“…To collect the required data, the researchers visited the research site three times during the research process, spending an approximate combined period of one month at the research site. This period followed many prior visits over five years to the research site by different members of the UKZN research team conducting long-term studies at Platfontein, spanning a variety of topics (Nielsen & Tomaselli 2010;Barnabas, 2009;Dockney, 2011;Bodunrin, 2014). During the site visitations for the present study, the project researchers relied mainly on semi-structured interviews (in-depth and face-to-face), document analysis, as well as simple and partial participant observation to obtain data from the participants (Deacon, Murdock, Pickering & Golding, 1999).…”