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Ma'at in Egipte en veranderinge in die Amarna periode
(University of Western Cape, 1998)Gedurende die Amama Periode vind daar belangrike gebeure plaas wat ingrypende veranderinge in die lewe van die Egiptiese mens teweeg gebring het. Na die dood van Akhenaten, is hierdie koning, wat bekendheid daarvoor verwerf ... -
Machine learning approaches to study star formation and black hole accretion in the Meerkat/MIGHTEE survey
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Galaxy formation and evolution are driven by two main physical processes: star formation and black hole accretion. Both processes can be traced via the synchrotron emission at radio wavelengths. However, a reliable ... -
Macroscopic and Microscopic surface features of Hydrogenated silicon thin films
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)An increasing energy demand and growing environmental concerns regarding the use of fossil fuels in South Africa has led to the challenge to explore cheap, alternative sources of energy. The generation of electricity from ... -
Madeirans in Cape Town: Immigration documentation, marriage and settlement, 1900s to the 1970s
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This thesis traces the immigration of Madeirans to Cape Town and their settlement from the 1900s to the 1970s. It focuses on how exclusionary legislation from 1902 affected Madeiran entry, how they managed to circumvent ... -
Magmatic-petrogenetic & structural relationships of the peninsula granite of the Cape Granite Suite (CGS) with the Malmesbury group, sea point contact, Saldania belt, South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The Sea Point contact, Cape Town, South Africa, exposes the contact between the Neoproterozoic Malmesbury Group metasedimentary rocks of the Pan-African Saldania belt and the intrusive S-type Peninsula Granite of the ... -
Magmatic-petrogenetic & structural relationships of the Peninsula Granite of the Cape Granite Suite (CGS) with the Malmesbury Group, Sea Point contact, Saldania Belt, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The Sea Point contact, Cape Town, South Africa, exposes the contact between the Neoproterozoic Malmesbury Group metasedimentary rocks of the Pan-African Saldania belt and the intrusive S-type Peninsula Granite of the ... -
Magnetic substitution in CePt₂Si₂ and CeCu₅In Kondo lattice
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)In the past few decades, the studies of f-electron materials have revealed unusual physical properties such as Fermi-liquid, non-Fermi-liquid behaviour at low temperatures, heavy- Fermion behaviour, valence fluctuation, ... -
Magnetocaloric effect and critical behaviour near the magnetic phase transition temperature in rare-earth compounds
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Rare-earth intermetallic compounds continue to draw considerable attention, due to their fundamental importance in understanding physical properties and potential applications based on a variety of phenomena. The focus ... -
Major issues arising out of industrial relations disputes in Ghana since independence: 1957 - 2004
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This thesis analysed the significance of disputes or conflict in Ghana's industrial realtions since her independence in 1957. It further analysed the causes of industrial conflict and its management or resolution in Ghana ... -
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 ... -
Making heritage in post-apartheid South Africa: Agencies, museums and sites
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)This work responds to the perceptions of post-apartheid heritage practices as producing an authorised heritage discourse. It contrasts this perception by approaching the making of postapartheid heritage as not just a ... -
Making non-state actors accountable for violations of economic rights: a case study of transnational corporations in the African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)The development of a common standard for holding governments accountable for human rights violations represented by international human rights law (IHRL) has been one of the major achievements of international law. ... -
The making of Ruacana as place and its construction as future heritage
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Ruacana is a town in northern Namibia, located on the border with Angola on the Kunene River. It is about 150 kilometres north of Oshakati. The town was established in the early 1970s by the South West Africa Water and ... -
“Making Oranges from Lemons” Experiences of Support of South African Jewish Senior Citizens Following the Emigration of their Children
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)Family is widely expected to be the main source of support for Senior Citizens and, like many religions and cultures, the Jewish tradition has expectations of filial obligations of care. South Africa and its Jewish community ... -
Making the rights of poor people practical in Malawi through a rights based approach to development
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)This thesis tackles the issue of human rights and poverty in the context of Malawi. Our main concern is to find ways of how to make human rights practical for poor people in Malawi through a human rights-based approach to ... -
Making the transition from learning to read to reading to learn in Grade 4: Investigating the teaching of reading literacy in two Western Cape schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Drawing on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study - PIRLS (Howie, et al., 2008), which highlights the reading literacy crisis in South African schools, this study investigated the literacy crisis in relation ... -
Malawian secondary school students' learning of science: historical background, performance and beliefs
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This study explored the problem of poor performance in science among students who are provided secondary school places on merit in Malawi. Existing studies of the problem are inconsistent suggesting that these studies may ... -
Male identified same-sex sexual fetish in South Africa: (re)defining sexual relations between people and things
(2010)Historical ethnographic and early psychoanalytic epistemologies on 'fetishism' focus primarily on the fetish 'object', whereby the subject of 'fetish practices' was identified, pathologised and/or socioculturally invalidated ... -
Malignant tumors of the maxillofacial and oral region in children: A clinicopathologic study
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)This is a retrospective study of malignant tumours of the maxillofacial and oral region in children that presented over a 20 year period (1973 to 1993) at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Groote Schuur ... -
Malignant tumours of the maxillofacial and oral region in children: A clinicopathologic study
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)This is a retrospective study of malignant tumours of the maxillofacial and oral region in children that presented over a 20 year period (1973 to 1993) at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Groote Schuur ...
