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100 years old and still making history: The centenary of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2004 Observing institutional birthdays is not something academic historians readily undertake nowadays – their training makes them habitually wary of the constructed nature of such events and of the self-preening which usually accompanies them. ... Read more
A Caledonian college in Cape Town and beyond: An investigation into the foundation(s) of the South African university system

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2003 Adopting a historical approach, this article traces the origins of key features of the South African university system, namely the general nature of its undergraduate degrees, its heavy reliance on lectures to convey information and its ... Read more
A reconstruction of the Cape (South African) fur seal harvest 1653 - 1899 and the comparison with the 20th-century harvest

Author: David, Jeremy ; Van Sittert, Lance Date: 2008 The Cape fur seal was an abundant resource in southern Africa, when first discovered by itinerant sailing vessels in the late 16th century. Seals were slaughtered indiscriminately by the sailors for skins, meat and oil for three centuries ... Read more
A thematic content analysis of psychologists' reports in child custody evaluations

Author: Brandt, R ; Dawes, A ; Africa, A ; Swartz, L Date: 2004 The key objective of this study was to examine empirically the substantive issues that inform psychologists' decision-making in custody evaluations. The study draws on a relatively small convenience sample of 39 reports from eight different ... Read more
A tool for modernisation? The Boer concentration camps of the South African war 1900-1902

Author: Van Heyningen, Elizabeth Date: 2010 While not denying the tragedy of the high mortality of people in the concentration camps in the South African War of 1899–1902, this article suggests that, for Lord Milner and the British Colonial Office, the camps became a means of introducing ... Read more c b
A Tribute to Ray Alexander 1913 - 2004

Author: Scanlon, Helen Date: 2005 I remember reacting very strongly to the Jewish prayer [which Orthodox Jewish men say] in the morning, “Thank you God for making me a man and not a woman”. I don't know whether I was five years old or six ... but I refused to accept this ... Read more
Academic librarian's transition to blended librarianship: a phenomenology of selected academic librarians in Zimbabwe

Author: Dabengwa, Israel Mbekezeli ; Raju, Jaya ; Matingwina, Thomas Date: 13 May 2019 This paper explores the shared experiences of practices of blended librarianship among Zimbabwean academic librarians to identify how adequately they comply with their dynamic roles and functions. The paper relies on the theoretical constructs ... Read more c b n d
Accounting for lack of interracial mixing amongst South African university students

Author: Finchilescu, Gillian ; Tredoux, Colin ; Mynhardt, Johan ; Pillay, Jace ; Muianga, Lucena Date: 2007 The persistence of informal segregation in post-apartheid South Africa is now well documented. As the articles in this journal issue attest, this segregation is rife in many public spaces, including university campuses. This article explores ... Read more
Achievement goal profiles, trait-anxiety and state-emotion of young female competitive horse riders

Author: Duff-Riddell, Caroline ; Louw, Johann Date: 2011 The goal orientations of female riders (N=83) between the ages of 9 and 20 were investigated with a view to extracting goal profiles from the collected data. Goal orientations were identified by means of the Achievement Goal Questionnaire for ... Read more
Activity theory as a framework for understanding teachers' perceptions of computer usage at a primary school level in South Africa. South African Journal of Education, 25(4): 258-265

Author: Hardman, Joanne Date: 2005 Educational underachievement in gateway subjects such as mathematics and science is a continuing challenge in South African schools. In a bid to develop technologically competent mathematicians and scientists while addressing the shortage of ... Read more
Activity theory as a potential framework for technology research in an unequal terrain

Author: Hardman, J Date: 2005 This article attempts to expand and elaborate Activity Theory as a theory for studying human computer interaction in South Africa. It first sketches ways in which Russian activity theory arising out of the work of Vygotsky may expand ... Read more
Acute psychosocial stress enhances visuospatial in healthy males

Author: Human, Robyn ; Thomas, Kevin G F ; Dreyer, Anna ; Amod, Alysaa R ; Wolf, Pedro S A ; Jacobs, W Jake Date: 2013 Previous research demonstrates that stress can disrupt a number of different cognitive systems, including verbal memory, working memory, and decision-making. Few previous studies have investigated relations between stress and visuospatial ... Read more
Addressing the 'leadership conundrum' through a mixed methods study of school leadership for literacy

Author: Taylor, Nick ; Wills, Gabrielle ; Hoadley, Ursula Date: 2019 This paper explores methodological insights from a mixed methods study that aims to understand how school leaders promote literacy development in their schools. The study findings consider both the complementarities and the challenges of the ... Read more
Affirmative action and admissions in higher education

Author: Soudien, Crain Date: 2010 This set of articles is offered in an attempt to share with a wider reading public the kinds of issues that arose in the course of a review at the University of Cape Town (UCT) that was undertaken into its admissions policies. They encapsulate ... Read more
Affirmative Action in South Africa: From Targets to Empowerment

Author: Milne, Chantal Date: Apr 2009 Representative bureaucracy, together with addressing inequalities, is the foundation of the public service reform of affirmative action policies in South Africa. Currently, affirmative action policies focus on passive representation and ... Read more
Africa's triple transition: popular perspectives

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Bratton, Michael Date: 2001 Sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed the end of foreign colonial rule, the rise and fall of autocratic political regimes, and the disappearance of statist command economies. The challenges were to turn populations into coherent nations owing ... Read more
Africa, African-Americans, and the avuncular Sam

Author: Adebajo, Adekeye Date: 2004 This essay investigates U.S. policy toward Africa and highlights the role that African Americans have played in influencing this policy. It is inspired by the need for an urgent dialogue between Africans and African Americans on U.S. policy ... Read more
Africans' surprising universalism

Author: Bratton, Michael ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2001 Africa is a latecomer to democratization. In terms of timing, Africa has followed rather than led other continents in giving birth to the reform movements that have installed elected governments, multiparty systems, and more open societies ... Read more
Africa’s Quest for Long-Term Development: Does NEPAD Provide the Necessary Policy Framework?

Author: Akokpari, John Date: 2008 The evasive nature which characterizes Africa’s development is something familiar to all. Various ambitious development strategies, implemented since the 1970s, have brought little hope for the reversal of Africa’s developmental malaise. The ... Read more
'Afrikaander circa 1600': Reflections and Suggestions Regarding the Origins and Fate of Afrikaner Nationalism

Author: du Toit, André Date: 2008 This article compares two quite different portrayals of, and reflections on, the nature and fate of Afrikaner nationalism in its historical entanglement with the apartheid order. On the one hand, it considers the many and sustained publications ... Read more

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