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2021 Complex trauma and its relation to hope and hopelessness among young people in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa

Informed by an existing hope scale, we explored the roles of hope, happiness, and life satisfaction in adolescent risk behaviours in rural K...

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2021 Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth in the Post School Education and Training (PSET) sector in South Africa

While many believe that exposure to COVID-19 affects mostly the elderly, youth are not impervious to the novel coronavirus. However, young p...

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2021 'My friends would laugh at me': embedding the dominant heterosexual script in the talk of primary school students

The dominant 'heterosexual script' positions men as sexually desiring subjects who initiate sex and use active displays of power to attract ...

2021 'Covid has created some other opportunities': cautious optimism among young African graduates navigating life in a time of pandemic

This paper reports on the various impacts the Coronavirus pandemic has had on a cohort of recent African university graduates currently enro...