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Die 2 1/2 eeu van Genadendal : 'n kultuurhistoriese ondersoekBalie, Isaac Henry Theodore,1948- January 1986 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 1986. / No Abstract Available
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An exploratory study of the needs and capacities of mentally ill adults living in a supported housing facilityJacobs, Liesl Mary 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (M Social Work)--Stellenbosch University, 2005. / Some digitised pages may appear illegible due to the condition of the original hard copy. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The basic premise underlying this research is the ability to gain a deeper understanding of
a person with a mental illness, and more specifically the residents living in a supported
housing facility. It is significant for social workers to establish a basic profile of the
individual in order to understand and realize the resident's specific I?-eeds.The aim of the
study is to present a description of the personal needs, capacities and socio-emotional
functioning of a mentally ill person living in a supported housing facility.
The research report includes identifying the personal needs and capacities of people with
a mental illness living in a supported housing facility. This comprises of aspects
applicable to the daily living conditions and lifestyles of people with a mental illness
residing in such a care facility, including needs and concerns, capacities, strengths and
limitations and the role of the family in the individual's life. The report also investigates
the social welfare services essential in the intervention and rehabilitation of people living
in a supported housing facility, by utilizing various perspectives applicable to social
workers.
The empirical study consisted of using a quantitative method in order to explore the
pragmatic aspect of the study, which would allow an investigation into the nature of the
needs, capacities and socio-emotional functioning of people with a mental illness living
in a supported housing facility. Information was gathered by means of a questionnaire
and subsequently analysed in order to attain valid conclusions from the research.
These fmdings were consequently noted, and conclusions and recommendations drawn.
The fmdings of this research can be used as guidelines for social workers and other social
welfare practitioners working with people with a mental illness. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie is daarop gemik om 'n beter begrip te ontwikkel van geestesiekes, en in
besonder die inwoners van 'n ondersteunde behuisingsfasiliteit. Dit is van groot belang
vir maatskaplike werkers ten einde 'n basiese profiel van die individu saam te stel en
sodoende die inwoner se spesifieke behoeftes te verstaan en te bevredig. Die doelwit van
die studie is om 'n beskrywing van die persoonlike behoeftes en kapasiteit van 'n
geestelik versteurde persoon wat in 'n ondersteunde behuisingsfasiliteit tuisgaan, daar te
stel.
Die navorsingsverslag sluit dus die identifisering van die persoonlike behoeftes en
kapasiteit in van geestesiekes in 'n ondersteunde behuisingsfasiliteit. Dit behels aspekte
van toepassing op hulle daaglikse lewensomstandighede en lewenstyl, insluitend
behoeftes en bekommernisse, kapasiteit, sterkpunte, beperkings en die rol van die familie
in die individu se lewe. Die verslag ondersoek ook die maatskaplike dienste wat van
belang is vir die behandeling en rehabilitasie van mense wat in 'n ondersteunde
behuisingsfasiliteit tuisgaan.
Die empiriese studie bestaan uit beide kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe metodes ten einde
die pragmatiese aspek van die navorsing te ondersoek. Dit het 'n ondersoek moontlik
gemaak na die persoonlike behoeftes, kapasiteite en sosio-emosionele status (funksie)
van geestesiekes in 'n ondersteunde behuisingsfasiliteit. Inligting is ingewin deur middel
van 'n vraelys, en is daarna ontleed ten einde geldige gevolgtrekkings op grond van die
navorsing te maak. Die bevindings van hierdie studie kan gebruik word as riglyne vir maatskaplike werkers
en ander maatskaplike praktisyns wat met geestesiekes werk.
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Socio-economic development of the Coloured community since the Theron CommissionVan Deventer, Gerhardus Johannes 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2000. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Poverty is a widespread phenomenon within the coloured community of South
Africa. In 1976 the Theron Commission reported on coloured poverty and
recommended widespread reform to the apartheid system to incorporate
coloureds into social and economic life on an equal footing with whites. The
commission was of the opinion that the poorest 40% of coloureds lived in a state
of chronic community poverty. This conclusion was based on the culture of
poverty approach, which states that negative external factors and an internal
process of self-perpetuation can sometimes combine to cause a povertysyndrome.
The original culture of poverty approach was widely misinterpreted
and criticised and consequently lost much of its support. However, if properly
understood, the approach can still be used effectively. Since the Theron
commission made a healthy reinterpretation of this approach it also provides a
good theoretical framework to analyse coloured poverty.
