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Bosire, Edna N., Emily Mendenhall, and Lesley Jo Weaver. "Comorbid Suffering: Breast Cancer Survivors in South Africa." Qualitative Health Research 30, no. 6 (March 24, 2020): 917–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732320911365.

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Cycles of chronic illness are unpredictable, especially when multiple conditions are involved, and that instability can transform “normal” everyday life for individuals and their families. This article employs a theory of “comorbid suffering” to interpret how multiple concurrent diagnoses produce webs of remarkable suffering. We collected 50 life stories from breast cancer survivors enrolled in the South Africa Breast Cancer Study. We present three women’s narratives who grapple with comorbid suffering and illness-related work, which arise interpersonally when comorbid illnesses affects social interactions. We found that women strive to create a balance between living with comorbid suffering and continuously performing routine activities amid treatment. Discrimination and isolation were underpinned by women’s fear of being rejected by their families or how their illnesses created social distance between family members and the wider community. This study therefore illustrates how comorbid suffering requires intensive family commitments amid and beyond illness.

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Goldblatt, Beth, and Shirin M. Rai. "Recognizing the Full Costs of Care? Compensation for Families in South Africa’s Silicosis Class Action." Social & Legal Studies 27, no. 6 (November 15, 2017): 671–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0964663917739455.

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This article concerns recognition and compensation of the intimate, gendered work of caring by family members for workers who became ill with lung diseases as a result of poor labour conditions in the mines in South Africa. It focuses on a recent decision by a court in South Africa ( Nkala and Others v. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited and Others, 2016) that took the unusual step of acknowledging this care work and attempting to compensate it indirectly. The article combines insights from political economy and law within a feminist frame to develop an argument about compensation for social reproductive work to address the harm experienced by the carers of mineworkers. Using the theory of depletion through social reproduction, it suggests ways of understanding the costs of care in order to fully compensate the harms suffered by the carers. This is done with reference to a photographic essay by Thom Pierce called ‘The Price of Gold’ taken in the mineworkers’ homes after their discharge from work due to illness. The article argues that ideas of depletion should inform any consideration of compensation of people engaged in caring in a range of reparatory contexts.

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Manda, Charles. "Becoming better humans in a world that lacks humanity: Working through trauma in post-apartheid South Africa." Oral History Journal of South Africa 2, no. 2 (March 22, 2015): 123–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2309-5792/77.

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This article shares the work of the Trauma Healing Project in Pietermaritzburg and its surrounding areas in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In exploring how individuals and families face and work through trauma in post-apartheid South Africa, a pilot project was set up at Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness (PACSA), which ran from 2009 to 2014. Despite the change from Apartheid to a democratic government, South Africa continues to experience multiple-woundedness through domestic and gender-based violence, injuries, HIV and AIDS, xenophobia and crime. These hamper true political and economic development as so many people have to live with pain. This pain prevents them from making a significant contribution to their communities. This article argues that creating safe spaces, narrating our trauma, writing life narratives and restoring social and religious support systems make significant contribution to the healing of South Africa’s multiple-woundedness and empowering of traumatized individuals and communities to restore relationships, recover faith, hope, meaning and dignity. This type of healing is transformative.

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Moore, Elena. "Who has a duty to support? Care practices and legal responsibilities in South Africa." Critical Social Policy 39, no. 4 (August 7, 2019): 582–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018319867595.

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It is not always clear, through policies or law, where and when family responsibility ends. This article outlines the tensions that underlie policy and legal conceptions of obligation and everyday obligations that shape typically gendered patterns of care in families in South Africa. An examination of court cases reveals that the court found practices of intergenerational financial support amongst diffuse kin relations and ruled that the social insurance system (Road Accident Fund) was obliged to continue these following the death of a breadwinner in a road accident. The Road Accident Fund contested this responsibility by disputing the legal obligation of the deceased to support the kin member. The cases highlight the lack of coherence in policy and law concerning the agreed social norms about the family. On the one hand, the RAF’s approach reproduces the gendered assumption of care, i.e. the role of the state is reduced, and the onus is placed on working class black South African women to take care of themselves and their families. On the other hand, the judiciary’s focus on social practices of care rather than rights is applauded for being transformative. I argue that the state’s ambiguous approach to recognising committed care work results in a situation where people have to ‘win’ their case in court and consequently leaves the care of family members to the unpaid and paid resources of women.

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Hunter, Mark. "Intimate crimes: heroin and the rise of amaphara in South Africa." Journal of Modern African Studies 59, no. 1 (March 2021): 59–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x20000658.

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ABSTRACTThe term ‘amaphara’, possibly derived from ‘parasites’, burst into South African public culture in the 2010s to refer to petty thieves addicted to a heroin-based drug locally called whoonga/nyaope. Drawing on ethnography and media sources to interrogate the rise of ‘amaphara’, this paper argues that South Africa's heroin epidemic magnifies the attention – criticism but also sympathy – directed toward marginalised black men who have few prospects for social mobility. It locates amaphara in the national context where drug policy is largely punitive and youth unemployment rates are painfully high, but gives particular attention to families’ and communities’ experiences with intimate crimes, especially petty thefts. It further shows that amaphara is a contested term: heroin users are brothers, sons and grandchildren and they gain most of their income not from crime but by undertaking useful piece work in communities.

