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Making and remaking life under threat: Disposability, extraction, and anti-black historical processes in old coronation, Mpumalanga
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Developed in the 1980s on an abandoned Anglo American coal mine, Old Coronation informal settlement in Mpumalanga is a site of environmental, infrastructural, social, and economic ruin. This thesis looks into the lives ... -
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 ... -
Making non-state actors accountable for violations of economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)The development of a common standard for holding governments accountable for human rights violations represented by international human rights law (IHRL) has been one of the major achievements of international law. ... -
The making of Ruacana as place and its construction as future heritage
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Ruacana is a town in northern Namibia, located on the border with Angola on the Kunene River. It is about 150 kilometres north of Oshakati. The town was established in the early 1970s by the South West Africa Water and ... -
“Making Oranges from Lemons” Experiences of Support of South African Jewish Senior Citizens Following the Emigration of their Children
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)Family is widely expected to be the main source of support for Senior Citizens and, like many religions and cultures, the Jewish tradition has expectations of filial obligations of care. South Africa and its Jewish community ... -
Making the rights of poor people practical in Malawi through a rights based approach to development
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)This thesis tackles the issue of human rights and poverty in the context of Malawi. Our main concern is to find ways of how to make human rights practical for poor people in Malawi through a human rights-based approach to ... -
Making the transition from learning to read to reading to learn in Grade 4: Investigating the teaching of reading literacy in two Western Cape schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Drawing on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study - PIRLS (Howie, et al., 2008), which highlights the reading literacy crisis in South African schools, this study investigated the literacy crisis in relation ... -
Malawian secondary school students' learning of science: historical background, performance and beliefs
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This study explored the problem of poor performance in science among students who are provided secondary school places on merit in Malawi. Existing studies of the problem are inconsistent suggesting that these studies may ... -
Male identified same-sex sexual fetish in South Africa: (re)defining sexual relations between people and things
(2010)Historical ethnographic and early psychoanalytic epistemologies on 'fetishism' focus primarily on the fetish 'object', whereby the subject of 'fetish practices' was identified, pathologised and/or socioculturally invalidated ... -
Malignant tumors of the maxillofacial and oral region in children: A clinicopathologic study
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)This is a retrospective study of malignant tumours of the maxillofacial and oral region in children that presented over a 20 year period (1973 to 1993) at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Groote Schuur ... -
Malignant tumours of the maxillofacial and oral region in children: A clinicopathologic study
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)This is a retrospective study of malignant tumours of the maxillofacial and oral region in children that presented over a 20 year period (1973 to 1993) at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Groote Schuur ... -
Management and analysis of HIV -1 ultra-deep sequence data
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The continued success of antiretroviral programmes in the treatment of HIV is dependent on access to a cost-effective HIV drug resistance test (HIV-DRT). HIVDRT involves sequencing a fragment of the HIV genome and ... -
Management education via the internet: factors facilitating and inhibiting the adoption of WEBCT at a faculty in a higher education institution
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The emergence of the Internet and the World Wide Web in particular, impact increasingly on the activities of commerce and industry and in the process also change the manner in which courses are delivered in higher education. ... -
The management of a safe and cost effective conscious sedation unit
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Conscious sedation or moderate sedation and analgesia is an effective and popular alternative option for procedures outside the operating theater. If conscious sedation is a viable alternative to general anaesthesia then ... -
The management of academic libraries: a comparative study of the University of the Western Cape Library and Dhaka University Library
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This research project is a comparative study of management of two university libraries (University of the Western Cape and Dhaka University) from two different countries (South Africa and Bangladesh). This research was to ... -
The management of Bell’s palsy at selected community health centres in the Cape Metropolitan District of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)Bell’s palsy (BP), a fairly common disorder predominantly prevalent in the adult age group, affects nerves and muscles in the face causing paralysis or dropping of one side of the face. Clients with Bell’s palsy face many ... -
Management of children with sexual behaviour problems, between the ages of five to nine years old, by educators and social workers
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The Management of children, younger than twelve years of age, who pose a risk to other children, remains complex and confusing. When their behaviour includes sexual aggression towards other children, ignorance about how ... -
Management of defective dental Amalgam restorations-a mixed-methods study
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Much variation exists in the practice of dentistry with regard to the diagnosis of caries and the recommendations for treatment. Even though criteria for the selection of 'faulty' restorations often appear ill-defined, ... -
Management of domestic violence: risk-based assessment and intervention guidelines with perpetrators of intimate violence
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The main goal of this study was to develop assessment and intervention guidelines that will provide practitioners with a framework to develop and implement batterer intervention programmes. The development of batterer ... -
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 ...