Marietjie Botes

Biographic Data

ID6960945
NAMEMarietjie Botes
GIVEN NAMESMarietjie
FAMILY NAMEBotes
SIGNATUREBOTES M
AFFILIATIONSStellenbosch University
ORCID0000-0002-6613-6977
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Contextualising Mental Privacy in South Africa

    Open AccessMarietjie Botes, Melodie Labuschaigne et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2026

    Mental privacy is a growing concern as neurotechnologies and digital mental health tools collect and process sensitive brain‐related data. In South Africa, cultural and religious diversity adds complexity to protecting mental privacy, with traditional healing practices, communal decision‐making, and spiritual beliefs influencing mental health perceptions and care. This article examines the ethical, legal, and socio‐cultural challenges of mental p…

  • Mpox and the Ethics of Outbreak Management

    Open AccessAdetayo E Obasa, Marietjie Botes et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2026

    Mpox, first identified in captive monkeys in 1958 and recognized in humans by 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was historically confined to sporadic zoonotic outbreaks in Central and West Africa. These outbreaks, often driven by rodent‐to‐human transmission in resource‐limited settings, reflect persistent systemic health disparities. In recent years, mpox has also been reported in high‐income countries (including the United States, Unite…

  • Understanding and processing informed consent during data-intensive health research in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessLillian Omutoko, George Rugare Chingarande et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2025

    Africa has a colonial past that renders it a linguistic melting pot, where language is not only important for communication but is inextricably related to cultural identity. In Africa, there are over 2000 languages that are still being used and spoken. Language diversity coupled with cultural diversity may affect the process of obtaining informed consent in data-intensive research. We explore some of the challenges and opportunities of multilingu…

  • Generative AI governance in higher education

    Open AccessDonrich Thaldar, Marietjie Botes et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Political Science2025References: 1

    Introduction The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI), particularly large language models (LLMs), is reshaping the higher education landscape. Yet, there is limited empirical documentation of how African universities are integrating Gen-AI into teaching, learning, and research. This study presents a case study of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), one of the first African institutions to develop and implement comprehensi…

  • Future of global regulation of human genome editing

    Open AccessBonginkosi Shozi, Tamanda Kamwendo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2022

    WHO in 2019 established the Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing, which has recently published a Draft Governance Framework on Human Genome Editing. Although the Draft Framework is a good point of departure, there are four areas of concern: first, it does not sufficiently address issues related to establishing safety and efficacy. Second, issues that are a source of tension between…

  • Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, We have Always Been Cyborgs

    Open AccessMarietjie BotesARTICLEPrometheus2022

    Transhumanism is the world's most dangerous idea' (pp.1-2), at least according to American political scientist, economist, and writer Francis Fukuyama in 2004. This sentiment echoes a time when even Walt Disney and his ideas were considered the world's most dangerous by German philosopher Theodor Adorno. Adorno was fascinated and concerned by Disney's animations and how they influenced the cultural industry (especially after World War II), not on…