Priscilla Gutura

Biographic Data

ID1839167
NAMEPriscilla Gutura
GIVEN NAMESPriscilla
FAMILY NAMEGutura
SIGNATUREGUTURA P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pretoria
ORCID0000-0002-7135-6210
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Transforming Welfare Services

    Open AccessPriscilla GuturaARTICLESocieties2026References: 4

    This paper presents qualitative findings from a broader study conducted with beneficiaries of social assistance grants in Nkonkobe Municipality, South Africa, guided by Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and a Feminist Political Economy perspective. It specifically examines the impact of the Child Support Grant (CSG) on women residing in rural areas with limited economic opportunities. Drawing on the narratives of twenty-five female beneficiaries,…

  • The Contribution of Community Volunteers in Foster Care Placements of Children Living With Hiv

    Open AccessJeffries Zwelithini Khosa, Jeffries Zwelithini et al.ARTICLESocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk2025

    This article discusses the importance of involving community volunteers to contribute towards meeting the needs of children in foster care living with HIV. This discussion is anchored in Abraham Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy of human needs. The findings presented in this article emanated from a broader study that was conducted in the City of Johannesburg with social workers and community volunteers. This article discusses qualitative results w…

  • Prospects for and factors that militate against decolonising education in social work in South Africa

    Tatenda Manomano, Rumbidzai Nyanhoto et al.ARTICLECritical and Radical Social Work2020References: 10

    The effects of both colonialism and the apartheid that succeeded it resulted in the indigenous peoples of South Africa being displaced, marginalised, excluded and exploited. For many generations, indigenous population groups were disenfranchised, their destinies were taken out of their hands and their socio-economic status was predetermined. As colonisers tended to perceive the knowledge systems of indigenous peoples as being inferior to their ow…

  • Rape Myth Acceptance

    Open AccessSunday B Fakunmoju, Tina Abrefa-Gyan et al.ARTICLESexuality & Culture2020Cited by: 5References: 10

  • An Era of Journalism Transition in South Africa

    Open AccessAkinwale Olusola, Seriki Ibrahim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Sciences2017Cited by: 2References: 1

    Reading newspapers and listening/watching news on television is gradually becoming a thing of the past, while attention is shifted to internet media. This has become a trend not only in developed countries but also in developing nations like South Africa. The increase in web visits is a problem that has led to vast decline in newspaper circulation, putting the future of the latter in a state of uncertainty. This paper studied the changes that wer…

  • “Bargaining with Children”

    Open AccessPriscilla GuturaARTICLEJournal of Sociology and Social…2016

  • “Bargaining with Children”

    Open AccessPriscilla Gutura, Pius T TangaARTICLEJournal of Sociology and Social…2016

    The results of this paper were extracted from a study which used mixed methodology, to collect data from 541 social grant beneficiaries, from Ngqushwa Local Municipality. Most of the participants perceived that teenagers in their communities got pregnant so that they could receive the Child Support Grant. Interestingly, it was revealed that there were other women specifically not teenagers who were getting pregnant and having more children for th…

  • Women Handling of Domestic Violence in Rural Township of Alice in South Africa

    Open AccessPius T Tanga, Priscilla GuturaARTICLEThe Anthropologist2016References: 2

    A quantitative survey was conducted in Eastern Cape in South Africa to explore the use and effectivenessof strategies used to address domestic violence. Fifty women who lived in Golf Course Community, in Alice townwere administered questionnaires. The findings of the study highlighted that the women were aware of severalstrategies used to address domestic violence which included women’s rights organizations, reporting perpetrators tothe police an…

  • Management of HIV/Aids Programmes at the Workplace

    Open AccessPius T Tanga, Priscilla Gutura et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Ecology2016References: 1

    This study investigated the management of HIV /AIDS programmes at the workplace using four selected organizations in Chris Hani District, Eastern Cape Province (two public organizations and two private organizations). Using a quantitative survey, two hundred employees were administered semi-structured questionnaires. The major findings revealed that all the four organizations had HIV/AIDS programmes and policies for their employees. However, ther…

  • Influence of Child Support Grants on Increased Birth Rate among Women of Childbearing Age in Alice Town, South Africa

    Open AccessPius T Tanga, Isaac Ajiboye Oyeleke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Ecology2015Cited by: 1

    This paper investigates the influence of the Child Support Grant (CSG) on increased birth rate among women of childbearing age. A qualitative research method was employed and data was collected from fifteen femaleparticipants aged between 16 and 40 years. The results of the study suggests that increased birth rate in Alice Townin the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa was mainly caused by CSG in terms of its easy accessibility and thegovernmen…