Lochner Marais
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 287459 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lochner Marais |
| PRENOMES | Lochner |
| SOBRENOME | Marais |
| ASSINATURA | MARAIS L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0299-3435 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 81 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 114 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Spatial planning legacies and unauthorized land occupations in South Africa’s urban peripheries
This article examines the drivers and implications, of unauthorized land occupations on urban development and spatial planning in South Africa. We argue that these unauthorized land occupations are embedded in various nuances, which are best framed and analysed from a spatial planning perspective. Employing a narrative case study, the qualitative research was informed by key informant interviews, focus group discussions, transect walks, observati…
Urbanisation, urban densities and material dependency in Zambian mining cities
Copperbelt mining cities have been planned with low densities. • These low densities are framed as a man-made material dependency. • Low densities remain in the Copperbelt mining cities. • Urbanisation has occurred in non-mining cities and non-Copperbelt mining cities. In many African countries, urbanisation is linked to mining. The Africa Mining Vision emphasises the development benefits that mining should bring. Zambia is a clear example of a c…
Lesotho migrant miners’ access to anti-retroviral therapy
Southern Africa’s history of institutionalised migrant labour created a link between migration and HIV&AIDS. Mining companies initially ignored the HIV&AIDS pandemic despite evidence that early treatment suppresses HIV, improves life quality and reduces HIV transmission. When anti-retroviral therapy (ART) became available, access was difficult and the migratory nature of the workforce complicated implementation. Using the capabilities approach, w…
Children and young people's access to food, education, play and leisure in times of crisis
The COVID‐19 pandemic led to an unprecedented global moment when the core needs of children and young people (rights for education, food, play and leisure) were not adequately addressed, recognised from a policy perspective and to varying extents, ignored. This paper, by bringing scholarship and grey literature together, provides an integrative, international, comprehensive review and analysis of how the pandemic affected children's core needs (a…
The housing market, mine closure and urban management in Welkom in the Free State Goldfields, South Africa
Mine closure seldom considers planning for decline or tactical urbanism. • Mine closure could harm homeowners in mining areas. • Matjhabeng has lost about 160 000 mineworkers over three decades. • House prices have grown by far less than inflation over three decades. • Municipal property ta earnings have declined in real terms. When a mine closes, it puts households at risk of economic harm from depreciation in the property market. South African …
Local job multipliers from mining in South Africa’s intermediate city municipalities
The mining industry is under pressure to show local benefits. • Jobs in mining did not affect jobs in the wholesale and retail trade. • jobs in mining had no effect on jobs in the manufacturing sector. • Jobs in mining crowded out jobs in agriculture. The mining industry is under pressure globally to show local benefits. But such benefits are not automatic. Studies show only moderate local effects of mining investment. This study used the Spatial…
Governing housing megaprojects in a South African metropolitan area
Cultures of Covid-19
The Covid-19 Border Closure and Local Economic Development in a South African Border Town
Border towns benefit from cross-border movement of goods, services and people. Many suffered setbacks when governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by closing borders. We investigated how the lockdown regulations affected the economy of Ladybrand, a small South African town near Lesotho. We found that local planning was not taking advantage of the benefits of a border town economy and was unprepared for border closure. Retail outlets were t…
Re-evaluating drought indicators
The catastrophic failure of the Jagersfontein tailings dam
This study provides a sociohistorical account of decisions made over a 150-year period about the Jagersfontein mine in South Africa’s Free State and the catastrophic failure of its tailings dam that occurred in the early morning of 11 September 2022. The failure resulted in the sudden and uncontrolled release of more than 6 million m3 of liquid sludge, smothering nearly 200 nearby houses and approximately 1,600 ha of agricultural and grazing land…
Disaster scenes as a foundation for emergency response planning
This article introduces the notion of ‘disaster scenes’. In this work, we draw on interview data collected from residents impacted by the Jagersfontein tailings disaster in South Africa in September 2022. Our methodological aim is to reconstruct the experiences of impacted people in the format of empirically derived disaster scenes. These scenes provide a credible source for modelling scenarios because they showcase the prior, immediate, response…
