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- Previous governmental policies in South Africa created a situation where institutional poverty fostered inequality and divisions on a racial, gender and class levels. The author examines the context of social work practice in this country with this historical legacy in mind. He points out that previous social work roles were compromised by the fact that social wolkers were forced to operate within this inequitable system and assist people in adapting to the status quo. Following the recent changes new roles are called for under the Reconstruction and Development Programme. The paper traces the context of social wolk practice in South Africa and the contradictions faced by social workers between the service function and the social control function. It outlines a mtionale for a social development curriculum in a country that seeks to redress the economic and political injustices of the past
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Andreas Fugelsang. About Understanding - ideas and observations on cross-cultural communication. Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1982
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Private sector housing finance institutions have a mandate given to them by investors. They have to make a profit This means safeguarding against risks and avoiding decisions that endanger profitability and investors' funds. In pursuing this mandate, housing finance institutions are often seen as unrealistic, inflexible and insensitive capitalist organisations which do not understand the special circumstances of the low- income groups, most of which cannot meet their stringent eligibility criteria and rigid lending terms. This study wishes to highlight the situation in Zimbabwe by focusing on the peculiar needs and circumstances of private sector housing finance institutions and appraising their lending performance so far.
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- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- HIV/AIDS is perhaps the fastest growing worldwide health concern today. Universally, adolescents have been identified as a group at high risk of HIV infection (Richter & Swart-Kruger, 1995). Very little information is available on the lifestyles, health and rate of HIV infection among street children in Zimbabwe. Isolated studies focusing on street children have begun to emerge in some countries and show HIV infection as an issue of growing concern. Our knowledge on the subject is still very limited. This report outlines the patterns of risk to HIV by street children in Harare, especially street boys, as well as outlining an assessment of their knowledge of, and attitudes towards the disease.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Albert Cherns and Moshe Shelhav (eds.). Communities in crisis. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Company, 1985
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Financing education in developing countries. Washington DC: World Bank, 1986, and Keith Hinchliffe. Higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa. London: Croom Helm, 1987
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement about new titles from Hans Zell Publishers
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- The paper presents the results of a study undertaken in Zimbabwe which set out to document the experiences, attitudes and needs of families as they face the responsibility of caring for persons with mental illness. The basic aim of the study was to paint a "broad brush" picture of the service needs of both mentally ill persons and their families and to determine under what burdens, if any, families labour as caretakers. The study involved families of patients whose illnesses were distinguished as or closely resembled schizophrenia or major affective disorders. Altogether no fewer than 34 interviews were conducted in various parts of Zimbabwe. A fundamental conclusion of the study is that families continue to bear a heavy responsibility for providing assistance to persons with mental illness, and hence require a great deal more support, education and additional services from government, NGOs and the wider community to help them successfully assist in caring for their family members.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa