It is widely acknowledged that poverty has declined globally over the last few years. In fact, this
idea has become so ingrained in our society that it is almost taken for granted and assumed as
an incontestable fact. ...
This study to meant to determine the extent to which the Zimbabwean women in the small-scale business sector depended on their social capital to make it. The primary question of the study was: What is the significance of ...
This thesis explores questions of gender equality in social welfare theory; methodologies;
approaches and policymaking in the Global South in the context of land reforms. This stems
from the realisation that gender ...
This study investigated and evaluated the success and impact of the foodstuff package intervention that is offered by SOS Children’s Villages to households affected by HIV and AIDS. The study population comprised households ...
The thesis focuses on the social policy dimension of Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP). Interrogating land reform in the context of Transformative Social Policy (TSP) is a critical lacuna in Zimbabwe’s ...
The victimization of women and children represents one of the public health problems deserving urgent attention in Ethiopia, making the prevention of rape in all its forms a matter of vital importance.
The purpose of the ...
The study was an exploration of how internal savings and lending (ISAL) influenced the way in which persons affected by HIV and AIDS earned and spent income. The researcher engaged with the life stories of participants ...
The fast track land reform programme which was implemented in Zimbabwe from 2000 has been a subject of much antagonistic and polemical debates which have polarised academia for over a decade. The FTLRP was criticised for ...
Mthembu, Ntokozo(Open Journal for Sociological Studies, 2019-12-14)
The dawn of 1990s, social change in South Africa has provided a series of opportunities such as
to redress the past narrow cultural perspective in all related structures such as private and
government institutions including ...
Power, and how it is exercised within social relations is pivotal in explaining policy change. Hence, this dissertation explores policy change in Kenya by examining the transfer and subsequent adoption of social protection ...
Given the general poor state of health care and the devastating effect of user fee, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was instituted as a health financing policy with the main purpose to ensure universal access ...
Mthembu, Ntokozo(OPEN JOURNAL FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH (OJER), 2019-10-03)
The post-apartheid era in South Africa was intended to be a period in which to redress past injustices in
almost all social spheres, including education, particularly in terms of curriculum transformation to include
Af ...
This dissertation was carried out to try to describe the role of socio-economic factors in the successful completion of schooling up to matriculation level (matric), among young mothers in the Soutpansberg East Circuit in ...
This seminar will dissect the rationale behind the ceaseless attack/s on the Black African community in Africa especially in South Africa and recently Nigeria. The Afrocentric perspective will be utilised in trying to ...
Books and Babies: Pregnancy and Young Parents in Schools is part of a series of books by HSRC Press on parenthood. However, where the two previous publications focused on fatherhood (Morrell & Richter 2006; Swartz & Bhana ...
Agboola, Caroline(Institute for Security Studies and University of Cape Town, 2016)
The inadequate conditions of South Africa’s correctional facilities are well known. Health care, sanitation, food provision, access to education and reading materials, and, in particular, overcrowding are considerable ...
Agboola, Caroline(IFE Centre for Psychological Studies (ICPS), 2015)
Although consensual same-sex sexual relationships in female prisons have been a topic of scholarly discourse, it has received little attention in African countries, and South Africa is no exception. Consensual same-sex ...
Intersectionality was used as a lens in this article to analyse the recounted experiences of 20
former female inmates (prisoners) of correctional centres (prisons) in South Africa. It was found
that if stratification ...