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Understanding women’s involvement in primary health care: a case study of Khayelitsha (Cape Town)
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Women are the principle providers of their families when it comes to issues of health care, even though their health needs and efforts are neglected. The contributions that they make to health development seem to be ...
Investigating the family-like roles displayed by caregivers and experienced by children within three selected children's homes in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
Dawes (2011) claims that there are more than 5.2 million children who were in both institutional and foster care in South Africa by 2011, which was increasing by 6.2% every year due to the HIV epidemic and high levels of ...
An Analysis of a Readiness Assessment for establishing a Monitoring and Evaluation System in Early Childhood Development (ECD) Programmes: a case study of Ikamva Labantu Centre, Khayelitsha
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Over the years major changes have occurred in the focus, approach and application of monitoring and evaluation systems as a result of increased levels of emphasis towards achieving results (outcomes) as opposed to activities ...
Community safety and social solidarity: the role of neighbourhood watch organisations in effecting social integration and cohesion in Cravenby, Ravensmead and Parow West
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The study explored and examined new forms of social relations at the interpersonal, community and institutional levels that have emerged in the social organisation of Neighbourhood Watch Organisations in Parow West, Parow ...
Death ‘awayfrom home.’ A case study of Cameroonian immigrants living in Cape Town South Africa.
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
Death is an everyday occurrence for many urban Africans living in South Africa, and it is
expressed through the everyday management of financial and social networks. The purpose of
this study is to investigate what happens ...
The production of local art for a global cultural market in contemporary Mozambique
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis examines the production of commercial art in contemporary Mozambique. It explores the power relationship between local artists – painters and sculptors – and their patrons and brokers in the art market. This ...
A Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenology of technology and vision: towards an existential – ontological understanding of social being
(2010)
This thesis turns to Martin Heidegger to develop an interpretive framework to answer the question that has increasingly been thrust to the fore of 21st century society: what is the nature of the relationship between ...
The formation of 'national culture' in post- apartheid Namibia: a focus on state sponsored cultural festivals in Kavango region
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This dissertation investigates colonial and postcolonial practices of cultural representations in Namibia. The state sponsored Annual National Culture Festival in Namibia was studied with a specific focus on the Kavango ...
Sociology curriculum in a South African University: a case study
(2012)
This study sought to investigate the alleged problem of ‘academic dependency’, on the part of South African sociologists, on western scholarship. The stated problem is said to undermine South African sociologists’ ability ...
A phenomenological study on parents' experiences of their adolescent's substance abuse
(2013)
Adolescent substance abuse is a widely researched area both internationally and nationally. It has been known to affect many problems which are prevalent in most low socioeconomic communities such as crime, school truancy ...