Zibonele France Zimba

Dados Biográficos

ID5823732
NOMEZibonele France Zimba
PRENOMESZibonele France
SOBRENOMEZimba
ASSINATURAZIMBA Z F
AFILIAÇÕESStellenbosch University
ORCID0000-0003-2597-2167
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES1
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2014
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H1

  • Radical social work in South Africa

    Zibonele France ZimbaARTICLECritical and Radical Social Work2024Referências: 20

    The social work profession defines itself as one that promotes social change and the liberation of people. In social work practice, there is often a controversy between solving problems and engaging social issues within political, economic and historical realities. The aim of this article is to determine the current landscape of radical social work within the South African context. Findings indicate that radical efforts and responses towards deco…

  • Effects of Family Preservation Services on Family Cohesion

    Open AccessZibonele France Zimba, Zibonele Zimba et al.ARTICLESocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk2023

    Family preservation services are considered essential and allow children to be with their families, which by implication, avoids their placement outside family care. This article presents the views of family heads on the effects of family preservation services, such as time spent together and connectedness. The findings of the study emerged from the qualitative approach, which entailed conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 family heads. A…

  • Practice Experiences of South African Social Workers Living With Disabilities

    Open AccessZibonele France ZimbaARTICLESocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk2021

    For more than three decades in the field of social work the focus has been on social workers and persons living with disabilities. The purpose of this article is to present the findings of an empirical study on practice experiences of social workers living with disabilities in South Africa. A qualitative research methodology was used to achieve the objective of the study. Data were collected through semi-structured one-on-one interviews with seve…

  • Autoethnographic View of South African Social Work Educators During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessNevashnee Perumal, Roshini Pillay et al.ARTICLESocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk2021

    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…

  • Using blended learning in South African social work education to facilitate student engagement

    Zibonele France Zimba, Priscalia Khosa et al.ARTICLESocial Work Education2021

    The use of blended learning has increased in higher education internationally, and in South Africa specifically. However, the digital divide has widened as a result of various factors, such as urban versus rural geographical locations, and historically advantaged versus historically disadvantaged universities. This study explores the use of blended learning by social work educators to enhance students’ engagement in a classroom setting in nine co…

  • Cultural Complexity Thinking by Social Workers in Their Address of Sustainable Development Goals in a Culturally Diverse South Africa

    Zibonele France ZimbaARTICLEJournal of Progressive Human…2020Referências: 7

    The global agenda of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provides social workers an opportunity to redefine their contributions pertaining to socioeconomic development, human rights and the environment. This is specifically so for social workers in South Africa, whose contributions have been narrowed. Therefore, this paper identifies potential contributions by social workers in relation to the SDGs using cultural complexity thinking in a diverse…

  • Authentication of an academic culture in a Social Work programme offered at a South African university

    Open AccessLambert Engelbrecht, Abigail Ornellas et al.ARTICLEInternational Social Work2019Referências: 5

    In 2015, a campaign was launched by students and academics to decolonise university curricula in South Africa. As a response, we reflect on our experiences at Stellenbosch University, based on the premise that not only does our Social Work curriculum require adaptation and renewal through a process of authentication, but that a prerequisite for this process would entail a hybridisation of both a salutary authentic academic culture and curriculum.…

  • Challenges Faced by Traditional Healers When Treating People Living with HIV and Aids

    Open AccessZibonele France Zimba, Zibonele ZimbaARTICLEStudies on Ethno-Medicine2014

    There has been a link between nutrition styles and human health and physical features for centuries.Similarly, there has been a connection between the easiness and difficulty to reach food materials, and shortage and abundance of these material and human behaviors and moral structure.One of the efforts to make a connection between these qualifications comes from Ibn Khaldun.A thinker of Islam, Ibn Khaldun, who lived in the 18 th century, stated t…

  • Challenges Faced by Traditional Healers When Treating People Living with HIV and Aids

    Open AccessZibonele France Zimba, Zibonele Zimba et al.ARTICLEStudies on Ethno-Medicine2014Citada por: 1

    The aim of the present study was to examine the procedures followed by traditional healers treating people living with HIV and AIDS in the Intsika Municipality and the challenges faced by them during this endeavour. Using the qualitative research method, in-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with twenty traditional healers. Among the significant findings were the hardships encountered by traditional healers in terms of fi…