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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jacobs, Leone; Geyer, Stephan(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Social Work, 2022)
This qualitative study explores and describes the resilience of homeless older persons in the City of Tshwane, South Africa. Eleven participants, recruited purposively, participated in photovoice activities supplemented ...
This paper examines whether and how religion contributes to prisoner rehabilitation—conceptualized as a prosocial change in self-identity, existential belief, and character based on identity theories of criminal desistance, ...
Geyer, Stephan; Teater, Barbra; Chonody, Jill(Taylor and Francis, 2023)
COVID-19 had a significant impact on older South Africans’ experience of social support. This cross-sectional study explored possible risk and protective factors of social support among community-dwelling older adults ...
Chiwara, Peggie; Lombard, A. (Antoinette)(Unisa Press, 2022-10)
Social work in Namibia is practised in a context marked by extreme levels of poverty and socio-economic inequalities. These interrelated challenges remain deeply entrenched despite several development efforts at national, ...
Chiwara, Peggie; Lombard, A. (Antoinette)(Michigan Publishing Services, 2020)
The goal of the study was to explore and compare the multidimensional nature of poverty in informal settlements in Windhoek, Namibia, and Orange Farm, South Africa. The study employed a mixed methods research design that ...
Simbine, Samuel Lisenga; Le Roux, M.P. (Liana); Garikai, Muridzo Noel(National Association of Social Workers Zimbabwe, 2022-08)
For decades, African researchers relied on Eurocentric concepts, models, philosophies, ethics, designs, and methods ingrained in
the European research literature. The indiscriminate use of Eurocentric concepts to conceive ...
Madikgetla, Malehlohonolo Lorraine(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Social media is an Internet-based application that enable people to communicate and interact with others online, form relationships, access information, and create and share content with people known or not known to them, ...
Swanepoel, Ilze; Geyer, Stephan; Marcus, Tessa S.(African Center for Research and Information on Substance Abuse, 2022)
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) is a persistent and global public health and social problem. This scoping review explores and describes the impact that Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) have on families and carers. It draws on ...