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Assessment of access and use of school library information resources by Luhlaza high school learners
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This study seeks to assess the access and use of school library information resources by school
learners and the teachers. The study was conducted at Luhlaza High School using a qualitative
approach and case study design. ...
Revitalization of the Urhobo language across physical and virtual spaces
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
There is increasing interest in finding an effective revitalization system for safeguarding small and endangered languages. Therefore, this study explores the revitalization of Urhobo, an endangered minority language spoken ...
The social semiotics of hair: Re-constructing cape coloured South African female identities- the transition
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Cape Coloured women have been misrepresented and misunderstood for generations as a result of apartheid and the deeply rooted ideologies at play during that time. The Coloured body was subjected to the colonial ideals of ...
Semiotic remediation as discourse practice in three Woolworths branded spaces
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Woolworths is known as one of South Africa’s largest retailers with over 400 retail chains
across South Africa, while also expanding into other African countries and the Middle East.
This study aims to analyse the ...
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 ...
Contemporary South African speculative fiction: A study of Mohale Mashigo’s short story collection intruders (2018)
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Speculative fiction, South Africa, entanglement, social commentary, post-Apartheid, folktales, tropes, Africanfuturism, Africanjujuism, Mohale Mashigo
Abstract
Globally, speculative fiction is a popular genre, but it has ...
A comparative analysis of phonological and morpho-syntactic variations in Lungu, Mambwe and Namwanga languages in Zambia
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The study compares the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Lungu, Mambwe, and
Namwanga (LuMaNa) languages which are less documented, and very little is known about their
grammar. The purpose is to account for their ...
In-between: a collection of poems of loss and memory
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
My mini-thesis in Creative Writing aims to explore memory and childhood through the lens of spatial and temporal consciousness. The vehicle for navigating these memories, whether individual or collective, real or surreal, ...