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Cele, Simangele Constance

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department: Sociology
Research Interest(s): Scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education, Rurality, Rural spaces and rural development, Small and medium enterprises, Entrepreneurship.
Active Research Project(s): Nelson Mandela children’s fund project Eshowe (uMlalazi Municipality).
Biography: Dr Simangele Constance Cele is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Zululand.
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    Conceptualizing Ukonga in the context of sustainable livelihoods
    2023
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    The concept of Ukonga group meaning self-help group is a community-based self-managed group funded by members who contribute to a pool of savings in regular meetings and offer credit facilities to its members from the savings. For the context of this study, these are women who have voluntarily come forward to build themselves up to improve the social and economic status of the members. The broad objective of the study is to conceptualise the operating system of ukonga groups for mobilization of savings, its performance, and in promoting women's empowerment in rural communities. Some studies have confirmed the effect of ukonga groups on sustainable livelihoods, food security, and asset ownership, however, women are still not empowered as per the expectation. The empowerment of women through ukonga groups would lead to benefits not only for the individual women but also for the family and community through collective action for development. A qualitative research design was considered appropriate to conduct the research. A semi-structured interview schedule was used as a research tool for data collection. The data was analysed by employing a thematic analysis technique. A significant finding of this study is that this group has enhanced the female participants as they are more economically and socially active and can act on their own compared to women who did not use the savings group.
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