This article explores and examines the relevance and efficacy of social work education in a transforming South Africa which has embraced the ethos of equality and social justice. It argues for a more developmentally oriented social work education and training so as to enhance and enrich practice.

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This discussion is addressed to the question of human rights in South Africa. It argues that the profession of social work must continue to champion and shape a human rights discourse in the current democratic order.

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This paper reflects on the human rights of older persons in South Africa and considers the manner in which they are violated, despite the country having a progressive Constitution that enshrines such rights. It interrogates this paradox while taking into account South Africa's rights-based approach to service provision. In regard to older persons, South Africa's social welfare policy, which is spelt out in the White Paper for Social Welfare (Government Gazette 386, No. 18166, 1997), guides the provision of welfare services to these citizens, from a rights-based perspective. However, there seems to be a disjuncture between what is professed in the country's Constitution and social welfare policy, and what is actually happening in the daily lives of older persons. Hence, the paper critically analyzes this contradiction.

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