The Labour of Home by Byrnes, Kathryn

“…The city of Cape Town's history of designed inequality has continued to maintain and extend barriers to accessing affordable housing for poor and working-class families. This work explores the emergence of occupation as a working-class housing and survival strategy that innovatively addresses these barriers to accommodation. …”
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The performativity of multicultural discourses: youth, conflict and contradictions by Maude, Martin

“…The Rainbow Nation discourse in South Africa is meant to create a liberatory myth that unites the nation in its cultural and racial differences. …”
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Seating arrangement and cooperative learning activities: students' on-task/off-task participation in EFL classrooms by Lotfy, Nohayer

“…Analysis of data shows seating arrangement is a priority to foster student on-task participation in class since the videos show that students in one class were keen to create their semi-circle shaped when seated in the rows and columns in order to work on group activities while students in the other were subversive to the rows and columns seating arrangement where two of the group members left their places and sat facing the group. …”
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Sports, festivals and popular politics : aspects of the social and popular culture in Langa township, 1945-70 by Molapo, Rachidi Richard

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Men's issues, men's solutions : the effects of a South African mythopoetic men's group's activities on gender equality: 2004-2005 by Rothgiesser, Stuart Leon

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Domestic work in Cape Town: an exploration into the growth of part-time domestic work by Wooldridge, Kathryn

“…The thesis finds that many middle-class households which hire domestic workers do not base their wages only on the minimum wage. …”
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The male world of football media and beer drinking: a case study of sports bars in Cape Town, South Africa by Umansky, Dimitrij

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From the constructs and methods of the philosophers to a model for improved discourse between disciplines by Harrison, John

“…The work was conducted independently, and an original model was created.…”
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Boundaries and crossing points : children, geography, and identity in Fish Hoek valley by Gooskens, Imke

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Breathing space : cross-community professional theatre as a means of dissolving fixed geographical landscapes by Matchett, Sara

“…'Differences' encompass questions of geographical, class and racial divides as well as the ideological differences between mainstream and community theatre. …”
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Crime in the suburbs: a critical discourse analysis of how suburban residents of South Africa, and the United States talk about crime on local Facebook groups by Maguire, Zachary

“…Through a critical discourse analysis of posts and comments found on local suburban groups, in New Jersey and Cape Town, I illustrate how these spaces serve as key locations for the performance of a middle-class position, where residents work to both contest and reinforce middle-class ideals, of personal responsibility, and rational discourse. …”
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The Bizarre Bazaar: investigating gendered performance through interactive performance art by Burger, Nicolene

“…The Bizarre Bazaar: Investigating Gendered Performance through Interactive Performance Art This study investigates the persistence and evolution of structural violence as it relates to gender rooted in colonialism/apartheid within contemporary Afrikaner communities, particularly in middle and upper-class enclaves and its impact on the broader South African context. …”
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An auto-ethnographical account of curriculum flexibility in primary school science in relation to CAPS policy by Tryon, Tania Adelle

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Modelling highly imbalanced credit card fraud detection data using statistical learning by Moodley, Revesa

“…This study investigates the effect of three factors on model performance: 1) sampling technique, 2) supervised learning method, and 3) prevalence rate, also known as imbalance ratio (IR), which refers to the proportion of majority class samples compared to that of the minority class. …”
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Making a community : Indians in Cape Town, circa 1900-1980s by Dawood, Zohra Bibi

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Capitalism and nature in South Africa: racial dispossession, liberation ideology and ecological crisis by Andrews, Donna

“…It shows how ecological issues are embedded in relations of class, race and gender. It argues that relation of nature and society and social relations form each other historically. …”
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The affordances and potentials of mobile digital devices to teach English: a South African case study by Arnold, Luke

“…I focus on two main sets of data; the digital productions of a Grade 7 English class, created in class using personal tablet devices; and video data of Grade 7 English class wherein tablet devices are used as a tool for investigating visuals alongside paper-based writing activities. …”
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