The socio-economic position of coloureds has improved markedly since the era
of the Theron commission. Total fertility rates and infant mortality rates declined,
while life expectancy increased. The educational status of coloureds increased
considerably. There is, however, still a large disparity between rural and urban
coloureds. The per capita income of coloureds almost doubled in this period.
This rise in income can be attributed to an improvement in occupational status
(which was in turn influenced by an improvement in educational status) as well
as a decrease in wage discrimination. In spite of the overall improvement in the
socio-economic position of coloureds, poverty rates did not decrease significantly
since the era of the Theron Commission. Although poverty is still more
widespread in rural areas, there has been a relative improvement in the socioeconomic
position of rural coloureds and agricultural labourers. This has partly
been caused by the urbanisation of the rural poor. Coloured poverty is, however,
still at much lower levels than black poverty. Since the era of the Theron Commission the culture of poverty has been
positively influenced by several factors: racial discrimination in public education
and other social spending decreased, levels of education improved and
contributed to the rise in per capita income, social work has become better
focussed and is provided on a more equal basis and the socio-political
emancipation of coloureds were achieved with the rise of a democratic society.
However, it seems that the good economic growth rates during the 1960's and
early 1970's provided the biggest thrust to the upward socio-economic mobility of
coloureds and played a more important role than the Theron report or any other
socio-political changes.
It can be concluded that the culture of poverty as it existed at the time of the
Theron report has weakened considerably and that the approach should
therefore not be used as the basic model to describe the socio-economic position
of poor coloureds any more. Current anti-poverty measures should be focussed
on job creation, community building and education. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Armoede is 'n wydverspreide probleem in die kleurlinggemeenskap van Suid-
Afrika. In 1976 het die Theron Kommissie ondersoek ingestel na kleurling
armoede en hulle het drastiese veranderinge aan die apartheidstelsel voorgestel
om die sosio-ekonomiese vooruitgang van kleurlinge te verseker. Die kommissie
het aangevoer dat die armste 40% van die kleurlingbevolking in 'n toestand van
chroniese gemeenskapsarmoede verkeer. Hierdie gevolgtrekking is gebaseer op
die kultuur van armoede teorie, wat veronderstel dat In armoedesiklus kan
ontstaan wanneer daar 'n wisselwerking is tussen negatiewe omgewingsfaktore
en In interne proses van selfvoortplanting deur middel van die gesin. Die
oorspronklike kultuur van armoede benadering was onderhewig aan verskeie
misinterpretasies en kritiek en het derhalwe baie aanhang verloor. Tog kan die
kultuur van armoede teorie steeds met vrug aangewend word indien dit korrek
toegepas word. Aangesien die Theron Kommissie die oorspronklike teorie op In
gesonde manier geherinterpreteer het, verskaf dit 'n goeie teoretiese raamwerk
waarbinne kleurlingarmoede ondersoek kan word.
Die sosio-ekonomiese posisie van kleurlinge het In merkwaardige verbetering
getoon sedert die era van die Theron Kommissie. Fertiliteitskoerse en
suigelingsterftekoerse het afgeneem, terwyl lewensverwagting toegeneem het.
Die onderwyspeil van kleurlinge het ook drasties verbeter, alhoewel daar steeds
In groot gaping is tussen landelike en stedelike kleurlinge. Die per capita
inkomste van kleurlinge het amper verdubbel in die periode. Die verhoging kan
toegeskryf word aan In verhoogde beroepstatus (wat weer deur verbeterde
onderwyspeile beïnvloed is) sowel as laer vlakke van loondiskriminasie. Ten
spyte van die algehele verbetering in die sosio-ekonomiese posisie van
kleurlinge, het armoedevlakke sedert die Theron era nie noemenswaardig
verminder nie. Alhoewel armoede steeds wydverspreid is in landelike gebiede,
het daar In relatiewe verbetering in die sosio-ekonomiese posisie van landelike
kleurlinge en die plaaswerkersgemeenskap plaasgevind. Dit is deels veroorsaak deur verstedeliking van arm landelike inwoners. Kleurling armoede is egter
steeds op 'n baie laer vlak as swart armoede.
