scholarly journals Cultural health practices of South African Vatsonga people on the home care of children with measles

Curationis ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.T. Lebese ◽  
V.O. Netshandama ◽  
N.S. Shai-Mahoko
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
South African ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Project Data

The purpose of this research study was to identify the cultural health practices of the Vatsonga in relation to the home care of children with measles. It was undertaken in the Giyani District of the Limpopo Province, in the Republic of South Africa. The qualitative, explorative and contextual design was used to conduct this project. Data was collected from nine key informants and nineteen general informants. Data was collected using individual interviews with key-informants and focus group interviews with general informants. Observations were also made.

scholarly journals Exploring traditional male initiates at an initiation school in Limpopo Province, South Africa: Cultural health practices

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mabatho N/a Sedibe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Health Practices ◽  
The Law ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
One Year

<p>The purpose of this study is to explore traditional male initiates’ cultural health practices within initiation schools in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. Informants were six elders (70 -80 years old) who directed initiating services at the schools.</p><p>Data were collected by using unstructured group interviews and observations. Data were analyzed thematically. Findings indicated that the traditional male elders reported practices such as perceived positive aspects of initiation ceremonies including the Limpopo circumcision schools Acts, which stipulates that circumcision surgeons must be registered and tested before being certified to circumcise the initiates. Secondly, the Act further states that anyone who transgresses the law will face one-year jail sentence or R2 000 fine. Further-more the elders also reported the negative aspects such as: high initiation mortality caused by the lack of initiates’ competence, expertise, experience, skills and knowledge. Elders believe that local practitioners who have initiation experience to conduct initiation, have a better outcome compared to the ones who are from outside their catchment area, in as far as health promotion practices is concerned. Partnerships between the elderly initiation local men practitioners and external providers would thus result in less morbidity and mortality amongst the initiates.</p>

scholarly journals Learning mathematical symbolization: conceptual challenges and instructional strategies in secondary schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (70) ◽  
pp. 1180-1199
Author(s):  
Paul Mutodi ◽  
Mogege Mosimege
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
South African ◽  
Mathematical Concept ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Mathematical Concepts ◽  
12Th Grade ◽  
Mathematical Symbols ◽  
Symbol Sense ◽  
Group Interviews

Abstract This paper investigates South African 12th Grade students’ conceptual challenges with mathematical symbolization and instructional strategies that teachers use to mitigate mathematical symbolization. The study is motivated by the students’ failure to connect representations between symbolic and mathematical ideas to understand concepts and procedures. The study attempts to gain insight into mathematical symbols as potential barriers to students’ understanding of mathematical concepts and processes. The study consists of 120 randomly selected 12th Grade students and 15 purposefully selected mathematics teachers from Sekhukhune district of Limpopo Province, South Africa. Data was collected through questionnaires and focus group interviews. A mixed-method sequential explanatory design was employed. An SPSS cluster analysis of data produced three (3) clusters consisting of 50 (41.6%), 47 (39.3%) and 23 (19.1%) students with severe, mild, and minor challenges with mathematical symbols. Two themes emerged from the students’ difficulties with mathematical symbols. Firstly, students lack symbol sense for mathematical concepts and algebraic insight for problem-solving. Secondly, students disregard conceptual and contextual uses of symbols. The study therefore suggests that students’ negotiation of discourse between the mathematical symbol and the mathematical concept or procedure is crucial developing symbolic meaning. Therefore, teachers need to use appropriate strategies to engage students in processes that allow them to make meanings of mathematical symbols. The study recommends that concepts should be understood before symbolised.

scholarly journals Final-year student nurses’ experiences of caring for patients

Curationis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sewela C. Kobe ◽  
Charlene Downing ◽  
Marie Poggenpoel
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Step Method ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Team Spirit

