Jan Cloete
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 287461 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jan Cloete |
| NOMBRES | Jan |
| APELLIDO | Cloete |
| FIRMA | CLOETE J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2362-5014 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
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 …
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
Housing and Child Health in South Africa
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 chi…
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…
Child stunting in South Africa
Living in a high-density urban environment may be good for people’s health and well-being and standard of living but it may also have disadvantages. The international literature debates the extent to which urban living carries a premium or a penalty. Child growth and development indicators are good measures for assessing this. Using the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) database, we take the example of child stunting to investigate the spatia…
The plight of mining cities 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…
Targeting for male medical circumcision
Male circumcision is considered by some to be an acceptable global approach to reduce HIV infections. Consequently, many governments in sub-Saharan Africa run voluntary male circumcision programmes. South Africa also provides male circumcision for free at state clinics and hospitals. Very little is known about the men who use this service. This study uses data from Cape Town, a sample of 1194 in 2016, and from Mangaung, a sample of 277 in 2017 an…
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…
Studentification and governance in South Africa
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…
Mine decline and women
Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa
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…
Black middle-income housing and asset building in Mangaung, South Africa
Asset-building policies are used worldwide to reduce state welfare commitments. In the Global South, including South Africa, asset-based housing development is thought to help reduce poverty. This study investigated asset building and homeownership in a sample of South Africa’s emerging black middle class. Interviews with 244 black middle-class households in Mangaung revealed asset value creation and heavy dependence on mortgage finance. Levels o…
The housing careers of black middle-class residents in a South African metropolitan area
The changing nature of mining towns
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…
Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa
Housing policy and private sector housing finance
Financed homeownership and the economic downturn in South Africa
The housing careers of black middle-class residents in a South African metropolitan area
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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
Housing policy and private sector housing finance
The housing careers of black middle-class residents in a South African metropolitan area
Place attachment and social disruption in Postmasburg, a rapidly growing South African mining town
The changing nature of mining towns
Black middle-income housing and asset building in Mangaung, South Africa
Asset-building policies are used worldwide to reduce state welfare commitments. In the Global South, including South Africa, asset-based housing development is thought to help reduce poverty. This study investigated asset building and homeownership in a sample of South Africa’s emerging black middle class. Interviews with 244 black middle-class households in Mangaung revealed asset value creation and heavy dependence on mortgage finance. Levels o…
Mine decline and women
Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa
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…
Targeting for male medical circumcision
Male circumcision is considered by some to be an acceptable global approach to reduce HIV infections. Consequently, many governments in sub-Saharan Africa run voluntary male circumcision programmes. South Africa also provides male circumcision for free at state clinics and hospitals. Very little is known about the men who use this service. This study uses data from Cape Town, a sample of 1194 in 2016, and from Mangaung, a sample of 277 in 2017 an…
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…
Studentification and governance in South Africa
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…
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…
Housing and Child Health in South Africa
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 chi…
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