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Stylisation of identities in online discourses related to The Spear on Sowetan LIVE
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study focuses on a story featured on Sowetan LIVE, one of South Africa’s online newspapers. The flexibility of the mode in which the newspaper is produced, enables users to comment on its articles as they are published. ...
Portrait of a mobile political subject: The figure of the Afghan Mujahedeen in South Africa in the 1980s.
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
This mini-thesis engages with the period of the Cold War between 1979 and 1989 to examine the
shifts and contradictions that emerged around the figure of the “terrorist” and the “freedom
fighter with a focus on the Afghan ...
The everyday life and the missing: Silences, heroic narratives and exhumations.
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This mini-thesis draws on the biographical materials of activists; Zubeida Jaffer,
Nokuthula Simelane and Siphiwo Mthimkulu in order to investigate their representation as
South African Anti-Apartheid activists. Within ...
A hashtag analysis of racial discourses within #ColouredExcellence: Case of Wayde van Niekerk
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The research study takes into account the apartheid legacy of racial hierarchization and ‘separate development’ (cf Raynard, 2012) which penetrated all aspects of social life. Particularly, it is the sporting domain and ...
Richard Turner's contribution to a socialist political culture In South Africa 1968-1978
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This thesis evaluates Turner's capacity to encourage a shift in white politics towards New Left radicalism. Despite Turner's influence on many, tensions arose between Turner's politics and more orthodox forms of socialism, ...
The Impasse of Violence : writing necklacing into a history of liberation struggle in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This thesis falls within the category of historical studies that is concerned with a difficult legacy of South Africa's liberation struggle, namely the practice of necklacing that accompanied it. My interest in the practice ...
An exploration of the discourses women survivors of intimate partner violence draw on to understand intimate femicide
(University of Western Cape, 2013)
This study is about intimate femicide: The murder of a woman by a male intimate partner, namely her husband, boyfriend (dating or cohabiting), ex-husband (divorced or separated), ex-boyfriend or a rejected would-be lover. ...
The challenges of digitising heritage collections in South Africa: a case study
(UWC, 2013)
This dissertation explores the organisational challenges for an archive which is attempting to digitise its collections. While technical, organisational and managerial challenges are discussed, this research focuses ...
The social constructions of HIV/AIDS stigma in one community in Cape Town, South Africa
(2010)
Due to tremendous stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, revelation of HIV positive sero-status of an individual has become a significant risk in communities of South Africa (Kalichman el al., 2003;Deacon et al., 2004; Kalichman et ...
An investigation of community participation in housing delivery at the Joe Slovo Settlement in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This research endeavours to identify existing participatory structures and explore the role of local government officials, community representatives and other role players in the housing delivery process in Joe Slovo; ...