Urban Sociology: SOU 221
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-01
- Subjects: Sociology, Urban
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010509
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination January 2008.
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- Date Issued: 2008-01
Urban Sociology: SOU 221
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2009-02
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17937 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010507
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination February/March 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-02
Urban Sociology: SOU 221
- Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
- Date: 2008-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:17971 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010543
- Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, examination November 2008.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2008-11
User Studies: LIB 311
- Authors: Ondari-Okemwa, E , Khayundi, F E
- Date: 2010-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18043 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010627
- Description: User Studies: LIB 311, supplementary examinations July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-06
Western History of Music: MUS 121
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18119 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010985
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 121, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Western History of Music: MUS 221
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18120 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010986
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 221, degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Western History of Music: MUS 321
- Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan , Brukman, J
- Date: 2010-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18121 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010988
- Description: Western History of Music: MUS 321,degree examination November 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-11
Widowhood and property inheritance in Zimbabwe: experiences of widows in Sikalenge ward, Binga District
- Authors: Dube, Misheck
- Date: 2008
- Subjects: Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M SW
- Identifier: vital:11755 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/200 , Widows -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe
- Description: Zimbabwean widows need to inherit property when their husbands die. Property, be it material or financial in nature, is a source of sustenance and wealth. Depriving women of property inheritance rights has untold consequences. This study focuses on the property inheritance rights of widows in Zimbabwe in the Sikalenge Ward of Binga District. The aim of the study is to understand how property grabbing affects widows and to find possible solutions and intervention strategies social workers may use. The literature reviewed in the study was drawn from both the legal field and social work to create a link between the fields. The study was shaped by radical feminism for conceptualising property grabbing while the formulated intervention strategies utilised the empowerment model. The study is qualitative in nature using interviews to collect data from ten widows and five social service providers who constitute the total of fifteen participants in the study. Data was analysed qualitatively using interpretive approaches and presentation is textual rather than statistical. The main finding of the study is that widows are still being denied their inheritance rights despite the provision of such rights by the Intestate Succession Laws promulgated in November 1997 by the government of Zimbabwe. Moreover, the widows are not aware of the inheritance laws of Zimbabwe and hence did not seek any professional intervention. The few who attempted the legal process for recourse were not successful. Even though it was minimally attempted, the study established that the main form of failed intervention tried by the women was legal in nature and suggests and emphasises an eminent need for Social Work intervention to supplement legal intervention.
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- Date Issued: 2008
Widows' experiences of spousal mourning among AmaXhosa: an interpretative phenomenological study
- Authors: Akol, Grace
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Widowhood -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Widows -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Bereavement -- Psychological aspects , Mourning customs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Death -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier: vital:11609 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/523 , Widowhood -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Widows -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Xhosa (African people) -- Funeral customs and rites , Xhosa (African people) -- Psychology , Bereavement -- Psychological aspects , Mourning customs -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Death -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description: This study was conducted on the mourning rituals of the AmaXhosa widows of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The study focused on the descriptive presentation of the experiences of the AmaXhosa widows in the Buffalo City municipality of the Province. The study sought to establish the widows’ perceptions regarding the mourning rituals and to interpret their experiences within the context of contemporary cultural, religious, gender and socio-political influences. The experiences among the widows interviewed were found to have a similar context but their perceptions about the mourning rituals were different between the widows younger than 40 years and those older than 50 years. Widows from urban and rural areas of East London, Mdantsane Township and from within a 60 kilometre radius of East London were interviewed. Purposive random sampling was used to identify an equal number of either urban or rural voluntary participants for the study. Structured interviews were held with widows ranging in age from 29 to 91 years. An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the recorded discussions was conducted. The experiences of the AmaXhosa widows during the conduct of the mourning rituals are described. The key findings of the study indicated that most of the widows felt they had to go through the mourning rituals mainly to show respect for their departed husbands and so that the dignity of the family and clan was maintained. The mourning rituals seemed mostly to have negative implications for the widows such as a lack of family and financial support and being treated as social outcasts; however the rituals also seemed to help the women adjust to their new status as widows. Although the mourning rituals were embedded in the socio-cultural tradition generally followed by the AmaXhosa, religious beliefs also influenced some of the traditions by introducing changes in the way some widows conducted the mourning rituals. For example, some religions advocated for shorter periods of mourning than usual as well as wearing different types of mourning clothes from the usual black or purple dress. Overall the perceptions of the older widows aged above 50 years revealed that they had no reservations about performing the mourning rituals and quite readily and unquestioningly accepted the customs. The younger widows aged below 40 years on the other hand felt that the mourning rituals were biased against women and did not serve a useful purpose and even proposed changes to the manner in which the mourning rituals are conducted particularly the shortening of the mourning period from 12 to 6 months or less. However, they seemed to recognize the role played by the mourning ritual in lessening and possibly healing the pain and sorrow caused by their bereavement.
