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From vision to structure: assessing the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa in the light of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The intention of the AFMSA to revision its policies, processes and structures is the motivation for this study. The relationship between the vision and essential nature of the church and the structure or form given to it ...
The management of indigenous knowledge in Swaziland, with specific reference to the Swaziland National Library Service (SNLS)
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
Indigenous knowledge systems (IKSs) have made positive contributions in agriculture; health care; medicine; food preparation and preservation; land use; education and a host of other activities in rural communities as well ...
"Things were better then": an ethnographic study of the violence of everyday life and remembrance of older people in the community of Belhar"
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This minithesis provides an ethnographic account of the life world of older people in the community of Belhar in the Cape Peninsula, which was historically categorised as a 'coloured' community during the implementation ...
Humour as a postcolonial strategy in Zakes Mda's novel, The heart of redness
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This thesis sought to demonstrate that humour and the grotesque are the primary tools by which Mda achieve his postcolonial strategies of "writing back" that is, of asserting an identity in the face of colonial ...
Youth development through intercultural performance: A case study from Wesbank Arts and Culture Group, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The research took place while the author worked as a volunteer theatre practitioner with the Arts and Culture Group in Wesbank township near Kuils River, Cape Town, South Africa. This organisation was founded in 2002 and ...
Flying in the face of convention: The heart of redness as rehabilitative of the South African pastoral literary tradition through the frame of universal myth
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This thesis analyzed Zakes Mda's The Heart of redness in the tradition of South African pastoral and counter-pastoral. It proposed that the novel is a hybrid of both African and European tradition and perspectives. It ...
Exploring the link between literacy practices, the rural-urban dimension and academic performance of primary school learners in Uganda district, Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This study aimed at establishing and analysing the literacy practices in the rural and urban communities and their effect on the academic achievements of learners. It also aimed to establish the impact of other factors, ...
Mandume ya Ndemufayo's memorials in Namibia and Angola
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
Mandume has fought two colonial powers, Portugal and British-South Africa from the time he became king in 1911 to 1917. This thesis looked at the different ways in which Manume is remembered in Namibia and Angola after ...
Negotiating coloured identity through encounters with performance
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
In this study the theatre as staged performance and as text was used as exploratory and discursive tools to investigate the negotiation of identities. The aim was to explore this theme by examining the responses to four ...
The impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of information and communications technology change on the management and operations of academic libraries. How academic libraries deal with this phenomenon and ...