Sedert die era van die Theron Kommissie is die toestand van chroniese
gemeenskapsarmoede deur verskeie positiewe faktore beïnvloed:
rassediskriminasie ten opsigte van onderwys en ander sosiale besteding het
verminder, vlakke van onderwys het verbeter en het bygedra tot 'n verhoging in
per capita inkome, sosiale werk is beter gefokus en word op 'n meer gelyke skaal
verskaf en met die demokratiseringsproses is die sosio-politiese emansipasie
van kleurlinge verkry. Tog lyk dit of die goeie ekonomiese groei van die
sestigerjare en vroeë sewentqerjare 'n groter invloed op die opwaartse sosioekonomiese
mobiliteit van kleurlinge gehad het as die Theron verslag en ander
sosio-politieke veranderinge.
Die gevolgtrekking kan gemaak word dat die kultuur van armoede soos dit
gemanifesteer het in die tyd van die Theron verslag in so 'n mate verswak het dat
die benadering nie meer gebruik moet word as die basiese model om die sosioekonomiese
toestand van arm kleurlinge te beskryf nie. Dit beteken egter nie dat
daar nie nog steeds akute armoedeprobleme in sekere dele van die
kleurlinggemeenskap bestaan nie. Huidige armoede-verligtingsbeleid moet
fokus op werkskepping, gemeenskapsbou en onderwys.
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An evaluation of the effects of poverty in Khayelitsha: a case study of site C.Ndingaye, Xoliswa Zandile January 2005 (has links)
The study seeked to investigate an evaluation of the effects of poverty in Khayelitsha Site C. Poverty in this area has manifested in the conditions people live under and the social effects of such conditions in the life of Site C residents was assessed in terms of/or in relation to the following: levels of infant mortality / level of malnutrition / rate of school drop out due to lack of food and other resources / high level of alcohol abuse / lack of basic services and the shortage of toilets etc.
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Native housing / A collective thesis by P.H. Connell...{et al}Connell, PH, Irvine-Smith, C, Jonas, K, Kantorowich, R, Wepener, FJ 10 1900 (has links)
No description available.
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Urban crisis: state reform and popular reaction: a case study of AlexandraJochelson, Karen Jane January 1988 (has links)
Thesis (B.A. (Hons.))--University of the Witwatersrand, Arts Faculty (Political Science), 1988 / This study examines state reform policy and popular township response from 1976 to 1987 in Alexandra, a black township bordering Johannesburg and Sandton's richest white suburbs.
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Making a living and moving on: exploring the livelihoods of regularised Zimbabweans in Johannesburg, South AfricaMuchichwa, Tariro Winnet Chaiye January 2017 (has links)
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, School of Social
Sciences at the University of Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment for the
degree of Master of Arts in Migration and Displacement, July 2017 / This research is encouraged by the recent developments in the migration patterns of
Zimbabweans in South Africa in the period 2009-2016. The absence of secure livelihoods due
to the political stalemate in Zimbabwe resulted in Zimbabweans looking for a safe haven in
different parts of the world. South Africa is among many other countries which has been a
recipient of both undocumented and documented Zimbabweans. Most Zimbabweans in South
Africa were undocumented and in 2010 the South African government made an initiative to
regularise the positions of Zimbabweans living in South Africa, yet there is limited academic
research on the livelihoods of regularised Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa.
The rationale behind the implementation of the Zimbabwe Documentation Process (ZDP) in
2010 and the renewal of the process through issuing the Zimbabwe Special Permit (ZSP) in
2014 is noteworthy. However, this study explores the livelihood experiences of regularised
Zimbabweans in Johannesburg, South Africa. The research examines the livelihood strategies,
challenges, opportunities and outcomes of regularised Zimbabwean migrants. The purpose of
this formative qualitative study is to investigate if the access to livelihood opportunities and
outcomes among regularised Zimbabwean migrants are strongly dependant on documentation.
This is an important area of study given the ongoing special dispensation for Zimbabweans in
South Africa and the wider migration scholarship in the country.
Based on 15 semi structured interviews with regularised Zimbabwean migrants and 1 key
informant conducted in Turfontein and Florida my assertion in this study is that the reported
livelihood experiences of regularised Zimbabweans highlight a complex connection between
documentation and livelihoods. On one hand findings show that documentation has improved
the economic and social wellbeing of regularised Zimbabwean migrant in Johannesburg and
on the other hand, documentation is undermining the livelihood options of regularised
Zimbabwean migrants. For individuals who are in search of secure and sustainable livelihoods,
findings show that mostly regularisation is offering limited protection and temporary rights to
migrants who are likely to live in South Africa for years to come.
