Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya
Biographic Data
| ID | 265752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thanduxolo |
| FAMILY NAME | Nomngcoyiya |
| SIGNATURE | NOMNGCOYIYA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fort Hare |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5998-898X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Disentangling entangled amaXhosa manhood in psychosis: A cross-cultural psychiatric case study, Cape Town, South Africa
Recognizing how the amaXhosa people of South Africa value well-functioning circumcision rituals, our paper interrogates one Xhosa man's coming-of-age entanglement in psychosis. In 2001, Xolile was admitted to the psychiatric ward of Valkenberg Hospital, Cape Town, suffering with a brief psychotic disorder. Its onset came days after leaving seclusion; triggers included his father's absence and failing his university exams. We describe how cross-cu…
African Knowledge Production Incubators: Approaching Indigenous and Decolonized Social Work from the Ground Up Through Stories of Our Lived Experiences
Six social work academics from five universities in South Africa embarked on an African Knowledge Production Incubators project using PALAR methodology. We acknowledged the imperative to decolonise social work curricula in South African universities with the goal of centering African knowledges. This article reports on our project's first objective viz. telling stories of our lived experiences of being an African. Our stories reflected the richne…
Experiences of Grandmothers Looking After Grandchildren Exhibiting Delinquent Behaviours in Hill Crest Location, Alice Township, Eastern Cape: Implications for Social Work
Older persons face an array of challenges with regard to parenting a delinquent grandchild. The study adopted a qualitative approach with the use of an explorative and descriptive design, with data collected from in-depth interviews with grandparents, communities and probation officers. The study also adopted phenomenology as the specific research approach. Findings revealed that grandparents parenting their grandchildren face the pernicious expe…
Autoethnographic View of South African Social Work Educators During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Highlighting Social (In)justice
COVID-19 has exposed the inequalities and polarisation of South African communities and institutions of higher learning on the continuum of privilege. As nine social work educators, we share our reflections on how we traversed the higher education space during the beginning of the pandemic, using an autoethnography lens, with the pedagogy of discomfort and critical social work theory as the threads in the complex tapestry of our stories. We descr…
The Impact of Traditional Male Circumcision Challenges on Newly Initiated Men’s Advancement in Education: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work in South Africa
The Coping Mechanisms Employed by Grandparent-Headed Families in Addressing Juvenile Delinquency in Hill Crest, Alice Township, Eastern Cape Province
Literature studies have shown that older persons face an array of challenges, among them parenting a delinquent grandchild. This study adopted both a qualitative approach and paradigm, supported by an explorative and a descriptive case study design. The study sampled eleven participants, and data were collected using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with grandparents, a community committee member, and probation officers. Measures e…
Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local & Global Perspectives in Social Work
Stigma Experienced by Traditional Male Circumcision Stakeholders in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Exploring flaws embedded in the contemporary traditional circumcision practice in South Africa: A literature review
Incontrovertibly, various voices of different personalities and stakeholders whether nationally, regionally and internationally continue to wonder why South Africa is experiencing circumcision accidents year-in-year-out. However, other sources seem to indicate that the traditional male circumcision house is in disarray. This calls for critical analysis, debates and discourses with the aim of carrying a serious autopsy of the phenomenon with the h…
The Review of Pros and Cons between Traditional Male Circumcision and Medical Male Circumcision in the Contemporary South Africa
The relevance and benefits of Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as opposed to Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) has been a topical issue globally. The purpose of this paper through a desktop review, seeks to elicit debates, discussions, discourses and analysis of the pros and cons between Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) and Medical Male Circumcision (MMC). The following underpinning factors have been identified to be a panacea: TMC as an iden…
An Autopsy of Pertinent Psychosocial Deficits Espoused in Contemporary Traditional Male Circumcision in South Africa: A Literature Review
Hugely, and on account of year-in-year-out occurrences of circumcision mishaps especially in some parts of the Eastern Cape Province, the current traditional male circumcision practice is continually robbing societies of their erstwhile social capital that has been usually associated with the rite. The aim of the article through the use of desktop literature review method is to engage in discourse, discussions and debates on pertinent psychosocia…
An Exploration of Subjugation of Women among the Communities Practising Traditional Male Circumcision Rite in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Importantly, the world cannot be fair if women’s rights in various facets of society continue to be stifled. The innumerable initiates’ deaths year-in-year out, the pains and agonies of women because of their son’s irreparable initiation damages have necessitated a desire to increase women’s bargaining power in issues pertaining to the rite. The aim of this article using desktop review method is to discuss and debate subjugation of women in tradi…
Exploring Underpinnings Weighing Down the Phenomenon of Adherence to Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARVs) among the People Living With HIV/Aids (PLWHA) in South Africa and Botswana: A Literature Review
It is critical that People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in African countries hard-hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic such as Botswana and South Africa be the cornerstone of a successful HIV/AIDS campaign by taking responsibility and accountability of taking the ARVs according to the drug regimen. Anti-retrovirals (ARVs) are very expensive and drains national coffers immensely that translates to a heavy burden on the tax payers. The aim of this paper is…
The Impact of Traditional Male Circumcision Challenges on Newly Initiated Men’s Advancement in Education: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work in South Africa
