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Description:: Review of: Christopher J.C. Mafico. Urban low income housing in Zimbabwe. Aldershot: Avebury, 1991
Date Issued:: 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Description:: 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
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Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Description:: 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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Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Description:: 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.
Date Issued:: 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Description:: 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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