Key words: documentation, livelihood experiences, regularisation, regularised Zimbabwean
migrants, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Documentation Project, and Zimbabwe Special
Permit. / XL2018
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Space, society and culture: housing and local level politics in a section of Alexandra township, 1991-1992Lucas, Justine, Clare January 1995 (has links)
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Arts,
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
in fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Master of Arts, 1995 / This thesis presents an analysis of the relationship between social processes, cognitive
understandings and the organisation of space, as this pertains to local-level politics
in a section of Alexandra township, South Africa, during 1991 and 1992. The context
of the thesis is the attempts by the Alexandra Civic Organisation and the Alexandra
branch of the African National Congress to elicit support from people living in formal
and inform~i housing during a period of intense violence. The focus of the
ethnographylis on local-level civic structures and political leadership, which in some
ways support and in others contradict the aims and objectives of these two
organisations.
The reason for this internal political diversity is that local-level politics is embedded
within social maps - cognitive orderings of space that represent patterns of social
relations and structures of power. This points to the main theoretical focus of the
thesis: the interrelationship of space, culture and society in an urban context.
Urbanism is conventionally defined in sociological and geographical terms as the
articulation between social process and urban spatial form. The thesis shows how
anthropology can make a contribution to this field of study by incorporating a concern
with culture. The mutually constitutive relationship of urban space, culture and
society presents a way of looking at urbanism that does not depend on a rural-urban
dichotomy; a social. and cultural dualism which is conventionally fitted into a
modernist narrative of urbanisation. The ethnography in the thesis demonstrates the
inapplicability of this narrative, and the categories of rural tradition and urban
modernity which it implies.
Keywords: anthropology, urbanism, urbanisation, rural-urban dichotomy,
space, Alexandra, politics, civic organisation, informal housing. / AC2017
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Migration : challenges and experiences Somali refugees face in Johannesburg.Niyigena, Delphine 01 October 2013 (has links)
Somali refugees living in South Africa are the most recent targets of xenophobic attacks in African townships across the country. However, who are these new immigrant entrepreneurs? This report presents material from research on Somalis living and working in small shops in Mayfair, Gauteng. From their various reasons for leaving Somalia, the report explored their experiences of settling into the host country. The study looked at the experiences and challenges they meet while in Johannesburg. The study considered also the reasons why Somali refugees seem to be the primary target of xenophobia in South Africa.
The research was based on interviews that were conducted with Somali refugees. The study considered the livelihoods of Somalis living in Mayfair. It explored the issue of clans that divide the Somali community. It also explored how these refugees access their legal documentation, health care and education in the country of asylum.
The Somali community seems to be united however due to different clans that are found here in Johannesburg the study showed that they are not homogeneous. Somali refugees experience so many challenges in trying to make a living. They come to South Africa for safety and protection only to find that their lives are in danger just as it is in Somalia. They mostly involve in informal sector and this has made them become primary target of crime especially in poverty stricken areas. Somali refugees work and live in informal settlements where they face a lot of hardships. Moreover, Somali refugees experience a host of challenges because they lack integration in the local community.
The study also looked into the Refugee Act that stipulates that safety and basic services should be provided to all including refugees; however, in reality this has not been implemented because Somali refugees face a host of constraints in accessing those services.
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Keratin Kapital: hair and the economy of otherness : understanding the state of black hair in South Africa through the import of Indian hairJacobs, Evans January 2016 (has links)
Research report presented for the degree of Master of Arts (Anthropology) at the
University of the Witwatersrand, 2016 / According to the 2014 Euromonitor report on black South African haircare trends, the country exhibited a decrease in sales of damaging hair care products. This trend coincided with the exponential influx of imported Indian hair into the country for the purposes of artificial hair integrations i.e. weaves and extensions. To understand the meaning of these patterns, this project seeks to understand the significance Indian hair held for black women. By analysing anthropological literature on commodities, this work reveals how the purchase of Indian hair not only exposed the state of black hair in contemporary South Africa, but how black women engaged with that environment through its usage. Further, hair’s purchase situated women within a transnational exchange network that was buttressed by racial and gendered hierarchies. As such, hair’s consumption placed women within an “economy of otherness”. However women also utilized this economy by converting the racially charged commodity into social and symbolic capital which they leveraged for their own gain. As such, the purchase of Indian hair not only integrated women within an economy of otherness, but also provided them with the capital to participate within it. / GR2017
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