AIDS, order and 'best practice' in the South African workplace: managers, peer educators, traditional healers and folk theories

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dickinson
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Peer Educators ◽  
The South ◽  
Folk Theories

Cross-cultural indigenous training: The South African experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-621
Author(s):  
Zana Marovic
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
South African ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
The South ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Western Psychology ◽  
Indigenous Paradigm

In this paper, the author explores the relevance of indigenous training from a cross-cultural perspective. We start by examining the broader context of traditional Western psychology and its relevance in a multicultural society. A brief description of the indigenous paradigm is followed by a discussion of differences between Western and indigenous psychology, and a proposal of cultural eclecticism as a potential frame for their integration. Next, we discuss the South African context in relation to comparative-cultural aspects of medical and psychological services.  The author’s clinical experience informs her increased awareness of culturally inadequate service at the state hospital, developing curiosity about African indigenous healing, and subsequent encounters and collaboration with African traditional healers. Ultimately, the author develops culturally sensitive training that explores cultural biases and generates cross-cultural knowledge and competence.  In conclusion, the author advocates that in the area of globalisation and multicultural societies, psychological training and clinical practice, should include dialogue and facilitate collaboration between Western and indigenous knowledge, hopefully leading to a more holistic and culturally inclusive service to a population of different backgrounds. Such collaboration and integration of Western and indigenous knowledge may be a source of professional stimulation as well as a benefit to health-care consumers.

scholarly journals Share repurchase and dividend payout behaviour: The South African experience

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Wesson ◽  
B. W. Bruwer ◽  
W. D. Hamman
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Share Repurchases ◽  
Share Repurchase ◽  
The South ◽  
Johannesburg Stock Exchange ◽  
Dividend Payments ◽  
African Experience

Share repurchases, rather than dividend payments, are increasingly becoming the globally favoured payout method. This has prompted a renewed interest in the field, and raises questions about the actual motivation for share repurchases and whether companies are now repurchasing shares in preference to investing in future growth. This study set out to ascertain whether South African company payout behaviour mirrors global company behaviour. Comprehensive data on share repurchases are, however, not compiled by South African financial data sources or by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Ltd. In preparation for this study, the authors thus compiled the first comprehensive share repurchase database for companies in selected JSE-listed sectors for the first 11 years (i.e. 1999 to 2009) since share repurchases were first allowed in this country.Share repurchases were found to be a popular payout method, especially in the more recent periods covered in the study. Payout value was dominated by a few companies paying dividends every year and regularly repurchasing shares. Aspects unique to the South African regulatory environment, however, resulted in the South African share repurchase experience not fully mirroring current global practice. The main constraint in the South African share repurchase environment is that comprehensive, actual-time-based share repurchase data are not available. Recommendations are made on how to align the South African regulatory environment with global best practice. Regulatory changes, as well as continued research in the field, will equip stakeholders to make informed decisions.

scholarly journals Lessons from UNCITRAL for Reforming the South African Legal Framework Concerning Security Rights in Movable Property

2022 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Michel Marlize Koekemoer ◽  
Reghard Brits
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
The South ◽  
Secured Transactions

This article analyses the South African legal framework governing security rights in movable property with the view to inspire law reform. The analysis is based on a comparison of the current South African framework with the UNCITRAL Legislative Guide on Secured Transactions, a soft-law instrument containing international best practice. The problematic aspects of the South African framework benchmarked against the UNCITRAL Guide are: (1) not having a common legal framework that equally applies to all types of (including quasi-) real security transactions; (2) the scope of the current framework not being comprehensive (inclusive) enough; (3) not having an efficient enough method of creating the security right; (4) the current publicity method, particularly concerning special notarial bonds, being overly cumbersome and not providing effective public notice to third parties; and (5) the current enforcement measures potentially not being the most efficient. Regarding each of these problem areas, the article makes proposals on how the South African legislature could reform the current framework into one that is legally efficient and in step with international best practice.

scholarly journals Western and traditional medicine: Cultural beliefs and practices of South African Muslims with regard to Down Syndrome

