Daring to Be Different: The First-Person HIV-Positive Narrator in Two South African Novels by Lizzy Attree

“…Eben Venter’s Afrikaans novel Ek Stamel, Ek Sterwe (1996) which was translated into English by Luke Stubbs as My Beautiful Death (2004), and which has – significantly – received little critical review in English as an HIV narrative, tells the story of a white South African man, Konstant, in the Australian diaspora who eventually succumbs to AIDS. …”
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Aging and the End Times: Evangelical Eschatology and Experiences of Elderhood in the United States and South Africa by Douglas Bafford

“…U.S. evangelical churches often address existential concerns faced by a growing population of elders while downplaying the significance of race, yet white South African Christians employ a similar religious cosmology to place their actions during the apartheid era in a symbolically legible narrative. …”
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The Economics of Hate and Love in South Africa: Postcolonial Queer Perspectives on Hate Crime Legislations by Antje Schuhmann

“…Less than a month later, the first White South African was sentenced to jail for racist slurs towards a Black policeman. …”
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Ethnic differences in regional adipose tissue oestrogen receptor gene expression by Julia H Goedecke, Mehreen Tootla, Dheshnie Keswell

“…Studies have shown ethnic differences in body fat distribution, characterised by greater peripheral and less central fat accumulation in black compared to white South African (SA) women. As sex hormones play an important role in body fat distribution, our study aimed to determine whether differences in body fat distribution between black and white SA women were associated with subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) expression of oestrogen receptors (ERA and ERB) and aromatase (CYP19A1). …”
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Affective mediators of intergroup contact: a three-wave longitudinal study in South Africa. by Swart, H, Hewstone, M, Christ, O, Voci, A

“…The target group was the majority-status White South African outgroup. As predicted, a bidirectional model described the relationship between contact, mediators, and prejudice significantly better over time than either autoregressive or unidirectional longitudinal models. …”

P105 PULSE PRESSURE AMPLIFICATION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN YOUNG BLACK AND WHITE ADULTS: THE AFRICAN-PREDICT STUDY by Johannes van Rooyen, Anika Kaufman, Wayne Smith, Yolandi Breet

“…The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between pulse pressure amplification (PPA) and physical activity in a young, healthy black and white South African cohort. Methods: The sub-study was embedded in the African Prospective study on the Early Detection and Identification of Cardiovascular disease and Hypertension (African-PREDICT) and included 591 white and 604 black participants aged 20–30 years. …”
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Relation of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system with potential cardiac injury and remodelling: the SABPA study by Lebo F. Gafane-Matemane, Nametsegang L. Mokae, Yolandi Breet, Leone Malan

“…This study investigated the associations of cardiac troponin T (cTnT), N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP) and subclinical LVH with components of the RAAS (renin, aldosterone and aldosterone-to-renin ratio (ARR)) and copeptin in a black and white South African cohort. Materials and methods: The study population consisted of 305 participants (black = 139, white = 166) aged 20–62 years. …”
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“In what way are gay men actually harmful to society?” Exploring the evidence on the feasibility of amendments to the Sexual Offences Act 23 of 1957 by Louis Grundlingh

“…The investigation resulted in widespread debate, revealing facets of the moral dynamics of white South African society in the 1960s. Inter alia, issues such as the right of the state to make laws on morality and intrude on the privacy of individuals, diverse interpretations of the Bible, the level of intolerance for the “other” and the apparent difficulties to enforce any amendments to the Act - as far as homosexuality was concerned - were raised. …”
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Influence of vitamin D receptor polymorphisms on biochemical markers of mineral bone disorders in South African patients with chronic kidney disease by Bala Waziri, Therese Dix-Peek, Caroline Dickens, Raquel Duarte, Saraladevi Naicker

“…Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the influence of vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms on secondary hyperparathyroidism and its association with vitamin D levels in black and white South African study participants. Methods This was a cross sectional study involving 272 CKD stage 3- 5D patients and 90 healthy controls. …”
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A novel FKRP-related muscular dystrophy founder mutation in South African Afrikaner patients with a phenotype suggestive of a dystrophinopathy by M M Mudau, F Essop, A Krause

“…A previously unreported mutation, c.1100T>C in exon 4 of FKRP, had been identified in homozygous form in two white South African (SA) Afrikaner patients clinically diagnosed with a dystrophinopathy. …”

The prevalence of malnutrition and growth percentiles for urban South African children by Lukhanyo H. Nyati, John M. Pettifor, Shane A. Norris

“…The percentiles for black females for weight and BMI were similar to those of South African white and American references but both black and white South African females had lower waist circumferences than American references. …”
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Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“…Black and women academics’ revelations about discourses of ‘transformation’ at an historically white South African university. Higher Education, 78, 947-963…”
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Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“…Black and women academics’ revelations about discourses of ‘transformation’ at an historically white South African university. Higher Education, 78, 947-963…”
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