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    Housing and child health in South Africa: the value of longitudinal research
    (University of the Free State, 22-Feb) Chatindiara, Kenneth; Marais, Lochner; Cloete, Jan
    Research investigating the link between housing and health often produces mixed results. It does not always prove that good housing improves health. The results suggest a complex set of factors play a role, and the findings are sometimes contradictory. Two ways of addressing these concerns are longitudinal research, where the relationship between housing and health is measured in the short and medium terms, and a focus on children. We use the children’s housing and health data from the five waves of the National Income and Distribution Survey (NIDS) survey in South Africa, 2008 to 2017. We investigate the effect that continued living in informal housing over the five waves has had on these children’s health. Our results show a statistically significant relationship between prolonged residence in poor housing and poor health outcomes for some health indicators. The results call for a closer understanding of health issues in housing policy in South Africa.
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    Housing and child health in South Africa: the value of longitudinal research
    (MDPI, 2022) Chatindiara, Kenneth; Marais, Lochner; Cloete, Jan
    Research investigating the link between housing and health often produces mixed results. It does not always prove that good housing improves health. The results suggest a complex set of factors play a role, and the findings are sometimes contradictory. Two ways of addressing these concerns are longitudinal research, where the relationship between housing and health is measured in the short and medium terms, and a focus on children. We use the children’s housing and health data from the five waves of the National Income and Distribution Survey (NIDS) survey in South Africa, 2008 to 2017. We investigate the effect that continued living in informal housing over the five waves has had on these children’s health. Our results show a statistically significant relationship between prolonged residence in poor housing and poor health outcomes for some health indicators. The results call for a closer understanding of health issues in housing policy in South Africa.
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    Sustaining livelihoods in post-mine closure contexts: aphenomenological study of former-mineworkers at Tshikondeni Mine in Limpopo Province, South Africa
    (University of the Free State, 2024) Dzimiri, Patrick; Marais, Lochner; Cloete, Jan
    The phenomenon of mine closure is increasingly gaining credence as a research focus due to the economic, social, and environmental challenges communities experience in the postclosure environment. Resource depletion and social and political threats account for the closure of several mines globally. In South Africa, closure is attributed to most mines being too old and no new minerals are being discovered. The Tshikondeni coal mine in Limpopo faced closure due to mineral depletion. A gap that has been observed is that not much has been done regarding the impact of mine closure on the livelihoods of coal miners. This phenomenological study, therefore, examined how the former mineworkers at the Tshikondeni mine sustained their livelihoods after the closure of the mine in 2014. The main problem explored was how the former mineworkers acceded to the mine closure’s social and economic realities. A sustainable livelihoods framework was utilised to understand the lived experiences of mineworkers after the mine closure. Data was collected using in-depth interviews, and snowball sampling was adopted to identify the former mineworkers at Tshikondeni who experienced the mine closure. A thematic approach was adopted for data analysis to extrapolate critical themes and meanings from coded data from the recorded interviews with the former mineworkers.