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Promoting Inter-Relational Reflexivity with Psychosocial Workers in Community Work: A Case Study from Burundi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yvonne Sliep --- School of Psychology, University of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Andrew Gilbert --- Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre, South AfricaWe explore the practice of creating reflexive spaces within community work with psychosocial workers living in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A central idea is inter-relational reflexivity—reflexivity within relationships that leads to collective action. Theoretical ideas related... -
The Relationship Between Hope And Goal Achievement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: David J.F. Maree --- University of Pretoria, Marinda Maree --- University of Pretoria, Charmaine Collins --- University of Pretoria,The aim of this study was to explore the psychological resource structure of students as assessed by the Hope Orientation Measure or HOME instrument. The aim was also to find what the relationship between this resource structure and goal achievement... -
Children's Loss of Agency under Extreme Adversity
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bev Killian --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Mary Van der Riet --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Angela Hough --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Vivien O'Neill --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Thabisile Zondi --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This study explores the notion of children's agency in situations of extreme adversity. The child participants (n=117) live in the midst of the HIV/AIDS pandemic; extreme poverty; and systemic educational malfunction. Four focus group interviews were conducted with the children... -
Listening to the Voices of Children in Early Schooling in the South African Context of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kogilambal Govender --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Hasina Banu Ebrahim --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This study explored how children in early schooling interpreted their social reality to construct vulnerable childhoods in an HIV/AIDS context. Ten males and ten females between the ages of eight and nine years from low-income families in KwaZulu-Natal participated in... -
The Philosophical Assumptions, Utility and Challenges of Asset Mapping Approaches to Community Engagement
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sherianne Kramer --- University of South Africa, South Africa Taryn Amos --- University of South Africa, South Africa Sandy Lazarus --- University of South Africa, South Africa Mohamed Seedat --- University of South Africa, South AfricaThis literature review is a discussion of asset-based approaches to community engagement. Following a literature search, we identified several asset mapping approaches: Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD); Participatory Inquiry into Religious Health Assets, Networks and Agency (PIRHANA); Community Health Assets Mapping... -
Youths navigating social networks and social support systems in settings of chronic crisis: the case of youth-headed households in Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Laura May Lee --- Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program, Green College, CanadaYouth-headed households in Rwanda live in a context of chronic crisis, where poverty, disease and uncertainty are not exceptional but characterise people's daily lived reality. Struggling under the pressures of economic deprivation, social isolation, abuse and exploitation, these youths experience... -
Challenges and coping strategies of orphaned children in Tanzania who are not adequately cared for by adults
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marguerite Daniel --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, Norway Angela Mathias --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, NorwayOrphaned children in poor rural communities sometimes have no adult who is able to care for them or else the adult caregiver is not able to provide adequate care. Tanzania remains one of the poorest countries in the world, and... -
‘Something for something’: The importance of talking about transactional sex with youth in South Africa using a resilience-based approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ingrid van der Heijden --- Gender and Health Research Unit, South Africa Sharlene Swartz --- Human Sciences Research Council, South AfricaTransactional sex is a common feature of sexual relationships in South Africa but has severe health implications for those who engage in it. This paper presents perspectives on transactional sex based on interviews and focus group discussions with young people... -
Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Grant A. Fore --- STEM Education Research Institute (SERI), Indiana University-Purdue University, U.S.A.The paper uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse and practices of development agents at Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD), a faith-based NGO in Cape Town, South Africa. It explores how the dynamic interrelation between faith and... -
An empirical test of the agency problems and capital structure of South African quoted SMEs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: J Abor --- University of Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville N Biekpe --- University of Stellenbosch Business School, BellvilleThe agency theory suggests that the separation of ownership and control in firms creates conflicts of interest between the firm’s shareholders and managers. This is mainly because managers have the opportunity to use the resources of the firm in ways... -
Factors influencing corporate governance disclosure of companies listed on the Alternative Exchange (AltX) in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Henriëtte Scholtz --- School of Accountancy, South Africa Anna-Retha Smit --- Department of Taxation, South AfricaThis article examines the various factors that influence the level of conformance with corporate governance recommendations for companies listed on the Alternative Exchange (AltX) in South Africa. To achieve this objective, a corporate governance disclosure index was developed by examining... -
