Historical use of psychological assessments in South Africa has led to racially and culturally biased results. Currently the use of personality assessments in South Africa still raises some controversies as the use of personality assessments in contexts other than those for whic…
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Previous studies of African news coverage tend to look at very specific events or spectacles. Looking to take a more holistic view of media coverage of Africa and understanding the prominent agenda setting role the New York Times plays in international reporting, this study eval…
The situation in which the Palestinians are living, both within Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories continues to worsen with little end in sight. The exact status of the Palestinians, however, has been the subject of much debate with terms such as 'disputed territori…
Extant literature on the Palestinian-Israeli separation wall privileges the wall's function in border-making, while ignoring other discursive and spacial functions it fulfills. My thesis reaches beyond the border-making function of the wall, resituating it as a node among differ…
In the 1970s the Canadian government took a strong stand against apartheid sport policies. Despite Canada’s limited sporting links with South Africa, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his Liberal government took on a leading Commonwealth position in promoting the isolati…
South African artist William Kentridge's (b. 1955) work frequently employs optical tools, such as the stereoscope, to highlight the contingency and instability of witness. These visual tools become metaphors for the process of historicization in post-apartheid South Africa. Kent…
AbstractThe thesis explores the formation, implementation and execution of'Bantu administration' policies in the African 'reserves' of South Africa.The study begins with an examination of the institutions of segregation,the strains during the 1940s, and the responses of the gove…
The thesis brings together two important themes within Geography and Development Studies. First, post-colonial analyses of social identity and difference; secondly, the relationship between social identity and the 'new' historiography of South Africa. These themes raise importan…
The purpose of this dissertation is to answer the question: why do ostensibly similar ethno-national conflicts within a system of settler-colonial domination see such wide variation in their outcomes? How they emerge from conflict through power sharing and social integration ver…
In Places of Complicity, I consider how narratives of the past of two African places obscure, and sometimes explore, complicity. For primarily activist-intellectual publics, Thiaroye and District Six have been icons of “memory” of racist violence and resistant community. I argue…
Land reform is important to correct historical injustices in all districts of South Africa, including the Waterberg District Municipality. There is consensus, globally, that there are trade-offs among diverse land reform objectives, namely: social, economic, political and enviro…
In her series Ke Lefa Laka: Her Story, South African artist Lebohang Kganye digitally manipulates her mother’s family photographs, photoshopping herself into snapshots of her mother as a young woman to create fantastical records of her family’s past. Through the two-part process…
In this study the eleven editions of the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS) (Afrikaans word list and spelling rules) were compared in terms of the way they handled pejorative language. The study stemmed from the method of work explained in the preliminary pages of the AWS11…
Güvenliğin çok boyutlu olarak analiz edilmeye başlanması, uluslararası aktörlerin güvenlik politikalarının da çeşitlenmesine sebep olmuştur. Bu bağlamda artan ve karmaşıklaşan ticaret, finans ve üretim ilişkileri, aktör çeşitliliği yarattığı gibi söz konusu aktörleri risk ve teh…
South Africa holds a traumatic history of injustice which has been propagated by ideologies centered around race. This history is still very present and visible in the scars that fragment its landscapes. These are scars that speak of segregation and unequal distribution of the n…
Using data from the 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2017 waves of the National income Dynamics Study (NIDS), this dissertation investigates the link between occupation (skilled, medium skilled and low skilled) and subjective well-being (SWB) in South Africa. Although some studies (su…
This research examines unconventional ways in which a sense of belonging can be achieved through landscape as a platform for personal, societal and cultural identity formation. I determine how hierarchical structures prevalent in colonial and, later, Afrikaner landscape represen…
The S l o w Growth Institute is proposed as a mostly unprogrammed place and will be located among divided spaces. The ‘in-between’ is investigated through two scales: a historical line where buffer zones from South Africa’s history of separation and still evident in our social f…
Between 1919 and 1962, the South African government implemented ever more restrictive segregationist and apartheid policies in South West Africa that attempted to control and monitor the social, political, and economic development of Namibians living in South West Africa’s Polic…