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When soliders become refugees: Surveillance and fear among Rwandan former soliders living in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This study examines the fears of Rwandan army deserters who oppose President Kagame, of
being found by the External Security Organisation (ESO), a Rwandan spy organisation meant
to sniff them out wherever they are in exile: ...
Life beyond protests: An ethnographic study of what it means to be an informal settlement resident in Kanana/Gugulethu, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study explores the lives of Kanana residents, an informal settlement in Gugulethu
Township on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. It pays particular attention to their
everyday lives to dispel negative and ...
Empregados do Quintal (male domestic workers) in Nampula city: Domestic work, masculinities and matrilinearity
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study questions why domestic work that is generally considered a feminine job is yet a field dominated by men in the city of Nampula, Mozambique. In the attempt to explain this phenomenon, the research explores economic, ...
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 ...
Medical male circumcision and Xhosa masculinities: Tradition and transformation
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This research study investigates Xhosa men’s perceptions of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in Khayelitsha township (Cape Town). It explored whether the introduction of VMMC as a state HIV-prevention strategy ...
Integration, exclusion, or something in between? A study of Zimbabwean migrants in Gugulethu, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
According to migrant research in South Africa, after the advent of democracy in South
Africa, in 1994, the country has received an influx of foreign migrants, more especially from
the African continent. However, much ...