Xhosa Prose: XHS 505
- Authors: Botha, C R , Kwatsha, L L
- Date: 2010-02
- Subjects: Xhosa literature
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18380 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011539
- Description: Xhosa Prose: XHS 505, examination February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-02
- Authors: Botha, C R , Kwatsha, L L
- Date: 2010-02
- Subjects: Xhosa literature
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18380 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011539
- Description: Xhosa Prose: XHS 505, examination February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-02
Xhosa Non-Mother Tongue: XNM 122E
- Authors: Satyo, N , Myoli, N
- Date: 2010-12
- Subjects: Xhosa language -- Foreign speakers
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18375 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011532
- Description: Xhosa Non-Mother Tongue: XNM 122E, examination December 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-12
- Authors: Satyo, N , Myoli, N
- Date: 2010-12
- Subjects: Xhosa language -- Foreign speakers
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18375 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011532
- Description: Xhosa Non-Mother Tongue: XNM 122E, examination December 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-12
Xhosa Linguistics: XHS 111
- Saul, Z W, Ganto, D J, Satyo, N
- Authors: Saul, Z W , Ganto, D J , Satyo, N
- Date: 2010-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18394 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011555
- Description: Xhosa Linguistics: XHS 111, Supplementary examinations July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-07
- Authors: Saul, Z W , Ganto, D J , Satyo, N
- Date: 2010-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18394 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011555
- Description: Xhosa Linguistics: XHS 111, Supplementary examinations July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-07
Xhosa Foundation: XHS 111F
- Authors: Ganto, D J , Saul, Z W
- Date: 2011-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18397 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011558
- Description: Xhosa Foundation: XHS 111F, degree examination June 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-06
- Authors: Ganto, D J , Saul, Z W
- Date: 2011-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18397 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011558
- Description: Xhosa Foundation: XHS 111F, degree examination June 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-06
Worship in African Context: TPT 121
- Authors: Sulo, M O , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2010-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18126 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011019
- Description: Worship in African Context: TPT 121, supplementary examination January/February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-01
- Authors: Sulo, M O , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2010-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18126 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011019
- Description: Worship in African Context: TPT 121, supplementary examination January/February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-01
Worship in African Context: TPT 121
- Authors: Putu, N M , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18147 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011065
- Description: Worship in African Context: TPT 121, supplementary examinations January 2012.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012-01
- Authors: Putu, N M , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18147 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011065
- Description: Worship in African Context: TPT 121, supplementary examinations January 2012.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012-01
Worship In African Context: TPT 121
- Authors: Sulo, M O , Chetty, I G
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18182 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011160
- Description: Worship In African Context: TPT 121, degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
- Authors: Sulo, M O , Chetty, I G
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18182 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011160
- Description: Worship In African Context: TPT 121, degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
Worship in African Context: TNT 121
- Afari-Twumasi, L, Chetty, Irvin G
- Authors: Afari-Twumasi, L , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2010-10
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18177 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011125
- Description: Worship in African Context: TNT 121, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-10
- Authors: Afari-Twumasi, L , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2010-10
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18177 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011125
- Description: Worship in African Context: TNT 121, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-10
Women, land rights and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: the case of Zvimba communal area in Mashonaland West Province
- Authors: Arisunta, Caroline
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: Land tenure -- Zimbabwe , AIDS (Disease) in women -- Zimbabwe , Agricultural productivity -- Zimbabwe , Women farmers -- Zimbabwe , Women in agriculture -- Zimbabwe , Widowhood -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe , HIV-positive persons -- Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Rural Development)
- Identifier: vital:11939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/233 , Land tenure -- Zimbabwe , AIDS (Disease) in women -- Zimbabwe , Agricultural productivity -- Zimbabwe , Women farmers -- Zimbabwe , Women in agriculture -- Zimbabwe , Widowhood -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe , HIV-positive persons -- Zimbabwe
