ABSTRACT v SUBSTANTIVE-EQUALITY – A CRITICAL RACE THEORY ANALYSIS OF ‘HATE SPEECH’ AS CONSIDERED IN THE SAHRC-REPORT ON UTTERANCES MADE BY JULIUS MALEMA

In the following article I will critically analyse the concept of hate speech as it was considered in the South African Human Rights Commission’s (the ‘Commission’) report on utterances made by Julius Malema (the ‘report’).2 The critique will be delivered by way of Critical Race Theory (CRT) as I aim to illustrate the Commission’s narrow interpretation of racism in light of hate speech. Because the Commission relies on an array of court judgments and equality legislation to form its equality jurisprudence on hate speech, my critique will also set out to show that the Commission\u27s equality jurisprudence is reflective of the Constitution and the courts’ narrow understanding of racism. I aim to argue that a narrow understanding of racism leads to a very abstract equality jurisprudence

Associated typologies - modes of engagement in collective urban environments

The dissertation ‘associative typologies,’ reflects on the social disconnection observed amongst urban participants in 21st Century urban environments. Exclusionary planning policies combined with the preferential socio-economic environment have created atomized urban networks that impair the social performance within cosmopolitan landscapes such as South African city centers. With new integration imperatives defined in the Tshwane 2055 vision, which aims to integrate the city’s development potential region by region, the once ‘uncommon’ peripheral zones such as Mamelodi East, are yet to find new collective importance that is described by spatial association. The research topic focuses on the concept of ‘collective commons’ that represent themselves as urban modes of engagement between Pretoria CBD and Mamelodi east. These components will be used to recreate/ support contemporary participation levels found in and around the case study areas today. This study will encourage the development of a conceptual framework that identifies a spatial pallet that accounts for the interactive potential of the targeted participants and attempts to improve the psychological condition of the urban dwellers from individual to collective. The developmental outcome is intended to represent a destination of collective consumption that is informed by real-time urban modes. This methodology may enable the sustainable scaling of project phasing and stakeholder participation in neighborhood development projects that are branded by collective interest/ identity.Mini Dissertation (March (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2019.Boogertman+PartnersArchitectureMArch (Prof)Unrestricte

University of KwaZulu-Natal students’ perceptions of green branding at Woolworths.

Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.Environmental concern emerges as the most significant predictor of green purchase intention (Yadav, 2014). The purpose of the study was to ascertain the extent to which university students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal are open to the notion of green branding and green marketing by leading brands. This study chose to focus on UKZN students across various faculties in order to find out how their perceptions and purchase decisions making is affected by issues such as green marketing and if it at all influences their lives when choosing between brands and their loyalty to organisations such as Woolworths, which appears as one of the top 5 brands in terms of Grocery stores in the Top Brand Survey (“Sunday Times: Top Brands Survey”, 2015) When making food purchases in the past it has not always been a consideration of customers to be concerned with the effect that their consumption has on the environment. Data was collected through survey based method suing structured questionnaires, where a hypothesized model was used. The researcher used a questionnaire which had a five-point Likert scale where the simple random sampling technique was used. This questionnaire was administered to a sample of 383 registered students. The study used the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as its theoretical framework and attempted to extend this further. The research aims to explore the state of mind amongst tertiary level students, in order to assist with managing effective brand communication through empowering consumers with knowledge and arming them with the ability to make the correct purchasing decisions for the future

Contextualising black women's identity in South Africa through the apartheid archive's system of racial classification: an intersectional African feminist analysis of race, class, and gender within South Africa's political history.

Writing against apartheid creates avenues for Black women to reconstruct the South African national history archive with their inclusion while making sense of gender roles in the context of oppressive mechanisms of racism, segregation, and neocolonialism. The critical analysis the formation of how Black women's identity exists at the intersectionality of race, class and gender has been historically refashioned and repurposed through periods of colonialism and the Apartheid system's legal instruments. This research is rooted in African feminist theory of STIWAnism and Nego- Feminism to draw on the structural and intersectional reality of both social and political systems that exist in the past and present African systems that seek to disenfranchise Black women. This research conceptualises Black woman through apartheid system's racial classification by centralising oral history archives as a decolonial methodological tool to understanding how Black women's lived experiences and identities become deeply embedded within the broader social and political systems. The data source for this research consisted of semi-structured open ended oral history interviews which were conducted with participants who are descendants of a Black woman who were racially classified as Coloured instead of Black or Native under the apartheid system of racial classification. Emphasis has been placed on Black women telling their stories and historical experiences by centering memory in revisiting the past as a fundamental contribution thereby building intersectional African feminist archives. Thus, to offer space to make sense of how the intersecting structural issue of oppression is possible in understanding how meaning is made which is extremely instrumental in writing Black women's agency into South Africa's national history. This research therefore aims to write into this literary reality by writing against the apartheid archive by establishing Black women's experiences and the effects of the apartheid system's racial classification in the national history archive. Only once the lived experiences of Black women throughout these oppressive periods of colonialism and Apartheid have been theorised can the process of African feminist emancipation be realised

