FDI versus local industrial investment: a human capital perspective of development by El Shamy, Hebatallah Hamdy

“…The study eventually, seeks to uncover the inner workings of the role of FDI vis-Ã -vis that of local industrial intellectual elite (progressive entrepreneurs), in conjunction with the pattern of intermittent reliance on foreign technical assistance. …”
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Fear of success revisited by De Villiers, Ronelle

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Marginality as Lens: Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī’s Writings and Mamluk Urbanism by Lafi, Moaaz

“…This thesis takes the life and works of Abū Ḥāmid al-Qudsī (also known as al-Maqdisī), a Shāfiʿī jurist and Cairene historian who died in the late ninth/fifteenth century, as a point of entry into a central question: how was knowledge about the city produced in Mamluk Cairo? …”
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Blind Man's Bluff - cruel revelations through the study of architectural artefacts by Berlein, Darren

“…However, Durban Central Sewage Treatment Works nestles itself in between these abandoned structures away from any engagement with the city anonymously pumping sewage into the ocean. …”
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National gender policy for Rwanda: a case study of institutional response to policy recommendations on women in science and technology by Kimonyo, Augustin

“…By exploring institutional factors underlying the said question, the study has complemented previous works on the same subject, which placed an emphasis on social, economic and cultural factors. …”
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The interpretation of Islamic art and architecture of Cairo in European paintings in the 19th century by Sheta, Heba

“…Most of these European painters resided in Egypt for many years, and sometimes worked for the state. They compiled their paintings in volumes such as the collection of Egypt and Nubia by David Roberts, L’art arabe by Prisse d’Avennes, Architecture arabe, ou, monuments du Caire by Pascal Coste and The Illustrations of Cairo by Robert Hay. …”
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Emerging identities in contemporary South Africa : six individual identity narratives from central Cape Town high schools by Jones, Sarah

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Cross species identification of genetic factors that determine fruit surface characteristics by Lashbrooke, Justin Graham

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Re-thinking Information Literacy in a postgraduate Information Systems class at the University of Cape Town by Noll, Susanne

“…Unlikely other universities around the world, information literacy is not embedded in the curriculum. The standard practice in our context has been once-off sessions offered to students at the beginning of an academic year. …”
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Beyond the petri dish: potentiality in assisted conception in South Africa by Moll, Tessa

“…Research in assisted conception technologies has examined how technologies open up potential trajectories, futures, and family arrangements, yet remain shaped and embedded within local histories and politics (Franklin, 1997, 2003; Inhorn, 2003; Thompson, 2005; Roberts, 2012). …”
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Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) at the AFL Novice Level: Teachers’ Practices and Constraints by Fahmy, Nancy

“…Using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design, quantitative data were collected through a bilingual (Arabic–English) online survey completed by 54 AFL teachers working across instructional contexts in Egypt, Jordan, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. …”
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Exploring the application of Natural Language Processing to scientific medical cannabis publications by de Beer, James Charles

“…The results indicate that the methods developed were able to effectively and accurately demonstrate conenction between cannabis plant compounds and diseases. Hence, the working code accurately reproduced the results of manual analysis. …”
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Interactional accomplishments between nurses and doctors in a medical context by De Nobrega, Nicia

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Networks, [Mis]trust, and Pentecostal Conversion: narratives of divergent pathways among small Black entrepreneurs in Tshwane by De Sousa, Julio F

“…This thesis is an exploration of the cultural meanings, practices, and discourse that impinge upon the workings of social capital and trust among small black entrepreneurs. …”
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The ghost of memory : literary representations of slavery in post-apartheid South Africa by Kasembeli, Serah Namulisa

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From care inside the laboratory to the world beyond it: a multispecies ethnography of TB science towards growing a decolonised science in South Africa by Shain, Chloë-Sarah

“…This care extended to the cells and various species with which they worked. Moreover, this care moved beyond the scope of their immediate scientific research projects and well beyond the laboratory. …”
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Conceptualising a 'living urban edge' for the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), Cape Town by Chittenden, Tessa

“…The PHA is a large tract of productive farmlands embedded in the Cape Flats district of the City of Cape Town. …”
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Conceptualising a 'living urban edge' for the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), Cape Town by Chittenden, Tessa Rose

“…The PHA is a large tract of productive farmlands embedded in the Cape Flats district of the City of Cape Town. …”
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Identification of critical success factors for enhancing virtual project team performance in South Africa's local government context by Lande, Kwanda

“…Using the transitive logic inferences embedded in the ISM program, this research has revealed that CSFs such as shared values among team members, regular team brainstorming sessions, reviewing lessons learned of previous projects, effective communication, technical skills competencies aligned to tasks, project progress and performance management, time management and boundaries, reliable technology and network system, and regular in-person engagements even when virtual working is the norm, are relatively important based on the number of other CSFs that they significantly help to achieve. …”
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Invisible labour: the role of institutionalised xenophobia in shaping the experiences of migrant domestic workers in South Africa by Fuma, Melany

“…The findings reveal that xenophobia in South Africa is not merely an expression of individual prejudice but a systemic issue embedded in historical labour structures and nationalist ideologies. …”
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