Street as the place for conviviality?: relationships between people, products, and place in Cape Town CBD by Nakamura, Matsuri

“…These vendors form close-knit bonds with neighbouring vendors and those working around them, creating a “family” that transcends traditional boundaries of gender, religion, race, and nationality. …”
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Designing Umeli: A Case for Medsersiated Design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users by Gitau, Shuko

“…This dissertation documents a journey into the design of Ummeli with a community of semi-­‐literate job seekers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town whose primary access to the internet was through their mobile phones. Working closely with this community over many months, we developed Ummeli, a suite of tools that allow the user to build their CVs; browse and apply for employment and training opportunities; recommend and post jobs; get employment tips and connect to other job seekers. …”
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An introduction to the man-made landscape at the Cape from the 17th to the 19th centuries by Fagan, Gwendoline Elizabeth

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‘Undergoing' as posthuman literacy research in an in/formal settlement primary school in South Africa by Crowther, Judith Lynne

“…The concept of ‘undergoing' works to show how literacy education involves processes of subjectification where relational entanglements precede entities formed. …”
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A critical analysis on the efficiency of property development approval processes in the City of Cape Town by Webster, Simon

“…The methodology used to achieve the aforementioned was a mixed method of data collection, which encompassed various interviews with experts working within the property and planning development fields, iterative communication with these professionals, and literature reviews. …”
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Fashioning transformation? Implications for the politics of recognition among Cape Town youth by Van Niekerk, Kate

“…The participants divided roughly into two groups: a more multiracial, middle class group in the Cape Town City Bowl and an entirely coloured, working class group in Bishop Lavis on the Cape Flats. …”
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Beyond the refugee label : identity and agency among Somali refugees by Buyer, Meritt

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A history of garment and tailoring workers in Cape Town, 1900-1939. by Nicol, Martin

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The diatom record: Reconstructing historically recent environmental change in the Knysna estuary by Antonopoulos, Helen Grace

“…Diatom analysis was employed to reconstruct salinity, nutrients, and saprobity variables in addition to inferring community structure and trophic status over time by creating an age-depth model based on a combination of ²¹⁰Pb and radiocarbon dates. …”
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The relationship between public and private higher education in Zambia with a specific focus on the movement of lecturers across public and private universities by Chisembele, John

“…The main research question driving the study is: What are the implications of lecturers at public universities working simultaneously at private universities? This study is qualitative and phenomenological in nature in that it reported the participants' lived perspectives. …”
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The role of national museums in South Africa: A critical investigation into Iziko Museums of South Africa focusing on the representation of slavery by Strydom, Carlyn

“…It then moves on to investigate the origin and history of Iziko museums by working through published literature on the subject, unpublished materials, other institutional materials found in the Iziko archive and interviews conducted with past and current employees. …”
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A simulation-based approach to assessing the relationship between mutual fund size and performance by Molyneux, Matthew

“…In this study, hypothetical portfolios are created, and an allocation procedure is used to distribute capital to these hypothetical portfolios. …”
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Barriers to the development of affordable housing on well-located land: A qualitative study of planning regulations and by-laws in Cape Town by Briel, Sofia

“…These qualitative findings have been generated by way of interviews – with professional planners working in the public and private sectors as well as members of nongovernmental organizations concerned with housing and development in Cape Town – and analysis of planning regulation and policy documentation and secondary data from media sources. …”
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Leadership for democratic development in Tanzania: the perspective of Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere during the first decade of independence by Haussler, Peter

“…The underlying assumption of this study is that 'good leadership' is needed to promote participation, democracy and socio~economic development, creating national stability. The research proves this assumption right. …”
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We should be given a chance: identifying barriers and enablers from disabled people's employment in the office of the Premier of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, South Afric... by Loyilane, Ndileka Eumera Portia

“…Purposive sampling was used to select participants from the OTP, an NGO working in the disability field and members of a Disabled People's Organisation. …”
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Head, heart, and hand : the Huguenot Seminary and College and the construction of middle class Afrikaner femininity, 1873-1910 by Duff, Sarah Emily

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Properties of Portland cement pervious concrete by El-Tawil, Farrah Abdel Aziz

“…Portland Cement Pervious Concrete (PCPC) is an innovative type of concrete that contains little or no fine aggregates thus creating a substantial void content which allows concrete to be water permeable. …”
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Entrepreneurship as a sustainable approach towards efficient waste management in Cairo by Estephanous, John

“…In addition to, finding better working solutions and practices to execute efficiently and solve problems by the government itself. …”
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