- Description: This study explores women’s access to land under the customary tenure system. It examines how the changes in land tenure, access and rights to land as a consequence of HIV/AIDS are affecting agricultural productivity, food security and poverty, with a specific focus on women who have lost their husbands to HIV/AIDS in Zvimba. Zvimba is a village community located in Zvimba District in the Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. The study also discusses policy responses designed to cushion the impact of HIV/AIDS on local communities especially women living with HIV/AIDS. The study highlights the vulnerability of widows to land rights violations, mainly inflicted by relatives but sometimes by the wider community. The main form of abuse encountered included the use of abusive language, threats of evictions and at times, beatings. The legal route for seeking redress was rarely used. Fear of witchcraft, low educational levels and fear of causing conflict between children and their paternal relatives also led widows to abandon the fight for their rights. The study further reveals that widows are heavily exposed to dispossession of their land rights. HIV/AIDS has increased the vulnerability of widows and other women to threats and dispossession of their land and other property rights. Dispossession of arable fields was observed in the four wards. The dispossessions and threats to livelihoods were directly related to the HIV positive status of the widows. The findings from this study illustrate the predominant role that male members of the household or family have over land. Thus, culture and traditional practices still affect women in other cases, disadvantaging them in favour of men, as in inheritance of land and property in the household.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010
- Authors: Arisunta, Caroline
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: Land tenure -- Zimbabwe , AIDS (Disease) in women -- Zimbabwe , Agricultural productivity -- Zimbabwe , Women farmers -- Zimbabwe , Women in agriculture -- Zimbabwe , Widowhood -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe , HIV-positive persons -- Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Rural Development)
- Identifier: vital:11939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/233 , Land tenure -- Zimbabwe , AIDS (Disease) in women -- Zimbabwe , Agricultural productivity -- Zimbabwe , Women farmers -- Zimbabwe , Women in agriculture -- Zimbabwe , Widowhood -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe , HIV-positive persons -- Zimbabwe
- Description: This study explores women’s access to land under the customary tenure system. It examines how the changes in land tenure, access and rights to land as a consequence of HIV/AIDS are affecting agricultural productivity, food security and poverty, with a specific focus on women who have lost their husbands to HIV/AIDS in Zvimba. Zvimba is a village community located in Zvimba District in the Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. The study also discusses policy responses designed to cushion the impact of HIV/AIDS on local communities especially women living with HIV/AIDS. The study highlights the vulnerability of widows to land rights violations, mainly inflicted by relatives but sometimes by the wider community. The main form of abuse encountered included the use of abusive language, threats of evictions and at times, beatings. The legal route for seeking redress was rarely used. Fear of witchcraft, low educational levels and fear of causing conflict between children and their paternal relatives also led widows to abandon the fight for their rights. The study further reveals that widows are heavily exposed to dispossession of their land rights. HIV/AIDS has increased the vulnerability of widows and other women to threats and dispossession of their land and other property rights. Dispossession of arable fields was observed in the four wards. The dispossessions and threats to livelihoods were directly related to the HIV positive status of the widows. The findings from this study illustrate the predominant role that male members of the household or family have over land. Thus, culture and traditional practices still affect women in other cases, disadvantaging them in favour of men, as in inheritance of land and property in the household.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2010
Widows' experiences of spousal mourning among AmaXhosa: an interpretative phenomenological study
- Authors: Akol, Grace
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Widowhood -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Widows -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Bereavement -- Psychological aspects , Mourning customs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Death -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier: vital:11609 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/523 , Widowhood -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Widows -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Bereavement -- Psychological aspects , Mourning customs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Death -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description: This study was conducted on the mourning rituals of the AmaXhosa widows of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study focused on the descriptive presentation of the experiences of the AmaXhosa widows in the Buffalo City municipality of the Province. The study sought to establish the widows’ perceptions regarding the mourning rituals and to interpret their experiences within the context of contemporary cultural, religious, gender and socio-political influences. The experiences among the widows interviewed were found to have a similar context but their perceptions about the mourning rituals were different between the widows younger than 40 years and those older than 50 years. Widows from urban and rural areas of East London, Mdantsane Township and from within a 60 kilometre radius of East London were interviewed. Purposive random sampling was used to identify an equal number of either urban or rural voluntary participants for the study. Structured interviews were held with widows ranging in age from 29 to 91 years. