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Commuter-Worker and the Continuation of Labour Stay-Aways in Post-Apartheid South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Mpho Mmadi
ABSTRACT A large body of academic literature germane to service delivery protests has documented area-specific cases of protests and their targets. In the main, the focus of these studies has been the failures of the ruling African National Congress as elected leaders divert public funds aimed at improving the lives of townships and informal settlement dwellers. The emerging overall picture points
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Becoming men: Black masculinity in a South African township South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Thulani Siziba
(2021). Becoming men: Black masculinity in a South African township. South African Review of Sociology. Ahead of Print.
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The Khutsong Housing Project and Power Relationships: An Application of Lukes’ Three Dimensions of Power South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Gift Mupambwa, Johan Zaaiman
ABSTRACT This article critically examines power relationships amongst actors in a local housing development project in the Khutsong township in South Africa. For this purpose, actors’ interpretations and actions of their project praxis are linked critically to Stephen Lukes’ dimensions of power. These are the first-dimensional decision-making and policymaking power, the second-dimensional attempts
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Laying Claim to a Name: Towards a Sociology of “Gender-Based Violence” South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Denise Buiten, Kammila Naidoo
ABSTRACT Terms such as “gender-based violence” are connected with a range of evolving discourses that are not merely descriptive, but interpretive and political in nature. Yet, what makes violence “gender-based” is often implicit rather than explicit. In this Debates we argue that there needs to be greater specificity about what is gendered about gender-based violence, while allowing for the continued
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Editorial South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Zintombizethu Matebeni
(2020). Editorial. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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Hopes, Challenges and Goals—Voices of First-Year At-Risk Higher Education Students in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Cookie M. Govender
ABSTRACT South African (SA) first-year university students are especially at risk due to poor performance, high dropout and student protest marches. They face challenges of academic performance, retention and decreased throughput rates. While some students overcome their challenges and risks to succeed into their second year of study, some fall prey to their challenges. These students become “at risk”
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Decolonising Men and Masculinities Research in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-08-27 Sakhumzi Mfecane
ABSTRACT The calls for knowledge decolonisation pervade most academic disciplines in South Africa today. In this paper I argue for epistemological decolonisation within men and masculinities studies through “delinking” from western gender paradigms. The paper draws on the Xhosa concept of manhood called indoda to illustrate African-centred ways of decolonising and theorising masculinities research
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Quality Assurance of Community Engagement in South African Higher Education Institutions: Problems and Prospects South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Priscilla S. Daniels, Tracey-Ann Adonis
ABSTRACT The quality assurance of community engagement was flagged as a major problem during the last cycle of audits of South African Higher Education Institutions (SAHEIs) by the Higher Education Quality Committee. Through the implementation of critical literature review methodology and comparing similarities and differences among SAHEIs in their reporting of their attempts at benchmarking, this
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Development, social policy and community action South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Christopher G. Thomas
(2020). Development, social policy and community action. South African Review of Sociology: Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 83-85.
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Beyond the Limits of Theory: Qualifying Electoral Authoritarianism in Ethiopia (2005–2015) South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-05-25 Derese G. Kassa
ABSTRACT Democratic transitions and consolidation stalled in many parts of Africa in the past three decades. Ethiopia followed a similar pattern of democratic recession, after promising openings at two important junctures, i.e. 1991 and 2005. In fact, the ruling party claimed a “100 percent victory” winning all the national parliament seats in the latest May 24, 2015 election. This article employs
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Assessing the Policy Implementation of the Bangladeshi Domestic Violence Act: Any Lessons for Protecting South African Women in their Homes? South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Anisur Rahman Khan, Kopano Ratele
ABSTRACT Violence against women in the home is a serious global social, health and human rights problem which transcends every level of society. Many countries have enacted and implemented specific legal policy interventions, often referred to as the “Domestic Violence Act”, in order protect women from violence at home. Although the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 was an important
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Buttressing Whiteness by Confessing Guilt and Rejecting Racism: A Study of White-Talk about Paid Domestic Labour South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2020-04-14 Joanne Phyfer, Kevin Durrheim, Amy Jo Murray
ABSTRACT This article makes a contribution to literature on “white-talk”. Existing literature shows how whiteness has been defended by criticizing black people, culture and government in subtle (and not so subtle) ways that allow speakers to deny racism. In contrast to denial, we focus on how white South Africans confess to feeling guilty for their privilege in comparison with their domestic workers
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South Africa’s Fees Must Fall: The Case of #UPrising in 2015 South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Sandla Nomvete, John Mashayamombe
Writing from a participant observation point of view with supplement of in-depth interviews, this article presents UPrising, a student-led movement that emerged at the University of Pretoria's Hatf...
