Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 8030 for “"CAPE"”.
-
Cape Mongo
Cape Mongo is an anti-fable to the mythologies of Cape Town’s consumer culture. This anti-fable takes shape through an amalgamation of sculptural, performative and video-montage processes, culminating in five films. Each of these films follows a different Mongo character as it journeys through …
-
Dental modification practices on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape
The people living on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape have been practicing dental modification for a number of years. A systematic survey of eight adjoining areas in the Northern suburbs was done to investigate the prevalence, motivation and possible historical time depth of this practice. The …
-
Erf 217, Cape Town
… translated into form. This relationship in landscape architecture is discussed through the idea of the biomorphic. Applied as a guiding principle to investigate vegetation and plant form in the 17th Century Company’s Gardens arguing that the generation of the biomorphic can be adjusted to serve …
-
Cape crusaders : an ethnography investigating the surfing subculture of Cape Naturaliste, Western Australia
… a unique population of the surfing culture, the Cape Naturaliste surfing subculture. Located in the South West of Western Australia, Cape Naturaliste is home to the Cape Crusaders.
-
Retrospective review of gunshot injuries at Salt River mortuary, Cape Town, Western Cape
… cases admitted to Salt River Mortuary in Cape Town, South Africa. A retrospective crosssectional study of fatal FRIs from Salt River Mortuary was conducted for the period 1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017. Autopsy case files were screened for fatalities associated with firearms. The …
-
Instructional leadership of principals in high performing secondary schools in Cape Town, Western Cape
… secondary schools in the metropolitan area of Cape Town, Western Cape. A mixed methods design of quantitative and qualitative research was undertaken. For the quantitative phase, the Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale (PIMRS) was administered to 5 principals and 136 teachers. One …
-
Remote sensing evaluation of Cape parrot habitat in the Eastern Cape: implications for conservation
The Cape parrot is the only endemic parrot of South Africa and is currently nationally threatened. One of the biggest threats to the Cape parrot is the past and present degradation of indigenous forest. The Amathole Mistbelt Forest in the Eastern Cape is the primary habitat for Cape parrot and has …
-
Youth employment in the Cape Town area: Insights from the Cape Area Panel Study
… that affect employment among the youth in the Cape Town area. Using data from the 2002 and 2004 waves of the Cape Area Panel Study, cross-sectional and panel probit regressions have been employed to investigate the role of individual, household and schooling characteristics in the probability …
-
Road reconstruction in Cape Town
… and reconstruction needs for the City of Cape Town. The thesis thereby provides a summary of the historical and geological context of road construction in Cape Town and provides guidelines and information that can be used by rehabilitation engineers working in the Western Cape. It also …
-
Geomorphology of the Cape Peninsula
… on the other it looks at the contemporary landscape and the changes wrought through time. The writer is of the opinion that the past cannot be ignored, since the present physical landscape can be explained only in the context of geomorphic evolution. This is generally acceptable since today is …
-
Cape Town Central Fire Station
The fire service is unique in providing for the whole community a form of protection that is beneficial to all. It does not serve any one group of people to the detriment of others, nor can it be manipulated to further political ends. It is an organisation with a highly developed sense of honour, …
-
Economic growth in Cape Town : An assessment and redirection of Cape Town's Spatial Development Framework
A challenge presented to city planners in Cape Town concerns the need to remedy spatial injustices and economic inequalities polarizing the city’s population. However, the current SDF does not sufficiently establish that the Voortrekker Road Corridor is the likely location for Cape Town's future …
-
The effect of development on seasonal wetlands on the Cape Flats, Western Cape, South Africa
… limnologist, Miss Edith Stephens described the Cape Flats as "a paradise for the aquatic biologist". At that time the area was characterised by numerous temporary or seasonal wetlands that filled and dried in concert with the seasons. Since Miss Stephen's observations, the number of seasonal …
-
Fighting for the spoils : Cape burgerschap and faction disputes in Cape Town in the 1770s
The Cape of Good Hope was rocked by a period of political turmoil at the end of the 1770s and beginning of 1780s. Coenraad Beyers published an extensive study about this period and labelled the protesters: Cape Patriots ("Die Kaapse Patriotte"). In his view they were pre-Afrikaner burghers who, …
-
Planning in Cape Towns interstices: case studies of informal land occupations in Cape Town, South Africa
… residents to claim and sustain urban spaces in Cape Town, South Africa? To answer this question, the research employed the case study and discourse analysis methods. The four cases for this research were located in Green Point, Woodstock, and Khayelitsha. Fourteen (14) semi-structured interviews …
-
30 day outcomes of 1000 consecutive laparoscopic cholecystectomies across four Cape Metropole hospitals in Cape Town
… across four metropole hospitals in the Western Cape (WC) including mortality, length of stay, readmissions and complications according to the Clavien-Dindo Classification system. Methods: A retrospective review of a prospective database was performed. The data collection was collected between …
-
Registered and Unregistered Early Childhood Development Centres in the Cape Flats, Cape Town: Challenges and Opportunities
… Early Childhood Development Centres in the Cape Flats, Cape Town. This study collected data through face-to-face, semi-structured interviews. A non-probability, purposive sample of twenty ECD principals was selected to take part in this study. The main objective was to understand the context …
-
Investigating seismicity in Cape Town: implications for active fault lines in the Western Cape, South Africa
… cite a possible 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Cape Town in 1809. On September 29, 1969, a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the Ceres-Tulbagh region, less than 100 km from the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station (KNPS) in Cape Town. Previous studies have found a relationship between enhanced …
-
Variability of Aloin in Cape aloes
"Abstract not copied"
-
The Greek family in Cape Town
… has on the structure of the Greek family in Cape Town, the impact on the functions which the family fulfils in the socialisation of the children, and on the family's social influence on the intergenerational relationship. The study will focus on the Greeks of rural origin, as most of the …
Page 1 of 402