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Natuurlike gebiede in Oudtshoorn : 'n inleidende studie tot die maatskaplike ekologie van 'n plattelandse dorpVan Zyl, D. January 1944 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 1944. / 218 Leaves printed single pages, preliminary pages i-vi and numberd pages 1-212.Includes bibliography,photo’s and figures. Digitized at 330 dpi color PDF format (OCR),using ,KODAK i 1220 PLUS scanner. Digitised, Ivan Jacobs on request of Niel Hendriksz 1 Augustus 2011 / No abstract available
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Die rol van maatskaplike faktore in die werksafwesigheid van vroulike fabriekarbeidersVenter, Frederika Magdalena 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MSocialWork)--Stellenbosch University, 2001. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Workers absenteeism is a problem for many companies in South Africa. The
absenteeism of workers affects the productivity of companies. The social
worker in the industry plays a key role in the managing of workers
absenteeism. One of the goals of social work in the industry is to enhance the
productivity of workers. Consequently there is a lack of specifically South
African research on the social factors that influence worker absenteeism and
the role of the social worker to manage worker absenteeism.
A survey of international literature forms the starting point for the research
undertaken to fill this gap. The influence of social factors on worker
absenteeism is described. Three worker absenteeism approaches, namely
economical, psigological and sociological approaches are being used to
describe the social factors that influence worker absenteeism. The literature
view also offers management strategies to help combat worker absenteeism.
In the study there is being focused on the female worker because the
empirical study takes place at a company that manufactures clothes.
The empirical study describes the social factors that influence the
absenteeism of female workers working in the manufacturing company.
Proposals are made concerning ways to combat worker absenteeism, taking
into account the important role the social worker in the industry plays in
managing worker absenteeism. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Werknemerafwesigheid is vir baie fabrieke en firmas in Suid-Afrika 'n ernstige
probleem. Die werksafwesigheid van werknemers veroorsaak dat die
produktiwiteit van fabrieke en firmas beïnvloed word. Die maatskaplike
werker in die bedryf kan 'n belangrike rol speel in die hantering van
werknemerafwesigheid, omdat dit 'n doelstelling van maatskaplike werk in die
bedryf is om die produktiwiteit van werknemers te verhoog. Derhalwe is daar
'n gebrek aan spesifieke Suid-Afrikaanse navorsing oor die maatskaplike
faktore wat werknemerafwesigheid beïnvloed, en wat die maatskaplike werker
se rol is om werksafwesigheid te beperk.
'n Literatuurstudie word aangebied as vertrekpunt vir die navorsing wat
onderneem is om genoemde leemte aan navorsing te vul. Die invloed van
maatskaplike faktore op werknemerafwesigheid word bespreek. Drie
benaderings tot werknemerafwesigheid, naamlik ekonomiese, sielkundige en
sosiologiese benaderings word geondersoek waaronder die maatskaplike
faktore wat werknemerafwesigheid beïnvloed, bespreek word. Die
literatuuroorsig bied ook bestuurstrategieë om die werksafwesigheid van
werknemers te bekamp. Daar word spesifiek op die vroulike werknemer
gefokus omdat die empiriese ondersoek by 'n klerevervaardigingsfabriek
plaasvind.
Die empiriese ondersoek handel oor die maatskaplike faktore wat die
werksafwesigheid van vroulike fabriekarbeiders beïnvloed. Na aanleiding van
die bevindinge van die ondersoek word aanbevelings vir die hantering van
werknemerafwesigheid gemaak. Dit geskied met inagneming van die
belangrike rol wat die maatskaplike werker in die bedryf kan speel in die
hantering van werknemerafwesigheid.
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A review of the developmental vision and work of the City of Cape Town's Community Development Department (February 1997 to December 2000) and its successor the Department of Community Services (January 2001 to June 2003) which was aimed at transforming socially dysfunctional communities such as Manenberg.O'Connor, Christopher Joseph January 2004 (has links)
This study considered the work of the Department of Community Development in the City of Cape Town, through the manner in which it implemented its developmental vision, its institutional consequences and the obstacles to its realisation.
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Stuck in legal limbo: a case study of migrants accessing the law in JohannesburgLambson, Sydney Vivian 11 November 2014 (has links)
This study looks at the experiences of migrants accessing notions of justice at the Wits Law
Clinic, the pro-bono public interest law clinic of the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa. This study explores the way migrants engage with public
interest law in the light of an overwhelming adversarial and threatening experience of the
law. The law in the form of state law and its powers embodied in law enforcers and petty
bureaucrats is mainly used against them and confines them to a ‘state of bare life’. One could
therefore expect that this compels migrants to keep their heads down and avoid any form of
formalization, and instead reverting to a total reliance on informal survival strategies. This
study however shows that migrants retain a strong faith in the law and draw a huge sense of
hope from the services they receive from the Wits Law Clinic – even though the only action
that is sometimes taking place is the endless writing of letters. But it appears that the
reduction of the law to absolutely mundane bureaucratic activity still holds enough symbolic
power of giving migrants a sense of moving closer towards the promise of justice, which the
law also holds, even though it might be over and over deferred.