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- Date Issued: 2011
Women, land rights and HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe: the case of Zvimba communal area in Mashonaland West Province
- Authors: Arisunta, Caroline
- Date: 2010
- Subjects: Land tenure -- Zimbabwe , AIDS (Disease) in women -- Zimbabwe , Agricultural productivity -- Zimbabwe , Women farmers -- Zimbabwe , Women in agriculture -- Zimbabwe , Widowhood -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe , HIV-positive persons -- Zimbabwe
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Rural Development)
- Identifier: vital:11939 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/233 , Land tenure -- Zimbabwe , AIDS (Disease) in women -- Zimbabwe , Agricultural productivity -- Zimbabwe , Women farmers -- Zimbabwe , Women in agriculture -- Zimbabwe , Widowhood -- Zimbabwe , Inheritance and succession -- Zimbabwe , HIV-positive persons -- Zimbabwe
- Description: This study explores women’s access to land under the customary tenure system. It examines how the changes in land tenure, access and rights to land as a consequence of HIV/AIDS are affecting agricultural productivity, food security and poverty, with a specific focus on women who have lost their husbands to HIV/AIDS in Zvimba. Zvimba is a village community located in Zvimba District in the Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe. The study also discusses policy responses designed to cushion the impact of HIV/AIDS on local communities especially women living with HIV/AIDS. The study highlights the vulnerability of widows to land rights violations, mainly inflicted by relatives but sometimes by the wider community. The main form of abuse encountered included the use of abusive language, threats of evictions and at times, beatings. The legal route for seeking redress was rarely used. Fear of witchcraft, low educational levels and fear of causing conflict between children and their paternal relatives also led widows to abandon the fight for their rights. The study further reveals that widows are heavily exposed to dispossession of their land rights. HIV/AIDS has increased the vulnerability of widows and other women to threats and dispossession of their land and other property rights. Dispossession of arable fields was observed in the four wards. The dispossessions and threats to livelihoods were directly related to the HIV positive status of the widows. The findings from this study illustrate the predominant role that male members of the household or family have over land. Thus, culture and traditional practices still affect women in other cases, disadvantaging them in favour of men, as in inheritance of land and property in the household.
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- Date Issued: 2010
Worship in African Context: TNT 121
- Authors: Afari-Twumasi, L , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2010-10
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18177 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011125
- Description: Worship in African Context: TNT 121, degree examination November 2010.
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- Date Issued: 2010-10
Worship in African Context: TPT 121
- Authors: Sulo, M O , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2010-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18126 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011019
- Description: Worship in African Context: TPT 121, supplementary examination January/February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-01
Worship in African Context: TPT 121
- Authors: Putu, N M , Chetty, Irvin G
- Date: 2012-01
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18147 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011065
- Description: Worship in African Context: TPT 121, supplementary examinations January 2012.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012-01
Worship In African Context: TPT 121
- Authors: Sulo, M O , Chetty, I G
- Date: 2009-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18182 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011160
- Description: Worship In African Context: TPT 121, degree examination November 2009.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2009-11
Xhosa Foundation: XHS 111F
- Authors: Ganto, D J , Saul, Z W
- Date: 2011-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18397 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011558
- Description: Xhosa Foundation: XHS 111F, degree examination June 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-06
Xhosa Linguistics: XHS 111
- Authors: Saul, Z W , Ganto, D J , Satyo, N
- Date: 2010-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18394 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011555
- Description: Xhosa Linguistics: XHS 111, Supplementary examinations July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-07
Xhosa Non-Mother Tongue: XNM 122E
- Authors: Satyo, N , Myoli, N
- Date: 2010-12
- Subjects: Xhosa language -- Foreign speakers
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18375 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011532
- Description: Xhosa Non-Mother Tongue: XNM 122E, examination December 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-12
Xhosa Prose: XHS 505
- Authors: Botha, C R , Kwatsha, L L
- Date: 2010-02
- Subjects: Xhosa literature
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18380 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011539
- Description: Xhosa Prose: XHS 505, examination February 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-02