UWC Spring Graduation 2024 | 09H30

MISSION STATEMENT

The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition.

MESSAGE FROM THE CHANCELLOR

Dear Graduands,

Welcome to this graduation ceremony! Today is all about you, our graduands—this is the day you have all been working towards. We, all of us in the university community, are filled with pride and gratitude, not just for you, but for everyone who has supported you along the way, especially your parents, guardians and other loved ones. Today marks the culmination of years of dedication, hard work and perseverance. Congratulations on your achievement!

But now you may ask, what comes next? Some of you may already have an answer to that question. Perhaps you have secured a job, taken the first steps in a profession, or are planning to continue your studies. For others, the future may still be taking shape. No matter what path you choose, I encourage you to recognise the tremendous significance of what you have accomplished here at UWC. Transitioning from a UWC student to a UWC graduate is no easy task, and your success today should be a source of pride as you look forward to the future. As you sit here in the Jakes Gerwel Hall, take a moment to think back on your journey. Remember that first day on campus, the nerves before your first lecture, and the challenges you faced along the way. There were probably times when you wondered if all the effort would be worth it. But look at you now, donning your cap and gown, standing tall as proof that determination and hard work truly do pay off

As you step into the future, remember the lessons you learned during your studies. The perseverance and resilience you have developed will serve you well, no matter which path you choose. The world you are entering is full of possibilities, and it needs people like you—driven by passion, guided by integrity, and committed to making a positive impact. Always remember, the spirit of Ubuntu is at the heart of UWC. Our humanity is interconnected, and we are at our best when we work together for the greater good. You are not just graduates of a university; you are ambassadors of a shared mission to create a more just and equitable world.

Congratulations once again on your extraordinary achievement. We are incredibly proud of you, and we are excited to see the difference you will make in the world.

THE MOST REVEREND DR THABO CECIL MAKGOBA UWC CHANCELLOR

Dear Graduands,

MESSAGE FROM THE RECTOR

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Today’s graduation ceremony at the University of the Western Cape is more than just a celebration of your academic success; it is also a powerful testimony to your determination and resilience. As we reflect on the uncertainty that we all faced just a few years ago, it is even more meaningful that we are here today, in person, celebrating your achievements. The obstacles you have encountered—whether adapting to new ways of learning or navigating a rapidly changing world—have only made you stronger.

This adaptability has also been mirrored by UWC itself, as the university continues to push boundaries and forge new paths. From our pioneering research in sustainable development and renewable energy to expanding our global partnerships, we have solidified our position as a leader in addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues. Our campus is a hub of innovation, where ideas are not just confined to paper but are transformed into actions that make a tangible difference. As you stand on the brink of the next chapter of your life, take with you the lessons you have learned here at UWC. You have shown that you can thrive in the face of adversity, and this strength will serve you well in the years to come. Remember, the knowledge and skills you have gained here are not just for your benefit—they are tools that you can use to contribute to a better, more just world. My message to you is this: whatever path you choose, follow your passion, even when the road seems winding. Work hard, enjoy the journey, and stay alert to the changes in the world around you—they bring new opportunities, but also challenges. Keep your mind open to the possibilities that lie ahead.

One last thing—graduation doesn’t necessarily mean goodbye. As UWC alumni, I hope that you will stay connected to UWC—your alma mater. UWC will always be a place where extraordinary and diverse people come together, so make the most of the opportunities to remain active and engaged in our community. We are incredibly proud of each and every one of you. Step forward with confidence, knowing that you have the tools, the support, and the determination to succeed.

Congratulations, and I wish you well on your journey ahead!

PROF. TYRONE PRETORIUS RECTOR AND VICE-CHANCELLOR

UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE FACTS AND FIGURES

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HISTORIC MILESTONES

UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE

1960: The University College of the Western Cape opens its doors.

1970: The institution gains independent university status and is allowed to award its own degrees and diplomas.

1975: Prof Richard van der Ross is appointed as UWC’s first black Rector.

1978: UWC’s Cape Flats Nature Reserve is declared a National Monument (now known as a provincial heritage site).

1987: New Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Jakes Gerwel, declares UWC as the ‘university of the left’. The University deracialises and opens its doors to African students.

UWC inaugurates its longest-serving Chancellor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who would serve for more than 25 years.

1990: UWC becomes the first university to award the late President Mandela an honorary doctorate upon his release from prison.

1994: Many academics from UWC join President Mandela’s government and are appointed to ministerial and advisory positions, including its Rector, Prof Gerwel, who became the Director-General in the Presidency.

UWC’s leadership takes part in writing the higher education policy for the incoming government. The South African interim Constitution and final Constitution are drafted at UWC.

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1995: UWC launches its first website – joining the internet age before other universities in the Mother City.

UWC launches the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) to engage in research, training, policy development and advocacy in relation to land reform, rural governance and natural resource management.

2002: Under the leadership of Rector and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Brian O’Connell, UWC successfully resists being merged. Instead, its Dentistry Faculty is merged with that of the University of Stellenbosch, making UWC the only dentistry faculty in the Western Cape.

2010: 10 SARChI chairs awarded to UWC, the highest number awarded to any university in SA that year (as of 2018, UWC hosts 17 SARChI Chairs).

2012: UWC launches its Technology Transfer Office to help promote the development and protection of the intellectual property of the University’s research community, staff and students.

UWC is declared Africa’s Greenest Campus in the inaugural African Green Campus Initiative Challenge.

2013: UWC signs the Berlin Declaration on Open Access in the Sciences and Humanities, joining hundreds of institutions around the world dedicated to supporting the principles of open access and working to achieve openness in publicly funded projects.

HISTORIC MILESTONES

UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE

2015: Prof Tyrone Pretorius is inaugurated as the new Rector and Vice-Chancellor.

2016: UWC’s Centre for Humanities Research is awarded the Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities by the NRF.

UWC is ranked number 1 in Physical Science – not just in South Africa, but for Africa as a whole – in the 2016 Nature Index.

2017: A group of UWC students, led by Prof Nico Orce, conduct the second major African-led experiment at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland.

UWC’s former Vice-Chancellor, Prof Brian O’Connell, receives the National Research Foundation’s highest honour, the NRF Lifetime Achievement Award.

2018: The Faculty of Dentistry launches a state-of-the-art video conferencing system that allows students to watch live surgeries in class or at home – a first for South Africa.

2019: UWC Rugby makes its historical debut in the Varsity Cup, by becoming the first team from an historically disadvantaged institution to qualify for the competition.

2020: UWC’s South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI), in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), sequenced the first SARS-COV-2 genome in South Africa, providing a

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genetic “fingerprint” helped us understand - and contain - the spread of COVID-19.

UWC celebrates its 60th anniversary.

2022: Professor Russell H Kaschula is appointed as the Research Chair in Forensic Linguistics and Multilingualism – a first in Africa.

The UWC Main Hall is renamed the Jakes Gerwel Hall to honour this iconic leader.

2023: Professor Marion Keim is appointed as the UNESCO Chair for Sport, Development, Peace and Olympic Education – the first ever awarded UNESCO Chair in Sport in Africa

Four significant infrastructure projects are completed in 2022 and 2023, including the Education Faculty building on the main campus, the 2700-bed Unibell Residence complex in Belhar, the Centre for Humanities Research building in Woodstock, and the UWC Innovation Hub in Parow.

2024: The first year of the full implementation of the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Programme, which provides full bursaries to 250 undergraduate and 250 Master’s students as part of a seven-year agreement.

OFFICE BEARERS

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CHANCELLOR

The Most Reverend Dr TC Makgoba (PhD, Doctorate of Divinity: Hon. Causa)

CHAIR OF COUNCIL

Ms X Daku (LLM, EMBA, MCom)

RECTOR AND VICE-CHANCELLOR

Prof TB Pretorius (BA, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, DPhil)

VICE-RECTORS & DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLORS

Prof S Pather (Acting) (FDE Cmp. Sc., PGDPA, AUDPA, MPA, D.Tech (Information Technology))

Prof J Frantz (BSc, MSc, PhD)

Prof M Madiba (BA (Paed), B.Ed (Hons), B.Ed (Hons), BA (Hons) (English), MA Linguistics (Applied Studies), PhD)

REGISTRAR

Dr N Lawton-Misra (BA, BEd, MEd (Educational Psychology), PhD (Educational Psychology))

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

Mr ME Magida (BProc, LLB, LLM)

Mr M Regal (BCom (Hons), CA (SA), M Dev Studies)

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE DEANS

Prof MK Ralarala (HDE (Arts); BA (Hons); MA; DLitt; PhD)

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Prof A Padmanabhanunni (BA Hons (Psych), MA (Counselling Psych), PhD)

Prof V Yengopal (BChD, BSc (Hons), PGDip, MChD, PhD)

Prof MV Esau (BAdmin, BAdmin (Hons), MAdmin, PhD)

Prof R Govender (BSc; BSc Honours (Mathematics); MEd and PHD (Mathematics Education))

Prof JR De Ville (BCom, LLB, LLD)

Prof D Holgate (BSc, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD)

20 SEPTEMBER 2024 | 09H30 PROGRAMME

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

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FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

FACULTY OF LAW

ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS

1. Academic Procession

(THE AUDIENCE IS REQUESTED TO STAND AS THE PROCESSION ENTERS THE HALL)

2. The Chancellor / Vice-Chancellor constitutes the congregation

3. National Anthem

4. Prayer

5. Address: SRC

6. Address: Rector and Vice-Chancellor

7. Item in song

8. Presentation of Graduands to the Chancellor / Vice-Chancellor

9. The Chancellor / Vice-Chancellor dissolves the congregation

10. The Academic Procession leaves the hall

NB: THE AUDIENCE IS REQUESTED TO REMAIN STANDING UNTIL THE PROCESSION HAS LEFT THE HALL.

TIME AND VENUE

GRADUATION CEREMONY 20 SEPTEMBER 2024 (FRIDAY)

UWC CAMPUS 09H30

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

NATIONAL ANTHEM

Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika Maluphakanyisw’ uphondo lwayo, Yizwa imithandazo yethu, Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo.

Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso, O fedise dintwa le matshwenyeho, O se boloke, O se boloke setjhaba sa heso, Setjhaba sa South Afrika – South Afrika.

