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Labour struggles in Southern Africa 1919–1949: new perspectives on the industrial and commercial workers union South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Dhiraj Kumar Nite
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Preparing Zimbabwean Women for the Future of Work: The Role of STEM Education in The So-Called Fourth Industrial Revolution South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-02-28 James Maisiri
As we stand on the cusp of what Schwab claims to be the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), the world of work is undergoing a rapid and profound transformation. Zimbabwe strives to ready its labour...
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“Respecting One Another Does Not Work Here”: Migrant Men Constructing Masculinities in an Informal Urban Settlement in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Thobani Khumalo, Pranitha Maharaj, Shanaaz Dunn
The discourse on masculinities mainly focuses on men’s power over women and more emphasis should be geared towards understanding how the dynamics are changing, especially in the context of high lev...
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Society on the Edge of a Precipice: Editorial South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 53, No. 3, 2023)
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Family Aid in Finding Love Through Beneficial Impression Management on Reality TV: The Case for Representational Social Exchange South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Mthobeli Ngcongo
Family aid in securing a romantic relationship is an important part of the process of relationship initiation. Such focused encounters may exemplify high levels of social exchange dynamics. Yet, no...
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The Construction of Regional Masculinities as Drivers of Sexual Violence Against Women in Lesotho South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Josphine Hapazari
Sexual violence against women (SVAW) is a social problem that perseveres despite preventive efforts made at international, regional and national levels. In terms of research, very little has been c...
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Economic Long Waves and Long Waves of Strikes in South Africa (1886–2022) South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Edward Cottle
Despite the resurgence internationally of strikes in recent years, studies on the temporality of strike waves within a long-wave perspective has been marked by silence in the literature. This paper...
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#FeesMustFall and its aftermath. Violence, wellbeing and the student movement in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Angelique Wildschut
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Editorial South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-09-27 David Cooper
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 53, No. 2, 2023)
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When Reality Comes Knocking at Your Discourse: Foucauldian Notions of a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Ian Moll
Michel Foucault has put forward a number of concepts, notably “the imaginary”, “discursive formation” and “dispositif”, that have been used by various writers to understand the “fourth industrial r...
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The People’s Parliament: Disaggregating Popular Participation and Protest in Thembelihle, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Luke Sinwell
Thembelihle, an informal settlement to the south-west of Johannesburg, South Africa has experienced a wave of popular protest and grassroots democracy since the African National Congress (ANC) atte...
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The Post-War Power Sharing and the Legal Politicisation of the Congolese Public Administration South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Saint José Inaka
This study explores how the power-sharing regime legally politicised the Congolese public administration during the transition from 2003 to 2006. Combining Lijpart’s consociational democracy theory...
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Environmentalism Emboldened? Exploring the Effectiveness of Anti-Fracking Groups in the Fracking Struggle in the Karoo of South Africa, 2008–2022 South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-23 Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
In 2008, the South African government started to discuss the possibility of utilising shale gas in the energy mix to produce cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable electricity. Shale gas was to be use...
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Ethno-religious Conflicts and the Challenges of National Security in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Gbeke Adenuga, Amos Olajubu, Samuel Oyewole, J. Shola Omotola
The threats of ethnic, religious, and ethno-religious conflicts have endured in Nigeria and become increasingly alarming in the fourth republic, which started in 1999. Ethno-religious conflicts are...
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Legalism in the Marikana Commission of Inquiry Report: Veiling “Sociological Causes” of the Massacre South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Claire-Anne Louise Lester
This article examines the Farlam Commission of Inquiry’s official discourse on violence within the context of the Marikana mine massacre. The commission was established in 2012 to investigate the k...
