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The Impact of Changes in the Work Environment on the Place-Identity of Academics: An Exploratory Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa,The study examined the impact of changes in the work environment on the construction of place-identity among university academics. Data were collected from five academics at a large distance learning university in South Africa. The institution was undergoing major structural... -
Our Lives Through Embroidery: Narrative Accounts of the Women's Embroidery Project in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa and City University of New York,The study explores the meanings newly employed women attach to the notion of being “emancipated.” It draws on critical feminist and post-colonial theorists to investigate how Black South Africa women (n = 21; age range = 30–55) with experience of... -
Sex discourses and gender constructions in Southern Sotho: a case study of police interviews of rape/sexual assault victims
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Puleng Hanong ThetelaGender studies in the judicial system has been a topic of much interest in recent legal and linguistic research, focusing on a wide range of issues such as power, ideology, disadvantage and domination in the legal system (e.g. Estrich, 1993;... -
The presentation of female characters in three of BM Khaketla's texts: A literary analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Pule Alexis Phindane --- School of Teacher Education, Faculty of Humanities, South AfricaLike most literature around the world, African literature initially portrayed women poorly. This is in accordance with Kalu's (2001:14) observation that the role of women in society is constantly questioned and ‘for centuries women have struggled to find their place’... -
Are you your father's child? Social identity influences of father absence in a South African setting
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Petunia Smith --- School of Human and Community Development, South Africa Grace Khunou --- Department of Sociology, South Africa Motlalepule Nathane-Taulela --- Department of Social Work, South AfricaThis study explored social identity influences of father absence on black South African young adults, including use of paternal surname. Informants were six young women and men between 21 and 35 years of age from a historically disadvantaged South African... -
The impact of HIV infection on women receiving radiation for cervical cancer
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Journal of Gynaecological Oncology • Authors: Mapule Mangena --- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Leon Snyman --- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Greta Dreyer --- Gynaecological Oncology Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Sheynaz Bassa --- Department of Radiation Oncology, Piet Becker --- Research Office, Faculty of Health Sciences,Background: The objective of the study was to compare patient characteristics, treatment toxicity and interruptions, and survival in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and HIV-negative cervical cancer patients receiving radiation as primary or adjuvant treatment. -
Obstacles to post-apartheid language policy implementation: Insights from language policy experts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies • Authors: Zethu Cakata --- Department of Psychology, South Africa Puleng Segalo --- Office of Graduate Studies and Research, South AfricaAs widely reported, colonialism and apartheid played a key role in creating an official space that inferiorised indigenous languages through policies that promoted languages that aided the oppression. Such an exercise has had multifold implications for black South African communities... -
Belonging, Memory and Subaltern Voices: Reflecting on Sindiwe Magona’s To my Children’s Children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- , South AfricaFor many black people, the act of writing and expressing one’s thoughts was an exercise of resistance and defiance, one that often meant risking losing one’s freedom or one’s life. Sindiwe Magona’s works challenge the commonly held assumption that writing... -
Women offenders’ experiences of rehabilitation in a South African correctional centre
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sibulelo Qhogwana --- , South Africa Puleng Segalo --- , South AfricaThis study explored gendered rehabilitation of women in correctional spaces and the systems and structures that recreate inequities in women’s incarceration experiences. Eighteen black women completed in-depth interviews on their offender rehabilitation experiences. Their age ranged from 23 to 69... -
Understanding and measuring AIDS-related stigma in health care settings: A developing country perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Vaishali Sharma Mahendra --- Population Council, India Laelia Gilborn --- Population Council, Shalini Bharat --- School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India Rupa Jakharia Mudoi --- Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit, Bangalore Office, India Indrani Gupta --- Health Policy Research Unit, Institute of Economic Growth, India Bitra George --- Stigma Reduction Operations Research Study, SHARAN, Luke Samson --- SHARAN, Celine Costello Daly --- Asia Pacific Regional Office of Family Health International, Julie Pulerwitz --- Horizons Program/Population Council,AIDS-related stigma and discrimination remain pervasive problems in health care institutions worldwide. This paper reports on stigma-related baseline findings from a study in New Delhi, India to evaluate the impact of a stigma-reduction intervention in three large hospitals. Data were... -
Colonisation theory and invasive biota: the Great Fish River case history, 35 years later
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: Pule P Mpopetsi --- Rhodes University, South Africa Wilbert T Kadye --- Rhodes University, South AfricaUsing the Great Fish River, South Africa, Laurenson and Hocutt (1986) proposed a colonisation theory outlining the characteristics of successful invaders and the properties of aquatic habitats that facilitate successful fish invasions. The Great Fish River has modified flow due... -
The significance of the naming technique in KPD Maphalla’s novel, Kabelwamanong
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Pule Phindane --- Central University of Technology, South AfricaThis article is a conceptual study of onomastics in KPD Maphalla’s novel, Kabelwamanong, focusing on the naming of characters and places. The study intends to determine the extent to which naming is utilised as a technique to show how the... -
Moving the Margins: Gender Inequality and Homelessness in Amma Darko’s Faceless
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa, South Africa Theresah Patrine Ennin --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMany African women writers have engaged with issues of social justice, development and the need to pay attention to the persistent inequalities that eat away the fabric of many societies. To this day, they continue to be at the coalface...
