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‘Ag sjeim, siestog, sorry’: Tracing shame’s affect through performance in post-apartheid South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
In this study I investigate what performance as a medium can contribute to our
understanding of shame's affect. Given the difficulty of defining and concretising affect
according to set parameters and outcomes, critical ...
Visual Storytelling in the Cape Flats Gang Biopics Noem My Skollie (2016) and Ellen: Die Storie van Ellen Pakkies (2018)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This M.A. mini-thesis seeks to open up the post-apartheid South African biopic as a topic for serious historical scrutiny. While book-length written biographies published in the post-apartheid (and apartheid periods) are ...
Re-humanisation, history and a forensic aesthetic: Understanding a politics of the dead in the figuring of Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
In 1987 Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka was abducted, tortured, killed and her body dumped by apartheid security police. She was an uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), commander ...
Food relief or food security? A study of the policies and programmes of four Muslim social welfare organisations in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Food is a basic need, but there is nothing simple, rudimentary, and straightforward about its provision, production, distribution, preparation, or consumption. The provision of food is regarded as an act of great virtue ...
Amagqirha nemicimbi: The art of healing
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Amagqirha have been understood solely through the framework of health and illness. Their
image is tainted and they are misrepresented as clad bone throwers and mystical scammers.
There are very few studies that focus on ...
Food, sex and text: Exploring survival sex in the context of food insecurity through communal readings of the book of Ruth
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
The study explored how contextual Bible study (CBS) contributes to the understanding of survival sex in the context of food insecurity. Even though South Africa is a food secure nation, a large percentage of the population ...
The un/timely death(s) of Chris Hani: discipline, spectrality, and the haunting possibility of return
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This dissertation takes Chris Hani beyond the conventionally biographic by thinking through his multiple lives and deaths and engaging with his legacy in ways that cannot be contained by singular, linear narratives. By ...