Uit die blou van onse hemel, Uit die diepte van ons see, Oor ons ewige gebergtes, Waar die kranse antwoord gee,

Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

SALEH ALI ABDULNABI ABDULNABI

Department: FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Supervisor: PROF T MOHAMMED

Thesis:

Cohesion and Coherence in Ibrahim Al-Koni ‘s Narratives Discourse with Special Reference to Al-Bahth ‘an al-mak n al-dh yie [In Search of the Lost Place]: A Text-linguistics Approach

Description:

The study, titled Cohesion and Coherence in Ibrahim Al-Koni’s Narrative Discourse with Special Reference to Al-Bahth an al-Makan al-Dhaya [In Search of the Lost Place]: A Text-Linguistic Approach, employs the frameworks of text linguistics, with a particular focus on the concepts of cohesion and coherence as defined by De Beaugrande and Dressler (De Beaugrande and Dressler, 1981), alongside principles from Classical Arabic Rhetoric. Through an analysis of these elements, the dissertation reveals how Al-Koni’s narrative style, characterized by a sophisticated blend of stylistic and rhetorical techniques, distinguishes his work from that of other Arab novelists. The dissertation serves as a bridge between classical Arabic rhetorical traditions and contemporary linguistic theories, providing valuable insights into Al-Koni’s literary contributions and enriching the broader field of Arabic narrative studies.

NFORH ANTHONY AMBE

Department: HISTORICAL STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF S PILLAY

Thesis: Southern Cameroons: Fifty five years of subtle violence and subjugation, 1961-2016

Description:

The Southern Cameroons question which has come to be known as the ‘Anglophone problem’ has drawn international attention as a result of the physical and ‘spectacular’ violence that have recently engulfed the region. Central and essential to this study is the concept of subtle violence which is regarded as injury by infringement. This study investigates how subtle violence was generated in Southern Cameroons (Anglophone Cameroon) because of the reunification of Southern Cameroons and the Republic of Cameroon (Francophone Cameroon) from 1961-2016 and how this led to the physical and spectacular violence the region has been experiencing since advent of democracy and multiparty politics in the 1990s. The concept of subtle violence as applied in this study extends our understanding of this major crisis.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

INGABIRE CLEMENCE

Department: LINGUISTICS

Supervisor: PROF B ANTIA

Thesis:

Defining as an academic speech act in Linguistics and Medical Biosciences: An academic literacies study of textbooks and assessment tasks

Description:

Definitions are the focus of the dissertation by Ingabire Clémence. She establishes ‘defining’ as an important academic speech act which has received short shrift, with demonstrable negative consequences for student success. To unpack the multiple dimensions of definitions, she compares this speech act in the textbooks and assessment tasks of two disciplines, namely, medical biosciences and linguistics. The analysis is at once novel and eclectic, drawing as it does on philosophical and terminological traditions to defining, as well as on speech act theory, legitimation code theory, systemic functional linguistics and the academic literacies model. She then uses the insights to propose a curriculum and a pedagogy for definitions.

MLAMLI DIKO

Department: AFRICAN LANGUAGE STUDIES

Supervisor: DR S MOKAPELA

Thesis:

Uhlahlubonzulu lwempophomobuciko yale mihla kwiinoveli zesiXhosa: ‘Ukhozi Olumaphiko, Umlimandlela, Inkululeko Isentabeni noLibambe Lingatshoni’

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Olu phandonzulu lusebenzisa uncwadi njengenyathelo lokufumanela isiXhosa indawo kubunzululwazi bophando ngokuswaya kwiinqobo ezityekele kwifuthe laseNtshona elibunyevulelayo ubuAfrika kwanobunkcubekontlalo bamaAfrika. Iimbonobunzululwazi ezisetyenzisiweyo zezityhila ubunkunkqele bamaAfrika bokusebenzisa uncwadi lomlomo ekuqinisekiseni ucwango nobuntu kwimonkcubekontlalo kaNtu. Oku kudandalaziswe ngokusebenzisa izithako zobunzululwazi bamaAfrika, obenkumbulo, obenkcubekontlalo nezopolitiko kwanobamasiko nezithethe. Olu phandonzulu lubhentsisa ubuchule boncwadi ekubhentsiseni imiba yemontlalo-politiko, ezoqoqosho, ulwimi kwanamava asenokuba libali elifihlwe kwimbali okanye imbali eqhushekwe kwibali. Olu phandonzulu lufundisa ngobunkunkqele oboyame kubuAfrika bokunambitha uncwadi lwamaAfrika.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

TAMANTHA ANNE HAMMERSCHLAG

Department: ENGLISH

Supervisor: PROF J MOOLMAN

Thesis:

The Book of Abandoned Titles: an original novel and a critical reflection on the translation of character in select works of Jean Rhys and Marguerite Duras

Description:

Ms Tamantha Hammerschlag’s PhD thesis in English Studies was researched through a Practice-Based Methodology. Ms Hammerschlag wrote an experimental work of fiction, The Book of Abandoned Titles, which manipulates a transitional and unreliable representation of character in order to explore contemporary notions of genre, narrative voice, autobiography and post-colonialism. The novel was accompanied by an extended critical reflection on the translation of character in select works by authors Jean Rhys and Marguerite Duras.

FAKHRI HASSAN

Department: FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Supervisor: DR M SAIDI

Thesis:

A critical and an analytical study of Sadeq Al-Naihoum’s novel Min Makkah ila Huna (from Mecca to here): Deconstructive and structural approaches

Description:

This study attaches great importance to the literary and artistic value of the narrative discourse of the Libyan author, Sadeq Al-Naihoum, in his novel, Min Makkah il Hun, by relying on the mechanisms of both the structural and deconstructive approaches, in order to decipher the hieroglyphs and ciphers of the text, and extrapolate its implications and semantic dimensions. Moreover the study also investigates the transformations of the meaning of the text between the structuralism and deconstructive theories and monitors the relationship between the novel and the reader and the interaction between them.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

MOHAMMED LUQMAAN KAGEE

Department: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Supervisor: DR M SAIDI

Co-supervisor: PROF E CONRADIE

Thesis:

The concept of tolerance in the Chishti Sufi Order

Description:

This study explores the concept of tolerance as emphasised in the rich tapestry of Islamic teachings. A panoramic history is provided on tolerance in religious legislation, as well as in philosophical thought. Thereafter, the study conducts an analysis of tolerance in the Chishtī Ṣūfī Order, one of the main Ṣūfī orders in Islam. The utterances, spiritual discourses, and poems of saints of the Order are examined so that an appreciation may be gained of the ways in which the notion of tolerance has been understood by them. An exploration is also done of tolerance versus intolerance in contemporary discourse.

KOKETSO ORTHILIA KAPA

Department: LINGUISTICS

Supervisor: PROF A PECK

Co-supervisor: PROF C STROUD

Thesis:

(Em)bodying the linguistic landscape: Affect, language and space

Description:

This study explores the contemporary discussion of the body in sociolinguistics. It focuses on three unique ‘bodily’ case studies made prominent in the South African media landscape during 2016 – 2018, specifically, the Three Naked Women during #FMF, #KasiMlungu and #menaretrash. The study uses a qualitative research design to investigate these three cases, utilising multimodal critical discourse analysis as the primary analytical framework. Through these case studies, Koki shows how inequality is experienced as an embodied phenomenon and often inequitably expressed through the media. Notably, while the authoring of the body shows agency, the reading of the body shows the limits of agency. The findings contribute to the fields of multimodal studies, linguistic landscape, linguistic citizenship and gender studies.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

RIVALANI MALULEKE

Department: LINGUISTICS

Supervisor: PROF F BANDA

Thesis:

Morphosyntactic Patterns in Xitsonga: Focus on Verbal Extensions

Description:

The study was an extensive descriptive analysis of the morpho-phonological and syntactic features of Xitsonga to gain new theoretical insights and contribute to language documentation and development. Drawing insights from comparative Bantu studies and using elicitation and document analysis methods, the study provided a comprehensive analysis of a selection of ten Xitsonga verbal extensions. One of the key findings was that some combinations of Xitsonga verbal extensions did not adhere to the expected pattern suggested by scholarship for Bantu languages. The study contributes to developing and documenting the Xitsonga language in both its spoken and written forms, and for teaching and learning in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and other countries where related varieties are spoken.

MARY MBEWE

Department: HISTORICAL STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF P HAYES

Co-supervisor: PROF C RASSOOL

Thesis:

From chisungu to the museum: a historical ethnography of the images, objects and anthropological texts of the chisungu female initiation ceremony in the Moto Moto Museum in Zambia, 1931 to 2016

Description:

Mary Mbewe makes a radical contribution to museum studies and the history of anthropology in Africa. With close archival reading, astute conceptual tools and bold methodological use of photographs, Mbewe is able to analyse the violent modes of knowledge extraction that in turn feed into ongoing epistemic problems in the contemporary museum system that present artifacts as authentic, transparent and ahistorical. Her tracking of the history of initiation and the changes it underwent in both colonial and postcolonial periods centres on female empowerment and disempowerment, where coercive collecting practices deepened the desacralisation of female-oriented practices and artifacts especially in a context of Zambia’s nationalist repression of therapeutic insurgency.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

JOHANNES CORNELIS MOUTON

Department: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF E CONRADIE

Thesis:

Facing the image in the mirror: Whiteness in South African missional discourse

Description:

A core assumption in missional theology is that messengers may become the uneasy recipients of their own message. In England and the United States this means that missional churches are confronted with their tacit legitimation of the dominant culture. Missional theology oddly became popular in the South African context after 1994. In this study Mouton (a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church) bravely observes that churches that use missional for self-description need to face the image in the mirror. Whiteness remains the proverbial elephant in the room. He identifies eight aspects of the concept of whiteness and uses that as lenses to analyse how South African missional discourse (fail to) address these. He concludes that such churches indeed do not understand their own message yet.

JOLYN PHILLIPS

Department: ENGLISH

Supervisor: PROF J MOOLMAN

Co-supervisor: PROF A SAMUEL

Thesis:

Bientang’s Cave: A Trans-disciplinary study of marginality in the Epic in Afrikaans

Description:

Ms Jolyn Phillips’ PhD thesis in English Studies was researched through a Practice-Based Methodology. Her thesis, Bientang’s Cave: A Trans-disciplinary Study of Marginality in the Epic in Afrikaans, included an award-winning counter-Epic poem in Afrikaans about a marginalised woman known as Bientang who was a Khoisan in the coastal region of the Southern Cape, near Hermanus. Ms Phillips’ thesis included a dramatic interpretation of her poem, a translation into English as well as a critical study of the epic literary tradition in select twentieth century Afrikaans poems.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

PHOKENG TSHEPO SETAI

Department: ANTHROPOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF K GILLESPIE

Thesis:

Contemporary Black African curatorial practice: three biographic studies in strategy

Description:

Phokeng Setai’s PhD charts the rise of Black African curators since the first international art biennial in sub-Saharan Africa in 1990. Accompanying the ‘meteoric rise of contemporary African art’, African curators have become important practitioners in repositioning African aesthetics in the wake of the colonial project. Setai analyses the lives and work of three contemporary Black African curators: Koyo Kouoh, Ntone Edjabe and Gabi Ngcobo. He situates their work in the lineage of the explosive PanAfricanist, anticolonial arts festivals on the continent during the 1960s and 70s, but also in a close reading of their own biographies. The study suggests that several strategies can be read from their practice, including critical translation, self-organisation, black kinship work and ukuphanta.

WARRICK RICHARD SWINNEY

Department: ENGLISH

Supervisor: PROF J MOOLMAN

Thesis:

Signal to noise: Sonic reflections on the South African transition period (1984-1998)

Description:

Mr Warrick Swinney’s PhD thesis in English Studies was researched through a PracticeBased Methodology. His thesis, Signal To Noise: sonic reflections on the South African transition period, is a memoir of his involvement with Shifty Studios, a small independent mobile recording studio in Johannesburg, between 1983 and 1997, which produced a range of influential anti-apartheid musicians from Vusi Mahlasela and Sankomota to Mzwakhe Mbuli and Lesego Rampolokeng. The memoir is intertwined with a critical cultural study incorporating the fields of music, sound, biography, history and literature.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

MENZI ZAMOKWAKHE THANGO

Department: AFRICAN LANGUAGE STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF R KASCHULA

Thesis:

An analysis of official language policies and their relationship to everyday language use in multilingual bank settings in the Free State Province

Description:

This thesis suggests that language used by Free State Province banks in their signage and official documents such as loan contracts, are written in English, whereas the majority of customers are speakers of African languages. The thesis submits that the current language situation in the Free State Province banks indicates that banks adopt monolingual language policies. This goes against the constitutional mandate and the language policy of the Provincial Government, which asserts that the official languages are Afrikaans, English, Sesotho, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Setswana. The thesis recommends that banks must respect and abide by the laws of this country. They must address the issue of all official languages to be incorporated and used as the languages of business and communication.

HELGARD MICHAEL JANSE VAN RENSBURG

Department: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF E CONRADIE

Thesis:

From omega to alpha: A critical analysis of theistic evolution in the theology of Ted Peters

Description:

Michael Janse van Rensburg is a layperson in the Assemblies of God – where he encountered the divisiveness caused by creationism. Engaging with creationism led him to the work of the Lutheran theologian Ted Peters (1941-). Peters is an influential exponent of theistic evolution – seeking to do justice to both the whole work of God and an evolutionary worldview. In this study Michael analyses four core aspects addressed by any form of theistic evolution, namely randomness, divine action, natural suffering and human uniqueness. He offers a typology on each of these aspects and then carefully analyses and assesses Peter’s position against this background. This provides a lucid way forward to assess other contributions to theistic evolution, not least within the Assemblies of God.

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

CASSANDRA ZETA CARELS

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF S SAVAHL

Co-supervisors: PROF M FLORENCE, PROF S ADAMS

Thesis:

Factors impacting on the relationship between alcohol consumption and risky sexual behaviour among young adults in the Western Cape

Description:

Ms Carels explored the significant public health issue of alcohol consumption and its association with risky sexual behaviour among young adults. Using a complex multi-methods design, she conducted an extensive systematic review, an in-depth qualitative study, and a quantitative survey. Her research revealed key individual and social factors driving these behaviours. Significantly, her study illuminated that these behaviours are artefacts of South Africa’s socio-historical context and subsequent experiences of intergenerational oppression. Her work contributes to our understanding of these complex issues and underscores the importance of targeted interventions to promote positive health behaviours among young adults. Her research exemplifies the highest standards of academic excellence.

SHARON JEMUTAI KIPLAGAT

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: PROF J PHILLIPS

Co-supervisor: DR T STEYL

Thesis:

The effectiveness of a school-based intervention programme to address non-communicable disease risk factors among high school learners in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

Description:

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death globally. Sharon Kiplagat developed, implemented and evaluated the effectiveness of a meticulously designed schoolbased health risk intervention addressing NCD risk factors among high school learners. Her four-phase study utilized a concurrent embedded strategy of mixed methods that enabled a thorough engagement with the research questions, thereby elevating the significance of the thesis conclusions. The 8-week intervention has shown a significant improvement in NCD knowledge, self-efficacy to refuse alcohol and tobacco, increased fruit intake, improved engagement in physical activity and the intention to live a healthy life. It serves as a platform for agencies to step to the fore in addressing NCD risk factors in Kenya.

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

DOCTOR’S

DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

FRANS LESETJA MANTHOSI

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SOCIAL WORK

DR S CARELSE

The development of guidelines for screening and pre-service training of prospective foster parents in a selected province in South Africa

Description:

Mr Manthosi explored the gap in research relating to screening and pre-service training (SPST) of prospective foster parents (PFP) in the Limpopo Province, South Africa. Policies pertaining to foster care from selected organisations were analysed, and two systematic reviews conducted, that informed the topics for focus groups with foster parents and experts in the field of child protection, resulting in guidelines for SPST of PFP in the selected province. These guidelines can be tailored to suit the context-specific needs for SPST of PFP in South Africa.

FARAI KEVIN MUNYAYI

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

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PROF B VAN WYK

Closing the HIV treatment gap: Developing interventions to improve treatment outcomes for unsuppressed adolescents in Windhoek, Namibia

Description:

In spite of rapid advances in treatment regimens and widespread roll-out of antiretroviral therapy globally, adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) struggle to attain treatment success in the form of viral suppression. Farai conducted a multi-phased, sequential mixed methods study to analyse the treatment gaps that lead to viral non-suppression in ALHIV in Windhoek, Namibia. His systematic review of interventions to improve viral non-suppression in ALHIV, analysis of routine health data, assessment of national policy, and in-depth qualitative studies revealed critical implementation gaps in treating ALHIV and gave rise to recommendations for improving the HIV programme and service delivery in Namibia. His doctoral work produced 7 peer-reviewed journal publications.

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

ZIZIPHO ZINTLE NGUZA

Department: SOCIAL WORK

Supervisor:

Thesis:

PROF M VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

Psychosocial support to social work students at previously disadvantaged universities

Description:

Framed in the holistic approach to education, this study explored academic and psychosocial challenges among student social workers at previously disadvantaged universities to identify support needed towards academic success and personal wellbeing. From a constructivist paradigm, the explanatory sequential mixed-method research approach was followed. Ninetynine students and 7 social work educators participated in a survey and focus group interviews. The findings emanated in a context and discipline-specific supported education framework that contribute to students’ personal and professional development, and academic success and completion of studies. A significant feature is that the framework includes educational and psychosocial needs of students, as well as required resources and role-players to support students effectively.

LAETITIA PERMALL

CENTRE FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND SOCIETY (CISCFS)

Supervisor: PROF N ROMAN

Thesis:

Fostering student success: Examining the interactive relationship between core beliefs, emotional intelligence, psychological wellbeing and academic achievement

Description:

Low graduation rates and excessive attrition present significant challenges to student success, especially for marginalised populations globally. Laetitia Permall investigated how core beliefs, emotional intelligence, and psychological well-being affect academic achievement to create an integrated model for student success. The model highlights the importance of emotional intelligence and underscores the need to include context, culture, and non-cognitive factors like spirituality, growth mindset, and multidimensional well-being. An integrated, holistic approach to student success is needed, advocating for transformation in teaching and learning practices, policy frameworks, and proactive support systems that partner with all students, as co-constructors of their success.

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

SHIRON JADE SEPTEMBER

CENTRE FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND SOCIETY (CISCFS)

Supervisor: PROF N ROMAN

Thesis:

The development of an ecological model examining the pathways of psychosocial risk and protective factors in Early Childhood Development

Description:

The first 2000 days of a child’s life significantly impact their development. Understanding risk and protective factors is crucial for optimal child development. Shiron September developed an ecological model to examine the pathways of psychosocial risk and protective factors in early childhood development, using a 3-phased sequential exploratory mixed methodology design. The model suggests complex dynamics shape developmental trajectories through direct and indirect effects across surrounding systems. The study provides comprehensive recommendations for holistic child development, emphasising early intervention, trauma-informed practices, family support, community partnerships, and rigorous research methodologies to improve child development outcomes across diverse populations and contexts.

GLORIA MUTIMBWA SISEHO

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR T MATHOLE

Co-supervisors: PROF D JACKSON, PROF N INDONGO

Thesis:

Developing strategies to improve the quality of facility based care during labour and childbirth

Description:

Gloria conducted a pre-post intervention study in a Namibian regional hospital to improve maternity unit quality of care. The study demonstrated that Every Mother Every Newborn (EMEN) assessment tools can reasonably measure quality standards for improving maternal and newborn care around childbirth. Women admitted to maternity wards were observed through admission, labour and delivery and maternity records were reviewed. Gloria found a hospital Maternal Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) quality improvement programme improved quality of care indicators and reduced stillbirths and newborn deaths. This work was the 1st in Namibia and the region to show improvements in mortality related to MPDSR programme introduction and is being cited to support MPDSR in Namibia and globally.

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

NESTO SALIA TARIMO

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: PROF J PHILLIPS

Thesis:

The development of a health promotion programme for clients with hypertension in Malawi

Description:

The high prevalence of hypertension exacts a tremendous public health burden. No contextually country-specific health promotion intervention exists for the management of hypertension in Malawi. Nesto’s study is the first health promotion programme developed for the management of hypertension in Malawi. He developed an iteratively designed health promotion programme in three rigorous phases of research. His use of the convergent parallel mixed method design enabled a comprehensive engagement with the research questions, thereby elevating the relevance of the thesis conclusions. The study findings can make a meaningful contribution to the management of hypertension in Malawi. It will be informative to the Ministry of Health and health care professionals working in healthcare facilities and community settings in Malawi. In addition to pharmacological management, it’s inclusion could curb the rise in hypertension.

VICTOIRE TICHA

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: PROF D PHETLHU

Co-supervisor: PROF M BIMEREW

Thesis:

Developing a training programme for nurses in the Khayelitsha health sub-district in Cape Town to improve adherence counselling for people co-infected with HIV and TB

Description:

This study aimed to develop a training programme for nurses to improve adherence counselling of people living with HIV co-infected with TB in Khayelitsha health sub-district. An intervention mapping approach that included qualitative and quantitative designs to gather empirical data, followed by a Nominal group Techniques which involved experts in the field of HIV and TB was followed. The study concluded that positive perceptions and attitudes on adherence counselling together with nurses’ knowledge can be improved despite systemic barriers that are not in their frame of control. A training programme curtailed to address the domains identified by the end users was developed using the results from an integrative review identifying key factors for a successful programme as a framework.