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The #Fees Must Fall Movement: “Disruptive Power” and the Politics of Student-Worker Alliances at the University of the Free State (2015–2016) South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Luke Sinwell
ABSTRACTThe core activities associated with the #Fees Must Fall (FMF) movement in South Africa may be understood as forms of “disruptive power” (Piven [2006]. Challenging Authority: How Ordinary Pe...
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Decolonising South African Universities: Challenging the Anthropocene and Re-Centring Indigeneity South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Darlene Miller, Rebecca Pointer
Colonialism, global capitalism, environmental destruction and destruction of myriad cultures are intimately intertwined. They have impacted our sense of what it means to be human (and who is fully ...
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Review of Preparedness of Rural African Communities Nexus Formal Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-08-01 Chinaza Uleanya, Yu Ke
The global world continues to prepare itself for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) due to the envisaged effects of the 4IR on individuals, nations and the global world. This is being done thro...
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“As by Fire”: the end of the South African University South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-06-18 Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba
The literature on leadership shows that globally, leading a university in a world that is dynamic, ever-changing, multifaceted and technologically advanced has been increasingly challenging. Jansen...
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Comprehensive Universities Timetabling Nexus Productivity South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Chinaza Uleanya
ABSTRACT The present study explores the link between the productivity of comprehensive universities (CUs) and the timetables guiding teaching and learning activities. The study was premised on review of relevant literature. The findings indicate that partnership between CUs and relevant tertiary institution stakeholders such as non-governmental organizations, non-profit organizations and charity organizations
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Writing her in: an African Feminist Exploration into the Life Herstory Narrative of Dimakatso, a Woman Participant in the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) at Leratong Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-04-03 R. Baijnath
ABSTRACT This article conducts an African Feminist exploration into the life herstory narrative of a one-woman beneficiary in South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) at Leratong Hospital in Kagiso, situated in Gauteng province. In South Africa, the statistics inform us that poverty has a face, she is young, black African and poorly educated, but we are reliably informed that her access
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Understanding the Role of Socio-Economic Factors in Fuelling Multiple Sexual Partnerships Among the Zulus in Contemporary South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-04-03 M. T. Mgwaba, P. Maharaj
ABSTRACT HIV and AIDS continue to pose a global health and development challenge, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa has one of the largest numbers of people living with HIV in the world. Despite accelerated efforts to combat the HIV and AIDS epidemic there remains an unabated challenge, i.e. continuing new infections, particularly among young African adults. Studies suggest that risky
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Rethinking Diabetes Communication: A Social Context-Based Model South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Sabihah Moola
ABSTRACT The argument centres around the notion that conventional biomedical healthcare models are behaviour change-orientated but do not cater for patients on an individual level. Healthcare systems need to acknowledge and support alternative medical therapy and also cater for the social aspect of the patient, which includes family support. This article attempts to make a case for the patient's social
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South African Newspapers’ Constructions of the Caster Semenya Saga through Political Cartoons South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Cora Burnett
ABSTRACT Taking sport seriously in academic sociological writing bridged the gap between the sociology of sport and its mother discipline with a special edition in the South African Review of the Sociology in 2015. This paper addresses a global and national audience in critically reflecting on the discourses of gender, media and politics as they intersect in the construction of the Caster Semenya saga
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Moving from Transactional Partnerships to Collaborative University Community Engagement: A Case Study Evaluating Creative Placemaking in KwaZulu-Natal Province South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Innocent Tinashe Mutero, Ivan Gunass Govender
ABSTRACT Universities are expected to contribute towards the development of society through working collaboratively with communities. One of the many ways that the academy allows for community engagement is through the use of creative placemaking to intentionally inspire a raft of transformational changes to the economy, environment and physical and social infrastructure. However, the pursuit of transformational
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SARS Issue 50(1) South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Zanetta L. Jansen
