Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Author "Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga"
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Categorisation and Minoritisation
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Selvarajah, Sujitha; Deivanayagam, Thilagawathi Abi; Lasco, Gideon (BMJ Global health, 2020)The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 and brutality of protective institutions has shifted anti-racism discourses into the mainstream. 1 Increased reckoning over categorisations of people demonstrate that ... -
Child Support Grant access and receipt among 12-week-old infants in an urban township setting in South Africa
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Doherty, Tanya; Sanders, David; Jackson, Debra (Co-Action Publishing, 2014)BACKGROUND: Cash transfers (CTs) are increasingly used as a strategy to alleviate poverty and improve child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. The Child Support Grant (CSG) is the largest CT programme ... -
Children, Social Assistance and Food Security
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Witten, Chantell; Edlemann, Theresa (The Black Sash, 2021)The Child Support Grant (CSG) in South Africa, which is the smallest of all the grants, is currently R460 per month after being increased from R450 in April 2021. This grant needs to cover many basic needs for a child ... -
The experience of cash transfers in alleviating childhood poverty in South Africa: Mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Surender, Rebecca; Sanders, David (Routledge, 2014)Cash transfer (CT) programmes are increasingly being used as policy instruments to address child poverty and child health outcomes in developing countries. As the largest cash-transfer programme in Africa, the South ... -
Social protection and care: Does the Child Support Grant translate to social justice outcomes for female beneficiaries who receive it on behalf of their children?
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga (HSRC Press, Cape Town, South Africa, 2022)The book begins by situating the establishment of the CSG within the wider context of South Africa’s political and welfare history, and the global context of social protection. It starts off by making the case for a ... -
Social Protection in a Time of Covid
Torkelson, Erin; Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Senona, Engenas (The Black Sash, 2021)The Covid-19 Social Relief of distress Grant (Covid-19 SRD) was introduced in South Africa in May 2020 to mitigate the devastating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It provided for people between 18 and 59 years of age, ... -
‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Surender, Rebecca; Sanders, David; Swart, Rina; Ramokolo, Vundli; Wright, Gemma; Doherty, Tanya (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)Food security and good nutrition are key determinants of child well-being. There is strong evidence that cash transfers such as South Africa’s Child Support Grant (CSG) have the potential to help address some of the ... -
Undernutrition and its social determinants
Ramokolo, Vundli; Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Sanders, David (Elsevier, 2017)Undernutrition, especially among young children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains widespread, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Its effects include increased risk of morbidity and mortality ... -
We should not have to choose between hunger and death’: exploring the experiences of primary caregivers of recipients of a South African child cash transfer programme during COVID-19 lockdown in Cape Town, South Africa
Zembe-Mkabile, Wanga; Doherty, Tanya; Ramokolo, Vundli (Policy Press, 2023)Background: The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa and across the globe posed special challenges and implications for low-income families with children. In this study we explored the experiences of primary ...