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

MZUKISI XWESO

Department: SOCIAL WORK

Supervisor: PROF C SCHENCK

Thesis:

Analysis of the livelihoods of the Female Scrap Collectors in the Rural Eastern Cape of South Africa

Description:

In the rural villages along the N2 in the Eastern Cape province, groups of women collects scrap metal and e-waste, transported over 500km, to be sold to scrap metal dealers in Durban. Through a collective case study, the livelihoods of 35 scrap metal collectors were analysed using the Sustainable Livelihood Framework (SLF). The study highlights the multiple innovative strategies employed by the participants to secure their means of subsistence. The study convey the sense of dignity held by the women; they take great pride in their self- employment, their ability to provide for their families. They recognise the importance of the collective support they provide one another. Recommendations are made for the incorporation of the women into local development plans and initiatives.

WILFRED GURUPIRA

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR T MATHOLE

Co-supervisor: PROF N NDLOVU

Thesis:

Complex systems thinking to improve health policy implementation in a resource-limited setting: the case of integration of palliative care into the health system in Zimbabwe

Description:

Wilfred did a study to monitor and evaluate the policy implementation process of integrating palliative care into the health system at health facilities in Harare, Zimbabwe. The study contributes to the healthcare body of knowledge by demonstrating how complex systems thinking and implementation science can be combined to understand and implement health interventions in resource-limited settings. It exposed the volatility, uncertainty and fragmentation of the linear top-down approach to policy implementation. Effects of COVID-19 pandemic provided an added layer of complexity. The study developed a comprehensive, multidimensional framework to guide the implementation of a policy and showed how health policy and systems research can be embedded in real-world settings.

FACULTY OF LAW

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF LAWS

KIRSTY KATE MORGAN

Department: PRIVATE LAW

Supervisor: DR N SIBANDA

Co-supervisor: DR M SULAIMAN

Thesis:

Analysing the transfer of ownership in the case of suspensive instalment agreements –a causal or abstract system and the implications thereof

Description:

This thesis analyses how and when the transfer of ownership takes place in the case of instalment agreements that reserve ownership as a means of security for the credit provider. South Africa’s credit industry requires pre-emptive regulation, due partly to the power imbalance between credit providers and consumers. The thesis highlights the need, considering this imbalance, to refine the definition of an instalment agreement contained in the National Credit Act, thereby limiting the time and manner in which transfer of ownership occurs. The recommendation of the thesis is based on a careful and considered analysis of South Africa’s abstract system of transfer of ownership resulting in a balanced approach to the research question that provides protection for both the credit provider and the consumer’s interests as well as any third parties.

HARKIRAN SEHGAL

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF J IYI

Co-supervisors: DR W NORTJE, DR E OMOROGBE

Thesis:

Restorative Justice and Victims of Sexual Violence: A Critique of the Victims Participation Scheme under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Description:

The thesis examines the legal regime governing victim participation under Article 68(3) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This provision grants victims the right to participate in ICC proceedings as a way of balancing the goals of retributive justice and restorative justice. The thesis draws on Van Ness’ and Heetderks Strong’s theory of restorative justice to analyse the ICC’s practice of using Common Legal Representatives (CLR) who act on behalf of victims during proceedings. The thesis concludes that the use of CLR undermines victims’ right to participation in ICC proceedings and defeats the purpose of Article 68(3) of the Rome Statute. To resolve this conundrum, the candidate proposes a “victim-centred approach” to victim participation at the ICC.

FACULTY OF LAW

DOCTOR’S DEGREES DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

AGAH DEBORAH ACHIMUGU-OPALUWA

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF E DUROJAYE

Co-supervisor: PROF U ASSIM

Thesis:

An analysis of the Legal Framework on Gender discrimination and Women’s rights to property in Nigeria: A case study of the Igala people

Description:

The thesis asserts that despite Nigeria’s international commitments to gender equality, women still face significant discrimination regarding property and inheritance rights. Focused on the Igala community in North-Central Nigeria, the study employs the substantive equality approach to demonstrate how cultural and religious practices perpetuate gender inequality. The research shows that traditional customs and religious beliefs in the Igala community often clash with legal standards, reinforcing discrimination against women in property and inheritance matters. This study provides valuable insights into addressing gender inequality in inheritance rights, emphasizing the need for stronger implementation of existing laws and improved enforcement mechanisms.

DARE JOSEPH AYINDE

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF A HAMMAN

Thesis:

Assessing the effectiveness of the Public Procurement Act of 2007 in combating corruption in Nigeria

Description:

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the Public Procurement Act of 2007 (PPA) in combating corruption within the procurement process, using game theory as an analytical framework. It identifies flaws in the PPA’s provisions that compromise its effectiveness. The study finds that while the PPA includes comprehensive provisions for the pre-contract and contract phases of procurement, it falls short in addressing the post-contract phase. It argues that the PPA’s failure to curb corruption is primarily due to poor implementation and inherent flaws in its provisions. The study recommends, among other things, that the PPA should be amended to include detailed provisions for the post-contract phase of procurement and that the existing debarment provisions should be strictly enforced.

FACULTY OF LAW

DOCTOR’S DEGREES

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

LISA NATALIE DRAGA

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: DR S FICK

Co-supervisor: PROF W LE ROUX

Thesis:

Feeding inequality: Access to equal education, feeder zones and former ‘Model C’ schools

Description:

This thesis examined the effect of feeder zones on equitable access to schools in South Africa. South Africa’s basic education system remains deeply unequal. It is difficult for black and poor children to access good public schools, because they are usually situated in richer, ‘whiter’ areas. South Africa’s current laws mostly allow schools to determine their own feeder zones for admission purposes. A feeder zone is an area from which a school accepts its core intake. Often, these good public schools in rich neighbourhoods exclude black and poor children through the use of feeder zones, by limiting their feeder zones to their immediate surroundings. This feeds inequality. This thesis explored how feeder zones could rather be used to promote equitable access to these good public schools.

TSOTETSI MAKONG

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF Y MUPANGAVANHU

Co-supervisor: PROF P LENAGHAN

Thesis:

Assessing the implementation viability of the Abuja Treaty in establishing the African Economic Community

Description:

Africa’s integration efforts have been guided by the Abuja Treaty, culminating in the African Continental Free Trade Area. However, the Treaty’s reliance on Balassa’s neoclassical theory has made its implementation challenging. The Regional Economic Communities (RECs) also adhere to this theory, creating a disconnect from the integration goals in the Abuja Treaty. Tsotetsi proposes a new Organic and Eclectic Integration (OEI) model, which combines economic and non-economic aspects under a unified legal framework. The model includes cross-border public-private partnerships and an accountability system for transitioning REC competences to the OEI model.

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF ARTS

ABRAHAMS MISHKAH

Cum Laude

Thesis:

An assessment of the spatial distribution of neglected and underutilized crop species (NUS) (Taro and Sweet potato) using very high-resolution UAV remotely sensed data in small-holder farms of Swayimane, KwaZulu-Natal

Department: GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

Supervisor: DR M SIBANDA

Co-supervisors: PROF T DUBE, PROF T MABHAUDHI

BERGH MICHELLE ZASQUYA KAMME

Thesis:

Storytelling sister circles as a form of community based decolonial feminist psychological support in contemporary post-apartheid South Africa

Department: WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF T SHEFER

ALLIE LUDI-MAY FIONA

Cum Laude

Thesis:

Text annotation: A diagnostic instrument for understanding undergraduate students’ academic reading literacy at a South African university

Department: LINGUISTICS

Supervisor: PROF B ANTIA

BIJA NANDE

Thesis:

Mapping the change in spatial extent and Leaf Area Index of selected species in wetlands of the Western Cape province using remotely sensed data

Department: GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

Supervisor: DR M SIBANDA

Co-supervisor: DR M CAROLISSEN

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF ARTS

CONWAY JAMIE

Thesis:

Chrononormativity: An exploration of queerness, time and aestheticism in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando

Department: ENGLISH

Supervisor: DR C DAVIDS

Co-supervisor: PROF C CLARKSON

DIKO THINA

Thesis:

A critical analysis of three selected themes in an isiXhosa literary Text: Ngenxa Yesithembiso

Department: AFRICAN LANGUAGE STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF R KASCHULA

Co-supervisor: DR S MOKAPELA

KAPARI MPHO SYLVIA

Cum Laude

Thesis:

Spatial quantification of maize water stress using UAV-acquired data in smallholder farms of Swayimana in KwaZulu-Natal Province

Department: GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

Supervisor: DR M SIBANDA

Co-supervisors: PROF T MABHAUDHI, DR J MAGIDI

DAFFUE

Thesis:

SAMANTHA LEIGH

Framing and Visuality in Two Postcolonial Novels: J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s Reputations

Department: ENGLISH

Supervisor: PROF H WITTENBERG

JAFTA

Thesis:

WAYLIN MARC

A discourse analysis of social activism and social movements on social media network sites: towards an understanding of the emergence of the virtual public sphere

Department: SOCIOLOGY

Supervisor: DR L THAVER

KASONGO ORNELLA CHRISCIANE

Thesis:

The role of women in small-scale livestock farming: Implications for food security and animal welfare in rural South Africa

Department: SOCIOLOGY

Supervisor: DR S SPICER

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF ARTS

LINDT CARLA

Thesis:

Die invloed van Kaaps op die skryfwerk van Afrikaanssprekende leerders. / The influence of Kaaps on the writing of Afrikaans speaking learners

Department: AFRIKAANS/NEDERLANDS

Supervisor: DR D LAWRENCE

NDUDE ASISITHI

Thesis:

Place-making in the linguistic landscapes of Europe, Eyadini and Marikana

Department: LINGUISTICS

Supervisor: DR P MOKWENA

Co-supervisor: DR L MAFOFO

STEYN SHAUN TREVOR

Thesis:

Negotiating Waste Management: Exploring urban residents’ perceptions of waste, litter and clean environments in Mbekweni, Western Cape, South Africa

Department: GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF S BROOKS

Co-supervisor: PROF C SCHENK

MALUBANE BASETSANE EULENDA MIKATEKO

Thesis:

Negotiating Beitbridge: The politics of mobility in cross-border trade and labour between South Africa and Zimbabwe

Department: GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF B RINK

STEVENS DANIELLE FARRYN Cum Laude

Thesis:

Exploring user-generated multilingualism on 7de laan’s Instagram page: a multi-semiotic analysis

Department: LINGUISTICS

Supervisor: PROF A PECK

ABRAHAMS ANEEQA

Thesis: Die manskap: How gender, class and race inform understandings of violence among young ‘coloured men’ in contemporary South Africa

Department: WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF L CLOWES

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF ARTS

AUANGA NADIA SUSHMIHTA NEHEPO

Thesis:

Understanding the culture of care: An ethnographic study of how health care workers in a mental health centre negotiate care in Windhoek, Namibia

Department: ANTHROPOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF S MFECANE

JOHNSTONE CANDICE AMY

Thesis:

Personal identity, consciousness and a self-concept

Department: PHILOSOPHY

Supervisor: PROF S BECK

MARTIN BRANDON JOHN EMILE

Thesis:

Personal identity and practicalities: Can non-reductionist theories guide our practical issues?

