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Domestic Workers' Experiences of Power and Oppression in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Fiona M. Donald --- School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Lerato Mahlatji --- School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand,This study examines the work experiences of domestic workers in the context of socio-economic-political legislation promulgated to protect their social rights in the new South Africa. It gains insight into the power relations and embedded tensions between employers and domestic... -
Can Professionals Offering Support to Vulnerable Children in Kenya Benefit from Brief Play Therapy Training?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kathryn Frances Hunt --- Durham University, United KingdomThis paper evaluates the perceived benefit to a group of thirty caring professionals of a brief training in Child-centred play therapy. Play therapy enables a child to create fictional worlds and in this way make sense of the real world... -
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... -
Photovoice as a Methodological Tool to Address HIV and AIDS and Gender Violence amongst Girls on the Street in Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jean-Paul Umurungi --- National University of Rwanda, Claudia Mitchell --- McGill University, Myriam Gervais --- McGill University, Eliane Ubalijoro --- McGill University, Violet Kabarenzi --- Rwanda National Police,This study involved a particular group of children in Rwanda—girls who are living on the street and who miss out on education. Noting their relative absence from “the picture” in relation to accesses to services, the study explored how participatory... -
Psychological Distress in Orphan, Vulnerable Children and Non-Vulnerable Children in High Prevalence HIV/AIDS Communities
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Bev Killian --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Kevin Durrheim --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,The degree of psychological distress and access social support is investigated in children (n = 741) living in nine high prevalence HIV/AIDS communities. They comprised (i) vulnerable, maternally-orphaned (n = 319); (ii) vulnerable and not orphaned (n = 276); and... -
Teachers' Use of Memory-Box-Making to Provide Psychosocial Support in Their Pastoral Role
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Liesel Ebersöhn --- University of Pretoria, Ronél Ferreira --- University of Pretoria, Maria Mnguni --- University of Pretoria,This study investigated the use of memory-box-making by teachers in their pastoral role. Ten female teachers participated in the study. The site of the study is in a South African primary school in an urban informal settlement. We used multiple... -
Exploring Expressive Sandwork as a Form of Psychosocial Care: A Case Study of a Vulnerable Adolescent
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Carien Lubbe-De Beer --- University of Pretoria, Imme Thom --- University of Pretoria,This paper explores the use of expressive sandwork as a form of psychological support for a youth with psychosocial vulnerability. A case study, which emanated from a community outreach project, is briefly described of a male black participant, from a... -
Breaking the silence: using memory books as a counselling and succession-planning tool with AIDS-affected households in Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sophie Witter Beatrice WereThis article reviews the experience of NACWOLA and Save the Children (UK) in using 'memory books' in AIDS-affected households in Uganda from the mid-1990s to the present. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with key stakeholders in early 2004, including NACWOLA... -
'But where are our moral heroes?' An analysis of South African press reporting on children affected by HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Helen Meintjes Rachel BrayMessages conveyed both explicitly and implicitly in the media play an important role in shaping the public's understanding of issues, as well as in shaping associated policy, programmes and popular responses to these issues. This paper applies discourse analysis to... -
What do Tanzanian children worry about?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Mai Bente Snipstad Gro Therese Lie Dagfinn WinjeThis paper explores the worries of children in a sample of 8- to 15-year-old children, drawn from three primary schools on the outskirts of Moshi, Tanzania. Data about children's worries were collected by two methods. First, lists of worries were... -
Beyond liminality: orphanhood and marginalisation in Botswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Marguerite DanielFor children, the death of a parent initiates a rite of passage, a three-stage process: separation from their status as 'son' or 'daughter', a period of liminality with rituals of mourning, burial and interment, and finally re-aggregation into a re-formed... -
The children left to stand alone
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sidsel RoalkvamDrawing upon ethnographic fieldwork in Seke, a semi-rural area outside Harare, Zimbabwe, this paper explores the social mechanism behind the seeming invisibility of children left on their own and how this form of 'invisibility' challenges established notions of childhood, parenthood,... -
Reaching disenfranchised youth and mobile populations in Ghana through voluntary counselling and testing services for HIV
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susi Wyss Joyce Ablordeppey Jane Okrah Abigail KyeiThis paper documents the evaluation of a 20-month project to provide voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) to a mobile population of youth surrounding the Agbogbloshie market in Accra, Ghana. The specific objectives of the evaluation were to determine: 1) to... -
The making of vulnerabilities: understanding the differentiated effects of HIV and AIDS among street traders in Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: May Chazan Alan WhitesideThe end of apartheid in South Africa has led to political-economic transition, the deregulation of cities, and increased population mobility, with growing numbers of people living and working in sub-standard and 'informal' urban conditions. These processes have created a fertile... -
Boundaries of care: the role of the school in supporting vulnerable children in the context of HIV and AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ursula HoadleyThis paper is a response to a growing vision of schools as sites of care and support for vulnerable children in the context of HIV and AIDS. The aim is to interrogate this notion and to raise some key issues... -