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Clulow, Suzanne, Nikoleta Dimitrouka, and Iván Zamora Zapata. "COVID on three continents: how local children’s organisations in Africa, Europe and South America are adapting to the coronavirus challenge." Journal of Children's Services 15, no. 4 (November 6, 2020): 295–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcs-07-2020-0046.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share anecdotally how the pandemic is affecting children, families and some of the frontline local services that support them across three continents. Design/methodology/approach Three members of Family for Every Child across three continents detail some of the day-to-day challenges they are facing in their work with children and families as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Findings Social distancing and fear of the virus are hampering front line organisations in Africa, Europe and South America, bringing additional challenges to keeping children safe. Originality/value These three case studies give a snapshot of the issues faced by three non-governmental children’s organisations over three continents during July 2020.

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Smith, Paula, Konstantina Vasileiou, and Ashraf Kagee. "Experiences of work-related stress and coping among palliative care staff in South Africa: a qualitative study." South African Journal of Psychology 50, no. 3 (February 11, 2020): 425–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0081246320902300.

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Palliative care staff are exposed to a plethora of work-related stressors that negatively affect their psychological well-being and work engagement. Using qualitative interviews, this study sought to explore the experiences of work-related stress and coping among a multidisciplinary group of 12 palliative care staff employed by a non-governmental hospice in South Africa. Data were analysed using the principles of thematic analysis. Four domains of stressors were implicated in the experience of work-related stress: stressors accruing from the nature of work and were specific to palliative care; stressors relating to working in the community; those deriving from certain encounters with patients and families; and organisational stressors. Broader structural factors pertinent to the socio-political and economic context in South Africa and the perception of palliative care were interwoven with the experience of work-related stress. Receiving social support from co-workers, professionals, and family and friends; accepting limits; setting work–life boundaries; relying on personal resources and reconstructing the hospice in positive ways were coping strategies deployed by staff to manage stress. Arguably much of the experience of work-related stress and coping among palliative care staff in South Africa is similar to that reported in resource-rich contexts. However, the particularities of the broader socio-political and economic environment and its subsequent impact on palliative care organisations appear to augment and expand work-related stress for these practitioners. Deployment of intra-individual and interpersonal coping resources could be supplemented with efforts to address structural factors contributing to the subjective experience of stress.

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Anthonissen, Christine. "‘With English the world is more open to you’ – language shift as marker of social transformation." English Today 29, no. 1 (February 27, 2013): 28–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078412000545.

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This article gives an appraisal of bilingualism in Afrikaans and English among the Cape ‘Coloured’ community and of shifting patterns within it. It has become customary to use quotation marks around the termColouredand lower case to signal that this and other race-based terms are contested ones in South Africa (see Erasmus, 2001; Ruiters, 2009). On the advice of the ET editor for this issue, however, I will use the term with the capital and without quotation marks, since he argues – conversely – that the use of lower case and scare quotes in print can also be misconstrued as disrespect for a community. In this community it appears that a shift is underway from Afrikaans as first and as home language to English as the dominant family language. However, this shift does not follow a straightforward linear trajectory, and while some speakers appear to have abandoned Afrikaans in favour of English, in many families the language has not been jettisoned. Before citing studies that explore this complexity, including current work by the author, it is necessary to give a brief overview of the background to Afrikaans and English in South Africa and their place in the country's overall multilingualism.

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Button, Kirsty, and Thobani Ncapai. "Conflict and negotiation in intergenerational care: Older women’s experiences of caring with the Old Age Grant in South Africa." Critical Social Policy 39, no. 4 (August 16, 2019): 560–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018319867594.

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Social policy and welfare provision have converged with socio-economic conditions, cultural beliefs about kin support and intra-household dynamics to position older women as important financial providers in their families. This article draws on the findings of a qualitative study about intergenerational relationships of care in a large township near Cape Town. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fourteen female Old Age Grant recipients and some of their co-resident adult children. The article focuses on the grant recipients’ experiences of giving and receiving financial support (‘financial care’) in their intergenerational relationships. It also unpacks the intra-household dynamics involved in this caregiving. Although the grant better enabled the women in the study to meet the needs of their households, beliefs about the mutual and shared responsibility for financial caregiving in families informed their expectations of financial assistance from younger kin. When their co-resident younger relatives did earn an income, negotiations around the provision of financial care ensued; generating conflict and reflecting unequal power relations between relatives. These dynamics contributed to the women’s experiences of vulnerability and their high burden of care. In this context, the article examines the state’s role in the care process and how it has contributed to the gendered and generational distribution of care work in families.

