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'The names we give' : narratives of identity and positioning of the 'helpers' in Pofadder

Author: Arogundade, Emma Date: 2012 This thesis examines the subjective constructions of identity in the narratives of 'helpers' in the small town of Pofadder in the Northern Cape. It focuses on the impact of historical narratives on their intersectional positioning. This was ... Read more
Networks of accountability: HIV/AIDS action research in action on Western Cape farms

Author: Van Zyl, Mikki Date: Dec 2011 This case study will be of value to researchers using action research as a methodology. The case study will also be of interest to those studying and researching HIV/AIDS in rural South African contexts. During 2005 Mikki van Zyl was contracted ... Read more c b n a
Of butter knives, juice boxes, and turning points : accounts of domestic violence on two sides of the Atlantic

Author: Kenney, Greta Date: 2011 This qualitative comparative analysis examines the experience of being in an abusive relationship as well as of leaving it from the perspective of domestic violence survivors and their service providers. This work demonstrates the inadequacies ... Read more
"Our approach is feminist" : feminist action transcending feminist narratives at Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust

Author: Goredema, Rumbidzai Theresa Date: 2010 Discourses of division have seeped into the way the feminist movement thinks about feminist activism. Broadly, the initial research problem was to find out what the discord in feminist theory meant for feminist action. Because sexual violence ... Read more
Rural transformation? Race and space in Prince Albert, South Africa

Author: McEwen, Haley Date: 2009 This critical ethnographic study is concerned with dynamics of race and space in Prince Albert, a rural South African town. Proceeding in the wake of previous studies which have identified mechanisms of informal segregation in urban, ... Read more
A study of gender equality in one of Swaziland's secondary schools: A case study

Author: Tsabedze, Dorothy S Date: 2002 The purpose of my investigation was to study gender equality in one of Swaziland's secondary schools. This was a case study. The aim was to determine the extent to which gender equality was being practised, if at all. The study was based on ... Read more
Teachers' preparedness for transformative practice in multicultural schools: An analysis of selected post apartheid teachers' self-reports

Author: Amosun, Olufunmilayo Ibironke Date: 2010 South Africa's schooling system developed within the historical backdrop of racial subjugation of some of its citizens. The legislation of the new South African Constitution (RSA, 1996) and the South African Schools Act (DoE, 1996) overturned ... Read more
'There are thorns in the forest': individuality, social context and reflection in diversity work

Author: Attfield, Nicola Date: 2012 This thesis explores the attitudes and approaches of a group of South African diversity practitioners on the connection between individual, body and society in their work. Read more
'Travelling Tales' : American (re)constructions of South Africa and Africa through study abroad in Cape Town

Author: Hutchinson Tsekwa, Jennifer Date: 2009 Postcolonial theory has been critiqued for essentializing the North and being too theoretical. Yet it has also been described as essential for the ongoing decolonization of our world. Scholars in a range of disciplines have therefore suggested ... Read more
White English-speaking South Africans of the transition generation: negotiating identities through the intersecting discourses of whiteness and the' New' South Africa

Author: Zeno, Natalie Date: 2012 This study is particularly concerned with white English-speaking South Africans who were born from 1980 to1989, which this study has named the 'transition generation'. This is a generation of young South Africans who were born on the cusp of ... Read more
A woman has no mouth' : a feminist critique of the portrayal of woman in siSwati prescribed books

Author: Mabuza,Thoko J Date: 2001 The study examines sexism in siSwati school prescribed books. The study takes the view that textbooks as cultural artifacts are important in the transmission of cultural attitudes, values and ideology, and therefore influence the gendering ... Read more