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Radical possibilities at the crossroads of African feminism and digital activism
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Studies abound that deal with digital activism and social movements worldwide. Many African
scholars continue to dwell on how the effects of technological advancement and access to social
media are ingrained in class and ...
Protesting death-disability-debility imaginaries: Ontological erasure and the endemic violences of settler colonialism
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
White supremacist rule socially engineered impoverishment dispossession and fomented brutality that black people in South Africa were made to endure through centuries at the settler colonial history , which was intensified ...
Rebellious Black femininities: Embodiments of freedom, desire and agency in South African popular culture from 1980 to present
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
In this thesis, I explore the notion of rebellious Black femininities and how they are articulated through and within popular culture in South Africa. I focus on the biographies of some women who have occupied the South ...
An encounter with the structural and spiritual violence of coloniality: Intersectional understanding of black students’ experiences of exclusion in higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Since the fall of Apartheid, the new mandate of the democratic South African government has
been to provide equal quality education for all and to desegregate the education system. However,
the national government’s ...
Exploring the Journey to Maternal Death: Gender and Human Rights perspectives on the major causes of maternal mortality in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
In this thesis, I use gender and human rights approaches to examine and analyse the major causes of maternal mortality, which result from delay in seeking maternity care and failure to attend maternity care during pregnancy. ...