Surplus people and expendable children: The structure of apartheid and the mortality crisis in South Africa
South Africa’s apartheid scheme is considered as a paradigm case for the creation and maltreatment of a putatively surplus population. Both active and passive policies are identified that are utilized to contain the numbers of the black population of the nation. Of particular significance is a strategy of neglect that has led to exceptionally high infant and child mortality rates in the “homelands.” In addition, the South African authorities’ efforts to destabilize neighboring regimes in Angola and Mozambique has had similarly adverse repercussions on mortality rates there.
Technology and the Economic Development of the Tropical African Frontier
The changes [he suggests] in headquarters .organization, the introduction of political ministers, and the increased attention given by governments to matters of economic and social development, each made inappropriate the form of field administration - a modified line and staff model - that had prevailed under the colonial government, and at the same time altered the relationship between headquarters and the field. Moreover, the changes in local government — its democratization, reorganization in the southern half of the country on the model of the ;j English pattern of local government, and declining capacity relative to regional governments - changed the relationship between local government and both the field administration and headquarters, and left the field administrations filling new roles in the regions' administrative systems.
Targeting oral anticoagulation
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2000) 68, 4–5; doi: 10.1067/mcp.2000.108197