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An assessment of the extent of empowerment through community participation : a Kwazulu-Natal rural development comparison

Gumbi, Themba Aaron Philemon (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to assess the extent of the relevance and success of the empowerment model in facilitating and promoting rural development in South Africa. The assumption was that through ...
Changing identities in urban South Africa : an interpretation of narratives in Cape Town

Leilde, Anne C. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

Identity reflects and aims to control one’s experience. It is an act of consciousness which is neither essential nor immutable but a social construct open to change as circumstances, strategies and interactions fluctuate. ...
Churches as providers of HIV/AIDS care : a normative and empirical study

Ferreira, Clive J. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is, as yet, no cure for HIV/AIDS, a disease that has affected South African society profoundly. While antiretrovirals (ARVs) are now available and have stemmed the tide of AIDS deaths, medicines ...
Contribution of the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) intervention to the socio-economic development in the Southern Cape Forests : a retrospective approach

Holmes, Tania Natasha (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) maintains that its people-centred Participatory Forest Management (PFM) program contributes to rural poverty eradication through provision of employment, ...
Crossing social boundaries and dispersing social identity : tracing deaf networks from Cape Town

Heap, Marion (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The conciliatory discourse of the South African Deaf social movement claims a commonality across South Africa's historical divides on the basis of a 'Deaf culture'. This claim in view of South Africa's ...
The current relevance of populist history in schools : the attitudes of Cape Town youth to history

Bam, June Catherine (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis exanunes whether the historical consciousness of grade 10 youth would increase should there be an intervention facilitated for this purpose, that is that they would show a heightened ...
Discourse on identity : conversations with white South Africans

Puttergill, Charles Hugh (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)

The uncertainty and insecurity generated by social transformation within local and global contexts foregrounds concerns with identity. South African society has a legacy of an entrenched racial order which previously ...
The dynamics of Francophone African migration to Cape Town after 1994

Lekogo, Rodolf E. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate a group of Francophone African migrants in Cape Town during the decade following the end of the apartheid era. The focus of the thesis, however, is on the ...
Evaluating the integration of ICTs into teaching and learning activities at a South African higher education institution

Van der Merwe, Antoinette Deirdre (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a structured evaluation of the integration of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) in teaching and learning activities at the University of Stellenbosch. Although anecdotal ...
Exploring the efficacy of community-based natural resource management in Salambala Conservancy, Caprivi Region, Namibia

De Kock, Melissa (Melissa Heyne) (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is titled “Exploring the efficacy of community-based natural resource management in Salambala Conservancy, Caprivi Region, Namibia”. Salambala was one of the first four conservancies to be ...
A framework for the evaluation of research in South African Higher Education Institutions : conceptual and methodological issues

Masipa, Mochaki Deborah (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study aimed at establishing whether or not an integrated and appropriate system exists for the evaluation of research in the South African higher education system. As background to the assessment ...
Gender differences in the publication productivity of South African scientists

Prozesky, H. E. (Heidi Eileen) (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is aimed at describing gender difference in publication productivity among South African academic authors, and to develop an understanding of possible reasons for these differences. It ...
Health care for intimate partner violence : current standard of care and development of protocol management

Joyner, Kate (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The World Health Organisation recognises intimate partner violence (IPV) to be of major consequence to women’s mental and physical health, yet in South Africa it remains a neglected area of care. Within ...
Implementation evaluation as a dimension of the quality assurance of a new programme for medical education and training

Wasserman, Elizabeth (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, an ‘alignment approach’ to the quality assurance of medical curricula is developed and practically illustrated in the evaluation of a section of a new curriculum in undergraduate medical ...
Journalism education in universities : the global and local migration of concepts between discipline and practice

Du Toit, Jeanne Erica (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study deals with the relationship between university-based journalism education and journalism as a social practice. It is argued that the construction of this relationship can be better understood ...
'n Kwalitatiewe ondersoek na huweliksgeweld teenoor wit Suid-Afrikaanse mans

Rautenbach, Etienne Aubrey (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation looks at husbands as victims of family violence at the hands of their spouses. Four white Afrikaans speaking persons from Pretoria were interviewed in case studies focusing on the ...
Land transactions and rural development policy in the Domboshava peri-urban communal area, Zimbabwe

Hungwe, Emaculate (Stellenbosch -- Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa has led to the proliferation of peri-urban settlements close to cities. Development policy in these areas is multi-pronged. Residents with local tribal, as well as migrant ...
Local government and sustainable human development: local government as development agent in the promotion of local economic development

Noble, Hugo Robert (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research report investigates the theoretical foundation of the understanding of decision-makers at local government level of the term "development", with specific reference to local government as ...
Local government service provision and non-payment within underdeveloped communities of the Johannesburg Unicity : service providers' and consumers' perspective

Netswera, Fulufhelo Godfrey (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South African local government literature suggests a historical problem of municipal non-consultation in services identification and provision that goes hand-in-hand with community non-participation in ...
Local responses to a travelling model of crime prevention and crime management : community policing in Stellenbosch, South Africa

Pfigu, Tinashe (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The mention of any form of crime in South Africa for the most part invokes fear of both an unknown or known perpetrator who may strike at any time and inflict harm to one’s body and property. Through ...