Pregnancy and STI/HIV prevention intervention preferences of South African adolescent girls
South African adolescent girls experience high rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections including HIV. To inform culturally-tailored dual protection interventions to prevent both unintended pregnancy and STIs/HIV, this study qualitatively examined girls’ sexual health intervention preferences. Participants were aged 14–17 years old and Sesotho-speaking (N = 25). To elucidate shared cultural beliefs, individual interviews …
In their own words
Sensitive and responsive caregiving is a critical protective factor for children in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) during their first 1000 days of life. Health initiatives may benefit from evaluating the experience of caregivers in SSA to understand their parenting experiences. This study utilized linguistic analysis to gain insight into the lived experience of 19 Sesotho-speaking mothers of infants aged 18–30 months in low-income areas of Mangaung, Fr…
Resource Communities
This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past, and this makes their relationship with the future, and the future itself, also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplin…
‘Being a mother is not child's play’
BACKGROUND: The importance of a child's first 1000 days has now been widely accepted by the medical fraternity. Yet, we do not know much about caring practices in low-resource settings. AIM: This study aimed to investigate the caring capabilities of mothers in a low-resource setting. METHOD: In this study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 18 mothers with children aged 30 months or younger to better understand the arrangements, means and en…
Hope and mental health problems among orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa
There are over three million orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) currently living in South Africa. OVC are at high risk for a number of negative outcomes, including poor mental health. Hope has been associated with well-being among youth, including youth in South Africa. However, the relationships between hope and mental health in high-adversity populations such as OVC has not been adequately described. The present study sought to address this…
Black Women’s Perceptions Towards Infant and Child Male Circumcision
Policies should address misinformation through platforms that Black women share. This study developed an ICMC perception framework to inform policy
A scientometric analysis of mine closure research
Mine closure is a global challenge. To date, there has been no scientometric analysis of the mine closure literature. This paper uses a scientometric analysis to assess the literature on mine closure. We assessed 2078 papers published since 2002. There was a rapid increase in the research output, with 76% of the papers published in the last 10 years. We identify the journals and co-citation index of journals associated with mine closure research.…
Mine closure in Matjhabeng in the Free State goldfields, South Africa
The Africa Mining Vision emphasizes the importance of mining for creating development. But it does not take into account the adverse consequences of mine closure. The literature on social aspects of mine closure is increasing but consists largely of descriptive case studies. We still do not know enough about how mine closure affects households. This paper compares longitudinal data (1998–2021) from household surveys in two low-income neighborhood…
Barriers to powering past coal
The feasibility of South Africa's just energy transition, as dictated by the speed of phasing out coal and scaling up renewables, will rest on a range of techno-economic, socio-political, and socio-technical factors. Interactions between these dimensions of the transition carry significant implications for energy justice. In response, this paper proposes the Just Transition Feasibility Framework (JTFF) to better evaluate how feasibility constrain…
Mine closure, women, and crime in Matjhabeng, South Africa
Research from the Global North suggests that crime increases during a mining boom but not during mining decline. Our evidence from the South African gold mining town of Matjhabeng (formerly Welkom) shows that crime increases during mining decline and affects women in particular. We use social disruption theory to explain women's experiences of crime and also their involvement in it. We find that criminal activities harm women in particular, that …
Student Housing Satisfaction at a South African University
Universities worldwide have seen an expansion of students. We surveyed 1,193 students at the University of the Free State and conducted interviews and focus groups to better understand the factors that contribute to housing satisfaction. Satisfaction depended on a range of environmental factors, particularly noise levels, rules, security, privacy, and the standard of maintenance, rather than on the norms and standards that relate to design issues…
