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Essential medicines in Nigeria: foregrounding access to affordable essential medicines
(CODESRIA, 2014)
Within every functional healthcare system, access to quality and affordable essential medicine stands out as one of the building blocks. However, its significance has been underrated due to poor advocacy and research. The ...
Accentuating institutional brands: A multimodal analysis of the homepages of selected South African universities
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
In seeking to disentangle themselves from the constraints of apartheid, South African
universities have immersed themselves in an identity modification process in which they not only
seek to redress the past, but also ...
Der Aspekt der Einfühlungsästhetik in André Brinks The Other Side of Silence
(Peter Lang, 2014)
There are many opinions about what constitutes a postcolonial novel. The act of
representation is part of this controversy: which voices should be represented by the
narrator and which should remain silent? This aspect ...
Renegotiating cultural practices as a result of HIV in the eastern region of Malawi
(Routledge, 2014)
A number of studies have shown that HIV awareness is very high among Malawians
and yet infection rates are rising. Local cultural practices have been identified as
contributing to this contradictory situation. Using data ...
Dialogicality and imaginings of two 'community' notice boards in post-apartheid Observatory, Cape Town
(Taylor & FrancisUnisa Press, 2014)
This article undertakes a poststructuralist multisemiotic analysis of posters and notices
found on two 'community' notice boards in the trendy, multicultural neighbourhood of
Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa. An ...
The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
There is an urgency in theorising how
diversity is negotiated, communicated,
and disputed as a matter of everyday
ordinariness that is compounded by the
clear linkages between diversity, transformation,
voice, agency, ...
Observatory's linguistic landscape: semiotic appropriation and the reinvention of space
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
Using a longitudinal ethnographic study of the linguistic landscape (LL) in
Observatory's business corridor of Lower Main Road, the paper explores changes
brought about by the influx of immigrant Africans, their artefacts ...
'Foreigners are stealing our birth right': Moral panics and the discursive construction of Zimbabwean immigrants in South African media
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
We examine 575 randomly selected articles on Zimbabwean immigrants from the South African
Media (SAM) database to expose discourses of exclusion and the production of the psycho-social
condition - moral panic. We use ...
Pathways to gender equitable men: Reflections on findings from the International Men and Gender Equality survey in the light of twenty years of gender change in South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2014)
This article reflects on the findings of the International Men and Gender Equality
survey through the lens of contemporary South African contexts of change. While
huge strides have been made toward gender justice in South ...
Ideology, policy and implementation: Comparative perspectives from two African universities
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)
This paper provides an exposition and interpretation of the language policies of two African
universities, namely the University of Yaound in Cameroon and the University of the
Western Cape in South Africa. It does so ...