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Negotiating a COVID-19 Prevention Strategy with the Family: Youth Perspectives in a Rural Setting in South Africa 与家庭协商COVID-19预防战略:南非农村环境下的青年视角

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/8046

Modise Motalenyane Alfred

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COVID-19 in South Africa and its Impact on Youth: The Media’s Representation of the 2020 Super-spreader Matric Rage Festival 2019冠状病毒病在南非及其对青年的影响:媒体对2020年超级传播者矩阵愤怒节的描述

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/10031

Sabihah Moola

{"title":"COVID-19 in South Africa and its Impact on Youth: The Media’s Representation of the 2020 Super-spreader Matric Rage Festival","authors":"Sabihah Moola","doi":"10.25159/2663-6549/10031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6549/10031","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores how the emergence of the coronavirus in 2020 affected the youth. Health communication and behaviour change communication theories are used to explain how the youth need to cognitively alter their mindsets about the seriousness of this virus. Health messages were communicated from the government (senders) to the youth (receivers) in relation to precautionary measures that could be taken to protect oneself from infection. Social distancing, sanitising and wearing of a mask were precautions communicated to the youth to inform them via health promotional campaigns. The Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) explains how youth (in the context of this article) need to understand and implement persuasive health communication for protection against COVID-19. The context of this article explains how the youth, as per the Precaution Adaption Process Model (PAMP), still engaged in risky behaviour and attended the Matric Rage Festival in Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) during the second wave of the virus infection in South Africa (SA). The youth paid little heed to the health messages and partook in this “super-spreader” event. A qualitative research paradigm was used to purposively select news reports that were available in the public domain. A thematic analysis was used to interpret the news reports. Findings indicated that “super-spreader” events increase the risk of infection, which implies that protocols need to be adhered to as per government regulations.","PeriodicalId":159147,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Youth and Development","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114328628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Effect of Socio-Economic Challenges of Youth Unemployment in Limpopo on the Economy of South Africa 林波波省青年失业的社会经济挑战对南非经济的影响

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/9727

M. Kanjere, Leornard Letlema Choenyane

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Socio-economic Factors Associated with Teenage Pregnancy in the Mandela Park Community of Mthatha, South Africa 与南非姆塔塔曼德拉公园社区少女怀孕相关的社会经济因素

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/9464

R. Madzamba

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The Effects of On-Campus Residence on Academic Performance of University Students: A South African Perspective 校园住宿对大学生学业成绩的影响:一个南非的视角

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/9844

T. Rakgogo, Maboragane J. Magedi

{"title":"The Effects of On-Campus Residence on Academic Performance of University Students: A South African Perspective","authors":"T. Rakgogo, Maboragane J. Magedi","doi":"10.25159/2663-6549/9844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6549/9844","url":null,"abstract":"The article is based on a comparative study that aimed to determine whether on-campus residence may exert an influence on students’ academic performance. Eighty participants from the Faculty of Humanities at one of the universities of technology in Soshanguve, South Africa, were sampled to participate in the study. The rationale behind this was that the Faculty of Humanities offers day classes and evening classes, which are attended by both on-campus and off-campus students. Quota sampling was used to select the participants. From an academic perspective, the study attempted to ascertain which of the afore-mentioned residences can contribute to students’ academic success. The study found that on-campus students have a greater chance of performing well, when compared to their counterparts, the off-campus students. The findings further revealed that there is a dialectical relationship between students’ academic performance and their residence. The study records the following qualitative variables to academic success: access to safety and an environment that is conducive to learning, academic tutorship and mentorship programmes, social and personal contact relationships, and library and internet resources. In this quest, these variables are crucial to the enhancement of students’ learning development.","PeriodicalId":159147,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Youth and Development","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117006356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Youth Political Participation, Good Governance and Social Inclusion in Nigeria 尼日利亚的青年政治参与、善治和社会包容

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/8429

T. Akinyetun

{"title":"Youth Political Participation, Good Governance and Social Inclusion in Nigeria","authors":"T. Akinyetun","doi":"10.25159/2663-6549/8429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6549/8429","url":null,"abstract":"As the Nigerian population continues to increase, so does the number of youth. The population of youth (18–35 years) in Nigeria is 52.2 million (i.e., about 28% of the total population), which is more than the entire population of Ghana, London and Benin Republic put together. In spite of the prospects that this number holds, young people in Nigeria are largely marginalised from governance, leaving them helpless about their continued exclusion. This is evidenced in the low percentage of youth who hold political and leadership positions in the country. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between youth political participation, good governance and social inclusion in Nigeria. Using a quantitative approach, 1,208 youth aged 18–35 selected from Nairaland participated in the study. Data gathered was analysed using the Spearman correlation coefficient and the result indicates that there is a significant positive relationship between youth political participation and good governance in Nigeria (r s, (1206) = .615, p < .001), and that there is a significant positive association between youth political participation and social inclusion in Nigeria (r s, (1206) = .875, p < .001). It was recommended that government should create Leadership and Democratic Institutes [LDI] across the states of the federation and establish an Online Leadership Orientation Agency [OLOA] to utilise various social networking sites to provide free leadership courses, webinars, and orientation on the art of governance and the promotion of social inclusion among the youth.","PeriodicalId":159147,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Youth and Development","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116647253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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[Un]blurring the Challenges Facing Post-Graduate Students in South African Universities: An Afrocentric Youth Perspective [a]模糊南非大学研究生面临的挑战:以非洲为中心的青年视角

