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Coping with political corporatism: state-international non-governmental organisation relations in post-2000 Zimbabwe.
(2021)This thesis focuses on the relations between International Non-governmental Organisations (INGOs) and the State in post-2000 Zimbabwe (2000–2009). This was an epoch depicting the democratisation process as posing a threat ... -
A core-periphery analysis of population and urbanisation patterns in Natal/KwaZulu.
(1989)This study aims to expose the impact of racial separation policies on the spatial distribution of the population groups in Natal/ KwaZulu, and on Black urbanisation, within a core-periphery framework. Chapter One focuses ... -
"The corporate guerillas" : class formation and the African corporate petty bourgeoisie in post-1973 South Africa.
(1991)No abstract available. -
Corporate policy on HIV/AIDS intervention : a policy analysis.
(2001)This study is concerned with corporate policy on IllV/AIDS. This was investigated by speaking to key-informants from fifteen enterprises in KwaZulu Natal. They were asked about their policies and programmes and what they ... -
A critical analysis of social regulatory policy: the case of female genital mutilation legislation in Nigeria.
(2008)The practice of female genital mutilation is a global problem and it is prevalent in Africa. According to the United Nations Children's Education Fund (2005), each year about three million women and girls are subjected to ... -
A cross-generational study of the perception and construction of South Africans of Indian descent as foreigners by fellow citizens.
(2014)This thesis examined how the perceptions of South Africans of Indian descent as foreign, by fellow South African citizens, have changed or the extent to which they have remained the same from the time of the first arrival ... -
Culture contact : the Afrikaner as a minority in Durban : a study in network theory and practice.
(1981)No abstract available. -
'Cycling out of poverty' through a culture of bicycle ownership and use : a case study.
(2003)South Africa does not currently have a strong bicycle culture, as most cycling is of a recreational nature. At the same time, inadequate and expensive transport, particularly for many rural individuals and groups, is one ... -
The Department of Information Studies, University of Natal : its role in education for librarianship in South Africa, 1973-1994.
(1998)This thesis investigates the development of the Department of Information Studies, with the aim of assessing the role it has played in education for librarianship in South Africa from 1973 to 1994, a period of change and ... -
Designing and assessing the feasibility of an active learning approach to the teaching of legal research.
(2008)This study set out to design and assess the feasibility of an active learning approach to a legal research module. The study was a case study of the second year undergraduate Legal Research Writing and Reasoning (LRWR) ... -
Development of a model for knowledge auditing in the Eastern Cape estuaries with special reference to the Tyolomnqa estuary.
(2003)Estuaries are irreplaceable natural resources that must be managed carefully for the mutual benefit of all who enjoy and depend on them. The estuarine environment is a very dynamic and complex environment, which poses ... -
Diakonia as a case study in Christian non-violent social action for peace and social justice in South Africa, 1976-1982.
(2009)Diakonia is a Christian, church-based, development agency operating in the greater Durban area. It was conceived and established by the Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley. A qualitative, conceptual, and historical case ... -
Discourses and practices of diversion : policy and practice of the child justice system.
(2010)Diversion is one of the programmes instituted within the Child Justice System. Its aim is to make punishment more rehabilitative and restorative. Prior to the Child Justice Bill, juvenile offenders were prosecuted under ... -
Discursive contructions of threat and the implications for social identity in a sample of African foreigners living in Pietermaritzburg.
(2010)Drawing on seventeen group interviews with African foreign nationals living in Pietermaritzburg, this thesis explores how a minority group talks about their experiences of threat and prejudice within the South African ... -
Education and ideology in South Africa : a sociological case study of African education.
(1954)No abstract available. -
The effect of paid employment outside the household upon married women's gendered identity : (a case study of married white women in Pietermaritzburg)
(1999)This research explores how formal employment outside the household affects the gendered identity of married women. A comparison of ten married white women who are not gainfully employed and ten married white women who are ... -
The effect of the crisis in scholarly communication on university libraries in South Africa.
(2010)The study examined the effect the crisis in scholarly communication had on university libraries in South Africa. The crisis in scholarly communication or the 'serials' crisis as it is better known to librarians has affected ... -
The effectiveness of the social condition of education in an Indian pre-primary school.
(1987)No abstract available. -
The emergence of atheism in post-colonial South Africa.
(2017)This study aims to offer an account of the emergence of the phenomenon of atheism in South Africa and in so doing present a case for its admittance as a new and exciting field of research within the academy in the country. ...