Department: PHILOSOPHY

Supervisor: PROF S BECK

DEERS RHODA

Cum Laude

Thesis:

Sensory flows of spice: A multisensory ethnography exploring how spice influences home cooks’ sense of belonging in Cape Town

Department: ANTHROPOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF W ELLIS

JOSEPH PATRICK

Thesis:

Julian Müller’s narrative approach to pastoral counselling in the South African landscape

Department: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF J KLAASEN

Co-supervisor: DR T SAKUPAPA

MJEKULA ZONKE KHANYI

Thesis: Understanding food-related health behaviour: an ethnographic study investigating the management of noncommunicable diseases through the use of food by residents of Langa, Cape Town

Department: ANTHROPOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF S MFECANE

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF ARTS

STEENKAMP ARMAND

Thesis:

Preferable to whom? A critique of Benatar’s Anti-Natalism

Department: PHILOSOPHY

Supervisor: DR J LERM

VERMAAK WENDY LOREEN

Thesis:

The future face of education: An ethnographic account of digitalisation and its impact on South Africa’s public schooling system

Department: ANTHROPOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF W ELLIS

MASTER OF THEOLOGY

FRANTZ CHESNAY

Thesis:

Black theology and Ubuntu theology: antagonists or soul mates? A Black theological perspective

Department: RELIGION AND THEOLOGY

Supervisor: DR D SOLOMONS

TOBIAS SHAHEED

Thesis: Understanding chess men: An ethnographic study of chess on the Cape Flats

Department: ANTHROPOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF S MFECANE

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

HONOURS’ DEGREES

BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS

CEDRASS TASREEQAH

DANIELS ADAN

MAJIET RAJAA

MANAKAZA YVONNE NOMAVA

MGQWETO NOLWAZI GUGULAM

VISAGIE PEJAMAURO

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

BACHELOR OF ARTS

ABRAHAMS LISCHKE ROBIN

ABRAHAMS WILL-ZHAN VERNON

AFRICA TATUM

ANDREW AFTHEN ZANTA

AUGUST KAYTLIN

BOOYSEN BRADWIN BARNARD

BROWN KIRSTEN AIMEE

CYSTER ASHTON ABBIGAIL

DHLUDHLU KHANYO PURITY

DIEDERICKS NADHEERAH

DULANGAYE ANELISA VERA

EDEN JESSE LEIGH

FISCHER ROBIN ALEX

FRANSMAN VERNON

GAMEDE BONGEKA S’MANGELE

GOGELA INATHI

GOLDSCHMIDT CASEY LAUREN

GOLIATH JOTHAM

GOM PAMELLA

GXAVU ANATHI

HARE ZOE MARIAH

HARRIS LEAH MARIE

HENDRICKS RANIA

ISHIMWE SANDRINE

KHOAPA REFEMATLA

KOBOKANA SINOMTHA

KUZE SIYAMTHANDA

LAUBSCHER MICHAELE

MABOPHE KAMVA

MABOTJANA NONTLANTLA

MACAMBA ANITA

MADELA KGOTATSO

MAGOPENI ANAM

MAHLABA MATHAPELO

MANYAKANYAKA SIFISO

MBATSANE RHANDZU

MARTIN CHESLIN DAVID

MATTHEWS MECAYLINN

MAZAMISA ABONGILE

MBATHA ANDILE NELIE

MBONO LONA

MDITSHWA OWETHU

MGEWU LOYISO

FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

BACHELOR OF ARTS

MOKOENA REABETSWE

MOLEBATSI MASEGO

MPHAHLELE LEBOGANG

MXENGE NOMFUNDO

MAGNIFICENT

NDUDANE ZAMADEYI ODWA

NGOMANE NONTANDO ANITA

NICHOLLS ZAYLIA

NYAKA PITSI KELETSO

NYANGIWE PHATHISWA SEUERE

NZIWENI AXOLE

OBAMEN KHANYISILE CORRIEDA

OLIVER AIDEN

PANDA THENJELWA

THEODORA

PEDRO TARRYNE JOELYN

PHORI RIATILE SAMANTHA

QAMPI ASIPHE

QOCHA NALEDI

RIDDER BIANCA BRI-ANNE

SHAIK AMEER MUHAMMAD

SIGASANA AYABULELA NDIKHO

SONDAY MUAZZAM

SMITH AMBER SHANDRE

TALIEP ADEEP

TEKA ASIPHILE

THEBUS WALEED

THOMAS JASON-LEE

WILLIAMS JAMEE CAMERYN

TAMSYN

ZEEMAN HANNAH

BACHELOR OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES

CONRAD JAHAAN

GODLOZA AVIWE NICOLE

LINKS AIMEE JOHANNA

MPUKUMPA ASIHLE

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF ARTS PSYCHOLOGY

SAMUELS

Thesis:

MICHELLE MERCIA

A systematic review of recent interventions for women who misuse alcohol

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF E MUNNIK

BASADIEN TOUGHIEDA

Thesis:

The influence of family resilience on help-seeking behaviour and post-traumatic growth of young adults with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF S ISAACS

FERREIRA SHANNEN

Thesis:

Psychology, Religion, and Pandemic Stress: A Phenomenological Study of Lived Experience

Department: PSYCHOLOGY Supervisor: DR L LAUBSCHER Co-supervisor: MS Z NOORDIEN

FRASER KHELSEY

Thesis: Investigating the Relationships between Perceived Family Support, Self-Efficacy, and Academic Performance among Undergraduate Students at a South African University

Department: PSYCHOLOGY Supervisor: DR T ADONIS Co-supervisor: DR M PIENAAR

HOLLAND NUHAA

Thesis:

An exploration of the factors that influence access to treatment from the perspective of Muslim women who have experienced postpartum depression

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF S ISAACS

Co-supervisor: PROF E MUNNIK

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF ARTS CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES

PATOSI BUSISWA

Thesis:

Explore the understanding, experiences and challenges of parents as recipients of the child social grant

CENTRE FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND SOCIETY (CISCFS)

Supervisor: PROF C ERASMUS

MASTER OF ARTS IN SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE

STEVENS DANIKA

Thesis:

The effects of sport vision training on reaction and target accuracy among karate athletes competing in World Karate Federation (WKF) tournaments in Gauteng

Department: SPORT RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE

Supervisor: PROF B ANDREWS

MASTER OF NURSING

BAILEY ROCHELLE NAOMI

Thesis:

Knowledge and attitudes of final-year nursing students at a university in the Western Cape regarding patient pain management

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: PROF K MINNIE

KORDOM CHARNE VALENE

Thesis:

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of undergraduate nursing students regarding childhood malnutrition at a Higher Education Institution in the Western Cape

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: DR J WILLEMSE

Co-supervisor: DR J HOFFMAN

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF NURSING

ROTICH JOSPHAT KIPRONO

Thesis:

Describing the psychological well-being of registered nurses at a psychiatric hospital in the Western Cape

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: PROF P MARTIN

NGHIKEVALI ABRAHAM VENELAO

Thesis:

Community leaders’ experiences regarding the spread of Hepatitis E in the Khomas Region, Namibia

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: PROF T CROWLEY

MARTIN SUMAYYAH

Thesis:

Evaluation of a web-based clinical placement tracking system (SONIA) at a nursing school in the Western Cape

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: PROF J CHIPPS

Co-supervisor: PROF P MARTIN

PETERSEN

Thesis:

MEGHANN GRACE GLADYS

Stress and coping strategies amongst second year nursing students at a university in the Western Cape Province

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: DR J WILLEMSE

Co-supervisor: PROF P MARTIN

SMITH PATRICIA BERYL

Thesis:

Knowledge, attitudes and practices of non-communicable diseases among undergraduate students at a University in the Western Cape

SCHOOL OF NURSING

Supervisor: DR J WILLEMSE

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY

DUBE THEMBELIHLE NOTHANDO

Thesis:

The mental health impact of COVID-19 in Southern Africa: A scoping review

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF A PADMANABHANUNNI

KADER ZAINAB

Thesis:

A Systematic Review of Digital Mental Health Interventions for students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF A PADMANABHANUNNI

REDDI PRENITA

Thesis:

Expanding the Emotional Social Screening tool for School Readiness (E3SR) for pre-schoolers: An isiXhosa translation equivalence and validation study

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: MRS E MUNNIK

GAE-MAPOMA TABISA ASHANTI

Thesis:

Hope in the time of COVID-19: A study on the association of fortitude and hopelessness among undergraduate university students

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF A PADMANABHANUNNI

Thesis:

Nurses’ perceptions of a multi-media burns intervention for children at a burns unit in the Western Cape

Department: PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF R AHMED Co-supervisor: PROF A VAN NIEKERK

MATSANA KGANETSO MASEGO AUDREY

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

TLHAKO MORONGOA GLENDA

Thesis:

Food Insecurity among university students in Western Cape (2021), in South Africa

Department: DIETETICS AND NUTRITION

Supervisor: PROF R SWART

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

ANDREAS JARRETH NOEL

Thesis:

Risk factors associated with hearing loss in a universal neonatal hearing screening programme at a tertiary hospital in Qatar: A retrospective cohort analysis

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR W AMDE

Co-supervisor: DR R ROOMANEY

DAKA JOSEPH

Thesis:

Determinants of intimate partner violence against pregnant women accessing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Luanshya District, Zambia

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: PROF H TABANA

Co-supervisor: DR L SHURO

BUTHELEZI PHUMELELE FAITH

Thesis:

Assessing factors associated with essential medicine availability at Primary Health Care facilities in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR N NCUBE

DEKA PRINCE

Thesis:

An assessment of prehospital mode of transport in road traffic accident patients in Harare: a retrospective cohort study

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR V MATHEWS

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

DUBE NDUDUZO

Thesis:

Factors associated with late presentation for HIV care and treatment in an urban ART clinic in Manzini, Eswatini

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR A NYEMBEZI

MHANGWA TIMOTHY

Thesis:

Antimicrobial stewardship: Exploring knowledge and perceptions of antimicrobial resistance and prescribing practices of medical doctors operating in public health centres in Harare, Zimbabwe

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR W AMDE

MVUDUDU DON TAFADZWA KUDZANAI

Thesis:

Factors associated with viral nonsuppression among HIV positive adults on antiretroviral therapy in Luapula province, Zambia

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: PROF B VAN WYK

MHANGO MALIZGANI

Thesis:

Prevalence and characterisation of preanalytical errors in a medium-sized laboratory in Oshana Region, Namibia

