PRETORIA, 08 February 2021 – More than 95 per cent of children in South Africa have access to the Internet regularly, but their risky online behaviour can expose them to online violence, exploitation and abuse, according to the 'SA Kids Online Study' released by UNICEF last year. The 'SA Kids Online Study' shows that children primarily use the …

Instances like South Africa, where the top 10% owns 90% of the entire country's wealth, display the economic effects of an unequal society. The situation is so dire that there are some undeniable parallels between existing and colonial economies. Clearly, although African governments have had time to establish successful countries, the ...

Bihar, a state of India, is a region, whose glorious history can be compared to a few rare civilizations in the world which played an important role in the development of mankind. The role of Bihar…

Raj Kumar Shukla may have been an "ignorant, unsophisticated" farmer from rural Bihar but the truth is, it was this stubborn peasant who compelled Mohandas …

The Canary Current region comprises North West Africa, experiences strong seasonal upwellings driving an exceptionally high productivity and is home to West Africa's largest Marine Protected Area –The Banc D′Arguin National Park. Over 3300 industrial vessels (20% foreign) and 54,000 artisanal and subsistence pirogues catch over 6.4 …

Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the mining sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Whilst SGBV can be experienced by anyone, this paper predominantly explores the experiences of women. Notably, it adopts an analytical framework examining mani-

2.1 Who is the first owner of copyright in each of the works protected (other than where questions 2.2 or 2.3 apply)? The general rule pertaining to ownership of copyright is that the author of the work is also the first owner of the copyright vesting therein, and in the case of a work of joint authorship, copyright vests with the co-authors …

Despite having the second-largest economy in Africa and the largest gross domestic product in SADC, South Africa still faces challenges of unemployment, poverty, and low international ...

Restoration of estuarine function to the Lake St Lucia system, the largest estuary in South Africa, was initiated in 2010. Significant change began with the reversal of a mouth management policy ...

Introduction. Urbanisation has been rapidly increasing in developing countries in recent decades, particularly in Africa and Asia (World Bank, 2018).According to United Nations projections, by 2050, more than two-thirds of the world's population is expected to live in urban areas (United Nations, 2011).

Grassland and forests together make up more than 50% of the whole continent, while desert, barren, and unproductive areas – classified as 'other land' – …

The sub-Saharan is the area in the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara and consists of four vast and distinct regions, i.e., Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Western Africa, and Southern Africa. …

Continental South Africa has a coastline of some 3,650 km and an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of just over 1 million km2. Waters in the EEZ extend to a depth of 5,700 m, with more than 65% deeper than 2,000 m. Despite its status as a developing nation, South Africa has a relatively strong history of marine taxonomic research and …

South African apartheid laws between the 1940s to the late 1980s kept black families in poor rural areas, formally known as Bantustans, which weren't considered part of South Africa.

Area 38,301 square miles (99,200 square km). Pop. (2011) 103,804,637. Land Relief, drainage, and soils. The state is naturally divided by the Ganges (Ganga) River into two regions—the North Bihar Plains …

INSIDE SOUTH AFRICA: EXPLOITATION, DISSENT AND REPRESSION Introduction This attempt to outline the nature of the South African state, the resulting patterns of exploitation and repression, and the resurgence of protest, is intended as an introduction to a documentary survey. The survey, focusing on the Black1 Consciousness Movement …

Migration and mobilities are vastly underestimated in India. In particular, circular migration remains poorly captured as circular migrants move back and forth between source and destination regions. Based on survey data from rural Bihar, an important source region of migration in India, this paper finds that a vast majority of …

Welcome to South Bihar Power Distribution Company Ltd. वैसे आवेदनकर्ता जिन्होंने नए विधुत सम्बन्ध हेतु सुविधा ऍप अथवा NBPDCL/SBPDCL वेब पोर्टल के माध्यम से आवेदन दिया है एवं ...

Distribution of migrants. Based on the data obtained in the Census 2011, it was found that the distribution of migrants to the total population across cities were, Delhi 43.1%, Mumbai, 54.9% ...

South Africa: Broken and unequal education perpetuating poverty and inequality. The South African education system, characterised by crumbling infrastructure, overcrowded classrooms and relatively poor educational outcomes, is perpetuating inequality and as a result failing too many of its children, with the poor hardest hit …

Even in areas such as South Africa where land scarcity has been more acute, recent work shows that rural areas are productive agricultural sites (e.g., ...

REPRESSION. Introduction. This attempt to outline the nature of the South African state, the. resulting patterns of exploitation and repression, and the resurgence of. protest, is …

In rural areas, NTFPs bring economic, social, ... thus providing incentives to conserve forested land, and NTFP exploitation provided a more sustainable basis for forest management ... livelihoods and poverty alleviation in a semi-arid region of South Africa. World Develop. 36:505–526. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.03.003.

But South Africans who were not so liberal in Apartheid South Africa will jump up and down claiming undue State interference in the economy. If there is exploitation on a massive scale then such interference is warranted. Importantly, paying people enough to live on would mean there are more people for municipalities to tax.

1 INTRODUCTION. Land degradation is a negative trend in land conditions, caused by direct or indirect human-induced processes including anthropogenic climate change, expressed as long-term reduction or loss of biological productivity, ecological integrity or value to humans (IPCC, 2019).Land degradation affects 3.2 …

Under South Africa's apartheid, several million African "Blacks", one of the racial categories under this system of racial segregation, were forced to move and live in …

In exploitation colonies, the colonisers used force to crush resistance and maintain control. They did not displace or kill indigenous societies; instead they made use of their labour. ... Portuguese expansion into Africa began with the desire of King John I to gain access to the gold-producing areas of West Africa. The trans-Saharan trade ...

Bihar's total flood-affected area is 68.80 lacs hectare, which is 73% of its geographical area and 17.20% of the country's total flood-affected area. Footnote 5. ... it is still the major irrigation system in south Bihar. ... It is reported that the State Government is planning to bring a new law to check groundwater exploitation in Bihar.

This study specifically examines how GBV impacts on home-based learning, which has become the norm, in rural areas in South Africa. The article draws on secondary sources of information, including reports and academic publications, to illustrate the extent and nature of GBV prevalent in South Africa, and identifies vulnerability …

Child Abuse Research: A South African Journal 2012, 13(1):62-73 Human trafficking and the exploitation of women and children in a Southern and South African context DN Swart Department of Criminology, University of South Africa Email: [email protected] Human trafficking in South Africa is a serious problem which needs intervention on all fronts.