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Face-work and identities in a discussion about xenophobia
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)International students arriving at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from other African countries find themselves in a position of having to negotiate their identities and positions with their South African counterparts. ... -
Facilitating the Cape's metropolitan spatial development framework by using Gis to investigate vacant land
(University of Western Cape, 1998)The trend in metropolitan planning is to provide overarching objectives for development, leaving detailed interpretation at the local level. The unspecific nature of these guidelines, however, coupled by the parochial ... -
Facing the image in the mirror: “whiteness” in South African missional discourse
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study is situated within the discipline of missiology and seeks to contribute to missional theology as one important contemporary school of thought within the discipline. Missional theology emerged in the 1990s ... -
Factors in the establishment of institutional repositories: a case study of the Western Cape higher education institutions
(2009)In the academic world, open access institutional repositories (IRs) are beginning to play a vital role in storing and disseminating scholarly communication. Through this method, higher education institutions are able to ... -
Factors influencing the rendering of services in academic libraries
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)In the field of user studies, very little research has been done on rendering of services in academic libraries. These services need to be examined in depth in order to be able to provide academic library users with more ... -
Family dynamics in home-based care settings of Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands in Mutasa North rural district
(2011)Ever since United Nations’ declaration of 1994 as the Year of the Family, the study and understanding of families has taken center stage, albeit with constant references to ‘normal’ versus ‘deviant’ families based on ... -
Family Planning and Progeny as a means of enacting the Maqāsid al- Sharī’ah: A Critical analysis of the positions of Gamal Eldin Attia, Abul Faḍl Moḥsin Ebrāḥīm and ‘Abdel Raḥīm Omrān
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This study will research one of the objectives of Maqāsid al- Sharī’ah (Objectives of the Islamic Law) namely Ḥifẓ al-Nasl better known as the protection of progeny as well as family planning. 1. Sharī’ah (Islamic Law) ... -
Fashion, performance and the politics of belonging among Muslim women in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)This thesis explores how the hijab fashion market has emerged in Cape Town and how Capetonian Muslim women are appropriating hijab fashion as a means of redefining themselves as Muslim South Africans instead of ‘Cape ... -
Female identity and landscape in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic Novels
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)The purpose of this dissertation is to chart the development of an ambivalent female identity in the Gothic genre, as exemplified by Ann Radcliffe's late eighteenth century fictions. The thesis examines the social and ... -
The female protagonist’s intersection with the African world of actuality in Beyala’s novel Tu T’appelleras Tanga
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)In order to overcome the silence that had been instilled by colonialism, several postcolonial female writers employ fiction to restore their local culture and reflect on their representation in historical writings. For ... -
The female protagonist’s intersection with the African world of actuality in Beyala’s novel Tu t’appelleras Tanga
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)In order to overcome the silence that had been instilled by colonialism, several postcolonial female writers employ fiction to restore their local culture and reflect on their representation in historical writings. For ... -
Figuring post-apartheid SA women: Brutal fruit online advertising in a glocalized world
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)In a developing country like South Africa plagued by historical racial scars, attitudes pertaining to race, ethnicity and language, can be described as considerably problematic. Images used for advertising (ads) and the ... -
Figuring the heroine in the ankara romance series against the archetype of Flora Nwapa’s efuru: marriage, procreation, love, sex, and work, master’s
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)Romantic love has been neglected in the study of African literature and culture. It has been misconstrued and overlooked in canonical African literature, and the scholarship of that literature. Only recently has some ... -
Filling the gap? A study of some South African teenage reader's responses to the Siyagruva series books at the Eersterivier public library in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)The purpose of this study is to investigate responses to New Africa Book’s Siyagruva Series among six enthusiastic teenage readers (ages 10 -16), at Eersterivier Public Library in Cape Town. The series aims to provide a ... -
Finding new coping mechanisms: the impact of HIV and AIDS on women's access to land in Mozambique
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)In this full thesis, I explore the impact that HIV and AIDS pandemic is having in the livelihood strategies of rural women in Mozambique. My intention in this work is to highlight the navigation of Mozambican women through ... -
Flood risk reduction in Botswana analysis and recommendations
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)The turn-of the-century floods in Botswana resulted primarily from prolonged heavy rainfall which started in December 1999 and extended into January 2000. The floods covered almost the whole of Botswana- They caused ... -
Flying in the face of convention: The heart of redness as rehabilitative of the South African pastoral literary tradition through the frame of universal myth
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis analyzed Zakes Mda's The Heart of redness in the tradition of South African pastoral and counter-pastoral. It proposed that the novel is a hybrid of both African and European tradition and perspectives. It ... -
Food relief or food security? A study of the policies and programmes of four Muslim social welfare organisations in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Food is a basic need, but there is nothing simple, rudimentary, and straightforward about its provision, production, distribution, preparation, or consumption. The provision of food is regarded as an act of great virtue ... -
Food, farming and subsistence agriculture: women's voices from u-Mhlanga village, Eastern Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)Using a qualitative feminist methodology grounded on post-modemist and postcolonial framework, this research represents an attempt to determine the factors influencing the farming and subsistence agriculture strategies ... -
Food, sex and text: Exploring survival sex in the context of food insecurity through communal readings of the book of Ruth
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The study explored how contextual Bible study (CBS) contributes to the understanding of survival sex in the context of food insecurity. Even though South Africa is a food secure nation, a large percentage of the population ...