In rural South Africa, young women face multiple challenges after being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. This study explored the lived experiences of young women aged 18 to 35 who had been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in the Mtubatuba ...
Background: Learner-on-teacher violence is a growing global concern, and South African
schools are not exempt from this issue. However, the specific experiences of early-career
young cisgender women teachers remain ...
The South African historical research proves that military training camps during apartheid were sites of cisheteronormativity, which recognised cisgender heterosexual men and informed the illtreatment of gay male recruits ...
This paper explores rural high school learners’ perceptions of transitioning to higher education institutions (HEIs) in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Drawing on data from focus group discussions and reflective essays conducted ...
Background: Making post-matric and career decisions is a significant challenge for rural high school learners in South Africa, where access to career assessments, information and professional guidance is limited. While ...
Background: South African higher education institutions shifted from traditional to remote teaching and learning because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) national lockdown. Despite extensive research on remote ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and national lockdown implemented in March 2020 prompted South African higher education institutions to shift from face-to-face to remote teaching and learning. The sudden transition presented challenges ...
Bayane, Percyval(John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2025-10-30)
This article explores how male and female Uber drivers in Johannesburg navigate safety and violence within a high-crime urban context, highlighting the gendered dimensions of digital platform work. Drawing on qualitative ...
Debates over the regulation of platform work often hinge on the tension between
worker protection and labour flexibility, yet little is known about how platform
workers themselves navigate this trade-off in Johannesburg. ...
Bayane, Percyval(Nova Southeastern University (NSU), 2025-12)
Research has been conducted on domestic work in South Africa with studies focusing on domestic workers’ conditions during Apartheid and examining the little to no changes post-Apartheid. Domestic work in post-Apartheid ...
Researching precarious workers constitutes navigating complex methodological and ethical challenges, particularly in contexts marked by insecurity, power asymmetries, and mistrust. In this paper, I provide a reflexive ...
This study explored the sexual behaviours of gay men who use pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Gauteng, South Africa, through the perspectives of Erving Goffman’s stigma theory and Berger and Luckmann’s social constructionism ...
In this paper, we aim to explore public reactions to non-normative expressions of masculinity within South African society. We argue that although society has become more accepting of such expressions, there still exists ...
Maake, Tshepo(Center for Open Access in Science, 2022-08-01)
The paper investigates the factors that inform university undergraduate students’ perceptions of religiously sanctioned homophobia. Data was drawn from a quantitative survey conducted in 2017 on students’ perceptions of ...
South African literature demonstrates that heteronormative ideologies are evident at universities and inform various discriminations against LGBTIQ+ students. These heteronormative ideologies emanate from the traditional ...
In this study, we explore how HIV-related social stigma in a South African rural township community informs parents’ and caregivers’ decisions to disclose their children’s HIV-positive status to them. To achieve the aim ...
The study examined the challenges of caring for adolescent foster children post-foster placement with the intention to develop guidelines for social work intervention. The research approach of the study was qualitative and ...
Introduction: Globally and in South Africa, young people are predisposed to contracting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) due to several social challenges. These social challenges include poverty and gangsterism. In ...
This research explored the experiences of employed Black African men in Gauteng regarding paternity leave. Grounded in the symbolic interactionist and liberal feminist theoretical frameworks, a qualitative research approach ...
The majority of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disclosure research in South Africa has focused on spouses and sexual partners. Few studies have researched how parents and caregivers disclose children’s HIV-positive ...