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the recorded discussions was conducted. The experiences of the AmaXhosa widows during the conduct of the mourning rituals are described. The key findings of the study indicated that most of the widows felt they had to go through the mourning rituals mainly to show respect for their departed husbands and so that the dignity of the family and clan was maintained. The mourning rituals seemed mostly to have negative implications for the widows such as a lack of family and financial support and being treated as social outcasts; however the rituals also seemed to help the women adjust to their new status as widows. Although the mourning rituals were embedded in the socio-cultural tradition generally followed by the AmaXhosa, religious beliefs also influenced some of the traditions by introducing changes in the way some widows conducted the mourning rituals. For example, some religions advocated for shorter periods of mourning than usual as well as wearing different types of mourning clothes from the usual black or purple dress. Overall the perceptions of the older widows aged above 50 years revealed that they had no reservations about performing the mourning rituals and quite readily and unquestioningly accepted the customs. The younger widows aged below 40 years on the other hand felt that the mourning rituals were biased against women and did not serve a useful purpose and even proposed changes to the manner in which the mourning rituals are conducted particularly the shortening of the mourning period from 12 to 6 months or less. However, they seemed to recognize the role played by the mourning ritual in lessening and possibly healing the pain and sorrow caused by their bereavement.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Akol, Grace
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Widowhood -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Widows -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Bereavement -- Psychological aspects , Mourning customs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Death -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier: vital:11609 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/523 , Widowhood -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Widows -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Bereavement -- Psychological aspects , Mourning customs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Death -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description: This study was conducted on the mourning rituals of the AmaXhosa widows of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study focused on the descriptive presentation of the experiences of the AmaXhosa widows in the Buffalo City municipality of the Province. The study sought to establish the widows’ perceptions regarding the mourning rituals and to interpret their experiences within the context of contemporary cultural, religious, gender and socio-political influences. The experiences among the widows interviewed were found to have a similar context but their perceptions about the mourning rituals were different between the widows younger than 40 years and those older than 50 years. Widows from urban and rural areas of East London, Mdantsane Township and from within a 60 kilometre radius of East London were interviewed. Purposive random sampling was used to identify an equal number of either urban or rural voluntary participants for the study. Structured interviews were held with widows ranging in age from 29 to 91 years. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the recorded discussions was conducted. The experiences of the AmaXhosa widows during the conduct of the mourning rituals are described. The key findings of the study indicated that most of the widows felt they had to go through the mourning rituals mainly to show respect for their departed husbands and so that the dignity of the family and clan was maintained. The mourning rituals seemed mostly to have negative implications for the widows such as a lack of family and financial support and being treated as social outcasts; however the rituals also seemed to help the women adjust to their new status as widows. Although the mourning rituals were embedded in the socio-cultural tradition generally followed by the AmaXhosa, religious beliefs also influenced some of the traditions by introducing changes in the way some widows conducted the mourning rituals. For example, some religions advocated for shorter periods of mourning than usual as well as wearing different types of mourning clothes from the usual black or purple dress. Overall the perceptions of the older widows aged above 50 years revealed that they had no reservations about performing the mourning rituals and quite readily and unquestioningly accepted the customs. The younger widows aged below 40 years on the other hand felt that the mourning rituals were biased against women and did not serve a useful purpose and even proposed changes to the manner in which the mourning rituals are conducted particularly the shortening of the mourning period from 12 to 6 months or less. However, they seemed to recognize the role played by the mourning ritual in lessening and possibly healing the pain and sorrow caused by their bereavement.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2011
Widowhood and property inheritance in Zimbabwe: experiences of widows in Sikalenge ward, Binga District
- Authors: Dube, Misheck
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M SW
- Identifier: vital:11755 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/200 , Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe
