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Theatre formations: Rethinking theatre and its spaces in Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
Scholarship on theatre in South Africa has shown how under the Apartheid government
theatrical practices were divided into different genres such as protest theatre, township
theatre, black theatre, mainstream theatre ...
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 long-term effects of domestic Violence: a study of life histories in a homeless shelter in cape Town, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study examines the effects of domestic violence on adults who witnessed abuse as children
in their homes. It seeks to ascertain if the childhood emotional trauma of domestic violence
influences the growth and social ...
Amagqirha nemicimbi: The art of healing
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Amagqirha have been understood solely through the framework of health and illness. Their
image is tainted and they are misrepresented as clad bone throwers and mystical scammers.
There are very few studies that focus on ...
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 ...
Exploring the effectiveness of distance learning as an alternative to mainstream education for disabled children in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The implementation of inclusive education by the South African government has been inspired and mandated by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. While South Africa was among the first ...
“Anything about us, without us, is against us”: An ethnography of the genocide reparations and decolonial movements in Namibia
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This thesis explores decolonial memory activism and queer activism in Namibia. It
demonstrates how activists have mobilized in intersectional struggles (Becker 2020;
2022) against the structural remnants of colonialism. ...
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 ...