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Indigenous Foods in Decline? A Study on Changing Consumption Patterns Within the Barolong Boo Ratshidi Community, Northwest Province of South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Sheila Manka, Mokong S. Mapadimeng, Ramosotho Mokgadi
ABSTRACT This study examines changes in food consumption patterns within African communities, with specific reference to the Barolong Boo Ratshidi community in the Northwest Province of South Africa. The study uses a qualitative approach through in-depth interviews conducted with members of this community (or participants) to understand their views of food and consumption patterns. It also sought to
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Editorial South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-06-05 David Cooper
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 53, No. 1, 2023)
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Taking Platform Domestic Work Offline: Using Platform Leakage to Resist Precarity in South Africa’s Domestic Sector South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Tengetile W. Nhleko, Bianca Tame
ABSTRACT This article focuses on platform domestic workers’ (PDWs’) experiences and their decision to engage in platform leakage—taking platform domestic work offline. We argue that delving into the types of domestic work choices PDWs make reveals their agency with and through digital platforms in response to precarity on the platform and in the domestic sector. The article demonstrates, through an
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The Minimum Effect of the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme on Precarious Working Conditions in South Africa’s Minibus Taxi Sector: An Industry Full of Pitfalls South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Siyabulela Christopher Fobosi
ABSTRACT The minibus taxi is currently the most common mode of transport in South Africa, particularly for the low-income population living in townships. Minibus taxis are also seen as most people’s only option for mobility. With regards to the public transport system as a whole, the minibus taxi industry accounts for 68% of work journeys, followed by buses and trains. The sector remains, in a structural
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How Excessive Workloads and Long Hours of Work Contribute to Occupational Stress and Burnout Among Clinical Officers at Public Hospitals in Malawi South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Paliani Chinguwo
ABSTRACT In Malawi, there is a cadre of mid-level health workers called clinical officers (COs) who undertake duties conventionally performed by medical doctors in the wake of an acute shortage of the latter. This paper argues that excessive workload and long hours of work are psychosocial hazards at public hospitals in Malawi that contribute to occupational stress (OS) and burnout among COs. The study
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Transformations of Race and Class in South Africa: Discussion Article of Book on Urban Inequality: Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg by Owen Crankshaw South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-04-06 David Cooper
ABSTRACT This Discussion Article examines the exciting, innovative new book (2022) by Owen Crankshaw. It focuses on a summary including some comments on Crankshaw‘s key findings for the Greater Johannesburg Area for 1970–2011. It focuses primarily on his book’s Part 1 on issues of “Occupational Class Structure transformations”, but with some consideration also of Part 2 on geographical housing “Spatial
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Healing Places, Healing People: Insights on Spontaneous Critical Placemaking from the Bellhaven Harm Reduction Centre in Durban, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Sogen Moodley, Monique Marks
ABSTRACT Despite renewed interest in urban planning since the 1990s, the empirical focus has predominantly been on cities along the Atlantic Rim, with limited scholarly attention placed on African, Asian and Latin American cities. An examination of contemporary discourse and practices of urban placemaking reveals a worrying trend where concerns for, and interventions in, the interests of social equity
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Families in Africa: Economic Hardships and Intergenerational Support South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Marlize Rabe, Sahmicit Kumswa
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 52, No. 4, 2022)
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Economic Hardships and Intergenerational Support among Families in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps in Jos, Nigeria South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Sahmicit Kumswa, Kachollom Best
ABSTRACT Plateau State, Nigeria has experienced multiple ethnoreligious crises including devastating changes to traditional herder–farmer clashes in rural areas. Destruction of lives and property of rural autochthons in crises locations led to internal displacements from their ancestral homes. Families flee to safety, sheltering in makeshift camps under compromising conditions with few basic resources
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Transnational Family Practices and Use of Polymedia Methods for Inter-Family Communication among Zimbabwean Women Migrants in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Pragna Rugunanan, Celine Meyers
ABSTRACT This article investigates the transnational family practices among Zimbabwean migrant women living in South Africa. The study draws on polymedia theory to examine two sets of research on Zimbabwean women in South Africa. The first set of research results, conducted in 2011, using in-depth interviews with 10 Zimbabwean refugee mothers living in Hillbrow, looks at transnational family practices
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Intergenerational Kinship Networks of Support Within Transnational Families in the era of COVID-19 in the South Africa–Zimbabwe Migration Corridor South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Gracsious Maviza, Divane Nzima
