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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Coloured community"”.
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Sociophonetics and class differentiation: A study of working- and middle- class English in Cape Town's coloured community
… evident in the monophthongal vowel system of Coloured South African English in Cape Town. The changes are largely a result of South Africa's post-apartheid socio-educational reform. A detailed acoustic description highlights the most salient changes (compared with earlier reports of the …
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The development of the coloured community Genadendal under the influence of the missionaries of the Unitas Fratrum 1792 - 1892
… of the influence of the Missionaries on the Coloured people at the Cape in the nineteenth century; to describe the impact of Christianity on Single social unit, which was a fusion of primitive Hottentot and slave elements, subject to strung Euro-pean (white) pressure, both economic and …
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Sitting on the fence or walking a tightrope? : a political history of the coloured community in Zimbabwe, 1945-1980
This thesis examines the political history of the Coloured community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalised in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. The specific focus of the thesis is on the evolution of …
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Exploring social identity through theatre : an examination of the process of creating Jingle Dreams with youth in the coloured community of Clanwilliam
… It aims to ascertain whether the processes of Community Theatre drama create opportunities for the individuals in the identified community to explore a social identity influenced by historical legacy, heritage, memory (or absence thereof) and socio-economic environment. The intention of the …
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Os percelie die valley, We rule this place : coloured identity and religious diversity in Cape Town
The significance of religoin within the Cape-coloured community in the twentieth-century forms the primary subject of this thesis. It analyses the relationship between the practice of coloured identity and notions of the city, as well as the city's bearing on the expression of coloured identity.
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Changing sociolinguistic identities of young, middle-class 'Coloured' people in post-apartheid Cape Town
… change amongst a group of young, middle-class coloured people who were educated in a predominantly white school environment. The demise of the apartheid system in the early 1990s led to a situation in which racial mixing in government-run schools was permitted for the first time. I conducted …
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Changing sociolinguistic identities of young, middle-class 'Coloured' people in post-apartheid Cape Town
… change amongst a group ofyoung, middle-class coloured people who were educated in a predominantly white school environment. The demise of the apartheid system in the early 1990s led to a situation in which racial mixing in government-run schools was permitted for the first time. I conducted …
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Skinner stories : a community's perspective on the representation of coloured people today
This work investigates the meanings coloured people derive from media representations of' colouredness'. To position coloured identity in post apartheid South Africa, it pays close attention to the ways apartheid stereotypes play themselves out in particularly television media today. It looks at …
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Maternal, infant and placental size at birth : a study of firstborn, term infants and their mothers in Cape Town
… their infants and placentas born at term in the Coloured community of Cape Town. It also explored the relationship between maternal, infant and placental size at birth. One thousand nine hundred and fifty seven firstborn infants delivered at term to Coloured women by the Peninsula Maternity …
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Trainable mental retardation in the Coloured and Black communities of Cape Town : prevalence and provision of services
… of trainable mental retardation in the Coloured and Black communities of Cape Town; estimates the present shortfall in facilities provided; and discusses implications of present conditions for the future provision of a comprehensive service network. Information regarding prevalence is …
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Prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in the adult population of Mamre : an empirical and methodological investigation
A broad age-range community study was undertaken to estimate the base-line prevalence of mental disorder in the adult population of Mamre. The study further undertook to investigate a possible association between mental disorder and specified socio-demographic variables; to obtain basic information …
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Hope, fear, shame, frustration : continuity and change in the expression of coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994
This thesis examines the ways in which Coloured identity manifested itself in South African society from the time the South African state was formed in 1910 till the institution of democratic rule in 1994. The central argument of the dissertation is that Coloured identity is better understood, not …
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Explanatory models of illness amongst primary health care users in Mamre
… primary health care settings in Mamre, a small "coloured" community approximately 50km from Cape Town, with the aim of investigating the possible contribution of psychological factors to presentation for primary health care. It also attempts to investigate how, psychologically, we may understand …
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From surviving to thriving: strategies to navigate postgraduate education for academic womxn of colour in the design field in South Africa
… racial groups in South Africa, such as the Coloured community. However, the struggles encountered by womxn of colour during their postgraduate studies remain underexplored. This study investigates the challenges faced by womxn of colour in design education, a discipline well known for its …
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Haram Means Forbidden
… of a gay Muslim subculture prevalent in a Cape Coloured community. There are less than twenty novels around the world that with the specific topic of the intersectionality of the religion of Islam and Homosexuality, and out of those twenty stories, none have a South African setting, despite …
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The Goffal Speaks: Coloured Ideology and the Perpetuation of a Category in Postcolonial Zimbabwe
Significant changes for the Coloured community have occurred and continue to occur as a result of an ever-changing political landscape in Zimbabwe. These changes reveal a group consciousness or ideology that often translates into daily practices of methods of inclusion and exclusion based on ethnic …
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Race, housing and town planning in Cape Town, c.1920-1940 : with special reference to District Six
… those citizens (in this instance members of the Coloured community) who could not afford to home themselves. The onus to provide such housing in urban areas rested upon the local authority in terms of the Housing Act No. 35 of 1920. The 'racial factor' is put into context, the thesis maintaining …
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The effect of a sports-based HIVv prevention programme on HIV risk related behaviours among high school learners
… made up of two high schools in a predominantly “Coloured” community in Ceres. Two classes each were randomly selected from grades 8-10 in both intervention and control school. The intervention was developed through a process of focus group discussions with the Grassroot Soccer (GRS) staff and it …
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The notion of reconciliation as part of the emerging coloured identity
… striving for unity and reconciliation, black and coloured Christians, however, were unanimous in their rejection of cheap reconciliation without justice. Since this country's first democratic elections in April 1994, South Africa has had to face many new challenges to the democratic process. One …
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Current manifestation of trauma experienced during forced removals under apartheid: interviews with a former �VLAKTE� inhabitant
… about the trauma of losing one�s home, one�s community and rebuilding one�s life in a new environment. Several books have been published tracking the lives of the forcibly removed and their responses to leaving District Six. My research focuses on a different group namely those who had been …