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Zulu Poems of (and for) nature: Bhekinkosi Ntuli’s environmental imagination in Imvunge Yemvelo (1972)
(Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Nature, climate crisis, and the Anthropocene have carved space in recent inter-, cross-, and multi-disciplinary humanities studies. In South Africa, such studies have barely touched literature in African languages. Nyambi ...
Caregiving: a feminist perspective on the lived experiences of caregivers in Harare
(University of the Free State, 2021-10)
In the light of the exponential increase in the population of the elderly, studies have predicted the care crisis of this population group unless adequate measures are taken. This qualitative gender-sensitive case study, ...
Democratisation and state-building in Lusophone African states: the cases of Cape Verde and Mozambique
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)
Despite promising prospects to political transition towards a democracy, over the last 25 years, Lusophone African states, achieved very different political and economic outcomes in relation to democratization and human ...
South African student leadership unrest and unsettled constructions: a CIBART analysis
(Stellenbosch University, 2022)
Student leadership in South Africa is unsettled and characterised by unrest. The perturbing changes in the higher education system, including global shifts and crises, impact South African student leadership psychologically. ...
International diplomacy and big business in Namibia: the case of the Rossing Uranium mine
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)
In the 1970s, Rio Tinto Zinc’s Rössing Uranium mine became a symbol of injustice for Namibian nationalists and international opponents of South African rule. Yet, counter-intuitively, the mine survived decolonisation in ...
Die voorkoms en funksie van dwelms in die Afrikaanse letterkunde
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)
English: Since the earliest recordings, drugs have been described as an influential part of social, psychological, technological and economic aspects of society. Herodotus is one example of an author who wrote about drug ...
Trauma and memorying in King's killing Karoline, Msimang's always another country and Smith's the camp whore
(University of the Free State, 2022-03)
In this study I read Smith’s The Camp Whore (2017), King’s Killing Karoline (2017) and Msimang’s Always Another Country (2017) through theories of life narratives, memory, trauma and feminisms in order to unpack the ...
Ceremonial cinema: world-creation and social transformation through film as ritual
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)
The journey to the cinema and our experiences there form part of what is effectively a screening ritual
geared toward affecting audiences. The power of cinema largely derives from being removed from general society – ...
John Chrysostom’s interpretation of the rhetoric of the letter to the Colossians
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)
This study aims to investigate how John Chrysostom interpreted the rhetoric of Colossians in his homilies on this letter and to compare his interpretation with the current understanding of the rhetoric of Colossians. This ...
National Socialism and Nazism in South Africa: The case of L.T. Weichardt and his Greyshirt movements, 1933-1946
(University of the Free State, 2021-05)
In 1933, the world saw Adolf Hitler and National Socialism taking power in Germany. That same year on the other side of the globe, South Africans saw the establishment of the first of many Greyshirt movements modelled on ...