AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.1
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Title
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AIA's Southern Africa Chronicle - Volume VIII No.1
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Date
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1995
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Description
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Sowa, January 3, 1994 (AIA/Caitlin Davies) — Mercy Manakedi Theetso is 29 and has four children. She breast-fed her first child for 18 months, her second for eight months, and she didn't breast-feed her third child at all. “I was working and the baby stayed with my mother so we used a bottle for the first four months, then we used a cup,†explains Theetso. “Myself, I like to breast-feed but I don't have the time.†In the 1960s Botswana's medical practitioners began giving new-born babies the bottle. Now, 30 years later, there is a concerted effort by the Botswana government to promote a return to breast-feeding. But as women have gone out of the home to work, reversing the trend is not an easy task. However, breast-feeding does remain popular in Botswana. “It's a culturally acceptable norm,†says Virkloti Morewane of UNICEF, and boys and girls are fed for the same amount of time.
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Format
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pdf
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Language
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English
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Type
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text
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Identifier
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http://hdl.handle.net/10962/169377
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Archive
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Cory Library for Humanitites Research
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Provenance
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The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
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Extent
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10 pages
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Rights
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Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
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Rights Holder
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Africa Information Afrique (AIA)
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Use/re-use
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The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
