https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4979 2026-05-11T19:54:57Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/30383 An evaluation of the rehabilitation programmes for youth offenders at Boksburg correctional centre in Gauteng province of South Africa Sekhabi, Audrey Boitumelo Correctional centres play a vital role in the rehabilitation of offenders. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, crime has increased globally in countries the world over, especially youth crime, although commonly in relation to online activities. Youth offenders are the category of the South African incarcerated population that has been growing rapidly in the first decade of democratic South Africa and has been observed to be continually growing. Despite the efforts by the Department of Correctional Services to rehabilitate the offenders, South Africa’s criminal re-offending rate is at an approximate alarming rate of 87% and has partly been attributed to the rehabilitation programmes in correctional services which have been pointed to be absent or ‘problematic’. Rehabilitation programmes are one of the several endeavours which the Department of Correctional Services has embarked upon in its quest to rehabilitate offenders and reintegrate them into communities as law-abiding citizens. Rehabilitation focusing on offender development, education and training for the youth is therefore key to the prevention of recidivism. The study sought to evaluate the rehabilitation programmes for youth offenders at the Boksburg Correctional Centre in the Gauteng province of South Africa with a view to enhance its perceived impact in reducing re-offending. The objectives of the study were to determine the types of rehabilitation programmes that are rendered to youth offenders; assess the success factors of rehabilitation programmes; analyse the threats to the rehabilitation programmes; and to suggest recommendations that can be adopted to enhance the perceived impact of the rehabilitation programmes for the youth offenders. The study adopted the qualitative research approach and employed the case study design. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with two (2) educationists, one (1) social worker, one (1) religious officer, one (1) sports officer, and seven (7) youth offenders who were all purposively sampled. Data from the study was thematically analysed. Findings from the study revealed that correctional programmes, offender development programmes, and psychological, social and spiritual programmes are rendered to the youth offenders. The study also established that the success factors to the rehabilitation programmes include human resources, communication and facilities. It was further established that there are threats to the rehabilitation programmes such as communication, facilities, offender development training and financing. The study concluded that while rehabilitation programmes are rendered to the youth offenders, they do not seem compulsory. Further, the study concluded that there are gaps in the laws and regulations regarding participation and attendance of the youth offenders in the programmes, as well as gaps in skills development training programmes which contribute to the ineffectiveness of the rehabilitation programmes. The study recommended that the correctional centre introduces diversified educational programmes and offer skills development training and puts in place rules and regulations regarding the participation and attendance of the youth offenders in the rehabilitation programmes. 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/26938 Othering Mushrooms: Migratism and its racist entanglements in the Brexit campaign Vráblíková, Lenka Mushrooms have long occupied a highly ambivalent position in the cultural imagination, inciting disgust and fear, as well as wonder and fascination. Neither plants, nor animals, they grow up unexpectedly but also in regular lines or circles. Some of them are medicinal and edible, whereas others are toxic or even poisonous. Sometimes they are both. Employing the ambivalence of mushrooms as analytic lens, this article interrogates the processes of othering through which certain human bodies are more susceptible to be othered than other human bodies. Mobilising Sara Ahmed’s analytic framework on othering as an embodied process, this transnational ecofeminist intervention provides an insight into how forests, mushrooms and their foragers have been deployed in the Brexit campaign’s migratism and explores its racist entanglements. The article argues that research into social and environmental histories of how meaning is constructed and embodied in human and non-human bodies and the places they inhabit is vital for contesting the re-emergence of the right-wing populism that, in Europe, is exemplified by events such as the Brexit. 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/24594 Feminist scholarship and the 'performative university'; a book review of Power, Knowledge and Feminist Scholarship, An Ethnography of Academia by Maria Do Mar Pereira Vráblíková, Lenka How do scholars in countries such as Portugal, the US, the UK, or Scandinavia situate feminist scholarship in the current academia? How is the claim to scientificity in women’s, gender, and feminist studies (WGFS) produced and negotiated? And what happens to these emerging fields, and the individuals inhabiting them, under the accelerated corporatisation of higher education? This book provides insightful and novel answers to these questions and anticipates future directions of research on the institutionalisation of feminist scholarship. The book is based on ethnographic research of academia mainly in Portugal. During the years of 2008–2009 and 2015–2016, Pereira interviewed 36 WGFS and non-WGFS academics and conducted participatory observations at national and international conferences, WGFS associations’ meetings, lectures, and PhD vivas also in Sweden, the UK, and the US. In her feminist discursive analysis, she focuses on the question of ‘how academics demarcate the boundaries of “proper” knowledge, and how WGFS scholarship gets positioned in relation to those boundaries’ (p. 2). 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/20075 The Gender Implications of the Immigration Regulations of South Africa on “career wives” : An African Feminist Perspective Chisale, Sinenhlanhla Sithulisiwe The search by South Africa for scarce skills that contribute to the economic development of the country attracted many people around the world, particularly Africa to migrate to this country for economic purposes. Among those who respond to the call for scarce skills are married men who migrate with their wives who do not qualify to apply for a scarce skills visa. This non empirical qualitative study analyses how the South African immigration regulations affects wives of migrants particularly career-wives who choose to join their husbands during migration. The broader principles of African feminism are used to analyse the gender implications of the South African immigration to career-wives who accompany their husbands on migration. Findings of this study indicate that the South African immigration policy is gender biased and overlooks the legacies of colonialism that encouraged boys to study Science and Mathematics and girls to study Arts subjects. In addition the study reveals that the South African immigration policy does not align itself with the international, regional and national instruments that promote and protect gender equality despite being signatory. 2015-06-24T00:00:00Z