Olive Shisana: change through science
SOURCE: The fabric of dissent: public intellectuals in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Bohler-Muller
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: HEALTH, INTELLIGENTSIA, SHISANA, OLIVE, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11755
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15797
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15797
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2020
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Bohler-Muller
SOURCE EDITOR(S): V.Reddy, N.Bohler-Muller, G.Houston, M.Schoeman, H.Thuynsma
KEYWORDS: HEALTH, INTELLIGENTSIA, SHISANA, OLIVE, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 11755
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/15797
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/15797
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Abstract
It is not often that one finds a woman with such commitment to research-based policy-making. As a black female scientist, Olive Shisana has made substantial contributions to healthcare research and practice in South Africa within a system that remains male-dominated. Shisana was 17 when she and her family were forcibly removed from their ancestral land at Makotopong, outside Pietersburg (Polokwane). At the time she and her husband, William Shisana, a wellknown industrial psychologist and former lecturer, were forced to leave the country as a young couple.-
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