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Imagining nation, state, and order in the mid-twentieth century

Irwin, Ryan M. (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

This essay considers the relationship between the United Nations and the Third World. Using the apartheid debate as a framing device, it explores Indian and African nationalism in the mid-1940s and early 1960s. In focusing ...

Im Gespräch mit Jose F.A. Oliver - 'viel-stimmig und meer-sprachig'.

van Ryneveld, Hannelore (Peter Lang, 2008)

José Oliver is a multilingual poet of Andalusian descent who writes poetry in German. His first poetry was published in the mid-eighties and his writings were seen as part of migrant literature (also referred to in the ...

The information landscape: political democracy versus epistemic games with specific reference to South African communities

Witbooi, Sally (University of Free State, 2004)

The South African government and proffessions are taking stock of the transforamtion of the last decade. Manucipalities still face serious problems such as urbun populattion growth, poverty, housing shortages environmental ...

The information literacy education readiness of public libraries in Mpumalanga Province

Hart, Genevieve (Walter de Gruyter, 2006)

This study examines if public libraries in a province in South Africa are ready to assume an enhanced responsibility for information literacy education, specifically that of students, and, if so, what inhibiting and ...

Information literacy: the missing link in South Africa’s educational transformation?

Hart, Genevieve (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, 2007)

Introduction: This paper uses the lens of information literacy and information literacy education to view educational change in South Africa. Although the focus is on South Africa, I hope that the paper might resonate ...

Intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Zimbabwe: across-sectional study of prevalence, predictors and associations with HIV

Shamu, Simukai; Abrahams, Naeema; Zarowsk, Christina; Shefer, Tamara; Temmerman, Marleen (Public Library of Science, 2013)

objective To describe the occurrence, dynamics and predictors of intimate partner violence (IPV) during pregnancy, including links with HIV, in urban Zimbabwe. methods A cross-sectional survey of 2042 post-natal women ...

Introducing e-learning in a South African Higher Education Institution: challenges arising from an intervention and possible responses

Bharuthram, Sharita; Kies, Carolynn (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

This article draws on research conducted at a tertiary institution in South Africa as part of the redesigning of an English for Educational Development (EED) course to include an e-learning online discussion component. ...

Introduction: Religion and spirituality in a postcolonial context

Brown, Duncan (Taylor and Francis, 2008)

This Special Issue emerges out of an interdisciplinary research project on “Religion and Spirituality in a Postcolonial Context” run jointly by the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Ferguson Centre for African and ...

“It’s not a simple thing, co-publishing”: challenges of co-authorship between supervisors and students in South African higher educational contexts

Clowes, Lindsay; Shefer, Tamara (UNISA Press, 2013)

Knowledge production in South Africa remains framed by the legacies of apartheid. Developing emerging authors and local knowledges through co-authorship between supervisors and post graduate students is an important ...

Job satisfaction in a South African academic library in transition

Hart, Genevieve (Elsevier, 2010)

Job satisfaction was investigated at a South African university library undergoing change on many fronts. The study included 31 members of staff and the data were gathered via interviews/questionnaires, informed by ...

The justification of God? The story of God’s work according to Jürgen Moltmann: Part 1

Conradie, Ernst (Stellenbosch University, 2008)

This essay reconstructs the way in which Jürgen Moltmann tells the story of God’s work. This is done on the basis of a review essay by Douglas Farrow who identifies a neo-Platonic structure in Moltmann’s systematic ...

Land distribution politics in the Eastern Cape midlands: The case of the Lukhanji municipality, 1995-2006

Wotshela, Luvoyo (Univ. of Fort Hare) (Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2009)

Since its initiation, South Africaʼs post-apartheid land reform programme has generated extensive analysis and critique that in turn has yielded a body of scholarship. Discussion revolves around the official policy of ...

'Language has a heart': linguistic markers of evaluation in selected TRC testimonies

Bock, Zannie (Taylor & Francis, 2008)

This paper explores how two testifiers at the Human Rights Violation hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996 used selected markers of evaluation (shifts in tense, the inclusion of direct ...

Language shift or maintenance? Factors determining the use of Afrikaans among some township youth in South Africa

Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2008)

To investigate how high school learners in a township school in South Africa report on their use of, and attitudes toward, their first language, Afrikaans; and to use the findings to show how, given their particular ...

Late style in J.M. Coetzee's diary of a bad year

Wittenberg, Hermann (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)

J.M. Coetzee’s post-millennial writing has been marked by new forms of inventiveness, formal risk-taking and narrative experimentation that have blurred the boundaries between fiction, autobiography and social commentary. ...

Laughing with Sam Sly: The cultural politics of satire and colonial British identity in the Cape Colony, c. 1840-1850

Holdridge, Christopher (University of Cape Town) (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

This article examines Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843–51), a literary and satirical newspaper published by William Layton Sammons in Cape Town. It contends that the newspaper utilised satire to forge British cultural ...

Living in exile: daily life and international relations at SWAPO’s Kongwa Camp

Williams, Christian A. (University of the Western Cape) (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)

From 1964, when it was first granted by the Tanzanian government to OAU recognized liberation movements, Kongwa camp has been a key site in southern Africa’s exile history. First SWAPO and FRELIMO, and later the ANC, MPLA ...

'A living testimony of the heights to which a woman can rise’: Sarojini Naidu, Cissie Gool and the Politics of Women’s Leadership in South Africa in the 1920s

van der Spuy, Patricia; Clowes, Lindsay (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

A leading force in the Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the end of February 1924 after receiving an invitation to support South African Indian political organisations in ...

The LPYL in context: changing minds about school libraries in South Africa

Hart, Genevieve (Bibliotek I Samhalle (BIS), 2002)

Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education

Bharuthram, Sharita (Education Association of South Africa (EASA), 2012)

Over the past two decades there has been much written in the literature about the importance of reading and the importance of teaching students reading strategies to improve their reading comprehension. Reading is one ...

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