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South African crime fiction and the narration of the post-apartheid
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
In this dissertation, I consider how South African crime fiction, which draws on a long international literary history, engages with the conventions and boundaries of the genre, and how it has adapted to the specific ...
The social constructions of HIV/AIDS stigma in one community in Cape Town, South Africa
(2010)
Due to tremendous stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, revelation of HIV positive sero-status of an individual has become a significant risk in communities of South Africa (Kalichman el al., 2003;Deacon et al., 2004; Kalichman et ...
Rap and the articulation of resistance: an exploration of subversive cultural production during the early 90's, with particular reference to Prophets of da City
(University of Western Cape, 1995)
This thesis explores the ways in which Cape Town rap group Prophets of da City articulate their resistance to apartheid and, in particular, the ways in which they attempted to intervene in politicians' attempts to pacify ...
Developing first year part-time students academic competencies in an academic literacy module
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
The research findings are grouped according to the three themes identified which includes the relevance of the module, the effectiveness of the teaching and learning approaches and methods, and the integration of generic ...
Narratives of assessment: the newsletter as case study
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate success of an integrated newsletter assignment for first year Human Resource Management students as an authentic and meaningful form of assessment by tracing and deciphering the ...
Music memoir as an evocation of cultural legacy: The Zayn Adam story
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Musicians of colour are under-represented in the South African archive, in part due to the ravages of apartheid and the lack of resources to chronicle their trajectories outside of the production of their music alone.
In ...
An investigation of the potential role that folklore can play in environmental education: a case study of Mphoko
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This thesis investigated the role that folklore can play in contemporary environmental problems. This research was prompted by people living around the Mantrombi nature reserve in the Nebo region of Limpopo province who ...
‘Ag sjeim, siestog, sorry’: Tracing shame’s affect through performance in post-apartheid South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
In this study I investigate what performance as a medium can contribute to our
understanding of shame's affect. Given the difficulty of defining and concretising affect
according to set parameters and outcomes, critical ...
Developing first year part-time students' academic competencies in an academic literacy module
(University of Western Cape, 2010)
The transition from high school to university for many students all over the world has never been
very easy and this is also true in the South African context. At the University of the Western Cape
the majority of students, ...
Blood, race and the construction of 'the Coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's stepchildren
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds'. In Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the hlstorlcal ...