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasneem Dangor ◽  
Eleanor Ross
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Down Syndrome ◽  
South African ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Herbal Medicines ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
The South ◽  
Beliefs And Practices

The aim of the study was to investigate the beliefs and practices of caregivers and traditional healers within the South African Muslim community regarding Down syndrome. An exploratory-descriptive research design was utilized which incorporated individual interviews with 10 caregivers of persons with Down syndrome as well as 10 traditional healers from the South African Muslim community. Common beliefs emanating from both groups relating to the cause of Down syndrome included the notion that this condition was genetic in origin and that such children were perceived to be gifts from God. Others attributed Down syndrome to a punishment from God or the result of curses from people. Treatment included the use of inscriptions from the Quraan, water that had been prayed over and herbal medicines. Some caregivers seemed reluctant to approach western health care professionals due to negative past experiences. The main reasons for consulting traditional healers were cultural beliefs and pressure from family members, their holistic approach and the personal nature of their interventions. Collaboration between allopathic medicine and traditional healing was advocated by almost all of the traditional healers. These findings underline the need for culturally sensitive rehabilitation practices in speech-language pathology and audiology; and collaboration between western health care practitioners and traditional healers.

scholarly journals A diagnosis of the deficiencies in the Zimbabwean value added tax system

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
Ezera Madzivanyika
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
The South ◽  
Tax Neutrality ◽  
Adequate Funding ◽  
Destination Principle

The paper analyzes the Zimbabwean VAT system. The main objective was to establish and evaluate the gaps within the Zimbabwean VAT system, with the view of closing them so that the Zimbabwean VAT is attuned to the dictates of the best practice VAT. A review of literature was used and the main sources of information were the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, the South African Revenue Services, literature from various journal articles and books and various reports and legislative instruments. The key finding of the study was that the Zimbabwean VAT system falls short of both the South African and best practice VATs. The main reasons for the gap are; a narrow VAT base fuelled by rampant VAT zero-rates and exemptions; it defies the destination principle; it does not conform to the principle of tax neutrality and tax simplicity; and it has high costs of collection and compliance. The study recommends that the Zimbabwean VAT system should be aligned to the best practice VAT through streamlining VAT privileges and correctly implementing the destination principle. Adequate funding should be allocated to the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority in order to embrace the Information Communication Technology (ICT) drive to reduce costs of compliance and collection.

FROM WHITE BEADS TO WHITE WORDS: SYMBOLS AND LANGUAGE IN THE MARKETING OF XHOSA TRADITIONAL HEALERS

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-158
Author(s):  
T Dowling ◽  
L Grier
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
The South ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Natural Forms ◽  
Nuanced Understanding

Much research has been conducted on African traditional healers generally (Arden 1996; Chidester 1996; Chakanza 2006; Reeder 2011), and Xhosa diviners and herbalists specifically (Hammond-Tooke 1989; Hirst 1997, 2005), but none of this work focuses on their particular public discourse. Some researchers (Tyrrell 1976; Broster & Bourn 1982) describe outward symbols and publicly knowable signs of their identity, but do not analyse the implicit meanings of these symbols. In order to reach a more nuanced understanding of how Xhosa diviners and herbalists traditionally used to market themselves to their public (how they made themselves publically known), this paper draws on information from documented investigations into diviners and herbalists in South Africa; a description of their current marketing strategies is drawn from our own research and inquiries. We argue that Xhosa herbalists and diviners are key players in negotiating the socio-cultural aspects of their respective societies, and changes in the way they communicate their services highlight a shift in the South African linguistic and symbolic landscape. Diviners and healers now use current key symbols (including English and Western symbols) with a concurrent loss of Xhosa cultural expressions and symbols, which are only retained to reference non-secular (i.e. spiritual) or organic (i.e. natural) forms of healing.

scholarly journals Impediments to the structural development of South African maritime supply chains

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Fourie
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
South African ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
The South ◽  
The Government

The progress of the South African economy relies heavily on earnings from physical exports, which depend increasingly on the competitiveness in global markets of the maritime supply chains that serve the country. World best practice requires that those chains should function as entities structured to serve their logistical purpose, while the development of such structured chains requires chain leadership. Transnet fulfils a prominent role in South Africa’s maritime supply chains, but that role, in accordance with the declared policy of the Government, constitutes an impediment to restructuring the chains as competing entities under private leadership. The solution may be found in leadership by public-private partnerships.

