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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 ... -
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, ... -
Distance
(Elsevier, 2009)The English language has long acknowledged and required some preconception of distance, but it has only been considered explicitly as a key element of human geography for half a century. The distances of greatest consequence ... -
Diversities, affinities and diasporas: a southern lens and methodology for understanding multilingualisms
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)We frame multilingualisms through a growing interest in a linguistics and sociology of the ‘south’ and acknowledge earlier contributions of linguists in Africa, the Américas and Asia who have engaged with human mobility, ... -
Diversity and contested social identities in multilingual and multicultural contexts of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)We draw on Rampton's Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents (2014. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge) notion of 'crossing' to explore contestations in ethnolinguistic, cultural and racial affiliations at the ... -
Dog sacrifice in Isidore Okpewho’s call me by my rightful name and the Works of Wole Soyinka: Ogun, race, identity and diaspora
(Ranchi: Glocal Colloquies, 2016)This essay considers the ways in which the significance of blood sacrifice in the propitiation of the Yoruba god Ogun is transformed in the context of international literature which asserts an endogenous African modernity, ... -
Doing politics in the recent Arab uprisings: Towards a political discourse analysis of the Arab Spring slogans
(Brill publishers, 2015)The present paper aims to analyse a number of those slogans collected from the sit-in quarters in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Using political discourse analysis, it unravels various typical discourse structures and strategies ... -
Domestic violence in the Old Testament and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A question of identity
(AOSIS, 2021)With the global COVID-19 pandemic and different levels of lockdown being enforced across the world, domestic violence has escalated at an alarming rate. The restrictions on movement that lockdown has placed on countless ... -
“Don’t They Know How Important It Is?”
(International Association of School Librarianship Conference Proceedings, 2021)The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant ... -
“Don’t they know how important it is?” A case study of information literacy education in a small South African town
(International Association of School Librarianship, 2006)The paper comes out of a month-long case study of information literacy education in two public libraries in a small South African town in the rural province of Mpumalanga, undertaken in October 2004. The participant ... -
Drag kings in Cape Town: The performance of gendered subjectivities online
(University of the Westen Cape, 2015)The last few decades have seen the development of a large body of scholarly work on drag queens and performances of femininity by men (see Barrett 1995, 1999). However, performances of masculinity by women have largely ... -
Drawing the dark
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)Day and night, night after night, deep in his prayer, he deliberated whether it was possible to draw the dark without ever looking at it.He had his head in his hands.His hands covered his eyes. His breath caught onwords ... -
The drive for school libraries in South Africa: intersections and connections
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)This paper traces the important developments in school librarianship in South Africa since 2007, during which time the drive to address huge backlogs in school library provision has gained momentum - largely, it argues, ... -
Dual use school community libraries: expedient compromise or imaginative solution?
(University of Alberta Libraries, 2021-02)The paper reports on a research project in a group of six dual use school community libraries in a rural region of South Africa1. The six dual use libraries were established with donor funding in 2001 as part of a larger ...