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National Prosecuting Authority Performance
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2018)The National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa (NPA) was created by legislation which came into effect in August 1998, and became a stand-alone entity in 2002/3, whereas previously it was more closely embedded in the ... -
National strategies for realising the right to food
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2008)The right to food has received increasing attention internationally and nationally following drastic increases in food prices and widespread protests against these increases in more than 40 countries this year (FIAN ... -
National-level key stakeholders' perspectives regarding intervention progression and emerging challenges within the national stillbirth reduction response in Uganda
(Public Library of Science, 2023)Implementation of evidence-based interventions was adopted to respond to the stillbirth burden from the global campaigns. However, new challenges emerge in the process of rolling out such interventions into routine ... -
National-level key stakeholders’ perspectives regarding intervention progression and emerging challenges within the national stillbirth reduction response in Uganda
(Public Library of Science, 2023)Implementation of evidence-based interventions was adopted to respond to the stillbirth burden from the global campaigns. However, new challenges emerge in the process of rolling out such interventions into routine ... -
Nationalism and exile in an age of solidarity: Frelimo–ZANU relations in Mozambique (1975–1980)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article contributes to our knowledge on the intricate relations between host governments and liberation movements and on the workings of transnational military partnerships in the anticolonial struggles of the 1970s, ... -
Nationalism without a nation: The rise and fall of Zulu nationalism in South Africa's transition to democracy, 1975-99
(WILEY, 2003)During South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy the most virulent opposition to change came from Zulu nationalism. Post‐apartheid, however, Zulu nationalism has largely waned. This is because Zulu nationalism ... -
A native of nowhere: the life of South African journalist Nat Nakasa, 1937-1965
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)This article examines the life and work of South African journalist Nat Nakasa (1937-1965), a writer for the popular news magazine Drum, the first black columnist for the Johannesburg newspaper the Rand Daily Mail, and ... -
Natural resource management and land reform in southern Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2006)Throughout southern Africa, land holdings have remained significantly skewed between rich and poor, with discriminatory land tenure systems reflecting the land and agricultural policies adopted in colonial times and after ... -
Naturalised modal epistemology and quasirealism
(South African Journal of Philosophy,, 2021)Given quasi-realism, the claim is that any attempt to naturalise modal epistemology would leave out absolute necessity. The reason, according to Simon Blackburn, is that we cannot offer an empirical psychological explanation ... -
The nature and context of Kaaps: a contemporary, past and future perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)In this contribution, which serves as orientation for this special edition, the accent falls chiefly on the contemporary manifestation of Kaaps as colloquial variety of Afrikaans, but also on its historic roots and the ... -
Nature of Problem-Solving Skills for 21st Century STEM Learners: What Teachers Need to Know
(Springer, 2020)Since the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution which calls for a new model of learning for the twenty-first century learners, it has been argued that the nature of problems that learners must solve in science, ... -
Navigating ethnicity, nationalism and Pan-Africanism – Kimbanguists, identity and colonial borders
(AOSIS, 2021)The Kimbanguists, whose church is based on the healing and proclamation ministry of Simon Kimbangu in 1921 in the Belgian Congo, challenge colonially defined borders and identities in multiple ways. Anticolonialism is ... -
Navigating our way: a compass for popular educators
(Taylor and Francis, 2016)This article addresses the tensions and contradictions of applying a popular education approach in the current context of South Africa. It draws upon data from an 18-month research project exploring the traditions of popular ... -
Navigating the National Qualifications Framework: the role of career guidance
(UNISA, 2009)The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) recently commissioned a review of the career development field in South Africa. The review was designed to clarify what SAQA’s role might be in assisting learners throughout ... -
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa constructions of masculinity. ... -
“Ndiyindoda” [I am a man]: Theorising Xhosa masculinity
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2016)Masculinity studies in South Africa depend on Western gender theories to frame research questions and fieldwork. This article argues that such theories offer a limited understanding of Xhosa ... -
Near real time water quality monitoring of Chivero and Manyame lakes of Zimbabwe
(Copernicus Publications, 2018)Zimbabwe’s water resources are under pressure from both point and non-point sources of pollution hence the need for regular and synoptic assessment. In-situ and laboratory based methods of water quality monitoring are ... -
Near-infrared time-series photometry of six fields in the young open cluster IC 2391
(Oxford University Press, 2006)Fields containing targets of spectral types later than M5 were monitored in JHKs for about 7 h each. None of the targets showed variability at levels exceeding 0.02 (or smaller, in some cases). Seven new variable stars ... -
The necessity of natural theology? In conversation with John Calvin on the human senses
(Stellenbosch University, 2011)This contribution explores John Calvin's position on natural theology. The point of departure is not so much the much discussed notions of a sensus divinitatis or of the semen religionis, but the role played by the human ... -
The need for a new language? How historically disadvantaged institutions grapple with the effects of labelling in Higher Education: the case of the University of the Western Cape
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)Tertiary institutions in South Africa have been dichotomised through the colonial structure and apartheid which sought to subjugate some institutions and elevate others. Not only have historically disadvantaged institutions ...