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Songca, Rushiella; Letseku, R(Pretoria University Law Press, 1998)
The submission interrogates the issue of domestic violence in its various forms and how courts, legislation and courts define and handle cases of domestic violence. The authors argue that the definitions currently in place ...
The purpose of this submission is two-fold. Firstly, it undertakes a socio-legal analysis of child sexuality and sexual behaviour. The goal of the analysis is to confront, albeit synoptically, common-held misperceptions, ...
Songca, Rushiella; Karels, MG(Trust vir Afrikaanse Onderwys, 2016)
This contribution explores the judicial and legislative responses to sexual offences committed by, and against children. It premises its content against the contextual background of sexual offending in South Africa, and ...
Songca, Rushiella(Unisa Press and Francis &Taylor, 2018)
This focus on Land, Violence and Womxn’s bodies seeks to re-centre the debate on land as it relates to womxn’s
bodies. It highlights the dynamics engendered by womxn’s struggles for land, it explores the interface ...
Songca, Rushiella; Karels, MG(Faculty of Law, Univeristy of Free State, 2016)
This submission offers insight into the criminal procedure of an almost pure inquisitorial system dealing with children in conflict with the law. The authors posit that the South African system, especially with her ...
Songca, Rushiella(Unisa Press and Francis &Taylor, 2006)
A number of factors indicate that traditional methods of acquiring knowledge and
solving problems are inadequate. This article proposes the use of transdisciplinary
training as an additional method in acquiring knowledge. ...
Songca, Rushiella; Le Roux, J(University of Pretoria, 2005)
The submission argues that legal decisions concerning the validity of sexual abuse allegations are based upon two interrelated factors apart from physical evidence,
namely, the quality and credibility of the child's ...
This article critically addresses the manner in which accurate information from child
witnesses is obtained in criminal proceedings. Although establishing the truth is a
primary objective in criminal proceedings, young ...
The article examines the role of expert witnesses/evidence in child sexual abuse cases. It argues that the peculiar nature of these cases presents serious challenges to presiding officers most of whom are not trained on ...
Songca, Rushiella(Unisa Press and Francis &Taylor, 2018)
The article seeks to demonstrate how traditional African approaches to justice pervade the
Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 (CJA) in ways that provide young offenders the possibility to
have their dignity restored, by affording ...
The purpose of this submission is two-fold. Firstly, the goal of the analysis is to confront, albeit synoptically, common-held misperceptions, both legally and socially, on the subject of childhood sexuality. Secondly, the ...
Songca, Rushiella(The Centre for Foreign and Comparative Law -Unisa, 2012)
In this paper, the author argues that children's rights and related issues escape disciplinary classification and inadvertently place researchers between the disciplines. The author proposes the use of multi-and ...
Previous work concerning the interface between racial and national identification within
multiracial states has suggested that dominant racial groups tend to express a firmer grip on ownership of and identification with ...
Silinda, Fortunate Tintswalo; Brubacher, Michael(Athabasca University Press, 2016)
Working on a postgraduate degree can be a stressful experience for students, including distance learning postgraduate students who are at the stage of writing their dissertation or thesis. In this mixed methods study, 748 ...
Romm, Norma R.A.; Tlale, Lloyd Daniel Nkoli(Institut für Qualitative Forschung, 2019)
In this article we discuss the duoethnographical approach we adopted to extend/deepen
our interpretations of ourselves as academic researchers attempting to practise engaged research
with participants in the field. We ...
This research assesses the relevance of information and communication technology (ICT) in primary education quality in a panel of 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The empirical evidence is based ...
This research examines the relevance of inclusive development in modulating the role of
governance on environmental degradation. The study focuses on forty-four countries in sub-
Saharan Africa for the period 2000-2012. ...
Alternative methods to recruit students into the nursing profession need to be explored and utilised. Social media has the potential to be a very potent recruitment aid. The study seeks to describe and explore some of the ...
Background: Management of HIV/AIDS in the healthcare workplace poses a challenge to nurse managers, as many
nurses are affected by HIV. A workplace wellness programme (WWP) is a strategy that enhances organisational ...
Roets, Lizeth(African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2016)
The transformation of higher education brought about many changes in postgraduate research supervision, as the electronic media offered students all over the globe the opportunity to register for master’s and doctoral ...