REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present)

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A comparison of the performance of high-voltage insulator materials in a severely polluted coastal environment by Vosloo, Wallace L. (Wallace Lockwood)

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Essays in economics of education: free primary education, birth order and human capital development in Lesotho by Moshoeshoe, Ramaele Elias

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Building Nurture: Care and Protection of the Growing through the Built Environment by Dill, Alexandra

“…The site is located in the nucleus of the settlement as a symbolic embedding of a child-centred programme into the informal urban environment. This acknowledges the imperative need for child-centred spaces by weaving it into the pre-existing built fabric.…”
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Fashionable addiction : the impact of digital identity through the cult of the body (an African perspective, with particular reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo) by Mbikayi, Maurice

“…For example, the UN environment programme's 2012 and 2013 report under the Waste for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) legislation showed that thirty percent of the allegedly second-hand products imported to Ghana were useless (African WEEE Report by the UN Environment Programme [AWRUNEP], 2012). …”
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Custodianship on the periphery: archives, power and identity politics in post-apartheid Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal by McNulty, Grant

“…The intersection of these domains has opened up new cultural and political spaces in which the past in various forms is being actively managed. …”
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Digital boundaries: A study into how mobile devices and information + communication technologies can influence the social programming, spatial conditions and construction of public... by Van 'T Hof, Marcus Daniel

“…Lastly the large scale which is of catalytic and institutional architecture at two proposed sites, of which one is the main architectural focus of the design dissertation and explored further. The architectural programme provides spaces for: IT learning and skills development to help individuals seek employment, collaborative hubs for those developing new entrepreneurial ideas, and youth hubs for students to study and socialise. …”
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Money, wealth, and consumption among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Harare

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The hidden life of Montrose : strategies for building in an historic environment by Du Toit, Ina

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Analysing the application of “Reblocking” of informal settlements in the City of Ekurhuleni by Basson, Annelien

“…Reblocking essentially involves the realignment of structures in an informal settlement to enable basic services to be delivered, and can also result in reduced fire risk and more usable communal spaces. The process of reblocking is also valuable as collaborative planning tool to build grassroots capacity. …”
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Expanding the repertoires of practice of multilingual science student teachers through a decolonial approach to academic literacies at an elite English medium university by Abdulatief, Soraya

“…I also consider whether taking a decolonial approach to academic literacies could expand the students' repertoires of practice and their production of texts in the PGCE programme. In addition, I investigate the participants' early experiences of coloniality in education; the academic and multimodal practices needed by student teachers; how African languages could be used as a resource for learning; and the role spaces outside of the university campus played in developing students' identities as science teachers and in their construction of multimodal repertoires. …”
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Umhlanga - From the Reeds

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Rural,black and female: Educational Possibilities under severe conditions of constraints by Andreas, Letitia

“…The study tracks the complex educational journey of a rural born South African female learner as she navigates between two disparate geographical, educational and social spaces. In this study, the data forms used are interview narratives generated from semi-interview transcripts and personal diary notes from interviews with the three rural Black females from the Eastern Cape. …”
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The culinary rhizome : fostering community growth, economic growth, community inclusion and skills development within Melusi informal settlement

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Sand plain fynbos conservation : the Kenilworth Racecourse case study by Brown, Lynette B

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Seasonal development and trapping of coryphodema tristis in eucalyptus nitens

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Green (inside)? An eating experience which addresses ecological & lifestyle sustainability, with the interior as a tool

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Engaging patient-centredness in an undergraduate medical curriculum by Archer, Elize

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Synthesis of monodisperse silver nanoparticles for antibacterial purposes by Adam, Sarah

“…Both synthesis methods produced fcc metallic silver nanoparticles with (111) and (200) lattice planes, confirmed by studying nanoparticle d-spacings. For Method One, the unaltered synthesis procedure produced the smallest particles with a numberbased mean size of 3.6 ± 3.8 nm and a volume-based mean particle size of 15.4 ± 6.4 nm. …”
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