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Theatre formations: Rethinking theatre and its spaces in Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
Scholarship on theatre in South Africa has shown how under the Apartheid government
theatrical practices were divided into different genres such as protest theatre, township
theatre, black theatre, mainstream theatre ...
Colonisers to Colonialists: European Jews and the workings of race as a political identity in the settler colony of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This thesis explores the shifting racial identification and politics of the emerging Jewish community in Southern Africa between the Anglo-Boer War in 1902 and the Union of South Africa in 1910. Through an investigation ...
The Bamasaaba people's response to the safe medical male circumcision policy in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV (UNAIDS) strongly recommends that developing countries regard medical male circumcision as a biomedical intervention. This recommendation has caused developing countries seeking a ...
‘Performing Diversity’: Everyday social interaction among migrants from the Great Lakes Region and South Africans in Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This dissertation is an exploration of everyday social interactions among and between
migrants from the Great Lakes Region and South Africans, who live together as neighbours
in a post-apartheid South African community. ...
Liminality, Papers and Belonging amongst Zimbabwean Immigrants in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Introduced in 2010, the Dispensation Zimbabwe Program (DZP) regularised undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa. When DZP was closed, the Zimbabwe Special Permit was introduced, which was also replaced by the ...
Liminality, papers and belonging amongst Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Introduced in 2010, the Dispensation Zimbabwe Program (DZP) regularised undocumented Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa. When DZP was closed, the Zimbabwe Special Permit was introduced, which was also replaced by the ...
Commissioned women soldiers and politics in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the ruling party, the Zimbabwe African Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), are strongly interlinked in politics since independence, that is, the Army largely functions as the military wing ...
The long-term effects of domestic Violence: a study of life histories in a homeless shelter in cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study examines the effects of domestic violence on adults who witnessed abuse as children
in their homes. It seeks to ascertain if the childhood emotional trauma of domestic violence
influences the growth and social ...
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 ...
The church and single parenting: perceptions and social support
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The goal of this study was to investigate how single parenting is perceived within the context of the churches in Kuils River and to establish if any support structures are in place to assist single parents. This research ...