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- Review of: Margaret McCallin (ed). The psychological well-being of refugee children. Geneva: International Catholic Child Bureau, 1992
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- In the current debate cm the future of South African youth, opposing viewpoints advocate "positive" programmes to remedy the problem of youth alienation. This paper addresses the youth question from the viewpoint of pro-social youth clubs in the development process. The authors contend that pro-social youth clubs fulfil a bridging function by providing positive reference groups for young people as they mature. At the individual level of analysis, the paper explores the motivations to participate in youth club activities, the process of forming new clubs or joining existing ones, and how participation is sustained. A sample survey of motivations to participate in club life was conducted among 600 black youth in the Durban Functional Region in 1993. Club life was observed among 42 informal clubs participating in a youth development initiative over a five-year period. A tracer study of the 42 youth clubs, involved mainly in the performing arts, sports, church related and community service activities, examined the turnover of membership in clubs. The study found that young people are particularly attracted to clubs which further their skills and talents and personal development Group cohesion acted as an attractive force to join informal clubs. Non-participants in youth clubs wished to remain "uninvolved". The tracer study indicated that youth gravitate to strong and cohesive groups. Strong groups were characterised by public recognition of success in their chosen field of activity; cohesive groups by a spirit of respect and tolerance toward peers. The paper discusses a youth initiative, the Youth Centre Project (YCP), to build strong youth clubs in the Durban region. It is concluded that informal clubs, owing to their capacity to adapt to the changing needs of youth, make an important contribution to the integration of young people into democratic society in South Africa.
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- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Helen Jackson. AIDS, action now. Harare: AIDS Counselling Trust and School of Social Work, 1992
- Date Issued:
- 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Paul W. Beamish. Multinational joint ventures in developing countries. London: Routledge, 1988
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement about new titles in 1991 from Hans Zell Publishers
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Fidel Castro. In defence of socialism. London: Pathfinder Press, 1989
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Advertisement for the international contents journal Periodica Islamica
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- Review of: Gillian Bottomley. From another place. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
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- 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- As a result of its recent disturbed history, Uganda has the most undeveloped formal social security: systems and the least documented non-formal social security systems of the countries participating in this study. Through the use of qualitative research methods, it was observed that communities are providing the most useful response to the rising risks and vulnerabilities posed by poverty, unemployment, emergencies and inevitable life-cycle factors while the State has not provided social security at the community level. The following social security systems exist in Uganda: formal social security schemes targeting the employed, community groups that serve only group members, kinship-based solidarity groups that serve the extended family and village residents’ mutual assistance groups, which are compulsory for all adults in the villages where they operate. These groups are currently the most widespread and effective of all, though they are plagued with poor management and a low capital base. The village-wide mutual assistance groups offer the potential for reaching most community members but operate in only one of the four districts visited. District Development Programmes offer a feasible entry point for beginning to address the lack of policy-led social security at community level.
- Date Issued:
- 2002-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa