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An investigation of the perceptions and attitudes of postgraduate students interacting with Turnitin: The case of the University of Stellenbosch Business School
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Globally there is growing concern around increased levels of plagiarism. Gullifer and Tyson
(2010, p. 463) claim that plagiarism is growing at a rapid rate, and universities are now required
to devote enough time and ...
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 ...
Baswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in cape town, 1997-2017
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
My research is on regionalism among Congolese migrants of South Africa with the focus on
the tensions between Baswahili (Kivu inhabitants) and Bato ya mangala (Kinshasa
inhabitants) in the city of Cape Town. The two ...
The rooms we build: poems of place and memory
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The rooms we build is my Master’s thesis in creative writing. My thesis consists of two parts. The first
part is a semi-autobiographical collection of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces entitled
“Letters to ...
Urban community gardens and urban justice in the Cape Flats of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Cities worldwide are undergoing neoliberal transformation processes, culminating in deep
income inequalities, erosion of public space, and the depletion of social fabric across distressed
communities. The process of ...
Epistemicide: A conceptual analysis in African epistemology
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Many social scientists, philosophers and theorists have applied Boaventura de Sousa
Santos’s conceptual neologism, ‘Epistemicide’, in various fields, in singular reference
to a set of mutually distinct phenomena. This ...
When the village sleeps
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This thesis consists of a creative and in-depth research component: a speculative novel, When
the Village Sleeps, and a reflective long essay. It is about a young woman, Mandlakazi, who
was born severely malformed, the ...
A critical assessment of ubuntu as a source for moral formation in contemporary Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This study presented a critical evaluation of Ubuntu as a source of moral formation in
contemporary Africa. In African society, Ubuntu as a notion of African humanism has been
and still is subject to much criticism. ...
Legacies of transformational leadership: A critical analysis of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s social agency role in a time of new Kairos challenges
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
In 1985/6, the Kairos Documents emerged from the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating
critique of an evil political ideology called ‘apartheid’ and the serious challenges it presented to
the church and society. ...
Social navigation among Rwandan army deserters in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
In this thesis, I explore the post military lives of Rwandan army deserters who served in,
deserted from the post-conflict Rwandan Defence Force (RDF), and went into self-imposed
exile. I sought to understand the transition ...