Faculty of Arts: Recent submissions
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The National Environmental Management Act and Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations: The Principle of "consideration of the alternative" in the case of development in the Tygerberg District, Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)South Africa is a developing country whose past administration has led to the current high levels of inequality and poverty the country faces today. Development is a key aspect to growing the country's economy and improving ... -
Making heritage in post-apartheid South Africa: agencies, museums and sites
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)This work responds to the perceptions of post-apartheid heritage practices as producing an authorised heritage discourse. It contrasts this perception by approaching the making of postapartheid heritage as not just a simple ... -
Human Trafficking across a border in Nigeria: Experiences of young women who have survived trafficking
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Human trafficking is a global issue that most countries have battled to control and combat in recent times. It is exploitative, abusive and violates human rights. Research showing the prevalence of human trafficking in ... -
Solidarity and the Struggle for Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean African National Union (ZANU) in Mozambique (1975-1980) Clinarete
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)This dissertation examines the relationships of solidarity that developed between the Mozambican people and the Zimbabwean liberation movement ZANU, between 1975 and 1980, considering them in their multifarious aspects and ... -
Revisiting Mhlontlo and his legacy
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The study attempts to recover the figure of King Charles Mhlontlo who fell out of favor with his colonial masters after he resisted going to war against his neighbors during the debacle that led to the killing of Hamilton ... -
The Girl with the Red Flower
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)For a woman of her age, thirty-seven, freshly divorced, she has, to her mind, not solved the problem of her sex very well. So now her work in the escort business all those years ago will be used against her. This warning ... -
Exploring 'assemblages': A multispecies ethnography of the relationship between plants and people in the gardens and mountains of Klawer in the Matzikama municipal region, South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)The theme of this thesis is to illustrate a perspective of learning with plants and not simply about them. I posit a move towards a kind of 'plantthropology' (Myers, 2016). In Anthropology from the 1960's onwards there has ... -
The Conceptualization and Application of Qabīlah (Clan) in the Somali context: a linguistic, social and political analysis of Somali media and online resources
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This thesis examines the concept of qab?lah (tribe/clan) and its social and political influence on Somali society. It firstly looks at the general meaning of qabīlah in Arab culture and its more specific meaning in Somali ... -
Schooling superdiversity: Linguistic features as linguistic resources in two Manenberg classrooms in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)This thesis takes on a non-essentialist view of language by studying the borrowing of linguistic features across languages as natural, everyday language practices. More specifically, this research identifies the need for ... -
"Access to Tertiary Education": Exploring the Experiences of Women with Physical Disabilities in Kamwala, Zambia.
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Women with disabilities are marginalised in many aspects of societal participation. The majority of women with disabilities in Zambia do not have access to education and this has placed them amongst the poorest of people ... -
A Comparison of the Views of Augustine Shutte and Thaddeus Metz on African Philosophy and Ubuntu Ethics
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)In the theoretical study of Ethics much emphasis has traditionally been placed on established ethical theories, via approaches typified e.g. as deontological, divine command, utilitarian, virtue ethics and natural ethics. ... -
Preservation of indigenous knowledge (IK) by public libraries in Westcliff, Chatsworth, Durban
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The aim of this research was to investigate the current awareness of indigenous knowledge (IK) among the youth in the Indian community in Westcliff, Chatsworth, in the Durban area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The research ... -
Dialogicality in selected Nando's television advertisements: A multisemiotic approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This thesis explored the mobility of semiosis other than language in the discourse of television advertising. Gilje (2010) highlights that remediation is the defining characteristic of new digital media and researchers ... -
The adoption of technology to enhance innovative user services at CALICO libraries, South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The study investigated the adoption of technology of libraries part of the Cape Library Consortium (CALICO) to enhance user services. Changes in information behaviour and learning styles have been noted in higher education. ... -
Youth Multilingualism and Popular Culture Interactions at His People Pentecostal Church
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Youth multilingualism is an overarching notion that accounts for the dynamic macroand micro-linguistic practices and interactions in contexts and spaces redefined by cultural practices. It makes contributions to interactional ... -
Incorporating indigenous African languages in Higher Education: Student attitudes towards learning materials in isiXhosa at the University of the Western Cape
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)There have been extensive studies conducted on the language attitudes of students or their parents at primary, secondary as well as tertiary levels of education in South Africa. Many scholars have found that African ... -
A multi-theoretical analysis of the dynamics and effects of terminology in Nigerian and South African high school textbooks on life sciences
(The University of the Western Cape, 2018)The performance of students in science subjects continues to be a source of concern in many African countries. In Nigeria and South Africa, one explanation frequently given has to do with students‘ proficiency levels in ... -
Information behaviour of African immigrants living in Cape Town, South Africa
(The University of the Western Cape, 2018)The study investigated the information seeking behaviour of African immigrants who live in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. The key objectives of the study were to identify information needs and information seeking ... -
The semiotic signature of transformation of political parties in South Africa: A multimodal analysis of selected Democratic Alliance texts.
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)Social semiotics (Halliday, 1978 and van Leeuwen, 2006) makes us acutely aware that social communication like public speaking often takes place through non-verbal modes (such as images, and bodily attributes), in combination ... -
Connectedness and Disconnectedness in Thembeyakhe Harry Gwala's Biography, 1920-1995: Rethinking Political Militancy, Mass Mobilisation and Grassroots Struggles in South Africa
(The University of the Western Cape, 2018)This dissertation is premised on the notions of connectedness and disconnectedness as a contribution to the field of South African biography. I argue that Harry Gwala’s life was characterised by connectedness and ...
