Journal of social development in Africa最新文献

{"title":"10.4314/jsda.v17i2.23837","authors":"","doi":"10.4314/jsda.v17i2.23837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/jsda.v17i2.23837","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44661279","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}

{"title":"Risk, vulnerability and Zimbabwean migrants' postarrival adaptation in Johannesburg: Reflections on relational aspects of informal social protection","authors":"A. Chereni","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V33I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V33I1","url":null,"abstract":"The article examined relational mechanisms and underlying processes of informal social protection in a migration context. It examined the role of migrants' agency in constructing, mobilizing and activating different kinds of social support from egocentric networks, as part of their ongoing response to a hostile post-migration context in South Africa. It draws on the narratives of three migrants who participated in a study on Zimbabwean economic migrants in Johannesburg. Fieldwork for the study entailed observations at two congregations of the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa, known as Forward in Faith Mission outside Zimbabwe. Additionally interviews were conducted with purposively selected migrants in 2009-2010 and 2016. The findings highlight that informal social protection evolves out of the interplay of moralities of care, protection and reciprocity with the individual and collective agency of migrants. Therefore, while its adequacy remains in question, informal social protection is complex, yet sufficiently flexible to respond to personalised needs of individual migrants. Key words : Informal social protection, risk, migration, vulnerability, Zimbabwe","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70556765","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}

{"title":"Resilience among refugees: a case of Zimbabwean refugee children in South Africa","authors":"L. Meda","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V31I2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V31I2","url":null,"abstract":"Refugee learners face traumatising post-migration experiences in South Africa. Their resilience is tested in all spheres – communities which they settle, schools they go to and places they try to get social services. The purpose of this study is to explore post-migration experiences which gave rise to resilience among Zimbabwean refugee children at a refugee school in South Africa. The study was done using a qualitative case study of a school of refugees in South Africa. Twelve refugee children and a school principal were purposively selected to participate in interviews and group discussions. School documents such as enrolment records and examination results were reviewed. It was found that refugee children's experiences require them to be more resilient in order to succeed in a foreign country. A significant contribution that comes out of this study is a resilient identity framework for refugee learners which was developed based on the findings. Keywords: Post-migration; resilience; refugee children; experiences","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"31 1","pages":"115-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70556994","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}

{"title":"The Feminine Divine, the Hug And Feminine Hindu Spiritual Leadership","authors":"M. Naidu","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V32I2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V32I2","url":null,"abstract":"In their recent article, Sharma and Jain (2013) make the point that leadership and management are twinned, complementary and inextricably linked, or as they put it, “Go hand in hand”. They go a step further though and draw from Warren Bennis' list of the differences between 'the leader' and 'the manager' and state that while the manager administers, the leader innovates, and where the manager is a copy, the leader is an original (Sharma and Jain 2013). One completely agrees with this, for as Sharma and Jain assert, the leader's task is to inspire and to motivate. This essay will use the theoretical prism of intertextuality and work through the leadership framework above, as put forward by Sharma and Jain. The essay will attempt to show how this understanding of a leader and leadership is a potentially valuable lens to appreciate the spiritual leadership of the Hindu saint popularly known globally as Amma (Mother). The paper will show that Amma as a Hindu 'guru', is a particular kind of leader who fits many of the contexts that Sharma and Jain describe within their leadership model. The paper will attempt to further show that the saint known as Amma, typifies a unique and particular kind of charismatic feminine power and female leadership that both inspires and motivates millions of Hindu followers the world over. Key Words : mother, feminine, leader, spiritual, female leadership","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"32 1","pages":"43-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70557144","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}