A typology of designs for housing research
Youth-Centered Clinics
Youth-centered health services have become a global practice and South Africa is no exception. This paper describes a project conducted in Mangaung in 2018 using cultural consensus modeling. We conducted 25 interviews and used a combination of hermeneutics, phenomenology theory, and thematic analysis. Our research found that girls in our sample have confidentiality concerns associated with the stigma of attending a clinic and cannot talk openly a…
The changing nature of mining towns
The upgrading of an informal settlement in South Africa
Mine closure, social disruption, and crime in South Africa
The international literature links mining booms with social disruption. The rapid economic and population growth that mining brings increases urban crime and social problems. But insufficient attention has been paid to the reverse situation: the social disruption that can accompany the closure of a mine. We compare crime statistics for four categories of small city, known in South Africa as "intermediate city municipalities," from 2009 to 2018. C…
Anticipating and planning for mine closure in South Africa
Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa
Housing policy and private sector housing finance
Barriers to powering past coal
The feasibility of South Africa's just energy transition, as dictated by the speed of phasing out coal and scaling up renewables, will rest on a range of techno-economic, socio-political, and socio-technical factors. Interactions between these dimensions of the transition carry significant implications for energy justice. In response, this paper proposes the Just Transition Feasibility Framework (JTFF) to better evaluate how feasibility constrain…
Financed homeownership and the economic downturn in South Africa
One technology, two pathways? Strategic Niche Management and the diverging diffusion of concentrated solar power in South Africa and the United States
Economic Transitions in South Africa’s Secondary Cities
Many South African secondary cities depend on a single economic sector, often mining or manufacturing. This makes them vulnerable to economic change and national decision-making. We describe change in three secondary cities—Emalahleni, Matjhabeng and Newcastle—all at different phases of economic transition due to imminent mine closure. We investigate the way local governance and planning are dealing with the change. We draw on concepts from insti…
The housing careers of black middle-class residents in a South African metropolitan area
Responses to mine downscaling
Mine decline and women
Place attachment and social disruption in Postmasburg, a rapidly growing South African mining town
Reinterpreting South African Housing Policy through Welfare State Theory
Conventional wisdom holds that South African housing policy is mainly based on neoliberal principles although some scholars have noted the hybrid nature of welfare programmes. This is because most authors interpret the country's housing landscape within the dichotomous framework of political economic theory (neoliberalism vs. critical lenses). These analyses do not consider welfare state theories, and most authors end up applying a neoliberal lab…
Dying to get a house?” The health outcomes of the South African low-income housing programme
Housing conditions and mental health of orphans in South Africa
Making Mangaung Metro
Metropolitan reforms, which include the creation of unified metropolitan governments through municipal mergers and reclassification, are emerging as one strategy to address planning and service delivery challenges in the wake of increasing urbanisation across sub-Saharan Africa. Although metropolitanisation adds service area and mandates, well-functioning secondary cities that are part of a two-tier governance system in South Africa are pursuing …
Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
The declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March, 2020, and the disaster management regulations implemented in reply to it had enormous ramifications on ethnographic fieldwork. This situation presented an opportunity to reconsider the methodology used in a research project on lived experiences of childhood health and well-being in Free State province, South Africa. This study explores the argument that technology can establish a virtu…
Normalising mining company towns in Emalahleni, South Africa
Mine closure, women, and crime in Matjhabeng, South Africa
Research from the Global North suggests that crime increases during a mining boom but not during mining decline. Our evidence from the South African gold mining town of Matjhabeng (formerly Welkom) shows that crime increases during mining decline and affects women in particular. We use social disruption theory to explain women's experiences of crime and also their involvement in it. We find that criminal activities harm women in particular, that …
Housing, Home and Children’s Socio-Emotional Health
The literature linking home and housing with the socio-emotional health of children focuses primarily on the physical attributes of housing. We conducted a pilot study to measure physical and socio-emotional attributes of housing for a sample of 69 children from a low-resource setting in South Africa. We used the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We analyse…
