Abstract
(Jill Nudelman)
This dissertation presents a novel that charts the progress of the white protagonist, Rose, whose mysterious origins have rendered her disconnected and alienated. In addition, moulded by her ...
ABSTRACT
A Walk through the Criminal’s City: John Kiriamiti’s My Life in Crime and My
Life in Prison is an examination of Kiriamiti’s use of the criminal figure to represent
the urban space and its discourses. Among the ...
1960 marked the beginning of a profoundly violent and unstable period in southern Africa’s history. Central to the fundamental socio-political changes that took place in the region and many of its countries during this ...
This research report will engage in the debate surrounding decriminalization of drug use and whether it is a possible solution to the problem of drug use in South Africa. This is a question becoming more prevalent in global ...
It is interesting how a specific date and month has come to define the world. In the
dawn of the millennium, few people would have thought international politics would
suddenly change. It was even harder to envisage that ...
The ward participatory system in the South African local sphere of government as stipulated in the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, (No 32 of 2000) can be viewed as a legislative initiative to introduce a paradigm ...
Waste management is a global phenomenon and all nations need to ensure that waste is handled
in an environmentally friendly and healthy manner. Municipalities in South Africa generate a lot
of solid waste which is disposed ...
Eighty percent of the agricultural land worldwide is under rain-fed agriculture that
takes place on most soils that are generally low in fertility with attendant high on
farm water losses, thereby resulting in low crop ...
Environmental impacts from tailings impoundments differ according to their mineral constituents. Erosion is one of the processes that aggravate the environmental impacts from tailings due to the transportation of particles, ...
Water plays a global role in an enormous variety of ways. More importantely it
also plays a fundamental role on a regional and local scales where it has a
profound effect on the environment and socio economic development. ...
Access to sufficient water is a constitutionally recognized right in the
Republic of South Africa as well as being a Universal Human Right.
Despite this however, the world wide population numbers are ever
growing and ...
The ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of composite cylinders is dependent on
the thorough understanding of the propagation characteristics of the wave modes in these
materials. In this dissertation the propagation ...
Discourse on men and masculinities is limited in a crucial way. While literature on
masculinities argues that there are many different versions of masculinity and cautions
against generalisations, the existing canon has ...
Abstract
The first section of the thesis is a narrative non-fiction book-length work titled Ways
of Staying, which is to be published by Picador Africa in May 2009 and is a journey
through selected public and private ...
This article concerns itself with two bus boycotts, one well known, the other less
so. They are interesting in themselves, but here it is suggested that they are
relevant towards an understanding of South African black ...
The Second World War transformed the face of South Africa like no other era since reconstruction. Unlike reconstruction however, the war years were no period of planned state initiatives or aggressive social engineering. ...