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Experiences of Newly Married Black Women Staying with the Extended Family in a Township in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: N.B. Mashele --- Psychiatric Nursing, University of Johannesburg, South Africa M. Poggenpoel --- Psychiatric Nursing, University of Johannesburg, South Africa C.P.H. Myburgh --- Educational Sciences, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaWe report the results of a phenomenological study on the experiences of newly married black women staying with extended family in South African townships. Our goals for the study included in-depth interviews on experiences and guidelines to facilitate these women's... -
Adolescent Boys' Talk about Absent Fathers
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Malose Langa --- University of Witwatersrand,The objective of this study was to explore how adolescent boys talk about absent fathers in Alexandra Township, a historically working-class and black community in Gauteng, South Africa. Individual and group interviews were conducted with 30 adolescent boys between the... -
Perceived Learner School Citizenship Behaviours in a Sample of Historically Disadvantaged South African Primary Schools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Masilonyana Motseke --- Central University of Technology, South AfricaThis study investigated learner in-school behavioral adjustment after the banning of corporal punishment in South African schools. Participant informants were 16 teachers from eight schools in a historically disadvantaged school district. Of the 16 teachers (females=10, age range between 35... -
Revisiting ‘township tourism’: multiple mobilities and the re-territorialisation of township spaces in Cape Town, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Jessica L. Dickson --- University of Cape Town, South AfricaThis article explores themes of social space and mobility significant to tourism within the townships near Cape Town, South Africa. Research on the emergence of ‘township tourism’ has produced contrasting interpretations. Some authors describe essentialised notions of ‘Africanness’, ‘culture’, and... -
“We are all children of God”: a Charismatic church as space of encounter between township and suburb in post-apartheid Johannesburg
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Barbara Heer --- Institute of Social Anthropology, SwitzerlandTwenty years after the first democratic election in South Africa, Johannesburg is still marked by the legacy of apartheid. This makes it difficult for residents of former townships and of suburban middle classes to interact in everyday life. Nevertheless, urban... -
Is it enough to talk of marriage as a process? Legitimate co-habitation in Umlazi, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Mark Hunter --- Human Geography, CanadaSome 65 years ago Radcliffe-Brown wrote that marriage is “not an event or a condition but a developing process.” This position became modified two decades later when John Comaroff and Simon Roberts demonstrated the ambiguity of the process of marriage... -
Unemployment experiences in context: A phenomenological study in two townships in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Melinda du Toit --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Hans De Witte --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Sebastiaan Rothmann --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South Africa Anja Van den Broeck --- Optentia Research Focus Area, South AfricaThis study aimed to explore the unemployment experience of residents of a historically disadvantaged South African neighbourhood. Informants were twelve black community members (females = 75%; age ranges: 20 to 29 = 58.3%, and 30 to 39 = 33.3%). Individual interviews were conducted with the participants... -
Spirituality as a coping mechanism for family caregivers of persons with aphasia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Khetsiwe Phumelele Masuku --- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, South Africa Katijah Khoza-Shangase --- Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, South AfricaThis study sought to describe spirituality resourcing of family caregivers for people with aphasia (PWA). A purposive sample of 14 female family caregivers of PWA from a historically disadvantaged South African community were participants (married = 42%; age range 21... -
A typology of challenges facing township micro-tour operators in Soweto, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Pulane Letuka --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Marcia Lebambo --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaPost-apartheid South Africa created opportunities for black and marginalized entrepreneurs to venture into township tourism and to contribute towards the growth of the mainstream economy. However, a number of challenges threaten the long-term survival, profitability and growth of businesses, due...