RFID-based design-theoretical framework for combating police impersonation in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isong Bassey ◽  
Naison Gasela ◽  
Ohaeri Ifeooma ◽  
Elegbeleye Femi
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Theoretical Framework

scholarly journals Identity, race and faith: The role of faith in post-Apartheid South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Klaasen
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
Correlational Approach ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
The Church

South Africa has experienced an unprecedented influx of migrants in the 21st century. Immigration and race have contributed to the raising of important questions of identity and social inclusion. Immigration and race are two crucial phenomena for the church in South Africa because the overwhelming majority of immigrants to South Africa are affiliated to Christianity and active participants in worshipping communities.This article is an attempt to critically engage with the complex phenomena of immigration and race for the role of Christianity in identity. I will attempt to show how mainstream Christianity as an open-ended narrative and can provide the space for creative tension between the ‘host’ and ‘stranger’ for identity formation. I will use the theoretical framework of Don Browning’s correlational approach to demonstrate how the experience of immigrants and minority race groups creates identity of self and the constructive other.

scholarly journals Exploring the contribution of universities to labour market requirements in South Africa: An employer’s perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 095042222093578
Author(s):  
Kaashiefa Mobarak
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Market Requirements ◽  
Signalling Theory

Organisations function in a flexible and changing environment that requires dynamic responses to diverse forces influencing their sustainability and growth. Employers wish to recruit graduates who can capably and successfully transfer their university-acquired skills and knowledge to the workplace. The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the contribution of universities to labour market requirements in South Africa from an employer’s perspective. Signalling theory assists as the theoretical framework to establish: (1) whether the skills and knowledge required by labour markets are reflected in the advertised degree programmes of universities; and (2) whether skills and knowledge shortcomings could have been addressed sufficiently by universities.

scholarly journals Whatever happened to God’s holiness? The holiness of God and the theological authenticity of the South African neo-Pentecostal prophetic activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Collium Banda
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The South ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Doctrine Of The Church ◽  
The Church

The controversial activities of the neo-Pentecostal prophets (NPPs) in South Africa raise many theological questions. From a systematic theological perspective that affirms the importance of Christian doctrines in regulating church worship and practice, this article uses God’s holiness to evaluate the theological authenticity of the NPPs’ controversial activities. The research question answered in the article is: how can an understanding of the holiness of God empower Christian believers to respond meaningfully to the controversial practices? The article begins by describing the theoretical framework of God’s holiness. This is followed by describing the NPPs’ shift from prophecy focusing on holiness to one focused on human needs. Furthermore, this shift among the NPPs from holiness to human needs is attributed to celebrity cultism through which the prophets thrust themselves as powerful figures who are able to solve people’s problems. Afterward an analysis is made of how the holiness of God is violated by the NPPs’ controversial practices. Finally, some steps are suggested for NPPs and their followers to take to align their activities with God’s holiness. The contribution of the article lies in highlighting the importance of God’s holiness as a standard of measuring the Christian authenticity of the controversial activities of the NPPs in South Africa.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article uses insights from the doctrine of God’s holiness, the role of biblical prophecy and the doctrine of the church, to critique the controversial activities of the NPPs in South Africa.

scholarly journals Beyond Agamben: Sovereignty, policing and ‘permissive space’ in South Africa, and beyond

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah-Jane Cooper-Knock
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Homo Sacer

The work of Giorgio Agamben has been widely used by criminologists and others to explore policing and sovereignty across the globe. In this article, I explore Agamben’s conceptual framework, focusing on the commonly deployed ideas of ‘state of exception’ and ‘ homo sacer’. I highlight the limitations of Agamben’s legalistic theories, and argue that they leave us with an impoverished understanding of how sovereignty is negotiated in everyday life. As I demonstrate, scholars who have attempted to adapt Agamben’s ideas have failed to overcome these limitations in his analysis. I conclude that we must look for new ways forward and introduce the concept of ‘permissive space’ as an alternative to Agamben’s theoretical framework: an idea that allows a more nuanced and comprehensive analysis. Drawing on 10 months of fieldwork in Durban, South Africa, I illustrate the utility of this terminology for our analysis of policing.

