Faculty of Humanities
Recent Submissions
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Play on Twitter During Health Crisis in Non-Democratic Context. Gratification or Dissent?
(SAGE, 2023)There is scholarly debate on whether digital political participation influence decision-making or merely make citizens feelgood. Using digital public sphere theory and play, this article explores political participation ... -
A pianist's technique rehabilitation after post-traumatic stress: An autoethnographic study
(SAGE, 2023)Individuals suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have access to a number of sources detailing the neuropsychological effects and influence of PTSD on their day-to-day lives. While the information on the ... -
Press and Politics: Contributions of Sol Plaatje to South African journalism
(SAGE, 2023)The article looks into the journalism of Solomon Thekisho Plaatje (popularly known as Sol Plaatje) and hiscontributions to the early South African black press and politics. Sol Plaatje remains one of South Africa’smost ... -
Playing on Both Sides of the Djembe: Preservice Music Teacher Development through Facilitating Drumming at a Special Education School
(SAGE, 2023)Despite a renewed interest in music teacher education practices with real-worldimplications, the heterogeneity of learners is often daunting to early-careereducators. There is a lack of specific and adequate coursework in ... -
Debunking the Myth of Independence of the NPRC Commissioners in Zimbabwe
(SAGE, 2023)Scholars have long been interested in understanding the functions and efficacy of Truth and ReconciliationCommissions (TRCs) in promoting post-conflict justice and reconciliation, particularly in countries emergingfrom ... -
The Political Economy of Indigenous Local Media for Minority Languages in Zimbabwe: A Case of Lyeja FM Community Radio
(SAGE, 2023)This article analyses the political economy of indigenous language media for minority ethnolinguistic groupsin Zimbabwe. Using political economy as theory, the study engaged members of Lyeja-Nyai DevelopmentTrust to analyse ... -
Data literacy training needs of researchers at South African Universities
(Emerald, 2023)Purpose – The aim of this study was to determine data literacy (DL) training needs of researchers at South African public universities. The outcome of this study would assist librarians and researchers in developing a DL ... -
Decent Work, Capabilities, and Flourishing at Work
(Emerald, 2023)Purpose – This study aims to investigate the associations among decent work (DW), capabilities and the flourishing of employees in a South African context. Design/methodology/approach – A cross-sectional survey was ... -
Measuring the Impact of Social Media on Young People’s Mental Health: Development and Validation of the Social Media-Induced Tendency Scale
(Hindawi, 2023)Social media use has been linked to adverse health outcomes such as depression. To facilitate interventions, understanding the varied causes of depression is necessary. The authors developed a social media-induced depression ... -
The performance of wearable sensors in the detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection : a systematic review
(Elsevier, 2022)Containing the COVID-19 pandemic requires rapidly identifying infected individuals. Subtle changes in physiological parameters (such as heart rate, respiratory rate, and skin temperature), discernible by wearable devices, ... -
Hopelessness and shame in relation to suicide attempts by Cuban adolescents
(SAGE Publications, 2022)Youth suicide rates in Cuba are very high compared with most other countries, despite considerable improvement in recent years. The purpose of our study was to determine whether hopelessness and shame distinguish adolescent ... -
Afrikaanse Jakkals-en-Wolftrieksterverhale : strukturele en inhoudelike patroonmatighede Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories : patterning in the structure and general content
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)Afrikaans Jackal and Wolf trickster stories: Patterning in the structure and general content This article explores characteristic or repetitive pattern formations in the structure and general content of selected Afrikaans ... -
Transendensie, toeval en geluk
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)The question posed in this article is how happiness in life relates to transcendence and chance. This question is linked to questions about the core of our being as negation (something negative) and/or affirmation (something ... -
Hegemonie en mag : ’n normatiewe besinning in die lig van ’n gevallestudie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns/South African Academy of Science and Arts, 2022)Hegemony and power are overlapping concepts. Hegemony can be understood as a way of exercising power and as the consequences of exercising power. Limited studies attempted to use the relationship between the concepts to ... -
Relasionele ontologie en posthumanistiese subjektiwiteit in Pieter Odendaal se poësiedebuut
(African Journals online, 2022)In Pieter Odendaal’s debut, asof geen berge ooit hier gewoon het nie (as if no mountains ever lived here), the poet expands the complex question “re mang?” (who are we?) into an important theme and utilises it as a structural ... -
Environmental attitudes among undergraduate students at a South African university
(ediPUCRS [University Publisher], 2022)Understanding environmental attitudes (EAs) has been viewed as prerequisite to changing environmental behaviour and is a particularly salient topic in the context of higher educational institutions which play an important ... -
Employers’ attitude, intention, skills and barriers in relation to employment of vulnerable workers
(2022)BACKGROUND: Little is known why some organizations employ vulnerable workers and others do not. OBJECTIVE: To explore the relationships between the attitude, intention, skills and barriers of employers and employment of ... -
Does occupational self-efficacy mediate the relationshipsbetween job insecurity and work-related learning? A latentgrowth modelling approach
(2022)This study investigates whether job insecurity is related to employee learning (i.e. the acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies/characteristics; KSAOs) and whether occupational self-efficacy functions as a ... -
Ease of doing business in local government: push and pull actors for business investment in selected South African Municipalities
(2022)Ease of doing business with municipalities and within municipal areas refers to the simplicity, effortlessness, and extent to which private enterprises can establish and conduct their business. It is influenced by multiple ... -
Implementation of a multimodal academic literacy resource at a South African University: a critical autoethnographic reflection
(IGI Global, 2021)As a lecturer at a higher education institution in South Africa, the author is conscious of an emphasis placed on multimodal resources as part of the globally experienced shift to teach remotely due to the COVID-19 epidemic. ...