Living with fragility : children in New Crossroads by Henderson, Patricia Catherine

“…The eight girls and eight boys, aged between and sixteen years, resided in New Crossroads, Cape Town, a suburb marked by poverty, inadequate schooling, and a history of violent intervention by the apartheid state and other power holders. …”
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A study into the availability of and access to electronic journals for teaching and research by the academic staff at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe by Malapela, Thembani

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Pride and prejudice in the twenty-first century by Hook, Sue

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The psychological effects of detention with particular reference to the South African political detainee by Bloch, Hugh

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Resourceful urbanism: revisions of typology a network of resource 'add-ons' for a population of 400 000 in down-town Johannesburg by Allie, Irshaad Ahmed

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The effects and socio-economic contribution of Batonga Community Museum in Zimbabwe : an ethnographic field study by Munyaradzi, Mawere

“…The marginalisation of the BaTonga people is historical with its roots traceable from the colonial era through the early years of national independence. Post-colonial Zimbabwe's emphasis on cultural identity and confirmation has, however, prompted the establishment of community museums such as the BaTonga Community Museum (BCM), to promote cultures of the local people. …”
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Investigating prediction modelling of academic performance for students in rural schools in Kenya by Mgala, Mvurya

“…A six-step Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) theoretical framework was used to support the design of MAPPS. …”
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Heritage discontinued: tracing cultural ecologies within a context of urban transition by Sohie, Caroline

“…Culture has been consistently underrepresented in the sustainability debate and often perceived as a constraining factor to modern-day advancement. However in recent years, the broadening development paradigm in the Global South is increasingly asserting culture's indispensable role in sustainable human development. …”
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Biogeography of Isolepis subgenus Fluitantes (C.B. Clarke), Muasya (Cyperaceae): niche conservatism, long distance dispersal and hybridization by Viljoen, Jan-Adriaan

“…The Fluitantes were found to have originated in the Cape 7 million years ago. From there, they spread east and northwards onto the mountains of East Africa and to the islands of the Indian Ocean. …”
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An assessment of the extent of environmental mercury contamination in the vicinity of Thor Chemicals, Cato Ridge, Kwa Zulu-Natal, South Africa and the subsequent health risk commun... by Oosthuizen, Jacques De Villiers

“…Environmental mercury pollution of the Valley of a Thousand Hills area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in particular the river system below the Thor Chemicals mercury recycling plant, has been a topic of heated debate for a number of years. Thor Chemicals was established as a mercury recycling plant in the mid-1980' s and it processed mercury waste imported from various countries. …”
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The illusion of time: a study of heterotopic interstitial space and interplay of dynamic movement systems as an architectural strategy to investigate new modes of space making in t... by Patel, Suaad

“…The chosen site, now completely derelict, used to once function as a manufacturing and repair warehouse for boats many years ago. This dissertation will focus on an architectural design process which deals with the intertwined existence between people and the datascape/system, within a world of pixelated elements and bits merging together to generate the whole. …”
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Laboratory investigation of soil reinforcement using shredded waste plastic bottles by Chim Jin, Dercio José Pinto

“…Decomposition of plastic bottles or other plastic products can last from 400 to 1000 years; before this process happens, the plastic waste becomes a problem to the environment continuing to clog our waterways, forest, oceans and others natural habitats. …”
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Development and verification of the commercial value added chain of content marketing response by Hirschfelder, Benedikt

“…The rapid technological progress in the last 10 years and the coherent opportunities for consumers to communicate among each other almost borderless 24/7, also impacted marketing strategies. …”
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Recontextualisation in museum displays: refracting discourses over time by Rall, Medee

“…Using a multimodal social semiotic framework, it analyses three exhibitions of the San that were mounted over a period of a hundred years in a natural history museum from 1911 to the present. …”
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An efficient three-dimensional database driven approach for multi scale homogenization by Jarratt, Nicholas

“…A limitation of the FE2 method though is the high computational costs, whereby its reduction has been a topic of much research in recent years. In this research, a two-scale database (TSD) model is presented to address this limitation. …”
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Virus restriction gene variants and their possible role in neurocognitive function in children born to HIV-infected mothers by Mhandire, Kudakwashe

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Attribution-based parametric insurance: towards affordable premiums by Dorbor, Sylvia Saygbay Diamond

“…To quantify this change, global climate models consisting of both factual and counterfactual world (with and without human forcing of climate, respectively) experiments were post-processed and used as rainfall inputs into an insurance risk modelling software, Africa RiskView. …”
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Understanding corporate social investment practice in South Africa by Perrie, David

“…Internal commitment, sustainability, process management and key stakeholder relationships are prioritised in these recommendations. …”
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From Shock to Awe: The Awe of Organisation: How do Community-Based Festivals do Institutional Work? by Turner, Fergus

“…The research is embedded with the backdrop of literature that specifically looks at, however not exclusively, institutional theory and festival studies. Three years of action research data, in the form of observation, dialogue interviews, working journals, meeting notes and reports will be used spanning from 2015 until 2017. …”
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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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