Here is the first issue of the South African Review of Sociology for 2019, which introduces a new editorial collective: Dr Darlene Miller, Dr Zanetta Jansen and Professor Zethu Matebeni. We are also happy to offer a revised and interactive layout and design for the journal, which is clearly visible on the online version accessible to subscribers. As we move forward, societies are under constant and
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Navigating Black Identity: Self-Identification Strategies of Refugees in Post-Apartheid South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Amanuel Isak Tewolde
ABSTRACT Scholars studying race in post-apartheid South Africa have largely focused on South African nationals. Little is known about the ways in which non-South African migrants and refugees navigate the South African racial classification system. In the context of continued immigration to South Africa, it is important to examine how refugees negotiate South African racial categories. This paper addresses
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Gay Men’s Identity Negotiation Strategies within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in Grahamstown, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Thoko Sipungu
ABSTRACT This paper explores the experiences of gay men within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Their experiences of the church are explored in relation to gay identity creation and negotiation in a religious environment. Six participants spoke about how they negotiate their intersecting sexual and religious identities. While adopting a qualitative
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Challenges Faced by Unemployed People in Lesotho: A Case of Manonyane Rural Community South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Josphine Hapazari
ABSTRACT Unemployment continues to be a social problem confronting numerous countries worldwide. In Lesotho, poverty and unemployment are rife in rural areas. This study sought to establish the profile of unemployed people, their challenges and how they cope with unemployment. This was a quantitative study with a sample size of 120 unemployed people drawn from Manonyane rural area in the Maseru district
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“Human Life is Like a Joke”. Ágnes Heller in memoriam South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Lukasz Czarnecki
ABSTRACT Ágnes Heller who died on 19 July 2019 was one of the most influential social scientists of the last century, particularly from the publication of Everyday Life Sociology in the 1960s. With analysis of main concepts such as transcendental freedom and hetero interpretation, I wish to pay tribute to my Master of revolutionary ideas in philosophy and sociology in our daily life-world actions.
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Beyond the Narratives of Decolonization: Re-situating Sociological Knowledge within the Context of Development in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Edlyne E. Anugwom
ABSTRACT This paper engages with the recent discourse on decolonization of knowledge in South Africa from a sociological perspective. It interrogates the position and relevance of both sociology and sociologists to the development aspirations of South Africa. Its basic assumption is that sociology as a discipline is invaluable to the current needs for social reformation and reconstruction in South
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“We Are Small, But We Have Jobs”: A Profile of the Labour Activities of Children and Youth in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Nicole De Wet, Jude Ewemade
ABSTRACT Starting from young ages, children and youth are dealing with adult problems such as poverty and food security. For this reason, children and youth enter the labour market earlier than expected, compromising their scholastic performance and future earnings if they drop out of school. This study profiles the children and youth of South Africa who are engaged in labour market activities using
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Indigenous Knowledge, Food Production and Food Security in Rural Khambashe in the Eastern Cape, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Tendayi C. Garutsa, Fhulu H. Nekhwevha
ABSTRACT In the then Ciskei, the apartheid policy of separate development introduced a decentralised industrialisation system. This strategy promoted the establishment of firms and factories in the Bantustans and Homelands (i.e., reserved black areas outside of the then so-called white South Africa). The strategy was backed up by subsidies from the National Party led- apartheid government, helping
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Quality Education for All Using a Generic Mentoring Framework South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Gishma Mohamed, Naydene de Lange, Frans J. Bezuidenhout
ABSTRACT At the onset of reformation and conciliation in 1994, various interventions were implemented by the South African government to ensure the reparation of learner outcomes and throughput. The Department of Basic Education has, however, failed innumerable times to achieve their set educational outcomes. Thus, educational stakeholders, opinion leaders, and researchers perceive the quality of education
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University-community Partnerships: Demystifying the Process of Engagement South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Raisuyah Bhagwan