Background: Shortage of nurses in South African hospitals has affected the nurse–patient ratio, thus prompting nurses to be focussed on completing nursing-related duties with less or no caring for the patient. Caring involves having a therapeutic relationship with the patients, and it can be challenging and demanding for final-year student nurses who are still novices in the nursing profession.Objectives: To explore and describe the experiences of caring for patients amongst final-year student nurses in order to develop and provide recommendations to facilitate caring.Method: A qualitative, descriptive and contextual design was used. Data collection was done through eight in-depth individual interviews. Giorgi’s five-step method of data analysis was used, along with an independent coder. Measures to ensure trustworthiness and ethical principles were applied throughout the research.Results: Four themes with 12 subthemes emerged from the data: therapeutic relationship with patients as an integral part of caring, teamwork – team spirit makes caring easy, continuous caring that promotes quality and safe nursing, as well as satisfaction amongst staff and patients, and various barriers that contributed to lack of caring in the unit.Conclusion: The majority of student nurses had positive experiences of caring, which included therapeutic relationships between nurses and the patients, teamwork and team spirit that fostered safe and quality nursing care, rendered effortlessly. Barriers to caring were also highlighted as negative experiences.

scholarly journals The role of Parliament in promoting active citizenship in relation to the Grade 11 Life Orientation in the South African curriculum

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnetha Arendse ◽  
Juliana Smith
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Grade 11

The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa plays a pivotal role in promoting active citizenship to ensure the deepening of democracy. This article, as based on the study by Arendse, explored the extent to which Parliament as a key participatory institution promotes active citizenship in relation to the Grade 11 Life Orientation (LO) curriculum in South Africa. A qualitative, interpretive approach was employed. However, data were gathered through the crystallisation approach using different methods of gathering data such as document study, questionnaires and focus group interviews, which involved 461 Grade 12 LO learners who had completed the Grade 11 LO curriculum during 2012 and seven LO educators. The findings suggest that there is: (1) lack of exposure, knowledge and understanding about Parliament; (2) lack of public education programmes and initiatives about Parliament; and (3) limited information about Parliament in the LO curriculum.

scholarly journals Nursing in Saudi Arabia: Reflections on the experiences of South African nurses

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalena Van Rooyen ◽  
Colette D. Telford-Smith ◽  
Johanita Strümpher
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
South African ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Professional Experiences ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
Descriptive Method

The purpose of the study was to describe and reflect on the lived experiences of the South African nurses residing and working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual design with a phenomenological approach was adopted. Data were collected by means of individual interviews and the personal journals of the nurses who met the sampling criteria. The data analysis was done according to Tesch’s descriptive method (in Creswell 1994). The main theme that emerged was one of ‘cultural diversity’. Sub-themes related to the nurses’ religious/spiritual, environmental, emotional/psychological and professional experiences were also identified. A literature control was undertaken to verify the results. Limitations were highlighted, conclusions were drawn and recommendations relating to nursing research, education and practice were made.OpsommingDie doel van die studie was om die lewenservarings van Suid-Afrikaanse verpleegkundiges wat in die Koningkryk van Saoedi-Arabië werksaam en woonagtig is, te beskryf en daaroor te besin. 'n Kwalitatiewe, verkennende, beskrywende en kontekstuele navorsingsontwerp of strategie van ondersoek, vanuit 'n fenomenologiese benadering, is vir die doel ingespan. Data is ingesamel aan die hand van individuele onderhoude met deelnemers wat aan die kriteria vir insluiting by die steekproef voldoen het en persoonlike joernale wat deur hierdie deelnemers bygehou is. Data- ontleding is volgens die beskrywende metode van Tesch (in Creswell 1994) gedoen. Die hooftema voortspruitend uit die navorsing was dié van ‘kulturele diversiteit’. Verdere temas ten opsigte van verpleegkundiges se godsdienstige/geestelike, omgewings-, emosionele/psigiese en professionele ervarings is ook geïdentifseer. 'n Literatuurkontrole is onderneem om die navorsingsbevindinge te verifieer. Beperkings is uitgelig, en gevolgtrekkings en aanbevelings gerig op verpleegkundige navorsing, onderrig en praktyk is gemaak.

