20 June 2005
Key finding: Overall, 12.7% of all educators are HIV positive. HIV prevalence is the highest in the 25?34 age group (21.4%), followed by the 35?44 age group (12.8%). Those educators 55 years and older had the lowest HIV prevalence (3.1%). There are…
03 June 2005
The general public even many professionals understand relatively little about the realities of the sexual abuse of young children: Child sexual abuse is not new to South Africa or the region. Child molestation has occurred throughout history and in…
There is very little research on the incidence and prevalence of child abuse in South Africa, and available research uses a variety of definitions of child abuse. There are similar problems with national data collection systems, such as those of the…
Policy and law: Many laws and policies are in place in South Africa to protect children?s rights and to improve child protection and services to abused children. A draft national strategy on child abuse and neglect has been formulated. It remains to…
The book makes two key points regarding the treatment of sexually abused children: A fairly diverse range of clinical services and treatment programmes has been implemented in the region. These range from fairly well-resourced, clinical interventions…
02 June 2005
The school system does not produce enough students with the requisite passes in higher-grade mathematics and physical science to cope with the country’s human resources demands. So while progress has been made, the number of African school…
South African economic policy in the past decade has successfully promoted export growth but has not brought about more pressing improvements in employment and overall economic growth. Indeed, a series of chapters in the HSRC?s HRD Review 2003 argue…
Engineers have played a crucial role in the industrial development of South Africa but it appears that their importance is declining, largely because of a declining employer demand for their skills. There is a shift in new recruitment towards…
A major challenge for an analysis of the ICT workforce lies in the very volatile nature of ICT itself: as a group of technologies that are not stable and in a process of ongoing change. As the utility of ICT is discovered across different economic…
The National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) of 2001 has great potential to reverse the low skills levels of the past few decades in South Africa. That is so because at the heart of the new institutional regime for skills formation lies better…
