Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.2018036
Wayne Renkin
ABSTRACT This article maps the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown in the City of Tshwane through the lens of street homelessness. This is done through a “thick description” of what happened during this time. This map is then read against both the intention of the Tshwane Homelessness Policy and the said objectives of the Tshwane Homelessness Forum. The article will indicate ways in which collaborative approaches in the city are starting to bear fruit, whilst at the same time showing how persistent competition and isolation from each other works detrimentally for both those who are homeless and seeking support, as well as for those perpetuating isolationist action. It recommends specific areas in which integrated, collaborative action is required to break specific cycles of street homelessness in the city.
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ABSTRACT This article reflects the experiences of a Family–Patient Liaison (FPL) team affiliated with a Field Hospital during the first wave of COVID-19 in South Africa. The reflection draws on our first 6-week experience providing telephonic support to low-income families resident in Gauteng. As FPLs, we formed part of an integrated healthcare programme and complimented the clinical treatment by providing ongoing support and advice to patients’ families, in their language of choice. We use retrospective autoethnography to share our cumulative experience, lessons learnt and skills gained while immersed in this programme. We reflect on the social environment, internal family dynamics, and the healthcare context as sources of patient vulnerability and emphasise the importance of communication-centred healthcare. Lastly, we suggest FPL provides unique benefits to the COVID-19 response and public healthcare
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2022.2036636
R. S. Mooa, M. Moagi, J. Hugo
ABSTRACT Globally, one of the main causes of street homelessness is the reality of chronic mental illness. In societies where mental illness is misunderstood, stigmatized, or sparsely treated, or where treatment is inaccessible for the poor, the link between street homelessness and chronic mental illness becomes even greater. This article considers the stories of specific individuals living with chronic mental illness in the City of Tshwane, South Africa, which caused them to be homeless. It also reflects on the infrastructure available to persons with chronic mental illness who are homeless, and recommends ways to scale up and replicate good practices, while transforming unutilized or ineffective infrastructure. Data were collected through drawings and naïve sketches from participants housed at a community-based health centre in Tshwane which acts as a “bridge” between mental health institutions, home and/or even the street. Ten participants voluntarily participated in the study and five in-depth interviews were held with the staff members at the centre. The insights indicated that the ripple effects of a deinstitutionalization plan for a sustainable policy package, could improve the quality of life for mentally ill homeless persons while housed in such community-based centres.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.1929438
S. Zantsi, Ben J. Bester
ABSTRACT Understanding dynamics within rural households’ socio-economic behaviour is a prerequisite for effective design of intervention programmes targeting rural communities. This article seeks to understand how rural households’ lifestyles and livelihood strategies have changed over time regarding four key factors: income sources, food preferences, daily activities and investment strategies. A case study of Ndabakazi—a cluster of villages in Butterworth—is explored using a representative sample of 20 households in each village, drawn randomly from the four selected villages of the study. A questionnaire administered face-to-face using a local language was supplemented with focus group discussions. To achieve the study objectives, we took a retrospective and circumspective approach combined with thematic and descriptive analyses. The results show a change in rural households’ lifestyles, and this change can be linked to the rural development policies. First, we observed a change in income sources confirming the existing literature. Second, regarding food preference, traditional food is still preferred by household heads, although it is not consumed much. Due to improved basic services, daily activities have changed, implying less drudgery for women and children. We also observed a change in investment strategies away from farming to building decent homesteads and buying luxury furniture. Besides the change in income sources, the other key factors discussed in this article have received less attention in the literature, so this article extends the literature in this respect. Finally, the herein identified changes have implications for initiatives concerned with improving rural sociological aspects.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1803763
Sakhumzi Mfecane
ABSTRACT The calls for knowledge decolonisation pervade most academic disciplines in South Africa today. In this paper I argue for epistemological decolonisation within men and masculinities studies through “delinking” from western gender paradigms. The paper draws on the Xhosa concept of manhood called indoda to illustrate African-centred ways of decolonising and theorising masculinities research which cater to the needs of indigenous African communities. The evidence suggests that masculinities in Xhosa culture centre on the rites of passage to manhood called ulwaluko, which involve physical alteration of the penis through circumcision. As ulwaluko inserts a fixed bodily mark of Xhosa manhood identity it challenges theories which perceive masculinities as mere “scripted performances” with no permanent bodily impact, and those which argue that masculinities are multiple and unstable. Although multiple masculinities coexist, they are rooted in ulwaluko as primary evidence of manhood. The paper concludes by showing the benefits of decolonised, African-centred scholarship for intervention programmes aimed at fighting gender oppression in South Africa.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.1981428
Anine Kriegler
audience consists of the “native” cultural insider. As such, it compels soul-searching that speaks to the complexities highlighted in the book about black masculinities. I conceive the book as the first volume; in other words, an introduction to what it means to be a man in perhaps one South African township, but clearly not representative of all contexts. I finished the book also deeply concerned that if it is left like this, it might perpetuate certain stereotypes about black lives and black masculinities that play into “exotic” underpinnings of what it means to be a black man in townships. As such, I finished the book unsure if I would recommend it for those wanting an in-depth understanding of what black masculinity consists of in South African townships.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1853602
Thulani Siziba
In his book Becoming Men: Black Masculinities in a South African Township, Malose Langa, examines how masculinities are negotiated in a post-apartheid South African township, Alexandra in Johannesb...
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2021.1882335
M. Mmadi
ABSTRACT A large body of academic literature germane to service delivery protests has documented area-specific cases of protests and their targets. In the main, the focus of these studies has been the failures of the ruling African National Congress as elected leaders divert public funds aimed at improving the lives of townships and informal settlement dwellers. The emerging overall picture points to failure at the political level to deliver on key promises, urgent among these being the issue of high levels of unemployment. This has seen a marked increase in violent service delivery protests that at times morphed into xenophobic attacks and destruction of public property. Missing from the analysis however, is the impacts of service delivery protests on the South African commuter-worker. The article contends that by bringing the commuter-worker to the centre of analysis, we should be able to better appreciate the devastation of the service delivery protests beyond its locus of execution. The commuter-worker is a product of apartheid travel geography and at times a key participant in community mass demonstrations. Drawing on the notion of precarious society, I will show how service delivery protests and failure to deliver services produces precarity in other spheres of the commuter-worker’s life.
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Pub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/21528586.2020.1813194
Denise Buiten, K. Naidoo
ABSTRACT Terms such as “gender-based violence” are connected with a range of evolving discourses that are not merely descriptive, but interpretive and political in nature. Yet, what makes violence “gender-based” is often implicit rather than explicit. In this Debates we argue that there needs to be greater specificity about what is gendered about gender-based violence, while allowing for the continued elasticity of the concept for application across diverse contexts and forms of violence. Drawing on international scholarship and key insights from the evolving sociology of gender, we outline a framework for locating and defining the “gender” in “gender-based violence”. This framework, we suggest, makes for a clearer starting point for mapping the connections between gender and violence, by examining these connections at the three levels of identity, interaction and structure. As such, it invites a more comprehensive picture of gender-based violence, one that includes women, men, and non-binary people while still accounting for the ways gender-based violence disproportionately affects women. We argue that the rich contextually-specific scholarship being produced in South Africa and elsewhere in the global South reflects gender as operating at these three levels, and adds further layers and complexity with a genuine attention to intersectionality that is often lacking from international scholarship.
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