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Social Support, Self-image, and Future Outlook Among Poverty-stricken Unemployed Men in Namibia: A Phenomenological Study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ilse E. Plattner --- Univesity of Botswana, Webster Gonzo --- National Housing Enterprise, NamibiaThe study aimed to explore how poverty-stricken job seekers in Namibia felt about their unemployment situation and how they perceived themselves, their social support, and their future. Ten men (aged 18 to 40 years) participated in the study. In-depth interviews... -
Psychological Dimensions of Unemployment: A Gender Comparison Between Belgian and South African Unemployed
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yannick Griep --- KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Sebastiaan Rothmann --- North-West University, South Africa Wouter Vleugels --- KU Leuven, Belgium Hans De Witte --- North-West University, South AfricaThis study sought to compare South African and Belgian unemployed in their subjective experience of unemployment, committed towards employment and job search behaviour. We also considered gender differences regarding the psychological dimensions of unemployment between Belgium and South Africa. A... -
The South African labour market and the incubation of small businesses in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Zeleke Worku --- Business School, Tshwane University of Technology, South AfricaSince April 1994, the South African Government and the trade unions have been working together as a means of realising sustained economic growth and development, job creation and the alleviation of poverty among the unemployed youth. The uneasy relationship between... -
Entrepreneurial innovations for agricultural mechanisation in Zimbabwe: Evidence from an informal metal industry survey
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kingstone Mujeyi --- Department of Agricultural Economics, Zimbabwe Jackqueline Mutambara --- Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Zimbabwe Shephard Siziba --- Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Zimbabwe Wilbert Z. Sadomba --- Centre for Applied Social Sciences, Zimbabwe Tarisai K. Manyati --- Department of Sociology, ZimbabweThis study uses data collected from 602 randomly selected informal metal industry entrepreneurs across 15 cluster-sampled districts in eight of Zimbabwe's 10 provinces to analyse factors that influence technological innovations development by informal agribusiness entrepreneurs. It applies a binary logistic... -
Caregivers’ perspective of the child support grant in South Africa: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Calvin Mudzingiri --- Department of Economics, South Africa Emmanuel Moyana --- Department of Social Development, South Africa Fungai Mbengo --- Child Welfare South Africa,This study explored caregivers’ perceptions of the South African Child Support Grant as a poverty alleviation instrument. Informants consisted of 72 caregivers who were purposively selected through the snowball method (female = 99%; single parent = 71%, blacks = 100%)... -
Towards human dignity and the internet: The cybercrime (yahoo yahoo) phenomenon in Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olayinka Akanle --- SARChI Social Policy, South Africa J. O. Adesina --- SARChI Social Policy, South Africa E. P. Akarah --- Department of Sociology, NigeriaThe internet is one of the most pervasive technological innovations in human history. While it is a double-edged sword, its implications for human dignity, privacy, protection and development are complicated, under-researched and weakly understood. It is against this background that... -
Becoming and unbecoming farm workers in Southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Maxim Bolt --- Department of African Studies and Anthropology, United KingdomMore than most forms of employment in Southern Africa, farm work seems to evoke the past. Recent events, however, have foregrounded global integration and cost-cutting casualisation as much as plantation-style racialised hierarchies. Legacies of farmer paternalism, themselves shaped by workers’... -
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... -
Youth, unemployment and incubation hubs in Southwest Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Olayinka Akanle --- Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities, South Africa Abraham Omotayo --- Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, NigeriaUnemployment is a social problem that affects a large percentage of Nigerians, directly and indirectly. It can lead to an increase in poverty in the country. Nigeria is a densely populated nation, with youths making up the largest share of... -
Organisational capital and graduate employability: A serial mediation analysis of human and personal-social capital
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Nora Bakabbey Kulbo --- , China Xiao Wen --- , China Prince Clement Addo --- , ChinaWe explored three resource capitals related to employability (human, personal-social, and organisational) to explain graduate work entry prospects in a developing country setting. Our study sample consisted of 743 final year university students in Ghana and Kenya. Less than half... -
Profiling gendered multidimensional poverty and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Kehinde O. Omotoso --- , South Africa Jimi Adesina --- , South Africa Ololade G. Adewole --- , NigeriaReducing the gender gap in poverty remains a priority for South African policymakers. Using the 2018 General Households Survey (GHS), this paper examines gendered multidimensional poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. The analyses draw on Alkire-Foster multidimensional poverty methodology to present... -
Correlates of job search behaviour among unemployed job seekers in Ghana: A mediation model
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Godson Kweitsu --- , China Chai Junwu --- , China Sulemana Bankuoru Egala --- , ChinaThis study examined the role of goal setting and the association between the determinants of job search and job search behaviour among unemployed job seekers. Participants were 203 Ghanaians (female = 38%; bachelor’s degree holders = 85%; master’s degree holders... -
Unemployment in Nigeria: The significance of optimizing benefits of innovation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Fisayo Fagbemi --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria John Oluwasegun Ajibike --- The Polytechnic, Nigeria Teniola Abosede Adesanya --- The Polytechnic, NigeriaReflections on the problems facing the labour market in Nigeria and the need to proffer solutions to the high unemployment rate in the country call for an assessment of the possible relationship between innovation and unemployment between 1990 and 2020...