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Missing-ness, history and apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and Sizwe Kondile as missing dead persons
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The argument of this dissertation calls for an abiding by missing-ness as it relates to apartheid-era disappearances. I am concerned with the ways in which the category missing is articulated in histories of apartheid-era ...
A phenomenological discourse analysis of harassed female 'skinscapes' in select public spaces in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Street harassment refers to the unsolicited verbal remarks and nonverbal gestures that women
are subjected to by men when moving through (public) spaces. The dominant discourse sees
this phenomenon as firstly a gendered ...
Exploring digital literacy practices of 12- to 15-year-old children from Philippi and Khayelitsha townships in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Despite the spread of digital communication technologies and the integration of mobile
phones into everyday life, young children's literacy practices are changing rapidly, and
schools are struggling to address the potential ...
Resource Description and Access (RDA): continuity in an ever-fluxing information age with reference to tertiary institutions in the Western Cape.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Although Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been discussed extensively amongst the
ranks of cataloguers internationally, no research on the perceptions of South African
cataloguers was available at the time of ...
Unfinished lives: The biographies of Nokuthula Simelane
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Nokuthula Simelane, born near Bethal in Mpumalanga, joined the ANC's armed-wing
uMKhonto we Sizwe (MK) as a courier while studying at the University of Swaziland in the
early 1980s. In 1983 she set out on a mission to ...
Visual trauma: Representations of African bodies in the 1983 Contre Apartheid Exhibition
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
After the 1976 student uprising, South Africa entered a period of increased violent state
repression. The struggle against apartheid also became increasingly globalised, as can be seen
in the UN resolution and the rise ...
Resource Description and Access (RDA): continuity in an ever-fluxing information age with reference to tertiary institutions in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Although Resource Description and Access (RDA) has been discussed extensively amongst the
ranks of cataloguers internationally, no research on the perceptions of South African
cataloguers was available at the time of ...
The sound of war: Apartheid, audibility, and resonance
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study approaches the field of military history with approaches to the study of sound in order to
interrogate the concept of war that underpins military historiography as a disciplinary formation. It
delineates the ...
Integration, exclusion, or something in between? A study of Zimbabwean migrants in Gugulethu, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
According to migrant research in South Africa, after the advent of democracy in South
Africa, in 1994, the country has received an influx of foreign migrants, more especially from
the African continent. However, much ...
Performances of Muslim-ness in post-apartheid Cape Town: Authenticating cultural difference, belonging and citizenship
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This thesis presents an ethnographic study of the resurgence of public performances
of Muslim-ness and an exploration of the Muslim politics of cultural difference in
the democratic, post-colonial, and liberal context ...