17 research outputs found
The role of Parliament in promoting active citizenship in relation to the Grade 11 Life Orientation in the South African curriculum
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa plays a pivotal role in promoting active
citizenship to ensure the deepening of democracy. This article, as based on the study by
Arendse, explored the extent to which Parliament as a key participatory institution promotes
active citizenship in relation to the Grade 11 Life Orientation (LO) curriculum in South Africa.
A qualitative, interpretive approach was employed. However, data were gathered through the
crystallisation approach using different methods of gathering data such as document study,
questionnaires and focus group interviews, which involved 461 Grade 12 LO learners who had
completed the Grade 11 LO curriculum during 2012 and seven LO educators. The findings
suggest that there is: (1) lack of exposure, knowledge and understanding about Parliament;
(2) lack of public education programmes and initiatives about Parliament; and (3) limited
information about Parliament in the LO curriculum
Informality and the context of reception in South Africa's new immigrant destinations
This study examines the context of reception for Zimbabwean migrants who are
engaged in South Africa's informal economy. It seeks to contribute to two areas of
migration scholarship: (a) the emergence of new immigrant destinations in the global
South and (b) the role of the informal economy in shaping the context of reception
for migrants in new gateway cities. Through surveys of Zimbabwean day labourers in
Tshwane (formerly Pretoria), we document the poverty and the food and housing
insecurity these migrants and their dependents endure resulting from
underemployment in the informal economy. The analysis presented here suggests that
although it has received little attention from migration scholars, the informal economy
can play a significant role in shaping the context of reception for immigrants in the new
gateway cities of the global South. In many destination countries, the informal economy
absorbs large numbers of migrants, making it an important, if flawed, source of
employment, earnings, and remittances. With increasing levels of migration to major
cities, the informal economy has become a key arena of migrant incorporation, with
farâreaching implications for lives and livelihoods.IBSS & Scopu