Community policing : tentative steps towards true reconciliation : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: Midgley, J R
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: National Peace Accord, 1991 , Volunteer workers in law enforcement -- South Africa , Police -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:654 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020723 , ISBN 0868102962
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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Gender, households and environmental changes in informal settlements in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- Authors: Manona, Cecil W , Bank, Leslie J , Higginbottom, Karen
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Economic conditions Agricultural laborers -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Environmental health -- South Africa Environmental impact statements -- South Africa Environmental policy -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Household supplies -- South Africa Households -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Book , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/1821 , vital:20230 , ISBN 0868103020
- Description: In recent years the number of people living in informal or 'squatter' settlements in South Africa has mushroomed and virtually every small town or city has one or more squatter settlements associated with it, often next door to the formal residential areas. Using field data collected from 1993 in two informal settlements in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa this study examines, firstly, the ways in which men and women in these communities organise their lives in their households and in the wider society. Secondly, it assesses the physical environment of informal settlements where there is a lack of service infrastructure, especially water, sewerage facilities, refuse removal and roads. Also, it was assumed that the presence of large numbers of people in an informal settlement has a deleterious effect on natural resources like the soil, wood, vegetation and water and that this may have a significant contribution to environmental pollution and degradation. This aspect was also examined. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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New tricks for the newspaper trade : an old watchdog meets press freedom and the information age : inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University
- Authors: Berger, Guy
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Government and the press -- South Africa , Freedom of the press -- South Africa , Newspapers
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:598 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020667 , ISBN 0868103055
- Description: Inaugural lecture delivered at Rhodes University , Rhodes University Libraries (Digitisation)
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Risk and benefit as functions of savings and loan clubs: an examination of the importance of rotating credit associations for poor women in Rhini
- Authors: Buijs, Gina
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Africans -- Economic conditions Rhini (Grahamstown, South Africa) -- Social conditions Savings and loan associations -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Savings and loan associations -- South Africa Urban poor -- South Africa Women -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Economic conditions Women -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Black people -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2498 , vital:20298
- Description: Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, 25th April 1995: This paper examines the implications of risk taking in the context of rotating credit associations popular among poor women in Rhini. Mary Douglas notes that in the 19th century when the theory of risk taking became important in economics, humans were thought to be risk averse because they chose according to a pleasure calculus. In the 18th century the idea of risk was neutral: it took account of the probability of gains and losses. The concept originally emerged in the 17th century in the context of gambling. Risk then means the probability of an event occurring, combined with the magnitude of the losses and gains which would be entailed. She comments (1992:31) that the evaluation of the outcome is a political, aesthetic and moral matter. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Southern African Journal of Gerontology, volume 4, number 1, April 1995
- Authors: Ferreira, Monica (editor) , Møller, Valerie (editor) , HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Gerontology -- South Africa , Older people -- Care -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:8070 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012862
- Description: [From Editorial]The sixth number of SA. IG includes varied and interesting contributions which will appeal to researchers and practitioners alike. It is fitting that precisely a year after the first fully democratic elections were held in South Africa. an article by M0ller on voter education of older Africans should be included in this number. M0ller has captured the euphoria of the older first-time voters in her selection of quotations from media reports on the voting. She concludes in her article that for these older South Africans who waited over 40 years to be enfranchised, voting was experienced as a particularly fulfilling moment in their lives. In an original paper Burman examines the findings of a study on the nature and extent of child care rendered by older coloured women in the Cape Peninsula - either to grandchildren. or to the children of other relatives or non-relatives. Burman considers the economic implications of the care which the women provide and finds that very few benefit financially. On the contrary, she notes a downward, rather than an expected upward flow of wealth, whereby social old-age pensioners share their pension money with other members of the household, including the grandchildren for whom they care. Burman concludes that not only are intergenerational relations strengthened by older women remaining in the family structure and caring for young children but through their pensions they enjoy considerable status in the household. Three practice items are included in this number. Working within a social-work framework, Howes has developed a monitoring instrument for use in the case management of older clients in the community. She reviews recent literature on case management and introduces the concept to South African practitioners, indicating its potential usefulness in a restructured service-delivery system in South Africa. She argues that to address the backlog in service delivery in developing and rural communities. and in view of limited resources and other reasons which discourage institutional care. case management is a means of rendering and co-ordinating cost-effective care to older persons in the community. , Authors Amosun, Mazarire and Mawere examine the pattern of utilization of physiotherapy services by elderly Zimbabweans at a central hospital in Harare. They establish baseline data on the medical conditions for which the patients received physiotherapy. The authors highlight the need for adequate information in these areas in African countries. In the third practice item, Tooke raises the issue of developing and providing training for carers in homes for the aged. He reports on the training methodology which he has developed for this category of worker, and calls for the setting of standards for such training and the institution of procedures to ensure that standardized training of carers is carried out in homes. The poor training of carers. or a lack of training for this cadre of workers has been mooted as a factor which contributes to the mis-treatment or abuse of residents in homes (Conradie & Charlton. 1992 ). Historically, South African nursing bodies have not recognized these workers and have opposed formal training that might equip them to perform tasks done by student nurses (enrolled nursing auxiliaries). In post-election South Africa new cadres of workers increasingly need to be trained and employed. as part and parcel of the goals of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). which includes not only training citizens but also creating work and career opportunities for all. To ascertain the present attitudes of national nursing bodies towards the training of carers. the South African Nursing Council and the South African Nursing Association were invited to reply to the proposals in Dr Tooke's brief. Their replies are published as rejoinders to the brief. Finally, this number of SAJG also carries its first book review. Valerie Moller reviews the new publication of US authors Steven M. Albert and Maria G. Cattell. titled Old age in global perspective: cross-cultural and cross-national views. The book, which adopts a multidisciplinary approach, presents ethnographic case studies and evidence from cross-national surveys to assess variation in the experience of ageing and old age. Møller concludes that Southern African readers will gain many insights from the book, to better understand the complexities of ageing in their own society.
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Southern African Journal of Gerontology, volume 4, number 2, October 1995
- Authors: Ferreira, Monica (editor) , Moller, Valerie , HSRC/UCT Centre for Gerontology
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Gerontology -- South Africa , Older people -- Care -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Text
- Identifier: vital:8071 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012864
- Description: This special issue of SAJG on "The family and ageing in Africa" marks yet another step in the annals of the African Gerontological Society (AGES). The first major step was taken in December 1993 when the society held its first workshop in Accra, Ghana to discuss an agenda on ageing. The results of the workshop were published under the title Effective responses to ageing in Africa by the year 2000 (Apt, Bester & Insley, 1995). Twenty years ago it would have been an impossible task to assemble African scientists and social welfare practitioners to discuss the subject of ageing. Very little researched information existed then and many African governments were likely to assert that ageing was no problem in their country. Even in the 1980s a great deal of scepticism existed in Africa about the need for African gerontology research. Today, and taking a cue from the deliberations of the first AGES workshop, there is no country in our region that is not confronted with the negative impacts of development and urbanization as their country charts its route towards modernization. Even though an ageing agenda still has a low profile on the economic desks of many African governments, the realisation that there are indeed difficulties to be overcome regarding the care of elderly people in Africa is widespread.
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The collapse of the 'tribal authority' system and the rise of civic organisations
- Authors: Manona, Cecil W , Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
- Date: 1995
- Subjects: Civic associations -- South Africa Local government -- South Africa -- Ciskei Local government -- South Africa Tribal government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Manuscript , Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2454 , vital:20293
- Description: The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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