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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 examines anxiety through a posthuman lens, using rhizome theory and the concept of “becoming”. It embraces a fluid state of environmental connection, accepting real and perceived chaos. Through visual art, a ...
My thesis explores the relationship between orchestral instruments and digital sound processing
in a film scoring context, with particular emphasis on the analysis and development of
composition and orchestration techniques. ...
Like many countries, the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Ghana in March 2020 and the
attendant manifestations impacted the country drastically, leaving behind unforgettable
memories. Yet, there has not been any ...
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 ...
Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ghana have deployed learning management systems (LMSs) as a means of addressing the growing number of student enrolments and the consequential stress on physical facilities. LMS ...
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 ...
This study recontextualises Batswana Lekgapho wall and floor decorative
homestead patterns within the contemporary art practice of Botswana. It
tracks their original meaning using a genealogical approach towards ...
This thesis interrogates the paradox that defines government communication in democratic South Africa, the persistent gap between the rhetoric of participation and the reality of bureaucratic control. This thesis interrogates ...
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 study examines the rhetorical use of social media by a large South African open distance and e-learning (ODeL) university, using a governance crisis as a high-pressure context in which institutional credibility (ethos) ...
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 ...