Pieter Fourie
Biographic Data
| ID | 1263519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pieter Fourie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pieter |
| FAMILY NAME | Fourie |
| SIGNATURE | FOURIE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1326-7973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The effect of early weaning of Bonsmara bull calves on their profitability under feedlot conditions
Profit is a primary factor determining the viability of any enterprise. The objective of this study was to assess the profitability of early- and traditionally weaned calves (EWC and TWC) under feedlot conditions. The feedlot arrival body weights for EWC and TWC were 254.86 ± 27.28 kg (n = 136) and 308.47 ± 24.56 kg (n = 149), respectively. A backgrounding program was followed by a 123-day finishing program, with a 1-week grower-adaptation period…
Iterative urban design and transport simulation using Sketch Matsim
New transport technologies have historically influenced how cities are shaped, while urban form is known to influence travel behaviour. But this reciprocal relationship is seldom operationalized in practice due to the disciplinary gap between urban design and transport planning. The two are often linked through a ‘predict and provide’ workflow, which is problematic in the context of emerging technologies such as AVs. This paper argues for a more …
Queer-on-queer Violence
In November 2018 the governor of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, launched an anti-gay crackdown, threatening the arrest of individuals suspected of being homosexual. Of the 54 countries in Africa, 34 currently have laws that criminalise homosexuality, three of which include the death penalty (Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria). Like many marginalised communities, LGBTQ individuals cross borders for the sake of political and economic security. This article expl…
Politics of Mental Healthcare in Post-apartheid South Africa
Recent events in post-apartheid South Africa have exposed a decidedly political dimension to mental healthcare. This was exemplified in three important cases: the recent grants crisis of the South African Social Security Agency, a court case between the state and non-governmental organisations, and the Life Esidimeni tragedy. These events demonstrate that despite significant policy shifts toward basic human rights and care of people living with m…
Global Health and Security
State and non-state mental health service collaboration in a South African district
The Life Esidimeni tragedy in South Africa showed that, despite significant global gains in recognizing the salience of integrated public mental health care during the past decade, crucial gaps remain. State and non-state mental health service collaboration is a recognized strategy to increase access to care and optimal use of community resources, but little evidence exist about how it unfolds in low- to middle-income countries. South Africa's Me…
Collaborative mental health care in the bureaucratic field of post-apartheid South Africa
South Africa's long and arduous journey from colonial and apartheid-era care for people with mental illness to more comprehensive, equitable mental health care is well-described. Deeper engagement with the structural power dynamics involved in providing collaborative mental health services are less-well described, especially in its post-apartheid era. This conceptual article positions state and non-state mental health service providers – along wi…
The Politics of Aids Denialism
Successive South African governments have had controversial views on HIV and AIDS which have led to allegations that South Africa is in a state of denial about the AIDS epidemic. This book attempts to determine the validity of such claims of government denial by formulating and testing a denial hypothesis.The hypothesis is contextualized with an overview of the South African epidemic as well as a review of allegations of government denial. It rev…
Power and Integrated Health Care
Integrated care occurs within micro, meso and macro levels of governance structures, which are shaped by complex power dynamics. Yet theoretically-led notions of power, and scrutiny of its meanings and its functioning, are neglected in the literature on integrated care. We explore an alternative approach. Following a discussion on governance, two streams of theorising power are presented: mainstream and second-stream. Mainstream concepts are base…
Gender justice and the Millennium Development Goals
The expiration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 means that the global development industry has been working towards crafting an MDG 2.0, for the post-2015 context: the Sustainable Development Goals. There is both an explicit and an implicit gender focus in both the MDGs and SDGs. Three of the eight MDGs were directly targeted at women and girls, while there was a stated understanding that all eight goals apply equally to men and…
Introduction to the Special Issue
At the end of 2015, South Africa faced both a serious political and economic crisis that puts the South African Constitution and its values central in the struggles to overcome these crises; some r
Regional health governance
