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Leveraging the local administration to engender access to justice in Kenya: the case of Mukuru Kayaba Informal Settlement, Nairobi County, Kenya
(2021)Constitutional change in Kenya has opened up spaces of contestation of rights for citizens. However, marginalisation of certain segments of the population remains a key constraint to achieving universal protections. A lack ... -
Leveraging the photovoice methodology for critical realist theorizing
(SAGE Publications, 2020)Photovoice is a visual research methodology that integrates images and words to encourage the exploration of the experiences, perceptions, and meaning-making processes of individuals on various social phenomena. As a ... -
Leveraging the potential of wild food for healthy, sustainable, and equitable local food systems: Learning from a transformation lab in the Western Cape region
(Springer, 2022)Food insecurity and diet-related diseases do not only have detrimental efects to human health, but are also underpinned by food systems that are environmentally unsustainable and culturally disconnected. Ensuring access ... -
Levinas on law: A Derridean reading of Manderson’s Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law
(Griffith University, Griffith Law School, Socio-Legal Research Centre, 2007)In this article, Desmond Manderson’s book, Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law (2006) is analysed specifically with reference to the accuracy with which it translates Derrida’s thinking into law. Manderson, in a number ... -
Liberal democracy and the genetic supermarket: Autonomy and freedom in Jurgen Moltmann's political theology and biotechnology
(SUN, 2015)In this article, the concept of "liberal democracy" and its implications for biotechnology such as human genetic engineering will be examined. Liberal democracy is characterised by a number of features, some of which has ... -
Liberal democracy and the genetic supermarket: autonomy and freedom in Jürgen Moltmann’s political theology and biotechnology.
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, Stellenbosch., 2015)In this article, the concept of “liberal democracy” and its implications for biotechnology such as human genetic engineering will be examined. Liberal democracy is characterised by a number of features, some of which has ... -
Liberation pedagogy in the South African Context
(Skotaville Publishers, 1990)We have arrived at a time to reflect on what has been done in the field of education for liberation, alternative education or People’s Education during the last few years. We have to analyse and theorise our experience in ... -
Libraries and a "Better Life for All": The politics, processes, and promises of the South African LIS Transformation Charter
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversary of democracy in South Africa, it is an opportune moment to examine the rather ... -
Libraries and a “Better Life for All”: The politics, processes, and promises of the South African LIS Transformation Charter
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016)The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the twenty-first anniversary of democracy in South Africa, it is an opportune moment to examine the rather ... -
Life at the margins of the continents: an examination of the intertidal marine life of the south Western Cape
(Field Guides Association of Southern Africa, 2010)Imagine surviving in an environment that is neither truly marine nor truly terrestrial. That area just beyond the low-water mark of neap tides along the seashore is an example of just such an environment. The organisms ... -
Life imprisonment in South Africa: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
(Juta Law, 2009)Life imprisonment has been part of South Africa's penal regime for decades. This article analyses how this form of punishment has changed in meaning in since 1906. The author looks at life imprisonment during the death ... -
A Life in Human Rights: A Conversation with Dennis Davis’ London Review of International Law
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Dennis Davis is Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court, and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town. In this wide-ranging conversation with Tor Krever, he ... -
"Life is not pap and vleis": poverty in child-headed households in Gauteng
(University of Stellenbosch, 2011)Introduction: The objective of this paper is to describe the socio-economic conditions of child-headed households in Gauteng, so as to measure the extent of poverty among these children. In order to do this, the study ... -
Life on the land: New lives for agrarian questions
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)The politics of food, climate, energy, and the yet unfinished work ofending colonialism run square through questions of land. Theclassical agrarian question has taken on new forms, and a newintensity. We look at four ... -
Life Orientation sexuality education in South Africa: Gendered norms, justice and transformation
(University of the Free State, 2015)Research on sexual practices among young South Africans has proliferated in light of the national imperatives to challenge the spread of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence and unwanted early pregnancies. It has been widely ... -
Life skills as predictors of engagement in health risk behaviours: a survey of secondary school learners
(LAM Publications Limited, 2011)There is consensus that education on the prevention of health risk behaviour and an increased repertoire of life skills could facilitate a reduction in health risk behaviours. This article reports on the results of a survey ... -
Life-long programming implications of exposure to tobacco smoking and nicotine before and soon after birth: Evidence for altered lung development
(MDPI, 2011)Tobacco smoking during pregnancy remains common, especially in indigenous communities, and likely contributes to respiratory illness in exposed offspring. It is now well established that components of tobacco smoke, notably ... -
Lifelong learning and connected-up development: insights from South Africa
(UNESCO, 2011)Lifelong learning through the four major stages of people’s development (Schuller and Watson 2009) embodies the need for integrated, connected-up approaches to development. I will reference briefly three examples in ... -
Lifelong learning and professional development in 'Residential Universities': Implementing the 'White Paper on post-school education and training'
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This is a compilation of key documents from the four year action research project between the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) which seeks to implement ... -
Lifelong Learning at UWC: a study of the part-time accredited programmes
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)UWC has since 1998 a new Mission Statement which commits the university to Lifelong Learning. Since 1996 there has been a process to give content to this commitment. The process included surveys of distance education and ...