{"title":"An exploration of students experiences of Blended Learning in a physics course at a university of technology","authors":"M. Basitere, E. Ivala","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V32I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V32I1","url":null,"abstract":"The '#FeesMustFall' students protest movement in South African Higher Education Institutions sparked critical discourse on Blended Learning as an approach to supplement conventional on campus contact (face-to face) lectures. This approach, however, needs careful consideration in its implementation due to its inherent resourceintense nature, which poses challenges in settings that are poorly resourced. For instance, there is a danger that it may further accentuate digital divide, marginalizing poorly resourced communities, and thus necessitates great caution in its implementation. This paper presents and discusses students' experiences of Blended Learning through their interaction with the adaptive medium WileyPLUS system and social medium WhatsApp group platform in a Physics course supplementing face to face classroom teaching. The data was generated through student focus group interviews, WhatsApp group discussions and students' results in both WileyPLUS and paper-based assessments.  The results show that students who lived in university residences with access to university resources such as computers and Wi-Fi had a greater chance of improving scores in the Physics course compared to students residing off-campus without the necessary resources such as personal computers and access to internet services. Furthermore, in the group of students residing off-campus, scores on online versus written assessments were discordant - students scored better on online tests than in written tests. This was attributed to cheating collaboration, as students residing offcampus reported to have collaborated with fellow students residing on campus in order to score higher points on WileyPLUS at the expense of failing to gain the required level of competency to perform equally well in written assessments. In conclusion, the findings in this paper alert universities to the potential challenges and implications of employing various technologies to support Blended Learning particularly in a developing country where resource limitations feature. Keywords: Blended Learning, Digital divide, #FeesMustFall, WileyPLUS, WhatsApp","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"32 1","pages":"23-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70557064","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}

{"title":"Examining belonging at the interface of ethnicity, social status and masculinities in transnational space among foreign African male students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal","authors":"J. Muthuki","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V31I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V31I1","url":null,"abstract":"Globalisation of trade, finance and production as well as the on going processes of political and economic integration has led to an unprecedented increase in international migration. Increased mobilities in the current global state have led to a need for new understandings of identity and belonging as mobile subjects transcend national borders and forge and sustain multi- stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement. The negotiation of such transnational spatial configurations has posed a challenge to classical notions of belonging in which people and their identities were often seen as rooted in a physical place. This transnational space has consequently opened up various ways of addressing issues of belonging or not belonging. This paper begins by reflecting on the various approaches that have attempted to define the complex phenomenon of belonging as well as the politics of belonging as specific political projects aimed at constructing belonging in particular ways and particular collectivities. Using the concepts of social locations and power geometries and employing in depth interviews, this paper analyses how foreign African male students studying in a South African tertiary institution mobilised their ethnicity as a resource for negotiating belonging, social status and masculinity. The findings of the study reveal that as a reaction to the dominant local South African the male students sought to negotiate their sense of belonging and social status through ethnic group identification, drawing on traditional leadership positions as well as on traditional rites of passage. The article thus examines the interface of social status, ethnicity and masculinity in negotiating belonging in the transnational space. Keywords: Belonging, Ethnicity, Social Status, Masculinity, Transnational space","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"31 1","pages":"55-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70556931","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}

{"title":"Editorial: Promoting social development in Africa","authors":"K. Nyikahadzoi","doi":"10.4314/jsda.v29i2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/jsda.v29i2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70556911","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}

{"title":"Documenting a best practice model for successful female inmate and female ex - inmate reintegration: the Gogo Olive Project","authors":"G. Javangwe, T. Ponde, K. Rukudzo, M. Matika, Wonderful Zharare","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V30I2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V30I2","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to enhance our understanding of the needs of men and women within the prison and correctional services as well as inform and raise service provision levels. There is now a strong focus on correctional pre and post incarceration re-integration strategies for women, an often neglected population. The study adopted the case study method and used a purposive sampling strategy to select a sample of forty- five women. The majority had been incarcerated, or were currently serving prison terms that were likely to expire within a month or two. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with the targeted sample of women and data were transcribed verbatim. Data analysis used the protocol suggested by Patton (2002). Trustworthiness was established through member checking. Fourteen themes were teased out and used to characterise the Gogo Olive project. These included: (a) origins and setting of the project (b) the project (c) continuous skills acquisition (d) creation of gendered correctional industries preparing inmates for reintegration (e) markets (f) community involvement (g) empowerment (h) reduced recidivism (i) flexibility (j) gaining community trust (k) therapeutic milieu (l) documentation (m) sustainability (n) project challenge. The Gogo Olive Project has been transformative as it brought fundamental, systemic changes that positively impacted not only the female offenders but large groups of people, entire communities, and even the wider society. The Gogo Olive project is a useful best practice model worth cascading to other Zimbabwean female prisons and beyond, with scope for transforming it into a robust business model. Keywords: Gogo Olive project; female inmate, female ex-inmate, reintegration, rehabilitation, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"30 1","pages":"7-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70556812","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}

