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The body in hospitalization. a study of doctors, nurses and patients in a Cape Town teaching hospital
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
South Africa's health transformation blueprint is designed to replace apartheid's inequities and instill instead a new utilitarian approach by the health care sector. This study gives attention to the medical gaze and the ...
Respectable mothers, tough men and good daughters. producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa.
(University of Western Cape, 2004)
This ethnography explores the meanings ofpersonhood and agency in Manen¢berg, 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 ...
The Bamasaaba people's response to the safe medical male circumcision policy in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV (UNAIDS) strongly recommends that developing countries regard medical male circumcision as a biomedical intervention. This recommendation has caused developing countries seeking a ...
‘Performing Diversity’: Everyday social interaction among migrants from the Great Lakes Region and South Africans in Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This dissertation is an exploration of everyday social interactions among and between
migrants from the Great Lakes Region and South Africans, who live together as neighbours
in a post-apartheid South African community. ...
Liminality, Papers and Belonging amongst Zimbabwean Immigrants in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Introduced in 2010, the Dispensation Zimbabwe Program (DZP) regularised undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa. When DZP was closed, the Zimbabwe Special Permit was introduced, which was also replaced by the ...
Liminality, papers and belonging amongst Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Introduced in 2010, the Dispensation Zimbabwe Program (DZP) regularised undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa. When DZP was closed, the Zimbabwe Special Permit was introduced, which was also replaced by the ...
Commissioned women soldiers and politics in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), are strongly interlinked in politics since independence, that is, the Army largely functions as the military wing ...
An investigation of the integration of foreign migrants into South African community: A case of Zimbabweans living in Luyoloville and New Rest in Gugulethu, Cape Town.
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
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 focus ...
The long-term effects of domestic Violence: a study of life histories in a homeless shelter in cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study examines the effects of domestic violence on adults who witnessed abuse as children
in their homes. It seeks to ascertain if the childhood emotional trauma of domestic violence
influences the growth and social ...
Amagqirha nemicimbi: The art of healing
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Amagqirha have been understood solely through the framework of health and illness. Their
image is tainted and they are misrepresented as clad bone throwers and mystical scammers.
There are very few studies that focus on ...