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A Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust counselling skills course :a qualitative evaluation
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust is an organisation that trains and supervises a team of women counsellors who provide a counselling service to women rape survivors. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of the ... -
Rape culture and social media: Exploring how social media influences students’ opinions and perceptions of rape culture
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)In April 2016 students from South African universities launched the #Endrapeculture movement to protest their universities’ institutional policies towards sexual assault on campus, which was seen as perpetuating a rape ... -
Rapid geomorphological change in an urban estuary: a case study of the Eerste River, Cape Town, South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)The Eerste River estuary is one of eleven estuaries draining into False Bay. lt is an urban river system and has therefore been subjected to human interference, which has resulted in degradation. This study focuses on ... -
The ratification of the international covenant on economic, social and cultural rights, strategic litigation and the right of access to adequate housing
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Access to adequate housing is an important socio-economic right and is of central importance for the enjoyment of all rights. The right to access adequate housing is viewed as a fundamental human right and has been described ... -
Rational drug therapy monitoring in type 2 diabetes mellitus : using glycated haemoglobin as a guide for change in therapy
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a progressive disease characterised by defects in insulin secretion, insulin action or both. Proper management of diabetes with appropriate drug and lifestyle interventions, guided by proper ... -
Rawls, the severely cognitively disabled and the person life view
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)A political arrangement is an arrangement for persons. Political arrangements are assessed in terms of the extent to which they manage the affairs of persons, which includes protecting their interests and entitlements. ... -
(Re)collections in the archive: making and remaking the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) archival collection
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The work of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) conducted between 1956 and 1991 gave rise to a collection of records that traverse 35 years of support work. As a solidarity organisation IDAF provided support to ... -
(Re)constructed communities under land restitution : a case study of the Popela land claim
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This dissertation explores the notions of community identity as they relate to land restitution. Specifically, the dissertation examines how community is (re)constructed in the Popela case study by examining how the claimants ... -
Re-articulating history: historical play, nation, text
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This dissertation was divided into two parts. In the first part questions of representation and textuality in the discipline of history will be explored with the aim of positing the historical play as productive for the ... -
Re-articulating History: Historical Play, Nation, Text .
(University of Western Cape, 2006)The writing of history in postapartheid South Africa constitutes a crisis for the discipline of history as, I argue, it requires the discipline to confront its role in contributing towards the constitution of the condition ... -
A re-assessment of the geochronology and geochemistry of the Postberg Ignimbrites, Saldanha, Western Cape, South Africa
(2020-03-13)The Saldania Belt in southern Africa, a product of the Pan-African Saldanian Orogeny, forms part of a system of Neoproterozoic mobile belts that border and weld older cratons on the African continent. It is a low-grade ... -
Re-constituting Ghanaian public university libraries to conform to universal design principles to accommodate students with disabilities
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Ten Ghanaian public university libraries were investigated to determine if they conform to universal design principles to accommodate students with disabilities. The study employed a multiple case study design and was ... -
Re-descriptions of some Southern african Scyphozoa: out with the old and in with the new
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)Two species of Chrysaora are described from the northern Benguela ecosystem: C. fulgida and C. africana. These species can be diagnosed by a combination of morphological features including lappet and tentacle number, shape ... -
Re-descriptions of some southern African Scyphozoa: out with the old and in with the new
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)Two species of Chrysaora are described from the northern Benguela ecosystem: C. fulgida and C. africana. These species can be diagnosed by a combination of morphological features including lappet and tentacle number, shape ... -
Re-examining the multidimensional poverty index of South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Poverty remains one of the main socio-economic issues in South Africa and is more prevalent amongst black African females, children aged below 18 years, and rural residents with low levels of education. Many local studies ... -
Re-humanisation, history and a forensic aesthetic: Understanding a politics of the dead in the figuring of Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka
(University of Western Cape, 2021)In 1987 Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka was abducted, tortured, killed and her body dumped by apartheid security police. She was an uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), commander ... -
Re-humanisation, history and a forensic aesthetic: Understanding a politics of the dead in the figuring of Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka’
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)In 1987 Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka was abducted, tortured, killed and her body dumped by apartheid security police. She was an uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), commander ... -
Re-imagining 'nontraditional' student constructs in higher education : a case study of one South African University
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Worldwide, a greater and more diverse student population participates in higher education now more than ever before as the literature suggests an increase in 'nontraditional' students commonly regarded as adult students, ... -
Re-situating and shifting cultural identity in contemporary Namibia: the experience of rural-urban migrants in Katutura (Windhoek)
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)This thesis explores the shifting cultural identities of young Owambo migrants living in Babilon, an informal settlement on the outskirts of Windhoek, Namibia. Through an investigation of their social, cultural and economic ... -
Re-thinking the corporate social responsibility regulatory framework in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Corporate governance is a principle that has had multiple evolving definitions. The Cadbury Report (also known as Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance) of 1992 is a report that sets out recommendations for best practice ...