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The healing factor in religious tourism with regard to health and wellbeing in Africa: A case study of synagogue church of all nations in Lagos, Nigeria
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
The journey of self-discovery is unique to human beings, and quests to resolve any existing problem entails taking steps leading to solutions, even if one may not have a guarantee that the steps would automatically bring ...
The African child and the hidden curriculum at Blythswood Institute: Three snapshots
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This mini-thesis seeks to understand how the colonial and apartheid state imagined the African child in South Africa through education policies and their associated hidden curriculum. It asks what educational project was ...
Knowledge management and organizational learning in religious organizations: A case study of Christian faith revival ministries of South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Knowledge Management (KM) has developed over the years into a mainstream organisational necessity to achieve success and organisational effectiveness. The goal of this study is to assess KM and organisational learning ...
Pastoral care responses to clergy sexual abuse: a case study of the Anglican church of Southern Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
While media attention seems to suggest that clergy sexual abuse (CSA) occurs primarily in the Roman Catholic church, specifically with children, or in the so-called ‘unregulated’ charismatic churches between charismatic ...
Knowledge Interfaces: Kruiekenners, plants and healing in Genadendal
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This thesis was informed by what I perceived to be a tense relationship between Western biomedical science and, for example, “traditional” or “indigenous” ways of producing knowledge about medicinal plants used to manage ...
Native: An album of modern South African blues songs
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This Creative Writing project is an album of South African songs written specifically in the context of American blues music. Although blues is an intrinsically American genre of Western popular music, it has its roots ...
A Critical Study of Doubt (Shakk) and Certainty (Yaqīn) in Ghazālī’s Epistemology
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
Our secular age is a period of scepticism and ubiquitous doubt. The epistemology of a paradigmatic figure like Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (1058-1111) is central to Islamic intellectual thought, but also speaks to our modern ...
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 ...
An investigation into the use of electronic resources by postgraduate students in the department of postgraduate studies in education at the Central University of Technology
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Libraries use technology to improve the management of scholarly information and to provide faster access to information elsewhere. Over time, an important change was perceived in collection development policies and practices ...
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 ...