Regional organisations can effectively promote regional health diplomacy and governance through engagement with regional social policy. Regional bodies make decisions about health challenges in the region, for example, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the World Health Organisation South East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO). The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has a limited health presence as a regional organisation …
Turning dread into capital
BACKGROUND: In much of the world, President George W. Bush was not admired for his foreign policy and diplomacy. It is therefore ironic that Bush's single most uncontested foreign policy triumph was an instance of what has now become known as "health diplomacy". In 2003 Bush launched the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year $15 billion initiative to fight HIV/AIDS, mostly in Africa. The president's pragmatic health diplomacy ma…
The Subject as Object
This contribution to the special anniversary edition serves as a framing document, taking a macro view and reflecting on all contributions to Politikon over the past 40 years. Rather than presenting an objective and comprehensive literature review of the entire and disparate corpus of scholarship, this article provides subjective reflections on how the journal and Political Science scholarship have evolved in their operationalisation and presenta…
Aids hyper-epidemics and social resilience
AIDS has been the most political pandemic in the world for 30 years, and yet political science has viewed it in a mostly descriptive, compartmentalised and theoretically neglectful way. There have been many theories of AIDS, but very little AIDS theory that is informed by politics. This deficit of theory seems to be intellectually counter-intuitive, but may be the result of an epistemic community which is often erroneously constructed as monolith…
Walk with us and listen
Walk with us and listen: political reconciliation in Africa, by Charles Villa-Vicencio, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2009, 248 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-58901-572-2
The future of Aids in Africa
Scenario planning or futures studies have their origin in military planning, but have also been used with great success in the private sector, most notably in the energy industry. UNAIDS and the South African financial services group Metropolitan each recently published a set of scenarios regarding the future impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa and South Africa, respectively. This article reviews the methodologies and outcomes of those two studies, and …
The Relationship between the Aids Pandemic and State Fragility
Despite high levels of AIDS in Africa, there are few indications that the pandemic is directly leading to imminent state failure amongst those countries on the continent that manifest exceptionally high AIDS prevalence. Of the factors that threaten the ability of governments to govern, AIDS (or any other health threat, for that matter) is seen to be a derivative threat—at most. However, there has been significant conjecture about the purported li…
HIV/Aids scenarios for Africa
An examination of the successes and failures of, and lessons from, a groundbreaking international public‐private project to devise scenarios exploring the impact that HIV and AIDS might have in Africa over the next 20 years
Pharmaceuticals, patents, polemics and pretoria
(2002). Pharmaceuticals, patents, polemics and pretoria. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 83-97
Post apartheid South African media and development
1994). Post apartheid South African media and development. Communicatio: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 46-54
Ek, Anna van Wyk
Walk with us and listen
Walk with us and listen: political reconciliation in Africa, by Charles Villa-Vicencio, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2009, 248 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-58901-572-2
Queer-on-queer Violence
In November 2018 the governor of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, launched an anti-gay crackdown, threatening the arrest of individuals suspected of being homosexual. Of the 54 countries in Africa, 34 currently have laws that criminalise homosexuality, three of which include the death penalty (Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria). Like many marginalised communities, LGBTQ individuals cross borders for the sake of political and economic security. This article expl…
Aids hyper-epidemics and social resilience
AIDS has been the most political pandemic in the world for 30 years, and yet political science has viewed it in a mostly descriptive, compartmentalised and theoretically neglectful way. There have been many theories of AIDS, but very little AIDS theory that is informed by politics. This deficit of theory seems to be intellectually counter-intuitive, but may be the result of an epistemic community which is often erroneously constructed as monolith…
The Relationship between the Aids Pandemic and State Fragility
Despite high levels of AIDS in Africa, there are few indications that the pandemic is directly leading to imminent state failure amongst those countries on the continent that manifest exceptionally high AIDS prevalence. Of the factors that threaten the ability of governments to govern, AIDS (or any other health threat, for that matter) is seen to be a derivative threat—at most. However, there has been significant conjecture about the purported li…
Power and Integrated Health Care
