agricultural Drone Industry Insight Report, over 300 000 agricultural drones are now in operation across more than 100 countries, contributing to higher yields, reduced chemical usage and notable water savings. However, in South Africa, the adoption of this technology in agriculture remains somewhat limited.N/
African continental free trade potential for South Africa’s renewable energy
No full textThe African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which has been in effect since 2021, can be utilised by African governments as a de-risking strategic investment framework to inform their innovative systematic approach to establishing a regional solar alliance. This alliance can be conceptualised as an intergovernmental
treaty that provides African mining organisations with a platform to trade raw, unrefined minerals and processed mineral products with member states that have signed the AfCFTA agreement.
Grasping the regimes of language, space and identity in the visual of post-apartheid higher education in South Africa
No full textIn 2014, through the University of the Free State's (UFS) Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice (IRSJ), three South African universities partnered to collaborate on the pilot phase of a research project focused on understanding whether the Arts could enable social cohesion, as the 2012 National Development Plan (2030) had promoted. The project, which had been conceptualised by one of the authors of this article in early 2014,1 followed both experience and observation of the challenges with regards this concept in the Arts, Culture and Heritage sectors of South Africa. Subsequent reflection and questioning of some of the related challenges, problematised the role that higher education had in societal transformation, and accordingly, in the conceptual development of social cohesion: Were universities creating appropriate conceptual frameworks and praxes required for the post-apartheid South African context? The disruption created by the 2008 'Reitz Video' and the UFS's subsequent decision to critically explore the meanings and trajectories thereof as part of the university's
transformation process, opened an important space also for the interrogation of concepts like that of 'Arts' and 'Social Cohesion' in South Africa. The 'Reitz Video' when read as a 'Visual', signaled the need to not only understand and address racism more substantively, but also the need to understand the power of the visual in the disruption of outdated social imaginaries and, in the production of what the new social imaginaries could also be.
A spatial analysis of national birth records. a decade of teenage pregnancy in South Africa, 2014–2023: a spatial analysis of national birth records.
No full textTeenage pregnancy remains a significant and multifaceted public health concern within the South African context. This public health threat has led to a disproportionate prevalence of HIV among female youth, along with increased maternal and child mortality rates. This retrospective cohort study employed birth record data from South Africa. This study employed descriptive statistics and the Pearson Chi-Square Test of Independence to analyze the statistical differences in the prevalence of teenage pregnancy. The Global Moran’s I was employed to analyze spatial autocorrelation, and the Local Moran’s I was subsequently utilized to identify hotspots of teenage pregnancy. In the past decade, births to mothers under the age of 20 constituted 13.0% of a total of 9,609,356 births, amounting to 1,249,074 births. Teenage pregnancy rates were markedly elevated from 2014 to 2018 in comparison to the period from 2019 to 2023 (13.7% versus 12.3%, p<0.001). Late registration of teenage births occurred at a significantly higher rate (34.8%, p<0.001). The Global Moran’s I value of 0.5641 (z-score=6.29; p<0.001) demonstrates a strong and statistically significant positive spatial autocorrelation. The Local Moran’s I identified two significant High-High clusters extending from northern KwaZulu-Natal into the Eastern Cape. This study's findings highlight the necessity for a focused intervention to tackle teenage pregnancy in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, concentrating on the identified hotspots. Interventions should prioritize comprehensive sex education for youth and enhance access to contraception and family planning services. District-level health departments can utilize these findings to identify and prioritize high-risk areas. Spatial insights should guide local planning, particularly regarding outreach and mobile health services.
Innovation trends in the electricity, gas and water supply sector, 2019-2021
No full textThis brief examines how much innovation happened in the sector from 2019 to 2021, including the types of technologies businesses used, the innovation challenges they faced, and the outcomes of their innovations
