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Cultural and linguistic prejudices experienced by African language speaking witnesses and legal practitioners at the hands of judicial officers in South African courtroom discourse: The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial
(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2024)This article recognizes that linguistic prejudice (with its associated cultural biases) is a reality in any multilingual country, including South Africa. Prejudice is inherently human and the article suggests that it can ... -
Cyber socialising: emerging genres and registers of intimacy
(Taylor & FrancisUNISA Press, 2013)The popularity of digital media networks for socialising among the youth is well documented. Much has been written on the emerging norms of textese, the global shorthand for chatting. However, becoming a proficient user ... -
dalawhatyoumust: Kaaps, translingualism and linguistic citizenship in Cape Town, South Africa
(Discourse, Context & Media, 2023)In 2016 Wayde Van Niekerk, a South African athlete of mixed-race heritage won an Olympic gold medal. In South Africa, his win caused hashtags such as #proudlysouthafrican, #blackexcellence and #colouredexcellence to trend ... -
Das Fach Deutsch an der University of the Western Cape
(Association of German Studies (SAGV), 2010)The current challenges facing the teaching of German as a foreign language at the University of the Western Cape are outlined. The article includes a brief historical overview and proposes research perspectives for the future. -
Debates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990s
(UNISA Press, 2018)Memory politics are often regarded as the “soft” issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by ... -
Decolonization of a special type: rethinking Cold War history in Southern Africa
(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)Introduction: This special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories speaks to this imbalance, contributing in small measure to a recent turn in Cold War studies that has sought to incorporate regional perspectives ... -
Deconstructing the 'sugar daddy': A critical review of the constructions of men in intergenerational sexual relationships in South Africa
(Routledge, 2013)Since a recent Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) prevalence study highlighted the relationship between intergenerational sex and risk of HIV infection, a range of studies in Southern Africa have documented the commonality ... -
Demanding satisfaction: Violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth century Cape Town
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)This article analyses two separate cases of public violence which took place in Cape Town in the summer of 1772/3. At surface level they appear to be very different in character. One was a scrap among low-ranking soldiers ... -
Demystifying research methods: everyday experiences as socio-cultural co(n)texts for effective research methods in teaching and learning in institutions of higher learning in Africa
(University of Johannesberg, 2017)The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how everyday knowledge can be incorporated into the classroom practices of institutions of higher learning to inform inclusive outcomes for linguistically and culturally diverse ... -
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 ... -
Desert ethics, myths of nature and novel form in the narratives of Ibrahim al-Koni
(University of Pretoria, 2015)This broadly comparative essay contrasts environmentalism in the fiction in English translation of the Libyan writer, Ibrahim alKoni, with dominant trends in contemporary environmentalism. An analysis of three of the most ... -
Deserving and undeserving welfare states: Cash transfers and hegemonic struggles in South Africa
(Routledge, 2022)The South African social grant programme appeared as if it might suddenly end on 1 April 2017. The potential termination of grants kicked off a significant public outcry by members of parliament, the judiciary, the ... -
Design principles to develop digital innovation skills: a design-based research approach
(Springer, 2023)The digitisation of the world has led to a multitude of far-reaching implications that require students to be prepared for the dynamic era of rapid change, complexity, fluidity, and ubiquity in which they will work at the ... -
Designing an Arabic speaking and listening skills e-course: resources, activities and students’ perceptions
(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, 2021)his paper presents a fully online course model for teaching speaking and listening skills for students learning Arabic as a foreign language at the International Peace College South Africa on the NEO learning management ... -
Diagnostic assessment of academic reading: Peeping into students’ annotated texts
(MDPI, 2022)Text annotations are literacy practices that are not uncommon in the reading experience of university students. Annotations may be multilingual, monolingual, or multimodal. Despite their enormous diagnostic potentials, ... -
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 ... -
Digital media usage and prevalence of internet addiction among undergraduate students in South Africa
(The Technical University of Kenya, 2019)The use of Internet and digital media in the academic sector has significantly improved knowledge creation. The Internet has particularly proven itself to be a valuable resource in the enhancement of knowledge production ... -
Digitisation, history, and the making of a postcolonial archive of Southern African liberation struggles
(Indiana University Press, 2005)This paper describes the history of an initiative to digitize a postcolonial archive on the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa. The authors outline the intellectual architecture of the project and the complex ... -
Disappeared to Ethiopia’s Bermuda: Tales by a puppet
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)At the Red Terror Martyrs' Memorial Museum (RTMMM) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, there sits upon a wall a chart of the torture houses used during a campaign of terror waged by the Derg regime that ruled Ethiopia from 1974 to ... -
Disrupting the Colonial Gaze Towards Alternative Sexual Justice Engagements With Young People in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2023)This chapter unpacks the failures and embeddedness of much of the research on young sexualities in South Africa in an exploitative and epistemologically violent politics of knowledge. I argue that it is not only a lack of ...