Integrated care occurs within micro, meso and macro levels of governance structures, which are shaped by complex power dynamics. Yet theoretically-led notions of power, and scrutiny of its meanings and its functioning, are neglected in the literature on integrated care. We explore an alternative approach. Following a discussion on governance, two streams of theorising power are presented: mainstream and second-stream. Mainstream concepts are base…
Regional health governance
Regional organisations can effectively promote regional health diplomacy and governance through engagement with regional social policy. Regional bodies make decisions about health challenges in the region, for example, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the World Health Organisation South East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO). The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has a limited health presence as a regional organisation …
Post apartheid South African media and development
1994). Post apartheid South African media and development. Communicatio: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 46-54
Collaborative mental health care in the bureaucratic field of post-apartheid South Africa
South Africa's long and arduous journey from colonial and apartheid-era care for people with mental illness to more comprehensive, equitable mental health care is well-described. Deeper engagement with the structural power dynamics involved in providing collaborative mental health services are less-well described, especially in its post-apartheid era. This conceptual article positions state and non-state mental health service providers – along wi…
Gender justice and the Millennium Development Goals
The expiration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 means that the global development industry has been working towards crafting an MDG 2.0, for the post-2015 context: the Sustainable Development Goals. There is both an explicit and an implicit gender focus in both the MDGs and SDGs. Three of the eight MDGs were directly targeted at women and girls, while there was a stated understanding that all eight goals apply equally to men and…
Introduction to the Special Issue
At the end of 2015, South Africa faced both a serious political and economic crisis that puts the South African Constitution and its values central in the struggles to overcome these crises; some r
Ek, Anna van Wyk
Post apartheid South African media and development
1994). Post apartheid South African media and development. Communicatio: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 46-54
Pharmaceuticals, patents, polemics and pretoria
(2002). Pharmaceuticals, patents, polemics and pretoria. South African Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 83-97
HIV/Aids scenarios for Africa
An examination of the successes and failures of, and lessons from, a groundbreaking international public‐private project to devise scenarios exploring the impact that HIV and AIDS might have in Africa over the next 20 years
The future of Aids in Africa
Scenario planning or futures studies have their origin in military planning, but have also been used with great success in the private sector, most notably in the energy industry. UNAIDS and the South African financial services group Metropolitan each recently published a set of scenarios regarding the future impact of HIV/AIDS in Africa and South Africa, respectively. This article reviews the methodologies and outcomes of those two studies, and …
The Relationship between the Aids Pandemic and State Fragility
Despite high levels of AIDS in Africa, there are few indications that the pandemic is directly leading to imminent state failure amongst those countries on the continent that manifest exceptionally high AIDS prevalence. Of the factors that threaten the ability of governments to govern, AIDS (or any other health threat, for that matter) is seen to be a derivative threat—at most. However, there has been significant conjecture about the purported li…
Walk with us and listen
Walk with us and listen: political reconciliation in Africa, by Charles Villa-Vicencio, Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 2009, 248 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-58901-572-2
Aids hyper-epidemics and social resilience
AIDS has been the most political pandemic in the world for 30 years, and yet political science has viewed it in a mostly descriptive, compartmentalised and theoretically neglectful way. There have been many theories of AIDS, but very little AIDS theory that is informed by politics. This deficit of theory seems to be intellectually counter-intuitive, but may be the result of an epistemic community which is often erroneously constructed as monolith…
Turning dread into capital
BACKGROUND: In much of the world, President George W. Bush was not admired for his foreign policy and diplomacy. It is therefore ironic that Bush's single most uncontested foreign policy triumph was an instance of what has now become known as "health diplomacy". In 2003 Bush launched the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a five-year $15 billion initiative to fight HIV/AIDS, mostly in Africa. The president's pragmatic health diplomacy ma…
The Subject as Object
This contribution to the special anniversary edition serves as a framing document, taking a macro view and reflecting on all contributions to Politikon over the past 40 years. Rather than presenting an objective and comprehensive literature review of the entire and disparate corpus of scholarship, this article provides subjective reflections on how the journal and Political Science scholarship have evolved in their operationalisation and presenta…
