Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Cape Town"
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Of flowers and tears
(University of Western Cape, 2018)The collection of ten short stories, Of Flowers and Tears, aims to capture the events that have shaped my life, impacted on my community. It hopefully gives a voice to topics such as mental trauma, sibling strife, abortion, ... -
Organization of urban agriculture in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Cape Town has arguably the most diversified urban agriculture sector across the country. Nevertheless, the desired gains of urban agriculture are barely realized. The organization of urban agriculture, specifically the ... -
Pilgrimage walking and spiritual well-being: A case study of a personalised covid trail in Cape Town and surrounding areas
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Pilgrimage, walking, as well as pilgrimage walking are not new concepts. The art of walking, putting one foot before the other, creates many opportunities, including ones for hope, healing, and finding solutions to ... -
Post–exilic an old South African returns to the new South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2020)This portfolio of poems, prose poems and short fiction pieces is quasi-autobiographical and tracks the trajectory of my life, from childhood in Cape Town (‘pre-exilic’) to emigration abroad (‘exilic’) and return to Cape ... -
The production of gospel music: An ethnographic study of studio-recorded music in Bellville, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This thesis explores the production of music with musicians, singers and music producers who adhere to and promote Pentecostalist Christianity. The music they produce is a recently emerged genre, which I call 'Pentecospel'. ... -
The Provision of Library and Information Services to Gays and Lesbians in Cape Town’s Public Libraries
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)The research project is based on the belief that Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) people have specific information needs and interests that public libraries should cater for. The philosophical literature of ... -
Reflexive Essay
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)His brown hands, tanned darker than they already were from hours of supervising men shoveling sand and mixing concrete on building sites, gripped the steering wheel. Hendrick Vermeulen drove down Voortrekker Road after a ... -
Reimagining urban public space: the impacts of urban renewal in the case of Voortrekker road corridor improvement district in Bellville, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Cities are economic growth engines that have the ability to increase investment and employment opportunities in the urban space. They allow access to institutions and better services to its population. Because of this ... -
Relationships between conservators, community partners and urban conservation areas: a case study of nature reserves on the Cape flats
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Cape Town is a unique city. It has a global biodiversity hotspot, in the midst of an urban area. Historically, nature conservation practice excluded and marginalized certain groups of people based on their race and class. ... -
The responsiveness of collection development to community needs in the City of Cape Town Library and Information Service
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The debate about the role of libraries has been on-going for more than 100 years. Huynh (2004:20) states that, initially, the purpose of public libraries was to educate or teach the public. Over time there has been a ... -
The social constructions of HIV/AIDS stigma in one community in Cape Town, South Africa
(2010)Due to tremendous stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, revelation of HIV positive sero-status of an individual has become a significant risk in communities of South Africa (Kalichman el al., 2003;Deacon et al., 2004; Kalichman et ... -
A social semiotic analysis of mini-bus taxis as mobilescapes in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Linguistic Landscape (LL) is a rapidly growing area of investigation that concerns itself with the attention to language, cultural objects and images displayed in public spaces. Prompted by caveats of the earlier traditional ... -
Street trading in the central business district of Cape Town 1864- 2012: a study of state policies
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This thesis seeks to examine the making of official policies on street trading in Cape Town’s city centre and the impact of such policies. It covers an extensive period from colonial times to the Union era and from apartheid ... -
A study of the Socio-Economic Integration of Highly-Skilled Nigerian Migrants in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Migration is an important topic, not only for researchers in South Africa, but also for policymakers and the media. It is an issue at the top of the national and international agenda. In the debate on migration and the ... -
‘Taking hold’ of mobile phone stories in a Cape Flats reading club
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This ethnographically-orientated intervention explored how members of a Cape Flats reading club “took hold” (Street, 2009) of digital literacy in their engagement with online fictional stories accessed by a mobile phone. ... -
The implementation of Islamic perspectives on nutrition in the context of Muslim faith-based organisations in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)South African debates on food security address a wide range of issues related to the production, the distribution and the consumption of food in the context of deep concerns over the impact of poverty, unemployment and ... -
The invention of moffie life in Cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This dissertation is an ethnography of the figure of the moffie as a performance of same sex desire amongst gender non-conforming men, as it is celebrated in the 'coloured' ('coloured' is a constructed racial category, ... -
The ‘silent’ privatisation of urban public space in Cape Town, 1975 – 2004
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)South African cities were subjected to artificial, unnatural growth patterns brought about by apartheid planning that legitimated exclusionary practices in the city and which created and maintained racial, social and class ... -
Tourism and multilingualism in Cape Town: language practices and policy
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)Language diversity continues to create a language barrier to international tourism. Tourists from non-English speaking countries face a language barrier in South Africa and this affects their experiences in the country. ... -
Visual technologies and the shaping of public memory of disappeared persons in Cape Town (1960-1990)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)The starting point of this thesis is the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Missing Person’s Task Team (MPTT), two instruments of the post-apartheid government, both of which have directly ...