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/8393

Benjamin Rapanyane

{"title":"[Un]blurring the Challenges Facing Post-Graduate Students in South African Universities: An Afrocentric Youth Perspective","authors":"Benjamin Rapanyane","doi":"10.25159/2663-6549/8393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6549/8393","url":null,"abstract":"South African senior academics do not accentuate the importance of the “publish or perish” mantra as required for young emerging scholars. This continued unfair and/or unjust practice is perpetuated further by a lack of attention to the problem, including less interest in research country-wide by some senior academics. It is in this context that—where this injustice is reported—it is often undermined and/or side-lined, or even critiqued. This paper is revisiting all of the various challenges faced by young emerging scholars in South African universities. Due to the complicated nature of the conduct of research in South African universities, the author did not pin-point any university by name, as this is the practical thorn that is evident country-wide and has been a systemic, strategic instigation to side-line emerging scholars in producing knowledge through various methods of gate-keeping. It is also delaying post-graduate students in the system for them to not see the importance of the continuation of post-graduate studies. Afrocentricity has been deployed as a theoretical lens, together with unstructured interviews and document reviews to collect data.","PeriodicalId":159147,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Youth and Development","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120965268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Framing of Land Ownership in The Herald Newspaper in Zimbabwe 津巴布韦《先驱报》的土地所有权框架

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/8303

Washington Mushore, K. Khan

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Youth Out-Migration in Nigeria: The Dual Role of Social Media as a Cause and Solution 尼日利亚青年外迁:社交媒体的双重作用:原因与解决

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/8135

S. Okunade, O. D. Bakare

{"title":"Youth Out-Migration in Nigeria: The Dual Role of Social Media as a Cause and Solution","authors":"S. Okunade, O. D. Bakare","doi":"10.25159/2663-6549/8135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6549/8135","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenon of migration has been recorded to be a part of human history. Over the years, scholars have averred that people migrate for different reasons. While some do so for economic reasons and in search of greener pastures, others do so to escape either the wrath of the society in which they live or the government owing to their actions and way of life. This phenomenon is not restricted according to gender and age, as both males and females, old and young, are involved. Of late, it has been discovered that there is a huge desire among youths, including those who have jobs, to exit the country, thereby leading to a massive emigration of youths out of Nigeria. Although it is an undeniable fact that the economy of the country is in shambles, which leads to a desire to search for greener pastures elsewhere, the trend in the youths’ desire and rush to leave Nigeria transcends this sole reason. Given the revelations by migrant returnees, it has been discovered that social media platforms play a pivotal role in both stirring and dampening this desire. Utilising a secondary data analysis in addition to a systematic literature review, this study explored the contribution of social media, especially Facebook, to the desperation shown by Nigerian youth for out-migration and how various social media platforms can be used for economic benefit in order to dissuade the youth from doing so. The study recommends that Nigerian youths should realise that the essence of social media meant to foster human interaction and healthy communication is gradually turning into an abode of misinformation that has embedded youths’ lives within the discourse of youth out-migration in Nigeria, as anecdotal evidence as well as empirical evidence has shown. The study informs policy, society, practice and theory within the discourse of youth out-migration and social media studies.","PeriodicalId":159147,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Youth and Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127367118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Epidemiology and Phenomenology of Compulsive Use of Technology: The Technological Saturation of South African Youth 强迫性技术使用的流行病学和现象学:南非青年的技术饱和

Commonwealth Youth and Development Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI: 10.25159/2663-6549/5075

B. Mbatha, Blessed Ngwenya

{"title":"Epidemiology and Phenomenology of Compulsive Use of Technology: The Technological Saturation of South African Youth","authors":"B. Mbatha, Blessed Ngwenya","doi":"10.25159/2663-6549/5075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6549/5075","url":null,"abstract":"Modern technological advancements are increasingly reconstituting virtually every facet of social interaction. While technology plays a significant role in many people’s lives, it appears to pose interminable drawbacks, especially among the youth. This article seeks to go beyond emphasising the utopia wrought by these disruptive innovations, by looking at how technologically saturated South Africa’s youth are. This study took a qualitative approach. Focus group interviews encapsulated the viewpoints of the target population selected from four multipurpose community centres in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa. Grohol’s model of pathological internet use was found relevant to determine the compulsive use of technology by the youth in South Africa. Data analysis was done using thematic categorisation. The findings show that the youth have adopted a variety of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for different purposes. Findings also reveal that technology advancements not only offer an easier and quicker way to share information, but also contribute to sociability by providing a way to communicate with distant friends and family. Notwithstanding the negative side of technology, ICTs have positive impacts on today’s youth, namely bringing people together as well as enhancing their social and educational abilities. However, if used without discretion, technology can create a less interactive generation. The youth seem to be so fixated on technology that it affects their social life. It can be concluded that South Africa’s youth are saturated by technology. However, this saturation comes with both negative and positive consequences; some have become technologically savvy while others seem to be negatively affected.","PeriodicalId":159147,"journal":{"name":"Commonwealth Youth and Development","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129397224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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