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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"white South Africans"”.
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White talk : white South Africans and the strategic management of diasporic whiteness
This dissertation examines resistant whiteness in the context of post-apartheid South Africa. Situating white South Africans as part of the powerful racial dispersal of Europe formed as a result of colonial expansion, it argues that since democracy, which has placed white South Africans in a weak …
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Investigation of the crystallisation inhibitory properties of albumin isolated from the urine of Black and White South Africans
Stone incidence in South African blacks is extremely rare. The hypothesis to be tested is whether this apparent immunity can be attributed to the presence of more potent inhibitors of calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystallisation in urine from blacks compared to those occurring in the urine of white …
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Not Making Big Rocks Small: Decolonising and Queering the Archive through Personal Narrative in the Film Essay
… space, I hope to start a conversation about how white South Africans can reimagine their role within the decolonisation project as one that is active, present and uncomfortable.
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The lived experience of being privileged as a white English-speaking young adult in post-apartheid South Africa: a phenomenological study
… addressing racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa, white South Africans are, in many repects, still privileged, economically, in terms of access to services, land, education and particularly in the case of English-speaking whites, language. This study is an exploration of everyday …
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The Border and Beyond : an analysis of the post-Border War discourses of families of ex-SADF soldiers
… of soldiers who fought in some capacity for the South African Defence Force (SADF) in Namibia and/or Angloa during the 1970s and 1980s. The sample for this study comprised one male and 14 female participants, all white South Africans between the ages of approximately 30 to 70 years. All …
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Facebook's ‘white genocide' problem: a sociotechnical exploration of problematic information, shareability, and social correction in a South African context
A relatively small, but highly visible group of South Africans believe that farm attacks/murders (and other crimes against whites) constitute a targeted ‘white genocide'. Their beliefs have found support and corroboration in various online spaces, but especially within ‘alternative news' Facebook …
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A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)
COSAWR consisted mainly of white male South Africans who avoided whites-only conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF) by going into exile in Britain and the Netherlands. COSAWR was founded in 1978 with the assistance of the African National Congress (ANC) and the British …
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Women academics in engineering : reasons for commitment to the field
… in the study. All of the participants were White South Africans whose ages ranged between 22-45 years old, with an average participant age of 34 years. The participants had participated in academia from between 1-14 years, with an average participation in academia of 4 years. All …
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Property, Place, and Politics: Essays on the Political Economy of Land in South Africa
… civic virtues through the case of South Africa’s free housing program. Drawing on a large survey from the country’s most populous province, I find the anticipated correlation between owneroccupancy and higher participation. Moreover, my results indicate that housing beneficiaries …
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The prevalence of rheumatic disease in a rural Coloured population in Namaqualand
… been undertaken in the Coloured population of South Africa. As a group they are genetically heterogenous and in comparative medicine they have tended to occupy an intermediate position between Black and White South Africans. A study of the nature and extent of rheumatic disease in this …
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
… in the life histories of four multilingual white South African men, who became fluent in the African language of isiXhosa in the racially-divided world of Apartheid South Africa, at a time when law and policy made fluency in an African language unusual for whites. Theories used within the …
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Fuelling the Fire: The effects of Instagram discourse about farm attacks on levels of fear of crime and victimisation
Farm attacks are a contentious issue in South African crime discourse. 1 Despite having similar characteristics to home invasions or hijackings in urban areas, popular and academic narratives around farm attacks are woven with broader concerns relating to identity politics, land restitution, …
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That night, this life: essays from a South African story
… man in his neighbourhood bar in East London, South Africa. He is Neville Beling, 20 years old that night and one of seven survivors permanently disabled while five others were shot dead. At the time, South Africa was in turmoil as its leaders negotiated a complex transition to democracy. Yet, …
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Shadow and Shade : an evaluation of buildings and space in the East Rand town of Springs in South Africa
… ended and democracy was introduced into South Africa a complaint of many white people is that, while democracy is laudable, what is shocking is that in many cities the ‘white’ or ‘European’ heritage, and by this they mean the buildings, are being destroyed. I have visited Johannesburg and …
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Probiotics for the management of kidney stone disease
… in the management of kidney stone disease. In South Africa, kidney stones are more prevalent in the white than in the black population, despite the latter having a diet that puts them at greater risk of developing kidney stones. It was, therefore, postulated in this study that differences in …
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Globalisation versus internal development: the reverse short front vowel shift in South African English
The South African Chain Shift involved the raising of the short front vowels KIT, DRESS and TRAP when compared to Received Pronunciation (Lass & Wright 1986). This raising wasparticularly evident in the speech of middle class white speakers of South African English, as well as coloured speakers in …
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An automated computer-assisted approximation of the nose in South Africans from CBCT (Cone Beam Computed Tomography) scans
Each year in the Gauteng province of South Africa, approximately 1300 bodies are incinerated without a known identity (Bloom, 2015; Krüger et al., 2018). Because of various socio-economic reasons, identification is not always possible with conventional methods such as DNA comparisons and …
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Accessing green space in Cape Town : a case study of public perceptions of green space and barriers of access in eight nature reserves and conservation areas within Cape Town
… a pertinent topic of interest. In Cape Town, South Africa, a city of immense biodiversity and unique spatial development, the issue of accessing urban green spaces is particularly important. Environmental and ecological advocates call for conservation of green space, to preserve the rare …
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White writings : colonialism and modernism in South African literature since 1970
… a significant body of the literary activity of white South Africans since the 1970s can be characterised as a form of modernism. This characterisation devolves less upon the formal attributes of a body of literary writing than upon the particular position it occupies In the cultural sphere …
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The study of independent African migrant women in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) : their lives and work experiences
African migration to South Africa is not a recent phenomenon bu in recent history, dates back to about one hundred and fifty years when African men migrated from some southern African countries to work in the South African mines. During this period however, the apartheid regime restricted African …
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