- Description: Zimbabwean widows need to inherit property when their husbands die. Property, be it material or financial in nature, is a source of sustenance and wealth. Depriving women of property inheritance rights has untold consequences. This study focuses on the property inheritance rights of widows in Zimbabwe in the Sikalenge Ward of Binga District. The aim of the study is to understand how property grabbing affects widows and to find possible solutions and intervention strategies social workers may use. The literature reviewed in the study was drawn from both the legal field and social work to create a link between the fields. The study was shaped by radical feminism for conceptualising property grabbing while the formulated intervention strategies utilised the empowerment model. The study is qualitative in nature using interviews to collect data from ten widows and five social service providers who constitute the total of fifteen participants in the study. Data was analysed qualitatively using interpretive approaches and presentation is textual rather than statistical. The main finding of the study is that widows are still being denied their inheritance rights despite the provision of such rights by the Intestate Succession Laws promulgated in November 1997 by the government of Zimbabwe. Moreover, the widows are not aware of the inheritance laws of Zimbabwe and hence did not seek any professional intervention. The few who attempted the legal process for recourse were not successful. Even though it was minimally attempted, the study established that the main form of failed intervention tried by the women was legal in nature and suggests and emphasises an eminent need for Social Work intervention to supplement legal intervention.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2008
- Authors: Dube, Misheck
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M SW
- Identifier: vital:11755 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/200 , Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe
- Description: Zimbabwean widows need to inherit property when their husbands die. Property, be it material or financial in nature, is a source of sustenance and wealth. Depriving women of property inheritance rights has untold consequences. This study focuses on the property inheritance rights of widows in Zimbabwe in the Sikalenge Ward of Binga District. The aim of the study is to understand how property grabbing affects widows and to find possible solutions and intervention strategies social workers may use. The literature reviewed in the study was drawn from both the legal field and social work to create a link between the fields. The study was shaped by radical feminism for conceptualising property grabbing while the formulated intervention strategies utilised the empowerment model. The study is qualitative in nature using interviews to collect data from ten widows and five social service providers who constitute the total of fifteen participants in the study. Data was analysed qualitatively using interpretive approaches and presentation is textual rather than statistical. The main finding of the study is that widows are still being denied their inheritance rights despite the provision of such rights by the Intestate Succession Laws promulgated in November 1997 by the government of Zimbabwe. Moreover, the widows are not aware of the inheritance laws of Zimbabwe and hence did not seek any professional intervention. The few who attempted the legal process for recourse were not successful. Even though it was minimally attempted, the study established that the main form of failed intervention tried by the women was legal in nature and suggests and emphasises an eminent need for Social Work intervention to supplement legal intervention.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2008
Western History of Music: MUS 321
- Botha, Henry, Bleibinger, Bernhard, Ncozana, Jonathan, Brukman, J
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan , Brukman, J
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18121 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010988
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 321,degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan , Brukman, J
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18121 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010988
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 321,degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Western History of Music: MUS 221
- Botha, Henry, Bleibinger, Bernhard, Ncozana, Jonathan
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010986
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 221, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010986
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 221, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Western History of Music: MUS 121
- Botha, Henry, Bleibinger, Bernhard, Ncozana, Jonathan
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18119 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010985
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 121, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18119 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010985
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 121, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
User Studies: LIB 311
- Ondari-Okemwa, E, Khayundi, F E
- Authors: Ondari-Okemwa, E , Khayundi, F E
- Date: 2010-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18043 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010627
- Description: User Studies: LIB 311, supplementary examinations July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-06
- Authors: Ondari-Okemwa, E , Khayundi, F E
- Date: 2010-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18043 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010627
- Description: User Studies: LIB 311, supplementary examinations July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-06
Urban Sociology: SOU 221
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-01
- Subjects: Sociology, Urban
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010509
