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Negotiating identity in multilingual parliamentary discourses in the Western Cape: a discourse analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)South Africa transitioned from an apartheid system of government, with one ruling party to a new democracy; a transition that is still currently in progress. With this transition came many new freedoms, such as the ability ... -
Negotiation of identities and language practices among Cameroonian immigrants in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis is an exploration of the historical, socio-cultural, economic, and political settings in which identities are negotiated and performed among Cameroonian immigrants in Cape Town. Focusing on language as localized ... -
The Nigerian healthcare system: A study of access to affordable essential medicines and healthcare
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The concepts of availability, affordability, accessibility and acceptability otherwise known as the 4As of ATM are key factors that influence access to essential medicines in any given health system. However, the exact ... -
Night writing: The textual ideation of Andrew Jeptha
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The publication A South African Boxer in Britain contains the unique aesthetic of the Cape Town born boxer Andrew Jeptha, the first black fighter to win a British welterweight title in 1907. The booklet was published in ... -
Not liberation but justice: An Analysis of Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of human destiny in the light of the Doctrine of the Atonement.
(University of Western Cape, 1992)This thesis takes a new approach to the interpretation of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought by arguing that the category of "redemption" is a key hermeneutical concept for understanding his theology. It is argued that his ... -
n’Vergelykende studie t.o.v. dieaktiwiteite van stedelikeen Plattelandse swart amateur gemeenskapsteatergroepe in die apartheids era.
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)In studies oor die swart Afrikaanse amateur gemeenskapsteater is voorheen beweer dat die platteland geen oorspronklike en noemenswaardige bydra gelewer het nie. Hiedie studie rig hom op aktiwiteite van hierdie aard in die ... -
Of flowers and tears
(University of Western Cape, 2018)The collection of ten short stories, Of Flowers and Tears, aims to capture the events that have shaped my life, impacted on my community. It hopefully gives a voice to topics such as mental trauma, sibling strife, abortion, ... -
Olufuko revisited: female initiation in contemporary Ombadja, Northern Namibia.
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This thesis analyses post-independence Namibian Heritage and identity discourse and its contestations through the contemporary public performance of olufuko. Olufuko is the ritual of female initiation that marks the ... -
Omhedi: displacement and legitimacy in Oukwanyama politics, Namibia, 1915-2010
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This is a study of the contest over political and social legitimacy in a former precolonial kingdom, Oukwanyama, in northern Namibia, from 1915 to the present. It tracks the historical shifts in this long time frame through ... -
On being a "foreigner": How African international students at UWC make sense of xenophobia
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This thesis is an exploratory study of how African international students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa experience xenophobic attitudes and behaviours, and how they make sense of it. In ... -
Ontkenning in Malmesbury-Afrikaans: 'n Kontekstuele verkenning
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)NEGATION is a semantic feature found mainly on clause/sentence level. Negation in Afrikaans is characterised by (a) NEG1-forms represented by various particles which are located within the major constituents of the sentence ... -
Opportunities of muslim female socio-political interaction in Shariah legislation in the northern Nigerian provinces
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)This paper identifies the reasons for the lack of Hausa women's political participation and how women can self-determine regarding social change within their patriarchal societies, by focusing on the socio-cultural factors ... -
An optimality theoretic account and systemic functional linguistics analysis of the acquisition of cicewa idiom interpretation by cicewa speaking children in Malawi
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This research is in the area of child language acquisition, especially, acquisition of figurative language. It investigates how native Cicewa speaking children learn to interpret Cicewa idioms. This is done through examination ... -
Optimising benefits for rural communities in and around Protected Areas through ecotourism Public Private Partnerships (PPPs): the case of De Hoop Nature Reserve
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Recent years have seen an upsurge of interest from governments and development organisations in adopting the Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach when developing and operating ecotourism projects. A PPP is a contract ... -
Opting for silence: A history of the history of the Golden Arrow Bus Services drivers’ strike of 1992
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The primary purpose of this research is to examine the production of history and oral history related to Golden Arrow Bus Services in Cape Town, with specific reference to the silences regarding the bus drivers’ strike in ... -
Oral history in the exhibitionary strategy of the District Six Museum, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)District Six was a community that was forcibly removed from the centre of Cape Town after its demarcation as a white group area in 1966. In 1989, the District Six Museum Foundation was established in order to form a project ... -
The orality - literacy debate with special reference to selected work of S.E.K. Mqhayi
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The focus of this thesis is on Xhosa oral and written poetry. The discussion in the thesis is based on the information from existing literature, the responses from the questionnaires and the interviews with some Xhosa ... -
Organization of urban agriculture in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Cape Town has arguably the most diversified urban agriculture sector across the country. Nevertheless, the desired gains of urban agriculture are barely realized. The organization of urban agriculture, specifically the ... -
Our memories of the liberation war: How civilians in post war Northern Namibia remember the war.
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)This research looks at the gap that exists between public representation and personal narratives of the Namibian liberation war. Having observed the absence of private narratives in the grand national memory, I address the ... -
Out of place: a re-evaluation of the poetry of Dennis Brutus
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The main aim of my dissertation is to re-evaluate the poetry of the South African writer Dennis Brutus (1924-2009). Even though he produced a substantial number of poems over more than half a century, his work continues ...