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Troubling Discourse: The Social Justice Approach Towards Combating HIV and AIDS Stigmatisation Among Adolescents
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Christa Beyers --- University of the Free State, Milton Nkoane --- University of the Free State,This study investigated the experiences of adolescents living with HIV and AIDS. Interviews were conducted with ten black female adolescents who were diagnosed HIV-positive to determine the effect of positive diagnosis on their being. Three of the participants chose to... -
AIDS, individual behaviour and the unexplained remaining variation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Alison Katz --- , SwitzerlandFrom the start of the AIDS pandemic, individual behaviour has been put forward, implicitly or explicitly, as the main explanatory concept for understanding the epidemiology of HIV infection and in particular for the rapid spread and high prevalence in sub-Saharan... -
The views of Medical Students on professionalism in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: M Van Rooyen --- Department of Family Medicine,An article on medical professionalism was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in February 2002 outlining a charter, and the fifth-year medical students of the Medical School of the University of Pretoria were asked to comment on the charter... -
Performance appraisal systems — equity perceptions of mathematics teachers: an exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Michael Kainose Mhlolo --- Faculty of Education, South AfricaThis study investigated equity perceptions of a school based performance appraisal system in a subject discipline. Participants were 110 mathematics teachers (females = 10%) and 12 school principals (females = 25%). They completed a questionnaire on distributive, procedural and interactional justice regarding the performance... -
The role of educational psychologists in promoting ethical research conducted with children: an exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jace Pillay --- South African Research Chair in Education and care in Childhood, Faculty of Education, South AfricaThis study explored perceptions of educational psychologists on their role in promoting ethical research involving children. Participants were 10 South African educational psychologists (females = 60%; males = 40%) from mostly public services (90%). Data on their perceived roles in... -
Child sexual abuse and literacy achievement in a sample of South African primary school children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jace Pillay --- South African Research Chair, Education and Care in Childhood,This study investigated child sexual abuse (CSA) and literacy achievement among South African primary school children. Data on self-reported experience of CSA and actual literacy achievement were collected from a convenience sample of 160 learners from a Soweto school in... -
The meaning of compliance with land and labour legislation: understanding justice through farm workers’ experiences in the Eastern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Femke Brandt --- Centre for African Studies, South Africa Fani Ncapayi --- Centre for African Studies, South AfricaThis paper explores the social meanings and uses of formal labour legislation on commercial farms in the Eastern Cape. Farm workers’ and dwellers’ experiences expose ongoing land and labour struggles on South Africa’s commercial farms. We focus on the ways... -
Factors leading to orphans and vulnerable children living in community-based homes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jace Pillay --- South African Research Chair: Education and Care in Childhood, Faculty of Education,This study explored the influences on living arrangements of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) housed at a community-based home in Johannesburg, South Africa. A total of 50 OVC (males = 36%, females = 64%; age range 11 to 18 years)... -
Community service for misdemeanours in Accra: Preferences of offenders, victims, judiciary, and community members
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Feikoab Parimah --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Joseph Osafo --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Kingsley Nyarko --- Department of Psychology, Ghana Nkansah Anakwah --- Department of Psychology, GhanaTaking religiosity into account, the study explored preferences for community service sentencing by victims, offenders, judiciary, and community members from Accra, Ghana. One hundred and ninety respondents were sampled (females = 38.42%, offenders = 5.26%, victims = 58.95%, law enforcement... -
Perceived corporate ethical values and organisational justice in relation to employee commitment at a manufacturing company
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jeremy Mitonga-Monga --- Department of Industrial and People Management, South Africa Crystal Hoole --- Department of Industrial and People Management, South AfricaThis study investigated the relationship between employees’ perceptions of their organisation’s corporate ethical values and justice and their level of commitment. The study participants were 201 employees of a manufacturing company in the Democratic Republic of Congo (female = 32%%,... -
An integrative review of South Africa’s approach to victim support
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Marelize Schoeman --- Department of Criminology and Security Science, South AfricaThis integrative review seeks to consider the evidence on how crime victims’ rights are served within South Africa’s criminal justice system. Victims view criminal proceeding as the means through which justice for the harms they suffered can be obtained. Such... -
Exploring procedural justice and police legitimacy in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Johan Prinsloo --- Department of Criminology, South AfricaPerceptions of legitimacy are at the foundation of public mandates underlying criminal justice institutions, their legal authority, and public cooperation. This study explored perceptions of South African policing by members of a historically disadvantaged community, in terms of the procedural... -
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... -
Implications of incomplete restorative justice in South African land restitution: lessons from the Moletele case
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nerhene C. Davis --- Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, South AfricaSince 2005, South Africa’s post-apartheid state has opted to impose inclusive business model arrangements between land claimant communities and private sector partners to ensure the “successful” resolution of claims involving prime agricultural land. This approach was deemed compatible to achieve... -
Singabantu bendawo: understanding the concept of land from the perspective of ubuntu
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Nompumelelo Zodwa Radebe --- Anthropology and Archaeology, South AfricaThe 54th national conference of the African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa, resolved amongst other things to review the country’s constitution such that it enables the government to implement land expropriation without compensation. This resolution has faced... -
Management of school nutrition programmes to improve environmental justice in schools: a South African case study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: Ailwei Mawela --- Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, College of Education, South Africa Geesje van den Berg --- Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, College of Education, South AfricaObjective: The objective of this study was to determine how school principals and nutrition coordinators see their roles in the management of school nutrition programmes for learners from disadvantaged communities. -
