https://ir.unisa.ac.za:443 The UnisaIR digital repository system captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and distributes digital research material. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:49:04 GMT 2026-06-08T08:49:04Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32583 An exploration of the impact of corruption on traffic policing in KwaZulu-Natal Sangweni, Njabulo Ignatius Corruption is a persistent issue and has far-reaching effects that affect not only South Africans' quality of life but also the country's social cohesion and economic growth. Its presence in the traffic police departments serves as evidence of this reality. This study assumed the possibility that road carnage, rampant lawlessness, and a high level of impunity may stem from corruption. In light of this context, the study sought to show the impact of corruption on traffic policing in KwaZulu-Natal. The objectives of the study were to explore the impact of KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Traffic Police corruption on service delivery, to gain an in-depth understanding of contextual causes of corruption, to explore individual experiences of the efficiency of corruption combating strategies within the selected Traffic Police departments, and to formulate recommendations for further research on corruption-combatting strategies within Traffic Police departments. . A qualitative research approach was adopted to examine the perceptions and experiences of members of the public who have had past interaction with traffic police officers. Using purposive sampling, 14 participants were selected from a target population of 25 individuals. The study’s participants included one unemployed individual, two students, six traffic officers, and five individuals from various sectors of formal employment. Semi-structured interviews and a comprehensive literature review facilitated data collection. Findings revealed an existing culture of corruption within traffic policing, underscored by a shared understanding among community members and traffic officials that such practices are detrimental. Further analysis indicates that several socio-economic conditions contribute to the perpetuation of corruption within traffic police departments. Key factors identified include low economic development, low pay, urgent need for money, peer pressure, and financial distress. This study exposes the intricate relationship between socioeconomic challenges and corrupt practices in traffic policing, providing insights and recommendations that may inform policy interventions intended to mitigate corruption and enhance the integrity of general traffic law enforcement. Abstract and text in English Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32583 2025-06-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32582 Barriers to learning at a technical vocational education and training college in Limpopo : a case of a national certificate vocational Letsoalo, Tjatji Victor This study investigated learning barriers at a technical and vocational education and training (TVET) college in Limpopo Province. Students are experiencing different learning barriers that contribute to the high failure rates. Several research studies on barriers to learning have been conducted at the school level. The aim and four objectives guided the study. Four research questions were answered. A qualitative research design, a case study and an interpretivism paradigm were used. Purposive sampling was used to select research participants. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems and Schlosberg's transition theories were used to undergird the study. Two data collection tools were used to collect data. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Five themes emerged from the data. Different challenges experienced by the students and solutions to mitigate the learning barriers are discussed. The following are some of the findings of the study: There are challenges relating to the TVET college education system, which are a result of the former apartheid regime and its policies. TVET college lecturers are not trained to teach students without a Grade 12 certificate and students with disabilities. This study cannot be used to generalise the challenges of learning barriers in all the TVET colleges in South Africa, because it is case-specific. The study contributes to the discourse on TVET student support and inclusivity in teaching and learning. Therefore, a larger research study should be conducted in all the TVET colleges in South Africa that investigates the learning barriers of students.; Nyakišišo ye e nyakišišitše mapheko a go ithuta kholetšheng ya TVET ka Limpopo. Baithuti ba itemogela mapheko