• Disrupting gender-based violence : the role of private security 

  Oeschger, Sarah; Nunlall-Hiralal, Reema; Steyn, Francois (University of Salento, 2024)

  South Africa suffers from pervasive gender-based violence that finds expression in, amongst others, domestic and intimate partner violence, rape, sexual harassment, and femicide. While the government and civil society ...
• The roles of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa : a scoping review 

  Khosa, Jeffries Zwelithini; Gutura, Priscilla (Whiting and Birch, 2024-03)

  This paper discusses the role of social workers and community volunteers in providing services to foster care children living with HIV in South Africa. A literature review was undertaken of 14 qualitative studies conducted ...
• The experience of social workers providing mental health services at a mental health facility in Tshwane, South Africa 

  Poopedi, Lehlogonolo Kwena; Bila, Nontembeko Joyce (University of Stellenbosch, 2023)

  South Africa presents a high prevalence of mental health problems, with one in six South Africans being diagnosed with anxiety, depression and substance-use problems (excluding more severe conditions such as bipolar disorder ...
• A link to recidivism : excluding female offenders serving short sentences from rehabilitation programmes 

  Thornton, Jessica Leigh (Romanian Academy Francisc I Rainer Institute of Anthropology, 2023)

  OBJECTIVE. This study discusses the issue of rehabilitation and the lived reality of female offenders serving short-term sentences who are excluded from rehabilitation programmes. This exclusion ill-equips the women from ...
• Locked down in the rainbow nation : alleviating the loneliness of South African older persons 

  Geyer, Stephan; Chonody, Jill; Teater, Barbra (University of Stellenbosch, 2023-12-04)

  The literature on the biopsychosocial effects of COVID-19 on older persons has originated predominately from the Global North, with a dearth of studies focusing on the loneliness of older persons in the developing world, ...
• A pre-experimental design evaluation of brief harm reduction interventions to improve coping self-efficacy of carers of people with substance use disorder 

  Swanepoel, Ilze; Crafford, Gretel; Geyer, Lourens Stephan; Marcus, Tessa S. (BMC, 2023-06-15)

  BACKGROUND : Globally, the rise in the number of people living with a substance use disorder (SUD) carries a multitude of individual and social health implications for carers and their families, often impacting negatively ...
• Retiring in a prison cell : the South African sentenced older adult male offender 

  Booyens, Karen; Geyer, Lourens Stephan; Masenge, Andries (Sage, 2023-03)

  The purpose of this study was to create a profile of the sentenced older adult male offender incarcerated in South African prisons. The findings of this investigation are based on face-to-face surveys with 88 older adult ...
• Progress of the social service professions in South Africa's developmental social welfare system : social work, and child and youth care work 

  Gray, Mel; Lombard, A. (Antoinette) (Wiley, 2023-10)

  This paper examines the progress of the social service professions delivering developmental social welfare in South Africa, a subject we have followed closely over the last 20 years. Being policy-driven, developmental ...
• An exploration of the Vatsonga people’s markers of childhood 

  Simbine, Samuel Lisenga; Le Roux, Liana; Muridzo, Noel Garikai (Springer, 2023-06)

  Children are entitled to a host of rights cutting across the socio-economic and cultural fabric. These are contained in various international and regional conventions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the ...
• A new path to cultivate human rights education at schools of social work in Africa from a decolonial lens 

  Giliomee, Cornelia Magrietha (Routledge, 2023)

  This article reports on a theoretical and empirical study exploring the nature and extent of human rights coverage in the curriculum in schools of social work at universities in Southern and East Africa. In a mixed ...
• Perceptions of nyaope users regarding therapeutic services at private in-patient treatment centres in Gauteng 

  Zwane, Noxolo Chairmaine Minenhle; Geyer, Lourens Stephan (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2023)

  National data indicate that young adults are increasingly vulnerable to the harmful use of nyaope – an illicit drug. Consequently, there is a need for appropriate treatment services. This study aimed to explore and describe ...
• Now the solution is here - social assistance for orphaned children : the extended child support grant 

  Sibanda, Sipho; Ndamba, Felistus (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2023)

  The current crisis in foster care was precipitated by using the child protection system to meet the social assistance needs of orphaned children. The new parallel system in the form of an extended child support grant system ...
• An analysis of policies and legislation relating to child participation by children in alternative care in South Africa 

  Schiller, Ulene; Strydom, Marianne; Lombard, A. (Antoinette); Rademeyer, Cobus (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2023)

  Worldwide, children in the care of the state constitute one of the most vulnerable groups in society. They are often not heard, or their views not respected in matters concerning them. This is incongruent with the Declaration ...
• A temporal assessment of burglary at residential premises in the Newlands East policing precint 

  Mbonambi, Nokukhanya Neptune (Sage, 2023-12)

  Knowing when crimes occur most predominantly in a specific area, such as which hour/s of the day, which day/s of the week, or which month/s of the year, is fundamental for the formulation of crime prevention strategies. ...
• An exploration of sexual sadistic acts on non-consenting female victims in South Africa 

  Bezuidenhout, Christiaan; Gahler, Bianca; Moen, Melanie (SARP Publishers, 2022-07)

  Non-consenting criminal sexual sadistic acts as a phenomenon are unique and have not received a great deal of attention, especially in South Africa. There is a lack of research regarding the nature and effect of ...
• Communal responses to burglary at residential premises in the Cato Crest informal settlement, South Africa: Implications for community policing 

  Mpofu, Zandile Faith; Sibisi, Nomathemba Nomakhosi; Sibisi, Nonhle (Taylor and Francis Group, 2023-12)

  Violence and crime in countries such as South Africa are shaped by deep socio-economic inequalities; however, urban areas and housing spatial also play a role, but often in differing ways. Housebreaking is unlawfully and ...
• Developing a psychoeducational programme for caregivers of people with intellectual disability 

  Gordon, Bonita Karen; Bila, Nontembeko Joyce (AOSIS, 2023-09)

  BACKGROUND : In the Western Cape, South Africa, a significant number of individuals with intellectual disabilities are cared for by caregivers who receive little or no compensation, education or support. Despite the unique ...
• Community oriented substance use programme in the City of Tshwane : a cross-sectional survey of stakeholder perceptions 

  Scheibe, Andrew; Ncube, Likwa; Nonyane, Dimakatso S.; Coetzee-Spies, Magriet; Marcus, Tessa S. (Unisa Press, 2023-09)

  The City of Tshwane and University of Pretoria’s Community Oriented Substance Use Programme (COSUP) is an applied research intervention to address drug use-related harms in the city by using a harm reduction community-oriented ...
• Ubuntu and values underlying the Vatsonga culture : implications for developmental social work with children 

  Simbine, Samuel Lisenga; Le Roux, M.P. (Liana) (Unisa Press, 2022)

  The development of the social work profession in Western countries is criticised as being irrelevant to the African context. Although developmental social work was introduced in South Africa to align the profession with ...
• From imperialism to radical hospitality : propositions for reconfiguring social work towards a justice-to-come 

  Bozalek, Vivienne; Holscher, Dorothee (Unisa Press, 2022)

  The focus of the article is on injustices towards South African families in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts, our understanding of which has been greatly enlarged by Nancy Fraser’s conceptualisations of expropriation ...

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