ABSTRACT The emergence of community engagement in higher education and the renewed emphasis on community involvement presents greater opportunities for strengthening university-community partnerships for the common good. These partnerships are nurtured through a range of processes that can be leveraged to address critical issues in local communities. A qualitative inquiry conducted at six universities
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A Relational View of San Poverty in Botswana: A Case Study of Khwee and Sehunong South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Keneilwe Molosi-France
ABSTRACT Poverty is a persistent problem that characterises San communities in Botswana and beyond. As an indigenous and minority ethnic group in Botswana, the San find themselves trapped in unequal social relations with the Tswana-speaking groups. Since the societal structure is made of unequally perceived social statuses where the San are regarded as “inferior/subordinate” and Tswana speaking groups
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Izikhothane: Class and Masculinities of Black Male Youths in Katlehong Township, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-04-03 James G. Richards, Malose Langa
ABSTRACT This article reports on a study that explored a subculture called izikhothane that has taken root among black male youths in South African townships. Focus group discussions were conducted with young black males who are involved in this subculture and a thematic content analysis was used to analyse themes in the study. The findings showed that izikhothane are primarily concerned with music
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The Experiences of Motherhood among Black Undergraduate Students at a South African University: Reconciling Competing Roles South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-04-03 Thato Maisela, Eleanor Ross
ABSTRACT While South African educational policy gives all persons the right to attend educational institutions irrespective of pregnancy or maternal status, it can be demanding to be both a student and a mother and to reconcile competing conceptions of what it means to be a “good student” and a “good mother”—particularly within African culture. The research adopted a feminist ethics of care perspective
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Transracially Adoptive Families in South Africa: Parental Experiences of Outsider reactions South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-04-03 Diana Breshears
ABSTRACT Since the adoption of the Child Care Act of 1991, many families in South Africa have been formed through transracial adoption, particularly through the placement of black children in white-parented homes. Though this family form has increased over the past two decades, very little research has been dedicated to understanding the experiences of these families in South African society. The current
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Indigenous Knowledge, Global Ignorance? Insights from an Eastern Cape Climate Change Study South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-04-03 Amos Apraku, Wilson Akpan, Philani Moyo
ABSTRACT Climate change is considered by many to be one of the greatest challenges to humanity, with Africa seen as one of the most affected continents. There is a growing recognition that purely scientific and modern approaches alone are not enough to mitigate the “multiple stresses” of climate change in Africa. Nonetheless, the dominant thinking in climate change science appears to treat indigenous
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Re-/de-traditionalisation of Emphasised Femininity? The Potential Influence of the Spill-over Model on White Female Academics in Leadership Positions South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-04-03 Amori du Plessis, Jacques Rothmann, Doret Botha
ABSTRACT Leadership has traditionally been associated with men; however, some women have elevated themselves above the socially enforced constrictions caused by gender expectations. These gender expectations specifically pertain to women's roles as mothers and wives and, as such, present particular implications for women to establish a constructive work-life balance in their careers. A general increase
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Africa Ambushed: Sociological Images of Capitalist Benevolence and Brigandage South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Wilson Akpan
ABSTRACT Writing decades ago about Africa’s experience of “international” trade during the 16th to 20th centuries, the great African historian, Kenneth Onwuka Dike (1917–1983), made a sociologically poignant remark about what he termed the “ingrained instincts of piracy” – instincts he believed were the constant amidst the mutating contents, contours and stratagems of capitalist enterprise. Dike made
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Who Is Welcoming and Who Is Not? An Attitudinal Analysis of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Steven Gordon
ABSTRACT Recurrent xenophobic violence in South Africa highlights the strong undercurrent of popular opinion opposition to international immigrants. This article examines public attitudes towards the international immigrant community in South Africa and the factors influencing those attitudes. The author uses public opinion data from the 2014 South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS). The article
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The Question of Land Access and Ownership by Women in Cameroon: A Case Study of the Bakweri Women South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Helen N. Linonge-Fontebo
ABSTRACT This article reports on a study that examined the Bakweri women and the land question in Cameroon in terms of access and ownership. This is in view of the observed deprivation of women from land ownership due to socio-cultural practice resulting from the patriarchy that dominates most of Cameroon. This is so in spite of increased involvement of women in food crop production. The question of
