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I believe I can fly : from shelter to developmental programme : changing interventions in a residential setting for street youth in Cape Town, South Africa between 1991 and 1999

Author: Crawford-Browne, Sarah Date: 2000 Despite adolescence being a window of opportunity for effective intervention, street youth are frequently unnoticed by service providers, policy makers and the general public, and therefore their specific needs are unacknowledged. The writer ... Read more
I can explain : the work of art is no longer necessary

Author: Young, Ed Date: 2005 The bulk of our knowledge of the international art world, and in many cases within the local South African art scene, is based largely on what we read in magazines, art books and the art press. To most individuals these exhibitions exist ... Read more
"I don't see colour" : teacher discourses of integration in a selection of desegregated schools in Cape Town

Author: Davies, Claire Thandi Date: 2009 This thesis examines the discourses twenty three teachers in desegregated classrooms in Cape Town schools adopt toward integration and various constructions of difference. Discourse analysis reveals how the constructions of language, class ... Read more
"I found myself having slept with him" : vulnerability to HIV and the first sexual encounter as described by six young Basotho women

Author: Mokitimi, Serialong Date: 2004 This study is a qualitative exploration of the first sexual experiences of six young Basotho women between the ages of 16 and 24 and how these experiences leave them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. The six young women were interviewed using a ... Read more
I love you to death : the voice of the woman artist : sex, violence, sentimentality

Author: Stupart, Linda Date: 2008 At a dinner party in Durban after the opening of Come, a 2007 exhibition of Michaelis MFA students, a woman asked me about my work. When I told her it was "the bullets", by way of description (One Hundred Bullets With Your Name On Them), she ... Read more
I want to look like that : the role of ideal-type media in disordered eating behaviours

Author: Carney, Tara Date: 2003 The relationship between media exposure and disordered eating disordered behaviours is not without complexity and contestation in the existing literature. Much knowledge of this relationship in a sample of South African university students, ... Read more
I write what we like: A textual analysis of Fallist microblogging

Author: Chen, Jon Adam Date: 2017 Fallists belong to a constellation of radical student activist movements that pledge to disturb and reimagine South African society. Rather than restricting themselves to coordinated forms of collective action, Fallists’ advance their ... Read more
Ibn Hazm on the doctrine of Taḥrīf

Author: Omar, Abdul Rashied Date: 1992 This dissertation seeks to make a critical assessment of the Muslim doctrine of taḥrīf (the charge that the Jews and Christians corrupted their divine scriptures) via its most vociferous protagonist, the Spanish Muslim scholar, Abū Muhammad ... Read more
IBSA's role in international peace and security: a look from within the United Nations

Author: Long, Abigail Date: 2014 In 2011, three democratic emerging powers, India, Brazil, and South Africa served as non-permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council. This was the same year that civil wars in both Libya and Syria erupted. Using both qualitative ... Read more
Ice scaling in continuous eutectic freeze crystallization

Author: Jooste, Debora Date: 2016 Eutectic Freeze Crystallization (EFC) is a novel and potentially cost effective technique to treat industrial brines by the simultaneous crystallization of ice and salt under sub-eutectic conditions. Previous research has demonstrated that ... Read more
Ichnology and sedimentology of large tetrapod burrows in the latest Early Triassic Katberg Formation, south-eastern main Karoo Basin, South Africa

Author: Krummeck, William Desmond Date: 2013 Trace fossils in the form of large (~11 cm diameter and up to 2 m in length) burrows were studied at three localities in the Early Triassic Katberg Formation in the south-eastern and central parts of the main Karoo Basin, Eastern Cape, South ... Read more
The idea of holistic man : an inquiry into the educational possibilities

Author: Hope, Stuart Date: 1988 Educational theory and practice stems from the generally accepted concept of Man, such as apartheid ideology which forms the basis of the South African educational system. Separatist thinking of some kind determines the perspective and actions ... Read more
Ideal hydrocracking catalysts for the conversion of FT wax to diesel

Author: Ndimande, Conrad Date: 2014 The Fischer-Tropsch wax synthesis process and the subsequent upgrade of the wax to useful distillate fuels by mild hydrocracking is a well-known, economically viable method of producing liquid fuels, in particular diesel fuel. This project ... Read more
Ideas of Wallace Stevens : Fredric Jameson's view of the poet

Author: Engels, Ryland Date: 2011 This dissertation focuses upon Fredric Jameson's essay 'Exoticism and Structuralism in Wallace Stevens', which concerns the American poet's writings and their relevance to contemporary culture. ... This paper ultimately supports Fredric ... Read more
An identification and analysis of management styles in private social work organizations in the greater Cape Town area

Author: Isaacs, Nadia Date: 1994 Thirteen social work organizations participated in the study, with questionnaires being distributed to 237 managers and social workers through organization internal mail, conventional postage, and group administration depending on the preference ... Read more
An identification and analysis of the socio-economic challenges children from rural areas face in the pré-university cycle in the Mocuba District, Zambézia Province, Mozambique

Author: Ter Horst, Aukje Date: 2011 The weak performing Mozambican education system has gone through significant changes since independence in 1975. The Government’s main focus has been on increasing access and equity to overcome the high dropout rates, high grade repetition, ... Read more
Identification and characterisation of micrornas involved in the pathogenesis of HIV–associated non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Author: Goolam Hoosen, Taahira Date: 2017 Background: Since its discovery about three decades ago, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has claimed over millions of lives globally. Although our understanding of the mode of transmission and action of this causative agent for the ... Read more
Identification and characterisation of South African strains of cucumber mosaic virus

Author: Lupuwana, Pumezo Date: 1985 This project was then aimed at finding naturally occurring isolates of CMV, characterising them, producing much needed antisera and to use such antisera in a comparison with other well characterised strains by the use of new contemporary ... Read more
Identification and characterisation of submesoscale activity over the continental shelf in the Bay of Biscay

Author: Mawren, Daneeja Date: 2014 Frontal instabilities commonly detected in regions of freshwater influence (ROFIs), are considered as fundamental processes in the generation of submesoscale features (a few kilometres to tens of kilometres spatial scale and temporal variability ... Read more
The identification and characterization of a clinical isolate of a methicillin susceptible Staphylococcus aureus ST612

Author: Moleleki, Malefu Date: 2012 A previous study of 100 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates, collected between January 2007 and December 2008 from five Cape Town hospitals, identified ST612-MRSA-IV as the predominant MRSA. This raised the question ... Read more

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