Regional health governance
Regional organisations can effectively promote regional health diplomacy and governance through engagement with regional social policy. Regional bodies make decisions about health challenges in the region, for example, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the World Health Organisation South East Asia Regional Office (WHO-SEARO). The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has a limited health presence as a regional organisation …
The Politics of Aids Denialism
Successive South African governments have had controversial views on HIV and AIDS which have led to allegations that South Africa is in a state of denial about the AIDS epidemic. This book attempts to determine the validity of such claims of government denial by formulating and testing a denial hypothesis.The hypothesis is contextualized with an overview of the South African epidemic as well as a review of allegations of government denial. It rev…
Power and Integrated Health Care
Integrated care occurs within micro, meso and macro levels of governance structures, which are shaped by complex power dynamics. Yet theoretically-led notions of power, and scrutiny of its meanings and its functioning, are neglected in the literature on integrated care. We explore an alternative approach. Following a discussion on governance, two streams of theorising power are presented: mainstream and second-stream. Mainstream concepts are base…
Gender justice and the Millennium Development Goals
The expiration of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015 means that the global development industry has been working towards crafting an MDG 2.0, for the post-2015 context: the Sustainable Development Goals. There is both an explicit and an implicit gender focus in both the MDGs and SDGs. Three of the eight MDGs were directly targeted at women and girls, while there was a stated understanding that all eight goals apply equally to men and…
Introduction to the Special Issue
At the end of 2015, South Africa faced both a serious political and economic crisis that puts the South African Constitution and its values central in the struggles to overcome these crises; some r
Global Health and Security
State and non-state mental health service collaboration in a South African district
The Life Esidimeni tragedy in South Africa showed that, despite significant global gains in recognizing the salience of integrated public mental health care during the past decade, crucial gaps remain. State and non-state mental health service collaboration is a recognized strategy to increase access to care and optimal use of community resources, but little evidence exist about how it unfolds in low- to middle-income countries. South Africa's Me…
Collaborative mental health care in the bureaucratic field of post-apartheid South Africa
South Africa's long and arduous journey from colonial and apartheid-era care for people with mental illness to more comprehensive, equitable mental health care is well-described. Deeper engagement with the structural power dynamics involved in providing collaborative mental health services are less-well described, especially in its post-apartheid era. This conceptual article positions state and non-state mental health service providers – along wi…
Politics of Mental Healthcare in Post-apartheid South Africa
Recent events in post-apartheid South Africa have exposed a decidedly political dimension to mental healthcare. This was exemplified in three important cases: the recent grants crisis of the South African Social Security Agency, a court case between the state and non-governmental organisations, and the Life Esidimeni tragedy. These events demonstrate that despite significant policy shifts toward basic human rights and care of people living with m…
Queer-on-queer Violence
In November 2018 the governor of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, launched an anti-gay crackdown, threatening the arrest of individuals suspected of being homosexual. Of the 54 countries in Africa, 34 currently have laws that criminalise homosexuality, three of which include the death penalty (Sudan, Somalia and Nigeria). Like many marginalised communities, LGBTQ individuals cross borders for the sake of political and economic security. This article expl…
Iterative urban design and transport simulation using Sketch Matsim
New transport technologies have historically influenced how cities are shaped, while urban form is known to influence travel behaviour. But this reciprocal relationship is seldom operationalized in practice due to the disciplinary gap between urban design and transport planning. The two are often linked through a ‘predict and provide’ workflow, which is problematic in the context of emerging technologies such as AVs. This paper argues for a more …
The effect of early weaning of Bonsmara bull calves on their profitability under feedlot conditions
Profit is a primary factor determining the viability of any enterprise. The objective of this study was to assess the profitability of early- and traditionally weaned calves (EWC and TWC) under feedlot conditions. The feedlot arrival body weights for EWC and TWC were 254.86 ± 27.28 kg (n = 136) and 308.47 ± 24.56 kg (n = 149), respectively. A backgrounding program was followed by a 123-day finishing program, with a 1-week grower-adaptation period…
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