a go fapana a go ithuta, ao a tlaleletšago go ditekanyo tše di phagamego tša go palelwa. Dinyakišišo tše mmalwa ka ga mapheko a go ithuta di dirilwe maemong a sekolo. Maikemišetšo le maikemišetšo a mane di ile tša hlahla thuto. Go ile gwa arabja dipotšišo tše nne tša nyakišišo. Go šomišitšwe tlhamo ya nyakišišo ya boleng, nyakišišo ya mohlala le mohlala wa tlhathollo. Go šomišitšwe go tšea mehlala ka nepo go kgetha batšwasehlabelo ba nyakišišo. Ditshepedišo tša tswalano ya diphedi le tikologo ya tšona tša Bronfenbrenner’s le dithuto tša phetogo tša Schlosberg di ile tša dirišwa go thekga nyakišišo ye. Didirišwa tše pedi tša go kgoboketša datha di ile tša šomišwa go kgoboketša datha. Data e ile ya sekaseka ka go šomiša tshekatsheko ya sererwa. Dihlogo tše hlano di tšweletše go tšwa go datha. Go ahlaahlwa ditlhohlo tše di fapanego tšeo baithuti ba itemogetšego tšona le ditharollo tša go fokotša mapheko a go ithuta. Tše di latelago ke tše dingwe tša dikhwetšo tša nyakišišo ye: Go na le ditlhohlo tšeo di amanago le tshepedišo ya thuto ya kholetšheng ya TVET, tšeo e lego ditlamorago tša mmušo wa peleng wa kgethollo le melawana ya wona. Bafahloši ba kholetšheng ya TVET ga se ba tlwaetšwa go ruta baithuti bao ba se nago Mphato wa 12 le baithuti bao ba golofetšego. Thuto ye e ka se šomišwe go akaretša ditlhohlo tša mapheko a go ithuta ka dikholetšheng ka moka tša TVET ka Afrika Borwa, ka gobane e lebane le melato ye e itšego. Thuto e tsenya letsogo dipoledišanong mabapi le thekgo ya baithuti ba TVET le go akaretša bohle go ruteng le go ithuta. Ka fao, nyakišišo ye kgolo ya nyakišišo e swanetše go dirwa ka dikholetšheng ka moka tša TVET ka Afrika Borwa yeo e nyakišišago mapheko a go ithuta a baithuti. Abstracts in English and Northern Sotho Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32582 2025-08-13T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32581 Community based health insurance uptake and utilisation of healthcare in Ethiopia Adane Kebede Gutema Background: Community-Based Health Insurance (CBHI) is widely recognized as a key strategy for improving healthcare access and financial protection among lowincome populations. In Ethiopia, despite sustained efforts to expand CBHI coverage, enrolment remains below the national target of 80%. By 2020, only 49% of eligible households enrolled in Shaggar City, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. This limited coverage continues to expose many households to out-of-pocket healthcare costs, delays in seeking care, and poor health outcomes, thereby constraining broader socioeconomic development. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the factors influencing CBHI uptake and healthcare utilization and to develop sustainable, evidence-based intervention strategies to enhance enrolment, renewal, and effective service use. Methods: A convergent mixed-methods design, guided by the Socio-Ecological Model (SEM), was employed across six sub-cities of Shaggar City, Oromia Region. The quantitative component involved a cross-sectional survey of 406 households, analyzed using SPSS (version 26) through descriptive statistics and multivariable logistic regression. The qualitative component comprised in-depth interviews with health leaders, CBHI officials, experts, healthcare providers, and community representatives, and was analyzed thematically. Findings from both strands were integrated and further refined using the APEASE framework (Affordability, Practicability, Effectiveness, Acceptability, Safety, and Equity). Results: CBHI enrolment showed a substantial improvement over time. While national and earlier evidence indicated that only 49% of eligible households were enrolled by 2020, the findings of this study revealed that enrolment had increased to 98% among eligible households in the study area by 2025. Despite this significant progress in coverage, both CBHI uptake and healthcare utilization were influenced by interconnected factors operating at multiple levels. Key determinants included individual awareness, perceived quality of healthcare services, household economic status, community trust, and institutional capacity. Qualitative insights further enriched these findings by highlighting persistent challenges related to service quality, limited access to reliable information, and gaps in system responsiveness. Drawing on the integrated evidence, the study developed the Comprehensive Integrated CBHI Uptake and Utilization (CICU) strategy, which focuses on strengthening awareness, improving service delivery, and enhancing sustained community engagement. Conclusion: This study makes a meaningful contribution to the field of health financing by offering an empirically grounded and theoretically informed