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR A NYEMBEZI

MOKHETHI NQOBILE PENELOPE

Thesis:

Exploring barriers to TB contact tracing and screening: Health service providers’ perspective

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR W AMDE

NAIDOO MEGESHINEE

Thesis:

Growth outcomes of infants with in-utero and breastfeeding exposure to maternal Tenofovir based pre-exposure prophylaxis

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: PROF H TABANA

Co-supervisor: PROF D MOODLEY

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH

SINGH LARISSA

Thesis:

Association between perceived risk, preventive practices and psychological distress among healthcare workers from provincial hospitals in Johannesburg, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Supervisor: DR A NYEMBEZI

Co-supervisor: DR K WILSON

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

ALEXANDER MEGAN

Thesis:

Exploring how being a beneficiary of charity may facilitate occupational choice and decision making: a critical ethnography

Department: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Supervisor: PROF L HESS-APRIL

Co-supervisor: PROF T MTHEMBU

FORWARD DANIELLE KIM

Thesis:

Exploring the grandparents’ perceptions and experiences regarding the influence of occupational injustice in taking care of their grandchildren, De Aar, Northern Cape, South Africa

Department: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Supervisor: PROF T MTHEMBU

MACHINGURA LAST

Thesis:

Exploring the perceptions of occupational therapists (OTs) in South Africa on the usefulness of dialectical behavioural therapy DBT) as a treatment approach for substance use disorders and addictive behaviours

Department: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Supervisor: PROF M SOEKER

VAN DER BERG JEAN

Thesis:

The support needs of mothers and caregivers of children with disabilities in a rural context: A critical ethnography

Department: OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Supervisor: PROF L HESS-APRIL

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN PHYSIOTHERAPY

ELNOUR MAYSA

Thesis:

Prevalence and awareness of musculoskeletal disorders among office workers at a university in the northern district of Jeddah, Saudi Arabi

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: PROF L ENNION

GABRIELS AEYSHA

Thesis:

Physical activity behaviour of communitydwelling persons with traumatic spinal cord injuries in Cape Town, South Africa

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: DR C JOSEPH

Co-supervisor: PROF J PHILLIPS

KARIEM HUDAA

Thesis:

Clinical Reasoning of clinicians and undergraduate physiotherapy students during the Intensive Care Unit Rotation

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: DR D HESS

FORTUNE BARKLEY GADIEJA

Thesis:

Mortality and HRQoL of patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI 18months following hospital discharge in Cape Town, South Africa

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: DR F KARACHI

JACOB UMAR FAROUK

Thesis:

Surveillance strategies used to monitor injuries in amateur and professional cricket players: an integrative review

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: DR B BOGGENPOEL Co-supervisor: DR T STEYL

LUDICK YUGESHINI

Thesis: Perceptions of rehabilitation professionals and stroke patients at a private sector settings about self-management

Department: PHYSIOTHERAPY

Supervisor: PROF A RHODA

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NUTRITION

JONI SIKHUMBULE KAGISO

Thesis:

The effect of 2018 listeria outbreak on the nutrition quality and dietary patterns of Langa township

Department: DIETETICS AND NUTRITION

Supervisor: PROF R SWART

MASTER OF SOCIAL WORK

DE LANGE JANINE THERESE

Cum Laude

Thesis:

Exploring supportive supervision in Social Work professional learning in a selected University

Department: SOCIAL WORK Supervisor: PROF G DYKES

KOERAS PETER FRANKLIN JOSEPH

Thesis:

The experiences of social workers when using the services of South African sign language interpreters, during microinterventions in the Cape Metropole

Department: SOCIAL WORK Supervisor: DR R DAVIDS

FOURIE JOHAN ARNOLD

Thesis:

An exploration of social workers’ knowledge, attitudes, and skills in service delivery with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) clients in the Cape Metropole

Department: SOCIAL WORK Supervisor: DR A HUMAN-HENDRICKS Co-supervisor: DR N HENDERSON

MENTOR PATRICK

Thesis:

Towards prevention and treatment: Exploring causative perpetuating factors behind youth substance abuse

Department: SOCIAL WORK

Supervisor: PROF M VAN DER WESTHUIZEN

FACULTY

OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

HONOURS’ DEGREES 2024

BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS SPORT, RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE

ERNSTZEN MEGAN BONITA

FRASER ZAAKIRAH

TATTERSALL LIAM

BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS BIOKINETICS

LOOTS BLADE

WILLENBERG JORDYN LEIGH

BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS PSYCHOLOGY

DLODLO NOZUKO ANTHEA HENDRICKS AZRAA

JASSIEM TAHIR

KARA MAGH-DIYA

MANCOE GOMOLEMO DIMPHO MDLULWA AKHONA SYSTER CHEYCHANIQUE SHAMEEGAH

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE HONOURS BIOKINETICS

BURGER YUWIN

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMAS 2024

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC HEALTH

MASILO PATRICIA MONICA

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES

FRITZ HENRY

FACULTY OF COMMUNITY AND HEALTH SCIENCES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES 2024

BACHELOR OF ARTS SPORT, RECREATION AND EXERCISE SCIENCE

NJWABANA NANGA

ROBERTSON CHADWIN HENRY

SAMAAI IMRAAN

SHOBA MASIBULELE

NGCAWE SPHOKAZI BIANCA

NOTSHOKOVU SOMILA

BACHELOR OF COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE IN NATUROPATHY

KELOSIWANG KELETSO

BACHELOR OF NURSING

BENJAMIN MUJAAHIED

CEKWANA ONGEZIWE HONEST

DHLADHLA NOKULUNGA

NOTHEMBA MARY-JANE

DRYDEN KIMBERLEY MILDRED

ETAKA CECILIA AYUK

KHABANYANE REANETSE

MOHALE LEBOGANG

TSHEGOFATSO HOPE

NCUBE CAROLINE

NJOZELA ELIHLE

SOLAKHE YANGA

VAN STADEN CHANEL CHAANDRE (Posthumous)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCE

POOLE AIDAN

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE (CMA)

NJOVANE SISANDA

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DIETETICS

BALINDEVU ZIMINGONAPAKADE

BLACKBURN BRITTNEY CASEY VENICE

BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK

NEETHLING TINIELLE JAIMIE

MADIGAGE DANISILE AMANDA

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

KLAAS LIHLE

Thesis:

A critical review of the implementation of inclusive human settlement in the City of Cape Town: A document analysis

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

Supervisor: DR F KHAILE

MNGOMEZULU BOITUMELO BOPHELO PAULINE

Thesis:

Implementation status of public-private partnerships in the water sector: Assessing the Dolphin Coast Municipality water concession 20 years later

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

Supervisor: DR M MAKIVA

PETERSEN BENITA LEONIE

Cum Laude

Thesis:

Examining governments’ approach to housing - An analysis of the town of Villiersdorp in the Theewaterskloof Municipality

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

Supervisor: PROF G RUITERS

MASTER OF ADMINISTRATION

MAJOLA XOLILE SIMON

Thesis:

The administrative and regulatory framework of non-profit organisations in post-apartheid South Africa

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

Supervisor: DR L PRETORIUS

TESFAYE HILELEULE GETACHEW

Thesis:

Rethinking administration of the legal profession in Addis Ababa: Exploring the untapped potential of paralegals

SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT

Supervisor: PROF I ILE

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF ARTS

DE VILLIERS CHACE

Thesis:

Outsourcing security in Africa: Legitimising the use of Private Military Companies to combat terrorism in Nigeria in 2015

Department: POLITICAL STUDIES

Supervisor: PROF J PRETORIUS

MEYER SHANDRÉ

Thesis:

Comparing face-to-face and technologybased training to evaluate its perceived effectiveness in improving employee performance

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: MS M NAIDOO

Co-supervisor: PROF B MAHEMBE

MASTER OF COMMERCE

BAILEY RAY-JESSIE

Thesis:

A study to determine which human resource management practices add the most value for small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF F ABRAHAMS

DANIELS LAUREN NICOLE

Thesis:

An investigation into the perceived impact of Artificial Intelligence on recruitment and selection practices of HR professionals within the retail sector in the Western Cape

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF F ABRAHAMS

KAYLA

Thesis:

Analysing inflation dynamics in South Africa: A New-Keynesian approach

Department: ECONOMICS

Supervisor: PROF J SHEEFENI

HERMANUS SINOXOLO SISANDA Cum Laude

Thesis:

Information system security vulnerabilities: Implications for South African financial firms in Cape Town

Department: EMS INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Supervisor: PROF J CHIGADA

BENNETT

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF COMMERCE

JEFFERIES GAKEEMA

Thesis:

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on career choices among Grade 11 and 12 students at selected schools in the Cape Flats

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF F ABRAHAMS

Thesis:

Investigating school-level and out-ofschool factors influencing the performance at selected secondary schools in the Eastern Cape Province, Amathole West District

Department: ECONOMICS

Supervisor: PROF A BAYAT

MOCKE TRACEY-LEE

Thesis:

The role of self-efficiency, perceived social support and risk perception on the entrepreneurial intent of nascent entrepreneurs

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF J BECKER

KAMBIZI MERCY

Thesis:

The moderating effect of remuneration on the relationship between Teaching Climate, Physical Environment, Professional and Personal Development, Research and General Satisfaction of Academics at a selected institution

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: MRS S SOLOMON

Co-supervisor: PROF B MAHEMBE

MGUDLWA TSHAWEKAZI SINAKO Cum Laude

Thesis:

Economic analysis of the Shear Separation Floatation (SSF) technology for winery wastewater treatment

Department: ECONOMICS

Supervisor: PROF M OCRAN

Co-supervisor: PROF B BLADERGROEN

PETERSEN

Thesis:

LINDA

The perceived influence of digitalisation and digital transformation of the Human Capital function on employees’ engagement levels and intention to quit within a large retail corporation in the Western Cape

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF B MAHEMBE

KOHLI NONTANDAZO

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF COMMERCE

PYPERS SIMONE

Thesis:

The perceived impact of emotional intelligence, leadership and leadership styles on organisational change management process

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: MR R OLIVER

Co-supervisor: PROF B MAHEMBE

SIGWADI VUYISWA PATIANCE

Thesis:

Community-driven initiatives for the social sustainability of e-centres in the Western Cape

Department: INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Supervisor: DR J NJENGA

SAKI BONISILE

Thesis:

A study to explore the progress made and challenges experienced by two universities in the implementation of employment equity from 2015 to 2020 in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Department: INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Supervisor: PROF B MAHEMBE

Co-supervisor: DR N GWAMANDA

MASTER OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

FURNIVAL NAILAH

Thesis:

The City-Region Food System approach: Lessons for Food Governance in South Africa

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: DR A KARRIEM

Co-supervisor: PROF B LOSCH

Thesis:

