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‘Hallo hoe gaan dit, wat maak jy?’: Phatic communication, the mobile phone and coping strategies in a South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This paper looks at the ways in which the mobile phone has become a means through which phatic communication is being expressed. More specifically, the paper shows how, in an impoverished community such as the Wesbank ... -
"Harlekijns in den bonten stoet"? 'n Herbesoek aan die vroee komiese poesie in Afrikaans
(SAVN, 2013)“Harlequins in a pied parade”? A revisit to early comic poetry in Afrikaans Some South African newspapers and individuals considered the so-called “Patriot movement” or First Afrikaans Language Movement’s efforts to ... -
Harmony amidst conflict: using “heal the world” as advocacy for peace between palestine and israel
(African Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2024)This study explored the potential of Michael Jackson's iconic song, "Heal the World," to serve as an effective advocacy tool for peace between Palestine and Israel. Released in 1991, the song's universal message of love, ... -
Hatching conflicts: rout reproduction, properties of water, and property ownership in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group [Commercial Publisher] Routledge [Imprint], 2023)Trout were introduced to South Africa in the late nineteenth century with colonial fanfare, but since the 1990s, post-apartheid legislation has declared trout alien and sought to reduce their numbers. Both the initial ... -
Health inequality in South Africa: a systematic review
(CODESRIA, 2015)This study presents a review of key empirical studies on health inequalities in South Africa with the aim of contributing to a comparative examination of social inequalities in health across different countries in Europe ... -
Her heart lies at the feet of the mother: Transformations of the romance plot in Leila Aboulela’s minaret
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Sudanese-British writer, Leila Aboulela’s novel, Minaret (2005) transforms the plot structure of Western literary and popular romance forms and develops further the plotlines of African-American Muslim romance novels. ... -
A hip-hopera in Cape Town: The aesthetics, and politics of performing ‘Afrikaaps’
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This paper looks into the aesthetics and politics of the ‘hip-hopera’ Afrikaaps. Afrikaaps was produced in 2010 by a group of musicians and spoken-word artists from Cape Town and the rural Western Cape Province of South ... -
HIV and sexually transmitted infection knowledge among women who have sex with women in four Southern African countries
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Women who have sex with women in Southern Africa, where HIV prevalence is high, are often presumed to have minimal risk for sexually transmitted infections (STI) and HIV despite research documenting female-to-female ... -
How do we get the community gardening? Grassroots perspectives from urban gardeners in Cape Town, South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)Urban agriculture offers numerous environmental, economic, and socialbenefits. However, it is often hampered by limited engagement in cities of theglobal South. This article offers bottom-up perspectives on how to increasethe ... -
How school libraries improve literacy: some evidence from the trenches
(Unisa Press, 2013)The article comes out of a panel discussion, featuring five teacher-librarians, which was broadcast to schools across the Western Cape Province of South Africa in 2011. Four of the panelists are graduates of the University ... -
'... a huge monster that should be feared and not done': Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa
(UNISA, 2015)Research has foregrounded the way in which heterosexual practices for many young people are not infrequently bound up with violence and unequal transactional power relations. The Life Orientation sexuality education ... -
Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2016)The realities of social injustice in the present South African context, with its great and growing gap between rich and poor and unequal distribution of wealth and resources, are also acutely visible in the health-care ... -
Human uniqueness: An unfinished agenda
(Verbum et Ecclesia, 2021)This contribution is structured in the form of a letter to Van Huyssteen focussing on his magnum opus, Alone in the World? (2006). It recognises, with Van Huyssteen, the danger of docetic detachment and scientific reductionism. ... -
'I act this way because why?' Prior knowledges, teaching for change, imagining new masculinities
(Scandinavian University Press, 2015)This article begins by outlining some of the prior knowledges brought by undergraduate students to an introduction to gender studies class in the Women's and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western ... -
“I Am Human Too!” ‘probeerruimte’ as liminal spaces in search of recognition
(Cogitatio, 2016)This paper explores the Dutch concept ‘probeerruimte’ in relation to the statement ‘human as a contested concept’, a highly relevant topic in disability studies. Probeerruimte encompasses the idea that people need space ... -
I am/am I an African? A relational reading of 'Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction' by J.U. Jacobs
(AOSIS, 2017)The publication of Diaspora and Identity in South African Fiction (2016) by J.U. Jacobs is a timely intervention, in that it is the first comprehensive study of South African fiction to sustain the argument that South ... -
‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools
(University of the Free State, 2015)Progressive policies protecting women’s rights to make reproductive decisions and the recent increase in literature exploring female sexual agency do not appear to have impacted on more equitable sexual relations in all ... -
The idea was that those who were trained needed to teach others”: Critical reflections on the 2014 Zambian language of initial literacy policy change
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021)Just before the opening of the school calendar in January 2014, the Zambian government announced a change in language in education policy from English to using a designated official regional Zambian language as the ... -
Identiteit en seksualiteit in die debuutromans van Kirby van der Merwe en Clark Accord
(Alv-Tydskriffonds, 2003)This article analyses the debut novels of the Afrikaans writer Kirby van der Merwe and the Surinamese writer Clark Accord. It focuses on the representation of identity and sexuality to posit an image of the individual ... -
Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church
(AOSIS, 2023)This article reflects on the impact of the inculturation of liturgy in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church (EEC) on identity formation within the context of African Christianity. In the EEC, the quest for African Christian ...