Vulnerability to HIV infection among Luo female adolescent orphans in Western Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Erick Otieno NyambedhaLarge-scale surveys have reported that about 55% of orphans worldwide are adolescents. In Kenya, the majority of HIV-infected adolescents are females. The current study used the anthropological methods of in-depth case studies to analyse how migratory life situations of individual... -
Young Malawians on the interaction between mental health and HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Jerome Wright Fred Lubben Mac Bain MkandawirePrevious research has identified high levels of mental health problems among people affected by HIV. This study surveys specifically adolescents in southern Malawi on their experience of the impacts of living with HIV or AIDS on one's mental health. At... -
Bereavement, silence and culture within a peer-led HIV/AIDS-prevention strategy for vulnerable children in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ingrid Van der Heijden --- Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme, South Africa Sharlene Swartz --- Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme, South AfricaIn addressing the psychosocial effects of the HIV and AIDS pandemic among vulnerable children, the issue of bereavement appears inadequately addressed. Amid the global discourse on children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, this paper explores how cultural... -
HIV and AIDS vulnerability in fishing communities in Mangochi district, Malawi
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Joseph Nagoli --- , Katrien Holvoet --- , Michelle Remme --- ,The fisheries sector contributes significantly to Malawi's national economy and to the livelihoods of the poor as certain activities in the sector have relatively low barriers to entry. Various studies have shown that the fisheries sector suffers from high HIV... -
Positive care? HIV and residential care for children in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susan Moses --- , South Africa Helen Meintjes --- , South AfricaResponses to the HIV epidemic leading to an increase in the number of residential care facilities for children across sub-Saharan Africa have prompted concerns that large numbers of orphaned children are being placed in institutional care. There is little empirical... -
Gender vulnerabilities, spousal abuse and the incidence of HIV in Lesotho:a case for an integrative rights-based approach
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: 'Dejo Olowu --- , South AfricaThe article posits that imbalances in gender relations are influencing two distinctive yet connected crises for women in Lesotho: the HIV epidemic and spousal abuse. The overarching premise is that as spousal abuse is increasingly recognised and as HIV infections... -
Resilience through participation and coping-enabling social environments: the case of HIV-affected children in sub-Saharan Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Morten Skovdal --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, Norway Marguerite Daniel --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, NorwayMany children and youths living in low-resource and high-HIV-prevalence communities in sub-Saharan Africa are presented with daily hardships that few of us can even imagine. It is therefore no surprise that most research reporting on the experiences of HIV-affected children... -
Safeguarding inheritance and enhancing the resilience of orphaned young people living in child- and youth-headed households in Tanzania and Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Ruth Evans --- Department of Geography and Environmental Science, United KingdomThis article explores the resilience of orphaned young people in safeguarding physical assets (land and property) inherited from their parents and sustaining their households without a co-resident adult relative. Drawing on the concept of resilience and the sustainable livelihoods framework,... -
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... -
Questioning the use-value of social relationships: care and support of youths affected by HIV in child-headed households in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Diana Van Dijk --- Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), The Netherlands Francien Van Driel --- Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), The NetherlandsThe opinion that the extended family can fulfil its supportive role in assisting child-headed households continues to exist. How these households encounter support, what this support entails, and how they experience this support is an under-researched subject. Most research literature... -
Migration, pastoralists, HIV infection and access to care: the nomadic Fulani of northern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Abdulrazaq Garba Habib Jibril JumareThe burden of HIV infection among the nomadic Fulani of northern Nigeria is unknown. Migration — a way of life for this population — is known to increase the rate of HIV transmission and may limit individuals' access to treatment... -
Wellness programme and health policy development at a large faith-based organisation in Khayelitsha, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: ElizabethD ArendThis paper presents a case study of wellness programme and health policy development based on an HIV/AIDS organisation's Khayelitsha site in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The study examines the different challenges that the organisation faces in relation to... -
Conceptions of mental health among Ugandan youth orphaned by AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Sheila Harms Ruth Kizza Joshua Sebunnya Susan JackThe AIDS epidemic has disproportionately affected developing or low-income sub-Saharan African countries. Within the context of the epidemic, children and youth are at risk of losing their parents at an early age. The experience of orphanhood due to AIDS has... -
Experiences of collaboration, coordination and efficiency in the delivery of HIV/AIDS home-based care in Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: John Mazzeo --- Department of Anthropology, United States Loveness Makonese --- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, South AfricaThe difficulties of achieving successful collaboration between stakeholders can lead to uncoordinated and fragmented outcomes for HIV/AIDS programming, which has consequences for the immediate health and livelihood security of the intended beneficiaries. This article examines the collaboration between local, national... -