Digital transformation: The case of Cape Town based SMEs in the manufacturing sector

Department: DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Supervisor: DR N SIBINDI

HENDRICKS VALMA

Thesis:

Socio-Economic Development of Human Well-being at Grassroot Institutions with special reference to Garden Village, Maitland

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: PROF M BAYAT

Co-supervisor: DR A KARRIEM

TYALI ALUTHA THANDOLWETHU

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

MAPHUKATHA SIHLE

Thesis:

A deeper look at the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and what it means for the marginalized, a Social Innovation perspective

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: DR L MDLELENI

SALIE SHAFEEQAH

Thesis:

Gentrification and the disruption of space: residents lived experiences in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: DR A KARRIEM

PRITCHARD ROBYN KATE

Thesis:

Beyond Money: Evaluating the impact of Student Support Practitioners on the academic success of first-generation university National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) recipients at the University of the Western Cape

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: DR S MADYIBI

Co-supervisor: PROF A BAYAT

UWAMAHORO DEVOTHA

Thesis:

Chronic poverty among migrants in Cape Town: A case study of migrants from Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Cape Town, South Africa

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: PROF A BAYAT

KAHARI LINDA

Thesis:

Exploring the challenges faced by informal waste pickers in the Northern Cape region

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: PROF MARINGIRA

Co-supervisor: MR S DINIE

KGOBE FRANCE KHUTSO LAVHELANI

Thesis:

Assessing the efficacy of Public Participation in the Enhancement of Public Service

Delivery Planning in Polokwane Local Municipality, Limpopo Province, South Africa

INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Supervisor: PROF M BAYAT

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF ECONOMICS

BOKWANA ESETHU

Thesis:

The analysis of revenue productivity of the tax system in South Africa applying the buoyancy and elasticity measures

Department: ECONOMICS

Supervisor: PROF F FODERS

Co-supervisor: MR C ADAMS

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES HONOURS’ DEGREES

BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS

BRINKHUIS AANISAH

KARRIEM MIKA-EEL

MAHLAZA ZUKHANYE

QABAKA MIHLALI

WILLIAMS AUDAE GEORGINA

BACHELOR OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES HONOURS

AFRIKA MERCY NOLITA

CHIBI NKOSINATHI

GANGRAKER SAMEER

LONI NALEDI CHANTAL

MLAMBISA LOYISO

NKONKI MIHLALI

SIKAWUTI PHINDILE ANNETTE

ZUKO CELE

BACHELOR OF ADMINISTRATION HONOURS

BAARTMAN MOZANNE HESTRUD

ISAACS TIFFANY DANA

MHLANGA SWAZI TREASURE-LEE

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS

JACOBS FAITH ZENIA

THOMPSON MOGAMAT AMEER ALI

NDEVU LULUTHO

MENTOOR MEGAN MARION

ROBERTSON CHRISTOPHER ELRED SMITH LIAM

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS FINANCE

KHUMALO SIFUNDO ALBERT

MATHENJWA LUCKY

SHIVURI CASSANDRA

SITHOLE SESIE RISIMA BRILLIANT

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE HONOURS IN MANAGEMENT

GANJANA SINOXOLO

MAKWILI MELISA SIMELUBUHLE

2024

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

HONOURS’ DEGREES

BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS HONOURS

MHLONGO NHLALUKO

2024

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

DIPLOMAS

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

ADAMS KAYLA TOTO SIPHOKAZI

2024

FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE

JULA NKOSINATHI

WELLEN AMBER

BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

KALULA GEORGE MPINA

MASTER OF LAW IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

CHISWA NATASHA

Thesis:

Public-private partnerships as enablers of investment and infrastructure development in Africa: a South African perspective

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF R WANDRAG

HINDA SUSAN LIZETTE MBAHAHIZA KATIRI

Thesis:

Creating an enabling environment for the application of antidumping measures through law reform in Namibia

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF P LENAGHAN

MUTHONI ESTHER

Thesis:

A case for a legal and regulatory framework for cryptocurrency transactions in Kenya

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF R WANDRAG

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

FISHER AMY

Thesis:

Copyright Law as it pertains to machine learning as an artificial intelligence pillar in South Africa

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF R WANDRAG

MSIBI NOMBUSO

Thesis:

China In Africa: Neocolonialism or Mutual Relationship? A South African Case Study

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF R WANDRAG

SIMALAMBO MWAPE MUTINTA

Thesis:

Rethinking international investment agreements in the face of Covid-19: need for the incorporation of a force majeure clause?

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF R WANDRAG

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF LAW IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE

SINJOKI GIL MUSA

Thesis:

Leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area to unlock the full potential of carbon markets in Africa

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF R WANDRAG

MASTER OF LAWS

ABDULKADIR ADAM ABDULLAHI

Thesis:

Power sharing as a tool of conflict management in Somalia

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF Y FESSHA

BROWN TERI FRANCIS

Thesis:

The role of the African Medicine Agency within the framework of the African Continental Free Trade Area as a means of addressing vaccine production in Africa

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF P LENAGHAN

Thesis:

The representation of persons with disabilities in the South African workforce

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: DR A BOOLEY

Co-supervisor: DR Y BASSON

Thesis:

An Overview of the Employment Rights of Domestic Workers in South Africa

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: MRS E HUYSAMEN

DAVIDS SHAFIEK

ELLIS GABRIELLE RAQUEL SAM

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF LAWS

GENU THABILE

Thesis:

The Socioeconomic Impact of Land Reform on Women’s Rights to Access to Land in South Africa

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF E DUROJAYE

HULL SHANE

Thesis:

Promoter liability and protection of third party rights in terms of pre-incorporation contracts under South Africa’s Companies Act 2008

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: DR K LOEDOLF

Co-supervisor: PROF B MUPANGAVANHU

JUTA SINOZUKO

Thesis:

Erosion of presidential time limits in practice: A Comparative study of Unconstitutional constitutional amendments in African states

Department: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Supervisor: PROF Y FESSHA

KAMUSHINDA TAFADZWA CELINE

Thesis:

Ethnicity and the making of local boundaries in South Africa: Perspectives from Vhuwani and Malamulele

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF Y FESSHA

KALAMBU KANIKI FREDO

Thesis:

Regulating small cross border traders as a solution to increase Intra African Trade: implications of the African Continental Free Trade Area

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF P LENAGHAN

LEWIS CLIFFORD PIERRE

Thesis:

The Regulation of Social Media Content

Personalisation: An International Human Rights Perspective

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: DR T KONDO

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF LAWS

MAKONI TINASHE

Thesis:

An analysis of the human rights abuses against minority groups and the prospects of transitional justice in post–Mugabe Zimbabwe

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF J IYI

MAQABUKA ANITHA ANELISA

Thesis:

Towards Sustainable Water Management in the Context of Coal Mining in South Africa: A Critical Reflection of the ongoing Lephalale Coal Mining Project

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: DR J ASHUKEM

MUMBA TSHEGOFATSO SEANOKENG

Thesis:

The Impact of Ethnic Politics on the Implementation of The Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement and the Failure of Transitional Justice in Burundi

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF J IYI

MALGAS KIRBY

Thesis:

Evaluating the effectiveness of the South African criminal justice system to prosecute homophobic rape

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: DR K CHINNIAN

MORAKE RENYAKALETSE

Thesis:

A Critique Of The Deterrent Effects Of International Criminal Justice In The Prevention Of Mass Atrocities

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF J IYI

MVANGELI NONKCUBEKO

Thesis:

Cross border tax assistance as a framework for revenue mechanism

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: JUDGE D DAVIS

Co-supervisor: PROF F MOOSA

MASTER OF LAWS

MZINGELWA ANDISIWE

Thesis:

An assessment of South Africa’s Intergovernmental Relations System as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF N STEYTLER

Co-supervisor: MR C STEVENS

NGCOBO MNOTHO THAMSANQA

Thesis:

An analysis of the amendments to the regulations issued in terms of the Electricity Regulation Act 4 of 2006 that empower municipalities to generate their own (renewable) electricity and purchase from Independent Power Producers

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF N STEYTLER

Co-supervisor: DR S JOHNSTONE

NTSHOLO LUBABALO

Thesis: Yhini i socialism? Umhlaba wonke ezandleni zabantu: a critical diagnosis of South Africa’s attempt to amend the constitution to permit expropriation of land without compensation

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF Y FESSHA

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

Thesis:

The income tax resident status of internet-based companies: when is South Africa their place of effective management?

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF F MOOSA

Co-supervisor: DR E OLIVIER

NONKULA SIMVILE

Thesis: Criminalising Illicit Enrichment to Combat Economic Crime in South Africa

Department: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Supervisor: PROF A HAMMAN

Thesis: Towards Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Measures in South Africa: Insights into Law and Policy Frameworks in the City of Cape Town and eThekwini Municipality

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: DR J ASHUKEM

NATHANIEL BRADWIN JOSEPH

NTULI NGCEBO

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF LAWS

RUNDABA TANAKA

Thesis:

Understanding and Resolving Bank

Corporate Governance and Financial

Regulation Twelve Years after the Crisis In the United States of America and Europe

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: PROF R WANDRAG

SCHOLTZ TARYN CINDY

Thesis:

The effect of corruption on the human rights of refugees in South Africa

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: DR K CHINNIAN

Thesis:

The role of second chambers in representing subnational units: a comparative study of Nigeria and South Africa

Department: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Supervisor: PROF Y FESSHA

THERON ETHEL MERYL

Thesis:

A critical legal analysis of elephant welfare and management considerations in South Africa’s environmental law and policy framework

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF A VAN DER BERG

Thesis:

The extent to which the fiduciary duties and liabilities of directors of state-owned companies facilitate good corporate governance in South Africa

Department: MERCANTILE AND LABOUR LAW

Supervisor: DR E OLIVIER

TITUS MERIQUE DAVID

Thesis:

An analysis of the scope of sexual consent in bondage, domination, discipline, submission and sadomasochistic practices

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: MS C SANGER

Co-supervisor: DR C ALBERTUS

TERBLANCHE STEPHANY THERESA

SHABANGU SIBONISO ANDREW

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES 2024

MASTER OF LAWS

TSHIKOTA NDIVHUWO

Thesis:

Demystifying the ‘movement’ element in the prevention and combating of trafficking in persons

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF J IYI

Co-supervisor: PROF R NANIMA

DER VENT MECHE FAITH

Thesis:

The impact of the reporting duty of financial institutions on the Right to Privacy

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF A HAMMAN

Co-supervisor: MRS D BEYERS

XABA WANDILE CALVIN GERALD

Thesis: Federalism in South Africa: Origins, Operation, and its Contemporary (Ir)relevance

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF Y FESSHA

TYALA YOLANDA

Thesis: Assessing the Protection of the Right to Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Botswana