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Petersen, Leif, and Andrew Charman. "The role of family in the township informal economy of food and drink in KwaMashu, South Africa." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 38, no. 7-8 (July 9, 2018): 564–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-06-2017-0068.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative investigation of family employment dynamics in the KwaMashu township economy. Design/methodology/approach Using a small area census research method, the researchers identified 1,556 businesses located in a settlement of 2 km2. Of these enterprises, 694 (45 percent) traded in fast moving consumer goods, notably food and/or drink. The main retailers were small shops (spaza shops) and liquor outlets (bars or shebeens), greengrocers, sellers of meat and poultry products, house shops, restaurants, takeaways and tuckshops. Firm surveys were conducted with 270 businesses in four predominant sectors: liquor retail, grocery retail, early childhood educators and hair care businesses. Findings The research found that 40 percent of the surveyed firms in these sectors employ family members on a full-time basis, whereas merely 26 percent of firms employ family members on a part-time basis. In the grocery retail sector, about half of family employees are remunerated on a wage basis, the other half are paid in-kind (40 paper of the total) or on a profit share arrangement. In liquor retail and educare sectors, the majority of family members are paid wages. Female-run enterprises employ less family members on a full-time basis (except in the grocery sector), yet employ more family members on a part-time basis with a higher portion of wages paid in-kind. Research limitations/implications Family plays an important role in township enterprises. Beyond direct employment, township enterprises fulfill an important social protection and neighborhood relationship function for business operators and their families. The familial relationship to micro-enterprises should be seen through the lens of bricolage (Gras and Nason, 2015). Originality/value In this respect, the authors confirm three benefits of family firms: the creation of social protection though family beneficiation, the provision of employment and work experience and the strategic use of family resources.

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Winbush, Christine, and Rachel Selby. "Finding home: South African migration to New Zealand." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 27, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2015): 46–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol27iss1-2id16.

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South Africans have migrated to New Zealand either deliberately abandoning their country of birth or drawn to New Zealand as a country opening its arms to them to begin a new life. Leaving home means many do wait for their souls to arrive in their newly adopted home. Many have suffered grief and loss, while adapting and settling into a new country and culture. Most of the families that have come to New Zealand are either of English or Afrikaans background. They bring skills needed in New Zealand and while many have readily adapted there are many who have struggled with the change. This paper addresses the issue of culture shock and other associated tensions experienced by South African mi- grants with Afrikaans as their first language. Themes addressed in this article emerged from a review of the literature and in the course of a research project. They represent issues of importance for New Zealand teachers, social workers, counsellors, mental health workers and all who work with migrants.

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Mohamed Hoosen Carrim, Nasima. "Stepping Out of the Fish Tank." Journal of Family Issues 37, no. 16 (July 9, 2016): 2368–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x14561521.

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This article explores the ethnic identity work in which Indian parents engage with regard to allowing their daughters to pursue a tertiary education and a career. Life story interviews were conducted on a purposive sample of 12 sets of South African Indian parents. The results indicate that these parents, especially mothers experience tremendous inner identity conflict, as they are torn between ensuring that daughters maintain their honor and dignity as respectable Indian women, and allowing daughters the freedom to venture away from the protective space of the home and family. The study highlighted that although parents were living in the postapartheid era ethnic identity work was still influenced by the lingering impact of apartheid regarding the status of women. Daughters were still not accorded the same status as sons although they were perceived as future breadwinners in their natal families.

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Akujobi, Remi. "Waiting and the Legacy of Apartheid." Matatu 48, no. 1 (2016): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04801003.

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With debates about the issues of liberation, centering, and empowerment dominating the African literary landscape, particularly in works written by women, it is not surprising to find that the issue of ‘waiting’ occupies centre stage in Njabulo Ndebele’s novel The Cry of Winnie Mandela (2003). Much, of course, has been written on this work, which focuses on the peculiar problems facing women in contemporary South Africa, but the object of this essay is to examine the theme of waiting as it is made manifest in the literary production of the Third-World level of South African life under apartheid. The background to this literature is infiltration, colonialism, and exploitation in the lives of simple people struggling for survival and meaning in a harsh world. Through complex negotiations, women are attempting to come to terms with their increasingly visible role as breadwinners in the absence of their menfolk. This produces unexpected reconfigurations, personal and familial. One question addressed is whether these reconfigurations represent a crisis in the relations of social reproduction or a transition to new forms of family life. The novel is characterized by elements of the fantastic and mythical woven into a deceptively simple story that scrutinizes society at its base in a state of post-apartheid hangover.

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Noble, Vanessa, and Julie Parle. "‘The Hospital was just like a Home’: Self, Service and the ‘McCord Hospital Family’." Medical History 58, no. 2 (April 2014): 188–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2014.10.

