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Gender and landscape in the works of Olive Schreiner
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
My research will focus on the relationship between gender and landscape as portrayed in Olive Schreiner’s first published novel, The Story of an African Farm, and her much later novel, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, ...
Making and remaking life under threat: Disposability, extraction, and anti-black historical processes in old coronation, Mpumalanga
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Developed in the 1980s on an abandoned Anglo American coal mine, Old Coronation
informal settlement in Mpumalanga is a site of environmental, infrastructural, social, and
economic ruin. This thesis looks into the lives ...
Mental health promotion: An exploration of a peer community-based intervention in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 and the accompanying lockdown, social distancing and quarantine measures across the world separated individuals and families from their loved ones. This separation and social isolation also ...
“I felt like the words became a part of me”: South African feminist live poetry and the affective encounter
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Live poetry exists as a powerful channel through which to protest against oppressive mechanisms prevalent in society. The platform – a safe space for the voices that are often silenced in other discursive spaces – has grown ...
The readiness in selected academic libraries towards the fourth industrial revolution: A comparative study between Ghana and South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
Disruptive changes precipitated by the 4IR have steadily revolutionized the dynamics of library services delivery compelling libraries to embrace disruptive technologies to stay relevant. The study assessed two advanced ...
An analysis of linguistic errors in translations of complainants’ sworn statements
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
English remains the official language of record in South Africa and is used in most, if not all, aspects of the justice system (Ralarala, 2014). As a result, sworn statements made by complainants in any of the other official ...
An analysis of linguistic errors in translations of complainants’ sworn statements
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
English remains the official language of record in South Africa and is used in most, if not all,
aspects of the justice system (Ralarala, 2014). As a result, sworn statements made by
complainants in any of the other ...
Doing friendship: storytelling and playfulness in casual conversational discourse
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
This study explores the linguistic construction of interpersonal relationships, specifically friendship. Although we have no control over which families we are born into, we can choose who can be our friend and unlike ...
Mental health promotion: an exploration of a peer community-based intervention in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2019 and the accompanying lockdown, social distancing and quarantine measures across the world separated individuals and families from their loved ones. This separation and social isolation also ...
Bildungsroman writing by women in Africa and in the African diaspora
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The Bildungsroman has from inception traditionally been a male-dominated genre, but a number of significant women-authored novels written in the 20th century disrupt these established patterns. The thesis demonstrates how ...