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Changing contexts, shifting masculinities : a study of ex-combatants

Author: Zuma, Buhle Date: 2009 This thesis explores the contexts in which combatant masculinities were constructed: (a) in apartheid South Africa through mass mobilization and politicization; (b) in exile through military training; and (c) in post-apartheid South Africa ... Read more
Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification

Author: Erasmus, Zimitri Date: 2010 South Africa’s government requires information on apartheid race classification to implement and monitor racial redress. This has sparked resistance to race classification as a criterion for redress in higher education admissions. I argue ... Read more
Inherited memories : performing the archive

Author: Davids, Nadia Date: 2007 This thesis explores the way in which words, memories, and images of District Six are mediated and performed in an attempt to memorialised a destroyed urban landscape. It expands the borders of 'performance' to include oral (re)constructions ... Read more
Not naming race : some medical students' perceptions and experiences of 'race' and racism at the Health Sciences faculty of the University of Cape Town

Author: Erasmus, Zimitri ; De Wet, Jacques Date: Dec 2011 This report will be of value to those studying and researching transformation in higher education in post-apartheid South Africa. Over the past few years the Faculty of Health Sciences at UCT embarked upon a series of transformation processes. ... Read more c b n a
Oblique figures : representations of Islam in South African media and culture

Author: Baderoon, Gabeba Date: 2004 In 1996 stories in South African newspapers about the group Pagad articulated a new vision of Islam. In this thesis I conduct a long reading of the ways in which Islam has been represented in South Africa to provide a context for analysing ... Read more
Organisational democracy and economic viability in producer cooperatives in the Western Cape Region of South African and in Zimbabwe : case studies and comparative analysis

Author: Erasmus, Zimitri Date: 1991 This study is a sociological analysis of participatory-democratic organisations in 'third world' contexts. Firstly, it assesses the degree of participatory democracy in each enterprise studied. Secondly, it explores whether cooperative ... 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 men speaking : an exploration of intersections, tensions and alternative ways of being white and a man in South Africa

Author: Kelly, Claire Date: 2005 It is becoming widely recognised that those at the centres of power are also responsible for social transformation. In South Africa, white men still dominate these centres. Some white men have recognised this and have taken on the task of ... Read more