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Taxi ‘sugar daddies’ and taxi queens: male taxi driver attitudes regarding transactional relationships in the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis Open, 2012)
Media reports are emerging on the phenomenon of young girls who travel with older mini-bus taxi drivers, and who are thought to have sex with the drivers in exchange for gifts and money. The extent to which such relationships ...
Teenage pregnancy and parenting at school in contemporary South African contexts: deconstructing school narratives and understanding policy implementation
(University of the Free State, 2013)
South African national education policy is committed to promoting gender equality at school and to facilitating the successful completion of all young people’s schooling, including those who may become pregnant and parent ...
The Ecumenical Movement and development: The role of personhood
(Stellenbosch University, 2015)
This article is part of several contributions that was presented at the 2015 Southern
African Missiological Society (SAMS). The conference theme was undergirded by
the theme of the World Council of Churches (WCC) assembly ...
The interplay between theology and development: How theology can be related to development in post-modern society
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)
This article attempts to make a contribution to the discourse of missiology by engaging
critically with the much debated studies of theology and development. The two widely
used definitions of development are analysed ...
Multimodality, creativity and children’s meaning making: drawings, writings, imaginings
(Kings College, Univ. of London, 2016)
This paper uses a case study of two children’s drawings, early writings and imaginative role play to illustrate how children use a variety of modes to make meaning in ways which are creative and beyond the design and ...
Performing cities: Engaging the high-tech flâneur
(The Forum on Education Abroad, 2011)
The city as place forms the backdrop to many study abroad experiences.
Our sense of place, however, is often fractured by modern mobilities. As
Sack (1988) notes, we move from place to place so much that places often
begin ...
Chinese devils, the global market, and the declining power of Togo’s Nana-Benzes
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
This article examines the shifting representations of and discourses produced about Chinese salesmen and their collaborators in the small West African nation of Togo. It suggests that in this context representations of ...
Shades of empire: police photography in German South-West Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This article looks at a photographic album produced by the German police in colonial Namibia just before World War I. Late 19th- and early 20th-century police photography has often been interpreted as a form of visual ...
Dissent, disruption, decolonization: South African student protests 1968 to 2016
(Center for Economic Research and Social Change, 2018)
Fifty years after student protests shook much of the Cold War world, in the “West” and in the “East,” “Global 1968” has become the catchword to describe these profound generational revolts. We hear a lot about West Berlin, ...
Cape Indians, Apartheid and Higher Education
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
On a Sunday afternoon, 15 November 2009, the Luxurama Theatre in Wynberg was filled to capacity as Indians in Cape Town gathered to launch the Cape Town 1860 Legacy Foundation in preparation for the 2010 events commemorating ...