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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 ...
'Looking good, clean and fresh': Visual representations of the self in the Van Kalker Studio, Cape Town 1939-1978
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This mini-thesis attempts to analyse the way in which Van Kalker photographs enabled
representations of the self and allowed sitters a means through which to assert themselves visually especially when considered against ...
Community participation in health: Home/community-based care as an alternative strategy to institutional care – a case study of Dunoon home-based caregivers
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
In South Africa, since 2000, an increase of awareness in community involvement has become apparent, owing to the response from people to the need to be more engaged in decisions pertaining to their community. This positive ...
Seeking identity between worlds: A study of selected Chinese American fiction
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The literature of the Chinese diaspora in America is marked by a tension between
ancestral Chinese traditional culture and the modernity of Western culture. This thesis explores diaspora theory, as elaborated by Stuart ...
An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorializing war : a case study of the Heroes' Acres in Matabeleland South Province
(University of the Western Cape., 2011)
The study through the topic: An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorializing war: A case study of the Heroes' Acres in Matabeleland South Province focuses on post liberation war memorialisation ...
Ecotourism as a catalyst for promoting local economic development: an evaluation of the developmental impacts of Bulungula Lodge in Nqileni, Eastern Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Tourism is one of the fastest growing global sectors, with current international tourist arrivals exceeding 935 million, and projected arrivals to exceed 1 billion by 2020. Community-based ecotourism has been suggested as ...
Blood, race and the construction of 'the coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds', in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the historical ...
Assessing the level of community participation in faith based NGOs in South Africa: The case of the South African National Zakah Fund (SANCAF) in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
In a country like South Africa, with a history of racial discrimination and man-made social inequalities, many NGOs and FBOs play a crucial and important role in socio-economic development and in narrowing the gap between ...
The representation of children and childhood in the Children's Amendment Act (41 of 2007)
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Until fairly recently studies of children as actively engaged in the production of meaning making in their social lives has been overlooked, ignored or received marginal attention within the contemporary social sciences ...
"War in the home'' marriage and mediation among the Gurage in Ethiopia
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Ethiopian ethnic groups exhibit highly autochthonous cultural norms and values that are
embedded in their traditional beliefs, systems, and religions. This study shows how, at the grassroots level, the Gurage ethnic group ...