approach, using the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality, minority stress theory, and minority strengths theory, researchers examined semi-structured interview and survey data from 12 residents at an emergency shelter service organisation for LGBTQIA individuals experiencing home...
Steffen Jensen's ethnographic study of life in Cape Town's coloured township of Heideveld makes compelling reading. From the introductory chapter to the epilogue he blends together academic theory, social history, and the voices of his i... D Hammett - AFRICAN AFFAIRS -LONDON- ROYAL AFRICAN SO...
Services users who had a history in the criminal justice system did not return to prison and were not arrested during the project. While acknowledging that the investment is significant in the short term, Ms Sciré pointed out that cost savings could be found in both the short and long term....
For people already receiving benefits the one-offA$750 stimulus paymentwill help to tide them over for 3-4 weeks' rent. But to date casual workers have not been included in that stimulus payment (unless they receiveFamily Tax Benefit). People who lose their casual work will be able to get...
They are also a feature of other South African cities like Durban and Cape Town. They are people who have no residential dwelling, survive on the streets and sleep in derelict buildings, under freeway decks, on city sidewalks and in public parks. It is Berea Park on which this chapter ...
The paper traces the colonial history of vagrancy laws and their relationship to by-laws criminalising outside living and survival strategies of poor persons in the four largest metropolitan areas in South Africa: Johannesburg, Tshwane (Pretoria), eThekwini (Durban) and Cape Town. It shows how ...
and towns in the continent, as evinced inAlake’s (2018) case of Lagos, which is similar to what exists in other major cities in the sub-continent, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi, Durban and Addis Ababa, to mention but a few. There is, therefore, no doubt that homelessness...