Dust has been recognized as the most serious occupational health hazard across
the South African Mining Industry. During 1998 more than 5600 mineworkers were
certified with silicosis, a silica related lung disease. The ...
In post-apartheid South Africa, Coloured communities are engaged in
reconstructing identities and social histories. This study examines the
representation of community, identity, culture and historic memory in two
films ...
This research investigates the representation of kwaito in the Sunday Times between 1994 and 2001, a period of transition for South Africa and the South African media. Kwaito, a music phenomenon that began in the streets ...
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Since Freud’s early work, the representation and assessment of trauma, more specifically hysteria, has given rise to numerous, albeit diverse, theories. The common factor, however, in most of these is the ...
In May 1938, the largely white South African electorate went to the polls. But the question which had preoccupied participants in the preceding weeks of the election was not, as one might
imagine, the segregationist ...
The study aims to explore how black women read representations of black
women in South African films. Using an ethnographic study of women’s
interpretation of Fool, the study reflects in part the experiences of black ...
South Africa jumped many hurdles which at the beginning could be seen as impossible. This, thanks to the goodwill of many of our people irrespective of race, class or gender. However, there is still a long way to build ...
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This study investigates the representation of women on the main South African public television news bulletins between 1999 and 2005. The study focuses on the representation of women on Women’s Day in South Africa ...
This study explored the attachment patterns in middle childhood of children in care in the context of South Africa. Two attachment based measures were used, namely: the kinetic family drawing and a story stem narrative ...
This thesis investigates the representation of Coloured identities on the Johannesburg Reef. The study proceeds from the premise that colonial /apartheid apprehensions of the Coloured subject were significantly limited to ...
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This research report examines two novels, Carel van der Merwe’s No Man’s Land (2007) and
Heinrich Troost’s Plot Loss (2007) as examples of what can be thought of as a ‘new wave’ of
white writing in South African ...
In this research dissertation I argue that selected works of artists Anselm Kiefer
(b.1945) and Anish Kapoor (b.1954) can best be understood as representations of
transcendence. I begin by locating works selected for ...
The purpose of this study is to examine the representations of the ‘black’ South African male in the gangster genre and to focus on the representation of the 'black' male gangster role in the following case studies: ...
In this study I investigated the reproductive biology and pollination ecology of Aloe peglerae, an endangered endemic succulent species of the Magaliesberg Mountain Range in South Africa. The aim was to determine the ...
Down syndrome is the commonest cause of congenital developmental disability in
industrialized countries, where it occurs in approximately 1.4 per 1000 live births. In South
Africa, the birth prevalence of Down syndrome ...
Reproductive isolation was investigated in four phylogenetically and/or
geographically separated populations of Rhabdomys in South Africa. The four populations,
Jonkershoek (Rhabdomys pumilio), Goegap (R. pumilio), Irene ...
Reproductive isolation was investigated in two chromosomally distinct populations of Rhabdomys on the Gauteng highveld. The two populations, Midrand (2n = 48) and Irene (2n = 46), occur 15 km apart, with no known contact ...
An overview will be given of reprographic and digital services at the NLSA. Digitisation activities included the DISA Southern African Freedom Struggles 1950-1994 project, the UNESCO Memory of the World project and the ...
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Modern diplomacy is very different in form and substance from the diplomacy of 30
years ago. The five main components of modern diplomacy are personal diplomacy,
economic diplomacy, foreign aid, conference ...