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AbstractFor more than a century, McCord Hospital, a partly private and partly state-subsidised mission hospital has provided affordable health-care services, as well as work and professional training opportunities for thousands of people in Durban, a city on the east coast of South Africa. This article focuses on one important aspect of the hospital’s longevity and particular character, or ‘organisational culture’: the ethos of a ‘McCord Family’, integral to which were faith and a commitment to service. While recognising that families – including ‘hospital families’ like that at McCord – are contentious social constructs, with deeply embedded hierarchies and inequalities based on race, class and gender, we also consider however how the notion of ‘a McCord family’ was experienced and shared in complex ways. Indeed, during the twentieth century, this ethos was avidly promoted by the hospital’s founders and managers and by a wide variety of employees and trainees. It also extended to people at a far geographical remove from Durban. Moreover, this ethos became so powerful that many patients felt that it shaped their convalescence experience positively. This article considers how this ‘family ethos’ was constructed and what made it so attractive to this hospital’s staff, trainees and patients. Furthermore, we consider what ‘work’ it did for this mission hospital, especially in promoting bonds of multi-racial unity in the contexts of segregation and apartheid society. More broadly, it suggests that critical histories of the ways in which individuals, hospitals, faith and ‘families’ intersect may be of value for the future of hospitals as well as of interest in their past.

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Drah, Bright B. "Of ‘prostitutes’ and ‘AIDS people’: Feminization of HIV and AIDS in South-eastern Ghana." Contemporary Journal of African Studies 3, no. 2 (February 29, 2016): 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/contjas.v3i2.1.

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In sub-Saharan Africa, more women than men live with HIV and women bear the largest proportion of the burden of care that is due to the epidemic. Only a few studies have documented the precise details of how women in countries with low HIV prevalence became the worst affected by the epidemic. In Ghana, the historical factors that account for high HIV infections among women and the emergence of women-led community-based HIV interventions have been less researched. This paper examines the historical (political-economic), cultural and personal factors that account for the high HIV prevalence in Manya Klo, the area worst impacted by HIV in Ghana. The paper presents the social history of the pandemic in Manya Klo and explains why Klo women are considered to be the sources of HIV in Ghana. It suggests that concentrating interventions on women helps to reduce the impact of HIV and inform national interventions. Women-focused interventions may, however, alienate other groups that can contribute to improving the lives of families affected by HIV. Therefore, women-focused interventions must be planned in a manner that engages multiple stakeholders.Keywords: Manya Krobo, queen mothers, female migration, female sex work, orphans and vulnerable children, community-based HIV initiatives

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Square, L., V. Van der Heyde, and D. Smith. "Quantifying and Incentivizing Exploration of Reputable Sources for Argument Formation in an Online Discussion Forum." Electronic Journal of e-Learning 19, no. 3 (July 28, 2021): pp209–219. http://dx.doi.org/10.34190/ejel.19.3.2325.

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Nuclear power forms part of the first-year physics undergraduate course work in the extended curriculum program at the University of the Western Cape. This investigation intends to assist students in mastering their understanding of how nuclear power works through the development of critical thinking skills around the topic and to create awareness among students of the implications of expanding a nuclear power footprint. Through debate, students in this course investigate the impact of South Africa increasing its nuclear footprint within a global context. In this work, students were encouraged to explore publications and reputable websites surrounding this topic and based on their findings formulate arguments. The authors conceptualized and developed a Sakai tool (based on Learning Tools Interoperability), called Reference Register (RR) to compliment the work. RR stores the reference uploaded by each student, shares uploaded literature resources to the group members, and quantifies the number of times a student uses a reference when presenting their argument. The incorporation of the RR was intended to encourage students to formulate arguments based on well-founded literature. Authors sort to investigate in which ways and to what extent does an online discussion forum facilitate students becoming ethically, environmentally, and socially aware in the area of nuclear energy and to assist students in becoming better in their professional communication skills. The outcome of this student engagement included students becoming familiar with what constitutes a well-formulated scientific argument based on a literature review, group engagement, becoming aware of South African current affairs regarding nuclear power, and its social and economic impact.

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Lemke, S., HH Vorster, NS Jansen van Rensburg, and J. Ziche. "Empowered women, social networks and the contribution of qualitative research: broadening our understanding of underlying causes for food and nutrition insecurity." Public Health Nutrition 6, no. 8 (December 2003): 759–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/phn2003491.

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AbstractObjective:To investigate underlying causes for food and nutrition insecurity in black South African households and to gain understanding of the factors contributing to better nutrition security, with emphasis on household organisation, gender and intra-household dynamics and social networks.Design, setting and subjects:Within a larger cross-sectional survey that investigated the impact of urbanisation on the health of black South Africans, 166 people, mostly women, were interviewed on household food security. Methods used were structured face-to-face interviews, in-depth interviews, observation, interviews with key informants and a sociodemographic questionnaire. Information was collected from 1998 to 2000 in 15 rural and urban areas of the North West Province, South Africa.Results:Three-quarters of households in this sample are chronically food-insecure. Families are disrupted, due to migrant work, poverty and increasing societal violence, and half of households are female-headed. Certain categories of female-headed households and households based on partnership relationships, despite more limited resources, achieve a better or an equal economic status and better nutrition security than those households led by men, with the latter often being considered an economic liability. The reliance on and fostering of social ties and networks appear to be of central significance.Conclusion:Gender and intra-household relations, as well as social networks and income from informal sector activities, are often not uncovered by conventional statistical methods. Qualitative research can reveal the unexpected and furthermore empowers people, as their voices are heard.

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Westoby, Peter, and Verne Harris. "Community development ‘yet-to-come’ during and post the COVID-19 pandemic: from Derrida to Zuboff." Community Development Journal 55, no. 4 (July 8, 2020): 553–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsaa026.

