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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 ...
Performing rap ciphas in late-modern Cape Town: Extreme locality and multilingual citizenship
(Brill, 2010)
The study of hip-hop in Cape Town, and indeed South Africa, has traditionally focused on the narratives and poetics of resistance, race and counter-hegemonic agency in the context of apartheid
and the early days of ...
Making a case for the teaching of reading across the curriculum in higher education
(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 ...
Now into big strides: report on statutory status for the South African Library and Information Services sector
(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2012)
The road to acquiring statutory status for the Library and Information Services (LIS) sector in South Africa has been traversed numerous times over the last sixty to seventy years. In more recent years, there has been ...
Border crossings in the African travel narratives of Ibn Battuta, Richard Burton and Paul Theroux
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)
This article compares the representation of African borders in the 14th-century
travelogue of Ibn Battuta, the 19th-century travel narrative of Richard Burton and the
21st-century travel writing of Paul Theroux. It ...
E-book usage amongst academic librarians in South Africa
(Library & Information Association of South Africa, 2011)
The purpose of this study completed in 2010 was to investigate the use of e-books amongst academic librarians; in
particular which e-books are available to academic librarians, why they choose this format, what impact ...
Risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence: Views of some male university students
(Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, 2010)
This article reports on a study that sought to elicit the views of male university students on risk and protective factors to male interpersonal violence. The participants were 116 third-year students who participated in ...
Family law and "the great moral public interests" in Victorian Cape Town
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
In the wake of the mineral revolution, and the Cape Colony’s attainment of
responsible government, Cape Town’s population doubled in the nineteenth century’s
latter years. Its largely British ruling class, seeing ...
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.
Laughing with Sam Sly: The cultural politics of satire and colonial British identity in the Cape Colony, c. 1840-1850
(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 ...