Reconceptualising hope within the context of vulnerability in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Cheryl Wright --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Helen Dunbar-Krige --- Department of Educational Psychology, South Africa Gert van der Westhuizen --- Department of Educational Psychology, South AfricaThis study was aimed at clarifying conceptualisations of hope amongst vulnerable young people in a high HIV/AIDS prevalence South African setting. Participants were four young people ranging from 15 to 19, and interview data were collected on their household conditions,... -
Grey Parrots Psittacus erithacus in Kampala, Uganda – are they becoming suburbanised?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Immaculate-Odd Irumba --- Department of Biological Sciences, Uganda Derek Pomeroy --- Department of Biological Sciences, Uganda Michael Perrin --- Research Centre for African Parrot Conservation, School of Life Sciences, South AfricaThe globally Vulnerable Grey Parrot (Psittacus erithacus) has been seen in Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, in increasing numbers in recent years. This apparently new behaviour of a typically forest species is helped by the presence of many large trees, which... -
Mixed results: the protective role of schooling in the HIV epidemic in Swaziland
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Alan Whiteside --- Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada Andriana Vinnitchok --- Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada Tengetile Dlamini --- National Emergency Response Council on HIV and AIDS, Switzerland Khanya Mabuza --- National Emergency Response Council on HIV and AIDS, SwitzerlandSwaziland has the highest HIV prevalence in the world. It is recognised that young women, especially adolescents, are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection and bear a disproportionate burden of HIV incidence. The HIV data from Swaziland show the location of... -
The feasibility of the draw-and-write technique in exploring the resilience of children orphaned by AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Nyika Machenjedze --- Save the Children South Africa, South Africa Macalane J Malindi --- School of Psychosocial Education, South Africa Fungai Mbengo --- School of Nursing and Midwifery,Worldwide, researchers routinely study children indirectly through adults who act as proxies for such children. The call for researchers to rather study children directly and adopt less intrusive child-friendly methodologies has become louder. The draw-and-write technique is regarded as a... -
Megabenthos and benthopelagic fishes on Southeast Atlantic seamounts
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: OA Bergstad --- Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway M Gil --- Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Edificio de Ciencias Experimentales, Spain ÅS Høines --- Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway R Sarralde --- Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, Centro Oceanografico de Canarias, Spain E Maletzky --- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Namibia E Mostarda --- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Italy L Singh --- Branch: Fisheries Management, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), South Africa MA António --- Secretary of State of Affairs, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Angola F Ramil --- Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Edificio de Ciencias Experimentales, Spain P Clerkin --- Pacific Shark Research Center (PSRC), Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, United States G Campanis --- South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) Secretariat, NamibiaIn a descriptive study of megafauna of several Southeast Atlantic seamounts, multiple video-transects on upper slopes and summits documented the occurrence of benthic invertebrate taxa, primarily corals, regarded as indicators of vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) as defined in international guidelines... -
Factors associated with poor access to HIV and sexual and reproductive health services in Nigeria for women and girls living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan --- Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Olujide Arije --- Institute of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Amaka Enemo --- , Nigeria Aaron Sunday --- , Nigeria Amira Muhammad --- Northern Nigerian Transgender Initiative, Nigeria Hasiya yunusa Nyako --- , Nigeria Rilwan Mohammed Abdullah --- , Nigeria Henry Okiwu --- , Nigeria Veronica Akwenabuaye Undelikwo --- University of Calabar, Nigeria Pamela Adaobi Ogbozor --- Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria Oluwaranmilowo Amusan --- , Nigeria Oluwatoyin Adedoyin Alaba --- Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA Erik Lamontagne --- , SwitzerlandAim: To determine the proportion of women and girls living with HIV (WGLHIV) who had poor access to HIV, tuberculosis and sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in Nigeria during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated factors. -
Impact of COVID-19 public health responses on income, food security and health services among key and vulnerable women in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Hilton Humphries --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Lara Lewis --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Erik Lamontagne --- , Switzerland Shakira Choonara --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Keabetswe Dikgale --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Anna Yakusik --- , Switzerland Dianne Massawe --- , South Africa Ntombenhle Mkhize --- , South Africa Farai Mzungu --- , South Africa Quarraisha Abdool Karim --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaGlobally, COVID-19 has impacted lives and livelihoods. Women living with HIV and/or at high risk of acquiring HIV are socially and economically vulnerable. Less is known of the impact of COVID-19 public health responses on women from key and vulnerable... -
Translating research into policy: the case of orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Olive Shisana --- Human Sciences Research Council, Julia Louw --- University of the Western Cape,Policies are often developed without taking into account social science research findings and recommendations, despite the plethora of such research studies. This is largely because researchers and policy makers often work in isolation, yet if they worked synergistically they could... -
