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Gis mapping of community perceptions of illegal waste dumping in Mbekweni, Paarl
(University of Western Cape, 2020)Illegal dumping is a global environmental problem that receives significant management and research attention from various fields of study. Illegally disposed waste (in all of its formats) can cause negative impacts on ... -
Globalisation and food positioning semiotics: Halaal food access and perceptions among Muslims in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Foodscapes are overflowing with food products from different countries, as globalisation and marketisation promote the mobility of humans and goods. To ensure food security for the nation, globalisation encourages transnational ... -
Globalisation and higher education branding at three Western Cape universities in South Africa: A multi-semiotic analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This study investigates how the three selected Western Cape Province (WCP) institutions of higher education position their brand imageries and awareness in a localised global way. It explores the branding discourses and ... -
God en die lyding. 'n Kritiese ontleding van A. van de Beek se paradigma-teoriee oor die lydingsvraag.
(University of the Western Cape, 1993)Sedert my kinderjare het die nood en lyding van mens en dier en selfs die omgewing my aangegryp en ontstel. As gelowige kind en jongmens het ek altyd gewonder hoe ek die lyding, en veral die skynbaar onverklaarbare en ... -
God se deernis met die weerloses van sy volk. 'n Kritiese ondersoek na 'n spesifieke dimensie van die Godsverkondiging in die Ou Testament
(University of Western Cape, 1991)Benewens persoonlike belangstelling in die boodskap van die Ou Testament vir die kerk van vandag, is dit veral kontemporêre teologiese debatte en verwikkelinge op die kerklike terrein, plaaslik sowel as op die breë ekumeniese ... -
God's unique priest (Nyamesofopreko): christology in the Akan context
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)This study entails a constructive contribution towards a contemporary reinterpretation, within the Akan context, of the classic Christian notion of Christ's person and work as Mediator between God and humanity. Specifically, ... -
God’s Chosen People? A critical investigation of discourses in North American Black and Pan-African Theologies
(University of Western Cape, 2021)In Black and African theology, especially in the North American and African contexts, there is consensus that claims of people of European descent being regarded as God’s chosen people, are heretical and serve to legitimise ... -
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 ... -
A Grammar of Baca and its relation to Swazi, Zulu and Xhosa
(University of the Western Cape, 1942)The material for this work is based" on field work conducted during three. weeks in February and two weeks in September, 1941. Both periods were spent at Lourdes in East Griqualand, a place well suited for a place well ... -
Grammatical constraints and motivations for English/Afrikaans codeswitching: evidence from a local radio talk show
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The study investigated the practice of codeswitching within the Cape Flats speech community of Cape Town. Members of this speech community have always been exposed to both English and Afrikaans in formal as well as informal ... -
"Grammatical controversy on the temporality of the imperfect tense in the Qur’ānic text" Is it Mu’rab (declinable) or Mabnī (indeclinable)?
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This research discusses the temporality of Al-Fi’l Al-Moḍāri’ (present tense) in Arabic in terms of structure and case endings. It also focuses on the time of the imperfect tense and how it is affected by the Adawāt ... -
The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)The second half of the 1990's was marked by a significant reworking of memory and history in South Africa. WHilst the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was involved in its hearings on amnesty applications and gross ... -
Hagar: case study of abuse of women
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)According to modern standards, the narratives about Hagar in Genesis 16 and 21 are stories of abuse, as many feminist commentators have pointed out. Some of them, however, argue that the narrator condones what happened to ... -
Hamartology and ecology: a critical assessment of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s view on the nature of sin
(2013)Contemporary ecological concerns are addressed in a wide range of disciplines, including Christian theology. This task is addressed especially in Christian ecotheology which may be approached from within all the traditional ... -
The hand and the head: the handspring puppet company and the arts archive
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)My Doctoral dissertation, titled The hand and the head: The Handspring Puppet Company and the arts archive, is focussed on the hand as it appears variously in the production, performance and reception of puppetry as a ... -
Harreخ at: A novella and reflective essay
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Background: On the 9th of August 1961, an especially cold, rainy day, the five girls were standing outside of their mother, Rhoda’s, bedroom door, waiting patiently for their first brother to arrive, since Rhoda’s belly ... -
A hashtag analysis of racial discourses within #ColouredExcellence: Case of Wayde van Niekerk
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The research study takes into account the apartheid legacy of racial hierarchization and ‘separate development’ (cf Raynard, 2012) which penetrated all aspects of social life. Particularly, it is the sporting domain and ... -
Haunting temporalities: Creolisation and black women's subjectivities in the diasporic science fiction of Nalo Hopkinson
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This study examines temporal entanglement in three novels by Jamaican-born author Nalo Hopkinson. The novels are: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Midnight Robber (2000), and The Salt Roads (2004). The study pays particular ... -
"Have we no right to organise?" Black political organisations and farmworkers struggles in the Western Cape: 1912 - 1930
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)This study is primarily a history of black political organisations and their attempts to organise farmworkers in the rural Western Cape (1912 1930) with special reference to the Boland. The attempts made by these organisations ... -
“He asked me to pray afterward”: Exploring Cheryl Zondi’s mediated court testimony as a narrative of clergy sexual abuse
(University of Western Cape, 2021)South Africa has one of the highest rape statistics in the world, and there are increasing reports of women who have been violated and abused in religious institutions, specifically by clergy. Research on clergy sexual ...