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Cheryl Potgieter
Researcher at University of KwaZulu-Natal
Publications - 21
Citations - 272
Cheryl Potgieter is an academic researcher from University of KwaZulu-Natal. The author has contributed to research in topics: Transactional sex & Human sexuality. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 18 publications receiving 254 citations. Previous affiliations of Cheryl Potgieter include University of Pretoria.
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The Social Construction of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in South African Communities
Tamara Shefer,Anna Strebel,Tanya Wilson,Nokuthula Shabalala,Leickness C. Simbayi,Kopano Ratele,Cheryl Potgieter,Michelle Andipatin +7 more
TL;DR: The authors present the findings of a focus group study, which was a part of a larger, national project addressing the broad question of health-care seeking behavior for STIs, which reveals complex and rich narratives on the way in which STIs are constructed in South African communities.
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Lesbian, gay and bisexual citizenship: a case study as represented in a sample of South African Life Orientation textbooks
Cheryl Potgieter,Finn Reygan +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how selected Life Orientation (LO) textbooks for Grades 7 to 12 in South African schools represent and construct LGBTI identities and found inconsistency in the representation of these identities.
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Taxi ‘sugar daddies’ and taxi queens: Male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
TL;DR: A number of key areas that need to be explored with men in the taxi industry, in order to address risk behaviours for both taxi drivers and the girls who ride with them are highlighted.
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Crime and tourism in South Africa.
Edwin C. Perry,Cheryl Potgieter +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used relevant literature as well as data from South African Tourism (SAT) on tourists' perceptions and attitudes toward crime and satisfaction with security in the country, the South African Police Services (SAPS) data on crime rates and resident perception findings on crime and tourism.
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‘She’s a slut … and it’s wrong’: Youth constructions of taxi queens in the Western Cape:
TL;DR: This paper explored the understandings and constructions of taxi queens among local youth and found that taxi queens were strongly stigmatised, but their behaviour was also constructed as normative, especially in poor communities, and reflecting contradictory notions of vulnerability and power.