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The identity construction and negotiation of 1.5 generation Congolese migrant youth in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape,, 2018)
Globalization has evidently led to an increase in the flow of immigrants across the world, a fact
that has and continues to play a significant role in the development of studies on immigration,
immigration patterns and ...
Youth multilingualism and discourses of disability: An intersectional approach
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Disability, as a topic of investigation, is considerably overlooked in the discipline of
sociolinguistics. This thesis aims to bridge the gap between disability and
sociolinguistics studies, as I critically explore the ...
Figuring post-apartheid SA women: Brutal fruit online advertising in a glocalized world
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
In a developing country like South Africa plagued by historical racial scars, attitudes
pertaining to race, ethnicity and language, can be described as considerably problematic.
Images used for advertising (ads) and the ...
Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This mini-thesis, ‘Exhumation, Reburial and History Making in South Africa’, is concerned with an analysis of the practices of exhumation and reburial through discussing the case studies of the Iron-Age archaeological site ...
Producing and consuming the Wembley Whopper and the Super Fisheries Gatsby: Bread winners and losers in Athlone, Cape Town, 1950-1980.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Wembley Roadhouse and Super Fisheries have cemented themselves as food
institutions on the Cape Flats. Family-owned take-aways establishments that
appeared on the black periphery and catered for the black consumer ...
Organization of urban agriculture in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Cape Town has arguably the most diversified urban agriculture sector across the country. Nevertheless, the desired gains of urban agriculture are barely realized. The organization of urban agriculture, specifically the ...
Bab’aba - Ugly short stories
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Bab’aba - Ugly Short Stories is a collection of vignettes whose function is to colour and
collage three portraits of Black women characters; namely, a rural woman (Nozikhali), a
township teenager (Zola), and a child/baby ...
The relationship between ideology, food (In) security and socio-religious cohesion in the Old Testament with specific reference to Deuteronomy and eighth century prophets
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
In this thesis I show the relationship and interplay between Deuteronomistic ideology, land
(which sometimes leads to food security) and cohesion with God and with ‘brothers’ socioreligious
cohesion) in Deuteronomy and ...
Empregados do Quintal (male domestic workers) in Nampula city: Domestic work, masculinities and matrilinearity
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study questions why domestic work that is generally considered a feminine job is yet a field dominated by men in the city of Nampula, Mozambique. In the attempt to explain this phenomenon, the research explores economic, ...
Multilingual electronic glossing: Implementing and evaluating an alternative reading aid for students at the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Vocabulary knowledge is an indicator of language competence. There is a positive
relationship between literacy levels and the medium of instruction. Research has shown that
reading comprehension is largely dependent on ...