framework for strengthening the implementation of Community-Based Health Insurance. The proposed Comprehensive Integrated CBHI Uptake and Utilization (CICU) strategy provides practical and context-sensitive guidance for policymakers and practitioners to enhance enrolment, improve service utilization, and address system-level challenges. By promoting more equitable and sustained access to quality healthcare, the study also supports Ethiopia’s ongoing efforts toward achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3). Keywords: Community-Based Health Insurance, CBHI uptake, healthcare utilization, socio-ecological model, health financing, Shaggar City, Oromia Region, Ethiopia Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32581 2026-01-09T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32580 The impact of the body positivity movement on the self-Image of Black, young fat women in South Africa Mbele, Matshidiso Innocentia Differences that don’t fit the norm, such as race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation and body type create susceptibility to marginalisation. Individuals, specifically women, who exist in larger bodies experience marginalisation which perpetuates a weight-based stigma against them. The aim of this research study was to explore the experiences young, Black, fat South African women have with the Body Positivity Movement’s attempt to humanise this aspect of their identities. The literature review undertaken thus far suggests that Eurocentric and Western beauty and health ideals have a great influence on the ideals held by women of colour, especially African women in particular. The emergence of the Body Positivity Movement which brought along with it, respect, acceptance, appreciation and visibility of the unconventional body types seem to have empowered a lot of women, especially fat women. The increasing visibility and overt self-presentation of fat South African women on social media platforms illustrates the complex and often contradictory interplay between historically entrenched Eurocentric beauty ideals and the lived bodily experiences of Black South African women. This expression of corporeality in digital spaces serves not only as evidence of the pervasive influence of Western aesthetic standards that have long privileged thinness, complexion, and body proportions aligned with Euro-American norms—but also highlights the ways in which these women negotiate, resist, and reconfigure such ideals in their everyday practices of self-representation. Their active participation in online visual cultures suggests a shifting relationship to self-image, wherein the internalisation of Eurocentric beauty hierarchies coexists with emerging forms of self-affirmation catalysed in part by the body positivity movement. The research design was that of an exploratory qualitative nature and was conducted from a social constructionist paradigm with Black Feminist Thought and Endarkened Feminist Epistemology as the guiding frameworks. The sample consisted of nine participants who were recruited through purposive and volunteer sampling. Data was collected through the use of indepth semi-structured interviews in order to explore the experiences and views of Black, fat South African women with the body positivity movement. Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse the data and the results suggest that the Body Positivity Movement’s impact extends beyond a change in attitude to fundamental shifts in embodied experience, cultural belonging and the phenomenological structure of self- perception among Black, fat South African women.; Diphapang tse sa dumellaneng le tlwaelo, jwalo ka morabe, ditumelo tsa bodumedi, tshekamelo ya ho kopanela diphate le mofuta wa mmele di etsa hore ho be le monyetla wa ho kgeswa. Batho ka bomong, haholo-holo basadi, ba phelang ka mmele e meholwanyane ba na le ho kgeswa, e leng se etsang hore ba be le sekgobo se thehilweng ho boima ba mmele kgahlanong le bona. Sepheo sa thutopatlisiso e e ne e le ho sekaseka tseo basadi, ba batsho ba Afrika Borwa ba nang le maiteko ona a Movemente wa Kananelo le Kamohelo ya Mmele ka ho fapana a ho etsa hore karolo eno ya boitshupo ba bona e be le botho. Tlhahlobo ya tse ngotsweng e entseng e fana ka maikutlo a hore botle le bophelo bo botle ba Bophirima ba Eurocentric le Bophirima di na le tshusumetso e kgolo mehopolong ya basadi ba mebala, haholo-holo basadi ba Afrika. Ho hlaha ha Movemente wa Kananelo le Kamohelo ya Mmele ka ho fapana ha ona e ileng ya tlisa hammoho le yona, tlhompho, ho amohelwa, kananelo le ponahalo ya mefuta e sa tlwaelehang ya mmele ho bonahala e matlafaditse basadi ba bangata, haholo-holo basadi ba mafura. Ponahalo e ntseng e eketseha le ho