The Impact of Corporate Control on the Financial Variables of Companies listed on the J.S.E.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: E. Uliana --- University of Cape Town,The effect of different types of corporate control on financial variables of companies are investigated. Three groups of companies representing foreign controlled, owner controlled and conglomerate controlled are matched according to size and industry. Certain financial ratios for each group... -
An evaluation of corporate ownership structures on employee, management and shareholder compensation for JSE companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: T. Cohen --- H. Tarley and Company, E. Uliana --- University of Cape Town,Where corporate ownership and control are separated, the actions of employees and managers are not completely observable by shareholders, because it is virtually Impossible for a diverse group of shareholders (the principals), to monitor the behaviour of employees and managers... -
Corporate control, economie conditions and financial performance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: De Ratione • Authors: Richard Day --- University of Cape Town, Enrico Uliana --- University of Cape Town,The financial characteristics of owner-managed and professionally-managed companies are studied across two decades representing different economic conditions. The results show that professionally-managed companies out-performed the owner-managed companies, and that there are significant differences in financial structures between the two groups... -
Remuneration Committees in South African Listed Companies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: D Penkin Kenneth --- Master of Commerce of the University of Cape Town in Financial Management (2009),This article examines the administration of executive compensation in listed South African companies in order to understand the background to the emotive expressions by the public concerning the amount of executive earnings. It conducts research in order to ascertain whether... -
‘Don't “paraffin” me!’: deception, power and agency in a South African sport for development organisation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Cassandra Clark --- Department of Social Anthropology,The staff of Sport FUNdamentals Southern Africa (SFSA), a sport for development organisation, have labelled a range of deceitful behaviours ‘paraffining’. These behaviours range from improvising life skills lessons to lying in reports. It references paraffin, a common, yet potentially... -
Leading while being led: developing the developer at a Catholic NGO in Cape Town
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Grant A. Fore --- STEM Education Research Institute (SERI), Indiana University-Purdue University, U.S.A.The paper uses ethnographic data about the religious ethics undergirding the discourse and practices of development agents at Catholic Welfare and Development (CWD), a faith-based NGO in Cape Town, South Africa. It explores how the dynamic interrelation between faith and... -
“Dying is dying, that's all”: Structural violence and cultural projects in Malawian AIDS proverbs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nicole C. Hayes --- Department of Anthropology, CanadaThis paper examines three Malawian proverbs about AIDS: “AIDS came for people”, “Dying is dying, that's all” and “It's in the flour”. Proverbs permit Malawians to discuss the otherwise taboo topic of AIDS because they offer a special register and... -
Oral histories of HIV/AIDS support group members, NGO workers and home-based carers in KwaZulu-Natal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Philippe Denis --- School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, South AfricaThe purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the AIDS research community the existence of an oral history project known as the Memories of AIDS Project. The project focused on HIV/AIDS support group members, non-governmental organisation... -
‘Celibacy is certainly not for me!’: Transgressive Sexualities in Male Children in Moses Isegawa's Abyssinian Chronicles
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Asante Lucy Mtenje --- English Department, South AfricaMoses Isegawa's representation of young male sexuality in Abyssinian Chronicles draws our attention to sexuality as a mobile process of relation, a provisional, contextually-informed construct which challenges more naturalised assumptions of sexuality as a monolithic biological given. Even though there... -
Rethinking medicinal plants and plant medicines
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Diana Gibson --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaBecause plants are perceived as sessile and immobile, they are often represented as objects or things in current literature. In this paper, I explore variations and shifts in research and literature since 2000 that reconsider the ways that plant-related ideas,... -
Plant knowledge: transfers, shaping and states in plant practices
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: William Ellis --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, and Centre for Humanities Research, South AfricaThis exploratory paper interrogates the various ways in which knowledge about plants has historically been generated. It first examines how plant knowledge is located in and understood by traditional studies of plants, such as ethnobotany. It pushes at the accepted... -
Overcoming obstacles to a truly global psychological theory, research, and praxis in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Seth Oppong --- Department of Psychology,In African countries, psychology as it is taught, researched, and practised contributes to epistemic injustice and epistemological violence while depriving Africans of epistemic agency. This is largely because psychology has remained and continues to remain Eurocentric. However, the continual Eurocentric... -
The quest for Turkish scholarships: African students, transformation and hopefulness