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Abstract The contours of this article, written as a dialogue between two authors, one in Australia (Westoby) and one in South Africa (Harris), outline a Derridean deconstruction of community development ‘yet-to-come’ during and post coronavirus disease 2019. Reflecting on our two countries’ experiences, drawing on theorists such as Zuboff (surveillance capitalism), Freire (critical literacy), Foucault (biopower), Escobar (pluriversality) and Berardi (semio-capitalism), we argue for transformational critical digital literacy work that enables greater community awareness of the consequences of digital lives and also transformative praxis. Riffing off many experiences that readers will be familiar with (lockdown, social distancing, tracing apps, virtual meetings and so on), the dialogue also suggests a soulful community development yet-to-come, foregrounding embodied lives, slowness, place, relationality and connection.

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Roman, Nicolette Vanessa. "Editorial: Community Development through Family Well-Being." Open Family Studies Journal 7, no. 1 (March 31, 2015): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874922401507010001.

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The year 2014 was considered as the twentieth anniversary year of the family and in a sense acknowledges the important role of the family in society. Families are central to communities and one could almost consider the family-community connection to be a loop. In other words, when families are functioning well communities fare very well, which then relates back to families. But how are we to understand this important role of the family? Families are defined in different ways. According to Braithwaite and Baxter [1] “a family is a social group of two or more persons characterized by ongoing interdependence, with long term commitments that stem from blood, law and affection”. Chambers [2] believes that families are not a fixed concept but can rather be described beyond blood lines into a socially constructed concept. In South Africa, in terms of family policy, the family is defined “as a public group of people that is directly related (by blood), related by adoption or fostering or through marriage” [3]. In describing a family, there are often two very broad terms used which are functional and dysfunctional families. These descriptions are often determined by the processes or functions/practices between and amongst family members. Family functioning includes the manner in which family members relate to and with one another including how they search for goals, activities the family engages in together and separately, and acceptance of family practices. Furthermore, when a family is functioning well, family members hardly develop psychological problems, they perform tasks together, are able to deal with problems, and have understandable restrictions [4]. These are well functioning families, but families also do not function very well and these families could be considered as unhealthy and dysfunctional, often described as at-risk [5]. Both terms have consequences especially for future adults. In describing a family, there are often two very broad terms used which are functional and dysfunctional families. These descriptions are often determined by the processes or functions/practices between and amongst family members. Family functioning includes the manner in which family members relate to and with one another including how they search for goals, activities the family engages in together and separately, and acceptance of family practices. Furthermore, when a family is functioning well, family members hardly develop psychological problems, they perform tasks together, are able to deal with problems, and have understandable restrictions [4]. These are well functioning families, but families also do not function very well and these families could be considered as unhealthy and dysfunctional, often described as at-risk [5]. Both terms have consequences especially for future adults.the control and responsibility rests with the family. In this special issue, six articles highlight issues in the family which have consequences for family members and the community, either overtly or covertly. The article of Frantz, Sixaba & Smith focuses on family structure and the effects on health risk behavior of young people in Africa. This article highlights the plight of orphans living with caregivers, the definitive relationship between sexual risk behavior and family structure and provides the evidence that sexual risk behaviors loops back to HIV/AIDS in African countries. In this article gender, race and culture play a role in the relationship. In the article by Ryan, Roman & Okwany parental monitoring and communication are explored as important in the prevention, delay and reduction of substance abuse and risky sexual activity. These studies suggest that culture acts as a buffer against adolescent risk behaviors and that the mental health of parents is also important in the monitoring and communication with their adolescents. The Jacobs & Jacobs study focuses on mothers who are alcoholics and provides family narrations of secrecy, shame and silence but also highlights coping and recovery for alcoholics. Londt, Davids & Wilson used Social Learning Theory as a lens to understand the role of the family in the chronic denial of imprisoned sex offenders. These imprisoned sex offenders were raised in single-parent households with absent fathers, domestic violence substance abuse, unsatisfactory support and compromised parenting styles were prevalent. In the Mukasano, Schenck & van der Merwe article, a qualitative study explores parents’ experiences of their adolescents engaging in mobile texting. Parents find themselves having to monitor and negotiate rules and expectations with their adolescents. The study emphasizes the importance of communication and trust, respect and preparing for the disengagement process between members. Furthermore, substances are abused, physical, sexual and emotional abuse are present and children lack support and care. Within these families, there is the daily challenge of meeting the needs of family members. This could be due to the socio-economic circumstances of the family which in turn deprives family members of necessary resources and other social support. As a result, this undermines the ability of family members to perform expected functions and consequently results in the exposure to risk. Subsequently, at-risk families need additional support in order to cope with the myriad of challenges they face. This support may be in the form of other family members, community members or from government. Additionally, this support could also strengthen the family. Families should be seen as the entry point for service delivery and the subsequent building and development of communities [3]. Therefore, family relations, which are good and strong are important for the wellbeing of the individual, family and community [7]. In other words, family wellbeing is a concept that goes beyond economic wealth and includes physical and emotional health as well as safety and good quality relationships [7]. Similarly, family well-being and family functioning assume that families work best and contribute to society when there is a balance between the economic and non-economic factors [8] but it is very complex because family wellbeing is a multi-dimensional concept with different dimensions. These include providing financial support, good housing or access to services [9]. How does family well-being then relate to community development? The creation, development and growth of communities is dependent on families. For example, when families are not doing well, the family members will act out that is outside of the family. This acting out often occurs within the community and could be the engaging in antisocial behavior, substance abuse, violence, etc. These behaviours subsequently break down communities instead of building them up. The same could be said for the effects of family wellbeing. Tsey et al. [10] found that family wellbeing is an enabler for people to take control and responsibility of their own situations but more importantly, once they are able to do this, there is a ripple effect on increasing harmony and capacity to address issues within the wider community. Clearly, there is a relationship between family wellbeing and the overt and covert development of communities but parent and child. The final article of Jooste & Maritz is an exploration of the perceptions of healthcare professionals and family members regarding youth’s experiences of trauma. This article found that when youth experience trauma, there is a ripple effect onto other family members and the larger community which resulted in the entire system feeling helpless and depleted of resources to cope.

