• The confessional novel in South Africa : a study of J.M. Coetzee's Age of iron (1990) and Menan du Plessis' A state of fear (1983). 

  Robinson, Duane Angela. (1992)

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• She’s seldom seen wearing her director’s hat here: interrogating the paucity of black women stage directors in three state-supported theatres in contemporary South Africa (1999-2018) 

  Matete, Noxolo Anele. (2020)

  The startling dearth of black women stage directors accessing three of South Africa’s six state-funded theatres – Artscape, the Market and the Playhouse – between 1999 and 2018 forms the impetus for this study. Production ...

• The impact of formal grammar instruction on students’ writing ability in an academic literacy course at the North-West University, Mafikeng Campus. 

  Moletsane, Joel Ramonewa. (2020)

  The academic writing of students at institutions of higher education is shown to be ridden with grammatical errors, that often lead to students failing to successfully present their ideas across to lecturers. Some of the ...

• 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. 

  Ngcongo-James, Nellie Nicola. (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 ...

• Challenging patriarchal normativity: Southern African women writers’ constructions of women’s concerns, needs, changing identities, agency and solidarity. 

  Rubaya, Clemence. (2021)

  This thesis explores literary representations of African women challenging the oppressiveness of patriarchal normativity that has and continues to undermine and destroy the quality of women’s lives the world over, by ...

• Examining girlhoods in KwaZulu-Natal through “coming of age” conventions in selected Bildungsroman. 

  Adam, Farzanah. (2020)

  Presented chiefly as an endeavour within the field of post-colonial feminist scholarship in South Africa, this study navigates the emerging terrain of girlhood studies. It explores the changes and inclusions in the novel ...

• What about speech acts? A comparative analysis of speech acts in isiZulu and English for the development of business writing skills in English second language learners. 

  Nyangiwe, Bulelwa Lynette. (2021)

  The current study investigates students' awareness and challenges with using speech acts and politeness in written business correspondence. The research is motivated by the researcher's observations and experience as an ...

• Issues in Zimbabwean Ndebele relatives and relativisation. 

  Dube, Progress. (2021)

  This study discusses issues in relatives and relativisation in Ndebele, a Nguni language that is mainly spoken in western parts of Zimbabwe. The study focuses on four major issues: (1) the status and the position of the ...

• Two types of phrasal compound in cinyanja. 

  Njobvu, Naomi. (2020)

  Phrasal compounds such as two-for-the-price-of-one sales pose problems for linguistic theories because they behave like words, but clearly include syntactic phrases. The main aim of this thesis is to analyse two types of ...

• Framing and shaping in media reporting: online media report of Marikana Massacre 2012-2014. 

  Msileni, Yandisa. (2021)

  The Lonmin Mines wage strike which saw 44 people lose their lives, 34 of which were brutally shot and killed by the South African Police Services, not only made the national or regional headlines but made international ...

• Exploring gender identities of females from township in Durban as represented and negotiated through stereotypes by South African soap operas: Generations: The Legacy and Isidingo: The Need. 

  Blose, Maud. (2020)

  This study explores gender identities and media culture of black African women through digital storytelling using two of South Africa’s popular soap operas, Generations: The Legacy and Isidingo: The Need, as its case ...

• Local music and identity: a study of the signifiers of South African identity embedded in the South African Music Awards’ ‘Record of the Year’ listings from 2013 to 2018. 

  De Vries, Lee-Ann Delarise. (2020)

  This research paper explores the concept of a local identity through the gaze of a postapartheid South Africa. In discussing ‘local’, this study explores pertinent discourse surrounding what could be deemed as the South ...

• The necessary clown : an investigation into the symbolic role of the clown in visual imagery. 

  Terrence, Oliver P,atrick.

  The research opens with an introduction which develops and presents the argument that the clown is a necessary and suitable image of modern man- A general history is presented in which the evolution of the clown is traced ...

• Music composition in the 21st Century: exploring concertgoers’ aesthetic response to AI-generated music. 

  Van Rensburg, Wessel Jacobus Jansen. (2021)

  We live in the information age where digitisation and computational technology have become integral and indispensable to our daily activities. Artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, and other such technologies ...

• The role of chingondo/chimaisiri dance on makasva and humwe rite in the Zimunya communal area, Zimbabwe. 

  Mauwa, Caleb. (2020)

  The study seeks to investigate the role of Chimaisiri (a spiritual hunting dance) on Makasva (rain making) and Humwe (a celebratory harvest ritual) in the Zimunya communal area of Zimbabwe. The study also seeks to explore ...

• Ghanaian palmwine music: revitalizing a tradition and maintaining a community. 

  Sunu Doe, Eric. (2020)

  This doctoral thesis examines the tradition of Ghanaian palmwine music, exploring strategies for its revitalization and sustenance. Framed within the context of applied ethnomusicology and through the theoretical lens ...

• Trespassing: reading three white women’s representations of identity in narratives with South African settings. 

  Symonds, Rosemary Ann. (2021)

  The stimulus for this study is a photo exhibition Seeing White (2003) in which Michelle Booth invites white subjects to view themselves as the objectified ‘other’. Her exhibition is related to the growing field of whiteness ...

• The re-contextualisation and representation of women’s roles in the television series Once Upon a Time. 

  Reddy, Dashentha. (2020)

  This dissertation explores the representation and re-contextualisation of female roles in the contemporary television series, Once Upon a Time. Women in the media and society have long been undermined. Women, especially ...

• Audacious black female heroes in speculative and Afrofuturist fiction from the Nigerian diaspora. 

  Borain, Bernice Cynthia. (2021)

  In four recent speculative novels from the Nigerian diaspora, The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi (2013 [2005]), Who Fears Death (2018 [2011a]) and The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (2015), and Children of Blood and Bone ...

• Exploring the effectiveness of interactive information and data visualisation for news web interface in the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: a South African perspective. 

  David, Kubenthran. (2021)

  From a global perspective, news production and consumption is becoming increasingly digitised. The world is changing very fast, and big will not beat small anymore, but rather the fast beating the slow (Murdoch, 2016). ...

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