ABSTRACT Intergenerational support is a common cultural expectation and obligation in most African families. It is a form of reciprocal solidarity wherein a generation uses its privileges to assist a generation in need. This is typical of care and support relationships between parents and their children. As parents care and provide for their children, the unspoken expectation is that they are investing
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Exploring the Ties of Incarcerated Fathers with Their Families and Communities in the Western Cape—The Perspectives of Care Professionals South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Marlize Rabe, Marcel Londt
ABSTRACT It is often argued that incarcerated men who stay connected with their families are less likely to reoffend. Despite the growing literature on non-residential fatherhood in South Africa, little research has been conducted on incarcerated men in South Africa. In this article, we draw on the expertise and perspectives of three research participants who used to work closely, as care professionals
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EDITORIAL – by David Cooper, member of new reconstituted 5-Editorial Collective South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-02-13 David Cooper
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 52, No. 3, 2022)
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The Socio-Economic Dynamics of the Small-House Household Structure in Harare Metropolitan Province: A Gender Perspective South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Wonder Muchabaiwa
ABSTRACT The study interrogated the socio-economic dynamics of the small-house households. The small-house relationship is a secretive long-term relationship between a married man and another woman where both develop an emotional attachment. The study was conducted in Harare metropolitan province and adopted a gender perspective to illuminate the gender dynamics and socio-economic circumstances of
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Non-Resident, Not Absent: The Caregiving Role Non-Resident Fathers Play in Raising Their Children South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Simon Tebogo Lobaka
ABSTRACT Although there is a strong belief in certain circles that fatherhood is best exercised in the context of a nuclear family, non-residential fatherhood is a growing phenomenon worldwide. In a South African context, the understanding of a family from a homogenous, dual-income, and co-resident lens disregards the emergence and prominence of the so-called non-traditional families. Studies in South
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The Impact of the COVID-19 Lockdown Level 5 on Workers: 35 Days that Shook Workers of South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Mondli Hlatshwayo
ABSTRACT Built on Internet-based research, this article traverses the less-charted terrain of the impact of COVID-19 on workers within South Africa during the country’s level 5 lockdown, which began on 26 March 2020 and ended on 30 April 2020. It reveals that the post-apartheid state’s adoption of austerity measures—which began in the 1990s—hampered efforts to meaningfully protect workers’ lives and
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Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Faith, Sexuality and Migration South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Reviewed by Thoko Sipungu
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 52, No. 3, 2022)
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Rural Women with Disabilities in Zimbabwe: A Critical Feminist Disability Account South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Cowen Dziva, Gretchen du Plessis
ABSTRACT Women with disabilities (WWD) in rural Zimbabwe are unable to enjoy fundamental rights and freedoms. The aim of this study was to capture the experiences of WWD in a rural setting. Inspired by critical feminist disability theory, this study conducted semi-structured interviews with 25 WWD (in particular, women with visual and physical impairments) in Mberengwa. Their stories demonstrate limited
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the 21st Century: Recognising and Harnessing their worth South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Abiodun Salawu
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 52, No. 3, 2022)
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Destiny Man: Black Middle Class Masculinities in South Africa, a Discourse Analysis South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Malose Langa, Bandile Bertrand Leopeng
ABSTRACT The following article provides a systematic multimodal analysis of the South African men’s publication Destiny Man. Articles published in the 2014 issues of the magazine were selected for an in-depth discussion of how factors such as access to economic resources and wealth play a significant role in lifestyle choices and the formation of the black middle-class in contemporary South Africa
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Social Capital and Empowerment in South Africa Before and After 1994: A Case Study of Iscor (now ArcelorMittal South Africa) Vanderbijlpark South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Jantjie Xaba
ABSTRACT Iscor Vanderbijlpark, now ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), is a former state-owned enterprise that was used by the Afrikaner nationalists to advance the political, economic and social interests of poor white Afrikaners. However, since 1994, there has been wide debate about why black empowerment has not happened under post-apartheid South Africa. This article compares the role of various
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Tumultuous Society: The Call for Innovative Sociological Theory and Methodology South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Tawanda Nyawasha, Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama
Published in South African Review of Sociology (Vol. 52, No. 2, 2022)
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Waiting for a Hero: Dramatism Analysis of South Africa’s ICT Development South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Ke Yu
