Moral Panic and Cultural Mobilization: Responses to Transition, Crime and HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal

Kaarsholm, Preben

doi:10.1111/j.0012-155x.2005.00405.x

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“…The average value of ilobolo reported for people married from 1985 to 1998 was approximately 20 000 Rands (2000 prices) or almost 13 times the average monthly real earnings of African men in the 1998 sample (Casale and Posel, 2010). This value is consistent with reports in other literature of ilobolo typically ranging from 10 000 Rands to 25 000 Rands (Kaarsholm, 2005;Gustafsson and Worku, 2006). a quarter of what white men earn.…”

Section: Literature Review: Sex Ratios and Marriage Outcomessupporting

confidence: 85%

The relationship between sex ratios and marriage rates in South Africa

Posel

Casale

2013

Applied Economics

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We investigate the relationship between alternative definitions of sex ratios and marriage outcomes among African and white women in South Africa. In contrast to marriages among whites, African marriages in South Africa traditionally have involved the payment of bridewealth (or ilobolo) by a husband to the prospective wife's family. Using matched data from the 2001 Population Census and the South African Labour Force Surveys, we find that among Africans, both the quantity and quality of unmarried men relative to women in local marriage markets are significant predictors of marriage. However, economic-based measures of marriageability have a larger effect on marriage outcomes than simple sex ratios. These findings are consistent with the argument that bridewealth payments act as a financial constraint to marriage among African couples, raising the marriageability criteria of men. In contrast, we find mostly insignificant results for the relationship between sex ratios and marriage outcomes among white women.

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Section: Literature Review: Sex Ratios and Marriage Outcomessupporting

confidence: 85%

The relationship between sex ratios and marriage rates in South Africa

Posel

Casale

2013

Applied Economics

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“…The state's view in this case shows a clear dissociation from a traditional practice (Vincent 2006: 26). In this discourse, ‘customary’ procedures are seen as ‘anti‐modern’ (Kaarsholm 2005: 144).…”

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confidence: 99%

Virginity testing as a local public health initiative: a ‘preventive ritual’ more than a ‘diagnostic measure’

Wickström

2010

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This article focuses on virginity testing in Nkolokotho in northeastern rural KwaZulu Natal. I argue that testing is a strategy that involves the deployment of collective pressure and symbolic means both to increase the individual's and the community's responsibility for sexual relations, and to strengthen girls' and women's positions at a time of chronic HIV/AIDS. In the absence of effective measures against AIDS, inhabitants try to find alternative ways to protect young people. An older tradition that emphasizes the status of virgin girls and the significance of the collective is used in a strategy that incorporates HIV blood tests. I show how virginity testing is a ‘preventive ritual’ more than a ‘diagnostic measure’, while emphasizing how both South African and Western projects aimed at improving the situation are grounded in perspectives that sometimes collide with how local people conceive of both relationships and sexuality. Résumé Le présent article est consacréà la vérification de la virginitéà Nkolokotho, dans le Nord‐est rural du KwaZulu Natal. L'auteur avance que ce test est une stratégie impliquant une pression collective et la mise en œuvre de moyens symboliques pour responsabiliser individus et collectivité en matière de relations sexuelles et renforcer la position des jeunes filles et des femmes en ces temps de VIH endémique. Faute de mesures efficaces pour lutter contre le SIDA, les habitants de la région recherchent d'autres moyens de protéger les jeunes. Une tradition ancienne, montant en épingle le statut des jeunes filles vierges et l'importance du collectif, est mise à contribution dans une stratégie qui inclut le dépistage sanguin du VIH. L'auteur montre en quoi la vérification de la virginité est un « rituel préventif » plus qu'une « mesure de diagnostic », tout en mettant en lumière la façon dont les projets initiés par l'Afrique du Sud et les pays occidentaux pour améliorer la situation s'inscrivent dans une perspective qui peut entrer en conflit avec la manière dont les populations locales envisagent les relations et la sexualité.

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“…The process of democratization is not an easy one given that the entrenched violence of the imperialist state could not be uprooted overnight. Kaarsholm (2005) illustrates this with the case of South Africa where rivalry between elected councilors at the local government level from the same African National Congress resulted in violence in which one of the councilors was shot dead by gang members allegedly organized by his political rivals. This serves as a warning that even what might seem to be violence within civil society that is apparently unconnected with the state structures might have ties with the state.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Review Essay: Democracy and Imperialism in Africa: Reflections on the Work of Claude Ake

Agozino

2009

Critical Sociology

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Moral Panic and Cultural Mobilization: Responses to Transition, Crime and HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal

Abstract: This article discusses the micropolitics behind the murder of an ANC councillor in a KwaZulu-Natal slum area in 1999, and the forms of violence which have continued in the aftermath of apartheid.

Cited by 16 publications

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The relationship between sex ratios and marriage rates in South Africa

The relationship between sex ratios and marriage rates in South Africa

Virginity testing as a local public health initiative: a ‘preventive ritual’ more than a ‘diagnostic measure’

Review Essay: Democracy and Imperialism in Africa: Reflections on the Work of Claude Ake

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