An ‘outsider within’: considering positionality and reflexivity in research on HIV-positive adolescent mothers in South Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412092207
Author(s):  
Morolake Josephine Adeagbo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Adolescent Mothers ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue

Using a feminist theoretical framework, this article reflects on the issues of power between ‘the researched’ and ‘the researcher’ and highlights the problematic of shared identities and dissimilarities. The article considers the epistemological challenges encountered by a Black female (mother) ‘foreigner’ researcher and the gendered implications of the insider–outsider binary in conducting doctoral research. Additionally, this article presents the personal reflections of the ‘outsider within’ during data collection, in order to contribute to ongoing dialogue on researchers’ reflexivity and positionality in qualitative research. It is the researcher’s responsibility to make a conscious effort in comprehending how paramount her position is, in order to negotiate and reflect relevant spaces during fieldwork. This article concludes that the insider/outsider dynamics do not necessarily work against the researcher/researched but could be appreciated for adding nuance and ambiguity to research.

scholarly journals Harnessing Intellectual Property for Development: Some Thoughts on an Appropriate Theoretical Framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
Caroline Bongiwe Ncube
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Stakeholder Interests ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Access To Knowledge ◽  
The Right

 This paper considers how an appropriate theoretical framework for Intellectual Property may be constructed. Such a framework would be the lens through which contested IP issues may be resolved and upon which national IP policy and legislation might be based. The paper begins by highlighting the inherent tensions in IP, which are caused by the various stakeholder interests that this body of law seeks to balance, and by the cross-cutting nature of IP. It contends that in order to more equitably balance the contesting rights of the creators and users, IP rights should be formulated and enforced so as to meet societal goals or serve public interest, be responsive to the economic environment, and take cognisance of the human rights claims of both creators and users. National socio-economic goals should inform such a framework in a way that ensures that IP is used as a means to achieve these goals and is not perceived as an end. This will require nuances in policy and legislation that meet the country's needs. In particular, as a developing country South Africa would do well to exploit available flexibilities in the various international IP agreements by which it is bound. Due regard also ought to be had to the users' need for affordable access to IP-protected goods in order that they may exercise the right to work and access to knowledge, as provided for by ss 22 and 16 of the Constitution respectively. Similarly, creators ought to be given due recognition, together with reasonable reward and remuneration for their efforts. This will be achieved through the creation of an IP system that provides protection that is compatible with the nature of the good being protected and the manner in which the creative process unfolds. Such protection should rely on registration systems are efficient, simplified and affordable. The accompanying enforcement system should be equally accessible, although the costs of enforcement would depend on the forum used to secure redress. Finally, the resulting IP regulatory framework should be both certain and clear.

scholarly journals Indiscipline in South African Schools: the Parental / Community Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charl C. Wolhuter ◽  
Johannes L. van der Walt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Family Stress ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
International Literature ◽  
South African Context ◽  
The South ◽  
Parental Style ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
African Context

South Africa is struggling with the problem of indiscipline in schools. The issue of indiscipline in South African schools has been subjected to research for almost two decades. This research has revealed that learner (in)discipline in a school is related to six sets of factors, namely learner-related factors, teacher-related factors, school-related factors, education system-related factors, parent-related factors, and society-related factors. All of these factors have now been researched in respect to the situation in South Africa, with the exception of the parent / community factor. The aim of this article is to report on research that was done regarding this outstanding factor with regard to learner (in)discipline in South African schools. The constructivist-interpretivist approach was employed, in order to recast information gleaned from available international literature into a theoretical framework. The South African context was then analysed by using the theoretical framework. It was found that within the parental-community factor in determining the state of learner-discipline in schools four sub-factors can be distinguished, namely parental style, parental model for example, family stress and parent-school relations. These have definite life-philosophical underpinnings, which are also outlined in analysing and interpreting the South African situation.

Challenges faced by South African Human Resource Practitioners in Multinational Corporations

2016 ◽  
pp. 133-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasima Mohamed Hoosen Carrim ◽  
Yvonne Senne
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
South African ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Hr Practices

This chapter focuses on the challenges faced by human resource (HR) practitioners in multinational corporations (MNCs) in different sectors operating in South Africa. The chapter briefly outlines the global and South African challenges experienced by HR practitioners. The institutional, resource-based and Hofstede's cultural values theories is used as the theoretical framework. The authors conducted interviews with HR practitioners in four different western MNCs with the objective of identifying the challenges faced by them in these organizations. The results of the investigation revealed that MNCs enforce HR practices for employees at executive managerial posts in order to maintain their competitive advantage. MNCs simultaneously integrate their HR practices with the institutional and cultural practices of the host country for employees at lower levels. These diverse HR practices create challenges for HR practitioners in these MNCs. Some recommendations are made regarding solutions to the problems identified.

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