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African Migrant Traders’ Experiences in Johannesburg Inner City: Towards the Migrant Calculated Risk and Adaptation Framework South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Inocent Moyo, Trynos Gumbo, Melanie D. Nicolau
ABSTRACT Globally, migrants face numerous socio-economic and institutional impediments that hinder their participation in the labour market of host cities and/or countries. This motivates them to join the informal economic sector to make a living. Applying the concept of tactical cosmopolitanism to understand the social and economic agency of African migrants, this article reports on an explorative
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Biofuel Investments in Africa: Lessons for South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Cecilia Schultz, Gideon van Riet
ABSTRACT The South African biofuel sector has developed slowly compared to other African contexts, despite the existence of biofuel production policy frameworks. In this article, the authors review the literature on agricultural reform and rural livelihoods in South Africa and analyse case studies from elsewhere in Africa in an attempt to draw lessons for South Africa. They argue that biofuel production
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An Assessment of Xenophobic/Afrophobic Attacks in South Africa (2008–2015): Whither Batho Pele and Ubuntu Principles? South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Lere Amusan, Siphiwe Mchunu
ABSTRACT In 2008, more than 60 foreigners were killed during xenophobic attacks in South Africa. As if that was not enough, the same act was repeated in 2015 when seven people were killed (four foreigners from Africa and three South African nationals). These seemingly politically, socially and economically inspired attacks continue to generate arguments among students of development studies, Third
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Comparing Migration Data from Post-apartheid Censuses: A Challenge for Longitudinal Research South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Susan Ziehl
ABSTRACT This article reports on the first step in a larger project aimed at obtaining accurate and reliable data on migration in the South African context. It examines the comparability of questions relating to migration asked in the 1996, 2001 and 2011 censuses. It goes on to present migration data with respect to the Western Cape province and South Africa (as a whole) using those sources. The major
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Resisting Erasure: Bisexual Female Identity in South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Zuziwe Khuzwayo, Tracy Morison
ABSTRACT Bisexual erasure refers to the cultural de-legitimation of bisexuality as an intelligible sexual identity. There is little South African research that considers how this occurs. Generally bisexuality is “a silenced sexuality” both in popular and academic discourse. Research has not attended to (women’s) “self-aware bisexual identities”, tending to focus on men’s bisexual practices or other
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South Africa’s Community Work Programme as Social Entrepreneurship: A Sociological Perspective South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Rejoice Shumba
ABSTRACT The study of social entrepreneurship is gaining momentum in academia, in research institutions as well as in practice; however, there is a lack of sociological analysis of social entrepreneurship. This article argues that social entrepreneurship needs to be understood from a social sciences perspective. As the research has pointed out, sociological literature does not have much to say about
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“Because They Are Me”: Dress and the Making of Gender South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-10-02 Tamara Shefer, Kopano Ratele, Lindsay Clowes
ABSTRACT Young people in contemporary South Africa inhabit a multiplicity of diverse, often contradictory, economic and socio-cultural contexts. These contexts offer a range of possibilities and opportunities for the affirmation of certain identities and positionalities alongside the disavowal of others. Dress – clothes, accessories and body styling – is one of the key components through which, within
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How Eritreans in South Africa Talk about Their Refugee Experiences: A Discursive Analysis South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Amanuel I. Tewolde
ABSTRACT This article reports on a study that explored how Eritrean refugees in South Africa – part of a generational wave of emigrants labelled the “generation asylum” by Hepner (2015) – make sense of their refugee experience and identities, herewith referred to as interpretative repertoires. Interpretative repertoires is a concept coined by sociologists, Gilbert and Mulkay (1984) and later adopted
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Agba, ajobi and ajogbe as Structures of Vigilantism among the Egba People of Nigeria South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Johnson O. Ayodele
ABSTRACT By experience, formal control structures working alone have not solved all criminal acts. This article reports on a study that examined the efforts of agba (elder), ajobi (consanguinity) and ajogbe (co-residency) as informal structures of vigilantism to control crime in Egba, Nigeria. The study used a purposive sampling technique to select the study area, and the participants in focus group