Assistance needed for the integration of orphaned and vulnerable children — views of South African family and community members
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Melvyn Freeman --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme of the HSRC, Nkululeko Nkomo --- Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS and Health Research Programme of the HSRC,Guardianship within families is often regarded as the most viable and preferred option for orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC). However, this will place a considerably increased burden on the new caregivers of these children. This study examines whether assistance to... -
The quality of material care provided by grandparents for their orphaned grandchildren in the context of HIV/AIDS and poverty: a study of Kopanong municipality, Free State
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Tsiliso Tamasane --- Human and Social Development Research Programmes, Human Sciences Research Council, Judith Head --- Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town,A pervasive argument in the literature on AIDS orphans in South Africa is that grandparents, who often care for their orphaned grandchildren, lack the material means to provide adequate care. This study investigated that claim in an area of ubiquitous... -
Measuring change in vulnerable adolescents: Findings from a peer education evaluation in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Sharlene Swartz [d63e18] Charles Deutsch Mokhantšo Makoae Barbara Michel James Hamilton Harding Gabrielle Garzouzie Amanda Rozani Toby Runciman Ingrid Van der HeijdenIntroduction: In the context of poverty and HIV and AIDS, peer education is thought to be capable of providing vulnerable youth with psychosocial support as well as information and decision-making skills otherwise limited by scarce social and material resources. As... -
On the periphery of HIV and AIDS: Reflections on stress as experienced by caregivers in a child residential care facility in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Kesh Mohangi --- , , South Africa Chereen Pretorius --- , , South AfricaFew researchers have investigated how female caregivers of institutionalised children, especially those affected by HIV and AIDS, experience stress. The role played by caregivers cannot be overemphasised; yet caregivers who work in institutions caring for orphaned and/or abandoned children affected... -
Laughter therapy as an intervention to promote psychological well-being of volunteer community care workers working with HIV-affected families
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Irene Hatzipapas --- , , South Africa Maretha J. Visser --- , , South Africa Estie Janse van Rensburg --- , , South AfricaThe study explores the experiences of volunteer community care workers working with HIV-affected families, participating in laughter therapy. Laughter therapy is being used as an intervention to positively influence individuals experiencing various forms of emotional distress. Community care workers play... -
Psychosocial support services to enhance well-being of orphaned and vulnerable learners in Eswatini early childhood centres and primary schools
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Patronella Bimha --- Institute of Distance Education, University of Eswatini, Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya --- Durban University of Technology, South AfricaIn Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), the increasing number of orphans and vulnerable children due to HIV/AIDS has spurred demand for psychosocial support services. When the Ministry of Education and Training assumed responsibility for delivering psychosocial support, educators were burdened with the... -
Coping strategies and mental health of adolescents impacted by parental HIV and AIDS in rural South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Child & Adolescent Mental Health • Authors: Comfort Asanbe --- College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA Maretha Visser --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Anne-Gloria Moleko --- University of Pretoria, South Africa Catherine Makwakwa --- , South AfricaObjective: The study explored whether orphanhood status as well as coping strategies predicted mental health outcomes in orphans and vulnerable adolescents who participated in an NGO-supported programme in rural South Africa. -
Factors influencing the adoption of HIV prevention measures in low socio-economic communities of inner-city Durban, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Firoza Haffejee --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Jennifer Ducray --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Jyotika Basdav --- Durban University of Technology, South Africa Colette Kell --- Durban University of Technology, South AfricaSouth Africa is the epicentre of the HIV pandemic. Although there have been health promotion education campaigns to reduce HIV incidence, these have not achieved the desired outcomes. When exploring the effectiveness of these campaigns, it is useful not only... -
“ … [I]f I can [be] infected now that means I am going to die … ”: an explorative study focusing on vulnerable, immunocompromised groups and caregivers experiences and perceptions of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Alicia North --- Registry of Older Australians (ROSA), South Australia Allanise Cloete --- HSRC, South Africa Shandir Ramlagan --- HSRC, South Africa Thabang Manyaapelo --- HSRC, South Africa Amukelani Ngobeni --- HSRC, South Africa Noloyiso Vondo --- HSRC, South Africa Derrick Sekgala --- HSRC, South AfricaIn this paper, we explored how vulnerable, immunocompromised groups and caregivers of the elderly experienced and perceived the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa. Semi-structured interviews were conducted remotely between the 5th andthe 18th of April 2020 in... -
Dialoguing hunger and survival during the Zimbabwe COVID-19 lockdowns through WhatsApp jokes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Hugh Mangeya --- Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Ashton Mudzingiri --- Midlands State University, ZimbabweThis article analyses the dialogue on hunger and survival issues emanating from viral COVID-19-induced jokes circulated via WhatsApp during Zimbabwe’s consecutive lockdowns. The lockdowns were part of public health measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. They, however, disrupted the...
