Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "Duvenhage, André"
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The Arab Spring: theoretical perspectives on the regimes of North Africa and the Middle East.
Greffrath, Wynand; Duvenhage, André (Taylor & Francis, 2014)This article is concerned with the Arab Spring as an example of regime change in authoritarian contexts. It investigates whether the institutional characteristics of authoritarian regimes may have influenced the development ... -
Are the fees that the traditional health practitioner charges generally lower than that of the medical practitioner?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: The cost of healthcare is a matter of concern for the public and the authorities. When a new healthcare provider enters the healthcare market, specifically the private sector, it is crucial to know if the fees ... -
Are there 200,000 and more traditional healers practicing in South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)Background:The promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) was guided to a great extent by the allegation that there were 200,000 and more traditional healers practicing in South Africa. This ... -
Did muthi, ritual and witchcraft murders happen only in the Dark Medieval Ages of South Africa? Think twice!
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: Muthi, ritual and witchcraft murders seem to be inherent pathologies of a certain section of the South African population. Various determinants contribute to the generation and endurance of such behaviour. These ... -
Die ANC en die nasionale demokratiese rewolusie: Polities strategiese perspektiewe
Duvenhage, André (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2009)Die Nasionaal-Demokratiese Rewolusie (NDR) is as konsep en ideologiese raamwerk baie bekend binne die denkpatroon van die ANC en sy bondgenote. Anders as wat soms verwag is, is die NDR as denkraamwerk nie na 1994 opgehef ... -
Die sekurokratisering van die Suid-Afrikaanse staatkundige bestel - 'n tendensbepaling
Duvenhage, André (LitNet, 2016)Die Suid-Afrikaanse politieke omgewing betree tans 'n fase wat as uiters dinamies en polities onstabiel beskryf kan word. Sedert die bewindsoorname van Jacob Zuma in 2009 is 'n tendens wat voorgehou kan word as die ... -
Die Suid-Afrikaanse politieke omgewing: enkele strategiese perspektiewe
Duvenhage, André (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016)This article is concerned with reconstructing and interpreting the South African political environment in 2016 and the strategic implications thereof. There is currently widespread consensus that the South African political ... -
Do many South Africans still believe today in the supernatural, bad magic, witchcraft, witches and evil demons?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Aims:The aim of the study is to determine if a significant number of South Africans believe in the supernatural. Method: The exploratory and descriptive method was used to research the belief system regarding the supernatural, ... -
Do the majority of South Africans regularly consult traditional healers?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)Background: The statutory recognition of traditional healers as healthcare practitioners in South Africa in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007 is based on various assumptions, opinions and ... -
Does the traditional healer have a modern medical identity in South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: Research supports the view that the South African traditional healer does not hold a modern medical identity, but developed from the traditional African religions and cultural environment as a kind of caregiver. ... -
Does the traditional healer have a religious distinctiveness in Modern-day South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Research alludes that the South African traditional healer is not a medical identity, but origin from the old Traditional African Religious Culture as a traditional religious-healer; a spiritual remnant from a previous, ... -
Estimated annual incomes of South African traditional healers as generated by their practices and sales of their pre-modern traditional health products for 2015/2016
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: In South Africa, it is an accepted fact that the main role players in the manufacturing and selling of so called traditional medicine (TAM) are traditional healers. The Traditional Health Practitioners Act No ... -
How and why bewitching and wickedness are created and maintained within small, specific segments of the South African population
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: Beliefs in the supernatural are maintained by strengthening the evils which the witch or the bewitched person can do to his or her fellows. This system is perpetuated by the repetition of stories of how the ... -
Is the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (No 22 of 2007) in conflict with the Witchcraft Suppression Act (No 3 of 1957) in present-day South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) to regulate the traditional health fraternity had been driven since the 1960s and became a reality after the 1994 political change in South Africa. ... -
Is the Witchcraft Suppression Act (No 3 of 1957) a medieval throwback to the Dark Ages for South Africans? Think again!
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: The Witchcraft Suppression Act (Act No 3, 1957) seems to have been totally ignored since 1994 as an old apartheid law by the new political dispensation. The question is: Why is this happening and can the Act ... -
Local government instability in a post-2009 South African election environment: Analytical and strategic perspectives
Duvenhage, André; Venter, Jan Charl Marthinus (University of Pretoria, Institute for Strategic Studies, 2009) -
Political transformation as an ideological framework: an analysis of dynamic policies and perspectives
Duvenhage, André (Buro vir Wetenskaplike Tydskrifte / Potchefstroom, 2007)The period after 1994 can be described as the period of political transformation in South Africa. With a revolutionary point of departure, political transformation established itself as a political ideology in South Africa. ... -
South Africa and the 2014 National Election: a shift to the left?
Greffrath, Wynand; Duvenhage, André (SUN MeDIA Bloemfontein, 2014)The period prior to the 2014 South African national and provincial elections witnessed the mobilisation of numerous socio-economic and political forces. Consequently, the outcomes of the 2014 election is of particular ... -
The education and training levels of the South African traditional healer: a present-day perspective
Louw, Gabrie; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)Background:The traditional healer in Southern Africa received new status as a statutorily recognized health professional with the promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007). Usually such recognition ... -
The future registration of the White traditional healer in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) in South Africa: more bones to be thrown?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: The dilemma of the White traditional healer is an unexpected outcome of the intent to use the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) to adhere to the ANC's cultural rights declaration of 1969, which ...