This paper explores the significance of the African value of ubuntu within the context of social protection. The paper argues that ubuntu as a constitutional value plays a crucial role in supporting the existence of informal social security in South Africa. It concludes by reflecting the overarching potential that the traditional African value has for influencing the social protection and enhancing family solidarity in the South African context.
This study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for intimate partner physical violence against women. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 1,378 men working in Cape Town municipalities. An average of 42.3% (95% CI: 39.6, 44.8) reported physical violence against a partner of the last 10 years, and 8.8% (95% CI: 7.3, 10.3) reported physical violence in the past year. After adjustment for age, occupational group, and race, the factors associated with use of violence against partners of the last 10 years were having no post-school training (OR = 2.10), witnessing parental violence in childhood (OR = 1.87), involvement in fights at work (OR = 2.73) and in communities (OR = 1.54), drug use (OR = 1.99), problem alcohol use (OR = 1.98), perceiving hitting women to be acceptable (OR...
Revolutionary movements in South Africa and elsewhere in the world were founded on the need to remove political systems that were considered as the root cause of poverty and suppression. Today, South Africa is a sovereign state and poverty remains. As much as poverty was part of the Liberation Movement agenda, it may be considered as a trap in South Africa where the gap between the rich and the poor remains very wide. The xenophobic attacks in May 2008 have been attributed to poverty. The discourse of rural development centres on fighting rural poverty. However, there is no commonly shared definition of both rural development and rural poverty. To further complicate the discourse, there is no consensus on how to measure both phenomena. Fighting rural poverty demands wisdom for it involv...
...(58) . Currently, South Africa, like a growing number of developing States...
One of the most important experiences I had was being involved in Harold Washington's election. There were lots of parallels with [Nelson Mandela]. When I came [to South Africa] it was the same 'keep hope alive' kind of sensation. It was overwhelming to look as far as I could see-Black people lined up to vote. The chance to be in a real transition, I couldn't pass up," said [Monica Faith Stewart]. After Mandela's election Stewart returned to South Africa. She kept her foot in both worlds, lobbying South Africa's Parliament on behalf of Chicago-based clients. In 2000, Stewart became Managing Director of the Africa branch of the revitalized Illinois Office of Trade and Investment. Originally established in 1965, the OTI helps Illinois companies identify new markets and locate distributio...
Prior to the end of apartheid in 1994 and the adoption of its new constitution in 1996, South Africa lacked any constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. Not surprisingly, South Africa's history is replete with examples of state interference in religious matters. This article argues that religious organizations in South African civil society should take advantage of a provision in South Africa's 1996 Constitution allowing for Parliament to adopt Charters of Rights which are consistent with the Constitution, by proposing a Charter of Religious Rights for South Africa. Adopting such a Charter would ensure that South Africa does not repeat its history in allowing its government to define the meaning and scope of fundamental rights such as religious freedom. As such, the Charter has th...
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