This research aims to eplore schoolboy fandom and identity politics in relation to the animated television text, the 'X-Men' which aired in the early post-apartheid years. The 'X-Men' texts dealt with the oppression of and ...

While much has been written on black South African popular music (see, for example, Anderson, 1981; Coplan, 1985; Erlmann, 1991; Meintjes, 2003; Allen, 2004; Ansell, 2004; Muller, 2008), little has been written on Tsonga ...

Genetic polymorphisms within the non-recombining portion of Y-chromosome (NRY) preserve a record of human paternal genetic heritage that has persisted to the present, allowing human evolutionary inference, population ...

India is currently undergoing a rapid transformation economically, consciously and spatially. A layout of national infrastructure is happening at a pace which may be ungovernable, in its current state and India’s ...

Fermentation and maturation are the most time consuming steps in the production of beer, the duration of which is typically between 5–7 and 7–30 days, respectively. The continuous fermentation process based on immobilised ...

Three cases of pillar failure on Southern African Collieries have been studied to analyse the behaviour of both the pillars and the overlying strata. Each of the cases shows a different type ofpillar and strata behaviour ...

Adopting a social constructionist methodology, this research explores the contexts, discourse and practices of cosmopolitanism amongst African migrants in Johannesburg, South(ern) Africa’s economic hub and top migrant ...

Gender studies in South Africa, especially the understanding of masculinity, is still in its infancy and as such paucity in literature and qualitative studies is evident. This study was aimed at exploring how male and ...

The media has always been an institution inseparable from the rest of society – where they have been societies, there have been ways of discussing and representing information that is key to constituting those societies ...