{"title":"Gendered Nature Of Informal Crossborder Trade In Zimbabwe","authors":"V. Muzvidziwa","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V30I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V30I1","url":null,"abstract":"A significant proportion of Zimbabweans are constantly on the move and do engage in informal cross-border activities. It is highly acknowledged that Zimbabwean informal cross-border traders in particular are cultural and economic entrepreneurs (Cheater 1998; Muzvidziwa 2001, 2012; Zinyama 2000). While earlier migration studies focused on male migrants and tended to characterise migration as a male gender issue, cross-border trade presents a completely different picture, as women tend to dominate in this area. Women are a significant but a footloose group in search of markets and livelihoods not just for survival but to enable many to invest and thus enter the world of business as entrepreneurs. Cross-border trade is dominated by a highly mobile class of women specialising in long distance business activities. Zimbabwean women are no longer content with being dutiful housewives and home makers. They have taken a lead on matters of household survival. Cross-border women traders have become in colloquial terms varume pachavo (Just like men i.e. they are men in their own right). This is particularly with reference to women informal cross-border traders' breadwinner status. Cross-border women traders can best be described as having fluid, shifting and multiple identities. The notion of kumusha (home) is deeply entrenched in women cross-border traders. Male migrants can be described as stayers, they can be away from their families and homes for a considerable period of time, while women are constantly on the move and they stay connected to their home bases. Through cross-border trade the women are now connected to places and people in distant places but remain firmly rooted in Zimbabwe. To these women the world is like a large village. Women cross-border traders see networks as a resource that can be effectively mobilised to ensure success in business. Cross-border trade is a livelihood strategy that is making a difference to many households in an environment marked by declining and collapsing economies. This paper focuses on cross-border trade as a highly gendered activity that has become the key coping and investment strategy for many women in the context of a depressed economy as is the case in Zimbabwe. This article draws from a yearlong in-depth study of Zimbabwean women cross-border traders.","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"30 1","pages":"121-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70556748","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}

{"title":"Religion as Mechanism of Adaptation for Immigrants: The Case of African Migrant Students in a South African Tertiary Institution","authors":"Jm Muthuki","doi":"10.4314/JSDA.V29I1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/JSDA.V29I1","url":null,"abstract":"While most scholars acknowledge the salience of migrants' transnational economic, political and socio-cultural practices, it is only recently that they have begun to pay attention to the relationship between religion and migration. Migration affects the entirety of a person's being because it involves an emotional crisis caused by the migrants' separation from their natural physical and social environment and a psychological problem of adjusting to the new one. Religious beliefs appear to be useful in serving to restore the inner balance of an individual and reducing the levels of anxiety amongst immigrants. Previous immigrant religion research has however focused mostly on immigrants in America with a recent focus on Canada, Australia, and Western Europe. This paper however focuses on a different context in Africa by examining the role of religion in the adaptation experiences of migrants from other African countries who have migrated to South Africa for study purposes. Using in-depth interviews, the paper examines the different ways in which religion influences their adaptation into the new context. The findings reveal that migration increases religiosity among migrants, facilitates aspects of immigrant adaptation such as academic achievement, emotional adjustment, negotiation of gender identity and building of social capital through social networks. Keywords: Religious Beliefs, Immigrant Adaptation, Social Networks, Gender Identity","PeriodicalId":85020,"journal":{"name":"Journal of social development in Africa","volume":"46 1","pages":"109-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70556871","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}