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Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
(University of the Western Cape, 1987)During the period between March 1974 and June 1981, I was involved in the teaching of Xhosa to non-mother-tongue speakers at Rhodes University. This experience brought me face to face with problems for which my training ... -
Some sociolinguistic aspects of/ second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
(University of Western Cape, 1987)Chapter 1 deals with the theoretical issues involved in the study of language as a social phenomenon. It traces the development of the sub-discipline of sociolinguistics and the contribution of sociologists and ... -
Sonic Afrofuturism: Blackness, electronic music production and visions of the future
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This thesis is an exploration and analysis of the ways in which we might use varying forms of Black thought, theory, and art to think Blackness anew. For this purpose I work with electronic music from Nigeria and Detroit ... -
The Sound of the Unseen
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)This work of fiction explores the themes of relational dynamics, oppression, intergenerational trauma, and the healing and self-actualisation that can be obtained by helping others. It incorporates numerous historical ... -
The sound of war: Apartheid, audibility, and resonance
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This study approaches the field of military history with approaches to the study of sound in order to interrogate the concept of war that underpins military historiography as a disciplinary formation. It delineates the ... -
South African crime fiction and the narration of the post-apartheid
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)In this dissertation, I consider how South African crime fiction, which draws on a long international literary history, engages with the conventions and boundaries of the genre, and how it has adapted to the specific ... -
South African gender-based violence researchers’ awareness and usage of bibliometrics and altmetrics in the context of open access scholarly publishing
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The traditional model of scholarly communication uses journals, databases, and conferences. With the onset of the digital age, there has been a change in the system of scholarly communication, creating new publishing ... -
The South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum: Serving different publics in two community museums in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)The 1990s came with many changes and developments in South Africa, especially in the political and social lives of people and their public institutions. The concept of transformation and transition became a household word, ... -
South African newspaper reports on corruption: A rhetorical analysis of the role of the media in moral formation
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The premise of this study is that of a reformed theological perspective which holds that all human beings are corrupt. It sets out to explore whether newspaper reporting, using rhetorical strategies which build awareness ... -
A South African retrospective study of children’s exposure to domestic violence as a predisposing factor for revictimization in adulthood
(University of Western Cape, 2013)Domestic violence has reached epidemic proportions worldwide. Every year, 275 million children globally are exposed to domestic violence. Witnessing domestic violence during childhood has been linked to various risks ... -
Southern African human remains as property: Physical anthropology and the production of racial capital in Austria
(University of Western Cape, 2021)From 1907 to 1909, the Austrian anthropologist, Dr Rudolf Pöch (1870-1921), conducted an expedition in southern Africa that was financed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Pöch enjoyed administrative and ... -
The sovereignty of the African districts of the African Methodist Episcopal Church :a historical assessment
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This research project focuses on the relationship between the American and the African districts of the African Methodist Episcopal Church during the period from 1896 to 2004. It investigates the factors which led to the ... -
A Space for Genocide: Local Authorities, Local Population and Local Histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Soon after the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, in 1994, research around this horrific event flourished. Although a variety of authors of different expertise (journalists, human rights activists, witnesses, academics, both Rwandans ... -
A space for genocide: local authorities, local population and local histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda)
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This research attempts to answer the following questions: How and why genocide became possible in Gishamvu and Kibayi? In other words, what was the nature of power at different epochs and how was it exercised? How did forms ... -
Spatial quantification of maize water stress using uva-acquired data in smallholder farms of swayimane in KwaZulu-Natal province.
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)The most important agricultural crop in southern Africa is maize, which grows on variety of environments and serves as an essential food source for the region. Most of the maize is grown in smallholder croplands both for ... -
Spaza Hip hop in the townships of Khayelitsha
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Since the arrival of hip-hop in Cape Town and indeed South Africa in the 1980s, a diverse and vibrant range of hip-hop sub-genres has developed in Cape Town. Scholarship, however, have approached hip-hop mainly through ... -
Spectres of Sycorax:Sycorax: Spectral Orality and Black Female Presence in the Figurings of Winnie Mandela and Sindiwe Magona
(University of Western Cape, 2019)The demands of modernity and globalisation present print culture as dominant in such a way that oral tradition is forced in to a shadowy position, because the latter tradition cannot be exploited entirely for profit. ... -
Spesifieke leergestremdheid by laerskoolkinders: 'n empiriese ondersoek na die voorkomssyfer en persoonlikheidseienskappe van spesifieke leerge= stremde senior primêre skoolkinders
(University of the Western Cape, 1989)Sedert die sestigerjare het daar h betekenisvolle opswaai in belangstelling "The problem is 2 damnably elusive one"; Cruickshank (1981) beweer verder gekom in die kinders wat nieteenstaande die feit dat hulle h normale in= ... -
Spinning the truth on social media: A textual analysis of health-related television advertisements
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The theory of multimodality (Kress 2010; Kress and van Leeuwen 2006) has impacted major research fields like Linguistics and Education by significantly extending our understanding of what is meant by communication through ... -
Staff development and training in academic libraries: Case studies in the UK
(University of the Western Cape, 1993)This dissertation is based on a literature review and three case studies of staff development and training in academic libraries in the United Kingdom. The study is not a comparative one but aims at establishing the ...