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Goema’s Refrain: Sonic anticipation and the Musicking Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis traces the making of a social world of the musicking Cape through sound, which it
calls sonic anticipation. Sonic anticipation is threaded through a Cape-based musicking
milieu called goema in the Nineteenth ...
Exploring the links between urban agriculture, land use and food security in the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA)
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Hunger is more than just a feeling, it is the lack of access to safe nutritious food, which in turn may result in anger towards government, low performance, sadness and a limited will to survive. Urban agriculture has been ...
Spaza Hip hop in the townships of Khayelitsha
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Since the arrival of hip-hop in Cape Town and indeed South Africa in the 1980s, a diverse
and vibrant range of hip-hop sub-genres has developed in Cape Town. Scholarship, however,
have approached hip-hop mainly through ...
Biliteracy and academic success: The experiences of selected Libyan students.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study is an investigation into the biliteracy skills (in Arabic and English)
employed by Libyan students at the University of the Western Cape to gain their
academic success. Nowadays, international students form a ...
The accuracy and equivalence of translated news from English to isiXhosa
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
This study evaluates the accuracy and equivalence of translated news from English to isiXhosa version in four community radio stations, two from the Western Cape and two from the Eastern Cape. Community radio stations ...
Plagiarism among undergraduate students in the faculty of applied science at a South African Higher Education Institution
(University of Western Cape, 2010)
The purpose of this study was to investigate plagiarism among undergraduate students at a higher education institution in South Africa. There is evidence from previous studies that plagiarism is increasing world wide among ...
The virtue of temperance and the vice of overindulgence: A case study of perceptions in muslim households
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Overindulgence is widely regarded as a serious social problem in South Africa leading to obesity and associated medical and psychological issues. This study investigated overindulgence from the perspective of Islamic ...
Community and health science Libguides: A case study on the use of Libguides to enhance library electronic resources and services at the University of the Western Cape Library
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Academic libraries worldwide are using the digital content management and information
sharing LibGuides as a platform to provide and promote subject or course orientated
information resources, to share knowledge, to ...
A social semiotic approach to multimodality in the Vagina Varsity YouTube campaign series
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study investigated the semiotic resources used by Vagina Varsity, a campaign by sanitary towel brand Libresse on the social media platform YouTube to construct meanings around the female body. Vagina Varsity is a South ...
Informality and right to the city: Contestations for safe and liveable spaces in Masvingo City, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Informal sector operators in many cities of the global South face extensive harassment,
criminalization and restricted access to public spaces despite the important role the sector is
playing in urban development.
Using ...