From HSRC Press
South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey, 2017
Towards achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets
Price - R350
Authors: Simbayi LC, Zuma K, Zungu N et al.
Pub month and year: September 2019
ISBN soft cover: 978-0-7969-2444-5
Format: 280 mm x 210 mm
Extent: 256
About the book
The 2017 HIV and Health Study is the fifth wave of a series of cross-sectional surveys undertaken every few years by a research consortium led by the HSRC. The consortium includes local researchers from the South African Medical Research Council, National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Global Clinical & Viral Laboratories, University of Cape Town, and international researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNAIDS, and UNICEF.
This study is key to maintaining surveillance of HIV infection and behaviour in South Africa, and to obtaining a better understanding of factors driving the HIV epidemic.
The South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey, 2017 is crucial for the government, policy makers and all stakeholders who work towards reducing the HIV epidemic in the country and reaching the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets.
Equitable rural socioeconomic change
Land, Climate dynamics, Technological Innovation
Price - R280
Volume editor: Peter Jacobs
Pub month and year: March 2019
ISBN soft cover: 978-0-7969-2532-9
ISBN (PDF): 978-0-7969-2572-5
Format: 240 mm x 168 mm
Extent: 256
Rights: World Rights
About the book
More and more of global economic wealth and decision-making power rests with fewer and fewer people, while acute socioeconomic inequities continue to afflict large rural communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Land inequalities remain a burning question for rural communities.
Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change brings together original reflections on the intricacies of economic and social transformations that are unfolding in the rural areas of developing countries, and provides a fresh and authentic perspective. This compelling book revisits dominant but exhausted conceptions of rural livelihoods to expose their analytical flaws and thematic limitations.
The interacting themes of land, climate dynamics and technological innovation are brought into a coherent whole through a re-examination of the lens of unequal ownership, and control and use of a society’s productive means.
Equitable Rural Socioeconomic Change is the first multidimensional and integrated analysis of rural socioeconomic change anchored around rising structural polarisation in the 21st century.
Fatima Meer
Price - R280
About the book
Fatima Meer was an intellectual, academic, writer and activist – a tireless fighter for social justice and human rights. Her intellectual work sought to intertwine place, identity and ethical commitment. In 1994, Fatima declined a parliamentary seat due to her preference to work in the non-governmental sector. She did however serve the ANC government in several capacities. Meer died in 2010 at the age of 81. In her introductory essay, author Shireen Hassim deftly weaves a narrative in which Meer’s distinctive individuality as an academic and activist unfolds. In particular, the reader comes to understand how Meer’s sense of a common humanity critically informed her stance in the world.
Fatima Meer, published by the HSRC Press, is the first book in the Voices of Liberation series that showcases an Indian woman who uniquely straddled the worlds of academia and activism. Each book in the series features an analytical essay by a scholar, a selection from the body of work produced by the eponymous subject, including interviews, as well as short introductions by the editor that contextualise each extract.
SASAS - Family Matters
Family cohesion, values and wellbeing
Price - R320
Editors: Zitha Mokomane, Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig, and Steven Gordon
Imprint: HSRC Press
Pub month and year: May 2019
ISBN soft cover: 978-0-7969-2526-8
Format: 240 mm x 168 mm
Extent: 392
About the book
‘The family’ has become a significant and growing focus of study across a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities, social sciences and law. In South Africa, there have been controversy and substantial debate over an apparent ‘crisis of the family’ during the last two decades.
Ideological contestations have emerged over social morality and appeals for a return to traditional ‘family values’. In order to provide a better understanding of the supposed ‘crisis of the family’, it is necessary to use public opinion data to explore family cohesion, family values and the promotion of family life.
SASAS - Family Matters: Family cohesion, values and wellbeing promotes the family by drawing on unique data to offer insight into the diverse realities of contemporary family life in South Africa. It explores a series of family-related values and preferences and charts the basis and nature of support for policy intervention in the family.
Independence and Revolution in Portuguese-Speaking Africa
Aquino de Braganca: selected articles & interviews 1980 - 1986
Price - R270
Authors: Marco Mondaini and Colin Darch
Pub month and year: March 2019
ISBN soft cover: 978-0-7969-2433-9
ISBN (pdf): 978-0-7969-2432-2
Format: 210 mm x 148 mm
Extent: 224
About the book
Aquino de Bragança was a close advisor to Samora Machel, former president of Mozambique. Both lost their lives when their plane crashed at Mbuzini in October 1986.
Born in Goa, fluent in French and Portuguese, and trained as a scientist, De Bragança dedicated his life to the liberation struggles of southern Africa. He was a militant journalist, an academic, diplomat, and public intellectual. His skill in sensitive and discreet political negotiation earned him the nickname ‘the submarine’ and he played a key role in Frelimo’s early contacts with the Portuguese, which eventually led to independence in 1975.
Independence and Revolution in Portuguese-speaking Africa brings together a selection of his post-independence writings and interviews, many published in English for the first time. The editors – both specialists on Lusophone Africa – provide a general introduction to De Bragança’s life and his thinking, as well as short contextual preambles to each of the twelve texts.
Endorsement
‘What a treasure! This collection provides a vast amount of information about the character of the Mozambican Revolution and the debates that surrounded it. Aquino’s words evoke the spirit of the times, the hopes, fears, disappointments, joys and speculations of a generation of activist scholars willing to devote all their energies, and give their lives if necessary, to the emancipation of humankind.’ – Albie Sachs