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Economic and social aspects of street waste pickers in South Africa07 October 2014 (has links)
Ph.D. (Economics) / Street waste pickers are a visible group of people trying to survive under poor socio-economic conditions. They participate in the informal economy as self-employed entrepreneurs. Despite the income-earning opportunity generated by the waste that is freely available, their social and economic conditions remain poor. This study is the first national study to investigate the social and economic conditions of the street waste pickers in South Africa. The national study covers thirteen major cities in South Africa and uses a mixed method research design. A literature review on informal waste picking activities and the participation of the poor in these activities provide a basis from which the socio-economic conditions of the street waste pickers could be analysed. A theoretical overview of poverty theories, the unemployment problem, and the characteristics of the informal economy and informal recycling activities help to contextualise the street waste pickers in terms of the link that exists between poverty, unemployment, and street waste picking activities as a marginal form of informal self-employment. With this as background, qualitative and quantitative data on the socio-economic conditions of the street waste pickers was collected from the street waste pickers themselves and from the buy-back centres with whom they interact on an almost daily basis.
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An investigation of mourning amongst urban Zulus in relation to Worden's model of mourningNembahe, Mpfariseni 22 August 2013 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 1998.
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Coping strategies used by Leeuwkop prison correctional officers when dealing with occupational stressRaphadi, Thulisile Faith January 2017 (has links)
A report on a study project presented to the Department of Social Work School of Human and Community Development Faculty of Humanities in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Masters of Art in Occupational Social Work, October 2017 / Correctional officers face many stressors in their workplace settings such as guarding violent prisoners and ensuring the safety of everyone in the prison setting. The stressors they face may lead to occupational stress for some. The study aimed to understand the coping strategies used by correctional officers when dealing with occupational stress. To investigate the research aim, a qualitative approach and case study design were utilised. Convenience sampling was used to select 25 correctional officers employed at Leeuwkop prison, Medium B and Maximum facility. Semistructured interviews schedules were used where one-on-one interviews were conducted to collect data. Thematic analysis was used to analyse data gathered.
The study revealed that correctional officers face many stressors in their work environment such as leadership style, prison violence, uneven ratio between inmates and correctional officers as well as shift work. These stressors have different impact on their professional and personal lives such as; aggression towards their family, psychological effects, society high expectations which prevent them from living their own lives and also some felt that their work isolates them from their families. To cope with occupational stress, the study revealed that correctional officers engage in sporting activities within the prison such as soccer, others make use of employee assistance programmes and some resort to less conventional ways of coping such as absenteeism and alcohol use. Recommendations were provided to curb the challenges experienced by correctional officers which included; the need for more advertisement of employee assistance programmes, hiring more correctional officers to even out the ratio between correctional officers and inmate, the need for more occupational social workers services within the prison and lastly the need for more South African research on correctional officers coping strategies. / XL2018
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Globalization--South Africa--JohannesburgRyninks, Guy J 03 March 2016 (has links)
A research report submitted by the Wits School of Arts, Film and Television
Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for the degree of Masters in Film and Television.
Johannesburg 2015 / In our modern contemporary time period the vast and rapid expansion of globalisation is stronger than ever, resulting in the shifting of how identities are currently being formed. In Johannesburg there has been major shifts in the socio-political realities of our nation, coupled with globalisation there is a noticeable shift in way identities are formed in our present fractured environment. These shifts are important to acknowledge as South Africa is in the process of changing its image towards of an all encompassing equal state, and so It is imperative to study how these shifts are impacting on identity formation. There are multiple difficulties in a study such as this, initiating a study on a subject/s that is itself incomplete fails to produce finite answers or outcomes. Rather many varying results are produced and compiling this information proves challenging when attempting to comprehend these findings.
It is my aim to understand not only how identities are being formed within the rejuvenating city, but also how the rejuvenation of the city is impacting on the formation of identities. Because of the long-established fractured nature of Johannesburg there has been a fracturing of identities that continues even in the face of the changes that are occurring. However with the changes meant to curb these fractures I question if these fractures are in fact diminishing, remaining the same or is there actually a noticeable change occurring. Initially I consider the history of South Africa as this has evidently impacted on the city, my research is it then focused on Johannesburg, as this is the environment I live in and have formed my own identity in. I also investigate how through the use of auto-ethnography I am able to practice ‘self-expression’ staged upon my personal view of Johannesburg and the fractures I encounter. Because I use auto-ethnography as my autobiographical filming technique I have exclusive control over the film and this proved challenging as I was positioning myself in the film as a form of subjectivity. This created a problem in how I was intending to represent myself along with the fractured landscape of Johannesburg.