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination January 2008.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2008-01
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-01
- Subjects: Sociology, Urban
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010509
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination January 2008.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2008-01
Urban Sociology: SOU 221
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2009-02
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17937 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010507
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination February/March 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-02
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2009-02
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17937 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010507
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination February/March 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-02
Urban Sociology: SOU 221
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17971 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010543
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, examination November 2008.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2008-11
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17971 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010543
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, examination November 2008.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2008-11
Urban community development: an understanding of social change and identity in a social housing estate in post-apartheid South Africa
- Authors: Packery, Rajendra
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Communities , Social change , Community development -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc
- Identifier: vital:11967 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/241 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1001312 , Communities , Social change , Community development -- South Africa
- Description: This study focuses on the lives of people living in a social housing estate which was a joint venture between the Housing Association of South Africa (HASA), a Netherlands based foundation and the Buffalo City Municipality. This type of social housing estate is a relatively new concept in post-apartheid South Africa and a first for the City of East London. Apartheid spawned the separation of different groups of people into racial enclaves. It also created barriers between races, advantaged certain races over others and created fear, hatred and general distrust among different racial groups in South Africa. The dislocation of apartheid was accompanied by rapid urbanization and ‘reconstruction’ of infrastructure and inter-racial relationships. The opening up of the country’s borders in compliance with Globalisation made South Africa a melting pot to people of different cultures. South African cities became fragmented and fear and strangeness was everywhere. Housing or the lack of it has been a constant problem that the new post apartheid government has grappled with. The solution of building RDP housing estates has not solved this burgeoning problem. But even more importantly it has failed to reorganize urban life in South Africa. In approaching this study I look at how these new social housing estates have reorganized urban life. I explore the concepts of community, home, generation, gender, material culture and ‘new’ urbanization to provide a framework for my study. This study is a qualitative study based in the city of East London in the Eastern Cape. It is a community study which attempts to go inside the home to unlock some of the intricacies of urban life. Ethnography is the research key used to unlock these intricacies.In conclusion, this study attempts to examine a non-western narrative of community life. Are these housing estates a solution to South Africa’s housing problem? Do they conform only to western narratives of urban life? What kind of citizens do these housing estates produce? These are some of the questions that this study hopes to answer.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Packery, Rajendra
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Communities , Social change , Community development -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc
- Identifier: vital:11967 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/241 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1001312 , Communities , Social change , Community development -- South Africa
- Description: This study focuses on the lives of people living in a social housing estate which was a joint venture between the Housing Association of South Africa (HASA), a Netherlands based foundation and the Buffalo City Municipality. This type of social housing estate is a relatively new concept in post-apartheid South Africa and a first for the City of East London. Apartheid spawned the separation of different groups of people into racial enclaves. It also created barriers between races, advantaged certain races over others and created fear, hatred and general distrust among different racial groups in South Africa. The dislocation of apartheid was accompanied by rapid urbanization and ‘reconstruction’ of infrastructure and inter-racial relationships. The opening up of the country’s borders in compliance with Globalisation made South Africa a melting pot to people of different cultures. South African cities became fragmented and fear and strangeness was everywhere. Housing or the lack of it has been a constant problem that the new post apartheid government has grappled with. The solution of building RDP housing estates has not solved this burgeoning problem. But even more importantly it has failed to reorganize urban life in South Africa. In approaching this study I look at how these new social housing estates have reorganized urban life. I explore the concepts of community, home, generation, gender, material culture and ‘new’ urbanization to provide a framework for my study. This study is a qualitative study based in the city of East London in the Eastern Cape. It is a community study which attempts to go inside the home to unlock some of the intricacies of urban life. Ethnography is the research key used to unlock these intricacies.In conclusion, this study attempts to examine a non-western narrative of community life. Are these housing estates a solution to South Africa’s housing problem? Do they conform only to western narratives of urban life? What kind of citizens do these housing estates produce? These are some of the questions that this study hopes to answer.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2009
