Research suggests that the mother-infant dyad is arguably the most important relationship to
facilitate early childhood development (Bion, 1962a; Bowlby, 1960; Klein, 1946; Winnicott,
1960a, 1960b). The mother-infant ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the challenges facing independent publishers with respect to their funding models and how this relates to their publishing models, sales, marketing and distribution strategies. ...
This interpretative mixed methods study applied a critical multimodal literacy framework to holistically examine how multiple modes were utilised to represent gender in South African and Nigerian English language school ...
The #FeesMustFallprotests of 2015-16 were critical in raising issues that have long affected students. They were especially important in shedding light on the struggles that black students have long faced in universities ...
Background: It is widely recognized that the institutions of marriage and family have been undergoing transformation, especially during the second half of the twentieth century. The increase in the number of ...
This project seeks to reframe mental illness as a dis-ease versus a disease within biomedical discourse. It speaks to the ways in which mental illness is; pathologised, racialised, classed and gendered specifically in ...
My interest in popular understanding of the South African justice system, particularly the police holding cells in Giyani and the awaiting trial prison, was prompted by the arrest of Hlulani. ...
Drilling Mud holds an important role in the drilling process in such a way that it is a determinant key to the success of the operation as well as the money spent throughout the process. Indeed the success and the cost of ...
The North South Corridor (NSC) runs from the southern Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC) to the ports of Southern Africa, connecting the DRC, Tanzania, Zambia,
Zimbabwe, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique and South ...
Large numbers of Zimbabweans continue to flock to South Africa for various reasons, some looking for work and others for educational purposes. It is no secret that some of the push factors are poverty, ...
The question I shall address in this research report is: Is it justifiable to use a person’s past mistakes or current unfortunate position as a reason not to hire them to do jobs for which they are skilled or to discriminate ...
Govender, Arushani(University of the Witwatersrand, 2019-07-30)
This dissertation executes a critical reading of Francine Simon’s poetry in relation to contemporary perspectives of indigenous knowledge (IK), and against the political background and socio-cultural context of the poet’s ...
This thesis reads the life and works of South African photographers, Ernest Cole (1940-1990) and Cedric Nunn (1957-). Both photographers are differently classified ‘coloured’: Ernest Cole was born Ernest Kole and had himself ...
The research seeks to find a way to help people who feel they have been dehumanised. A hero’s journey is used as Applied Theatre to help people identify the issues that hold them back. They are then helped ...
This exploratory, descriptive and interpretive study investigated the impact of matching instructional strategies on the learners’ learning styles, while considering their cultural background in the teaching ...
There is growing concern about pedagogically integrated information and communication technology (ICT) in the teaching of mathematics; however, this integration does not happen among all ...
The black middle-class has grown exponentially since democratisation. While research on the black middle-class has kept a pace of various permutations of this growth as well as those kept out of the mainstream economy by ...
The HIV epidemic has grown immensely to become a serious public health problem globally.
940,000 people died from HIV in 2017, and approximately 1.8 million new infections were
reported worldwide in the same year. Almost ...
In this research, I investigate the images used for the depiction of black women in South African popular visual culture and the Western Art canon. A primary aim of my research is to highlight visual mechanisms that are ...
The work presented extends and contributes to research in mitigating the effects of turbulence in long-range Free Space Optical (FSO) links using structured modes of light. While there is an extensive body of existing ...