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The map is not the territory: law and custom in ‘African freehold’: a South African case study
(2013)
The thesis examines the characteristics of land tenure among African families with freehold title who trace their relationship to the land to their forebears who first acquired title in the mid-nineteenth century. The ...
The influence of diversity and the educational climate in shaping clinical competence of oral health students
(2013)
High attrition, low retention and low throughput are major problems facing South African higher education institutions. These problems have been attributed to student under-preparedness as a result of the legacy of apartheid ...
The relationship between the church and the reign of God in the reconstruction theology of JNK Mugambi: a critical analysis
(2013)
Reconstruction theology is widely regarded as one of the most influential approaches to contemporary African Christian theology – alongside others such as inculturation theology, liberation theology, African women’s theology, ...
Poverty and access to health care in Ghana: the challenge of bridging the equity gap with health insurance
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This study addresses the issue of the low participation in or enrolment of the poor in
Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). The low enrolment of the poor
in the NHIS is attributed to the difficulty in identifying ...
Spectroelectrochemical determination of the antioxidant properties of carpobrotus mellei and carpobrotus quadrifidus natural products
(2009)
South African Carpobrotus species have been found to contain hydrolysable tannins,various flavonoids e.g. rutin and hyperoside, phytosterols and aromatic acids which have a diverse range of pharmacological properties ...
The ecology of the world's smallest tortoise, homopus signatus signatus: effects of rainfall
(2008)
Tortoises appear to be successful in arid ecosystems, where they depend on primary production for their predominantly herbivorous diets. The low primary production of arid regions is exacerbated by priodic droughts, so ...
Church and state relations in lesotho: a theological reflection on catholic and reformed contributions 1833-2007
(2013)
The relationship between church and state in the history of the Kingdom of Lesotho
is an important yet neglected study. This thesis explores how this relationship has
played itself out with particular interest in ...
Demitrios Tsafendas: race, madness and the archive
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This thesis is concerned with the archival production on the life of Demitrios Tsafendas, the man who assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd on the 6 September 1966. Through an examination of three different archival registers: the ...
The effect of insulin, leptin and inflammatory cytokines on reproductive health and hypogonadism in males diagnosed with the metabolic syndrome
(2013)
The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a collection of various metabolic, hormonal and
immunological risk factors that cluster together, closely related to poorly understood phenomena such a hyperinsulinaemia (insulin resistance), ...
Search for low spin collective structures in 158Er and 159Er
(2013)
Lying in a rapidly-changing transitional region between nuclei that may behave
as spherical vibrators (N ≤ 88) or good rotors (N ≥ 92), the N = 90 isotones present a unique testing ground where new nuclear collective ...