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Cook, Weston F. "Islamic Expressions in Art, Culture, and Literature." American Journal of Islam and Society 15, no. 2 (July 1, 1998): 155–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v15i2.2191.

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The Fourteenth Annual Conference of The American Councilfor the Study of islamic Societies, held on May 2 and 3, 1997,at The Connelly Center, Villanova University, Villanova, PAThe American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), isone of the oldest continuing organizations in the United States that focusesspecifically on Muslim states, societies, and the problems confrontingMuslim communities throughout the world. Composed of American andforeign scholars, non-Muslims as well as Muslims, ACSIS encompassesthe full range of humanities and social science disciplines. The representeddisciplines include the familiar areas of political science, history,linguistics, philosophy, religion, economics, anthropology, internationalrelations, and sociology; moreover, artists, musicians, media specialists,poets, folklorists, architects, agronomists, bankers, educators, and businessconsultants are involved in the Council‘s work. Along with this professionaldiversity, ACSIS has always taken special pride in providing aforum for younger and innovative students to present their ideas andresearch and encouraging them to publishTrue to these founding goals, the Board of Directors chose “Cultural,Artistic, and Popular Expressions in Islam” as the theme for this conference.Papers on Muslim works from the Americas, Europe, South Asia,China, Africa, and the heartlands of the ummah were solicited. The callfor papers also struck new directions for ACSIs-seeking music andperformance presentations, calligraphy, textile art, film and animation,calligraphy, cuisine, and other original formats different from the standardconfenmce panel modes. The Board also designated long-timemember Weston F. Cook, Jr. as program chair and organizer. Dr. Dale F.Eickelman of Dartmouth College, currently a scholar-in-residence at the ...

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du Plessis, Angela. "Occupational Social Work in South Africa." Employee Assistance Quarterly 14, no. 3 (March 1999): 19–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j022v14n03_02.

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du Plessis, Angela. "Occupational Social Work in South Africa." Employee Assistance Quarterly 17, no. 1-2 (September 2001): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j022v17n01_06.

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Van Breda, Adrian D. "Military Social Work Thinking in South Africa." Advances in Social Work 13, no. 1 (March 30, 2012): 17–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/1890.

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Military social workers in South Africa have developed distinctive ways of thinking about military social work. These developments have been influenced by various contextual factors, such as the transition of South Africa to a non-racial democracy in 1994 and the establishment of a military social work research capacity. These factors contributed to new ways of thinking, such as the recognition that military social work has a mandate to facilitate organizational change and the adoption of a resilience perspective. A central development in military social work thinking in South Africa was the formulation of a Military Social Work Practice Model, which is described and illustrated in some detail. This model emphasizes binocular vision (focusing on the interface between soldiers and the military organization) and four practice positions, derived from occupational social work theory. The author notes the importance of creating appropriate contexts that facilitate further developments in military social work theory.

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Mazibuko, Fikile, and Mel Gray. "Social Work Professional Associations in South Africa." International Social Work 47, no. 1 (January 2004): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872804039391.

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Mkalipe, Sello. "Occupational Social Work Education in South Africa." Employee Assistance Quarterly 7, no. 3 (November 11, 1992): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j022v07n03_10.

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Sewpaul, Vishanthie. "Neoliberalism and social work in South Africa." Critical and Radical Social Work 1, no. 1 (April 1, 2013): 15–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986013x665947.

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Cohen, Tamara, and Luendree Moodley. "Achieving "decent work" in South Africa?" Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad 15, no. 2 (May 25, 2017): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2012/v15i2a2490.

