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This study is an autoethnographic representation of the researcher’s journey as a
Rastafarian and is expressed through visual metaphors. It interrogates the predisposition
and vulnerabilities caused by being othered ...
This study interrogates female obesity, referencing contradicting Xhosa and
Western cultural stereotypes and their impact on modern females, arguing that
these stereotypes affect individuals’ self-acceptance, sometimes ...
This study analyses ethnoracial identity formation from the perspective of the self (the artist) and the collective (artists, historians, curators, academics), applying a qualitative mixed methodology within this practice-led ...
Free and open-source software (FOSS) offers a viable solution for supporting digital curation, the transfer and long-term preservation of digital archives in South Africa. This is important since many governmental institutions, ...
This study investigated the role of branding in strategic communication within the South African government, with reference to the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) and the Department of Tourism. ...
This research project interrogates the complexity of intuitive processes organised around generative ritualised actions and transient experiences in the performative and spatial arts practices of two artists. Olivier de ...
This study explores the role of Northern Sotho proverbs as crucial instruments of communication and community development, deeply embedded in African oral traditions. Proverbs, often perceived as more than mere literary ...
This dissertation examines the destabilization of boundaries between humans and non-human animals in Yorgos Lanthimos’s films, focusing on The Lobster and The Favourite. It argues that these works challenge societal ...
This study examines the earliest colonial farms established in the Tygerberg region
of the Western Cape (Cape Colony) as the Cape transitioned from a fragile VOC
victualling station to a permanent agrarian colony during ...
This study explores art as a means to work through a lived traumatic
experience because of an intimate partner’s violence. It examined the
therapeutic qualities of artmaking to process past trauma and facilitate
personal ...
Smartphone use in the workplace has shown both positive and negative
effects. The study examines how employees of the National Energy Regulator
of South Africa (NERSA) utilise smartphones and the gratifications derived
from ...
Through games and traditional storytelling (iintsomi), this study explores how Xhosa children are enculturated in language development and critical thinking skills. The study investigates the ways in which these cultural ...
The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a parallel “infodemic,” characterised by an overabundance of information, including false or misleading content, which complicated public understanding of the crisis. This study ...
The purpose of this research study is to conduct a comprehensive sociolinguistic analysis of the portrayal of women in Northern Sotho literature, charting the evolution of their representation by examining various written ...
This study investigated the effectiveness of crisis communication during a pandemic within a South African national government agency, with a specific focus on managers' perspectives. The occurrence of business crises ...
This study investigates the utilisation of digital records keeping systems in a form of a case study at the National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH) in South Africa benchmarked against the National records keeping ...
This study analysed the term creation strategies that were used to develop Mathematics dictionaries from Grade R-6, which is the foundation phase and intermediate phase in South African education. Furthermore, the study ...
Information behaviour attempts to understand how different categories of users respond to, and utilise information products. This study focussed on exploring the behaviour of refugees in North Western Uganda in relation ...
This study was conducted in South Africa, specifically at two Technical and Vocational Educational and
Training (TVET) colleges in the Tshwane and Vhembe districts, from 2022 to 2025. It aimed to evaluate
the relevance ...
In today's digital age, teenagers are growing up in a digital culture where social media platforms are prevalent and substantially influence various parts of their lives. This study sought to investigate the effects of ...