Investigating associations between fluvial style and the characteristics and distribution of geomorphic units in non-perennial rivers

>Magister Scientiae - MScAlthough non-perennial rivers are the most dominant river type in arid and semi-arid areas, far outnumbering perennial rivers, recent reviews have shown that the knowledge base supporting non-perennial river research is still in its infancy. This is a cause for concern as non-perennial rivers are increasing in number due to climate and other environmental change, and over-exploitation of catchment water resources. Thus more research is needed to improve decision support in the management of non-perennial systems. This thesis examines key geomorphic units found in non-perennial reaches with contrasting fluvial styles in the Touws and Prins Rivers, semi-arid Little Karoo, Western Cape. The study analyses the different types of bar located within these characterised fluvial styles, as the building blocks of physical habitat suitability and diversity. Few studies have assessed and investigated the physical characteristics of non-perennial rivers, and this knowledge gap provided the opportunity to examine and explain the associations between fluvial style, and the characteristics and distribution of geomorphic units. In this research, a procedure to observe and measure the characteristics of morphologic features was developed and applied. The approach was based on identifying and describing the morphometric characteristics of channel and floodplain features identified by aerial image analysis and field survey

This Africa : giving form to the informal

The thesis entitled “This is Africa giving form to the informal” arose from a concern with the growing levels of poverty and unemployment in South Africa and the recognition that small scale, self-generated economic activity provides an important means of survival for the very poor. It acknowledges the positive contributions that informal street trading makes to the urban environment. The dissertation draws upon a study of recently initiated projects that aimed to legitimise informal trading, by integrating it in the built environment. It is also driven by a study of the way in which traders organise, claim and define space in the urban environment. This process can be seen as the way in which traders themselves seek legitimacy. Collectively, case studies revealed a number of key elements necessary for the legitimisation of informal trade. Although the area of the proposed intervention is the Pretoria Station precinct, the study acknowledges that there are universal elements contained in informal trading. These elements establish a set of principles that define the minimal intervention necessary in order to allow opportunities for trade to as many people as possible whilst giving the traders themselves the maximum possible room to manoeuvre. In essence, the approach does not argue for the formalisation or ‘neatening’ of informal activity, but aims to give form to activities frequently regarded as illegal, and to provide street market spaces that can function as essential forms of urban infrastructure (Dewar 1990:xi).Mini Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010.Architectureunrestricte

Desegregation in a former "whites only" school in South Africa

AbstractDesegregation in former white schools of South AfricabyNomalanga P. GrootboomAfter decades of racially segregated education under apartheid in South Africa, the process of school desegregation commenced in 1990's with the view equalize education for all, and fostering better relationships and making available equal opportunities for all learners. The process of desegregation not has been without problems as it is apparent with race related incidents of racial conflicts and tension in certain desegregated schools. Despite the intentions of policy makers, educators, parents and the success of desegregated schooling needs to be seen through the experience of learners in such schools. This study examines cross racial interaction of learners in a formerly "whites only" high school in South Africa and seeks to explore their day to day school life over a period of six months. Data were obtained from several sources including interviews with students, teachers, and administrators, focus group discussions, and observations. Key findings from the study revealed critical factors that impact the educational experiences of learners in this school, and how these can inform the process of educational change, as well as serve as useful indicators for planning and decision making. Lessons learned from this study provide an opportunity for further comparative studies with respect to the diverse aspects of the teaching-learning for diverse and monoculture learner in different settings of the new (post-apartheid) South African school system.Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University, K-12 Educational Administration, 2012Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-103

Electrooxidation of cresols on carbon electrodes modified with phthalocyaninato and octabutoxyphthalocyaninato cobalt (II) complexes

Glassy carbon electrodes (GCE) modified with cobalt(II) phthalocyanine (CoPc-GCE) and cobalt(II) octabutoxyphthalocyanine (CoOBuPc-GCE) were employed for the electrochemical analysis of ortho-, meta-, and para-cresols. The oxidation potential of p-cresol was shifted towards less positive values to a larger extent, when compared to m- and o-cresols, on CoOBuPc-GCE. However, the GCE was less stable when modified with CoOBuPc than with CoPc. This is explained using the possible differences in the orientation of the adsorbed phthalocyanine molecules on the electrode. Bulk electrolysis of p-cresol at anodic potentials (1.0 V versus Ag|AgCl) on carbon electrodes modified with CoPc resulted in the formation of radicals which coupled to form trimeric products. On unmodified carbon electrodes, coupling of the radicals resulted in dimeric products following bulk electrolysis. The products formed following bulk electrolysis were characterized by liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry