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Food, farming and subsistence agriculture: women's voices from u-Mhlanga village, Eastern Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)Using a qualitative feminist methodology grounded on post-modemist and postcolonial framework, this research represents an attempt to determine the factors influencing the farming and subsistence agriculture strategies ... -
Food, sex and text: Exploring survival sex in the context of food insecurity through communal readings of the book of Ruth
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The study explored how contextual Bible study (CBS) contributes to the understanding of survival sex in the context of food insecurity. Even though South Africa is a food secure nation, a large percentage of the population ... -
Foraging ecology of Naja nivea and Dispholidus typus
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)It is widely reported that snakes can be major predators of avian nests, but the use of a single avian prey type by competing species has rarely been examined. This study aimed to investigate predation of a single food ... -
Foraminiferal biostratigraphic studies from Mesozoic succession of selected wells from the Orange Basin, western offshore, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Located on the western offshore on the Atlantic Ocean margin of Southern Africa, the Orange Basin is the youngest and largest of the South Africa’s seven sedimentary basins. This passive margin basin in known for its ... -
Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and depositional environment of the early cretaceous drilled succession in Durban basin, east coast, South Africa
(South African Journal of Higher Education, 2020)Durban Basin located on the eastern coast of South Africa has been a focus of interest for Petroleum Exploration for the last few decades. Only four exploratory wells have been drilled in this offshore basin without success. ... -
Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Depositional Environment of the Early Cretaceous Drilled Succession in Durban Basin, East Coast, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Durban Basin located on the eastern coast of South Africa has been a focus of interest for Petroleum Exploration for the last few decades. Only four exploratory wells have been drilled in this offshore basin without success. ... -
Forced sterilisation as a continuing violation of human rights in Africa: Possibilities and challenges
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)International standards recognise the basic right of all women and girls to make free choices about reproduction including the number if any, spacing and timing of their children without being subjected to discrimination, ... -
Foreign aid and corruption in Zambia
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This paper seeks to examine the relationship between foreign aid and corruption in Zambia. Drawing from the analysis of the two, it then explores whether the existing legal instruments are adequate and effective to combat ... -
Foreign direct investment and governance: an empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This thesis employed a panel data of 36 countries from sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1996-2000 to examine the impact of governance on foreign direct investment flows. Within the governance variable there are six ... -
Foreign direct investment in Cameroon: establishing effective investment regulations
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) began as a worldwide phenomenon in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Even then, it formed only a small portion of foreign investments for decades, as a greater percentage took the form of ... -
Foreign Exchange Option Valuation under Stochastic Volatility
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)The case of pricing options under constant volatility has been common practise for decades. Yet market data proves that the volatility is a stochastic phenomenon, this is evident in longer duration instruments in which the ... -
Foreign students: The Lesotho students' reasons, learning and social experiences in the institutions of higher education in the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)The aim of the study was to find out the academic and social experience of Lesotho students who studied at institutions of higher education in the Western Cape between 1990-1997. The research methods employed in this study ... -
Foreign students: the Lesotho students' reasons, learning and social experiences in the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)The aim of this study was to find out the academic and social experience of Lesotho students who studied at institutions of higher in the Western Cape between 1990-1997. -
Foreign training of academic staff and capacity building in higher education institutions in Rwanda
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, not only physical assets were eroded but more importantly, human capital were destroyed and left the country living hardly on qualified personnel at almost all levels of the economy to ... -
A forensic analysis of genetic variation in the Botswana population
(University of the Western cape, 2016)This thesis has been placed under a long term embargo. Forensic and population genetic parameters were investigated in the Botswana population using autosomal and Y-chromosome short tandem repeat markers. AmpFlSTR Profiler ... -
Forensic identification of six of Tanzanian populations using the extended haplotype markers
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)The aim of the present study was to evaluate the power of discrimination and genetic (diversity) parameters in the Y chromosome extended haploytpe markers in populations of Tanzania for forensic and populations studies. ... -
Forensic Radiographic Identification Using Manipulated Digital Dental Images
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)A technique was developed for the assessment of forensic identification using dental radiographs. The technique involved the digitisation of dental radiographs, cutting of a horizontal section from an antemortem radiograph ... -
A forgotten diaspora : forced Indian Migration to the Cape Colony, 1658 to 1834
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This thesis aims to explore Indian forced migration to the Cape Colony from 1658 to 1834. The forgotten diaspora‘ of its title refers to the first Indians who had come to the shores of South Africa, long before the ... -
The form of Muslim government and its source of authority in contemporary Islamic thought : a comparative study of the views of Ayatollah Ruḥollah Khomeini and Sayyid Quţb
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)The year 1924, which coincided with the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and more recently, the Arab Spring which started in Tunisia in December 2010, and spread across much of north Africa and parts of the Middle East, has ... -
Formal mentorship and entrepreneurial learning: The case of a support programme in the Western Cape clothing sector
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)How entrepreneurs learn to cope and survive in the South African clothing sector, with its high levels of macro-environment turbulence, may engender particular lessons for entrepreneurial learning and related outcomes ...