Determinants of place attachment among mineworkers
Mine housing in the South African coalfields
Historically, many mining companies in South Africa housed their white workforce in towns established and managed by the company and their black workforce in single-sex hostels or compounds. By the early 2000s, most company towns had been ‘normalised’, the mining industry had abolished the compound system and homeownership had become the dominant policy goal. We use evolutionary governance theory and the concepts of social disruption and place at…
A Tale of Two Markets
In line with international trends, South Africa’s post‐apartheid government has embarked on a housing policy that emphasises asset building. Homeownership has become a dominant policy for assisting the historically disadvantaged Black population. This paper looks at two property markets in Mangaung, a metropolitan municipality that includes Bloemfontein. We analysed property activity on 2,545 residential stands in former Black and former White ar…
Conflict between formal and informal settlements? Kagisanong extension II (Mangaung-Bloemfontein) as a case study
Conflict between formal and informal settlers has become a common phenomenon in South African cities. Formal residents usually feel that they-are threatened by their new neighbours. This article focuses on the attitude of formal dwellers in Mangaung township, near Bloemfontein, towards informal dwellers on their doorstep. It is concluded that, although certain negative attitudes do exist, no real conflict exists between the two communities. Possi…
The upgrading of freedom square informal settlement in Bloemfontein
An empirical comparison of self-help housing and contractor-driven housing
Housing standards and housing rights
Farm-Worker Housing in South Africa
Although farm-worker housing has been neglected in South Africa historically, new policy, tabled in 2004, specifically targets the constraints that have been hampering delivery in rural areas. While either on- or off-farm farm-worker housing is envisioned, constraints with regard to on-farm housing and service provision, such as the prerequisite of security of tenure, prevent generalised delivery to the rural population, despite the fact that EST…
Strategic spatial decision-making versus a facilitative role for the state
The Missing Link in Cooperative Governance and Housing Delivery
Revitalizing the Bloemfontein CBD
Public Policy and Small Towns in Arid South Africa
The Impact of Mine Downscaling on the Free State Goldfields
Comparing Low-Income Housing Outcomes in Self-Help and Contractor-Driven Projects
Evidence-Based Policy Development in South Africa
Community-based mental health support for orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa
Community-based care is receiving increasing global attention as a way to support children who are orphaned or vulnerable due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Using both qualitative and quantitative methodology, this study assesses community-based responses to the well-being of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and compares these responses with the actual mental health of OVC in order to evaluate the South African government's approach of funding co…
Housing conditions and mental health of orphans in South Africa
The upgrading of an informal settlement in South Africa
Towards an Understanding the Outcomes of Housing Privatisation in South Africa
From informality to formality to informality
The paper discusses the nature of extralegal land transfers in an upgraded informal settlement in South Africa. The paper investigates these extralegal transfers in terms of the notion of property and property law as a social construct. The paper researches two main but contradictory conclusions, namely that either extralegal transfers are the result of the current social construct of property (also related to the historic lack of formal property…
First Evaluation of a Population-Based Screen to Detect Emotional-Behavior Disorders in Orphaned Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dying to get a house?” The health outcomes of the South African low-income housing programme
Reinterpreting South African Housing Policy through Welfare State Theory
Conventional wisdom holds that South African housing policy is mainly based on neoliberal principles although some scholars have noted the hybrid nature of welfare programmes. This is because most authors interpret the country's housing landscape within the dichotomous framework of political economic theory (neoliberalism vs. critical lenses). These analyses do not consider welfare state theories, and most authors end up applying a neoliberal lab…
Financed homeownership and the economic downturn in South Africa
Reinforcing Housing Assets in the Wrong Location? The Case of Botshabelo, South Africa
Can Western European Home Ownership Products Bridge the South African Housing Gap
Mining and Community in South Africa
Mining and Community in South Africa
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