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Izindikimba nokuvezwa kwabalingiswa besifazane kweminye imibhalo yesiZulu ebhalwe ngababhali besifazane ngemuva kwesikhathi senkululeko.
(2023)Kulolu cwaningo bekubhekwa ukuvezwa kwabalingiswa nezindikimba okubhale ngazo ababhali besifazane emibhalweni ethize yesiZulu. Umcwaningi uqoke izincwadi ezibhalwe ngababhali besifazane baseNingizimu Afrika. Kuvelile ... -
YUCK! (2020): a performative exploration of the white heterosexual self in South Africa as grotesque.
(2022)This dissertation discusses how I used performance to explore my white-heterosexual-male identity within the context of contemporary South Africa from a grotesque perspective. The research joins the academic conversation ... -
A new ‘dance of agency’: an embodied engagement with material agency in artistic practice.
(2023)My current body of work explores, and is rooted in, the issues and challenges surrounding posthuman performativity as part of the New Materialisms. These theories claim to offer a new way of making/knowing/being that is ... -
Towards a committed musicology.
(1982)Music is a human activity and as suchitis a social phenomenon, integrally related to all other aspects of society. Societies do not exist before people - they are produced by people in active engagement with their environment. ... -
Can’t you see it is mine? A consideration of the appropriation of space through the use of building materials (earth, clay and bricks) in art making.
(2022)The purpose of this dissertation is to consider the extent to which the materiality of an artist’s art making materials can demonstrate an appropriation of the space in which the work is exhibited. The specific medium I ... -
An exploration of how language and context augment the construction of a prototypical female identity represented in the portrayal of Desdemona and Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Othello and Macbeth.
(2022)My research is based on a qualitative study of the characterisation of females in two Shakespearean tragedies, Othello and Macbeth. The focus of the study is the impact of language and contextual factors of the Shakespearean ... -
Just drawing: a case study of Visual Arts as a subject in an urban northern KwaZulu-Natal state high school.
(2022)This qualitative study investigated a well-established urban public high school that offers Visual Arts at Further Education and Training level. This was based on the aim of understanding the role and status of Visual ... -
The burden of affliction: a literary analysis of representations of HIV-positive women and girls in selected southern african texts.
(2022)This thesis proceeds from the understanding that literature is the mirror of society, reflecting problematic features, failures to provide social justice, and attempts to live with dignity and hope. Statistics show that ... -
Unlocking the past: encountering history through museum theatre, as explored in the KwaMuhle Museum, Durban.
(2021)This thesis explores the use of museum theatre as a means to teach, learn about and interrogate past narratives through the use of performance in places of historical significance. The research is situated within the ... -
Screw You! This Flag Is Theirs Too: Reconstructing Narratives And Challenging Perceptions with Zimbabwean Sex Workers.
(2021)This is a story about Zimbabwean sex workers’ stories. What their experiences are, and how they make sense of them within the heteronormative hegemony that is Zimbabwe. A space in which to be a sex worker is to be an ... -
Developing a methodology for creative interpretation of traditional dramatic texts in post-apartheid theatre: a case study of Shakespearean interpretation at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2021)While student demographics in higher education have changed to reflect South Africa’s multicultural society, many universities are still offering traditional Drama curricula with colonial-based content. This thesis focuses ... -
#Democracy: a case study of social media use amongst members of the public sphere during the 2014 South African general election.
(2016)At present social media is used by 28% of the world’s population. The use has naturally penetrated the political sphere where social media presence in election periods is a global growing phenomenon. However, limited ... -
Public relations in sport: a case study on the South African Hockey Association with a focus on social media in public relations strategies.
(2019)The South African Hockey Association (SAHA) is tasked with the responsibility of the management and functionality of indoor and outdoor hockey in South Africa. This includes the administration, development and coordination ... -
Ukukloloda emculweni kamaskandi: kubhekwa abaculi oKhuzani Mpungose kanye noMthandeni Manqele.
(2021)Lolu cwaningo luhlaziya ukukloloda emculweni kamasikandi kubhekwa uKhuzani Mpungose noMthandeni Manqele. Luveze izinto ezahlukene eziholela ekutheni kubekhona ukukloloda emculweni wabaqokiwe. Kulolu cwaningo kusetshenziswe ... -
Ukuqanjwa kwamagama amathempeli ebandleni lamaNazaretha.Naming of Temples in the Nazareth Baptist Church.
(2021)Ukuqanjwa kwamagama kuyinto ebalulekile kakhulu ngoba ayikho into engenalo igama. Ebandleni lamaNazaretha amathempeli aqanjwe amagama wonke. Ukuqanjwa kwamagama amathempeli kuwumsebenzi omkhulu futhi kunesidingo esikhulu ... -
An Investigation into the representation of Nigerian headloading Narratives using semiotic analysis and creative transmediation.Uphenyo Lokwethulwa Kwezindaba Zokuthwala (ekhanda) ZaseNigeria Kusetshenziswa Uhlaziyo Isemiotic Netransmeridian Yezokusungula.
(2022)On Facebook, images of Nigerian people carrying loads on their heads became the subject of a narrative, in protest against a politician’s statement that youth were lazy. This study is an exploration of the visual representation ... -
The art collection at the University of KwaZulu-Natal: an appraisal of content and purpose.
(2021)This research examines the Art Collection held at the University of KwaZulu-Natal through a metamodernist (and where relevant metaformalist) paradigm that embraces both modernist and postmodernist narrative and explores ... -
L’enfance et l’Afrique Francophone : la représentation de l’enfance dans Petit Piment, Demain j’aurai vingt ans et Les cigognes sont immortelles d’Alain Mabanckou.
(2021)This study explores the representations of childhood in some selected novels of Alain Mabanckou. The study seeks to investigate how childhood is portrayed in Petit Piment (Black Moses), Demain j’aurai vingt ans (Tomorrow ... -
A literary analysis of ideophones as a stylistic technique in D.B.Z. Ntuli’s poetry.
(2021)This Study on ‘A Literary analysis of Ideophones as a Stylistic Technique in the poetry of D.B.Z. Ntuli’ investigated the incidence, classification, frequency, and the functions of ideophones in the poetry of D.B.Z. Ntuli. ...