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Research data management in public universities in Malawi
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The emergence and subsequent uptake of Information and Communication Technologies has
transformed the research processes in universities and research institutions across the globe.
One indelible impact of Information and ...
Use and management of information systems in academic libraries in Ghana
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The use of Information Systems (ISs) has been widely accepted and proven to increase the
service quality in many organizations. Academic libraries have embraced the use of ISs and
have implemented them to perform different ...
The language of forms: A discourse analysis of municipal application forms.
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis focuses on the genre of municipal documents (application forms) and the variety
of written and visual languages that make up their corpus to reveal the various lexical
semantics used in the forms as communication ...
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 ...
The lives and deaths of memorials: The changing symbolism of the 1938 Voortrekker centenary monuments
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis is concerned with the lives and deaths of four 1938 Voortrekker Centenary Monuments.
The 1938 Voortrekker Centenary saw the construction of more than 500 centenary monuments. Each
one of these structures has ...
Investigating the groundwater dependence and response to rainfall variability of vegetation in the Touws river and catchment using remote sensing
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Changes in climate patterns have raised concerns for environmentalists globally and across southern Africa. The changes greatly affect the growth dynamics of vegetation to such an extent that climate elements such as ...
From monolingual to translanguaging classroom practice at two Delft primary schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Terminology such as mother tongue, first language and second language remain prevalent in South African schools’ language policies. These monolingual terms seem out of place within our multilingual landscape (Banda, 2018). ...
The form of Muslim government and its source of authority in contemporary Islamic thought : a comparative study of the views of Ayatollah Ruḥollah Khomeini and Sayyid Quţb
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The year 1924, which coincided with the fall of the Ottoman Caliphate and more recently, the Arab Spring which started in Tunisia in December 2010, and spread across much of north Africa and parts of the Middle East, has ...
Teaching humanity: Placing the Cape Town Holocaust Centre in a post-apartheid state
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This dissertation examines the development of Holocaust education in South Africa,
specifically in the period of political transition to democracy and the two decades
after apartheid. The history of placing the Holocaust ...
Creativity in spaces of learning: experimentations in two schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The questions concerning how creativity can enhance the culture of learning in schools, especially amongst the previously marginalized groups, are not simple and straightforward. In South Africa, the general questions often ...