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Research data management in public universities in Malawi
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The emergence and subsequent uptake of Information and Communication Technologies has
transformed the research processes in universities and research institutions across the globe.
One indelible impact of Information and ...
Use and management of information systems in academic libraries in Ghana
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The use of Information Systems (ISs) has been widely accepted and proven to increase the
service quality in many organizations. Academic libraries have embraced the use of ISs and
have implemented them to perform different ...
The language of forms: A discourse analysis of municipal application forms.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis focuses on the genre of municipal documents (application forms) and the variety
of written and visual languages that make up their corpus to reveal the various lexical
semantics used in the forms as communication ...
An exploration of reader response to and social identification with Grade 12 prescribed poetry
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The thesis offers insight into English literature studies as taught at high school level to Grade
12 learners, employing Louise Rosenblatt’s reader response theory to explore and understand
their encounter and engagement ...
The lives and deaths of memorials: The changing symbolism of the 1938 Voortrekker centenary monuments
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis is concerned with the lives and deaths of four 1938 Voortrekker Centenary Monuments.
The 1938 Voortrekker Centenary saw the construction of more than 500 centenary monuments. Each
one of these structures has ...
Investigating the groundwater dependence and response to rainfall variability of vegetation in the Touws river and catchment using remote sensing
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Changes in climate patterns have raised concerns for environmentalists globally and across southern Africa. The changes greatly affect the growth dynamics of vegetation to such an extent that climate elements such as ...
Digital storytelling and the production of the personal in Lwandle, Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
Digital storytelling is a workshop-based practice, originally developed by the Californiabased nonprofit StoryCenter, in which people create short, first-person digital video
narratives based on stories from their own ...
Exploring the philosophical mind: An empirical investigation of the process of philosophizing using the protocol analysis methodology
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
Many empirically supported versions of stage and componential models of the cognitive processing
underlying the completion of various tasks spanning a wide range of domains have been developed by
cognitive scientists of ...
Portrait of a mobile political subject: The figure of the Afghan Mujahedeen in South Africa in the 1980s.
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
This mini-thesis engages with the period of the Cold War between 1979 and 1989 to examine the
shifts and contradictions that emerged around the figure of the “terrorist” and the “freedom
fighter with a focus on the Afghan ...
The cultural and religious significance of indigenous vegetables: A case study of the Chionekano-ward of the Zvishavane-district in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study is situated in the context of multidisciplinary discourse on the pervasive problem of food insecurity in the southern African context. More specifically, it is situated in the context of the Centre of Excellence ...