“Sangomas Are after People’s Money”: Family and Community Discourses around the South African Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Nyundu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Young People ◽  
South African ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
The South ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
South African Council ◽  
South African Police

In 2012, Bishop Joe Seoka of the Anglican Church in South Africa, and former president of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), dismissed claims that young people in Marikana (where 34 mineworkers were massacred by the South African police during a protest for better wages on August 16, 2012) used muthi (traditional medicine provided by sangoma/inyanga) to protect themselves against bullets—reasoning that they were too well educated to believe such. His contention provoked social observers, who further raised questions not only on the views of the educated and non-educated towards traditional belief systems, but on how sangomas are talked about in families and across communities. This study looked at whether young people in Chiawelo, Soweto, think sangomas are helpful within their community or not. In addition, it looked at whether young people think or believe sangomas can improve or depreciate the lives of community members (expressly during sicknesses). Findings in the literature suggest that socialisation helps shape young people’s views and expressions towards traditional healers within their families and communities. Through in-depth interviews with 11 young men and four key informants in Chiawelo, a site in Soweto (South Africa), evidence about different types of socialisation and its influence on young men’s lives is drawn out in this article. The study suggests that although both primary and secondary socialisation helped shape young people’s views towards traditional healers, observation and interpretation often dictate in the way young men in Chiawelo view traditional healers. The study contests “socialisation” and “habitus” as theoretical frameworks.

scholarly journals Does the South African Physiotherapy Journal fulfill the needs of its constituency? A retrospective article review

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Frantz ◽  
I. Diener ◽  
J. Jelsma
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Original Research ◽  
The South ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Professional Journals ◽  
Sub Saharan

Professional  journals  are  used  to  disseminate  the  knowledge of scholars in the profession and to provide clinicians with guidance for best practice.  This  article  aimed  to  retrospectively  review  the  role  of the  South African  Journal  of  Physiotherapy  and  its  contribution  to  the profession.  An archival  research  design  was  used  to  collect  information from  the  archives of  the  South  African  Society  of  Physiotherapy website.  The  information  was retrieved  using  a  data  capture  sheet and descriptive  statistics  were  used throughout  to  establish  frequencies  for the  relevant  information.  During  the identified period, 170 articles were published. The greatest number of papers originated in South Africa (81%), 8% from the rest of Africa and 11% written by international authors. Authors with a Masters degree contributed almost 50% of the papers and those with doctorates were responsible for at least 25% of the papers. Most of the papers presented original research (81%) with secondary research such as reviews and scholarly papers accounting for 19% of the total. The most common speciality area addressed through research  was  linked  to musculoskeletal  conditions.  The  journal  appears  to  have  provided  an important  platform  for  South African academics and emerging researchers to publish their findings. It is suggested that the journal should give preference to papers that deal with issues that are unique to South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, as these are the least likely to be published elsewhere. In addition, the journal should emphasise papers that will advance the profession.

scholarly journals Building a robust athlete in the South African high school system

10.17159/2933 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
W Lombard
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
South African ◽  
School System ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Current System ◽  
High School Athletes ◽  
The South ◽  
School Sport ◽  
South African School ◽  
Modern Era

In the modern era of school sport, schools are faced with important decisions on how best to structure their programs to fit in the growing number of tournaments into the schools sports calendars. Furthermore, school sport has taken on a more professional and competitive feel, with the possibility of winning cash prizes as well as the live TV coverage of various tournaments it is plausible to believe that the pressure on coaches to win at this level has increased when compared to 10 years back.The intention of this article is not to disparage the South African school sport system but rather to create an understanding of best practice when considering high school athletes. As it has been the authors experience through working with numerous highs school athletes and presenting to various schools and educators on this topic that the current system or lack thereof is possibly not athlete-centered which may be detrimental to their development down the line.

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