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Checking the Kulcha: Local discourse of culture in the Kavango region of Namibia
(University of Westen Cape, 2006)This thesis makes an ethnographic contribution to the anthropological debates about the contested nature of ‘culture’ as a central term in the discipline. It examines discourses as tools that create, recreate, modify and ... -
Child sex tourism in South Africa: A children's rights perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)In the words of Najat Maall M'jid, former United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography: 'As the world reflects on the universal development goals for the ... -
Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), ... -
Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices
(2009)South Africa, like many ex-colonial contexts finds itself confronting difficult decisions about multilingualism. The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these ... -
Choice of language for learning and assessment: the role of learner identity and perceptions in informing these choices.
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)South Africa, like many ex-colonial contexts finds itself confronting difficult decisions about multilingualism. The South Africa constitution recognizes eleven official languages and provides for education in these ... -
Christianity, education and African nationalism: an intellectual biography of Z.K. Matthews (1901-1968)
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)My study begins by looking at the ways in which ZK Matthews has been remembered. I raise questions about his legacy in the post-apartheid period, in relation to the limited ways in which he has been studied and in relation ... -
Church and rural development: A geographical analysis of Elim
(University of the Western Cape, 1992)The pivotal role of the Moravian Church in development in Elim, a mission station situated approximately 170 kilometres southeast of Cape Town, is the central theme of this geographical analysis. The broader debate around ... -
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 ... -
Cinematic and photographic aesthetics in the novels of J.M. Coetzee
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)This thesis will examine the extensive cinematic and photographic visuality inscribed in the fictions of J. M. Coetzee. Coetzee's prose is inflected by a complex intermediality that references media aesthetics, practices, ... -
Class, land and poverty: a study of the class dynamics of land dispossession and land restitution in Dysselsdorp
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This study aimed to contribute towards understanding how the dynamics of class formation and differentiation impact on and are in turn impacted upon by land restitution processes. It was conducted against the backdrop of ... -
Climate variability: Human management response to environmental changes in Touws River valley and Makolokwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Climate has been changing significantly around the globe; hence climate variability is of great interest to researchers. The changes in climate have caused variances in rainfall and temperature, both elements of paramount ... -
Collaboration in the management and preservation of audio-visual archives: a case study of the national archives of Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The study investigated the significance of collaboration in the management and preservation of audio-visual archives at the National Archives of Zimbabwe (NAZ) in light of the challenges presented by this heritage resource. ... -
The colonisation of the Geographical mind: A critical contextual analysis of the institutionalisation and establishment of Geography as an academic discipline in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 1992)The history of geography is much more than the mere listing of the names and publications of great geographers, identifying different research traditions, or searching for paradigms. The history of geography ought to ... -
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 ... -
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 common link theory in hadith: A comparison between orientalists and Muslim scholars
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Joseph Schacht’s (d. 1969) Common-link Theory, together with its generalized conclusions, is a key theoretical framework used by most Western and some modern Muslim scholars of Islamic history. The theory proposes that ... -
Community and health science Libguides: A case study on the use of Libguides to enhance library electronic resources and services at the University of the Western Cape Library
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Academic libraries worldwide are using the digital content management and information sharing LibGuides as a platform to provide and promote subject or course orientated information resources, to share knowledge, to ... -
Community development initiatives and poverty reduction: the role of the Ethiopian Kale Heywot Church in Ethiopia
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)Ethiopia is a country well endowed with a number of development related NGOs who have been involved in socio-economic development at national, regional and grassroots level. In a country like Ethiopia, where natural and ... -
Community participation in health: Home/community-based care as an alternative strategy to institutional care – a case study of Dunoon home-based caregivers
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)In South Africa, since 2000, an increase of awareness in community involvement has become apparent, owing to the response from people to the need to be more engaged in decisions pertaining to their community. This positive ... -
Community safety and social solidarity: the role of neighbourhood watch organisations in effecting social integration and cohesion in Cravenby, Ravensmead and Parow West
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The study explored and examined new forms of social relations at the interpersonal, community and institutional levels that have emerged in the social organisation of Neighbourhood Watch Organisations in Parow West, Parow ...