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Contemporary black African curatorial practice: three biographic studies in strategy
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)This doctoral thesis is an interpretive study of the emergence of contemporary curatorial practice on the African continent. The inquiry charts the rise of the practice of curating in postcolonial Africa, casting a ... -
The contemporary construction of the causality of HIV/AIDS :a discourse analysis and its implications for understanding national policy statements on the epidemic in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This study was concerned with the social construction of HIV/AIDS at the policy level in contemporary South Africa, and how such constructions shape the manner in which the epidemic is understood in popular discourse. -
Contemporary South African speculative fiction: A study of Mohale Mashigo’s short story collection intruders (2018)
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Speculative fiction, South Africa, entanglement, social commentary, post-Apartheid, folktales, tropes, Africanfuturism, Africanjujuism, Mohale Mashigo Abstract Globally, speculative fiction is a popular genre, but it has ... -
Contestations, connections and negotiations: the role of networks in service delivery protests in Gugulethu, Cape town
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This study revealed the key role that social, historical, economic and political networks play in initiating and maintaining service delivery protests. While networks help in communicating service delivery problems among ... -
A contextual analysis of compound nouns in Shona lexicography
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This research is in the area of lexicography and investigates the relationship between Shona terminology development and the culture of the language community for which the terminology is intended. It is a contextual ... -
Contrasting Constructions of Students' Literacy-Related Experiences at a Historically Black South African University
(University of Western Cape, 2002)In recent years, many long held assumptions about language and literacy have come to be questioned by so-called "critical" discourses. The result of this questioning at a theoretical level has resulted in a concomitant ... -
The contribution of renewable energy technologies to sustainable community development in Rusitu Valley, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This exploratory study is based on the case of the Rusitu Valley, a low income rural community in Zimbabwe. Data was collected using largely qualitative methods and quantitative methods were used to obtain supportive ... -
Control in infinitives in Sesotho
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)The purpose of this study is to investigate how subject PRO of the infinitive in Sesotho is assigned an antecedent The general framework which is assumed is the Government Binding theory of generative grammar, in particular ... -
Coping with violence: institutional and student responses at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis is based on research conducted at the University of the Western Cape, a previously ‘coloured’ university with its beginnings rooted in the political tensions in South Africa. The university is geographically ... -
Coping with Weather in Cape Town: use, adaptation & challenges in an informal settlement
(2013)The concern that weather variability and climate change has raised nowadays puts every society or community on the alert. This is arguably the most persistent environmental threat to global stability in vulnerable communities ... -
A cow’s meat: an original collection of poems and photographs that explores the influence of imagery in narrative
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This MACW mini-thesis will examine how photography can inspire narrative in a poem and enhance the impact of its imagery. As I embarked on my journey of writing, I came to the point of needing to augment its effect. So I ... -
The cox collection, the museums of Malawi and the politics of repatriation, 1892-2016
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)A wide range of scholarly inquiries have engaged with how museums all over the world deal with societal issues and the way the public interacts with the museum as a space of transaction and knowledge production. In Malawi, ... -
Creating 'space' for publication: challenges faced by women academic staff members at historically Black South African universities
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)In this study an attempt was made to explore the challenges with regard to publications experienced by academic women at three selected Historically Black Universities (HBUs). Although based predominantly within a feminist ... -
Creativity in spaces of learning: experimentations in two schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)The questions concerning how creativity can enhance the culture of learning in schools, especially amongst the previously marginalized groups, are not simple and straightforward. In South Africa, the general questions often ... -
A critical analysis of colonial and postcolonial discourses and representations of the people of Mozambique in the Portuguese newspaper ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’ from 1970-1980
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The aim of this thesis is to probe how Mozambican people were represented or constructed in the colonial and post-colonial periods through the columns of the Portuguese newspaper, ‘O Século de Joanesburgo’. The study ... -
A critical analysis of participatory community development initiatives: a case study of the small business development department of the Elgin learning foundation in the Overberg Region
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)Development thinking in the 21st century has embraced the challenge to inform development practice towards managing the relationship between the macro and micro level of development with an emphasis on people-centred ... -
A critical analysis of participatory community development initiatives: a case study of the small business development department of the Elgin learning foundation in the Overberg region
(2011)Development thinking in the 21st century has embraced the challenge to inform development practice towards managing the relationship between the macro and micro level of development, with an emphasis on people-centred ... -
A critical analysis of Stanley J Samartha's concept of Christian dialogue with people of other living faiths, and its relevance to the Indonesian context
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This study will investigate the WCC concept of 'Dialogue between Christianity and other Living Faith', and its contributions in Asia, more specifically its impact on the relationship between Christians and Muslims in ... -
A critical analysis of the effects of tourism on cultural representation: a case study from Leboeng
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)Cultural tourism is a vehicle for economic growth. Cultural representations are made in order to make the cultural tourism sector a more vibrant one. Given this argument, research in cultural tourism should take a critical ... -
A critical analysis of the influence of culture and gender on isiXhosa literature
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The study aims to acquire additional information or earn an improved thoughtful of the prominence of evaluating the influence of culture and gender on isiXhosa literature. The intention is to scrutinize the impression of ...