Traditional leadership and the use of cultural laws in land administration: implications for rural women's land rights in a transforming South Africa
- Authors: Ntwasa, Bayanda
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Land tenure -- South Africa , Rural women -- South Africa , Tribal government -- South Africa , Land use, Rural -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa , Women's rights -- South Africa , Chiefdoms -- South Africa , Political leadership -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Rural Development)
- Identifier: vital:11938 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/134 , Land tenure -- South Africa , Rural women -- South Africa , Tribal government -- South Africa , Land use, Rural -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa , Women's rights -- South Africa , Chiefdoms -- South Africa , Political leadership -- South Africa
- Description: This dissertation critically examines how traditional leaders use cultural laws to allocate land to women and to allow women to participate in land administration in communal areas. Given the government's commitment to gender equity in all spheres of life as stipulated in Section 9 (3) of the South African Constitution (Act 108 of 1996), the dissertation examines whether related legislation and policy (such as CLARA and TLGFA) alone can guarantee equitable access to land for women and their participation in land administration structures in communal areas where patriarchy dominates. In essence, the study interrogates whether state intervention through formalizing laws that govern land matters do achieve gender equity while cultural laws still exist in communal areas. Based on the view that land in communal areas is held by the state and administered by traditional leaders who have historically discriminated against women, the dissertation employs a case study method to examine whether cultural laws are exercised when women apply for a piece of land at the three levels of traditional authority viz: village, sub-village and traditional council levels in the Matolweni village of the Nqadu Tribal Authority. Although women are often the de facto rights holders in rural areas as a result of male migration to urban areas, findings seem to indicate that it is difficult and/or sometimes impossible to translate paper laws into practice while cultural laws are still operating. For effective transformation to occur, the study recommends that unless a strong women's rural movement emerges, coupled with a socialist feminist position that advocates for a radical transformation of rural society to defeat the patriarchal norms and standards, traditional leaders will continue to discriminate against women in land issues.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Ntwasa, Bayanda
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Land tenure -- South Africa , Rural women -- South Africa , Tribal government -- South Africa , Land use, Rural -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa , Women's rights -- South Africa , Chiefdoms -- South Africa , Political leadership -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Rural Development)
- Identifier: vital:11938 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/134 , Land tenure -- South Africa , Rural women -- South Africa , Tribal government -- South Africa , Land use, Rural -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa , Women's rights -- South Africa , Chiefdoms -- South Africa , Political leadership -- South Africa
- Description: This dissertation critically examines how traditional leaders use cultural laws to allocate land to women and to allow women to participate in land administration in communal areas. Given the government's commitment to gender equity in all spheres of life as stipulated in Section 9 (3) of the South African Constitution (Act 108 of 1996), the dissertation examines whether related legislation and policy (such as CLARA and TLGFA) alone can guarantee equitable access to land for women and their participation in land administration structures in communal areas where patriarchy dominates. In essence, the study interrogates whether state intervention through formalizing laws that govern land matters do achieve gender equity while cultural laws still exist in communal areas. Based on the view that land in communal areas is held by the state and administered by traditional leaders who have historically discriminated against women, the dissertation employs a case study method to examine whether cultural laws are exercised when women apply for a piece of land at the three levels of traditional authority viz: village, sub-village and traditional council levels in the Matolweni village of the Nqadu Tribal Authority. Although women are often the de facto rights holders in rural areas as a result of male migration to urban areas, findings seem to indicate that it is difficult and/or sometimes impossible to translate paper laws into practice while cultural laws are still operating. For effective transformation to occur, the study recommends that unless a strong women's rural movement emerges, coupled with a socialist feminist position that advocates for a radical transformation of rural society to defeat the patriarchal norms and standards, traditional leaders will continue to discriminate against women in land issues.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2009