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Zack Snyder, Frank Miller and Herodotus : three takes on the 300 Spartans
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Ancient Studies, 2007)The heroic defence of the Greeks at the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, in particularly the 300 Spartans who stood to the last man against the much larger Persian force, prompted comic book writer and illustrator Frank ... -
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ZAMSTAR, The Zambia South Africa TB and HIV Reduction study : design of a 2x2 factorial community randomized trial
(BioMed Central, 2008-11)Background: TB and HIV form a deadly synergy in much of the developing world, especially Africa. Interventions to reduce the impact of these diseases at community level are urgently needed. This paper presents the design ... -
Zauber und Magie in <I>Afrikanisches Schach. Ein Leben mit den Geistern an Kenias K�ste</I>
(VERLAG PETER LANG AG, JUPITERSTRASSE 15, BERN 15, SWITZERLAND, CH-3000, 2012) -
Zebras from Wonderwerk cave, northern Cape Province, South Africa: attempts to distinguish Equus burchelli and E. quagga.
(1988)Measurements obtained from Equus burchelli and E. quagga specimens in various museum collections are compared against corresponding measurements on equid teeth from Holocene deposits at Wonderwerk cave, situated near the ... -
Zechariah 3-4: Core of Proto-Zechariah.
(Old Testament Society of South Africa, Department of Ancient Languages, University of Pretoria, 0002, South Africa, Tel: 012 420 2685, bothap@libarts.up.ac.za, 2003) -
Zen and the art of banking : a critical review of the Chinese banking sector
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-03)This study examines, broadly put, why the banking sector in China has not performed as well as other sectors of the economy when compared to international competitors, given that the economy as a whole has been performing ... -
Zenobia's story : how a victim of abuse uses isiXhosa to account for her actions
(AOSIS Publishing, 2008-07-25)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article explores the theoretical work in articulating the motivations and conditions for account-giving in isiXhosa in relation to image restoration. The account-making process, according to Warren ... -
A zero sampling plan for the moderation of examination papers
(SAIIE, 2005)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Quality assurance within local educational institutions has been under the spotlight in recent years. In particular these institutions are increasingly subjected to minimum standards specified by ... -
Zeta diversity as a concept and metric that unifies incidence-based biodiversity patterns
(The University of Chicago Press, 2014-11)Patterns in species incidence and compositional turnover are central to understanding what drives biodiversity. Here we propose zeta (ζ) diversity, the number of species shared by multiple assemblages, as a concept and ... -
Zidovudine impairs immunological recovery on first-line antiretroviral therapy: collaborative analysis of cohort studies in Southern Africa
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Zidovudine with nevirapine for the prevention of HIV mother-to-child transmission reduces nevirapine resistance in mothers from the Western Cape, South Africa
(2008)In the Western Cape province of South Africa, an intensified regimen for the prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission-of-HIV consisting of zidovudine (AZT) from 34 weeks of pregnancy plus single dose (sd) nevirapine (NVP) ... -
Zimbabwe and South Africa: The ideological solidarity of liberation elites
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Zimbabwe women writers from 1950 to the present : re-creating gender images
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: My thesis focuses on Zimbabwean women as writers and thus on women as producers, contesters and negotiators of gendered images, and the ways in which they write gender identities in and of the nation. I ... -
Zimbabwe's ESAP : political and economic implications for the clothing and textile industry
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The Zimbabwean crisis : locations of writing and the literary representation of Zimbabwe’s ‘lost decade.’
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines literary representations of the Zimbabwean crisis to ascertain how geographic, race and gender locations of writing influence the interpretation of the internal and external displacement ... -
Zimbabwean migrants and the dynamics of religion and informal support associations in mediating everyday life in Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This ethnographic study is about Pentecostal spirituality and everyday social life among migrant members of Forward in Faith in Cape Town, South Africa. My focus is on the capacity of the church to reach ... -
Zimbabwes environmental education programme and its implications for sustainable development
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The environmental education (EE)-sustainable development (SD) nexus has generated much research and debate at local, national and global levels (Fien, 1993). Although the term EE is quite old, dating back ... -
Zinc and platelet membrane microviscosity in Alzheimer's disease. The in vivo effect of zinc on platelet membranes and cognition
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 1997)Objectives. To investigate the effects of oral zinc supplementation on: (i) plasma zinc concentrations; (ii) platelet membrane microviscosity in vivo; and (iii) cognitive function of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients. ...
