UWC Electronic Thesis and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The implementation and evaluation of a mhealth intervention to address secondary traumatic stress among frontline mental health care providers in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Providing mental health care to trauma survivors may lead to secondary traumatic stress (STS) amongst mental health care service providers (MHCPs) and existing interventions for STS are labour intensive and have limited ... -
Prevalence of metabolic risk factors for non-communicable diseases in treatment-naïve HIV patients in inner-city Johannesburg
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Background: South Africa faces a quadruple burden of disease with a rising prevalence of both HIV and non-communicable diseases (Cage et al., 2023). Increased life expectancy in people living with HIV (PLWHIV) has contributed ... -
Factors affecting stroke patients’ access to physiotherapy services in a semi-rural township in South Africa
(2023)Background: There is a significant rise in the incidence of stroke worldwide. It is common for people with stroke (PWS) to sustain physical impairments and subsequently require rehabilitation services such as physiotherapy ... -
Promoting and facilitating development through private sector inclusion under the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AFCFTA) legal and institutional framework
(2023)Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have been fronted as vehicles for economic development by various scholars and economic organisations at large. But what is development? This is an important question which must be answered. ... -
The roles of intertidal marine gastropod shells as secondary substrate for macroalgae
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Primary space within the marine benthos is by far the most limited resource for which all sessile organisms must compete. It only ever becomes available when the organisms occupying it dies or are forced to leave the area. ... -
Nursing personnel administration within a hospital
(University of the Western Cape, 1980)The nurse qualified in the area of administration occupies a position with immense scope and potential in the profession and society. The task of senior nursing management is a matter of balancing and reconciling the ... -
Power studies of multivariate two-sample tests of comparison
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)The multivariate two-sample tests provide a means to test the match between two multivariate distributions. Although many tests exist in the literature, relatively little is known about the relative power of these procedures. ... -
Teachers’ instructional strategies of teaching reading comprehension in grade three: a case study of three primary schools in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study investigates the instructional strategies employed in teaching reading comprehension in Grade Three. The aim is to address gaps in knowledge by identifying teachers’ reading comprehension strategies. A deeper ... -
Investigating a proposed standardised method for authorship attribution in l1/2 english texts
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Authorship attribution is a method of revealing the obscure or unknown individuals who may have played a part in the creation of texts (Kotze, 2007). The purpose of authorship attribution is both to test claims of authorship ... -
Investigating the english language proficiency and communication skills of first-year education students at the khomasdal campus of the university of Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This research investigates proficiency in English and communication skills among first-year education students at the Khomasdal Campus of the University of Namibia. Drawing on the Interactionist Theory and the Constructivist ... -
An ethnomethodological analysis of students’ ways of working with algebraic fractions in high-stakes examinations: the case of level 3 mathematics students at technical and vocational education and training (tvet) colleges
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The study investigates the National Certificate Vocational (NCV) Level 3 students’ ways of working with rational algebraic fractions in a high-stakes examination. An ethnomethodological analysis was used to reveal the ... -
Conflict and challenges in esl acquisition: an investigation within francophone immigrant college students’ environment in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The complexity of second language acquisition (SLA) by young adults as seen through the lenses of students with different needs and objectives has a tremendous language conflict potential to the acquirers. Languages spoken ... -
Reptile community responses to an avian ecosystem engineer
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)In the Kalahari, sociable weavers (Philetairus socius) build huge, communal nests. Although Kalahari tree skinks (Trachylepis spilogaster) are known to preferentially use trees that host such colonies, the degree to which ... -
Temporal and spatial variability in copepod abundance, distribution and community structure off Walvis Bay in the northern Benguela Current, 1979-1981
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)The zooplankton samples used for retrospective analysis in this study form part of the historical SWAPELS (South West African Pelagic Egg and Larva Survey) collection from January 1972 to December 1989, which covered the ... -
Children's right to consent to medical treatment and a consideration of the changes effected in the Children's Bill B70 D of 2003
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Children's rights to consent to medical treatment and the balancing of parental rights have become the focus of much debate in South Africa over the last few decades. Issues concerning the age at which children can consent ... -
Incidence and common causes of major lower limb amputation at a hospital in a sub-district of the City Cape Town municipality.
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)Background: Major lower limb amputation (LLA) is a life-changing event described as the loss of a limb at or proximal to the ankle upwards. The amputation itself is a change in body structure but has a significant influence ... -
A critical analysis of some of the complexities of implementing transitional justice in Sudan after the genocide in Darfur
(2023)In recent decades, the lives of millions of civilians have been devastated in the Darfur region in western Sudan, by the attacks of the militia Janjaweed, with the support of the government army under the supervision of ... -
Examining the effectiveness of the Corporate Leniency Policy in combating cartels under the Competition Act in South Africa with specific reference to directors’ liability.
(2024)The economy is harmed by the behaviour of a director that engages in anticompetitive behaviour in the sense that consumers may suffer the economic consequences in the form of having lesser buying power. This restricts ... -
Variations in the adoption of children: African versus Western Jurisprudence
(2024)During the colonial era, South Africa's indigenous normative order was subjugated by European laws, which led to a distortion of indigenous laws and the perception that Western jurisprudence was the supreme law. However, ... -
The role of international law in juvenile justice Reform in south africa
(UWC, 2001)This t hesis w ill seek to trace and to analyse the impact of international chi ldren's rights law upon the process of juvenile justice reform in South Africa during the past decade. As documented more fully in Chapter 2 ...