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Making and remaking life under threat: Disposability, extraction, and anti-black historical processes in old coronation, Mpumalanga
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Developed in the 1980s on an abandoned Anglo American coal mine, Old Coronation
informal settlement in Mpumalanga is a site of environmental, infrastructural, social, and
economic ruin. This thesis looks into the lives ...
Mental health promotion: An exploration of a peer community-based intervention in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 and the accompanying lockdown, social distancing and quarantine measures across the world separated individuals and families from their loved ones. This separation and social isolation also ...
Mental health promotion: an exploration of a peer community-based intervention in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 and the accompanying lockdown, social distancing and quarantine measures across the world separated individuals and families from their loved ones. This separation and social isolation also ...
Respectable Mothers, Tough Men and Good Daughters Producing Persons in Manenberg Township South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
This ethno a h explores the mean in s of personhood and agency in Maneberg a township located on the Cape Flats, in Cape Town South Africa. The township was a site of relocation for people who were classified coloured ...
Aid to Lesotho: dilemmas of state survival and development
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)
This thesis discusses the triangular relationship of aid, state and development since Lesotho's independence. It builds on three key hypotheses. First, during the preadj ustment period aid entrenched bureaucratic state ...
A socio-historical analysis of education/in the / third world and its implication)lfor rural development
(University of Western Cape, 1993)
The greater part of the analysis relates to the needs of
the Third World, with an emphasis on Africa (as opposed to
the entire Third World). Within the African context, these
needs should be seen against a background ...
The politics of UMOYA: Variation in the interpretation and management of diarrheal illnesses among mothers, professional nurses, and indigenous health practitioners in Khayelitsha, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)
This study deals with the social interpretation of childhood diarrhea among the Xhosa speaking people of the Western Cape in South Africa. It highlights how in the Western Cape political consciousness and moralist discourses ...
'n Psigo-Sosiale Studie van Tienerswangerskappe in die Noordelike Stadsgebiede van die Kaapse Skiereiland
(University of Western Cape, 1990)
Die verskynsel van tienerswangerskap kom in alle samelewingsvorme voor en toon 'n steeds stygende toename in alle wêrelddele sodat dit deur sommige outeurs as epidemies beskou word (Chelala, 1988: 22). Dit vorm deel van ...
Animals at work: a multispecies ethnographic study of entanglements of cart-horse labour in Freedom Farm informal settlement, Cape Town.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Human life experiences are closely intertwined with our relationships with other animals and the environment. From the late 19th century to the late 20th century, Cart-horses served as an informal travel market for the ...
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 ...