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The development of a model that examines parental HIV-related stigma and psychosocial well being of children orphaned by AIDS
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The growing interest in the well-being of children who have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS is widely reflected in the emerging body of research. Children orphaned by AIDS-related causes are identified as a vulnerable ...
Exploring the access, usage and perceptions of ICT of women in marginalised communities in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The experiences and perceptions of ICT access and usage by women in marginalised South African
communities is sorely under researched. Where information from a gender-based perspective
reflecting potential digital gender ...
Prosecuting the three core crimes: Complementarity in light of Africa’s new international criminal Court.
(University of Western Cape., 2019)
The principle of complementarity forms the basis upon which the International Criminal Court
(ICC) exercises its jurisdiction. This principle of international law first appears in the Preamble
to the Rome Statute and ...
Phenotypic and molecular characteristics of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus isolates from stored patient samples in Misurata hospitals and poultry from commercial markets, Libya
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The emergence of virulent and drug-resistant bacterial strains such as methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a global public health burden. The World Health
Organization (WHO) has placed MRSA and ...
Goema’s Refrain: Sonic anticipation and the Musicking Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis traces the making of a social world of the musicking Cape through sound, which it
calls sonic anticipation. Sonic anticipation is threaded through a Cape-based musicking
milieu called goema in the Nineteenth ...
Aptamer selection against GFRa1 for its application in the prognosis of breast cancer
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer amongst South African women. Despite
ongoing efforts to combat breast cancer, current prognostic and/or therapeutic monitoring
methods are limited since very little improvement, ...
Exploring the links between urban agriculture, land use and food security in the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA)
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Hunger is more than just a feeling, it is the lack of access to safe nutritious food, which in turn may result in anger towards government, low performance, sadness and a limited will to survive. Urban agriculture has been ...
Language transition and epistemic access: The teaching and learning of English as first additional language in the foundation phase
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
South Africa is a multicultural and multilingual country, with eleven official languages which
include English, Afrikaans, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, IsiNdebele, Sesotho, Setswana, Sepedi, TshiVenda
and Xitsonga. While the nine ...
Spaza Hip hop in the townships of Khayelitsha
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Since the arrival of hip-hop in Cape Town and indeed South Africa in the 1980s, a diverse
and vibrant range of hip-hop sub-genres has developed in Cape Town. Scholarship, however,
have approached hip-hop mainly through ...
Biliteracy and academic success: The experiences of selected Libyan students.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study is an investigation into the biliteracy skills (in Arabic and English)
employed by Libyan students at the University of the Western Cape to gain their
academic success. Nowadays, international students form a ...