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Research outputs: RURAL COMMUNITIES
2011 Financial viability of rural municipalities in South Africa
Public finance is considered to be the overriding factor in determining the viability of local government. Presumably, without sound financi...
2011 Double trouble for couch potatoes: high blood pressure in a rural population in South Africa
Africa is faced with an increasing burden of hypertension, but a paucity of population-based evidence hinders effective preventive and contr...
Download this report2011 The perplexing problem of salvaging rural municipalities: service delivery and debt collection go hand in hand
The Auditor-General gave only seven out of 237 municipalities clean audits for the 2010-2011 financial year. This is no wonder, says HENDRIC...
Download this report2010 Predictors of risk of alcohol-exposed pregnancies among women in an urban and a rural area of South Africa
The study sought to determine the prevalence and predictors of being at risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy (AEP) among women of child-bear...