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'Kids sold, desperate moms need cash': Media representations of Zimbabwean women migrants
(Taylor & FrancisNISC, 2016)
The article draws on 575 randomly selected articles from the South African Media database
to explore the representation of Zimbabwean women migrants. Using critical discourse analysis
(CDA), the article shows that some ...
Mandela in the Arabic media: A transitivity analysis of Aljazeera Arabic website
(University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2016)
The paper uses an eclectic approach combining systemic functional linguistics (SFL), critical discourse analysis (CDA) and corpus linguistics to reveal how Mandela is presented in the Arab Media. SFL and CDA enable the ...
Youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop culture: a metapragmatic analysis
(Equinox publishing, 2016)
This paper describes the practice of youth multilingualism in South Africa's hip-hop
culture, in an online social media space and an advertising space. Based on a multi-sited
ethnographic fieldwork study of youth ...
Betwixt the oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905–1915)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Drawing on the personal and official papers of an immigration officer, this article highlights his personality, social life, and the quotidian aspects of his work at the port. By placing the officer at the centre, instead ...
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 ...
Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used to manage High Blood Pressure and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bitterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa
(Elsevier, 2016)
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE: The aim of this study was to identify and document medicinal plants used to manage High Blood Pressure and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bitterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
METHODS: ...
Will a rising sea sink some estuarine wetland ecosystems?
(Elsevier, 2016)
Sea-level rise associatedwith climate change presents amajor challenge to plant diversity and ecosystemservice
provision in coastal wetlands. In this study,we investigate the effect of sea-level rise on benthos, vegetation, ...
Commodification of transformation discourses and post-apartheid institutional identities at three South African universities
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Using mission statements from the UCT, UWC and Stellenbosch University (South Africa), we explore how the three universities have rematerialised prior discourses to rebrand their identities as dictated by contemporary ...
Technological fictions and personal identity: on Ricoeur, Schechtman and analytic thought experiments
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
It is notable when philosophers in one tradition take seriously the work in another and engage with it. This is certainly the case when Paul Ricoeur engages with the thought of Derek Parfit on personal identity. He sees ...
Juxtaposing a cultural reading of landscape with institutional boundaries: the case of the Masebe Nature Reserve, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
The article explores theoretically the juxtaposition of local stories about landscape with institutional arrangements and exclusionary practices around a conservation area in South Africa. The Masebe Nature Reserve is used ...