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What lies
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
His brown hands, tanned darker than they already were from hours of supervising men
shoveling sand and mixing concrete on building sites, gripped the steering wheel. Hendrick
Vermeulen drove down Voortrekker Road after ...
Investigating item bias in some of the scales of the English version of the South African Substance Use Contextual Risk Instrument (SASUCRI) across a sample of English and isiXhosa mother-tongue learners
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Substance abuse is a global concern, particularly amongst adolescents. Research shows that
secondary school learners in the Western Cape are susceptible to substance use due to the
ease of access to and constant use of ...
Perceptions of premarital sex risk among undergraduate students in South Africa: A systematic review
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The first year of college is usually regarded as a significant transitional period for young
adults, mainly with regard to sex and dating. Premarital sex is being reported by an increasing
number of young adults, as well ...
Integrated mobile phone interventions for adherence to antiretroviral treatment in clients with HIV infection in Accra, Ghana
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Mobile phone interventions such as text messaging have been used to improve
treatment adherence globally and in sub-Saharan Africa. Nevertheless, integrated
mobile phone intervention for adherence support in Ghana, has ...
Quality of life in a fragile state: a study of orphans and vulnerable children living in child-headed households in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Households headed by children, adolescents and youths are a growing phenomenon across sub-
Saharan Africa. This is largely a result of the increasing mortality of economically active adults,
coupled with migration and ...
The implementation of Islamic perspectives on nutrition in the context of Muslim faith-based organisations in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
South African debates on food security address a wide range of issues related to
the production, the distribution and the consumption of food in the context of deep
concerns over the impact of poverty, unemployment and ...
Imagining what it means to be ''human'' through the fiction of J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K and Cormac McCarthy's The Road
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Through a literary analysis of two contemporary novels, J.M. Coetzee's Life & Times of
Michael K (1983) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006), in which a common concern
seems to be an exploration of what it means to be ...
Transport and thermodynamic properties of rare earth compounds and alloys
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Rare-earth (RE) elements possess an incompletely lled 4f shell, which is very small compared
to typical interatomic distances. As a result of this, RE elements and compounds
exhibit characteristic properties, which deviate ...
Enhancing the consumers' satisfaction using social media analytics within the financial industry of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Due to the pressures of increased competition from different banks, both globally and
internationally, financial institutions have made a strategic decision to incorporate
Social Media (SM) and subsequently Social Media ...
The effects of high temperature stress on the enzymatic antioxidant system in Zea mays
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
High temperature stress is synonymous with the attenuation of plant growth, metabolism and eventually death resulting in major loss of crop productivity worldwide. Part of the metabolic perturbations associated with heat ...