• 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 ...
• A resilience lens on homeless older persons in the City of Tshwane : an illumination through photovoice 

  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 ...
• Religion and rehabilitation in Colombian and South African prisons : a human flourishing approach 

  Jang, Sung Joon; Johnson, Byron R.; Anderson, Matthew Lee; Booyens, Karen (Sage, 2023-09)

  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, ...
• Social support among older South Africans during COVID-19 

  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 ...
• Socio-economic inequalities in Namibia : a qualitative social work study 

  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, ...
• Multidimensional poverty in informal settlements in Windhoek, Namibia, and Orange Farm, South Africa 

  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 ...
• Research on the Vatsonga people of Southern Africa : a reflection on a case study 

  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 ...
• The impact of substance use disorders on families and carers : a scoping review 

  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 ...

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