My outcome is a self-subjective representation of myself positioned into my environment represented as my personal view. I focus on the fractures I experience within my own environment the suburbs and that of the city, also the fracture between these two spaces and the continuing fracture in my own identity and relationship with the city. My research will allow for an avenue of self-representation on a very personal and idiosyncratic level as to encourage the city to be represented as it is experienced and perceived by its inhabitants. However my production can be seen as being specific to a similar case, that being of my own, but this practice allows for the use of auto-ethnography to represent our own individual perspectives and the subjectification of ourselves as inhabitants of the city from a personal perspective rather than a generalised and broad perspective.
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Demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with under-5 mortality in KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaHlongwa, Mbuzeleni N January 2016 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.(Demography and Population Studies))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, 2016 / BACKGROUND: Under-5 children in KwaZulu-Natal are highly exposed to dying before reaching five years of life. Studies have been conducted to understand the demographic and socioeconomic factors that influence under-5 mortality, both nationally and internationally, with some contradicting findings on the association between some socioeconomic and demographic factors and under-5 mortality. While some studies found child mortality to be significantly associated with rural geographical place of residence, the reverse has also been established. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between socioeconomic and demographic factors and under-5 mortality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
DESIGN: The study was cross-sectional, and utilises 2011 Census secondary data set from Statistics SA. Overall, the census revealed that 55 476 children under the age of 5 had died in the 12 months prior to the census nationally. In KwaZulu-Natal this figure was 15 356. The 10% sample showed that 1 474 under-5 children had died in the same period in KwaZulu-Natal. STATA 12.0 was used for the analysis. Binary logistic regression model was used to examine the association between under-5 mortality and the independent variables.
RESULTS: The major findings of the study indicated that (i) male children were 1.22 times more likely to die compared to female children under the age of 5 years; (ii) mothers who had no schooling (AOR=1.82); mothers with primary level of education (AOR=2.43); and mothers with secondary level of education (AOR=1.77), were more likely to experience under-5 mortality compared to mothers with tertiary level education; (iii) mothers whose age at first birth was between 15-19 years (AOR=1.47) and those whose age at first birth was between 25-34 years (AOR=2.14) were more likely to experience under-5 mortality compared to mothers whose age at first birth was between 35-49 years; (iv) Black mothers were more likely to experience under-5 mortality compared to Indian mothers (AOR=5.99); (v) mothers who were employed were 1.22 times more likely to experience under-5 mortality compared to unemployed mothers. Lastly, under-5 mortality was less likely amongst mothers in the medium households compared to those from low income households (AOR=0.65).
CONCLUSION: This study found that socioeconomic and demographic factors substantively determine under-5 mortality in KwaZulu-Natal. Evidence from this study suggest that interventions aimed at reducing under-5 mortality should focus on black women, the younger women, the less educated and those with low household income. / MT2017
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Hyperembodiment a jewellery creation hub + community for womenDewar, Katherine Jane January 2016 (has links)
Thesis is submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree: Master of Architecture (Professional) to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2016 / Hyperembodiment is an approach to negotiating the interface between spaces for women (in
Johannesburg’s inner-city) and jewellery as a connector of the body – especially for women
– to place. The inner-city, a space that is male-dominated and where women are present but
seem to be largely excluded, or to feel unsafe and vulnerable - especially because of what
the female body represents in an ‘unsafe’ male space, is also full of vibrancy and activity and
has the potential for a positive and radical cultural change, but remains disconnected, nonprogressive
and stagnant in thinking as well as non-inclusive of all people.
The spatial investigations into places for women (modern feminist spatial concepts) and
jewellery as a ‘site’ or interface between the body and architecture, and the interesting
parallels it draws between feminist views, space, psychology and the body (process and
development of body adornment and jewellery theories), are powerful ways of thinking
about space that could suggest an appropriate architectural approach that could realign
both spaces for women, a modern approach to the act of making, and creative jewellery
practices in Johannesburg.
The spatial connotations of the word ‘hyper’ is something that is ‘very’, ‘beyond’, or ‘very active’
and those of the word ‘embodiment’ is something ‘embodying’, ‘representing’ or ‘expressing’
a space. The compound word ‘Hyperembodiment’ used here means beyond embodiment,
or very actively personifying a space and its innate properties of land, earth, materials, and
the bodies (people) in it. It is also all the layers of embodiment – physical, historical, social
layers – that are collaged together in one time and in one space to create a high-intensity
and complex expression of place. Jewellery as a connector; for the body and for woman to
place, would be these collaged layers made into a physical object and symbol made from the
materials, earth, historical and social layers. It is a simultaneous case of the wearer embodying
the place, and the place embodying the wearer. / MT2017
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