Browsing Masters by Department "School of African and GenderStuds, Anth and Ling"

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A sea of contested evidence: Disputes over coastal pollution in Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Beukes, Amy Date: 2022 The City of Cape Town's (CoCT) wastewater management system discharges effluent from households, industries and other sources into the Atlantic Ocean through deep-water marine outfalls in Green Point, Camps Bay and Hout Bay. At total capacity, ... Read more
And then I was like, “No way!”: A variationist study of be like in young Cape Town speech

Author: Horn, Elizabeth Date: 2022 Over the last two decades, the adoption of the quotative be like has emerged as one of the prominent examples of ongoing historical changes in English. This has been documented internationally, but the degree to which this change has taken ... Read more
Assisting Africa: a critical analysis of technical assistance in low carbon development practice

Author: du Toit, Michelle Date: 2019 Climate change mitigation efforts are increasingly forming part of the agendas of African nations, particularly since the inclusion of voluntary targets for these countries within the United Nations Framework Convention on ... Read more
Digitisation and access to Archives: Case study of Sarah Baartman and Khoi San Collections

Author: Cornelissen, Rozanne Leigh Date: 2018 Digitisation is occurring all over the world today. So to bring it to South Africa is one step in changing people’s understandings of Africa, because the information would be accessible to the world and the rest of South Africa. There are ... Read more
Growing Babies, Growing faith: The Formation of Faith in The Life of the Child

Author: Price, Yusra Date: 2016 The composition and formation of a young child's Muslim identity is situated within a contextual landscape of location, history, demographic, family, community and more which makes every child's upbringing unique. Through multiple interviews, ... Read more
Infant wellbeing and monitoring: An observation of the Road to Health Booklet in Masiphumelele

Author: Ngcowa, Sonwabiso Date: 2019 The South African government monitors and tracks the health of newborns and the growth of children. The Department of Health (DoH) does this monitoring using the Road to Health Booklet (RtHB). In this dissertation I analyse the use of the ... Read more
Investigating the retention of Kokni lexicon among the youth of Cape Town's Kokni community

Author: Mohamed, Naasirah Date: 2019 Originating in the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, India, a large group of people immigrated to South Africa. The migrations took place in the period of colonialism in the Cape and Natal, and sometimes extended into the later Union and Apartheid ... Read more
It’s in the out sides: An investigation into the cosmological contexts of South African jazz

Author: Gamedze, Asher Date: 2019 This dissertation is an exploration of some of the philosophical thought and spiritual practices which constitute and are present and represented in and through certain instances of South African jazz. Amilcar Cabral’s revolutionary thought ... Read more
Mourning and melancholy: a comparative study on Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera

Author: Akcay, Ahmet Sait Date: 2020 This study explores the modernist subjectivity in Africa by revisiting two major poets, Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera. It argues that the modernist self is created in the form of melancholy and mourning. The main question is to ... Read more
Out-of-school literacy practices - the case of Sesotho-speaking learners in Cape Town

Author: Lekhanya-Tshikare, Tlalane Date: 2018 This study investigates the out-of-school multilingual literacy practices of four Grade Seven learners aged between 13 and 14 years at Lehlohonolo Primary School (henceforth LPS) in Gugulethu, Cape Town. They come from lower-income Sesotho ... Read more
Reclaiming Table Mountain: Perspectives from Cape Town's Black Township Residents

Author: Mjenxane, Lindela Date: The aim of this study was to investigate how the landless township residents of Cape Town could reclaim the iconic Table Mountain, for it to be fully inclusive in a manner that is meaningful and useful in their traditional and cultural ... Read more
Such painful knowledge: hope and the (un)making of futures in Cape Town

Author: Cupido, Shannon Date: 2020 Recent writing in the anthropology of affect and cognate fields has positioned hope as a useful category with which to examine socio-political life and formulate a political and theoretical response adequate to its form. This dissertation ... Read more
What the Aging is Going On: An ethnography on the Perceptions of Aging in an Old Age Home in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

Author: Mpisi, Sabelo Date: 2021 Despite considerable evidence on aging, as it relates to African elders, little is known on what and how it is like when drawn from their experiences and perceptions. This follows since it is often studied indirectly, as the emphasis is put ... Read more