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Socio-Demographic Correlates of Volunteerism among Undergraduate Students at North-West University, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Acheampong Y. Amoateng, Marilyn B. Setlalentoa, OlaOluwa S. Yaya
ABSTRACT This article reports on a study that used a sample of undergraduate students at the North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, South Africa, to examine the effect of selected sociodemographic factors on the participation of voluntary activities amongst youth who have been exposed to the country’s higher education system. Specifically, the binary logit regression model was employed to analyse
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Sociological Perspectives on Social Cohesion as the Principal Requirement for Social Stability South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Stanley Madonsela
ABSTRACT Social cohesion is the cornerstone of social relationships, which depend critically on the social systems that determine people’s behaviour. Members of society are defined by their cultural values and beliefs, in terms of which interactions may meet with social approbation or disapprobation. In any society, interactions that draw endorsement from other people are more likely to be welcomed
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Silence and Invisibility: Exploring Labour Strategies of Zimbabwean Farmworkers in Musina, South Africa South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-07-03 Zaheera Jinnah
ABSTRACT Commercial farms in South Africa have relied on cross-border migrant workers for decades. In this article the author explores how social relations on farms in Musina, Limpopo, South Africa, shape the employment conditions of Zimbabwean farmworkers. Drawing on empirical fieldwork with 134 workers, the author argues that within a context of unequal social power on farms and conditioned by a
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Checkmating the mate: power relations and domestic violence in a South African township South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Nokuthula C. Mazibuko
ABSTRACT The ideas of ‘ownership’, ‘control’ and ‘love’ among people in intimate relationships, are often woven into the discourse of power relations. In this culture, a man owns his family and this sense of ownership results in control – erroneously seen as love for his family. For those who subscribe to this notion of relationship, the concept of partner-abuse hardly exists – in fact, it is constructed
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Practicalities of the National Development Plan: prospects and challenges, using the rural economy as a case study South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Thokozani J. Chilenga
ABSTRACT The National Development Plan 2030 (NDP) is arguably South Africa’s widest and most inclusive plan for economic and social development since 1994. It is evidence of the urgent need for development in South Africa, although its political will is yet to be determined. A test of the NDP’s strength is whether it can implement development beyond the document using existing state institutions and
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Exploring ‘juju’ and human trafficking: towards a demystified perspective and response South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Marcel van der Watt, Beatri Kruger
ABSTRACT An existing hiatus in empirical research related to the use of ‘juju’ rituals as a spiritual or psychological control mechanism by perpetrators to subjugate victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation has underscored the need for this exploratory study. The phenomenon is shrouded in secrecy and little is known about what juju entails and how it is used to subdue victims. The aim of
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Family in a changing South Africa: structures, functions and the welfare of members South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Monde Makiwane, Ntombizonke A. Gumede, Mokhantšo Makoae, Mohammed Vawda
ABSTRACT The historical review of South African families reveals that the family has undergone significant transformations, resulting in a mosaic of family formations that have had an impact on family functions. Notwithstanding the importance of the family being one of the fundamental social units, however, there is limited data on how these families function in South Africa. This article analyses
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‘Why do they need to punish you more?’: Women’s lives after imprisonment South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Caroline Agboola
ABSTRACT This article reports on a study which examined the experiences of women in South Africa after imprisonment. Using in-depth interviews, the experiences of 13 women ex-prisoners who were imprisoned in South African prisons were examined. It emerged that some of the participants of the study experienced unemployment, stigma and discrimination, as well as the psychological effect of imprisonment
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Defenders of the woods? Women and the complex dynamics of a worker-peasantry in western Zimbabwe South African Review of Sociology Pub Date : 2017-04-03 Vusilizwe Thebe
ABSTRACT One winter morning in 2006, conflict ensued between firewood vendors (selling wood to passing motorists and also supplying bulk quantities to cities), on the one hand, and a group of predominantly women (and others sympathetic to their grievances), from villages on the southern fringes of the former Shangani Reserves in western Zimbabwe, on the other hand. The latter group confiscated firewood
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