itlhahisa pepeneneng ha basadi ba batenya ba Afrika Borwa metjheng ya ditaba tsa setjhaba di bontsha tshebedisano e rarahaneng le eo hangata e hananang dipakeng tsa menahano ya kgale ya botle ba Eurocentric le diphihlelo tsa mmele tsa basadi ba batsho ba Afrika Borwa. Polelo ena ya corporeality dibakeng tsa dijithale ha e sebetse feela e le bopaki ba tshusumetso e atileng ya ditekanyetso tsa botle ba Bophirima tseo e leng kgale di na le monyetla wa ho ba mosesaane, letlalo le dikarolo tsa mmele tse tsamaellanang le ditlwaelo tsa Euro-American — empa hape e totobatsa ditsela tseo basadi bana ba buisanang ka tsona, ba hanang le ho hlophisa botjha mehopolo e jwalo mekgweng ya bona ya letsatsi le letsatsi ya ho ikemela. Ho nka karolo ha bona ka mafolofolo ditsong tsa pono tsa marang-rang ho fana ka maikutlo a kamano e fetohang le boitshwaro, moo ho kenyeletswa ka hare ho maemo a botle a Eurocentric ho kopantseng le mefuta e hlahang ya boitlamo bo hlahisitsweng ke Movemente wa Kananelo le Kamohelo ya mmele ka ho fapana ha yona. Moralo wa dipatlisiso e ne e le wa boleng ba tlhahlobo mme o entswe ho tswa ho paradigm ya kaho ya setjhaba e nang le Black Feminist Thought le Endarkened Feminist Epistemology e le meralo e tataisang. Mohlala o ne o e-na le bankakarolo ba robong ba ileng ba thaothwa ka disampole tse nang le sepheo le boithaopo. Dintlha di ile tsa bokellwa ka tshebediso ya dipuisano tse tebileng tsa semi-structured ho hlahloba diphihlelo le maikutlo a basadi ba batsho, ba nonneng ba Afrika Borwa ba nang le Movemente wa Kamohelo le Kananelo ya mmele ka ho fapana ha yona. Tlhaloso ya Phenomenological Analysis e ile ya sebediswa ho sekaseka dintlha, mme diphetho di fana ka maikutlo a hore phehello ya Movemente wa kamohelo le kananelo ya mmele ka ho fapana ha yona e fetela ka nqane ho phetoho ya maikutlo ho diphetoho tsa motheo tsa phihlelo e kenyelletsweng, ho ba setso le sebopeho sa phenomenological ya ho ipona hara basadi ba batsho, ba nonneng ba Afrika Borwa.; Umehluko ongahambisani nemikhuba ejwayelekile, efana njengobuhlanga, izinkolelo zenkolo, ukuzibandakanya ngokocansi kanye nokwakheka komzimba kuvimba ukuthola izinsiza. Amalunga, ikakhulukazi abesifazane, abaphila nemizimba emikhulu bazithola benqandeka ekutholeni izinsiza okubhebhethekisa isihlava esicwasa isisindo somzimba. Inhloso yalolucwaningo ukubuyekeza izimo abantu besifazane abamnyama, abasebancane baseNingizimu Afrika abakhuluphele abanobudlelwano nenhlangano egqugquzela ukuzithemba ngomzimba ngokwamukela ubuwena. Ukubhekwa kwezinye izihloko ezibhalwe ngabanye ongcweti kuveza ukuba ubuhle baseYurophu naseNtshonalanga kanye nezindlela zempilo bunomthelela omkhulu kwindlela abesizafazane bebala, kanye nabesifazane base Afrika ngokukhethekile. Ukuphakama koMkhankaso Wokuthanda Umzimba okulethe ukuhlonishwa, ukwamukelwa, ukuqashelwa nokubonakala kwezinhlobo zomzimba ezingajwayelekile kubonakala kunike abesifazane abaningi amandla, ikakhulukazi abesifazane abanokukhuluphala. Ukubonakala okukhulayo nokuziveza ngokusobala kwabesifazane abakhulu baseNingizimu Afrika ezinkundleni zokuxhumana kukhombisa ukudidiyela okunzima futhi okuvame ukuphikisana phakathi kwezimiso zobuhle ezibekwe emlandweni ezisuselwa eYurophu kanye nezinto eziphilwayo zomzimba zabesifazane abamnyama baseNingizimu Afrika. Lokhu kukhombisa ubuqotho bomzimba ezindaweni zedijithali akukhombisi nje kuphela ubufakazi bokuthi izinga lobuhle lasentshonalanga elibeke phambili ukuncipha komzimba, umbala wesikhumba kanye nezilinganiso zomzimba ezifana nezaseYurophu naseMelika lithinteka kanjani—futhi kugcizelela izindlela lapho abesifazane bebhekana, bemelana futhi belungisa kabusha lezi zimiso ezinhle ekuziphatheni kwabo nsuku zonke. Ukubamba kwabo iqhaza eliqhubekayo emasikweni okubonwayo aku-inthanethi kubonisa ukuguquka kobudlelwane nesithombe somuntu, lapho ukufakwa ngaphakathi kwezinhlelo zobuhle ezise-Europe kusebenzisana nezindlela ezikhulayo zokuzazisa ezishukumiselwe ingxenye yeMikhankaso Wokwamukela Umzimba. Umgomo wocwaningo wawunesimiso sokuhlola ngokwekhwalithi futhi wenziwa kusukela kumqondo womphakathi wokwakha izindlela zokucabanga zabesifazane abamnyama kanye ne-Endarkened Feminist Epistemology njengohlaka oluholwa phambili. Isampula yayiqukethe ababambiqhaza abayisishiyagalolunye abaqashwe ngokukhethekile nangokuzithandela. Idatha yaqoqwa ngokusebenzisa izingxoxo ezijulile ezingahleleki ngokuphelele ukuze kuhlolwe izipiliyoni nombono wabesifazane abamnyama, abesifazane baseNingizimu Afrika abakhulu mayelana ne-Body Positivity Movement. Ukuhlaziywa Kwe-Phenomenological kusetshenziswe ukuhlaziya Abstracts and keywords in English, Southern Sotho, and IsiZulu Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/32580 2026-02-20T00:00:00Z