An Exploration of Subjugation of Women among the Communities Practising Traditional Male Circumcision Rite in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Importantly, the world cannot be fair if women’s rights in various facets of society continue to be stifled. The innumerable initiates’ deaths year-in-year out, the pains and agonies of women because of their son’s irreparable initiation damages have necessitated a desire to increase women’s bargaining power in issues pertaining to the rite. The aim of this article using desktop review method is to discuss and debate subjugation of women in tradi…
Exploring Underpinnings Weighing Down the Phenomenon of Adherence to Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARVs) among the People Living With HIV/Aids (PLWHA) in South Africa and Botswana: A Literature Review
It is critical that People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in African countries hard-hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic such as Botswana and South Africa be the cornerstone of a successful HIV/AIDS campaign by taking responsibility and accountability of taking the ARVs according to the drug regimen. Anti-retrovirals (ARVs) are very expensive and drains national coffers immensely that translates to a heavy burden on the tax payers. The aim of this paper is…
An Autopsy of Pertinent Psychosocial Deficits Espoused in Contemporary Traditional Male Circumcision in South Africa: A Literature Review
Hugely, and on account of year-in-year-out occurrences of circumcision mishaps especially in some parts of the Eastern Cape Province, the current traditional male circumcision practice is continually robbing societies of their erstwhile social capital that has been usually associated with the rite. The aim of the article through the use of desktop literature review method is to engage in discourse, discussions and debates on pertinent psychosocia…
An Exploration of Subjugation of Women among the Communities Practising Traditional Male Circumcision Rite in Eastern Cape, South Africa
Importantly, the world cannot be fair if women’s rights in various facets of society continue to be stifled. The innumerable initiates’ deaths year-in-year out, the pains and agonies of women because of their son’s irreparable initiation damages have necessitated a desire to increase women’s bargaining power in issues pertaining to the rite. The aim of this article using desktop review method is to discuss and debate subjugation of women in tradi…
Exploring flaws embedded in the contemporary traditional circumcision practice in South Africa: A literature review
Incontrovertibly, various voices of different personalities and stakeholders whether nationally, regionally and internationally continue to wonder why South Africa is experiencing circumcision accidents year-in-year-out. However, other sources seem to indicate that the traditional male circumcision house is in disarray. This calls for critical analysis, debates and discourses with the aim of carrying a serious autopsy of the phenomenon with the h…
The Review of Pros and Cons between Traditional Male Circumcision and Medical Male Circumcision in the Contemporary South Africa
The relevance and benefits of Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) as opposed to Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) has been a topical issue globally. The purpose of this paper through a desktop review, seeks to elicit debates, discussions, discourses and analysis of the pros and cons between Traditional Male Circumcision (TMC) and Medical Male Circumcision (MMC). The following underpinning factors have been identified to be a panacea: TMC as an iden…
The Coping Mechanisms Employed by Grandparent-Headed Families in Addressing Juvenile Delinquency in Hill Crest, Alice Township, Eastern Cape Province
Literature studies have shown that older persons face an array of challenges, among them parenting a delinquent grandchild. This study adopted both a qualitative approach and paradigm, supported by an explorative and a descriptive case study design. The study sampled eleven participants, and data were collected using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with grandparents, a community committee member, and probation officers. Measures e…
Encouraging Global Justice: Integrating Local & Global Perspectives in Social Work
Stigma Experienced by Traditional Male Circumcision Stakeholders in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
Autoethnographic View of South African Social Work Educators During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Highlighting Social (In)justice
COVID-19 has exposed the inequalities and polarisation of South African communities and institutions of higher learning on the continuum of privilege. As nine social work educators, we share our reflections on how we traversed the higher education space during the beginning of the pandemic, using an autoethnography lens, with the pedagogy of discomfort and critical social work theory as the threads in the complex tapestry of our stories. We descr…
The Impact of Traditional Male Circumcision Challenges on Newly Initiated Men’s Advancement in Education: Implications for Human Rights and Social Work in South Africa
Experiences of Grandmothers Looking After Grandchildren Exhibiting Delinquent Behaviours in Hill Crest Location, Alice Township, Eastern Cape: Implications for Social Work
Older persons face an array of challenges with regard to parenting a delinquent grandchild. The study adopted a qualitative approach with the use of an explorative and descriptive design, with data collected from in-depth interviews with grandparents, communities and probation officers. The study also adopted phenomenology as the specific research approach. Findings revealed that grandparents parenting their grandchildren face the pernicious expe…
African Knowledge Production Incubators: Approaching Indigenous and Decolonized Social Work from the Ground Up Through Stories of Our Lived Experiences
Six social work academics from five universities in South Africa embarked on an African Knowledge Production Incubators project using PALAR methodology. We acknowledged the imperative to decolonise social work curricula in South African universities with the goal of centering African knowledges. This article reports on our project's first objective viz. telling stories of our lived experiences of being an African. Our stories reflected the richne…
Disentangling entangled amaXhosa manhood in psychosis: A cross-cultural psychiatric case study, Cape Town, South Africa
Recognizing how the amaXhosa people of South Africa value well-functioning circumcision rituals, our paper interrogates one Xhosa man's coming-of-age entanglement in psychosis. In 2001, Xolile was admitted to the psychiatric ward of Valkenberg Hospital, Cape Town, suffering with a brief psychotic disorder. Its onset came days after leaving seclusion; triggers included his father's absence and failing his university exams. We describe how cross-cu…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Genital Health and Disease (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Population (5 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (4 works) · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (4 works)