Genetic linkage between Huntington disease and the D4S10 locus in South African families: further evidence against non-allelic heterogeneity

1991 ◽  
Vol 87 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
L.J. Greenberg ◽  
R.W. Martell ◽  
J. Theilman ◽  
M.R. Hayden ◽  
J. Joubert
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Huntington Disease ◽  
Genetic Linkage ◽  
Allelic Heterogeneity ◽  
African Families

scholarly journals WOMEN AS DIVINERS AND AS CHRISTIAN CONVERTS IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA, c. 1880–1963

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-389
Author(s):  
SEAN REDDING
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Spiritual Beliefs ◽  
Rural South ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
Christian Families ◽  
African Families ◽  
Rural South Africa

AbstractThis article argues that rural South African women's importance as spiritual actors in the period from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries stemmed from their ability to embrace hybrid spiritual identities that corresponded closely to the lived reality of African rural life, and that by embracing those identities, women expanded their roles as social healers. Professing a belief in Christianity did not prevent individuals from practicing as diviners, nor did it prevent Christians from consulting diviners to determine the causes of death or misfortune. Similarly, young women who converted to Christianity often maintained close ties to non-Christian families and bridged spiritual lives on the mission stations with life in their families. Over this time period, women became cultural mediators who borrowed, adopted, and combined spiritual beliefs to provide more complete answers to problems faced by rural African families in South Africa.

Family policy for all South African families

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1189-1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlize Rabe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Family Diversity ◽  
Vulnerable Families ◽  
African Families

The ‘White Paper of Families in South Africa’ is critically analysed in this article. It is shown that although family diversity is acknowledged in the aforementioned document, certain implications of the document undermine such professed diversity, not all caretakers of children are acknowledged and supported, and financially vulnerable families are not strengthened. Instead, narrow ideals of family life are at times promoted, suggesting middle-class heterosexual values. It is argued here that the realities of family life should be accepted as such and family in different forms should be supported consistently, not subtly pushed to conform to restricted interpretations of what families should be like.

scholarly journals A genetic linkage map for the South African Angora goat

2010 ◽  
Vol 93 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Visser ◽  
R.P.M.A. Crooijmans ◽  
E. Van Marle Köster
Keyword(s):  
Linkage Map ◽  
South African ◽  
Genetic Linkage ◽  
Genetic Linkage Map ◽  
The South ◽  
Angora Goat
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