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Bark, smoke and pray: multilingual Rastafarian-herb sellers in a busy subway
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This paper is an analysis of how multilingual Rastafarian-herbalists organize multilingual and multimodal interactions in a subway. The rationale has been to understand the practice of multilingual repertoires by multilingual ...
The politics of knowledge: Knowledge management in informal settlement upgrading in Cape Town
(Springer, 2015)
t In situ solutions, participatory practices and the inclusion of community
knowledge have become key ingredients in urban upgrading policies across the world.
Knowledge, however, is not neutral, but value-laden, ...
Re-locating memories: transnational and local narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Town
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
This article plays on the word re-location to examine the memories of Indians in South Africa through oral histories about relocation as a result of the Group Areas Act, to memories of parents and grandparents relocating ...
An exploration of the concept of community and its impact on participatory governance policy and service delivery in poor areas of Cape Town, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
The inclusion of citizen participation as a means to the equitable delivery of public services has distinguished South Africa’s democratic development trajectory over the last 20 years. While equitable resource allocation ...
Praying for rain? Reformed perspectives from the Southern African context
(Wiley, 2017)
This contribution addresses the question raised in this volume whether praying for rain is an appropriate response to the impact of climate change from a Southern African perspective. It commences with a missionary story ...
Remembering Marikana: Public art intervention and the right to the city in Cape Town
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This article investigates the role played by cultural initiatives in urban struggles in South Africa, and the emergence of public art to assert the right to the city. I explore how artistic– activist interventions engage ...
The toilet war
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
The City of Cape Town built unenclosed toilets in Makhaza, an informal settlement in Ward 95 of Khayelitsha. It did so on the understanding that the community would erect their own enclosures. This led to a public outcry, ...
Healthcare workers’ beliefs, motivations and behaviours affecting adequate provision of sexual and reproductive healthcare services to adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa: a qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 2018)
BACKGROUND: Adolescents’ sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) needs have been prioritized globally, and they
have the rights to access and utilize SRH services for their needs. However, adolescents under-utilize SRH ...
Local law making in Cape Town: A case study of the municipal planning by-law process
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2016)
This report examines municipal law making surrounding land use planning
in the City of Cape Town. It investigates the extent to which the City of Cape
Town has powers to make by-laws on land use planning and how much of ...
Multilingualism remixed: Sampling, braggadocio and the stylisation of local voice
(Department of General Linguistics, Stellenbosch University., 2013)
Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one ...