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The fundamental goal of the International Labour Organisation is the achievement of decent and productive work for both women and men in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. The South African government has pledged its commitment to the attainment of decent work and sustainable livelihoods for all workers and has undertaken to mainstream decent work imperatives into national development strategies. The four strategic objectives of decent work as identified by the ILO are: i) the promotion of standards and rights at work, to ensure that worker's constitutionally protected rights to dignity, equality and fair labour practices, amongst others, are safeguarded by appropriate legal frameworks; (ii) the promotion of employment creation and income opportunities, with the goal being not just the creation of jobs but the creation of jobs of acceptable quality; (iii) the provision and improvement of social protection and social security, which are regarded as fundamental to the alleviation of poverty, inequality and the burden of care responsibilities; and (iv) the promotion of social dialogue and tripartism. This article considers the progress made towards the attainment of these decent work objectives in South Africa, using five statistical indicators to measure such progress namely: (i) employment opportunities; (ii) adequate earnings and productive work; (iii) stability and security of work; (iv) social protection; and (v) social dialogue and workplace relations. It concludes that high levels of unemployment and a weakened economy in South Africa have given rise to a growing informal sector and an increase in unacceptable working conditions and exploitation. The rights of workers in the formal sector have not filtered down to those in the informal sector, who remains vulnerable and unrepresented. Job creation initiatives have been undermined by the global recession and infrastructural shortcomings and ambitious governmental targets appear to be unachievable, with youth unemployment levels and gender inequalities remaining of grave concern. Social protection programmes fail to provide adequate coverage to the majority of the economically active population. Social dialogue processes and organisational structures fail to accommodate or represent the interests of the informal sector. Until these problems are overcome, the article concludes, it remains unlikely that decent work imperatives will be attained.

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Drower, Sandra J. "Conceptualizing social work in a changed South Africa." International Social Work 45, no. 1 (January 2002): 7–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872802045001301.

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Moore, Elena, and Jeremy Seekings. "Consequences of social protection on intergenerational relationships in South Africa: Introduction." Critical Social Policy 39, no. 4 (August 18, 2019): 513–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018319867582.

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Categorically-targeted social assistance programmes have considerable potential to reduce poverty and buttress the dignity of disadvantaged groups of people, but they can also generate tensions over financial support and care within households and families. This is especially likely in contexts in the global South where landlessness and unemployment combine with historically-rooted norms and practices to underpin complex patterns of interdependency. The articles in this issue examine the case of South Africa, where an unusually broad and generous system of social assistance reduces poverty and enhances dignity, but also reshapes social dynamics of support, care and dependency within households and families, generating new tensions.

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Triegaardt, Jean D. "Unemployment in South Africa: a social policy issue for social work." International Social Work 36, no. 4 (October 1993): 293–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002087289303600402.

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Pinkerton, John. "Social Work in South Africa Today: Some Source Material." Practice 20, no. 2 (June 2008): 123–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09503150802067344.

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Breshears, Diana. "Transracially Adoptive Families in South Africa: Parental Experiences of Outsider reactions." South African Review of Sociology 49, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 22–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2018.1511466.

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Breshears, Diana, and Carien Lubbe-De Beer. "Same-Sex Parented Families' Negotiation of Minority Social Identity in South Africa." Journal of GLBT Family Studies 12, no. 4 (January 12, 2016): 346–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1550428x.2015.1080134.

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Roman, Nicolette Vanessa. "Maternal parenting in single and two-parent families in South Africa from a child's perspective." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 39, no. 5 (June 30, 2011): 577–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2011.39.5.577.

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Single mothers are often perceived and depicted as being ineffective parents in comparison to their married counterparts, but this may not always be the case. A sample consisting of 245 children (72% in married mother families and 28% in single mother families) between 10 and 12 years (M = 11) including 64% females and 36% males participated in the study. The aim in this study was to compare children's perceptions of their mothers' parenting within single and married families. The results indicate that mothers were perceived as using more autonomy-supportive than psychologically controlling parenting practices. There were no significant differences between children's perceptions of maternal parenting in single and married families.

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Hochfeld, Tessa. "Social Development and Minimum Standards in Social Work Education in South Africa." Social Work Education 29, no. 4 (August 12, 2009): 356–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02615470903055463.

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Kang’ethe, S. M. "Exploring Social Work Gaps in Africa with Examples from South Africa and Botswana." Journal of Social Sciences 41, no. 3 (December 2014): 423–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09718923.2014.11893377.

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Shokane, Allucia Lulu, and Mogomme Alpheus Masoga. "Social work as protest: conversations with selected first black social work women in South Africa." Critical and Radical Social Work 7, no. 3 (November 1, 2019): 435–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986019x15695497335752.

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Radical and critical social work has existed since the start of the profession. Still, the history of social work education in South Africa does not put prominence on black women social workers like Ellen Kuzwayo and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, among others. Remarkably, these women also participated in the national women’s protest against the pass laws in 1956 by the apartheid government. The authors espouse radical perspectives, such as feminist, human rights and social justice frameworks, embedded in an Afro-sensed approach. Expressly, the authors argue that, in its very nature, social work is protest, which can be used to restore ravaged history, as well as to influence the teaching and practice of social work.

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van de Ruit, Catherine. "Social Work Professionalism During and After Apartheid in South Africa." Sociology of Development 3, no. 3 (2017): 273–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/sod.2017.3.3.273.