ABSTRACT A critical and comprehensive reflection of information and communication technology (ICT) is needed to prepare South Africa for the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Through one uncommonly used theoretical framework in analysing ICT development—dramatism analysis—this article examines South Africa’s ICT development. By examining the nature and features of the development through this framework
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Towards a Future Without White People: Robert Sobukwe and the Category of the African South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Emma Daitz
ABSTRACT Using material both from Sobukwe’s well-known public addresses and from his lesser known private letters to his friend the liberal journalist Benjamin Pogrund, this article argues that Sobukwe is best regarded as a radical non-racialist who regarded race in anti-essentialist terms and sought to unmake the material, social and political conditions that give rise to it. It also explores the
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Radical Democracy and Educational Experiments: Lessons for South Africa from Brazil and Rojava South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Josh Platzky Miller
ABSTRACT South Africa faces several massive, interconnected challenges that reverberate through its political economy, society and education system. This paper offers lessons for the current conjuncture by exploring radical democracy and educational experiments in two other contexts: Brazil, as a point of close comparison, and Rojava (northern Syria), as a point for dissimilar comparison but which
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Labour Relations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: An Epic History of an Anti-Unionism Terrain South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Saint José Inaka
ABSTRACT This article analyses interactions between trade unions, employers, and the state from a historical perspective. It contributes to literature on African unionism by focusing on particularities of the history of Congolese unionism. Using qualitative research based on interviews and desk research, this paper demonstrates that the Congolese state has often colluded with employers to dominate
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A Courtly Dance: Reflexivity and Reputational Sensitivity in Research with Well-Established Non-Profit Organisations South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Erna Louisa Prinsloo, Jacques P. de Wet
ABSTRACT Interactive research with large non-profit organisations holds the promise of deepening scholarship, benefitting the research enterprise, and improving service delivery to vulnerable groups. Research implementation can be finessed from start to completion by not being tone-deaf to the reputational sensitivities of well-established non-profit organisations and by being reflective about how
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Social Media Networking as a Coping Strategy Amid the COVID-19 Lockdown: The Case of Migrant Women in Limpopo, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 T. Muswede, S. L. Sithole
ABSTRACT The article explores the use of social media networking as a coping strategy among migrant women during the national lockdown in Limpopo, South Africa. This followed the government’s implementation of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, which enforced strict regulations including closure of businesses, restricted movement, banning of informal trade and a wide range of social activities to curb
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“The Boy Has to Be a Man in Order for Life to Start”: AmaXhosa, Black Boyhood Studies, and the Anthropology of Boyhoods South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Gcobani Qambela
ABSTRACT Contemporary and historically focused social science studies of amaXhosa (Xhosa) men have focused predominantly on Xhosa men attaining manhood through ritualised initiation (ulwaluko) and heterosexual homemaking (ukwakha umzi). These studies have left critical knowledge gaps of the pre-initiation lives of Xhosa men throughout the lifecycle, along with processes of socialisation. Based on ethnographic
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Editorial—by David Cooper, Member of new 3-Editorial Collective South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-29 David Cooper
(2021). Editorial—by David Cooper, Member of new 3-Editorial Collective. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 1-3.
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Predictors and Correlates of South African University Students’ Perceptions of Metrosexuality as an Acceptable Form of Contemporary Masculinity South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Jacques Rothmann, Katlego Piitso, Werner Nell
ABSTRACT As little is known about the views of university students on metrosexual masculinities in South Africa, the aim of this study was to investigate the predictors and correlates of a group of 200 undergraduate students’ perceptions on whether metrosexuality should be considered as an acceptable form of contemporary masculinity. Results from the structured survey indicated that students’ race
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Navigating Entry and Survival in the City: A Relational Comparison of Migrant Workers and University Students in the City of Durban South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama, Aisha Lorgat
ABSTRACT Worker hostels and student residences are an important point of entry for many poor rural–urban migrants into the city of Durban. This paper brings together and reports on the findings of research conducted in two separate studies, one with hostels (KwaMashu and Thokoza) and the other at the student residences of Durban University of Technology. Hostels and institutions of higher education
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“Collective Editorial” for South African Review of Sociology 51(3&4): Special Issue on Homelessness and COVID-19 South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-04
(2020). “Collective Editorial” for South African Review of Sociology 51(3&4): Special Issue on Homelessness and COVID-19. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 51, Homelessness and COVID-19, pp. 1-6.
