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An evaluation of the information literacy education of MBA students at the University of Stellenbosch Business School
(UWC, 2012)This study investigates the effectiveness of the information literacy education that Master of Business Administration (MBA) students receive at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). The literature reveals ... -
An evangelical discourse on God’s response to suffering: A critical assessment of Gregory Boyd’s open theism
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)This research project makes a contribution to the discourse on the theodicy problem by examining the position adopted by Gregory Boyd known as open theism. Boyd would argue that an open view of God is in a better position ... -
The everyday life and the missing: Silences, heroic narratives and exhumations.
(University of Western Cape, 2020)This mini-thesis draws on the biographical materials of activists; Zubeida Jaffer, Nokuthula Simelane and Siphiwo Mthimkulu in order to investigate their representation as South African Anti-Apartheid activists. Within ... -
The everyday life information behaviour of visually impaired students at Stellenbosch University
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)The purpose of the study was to investigate the everyday life information seeking behaviour of visually impaired students at Stellenbosch University. The study framed by the Every Day Life information behaviour model of ... -
An examination of primary school teachers’ knowledge of the symptoms and management of children diagnosed with ADHD in their classrooms
(2013)There is a high rate of parental referrals by teachers to doctors for children who display symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The symptoms are inattentiveness, impulse control, concentration ... -
An examination of the correspondence between sound and meaning in certain chapters of the holy Qur'an
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)The study of sound symbolism, phonetics and semantics has been of major concern for linguists since the Greeks and the Romans in the fifth century before AD. The idea of sound symbolism - the existence of correspondence ... -
Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This project explores the negotiation of shifting racial identities within a transforming post-Apartheid context, in particular, the negotiation of what it means to be ‘coloured’. Twenty-seven years into South Africa’s ... -
Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This mini-thesis, ‘Exhumation, Reburial and History Making in South Africa’, is concerned with an analysis of the practices of exhumation and reburial through discussing the case studies of the Iron-Age archaeological site ... -
Experiences and coping strategies of women living with HIV/AIDS: case study of Khomas region, Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)This study focuses on the impact of HIV/AIDS on women in Namibia. Namibia, with a population of only 1.7 million people, is ranked as the seventh highest country in the world in terms of HIV/AIDS infections. The percentage ... -
Experiences of gender and power relations among a group of black women holding leadership positions: a case study of six government departments in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)In this study, I explored the experiences of gender and power relations among a group of black women holding leadership positions in six government departments in the Western Cape. South Africa is in a process of transition ... -
Experiences of rural girls in a historically dominated organisation: scouts in Mpumalanga, Western Cape and Eastern Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This study explores the experiences of young rural girls in scouting practices, who reside in the rural areas of Mpumalanga, Western and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa. This exploratory study draws special reference ... -
Experiences of social vulnerability in indigent households related to water service delivery in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)The extent of a community experiencing social vulnerability depends on the community’s ability to access resources that may contribute to coping mechanisms (either within the household or provided externally by a responsible ... -
Experiences of Zimbabweans on the provision of health care at selected public health care centers in Cape Town, 1994-2009
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)There is a widely held assumption that immigrants have difficulties in accessing public health care services in South Africa. This assumption derives from the experiences of some immigrants in accessing public health care ... -
An exploration of reader response to and social identification with Grade 12 prescribed poetry
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The thesis offers insight into English literature studies as taught at high school level to Grade 12 learners, employing Louise Rosenblatt’s reader response theory to explore and understand their encounter and engagement ... -
An exploration of texture in Ghanaian undergraduate students’ essays
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)As an official and second language in Ghana, English is used as a medium of instruction in the Ghanaian educational setting, especially at the university level. Therefore, for Ghanaian students to go through their university ... -
An exploration of the discourses women survivors of intimate partner violence draw on to understand intimate femicide
(University of Western Cape, 2013)This study is about intimate femicide: The murder of a woman by a male intimate partner, namely her husband, boyfriend (dating or cohabiting), ex-husband (divorced or separated), ex-boyfriend or a rejected would-be lover. ... -
An exploration of the gendered constructions of ‘stoner’ identity on a Western Cape campus
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study employed a social constructionist understanding of ‘identity’ to identify key markers of gendered ‘stoner’ identity and to consider how gendered ‘stoner’ identity is performed on a Western Cape campus. The aim ... -
An exploration of the link between selected women’s discourses and literacy resources in the working class township settlement of Wesbank, South Africa
(2010)South Africa became a globally recognised democratic country in need of a development agenda after its first democratic elections were held in 1994. Democratising South Africa, however, requires rigorous attempts to open ... -
An exploration of the perceptions of non-admitting sex offenders of their family environment
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This study aims to explore the family environment of non-admitting sex offenders in order to gain insight into the family characteristics that could be contributing factors towards the behaviour of denial. However, the ... -
An exploration of the stigma experienced by women who are living with HIV/AIDS
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The effects of the spread of HIV/AIDS place a great burden on women and children, who will probably suffer most in terms of social and economic deprivation. Since HIV/AIDS is linked to social taboos such as sexuality, drug ...