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Professionalism is an ideal defined as the norms or values that orient the work of an occupation. In practice, research derived from country settings in the Global North shows how the ideal of professionalism competes with market and bureaucratic priorities. Less is known about how professionalism is nurtured or subjugated to market and bureaucratic institutions in postcolonial contexts in the Global South. This paper takes up the study of factors that promote or constrain professionalism in one postcolonial setting by contrasting South African social worker professionalism during and after apartheid. In the wake of calls for international research that is historically-grounded and sensitive to local context, data drawn from archival research and ethnographic fieldwork finds that social workers are prevented from asserting their professional values as a unified profession due to enduring race divisions in the profession. Another legacy of apartheid is the profession's dependency on the state for funding social worker salaries, which constrains social workers ability to assert professional values independent of the state's agenda. Finally, the organizational context employing social workers creates uneven opportunities for social workers to assert their professional values through policy advocacy.

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Patel, Leila, and Tessa Hochfeld. "Developmental social work in South Africa: Translating policy into practice." International Social Work 56, no. 5 (June 11, 2012): 690–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872812444481.

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Abdullah, Somaya. "Multicultural social work and national trauma: Lessons from South Africa." International Social Work 58, no. 1 (January 24, 2013): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872812461019.

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Chetty, Dasarath. "Social work in south africa: Historical antecedents and current challenges." European Journal of Social Work 2, no. 1 (January 1999): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691459908413806.

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Gray, Mel, and Antoinette Lombard. "The post-1994 transformation of social work in South Africa." International Journal of Social Welfare 17, no. 2 (February 26, 2008): 132–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2007.00545.x.

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Rabe, Marlize. "Family policy for all South African families." International Social Work 60, no. 5 (July 15, 2016): 1189–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872816655866.

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The ‘White Paper of Families in South Africa’ is critically analysed in this article. It is shown that although family diversity is acknowledged in the aforementioned document, certain implications of the document undermine such professed diversity, not all caretakers of children are acknowledged and supported, and financially vulnerable families are not strengthened. Instead, narrow ideals of family life are at times promoted, suggesting middle-class heterosexual values. It is argued here that the realities of family life should be accepted as such and family in different forms should be supported consistently, not subtly pushed to conform to restricted interpretations of what families should be like.

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Kearabetswe, Mokoene Ziphora, and Khunou Grace. "Parental absence: Intergenerational tensions and contestations of social grants in South Africa." Critical Social Policy 39, no. 4 (August 26, 2019): 525–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018319867583.

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Most recently, the role of grandmothers has been highlighted as significant in the lives of their grandchildren in South Africa. Studies have previously highlighted the contribution the Old Age Grant makes in contexts of poverty, orphanhood and the migrant labour system. Similarly, studies on the Child Support Grant (CSG) have illustrated its contribution to the well-being of children and families in general. However, missing in these examinations has been an understanding of how the CSG is contested in contexts of parental absence due to internal labour migration. Through a thematic content analysis of qualitative interviews with members of migrants’ families, this article illustrates that in the context of internal labour migration, family responsibilities shift in ways that make unemployed grandmothers who do not receive the Old Age Grant vulnerable. This vulnerability is manifested through a tension in familial relationships. This tension stem from the contestation of the CSG by young labour-migrant mothers, the guardian (grandmother), and the beneficiaries of the CSG. The article concludes that these tensions result from continuing socio-economic struggles experienced by poor households.

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Abdullah, Somaya. "Social work, family welfare, and Muslim personal law in South Africa." Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 34, no. 3 (September 2012): 315–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09649069.2012.750481.

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Mokomane, Zitha, and Tamsen Jean Rochat. "Adoption in South Africa: trends and patterns in social work practice." Child & Family Social Work 17, no. 3 (July 18, 2011): 347–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2011.00789.x.

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Matsea, Thabisa Coleen. "Strategies to destigmatize mental illness in South Africa: Social work perspective." Social Work in Health Care 56, no. 5 (March 16, 2017): 367–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2017.1284704.

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Patel, Leila, Jeanette Schmid, and Tessa Hochfeld. "Transforming Social Work Services in South Africa: Perspectives of NPO Managers." Administration in Social Work 36, no. 2 (April 2012): 212–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03643107.2011.567321.

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Chereni, Admire. "Advocacy in the South African social welfare sector: Current social work research and possible future directions." International Social Work 60, no. 2 (July 10, 2016): 507–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872815580042.

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Advocacy is a crucial vehicle for realising social work’s commitment to social justice. Yet, particularly in South Africa, little is known about social work research on advocacy. Therefore, this article uses a qualitative systematic review of published research on advocacy in South Africa’s social welfare sector in order to evaluate the contribution of social work research. It finds that there is scant research on social welfare advocacy in South Africa. Based on these findings, the article suggests areas for further social work research on advocacy in South Africa’s social welfare sector.

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Lubbe, Carien. "The Experiences of Children Growing up in Lesbian-Headed Families in South Africa." Journal of GLBT Family Studies 4, no. 3 (August 12, 2008): 325–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15504280802177540.

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