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“On the Streets, We Don’t Have Time to Get Treated as We are Trying to Survive”: The Stories of Mentally Ill Homeless Persons Residing in a Community-based Health Centre in the City of Tshwane South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Ramadimetja S. Mooa, Miriam M. Moagi, Jannie Hugo
ABSTRACT Globally, one of the main causes of street homelessness is the reality of chronic mental illness. In societies where mental illness is misunderstood, stigmatized, or sparsely treated, or where treatment is inaccessible for the poor, the link between street homelessness and chronic mental illness becomes even greater. This article considers the stories of specific individuals living with chronic
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Portrayal of Housing Issues of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Two South African Newspapers South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Solina Richter, Annali Botha
ABSTRACT Newspapers are important sources of information related to the issues of refugees and asylum seekers. Seeking asylum in South Africa is challenging because of a hostile sentiment towards non-citizens. The study focused on answering the following research question: How were housing and homelessness related to asylum seekers and refugees portrayed in two South African newspapers from August
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Fostering Pathways Out of Homelessness: Choreographies of Change-Making in the City of Tshwane South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Stephan de Beer, Rehana Vally
ABSTRACT Finding pathways out of street homelessness in the City of Tshwane, South Africa, brought together major academic and community-based institutions as well as local government. This article reflects on the collaborative processes used between 2014 and 2020 and analyses the efforts needed to succeed. It considers the challenges faced and demonstrates that a carefully choreographed approach is
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Providing Evidence and “Voice” During the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Online Rapid Response Surveys: Lessons from the UJ/HSRC COVID-19 Democracy Survey South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Carin Runciman, Stephen Rule, Martin Bekker, Benjamin Roberts, Mark Orkin, Yul Derek Davids, Narnia Bohler-Muller, Kate Alexander
ABSTRACT COVID-19 presents significant challenges to society and to social scientists in their attempts to understand the unfolding consequences of the pandemic. This article examines how the UJ/HSRC COVID-19 Democracy survey responded to these challenges by conducting a series of rapid-response non-probabilistic surveys using a mass membership online data-free platform, known as the Moya messenger
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Homelessness IS a Housing Issue: Responding to Different Faces of Homelessness. A City of Tshwane Case Study South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Stephan de Beer
ABSTRACT This article presents the case of one local housing organisation in the City of Tshwane and its mother organisation, responding to different faces of homelessness through creating diversified housing options. It asserts that the absence of such housing options would render people homeless, or extremely precarious. It insists that homelessness is also a housing issue, challenging a dominant
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Reflections on First Wave COVID-19 Practice: Insights from Family–Patient Liaisons South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Kezia Lewins, Tshegofatso M. Seabi, Lindiwe Seotsanyana, Koketso Maphelela, Tessa Nyirenda, Catherine Benvie
ABSTRACT This article reflects the experiences of a Family–Patient Liaison (FPL) team affiliated with a Field Hospital during the first wave of COVID-19 in South Africa. The reflection draws on our first 6-week experience providing telephonic support to low-income families resident in Gauteng. As FPLs, we formed part of an integrated healthcare programme and complimented the clinical treatment by providing
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Decolonizing sociology. An introduction South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Christopher G. Thomas
(2021). Decolonizing sociology. An introduction. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 90-94.
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Polygyny and Gender: The Gendered Narratives of Adults Raised in Polygynous Families South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama
(2021). Polygyny and Gender: The Gendered Narratives of Adults Raised in Polygynous Families. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 95-98.
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Student Housing and Homelessness: A Paradox of Urban Gentrification in Pretoria’s Old East, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-09 John Mashayamombe, Rehana Vally
ABSTRACT The urgency of providing affordable student housing influenced government and higher education institutions to consider urban renewal as a possible avenue to alleviate this demand, with the result that private–public partnerships were promoted to address this. Issues discussed in this article are drawn from qualitative interviews with University of Pretoria’s Student Representative Council
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Co-developing Local Feminist “Conceptual Vocabularies” While Strengthening Activism Through Critical Consciousness Raising with South Africa’s Mine and Farm Women South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Asanda-Jonas Benya, Sithandiwe Yeni
ABSTRACT This article is a reflection on five feminist schools, popular education platforms, convened between 2017 and 2019 with two women’s groups organising in the platinum mines in Marikana, North West and commercial farms in uMgungundlovu in Kwa Zulu-Natal in South Africa. The first part of the article looks at the background to the feminist schools and reflects on the composition of the groups
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Homelessness and Community Based Healthcare: A Narrative Experience in a Temporary Shelter Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Onida Venter, Jan Heese
ABSTRACT This article serves to describe health encounters and social dynamics of 52 homeless men residing in a temporary shelter in Tshwane during the COVID-19 hard lockdown period. The purpose of this article is to explore and modify factors that influence healthcare in homeless persons, as well as to establish a homeless health profile. It also sets out to explore the help-seeking behaviour observed
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Fostering Integrated, Collaborative Approaches to End Street Homelessness: A COVID-19 Perspective South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Wayne Renkin
ABSTRACT This article maps the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in the City of Tshwane through the lens of street homelessness. This is done through a “thick description” of what happened during this time. This map is then read against both the intention of the Tshwane Homelessness Policy and the said objectives of the Tshwane Homelessness Forum. The article will indicate ways in which collaborative