Department: PUBLIC LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE

Supervisor: PROF R NANIMA

WILLIAMS CHANTÉ MISCHKA

Thesis:

Conceptualising Homophobic Rape against Homosexual Women as a Hate Crime

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: DR K CHINNIAN

ZHAKATA PETULA

Thesis: Risks and benefits of the eradication of African customs by modernity

Department: COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

Supervisor: PROF A DIALA

FACULTY OF LAW

MASTER’S DEGREES

MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY

MBADLANYANA THEMBANI LUCIUS

Thesis:

Interrogating the ‘Subalternising potential’ of Article 13(b) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

Department: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PROCEDURE

Supervisor: PROF J IYI

FACULTY OF LAW DIPLOMAS

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LABOUR LAW

MANISI MZWABANTU SHAWN

NGOMANI YUZA THOMAS

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PUBLIC LAW

FANISHE NOMVUYISO

FORTUIN LAURENZO WILL HENDRICKS MPUMELELO

LENTSOE DIBUENG CORNEY

LONGO LEBUHANG PAUL

MAASDORP DEAN LOUIS

MABE CLEMENT SHADRACK

MADZIVHANDILA TSHIKHUDO

MAILA EDWIN EDDIE

SHWANE VUYANI

TOKWE NOMATSHAWE

MAROKANE ELIAS

MUKWEVHO PFARELO

PETERS NICOLENE

PLAATJIES JUSTIN RONALD

TLALI MOSA SEBONGILE

VAN DER GEORGE CORNELIUS

WESTHUIZEN CHARLES

WILLIAMS RIO

ZOZI SIYAMCELA

ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN LABOUR LAW

MABINZA PATRICK MTHETHELELI

MLAMBO SIBONGISENI

SENZOSENKOSI

NKELEMBA MELISA

FACULTY OF LAW

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE LAW

ADAMS NUHA

MAIMELA ONKARABILE NGOKOANA

BACHELOR OF LAWS

LEKOANA KGOPOLANG

MOLEFE SISANDA BOKANG

NDALASE AVELA

POGGENPOEL STORM POOE BOITSHEPO

NEMUDZIVHADE WANGA

RADZUMA PHINDULO WANGA SETI JABU

FACULTY OF LAW CERTIFICATES

HIGHER CERTIFICATE IN FORENSIC EXAMINATION

ABDURAHMAN RIDAAH

HLAHLENI MAWANDE

KENE NATASHA KHANYISWA

HONORARY DEGREE AWARDEES

1983

S. Motsuenyane, Doctor Commercii

M.C. O’Dowd, Doctor Commercii

1984

E. Theron, Doctor Legum

1987

B. Breytenbach, Doctor Litterarum

R.E. van de Ross, Doctor Educationis

1989

J.C. de Villiers, Doctor Scientiae

G.A.M. Mbeki, Doctor Philosophiae

1990

N.R. Mandela, Doctor Legum

O.R. Tambo, Doctor Legum

1991

R.E. Alexander, Doctor Commercii

G.S. Machel, Doctor Legum

D. Mitterand, Doctor Litterarum

D. Zihlangu, Doctor Educationis

1993

G. Boonzaaier, Doctor Litterarum

B. Head, Doctor Litterarum (posthumous)

A. Ibrahim, Doctor Litterarum

E. Mancoba, Doctor Litterarum

1995

G.J. Gerwel, Doctor Educationis

P.M. Sonn, Doctor Legum

1996

G.H. Brundtland, Doctor Legum

T.N. Chapman, Doctor Commercii

J.J.F. Durand, Doctor Philosophiae

P. Gorvalla, Doctor Commercii

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1997

B. Davidson, Doctor Litterarum

E.L. King, Doctor Theologiae

I. Mohamed, Doctor Scientiae

F.B. Naude, Doctor Theologiae

J.N. Scholten, Doctor Legum

R. Turner, Doctor Educationis

1998

J. Derrida, Doctor Litterarum

M. Nuttall, Doctor Theologiae

M.A Oduyoye, Doctor Theologiae

J. Reddy, Doctor Educationis

2001

V.H. Faigle, Doctor Theologiae

G. ‘t Hooft, Doctor Scientiae

P.N. Langa, Doctor Legum

A. Small, Doctor Litterarum

2002

W.H. Gray III, Doctor Philosophiae

C.L.R.Hirschsohn, Doctor Philosophiae

T. Manuel, Doctor Commercii

D. Philip, Doctor Litterarum

M. Philip, Doctor Litterarum

D.M.B. Tutu, Doctor Legum

2003

K. Mokhele, Doctor Scientiae

T. D. Fredericks, Doctor Educationis

P.D. Uys, Doctor Educationis

2004

K. Asmal, Doctor Legum

E. de Keyser, Doctor Commercii

G. Fitzgerald, Doctor Litterarum

A. Omar, Doctor Legum (posthumous)

A. Sachs, Doctor Litterarum

A. Sisulu, Doctor Curationis

W. Sisulu, Doctor Legum (posthumous)

HONORARY DEGREE AWARDEES

2005

A. Achmat, Doctor Philosophiae

C.J Bundy, Doctor Philosophiae

E.K.M. Dido, Doctor Litterarum

T. Jones, Doctor Philosophiae

J. Fagan, Doctor Legum

I. Mahomed, Doctor Legum (posthumous)

2006

F. Ginwala, Doctor Administrationis

2007

E. Abrahams, Doctor Philosophiae

E. Braune, Doctor Philosophiae

A. Chaskalson, Doctor Legum

D. Jordaan, Doctor Philosophiae

R. Kadalie, Doctor Litterarum

P. Mlambo-Ngcuka, Philosophiae Doctor

Y. Mokgoro, Doctor Legum

V.G. Shubin, Doctor Philosophiae

2008

W.E. Morrow, Doctor Educationis

2009

P. Govender, Doctor Legum

2010

A. Adebajo, Doctor Philosophiae

M.S. Dien, Philosophiae Doctor (posthumous)

B.L. Fanaroff, Doctor Philosophiae

P. Olumfemi-Kayode, Doctor Philosophiae

R. Simonsen, Doctor Philosophiae

P.K. Tergat, Doctor Philosophiae

D. Tulu, Doctor Philosophiae

2011

S.B. Biko, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)

S.B.A. Isaacs, Doctor Educationis

P. Magrath, Doctor Litterarum

M. Shear, Doctor Philosophiae

M. Temmerman, Doctor Philosophiae

R.B. Wolf, Doctor Philosophiae

2012

B. Gawanas, Doctor Legum

E. Moosa, Doctor Legum

R.E. Reddock, Doctor Philosophiae

H. Shaper, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)

A. Sheiham, Doctor Philosophiae

2013

H. Howa, Doctor Philosophiae

T. Jones, Doctor Philosophiae

J. Matthews, Doctor Philosophiae

G. Merino O.P, Doctor Theologiae

2014

A. Haron, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)

2015

A. Jedaar, Doctor Philosophiae

2016

H. Adams, Doctor Philosophiae

F. Robertson, Doctor Philosophiae

M. Tsedu, Doctor Philosophiae

2017

M. Lapsley, Doctor Philosophiae

2018

Z Skweyiya, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)

2021

Z. Wicomb, Doctor Philosophiae

A.A. Boesak, Doctor Philosophiae

W. Kentridge, (jointly awarded with Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University)

2022

K.K. Prah, Doctor Philosophiae

I. Sooliman, Doctor Philosophiae

HONORARY DEGREE AWARDEES

SUB-HEADER 1983-2024

2023

C. Hani, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)

D.E. Moseneke, Doctor Philosophiae

S.Z. Zotwana, Doctor Philosophiae

2024

M.Y. Choi, Doctor Philosophiae

H. Kummeling, Doctor Philosophiae

C. Pauwels, Doctor Philosophiae (posthumous)

2018

Ebrahim Rhoha

2021

AB Mahomed

Derek Joubert

Peter Takelo

HEADER SUB-HEADER 2018-2024 GOLD MEDALISTS

2022

Sean Patrick Lance

Peter Wilson

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

2024

Albert Lois Sachs

UWC GRADUATION ATTIRE

MEANING AND SYMBOLISM

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The three proteas symbolise Teaching, Culture and Education.

The stepped pattern represents the steps that lead to the Greek temple. This is the international symbol for academia and our recognition that we are a part of it.

The laurel leaves indicate competition and victory.

The diamond-shaped protea petal represents strength of character, ethics and faithfulness to oneself and others.

The continuous pattern that extends from the front to the back speaks to Respice Prospice, which means to look back, to look forward. Take what is good from the past and build the future.

The beaded effect is meant to reflect African craft and creativity.

The colours that make up the band are derived from those that represent the seven Faculties that make up the University.

CAP Black John Knox cap with silver tassel.

Peony red edged with silver trim.

THE CAP

Black John Knox cap with gold tassel. BACK OF THE YOKE

Black edged with gold trim.

THE SLEEVE

Open sleeves, looped up with gold cord and lined with gold satin.

THE GOWN

Black with full facings of gold and trimmed yoke.

Black John Knox cap with silver tassel.

Black edged with silver trim.

SLEEVE

Open sleeves, looped up with silver cord and lined with empire blue satin.

GOWN

Black with full facings of empire blue.

GRADUATION ATTIRE

AND HOODS GOWN

1 THE GOWN

Black (all degrees, diplomas and certificates, except Doctoral degrees)

Arts and Humanities

Community and Health Sciences

Dentistry

Economic and Management

Sciences

Education

Law

Natural Sciences

THE MOTIF

Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour.

THE COWL

Trimmed based on the type of qualification being conferred.

THE NECKBAND

The neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.

THE HOOD

Full hood in black.

2

CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS

(NQF LEVEL 5 AND 6)

Black, with gold and blue strips.

GRADUATION ATTIRE

HOODS

3 BACHELORS

(NQF LEVEL 7)

Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.

Degrees: BA, BSc, BCom, BAdmin, BA (SRES), BSc (Complementary Health Sciences), BOH, PGCE

5

ADVANCED BACHELORS

(NQF LEVEL 8)

Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour and trimmed on the cowl with cord in platinum colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.

Degrees and Diplomas: All Honours degrees and Postgraduate Diplomas

4

PROFESSIONAL/SENIOR BACHELORS

(NQF LEVEL 8)

Black, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour and trimmed on the cowl with cord in gold colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.

Degrees: BPharm, BSW, BSc (Dietetics, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy), BLIS, BNur, BDS, LLB, BEd.

6 MASTERS (NQF LEVEL 9)

Black, lined with the Faculty colour, edged with symbolic print in the Faculty colour and trimmed on the cowl with cord in the Faculty colour; the neckband emblazoned with the protea in the Faculty colour.

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