School of Social Sciences
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Social Sciences Journal Articles2023-11-08T02:56:29ZAn evaluation of the challenges faced by Mankweng Thuthuzela Care Centre in dealing with victims of sexual offences
http://hdl.handle.net/10386/4340
An evaluation of the challenges faced by Mankweng Thuthuzela Care Centre in dealing with victims of sexual offences
Mnyakeni, Ntombizodwa
Sexual offences has persisted to be a serious criminal phenomenon worldwide and also in South Africa. The challenges and consequences associated with sexual offences demand that effective prevention programmes be developed to target and deter future sexual offences and recidivism. Sexual violence is the intention by the perpetrator to commit an offence at the absence of consent from the complainant or victim. The perpetrator is causing or attempting to coerce an individual to engage involuntarily in any sexual act by force, threat of duress or without the individual’s consent. Different communities across all different cultures and traditions understand sexual violence as an individual crime, which is rape. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to evaluate the challenges faced by the Mankweng Thuthuzela Care Centre (TCC) when dealing with victims of sexual offences. The TCC is an organisation that aims to empower victims of sexual crimes to become survivors through learning to accept and understand what happened to them as victims of sexual violence.
Utilising qualitative and evaluative research design lenses, this study purposively selected 10 participants to gain an insight into their thoughts, attitudes, behaviour, values systems, and motivations on this subject. They were all subjected to the semi-structured key informative interview (KII) method. Based on the transcribed data, various study themes and sub-themes were extracted as study findings that were then analysed using the inductive Thematic Content Analysis (TCA) – Multidisciplinary centre; secondary victimisation and revictimisation; alcohol abuse and substance abuse; poverty; hesitance to report; lack of resources; awareness of campaign; psycho-social support; and failure to administer post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
It was recommended that a monthly staff workshop and training should be developed for the TCC, so that the value derived from standard protocol or trained personnel in relation to victims of sexual violence can become significant. Such training will also include meeting expectations for sensitivity and professionalism around the issues of sexual offences. In turn, this will help put the investigatory process into context for the initiated investigations.
Thesis (M.A. (Criminology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2023
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZThe use of knowldge and perceptions of malaria for improved control and elimination of malaria in the community of Dan, Limpopo Province, South Africa
http://hdl.handle.net/10386/4245
The use of knowldge and perceptions of malaria for improved control and elimination of malaria in the community of Dan, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Malatji, Moshohli Kenneth
This exploratory study is based on the philosophically and metatheoretically sound epistemic position that to avoid category mistakes and transubstantive error in comprehending African phenomena, it is abserlutely necessary to jettison Caucasian paradigms and locate epistemologically in African-centredness. African people have been the “most written about” and yet the “least known and understood” of all the world’s people due to category mistakes and transubstantive error which arise from the hegemonic practice and tendency of valuating and evaluating African phenomena with Caucasian paragigms whose essence is anti-African. To avoid such mistakes and error, the Afrocentric paradigm was deployed to make sense of the pivotal necessity and need of utilising AIK and perceptions in the effective control and elimination of malaria in Dan Village which is racially and culturally African. To this end ten (10) African diviners and herbalists and fifteen (15) elderly African women and men were carefully and purposively selected to participate in the exploratory study. An Afrocentric research methodology based on the African spiritual principles of Maat and Nommo was deployed to collect, analyse and interpret data. Deploying the Thematic Content Analysis (TCA) tradition framed epistemologically by the Afrocentric paradigm rooted in the deep structureof African culture, significant African-centred themes were distilled from the data. A significant overarching theme which subsumed all other themes was that the effective control and elimination of malaria can only be realised if programmes for such control and elimination are rooted in and derive from the irrefragable African worldview and survival thrust. This African worldview, it must be noted, derives from African biogenetics and phylogeny. The upshot of this position, which itself is based on epistemologic centering in the reality structure of African people, is that a model for the control and elimination of the pernicious disease of malaria in Dan Village must derive from the deep thought and practice of the Ba-Pedi and Va-Tsonga ethnic groups. It is on this basis that the basic principles required for the construction of a tentative African-centred model for the control and elimination of malaria were identified and elaborated. This exploratory study thus sought to effect a dicisive break with Eurocentric discourses on the control and elimination of malaria.
Thesis (Ph.D. (Anthropology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2022
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZUnder-utilisation of internal Employee Assistance programme (EAP) services by the SouthAfrican Police Service in Lephalale, Limpopo Province
http://hdl.handle.net/10386/4114
Under-utilisation of internal Employee Assistance programme (EAP) services by the SouthAfrican Police Service in Lephalale, Limpopo Province
Dipela, Mmaphuti Percy; Sithole, Sello
An employee assistance programme (EAP) is a service provided by an employer to employees who
experience personal problems. Its utilisation becomes a challenge when the targeted population
prefers to use alternative services to this programme specifically earmarked for them. Such a
situation motivated this quantitative research aimed to evaluate the utilisation of the employee
assistance programme in the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the Waterberg district of
Limpopo Province. A systematic sample comprising of 189 respondents was drawn from the total
population of 398 employees. The study revealed that the employees’ awareness of the programme
was very low.
Journal article published in the journal of Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk Vol 57 No 4; Issue 7
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZRuling from the grave? : the political instrumentalization of Robert Mugabe’s corpse in contemporary Zimbabwean politics
http://hdl.handle.net/10386/4082
Ruling from the grave? : the political instrumentalization of Robert Mugabe’s corpse in contemporary Zimbabwean politics
Mpofu, Shepherd
This qualitative research is a critical analysis of news media reports, political debates, and political and family
behaviours to interrogate the centrality of death, corpses, funeral and mortuary rituals in African politics by
using the death of Zimbabwe’s former President, Robert Mugabe as a case study. At death, it became clear
what a polarizing and yet unifying figure Mugabe was. His dead body became a contested political asset. The
paper explores how Mugabe’s family resisted President Mnangagwa’s attempts at gaining control of Mugabe’s
dead body for political expediency after he disposed of him in a military coup in 2017. The paper concludes
that, true to Mugabe’s wife’s assertions that he will rule Zimbabwe from the grave, Mugabe, as a dead man,
caused some considerable political tensions between his family and ruling magnifying the coup architects’
legitimacy challenges and his power in Zimbabwean politics.
Journal article published in the Journal of Asian and African studies · September 2022
2022-01-01T00:00:00Z