scholarly journals The survival interactional strategies toward sustainable livelihoods amongst the migrants in the rural areas of Limpopo Province

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 729-739
Author(s):  
M. A. Mabasa ◽  
J. C. Makhubele ◽  
M. M. Kwakwa ◽  
F. K. Matlakala ◽  
P. Mafa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
The South ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Social Work Practitioners

Survival interactional strategies are important for migrants towards sustainable livelihoods. The purpose of the study was to describe the survival interactional strategies toward sustainable livelihoods amongst the migrants in the selected areas of South Africa. This research was qualitative and used descriptive design to zoom into the survival interactional strategies toward sustainable livelihoods amongst the migrants. Researchers used purposive and convenient sampling techniques to sample the migrants’ youth. Data was collected through telephonic individual interviews to comply with COVID-19 national regulations and analyzed thematically. The study considered research ethics and trustworthiness as a research quality criteria. Findings showed that there is a need for effective social networks, sense of togetherness, entrepreneurial network, emotional support and economic support which are not   easily realized by people from foreign countries as some of the South African policies are unfavorable to immigrants. Without those mentioned above, the immigrants face challenges when engaged with established relationship with people in the same business, support from spouses and fellow countrymen, functional reciprocal referral system, credit sales of goods, and teamwork as survival interactional strategies toward sustainable livelihoods amongst the immigrants. The survival interactional strategies are not easily realized by immigrants as some of the South African Policies and realities are unfavorable to the conditions of the people from the foreign countries. Social workers are thus, required to provide awareness on human diversity, and the impacts of xenophobic attacks to the South African community. Social work practitioners should also be mandated to develop and run an awareness programme on the survival interactional strategies toward sustainable livelihoods amongst the migrants. 

Safeguarding the Republic? The South African Police Service, Legitimacy and the Tribulations of Policing a Violent Democracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-108
Author(s):  
Guy Lamb
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
The South ◽  
Police Service ◽  
South African Police Service ◽  
The Republic ◽  
South African Police ◽  
High Crime ◽  
Excessive Use Of Force

Since 1994 the South African Police Service (SAPS) has undertaken various efforts to build legitimacy in South Africa. Extensive community policing resources have been made available, and a hybrid community-oriented programme (sector policing) has been pursued. Nevertheless, public opinion data has shown that there are low levels of public trust in the police. Using Goldsmith’s framework of trust-diminishing police behaviours, this article suggests that indifference, a lack of professionalism, incompetence and corruption on the part of the police, particularly in high-crime areas, have eroded public trust in the SAPS. Furthermore, in an effort to maintain order, reduce crime and assert the authority of the state, the police have adopted militaristic strategies and practices, which have contributed to numerous cases of excessive use of force, which has consequently weakened police legitimacy in South Africa

“Brenda’s Got a Baby”

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brooklynn K. Hitchens ◽  
Yasser Arafat Payne
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Single Motherhood ◽  
Structural Inequality ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Number Of Children ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
Group Interviews

This secondary analysis examines low-income, street-identified single Black mothers aged 18 to 35 years in Wilmington, Delaware. This study is guided by the following question: To what extent do family composition and criminal record/street activity shape notions of Black single motherhood? “Sites of resilience” theory informs this study by providing a reconceptualization of street life and the phenomenological experiences of street-identified Black women. This analysis draws on 310 surveys, 6 individual interviews, 3 dual interviews, 2 group interviews, and extensive field observations. Findings reveal how these women experience single motherhood within the context of blocked opportunity and structural inequality. Results also indicate that most women socially reproduced childhood attitudes and conditions, including “fatherless” homes and single motherhood. Use and sales of narcotics and incarceration were primary factors for why their children’s father didn’t reside in the home. Findings also suggest that number of children, arrest and incarceration rates, and educational and employment statuses are predictive of marital status in the women.

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