Procedural justice, police legitimacy, and performance: Perspectives of South African students
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Paul Oluwatosin Bello --- , South Africa Thabiso Donald Matshaba --- , South AfricaThis study explored notions of procedural justice and police legitimacy among university students in South Africa. We surveyed 482 South African university students (female =77.6%; black = 91.7%; mean age = 23.0 years, SD = 1.05 years) on the effect... -
The case for a universal basic income in South Africa: A conceptual approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Kerrie Sadiq --- , Australia Hanneke du Preez --- , South AfricaThis conceptual study investigates a model for addressing both poverty and income inequality, which is theoretically distinct from the traditional tax and transfer systems adopted by most jurisdictions. It does so against a backdrop of global uncertainty and ongoing challenges... -
Linking servant leadership to customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour: The moderating role of perceived interactional justice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shaping Qiu --- , USA Ruijuan Zhang --- , China Sami Jabarkhail --- , USA Larry M. Dooley --- , USAThis study examined the association between employee servant leadership perceptions and their customer-oriented organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB), and the influence of perceived interactional justice in this relationship. Participants were 708 hospitality industry employees from across China (female = 66.53%; mean... -
Slow repair: gender and restorative justice in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Shannon Morreira --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaThis article reports on a ceremony gone awry at Kufunda Village, Zimbabwe, in which women had refused to follow a gendered cultural script of forgiveness and had instead released rather than slaughtered a chicken. They thus reinscribed old symbols with... -
“Working time” in environmental activism: Engaging “slow violence” in the Philippi Horticultural Area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Matthew Wingfield --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaTracing the history of activism in post-apartheid South Africa from the Treatment Action Campaign to the Social Justice Coalition, amongst others, one is able to develop an account of various practices and strategies that have been utilised to leverage state... -
Organisational justice and workplace deviance behaviour among bank workers in Nigeria: the role of perceived organisational support as a moderator
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Eze C. Ifeanyichukwu --- , Nigeria Ike O. Obinna --- University of Nigeria, Nigeria Obiageli Omeje --- Enugu State University of Science and Technology Enugu, Nigeria Ejike Okonkwo --- Enugu State University of Science and Technology Enugu, Nigeria Attamah Ikechukwu --- University of Nigeria, Nigeria Chinwendu M. Okoro --- Coal City University, NigeriaThe study investigated the relationship between organisational justice (OJ: distributive, interactive, and procedural) and work-place deviance (WPD) behaviours and the role of perceived organisational support (POS) in that relationship. Participants were bank workers from South-east Nigeria (n = 482; male... -
I’m betrayed and I’m gone – unless organizational leaders convince me otherwise: Perceived contract breaches, quitting intentions, and leader-related resources
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Dirk De Clercq --- Brock University, Canada Renato Pereira --- ISCTE Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, PortugalEmployees’ perceptions that their organization has not met its promises toward them (i.e., perceived contract breaches) might inform their turnover intentions, in a link that also could be moderated by four relevant leader-related resources – two that reflect how organizational... -
Regenerative economy: A pathway to a future-ready, sustainable Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Judith L. Walls --- Institute for Economy and the Environment, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland Leo Luca Vogel --- University of St.Gallen, SwitzerlandAfrica is experiencing a period of rapid economic growth, booming population, and migration as biodiversity is deteriorating and the climate is warming. Together, these represent grand societal and environmental challenges. The African Union and the United Nations both promote sustainable... -
Building hope for the poor with digital services: Providing prosperity, justice, and dignity for ALL
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: M. Barrett --- University of Cambridge, UK S. Liyala --- Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Kenya E. Oborn --- University of Warwick, UK K. Prince --- University of Cambridge, UKDigital technologies offer hope for societal change, with the potential to improve the lives of those in poverty. Avoiding utopian and dystopian views, we offer a more dynamic perspective of ‘realistic hope' where hope can be aspired to and achieved,... -
Public information disclosure practices and civic participation: The roles of social justice perceptions and internet use
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yongjiang Wu --- Chongqing University, China Zhi Li --- Chongqing University, ChinaThis study examined the relationship between public information disclosure practices and civic participation and the roles of social justice perceptions and internet use in that relationship. Our data comes from the 2019 Chinese Social Survey (CSS, 2019), a large nationwide... -
Do we have the tools for achieving distributive tax justice?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: James Alm --- Tulane University, USAPurpose: How can tax policies serve as a tool to promote distributive tax justice? The purpose of this study is to discuss several policies that research shows are both feasible and effective in achieving distributive tax justice. -
Tax policies with a human rights perspective: towards greater tax justice
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Benjamín Sevilla-Bernabéu --- University of Valencia, Spain Estrella Del-Valle-Calzada --- University of Valencia, SpainPurpose: The main objective of this study is to analyse tax policies from a human rights perspective. -
The quest for social justice through ICT access and inclusion for rural schools and communities: The South African case of Urglobal
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Luleka Mkuzo --- , Ivan Govender --- Durban University of Technology (DUT), South AfricaMobile technology has been recognized as a tool in reducing the inequality gap, especially for those in developing communities. With a Gini score of 63 in 2014, South Africa is regarded as one of the most unequal countries in the... -
Re-storying Nature: An Eco-critical Reading of Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Samuel Kwesi Nkansah --- University of Cape Coast, GhanaThis paper applies African eco-criticism to analyse human-nature relationships in Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird. From the discussions, vivid depictions of rivers, forests, animals and spirits showcase profound connections through which nature shapes cultural identities. Specifically, Parkes’s... -
Risk and protective factors of suicide ideation and attempts among justice-involved black girls: A latent profile analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Lin Liu --- University of Florida, United States of AmericaBackground: Justice-involved female youth from minority racial groups are a hard-to-reach youth population that are removed from schools, families, and communities. They are under-represented in school survey data. The present study aimed to utilise the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicide to...