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Abdulkadir Osman Farah --- Department of Culture and Global Studies, Denmark Calvince Omondi Barack --- Department of Political Science and International Relations, TurkeyThe purpose of this study is to move beyond the limited research emphasis on traditional South-North scholarship accessibility. We discuss and analyze how through South-South connections and scholarship opportunities African students rationalize accessibility to scholarships in Turkey. Building on qualitative... -
Identifying the strength and weaknesses of the South African tech-based industries: Insights from the Swiss South African business development programme
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ramazan Uctu --- , Iraq Hassan Essop --- , South AfricaPrevious studies have considered the importance of technological development to economic growth, which lead to more research on policy interventions that would promote innovation and technological development. However, developing new technologies without a vehicle or mechanism to deliver the technologies... -
Do board-level controls matter? – An agency perspective on socially responsible investment (SRI) company boards in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Blanche Steyn --- , South Africa Farai Kwenda --- , South Africa Lesley Stainbank --- , South AfricaIf board-level controls matter, the introduction of the 2008 Companies Act with its enhanced legislative requirements, should have a positive impact on firm performance. To assess board-level controls this study developed two unique control indexes to assess the boards of... -
A business case argument for corporate social responsibility disclosure in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Inalegwu Ode-Ichakpa --- , UK Emmanuel Cleeve --- , UK Chibuzo Amadi --- , UK Godswill Osemeke --- , UKFrom the theoretical perspectives of stakeholder, agency and slack resources, and using fixed effects and random effects models, this study investigates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance. The study adopts fixed and random effects panel estimates... -
Virtuality and subjective realities: A freedom-based ergon for the modern African parent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Thando Nkohla-Ramunenyiwa --- , South AfricaSchmidt introduces the Aristotelian term “koinonia” as denoting a political community which aims to achieve a common good for society as a whole. A good that promotes the flourishing of every party involved. In addition, Schmidt adopts further insight about... -
‘A Fiction to Mock the Cuckold’: Reinvigorating the Cliché Figure of the Cuckold in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea (2001) and Gravel Heart (2017)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Sean James Bosman --- , South AfricaThis article argues that Abdulrazak Gurnah reinvigorates the cliché figure of the cuckold into a complex narrative device. His cuckolds serve as nexuses through which he expresses some of his authorial concerns in By the Sea (2001) and Gravel Heart... -
“Becoming a somebody”: mobility, patronage and reconfiguration of transactional sexual relationships in postcolonial Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Rufaro H. Mushonga --- , Zimbabwe Vupenyu Dzingirai --- , ZimbabweThe article explores the many ways in which Zimbabwean women married to Nigerian migrant entrepreneurs in Harare reconfigure transactional sexual relationships to further their own ends. Drawing on postcolonial feminism and based on a qualitative ethnographic inquiry, the article highlights... -
Lives in Motion: Theorising Mobility in Contemporary Queer African Cinema
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Wesley Paul Macheso --- ,This paper discusses two fictional films — Inxeba (The Wound) (2017) and Rafiki (2018) — as forms of queer representation within the nascent field of queer African cinema. My analysis situates the films within discourses of globalisation with a specific... -
The social construction of identity in HIV/AIDS home-based care volunteers in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Thirusha Naidu [d128e18] Yvonne Sliep Wenche DageidHome-based care volunteer (HBCV) identity and how it is shaped was the main focus of the study. Fifteen HBCVs were interviewed about their work and personal life stories and then interviewed reflectively using a narrative interviewing style. Specific attention was... -
The value relevance of mandatory sustainability reporting assurance
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Maher Jeriji --- IHEC – University of Carthage, Tunisia Ala Nasfi --- Montpellier University, FranceSustainability reporting assurance (SRA) ensures the credibility of sustainability information disclosed by companies. This practice has continued to evolve, particularly within regulatory frameworks. The SRA is widespread among the largest French and South African companies because of the requirements of... -
Altruism and Agency: Fictional Representations of Albino Vulnerability in Elias Mutani’s Human Poachers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Spemba Elias Spemba --- Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Languages and Literature; Mkwawa University College of Education, TanzaniaThis article examines Elias Mutani’s Human Poachers (2016) to assess how the body of child character with and without albinism is culturally assigned specific meanings by exploring how the author configures and reconfigures the agencies of a child character with... -
What is the motivation? The political economy of engineers regulation in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: O. A. K’Akumu --- University of Nairobi, KenyaRegulation is usually justified by the public interest in theory but in practice may end up serving special interests. This paper evaluates the regulatory frameworks for engineers and engineering technologists in Kenya with the view to establishing whether they take... -
Investigating the link between ESG activities and dividend policies
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Investment Analysts Journal • Authors: Doojin Ryu --- Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Doowon Ryu --- Kyung Hee University, Korea Heejin Yang --- Dongguk University WISE Campus, KoreaThis study investigates the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) activities and dividend policies among non-financial firms. Specifically, it explores how ESG performance influences dividend payout levels, stability, and the likelihood of dividend payments. Using a broad sample of...
