• An exploration of sociocultural adaptations of black students in South African private high schools 

  Mogoboya, Boitumelo (University of Pretoria, 2024-05)

  This study explored the sociocultural adaptations of Black students in South African private high schools. The specific objectives of the study were to: (1) explore the positive and negative sociocultural experiences of ...
• An investigation into the changing workplace of South African auditors and their experiences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and the implications for the auditing profession 

  Phasha, Noluthando Yvonne (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-20)

  The ongoing technological development and advancements have led to changes to the audit profession in South Africa and an alteration of the audit professionals’ work life. This dissertation investigates the impact this ...
• Safety and belonging : constructing a sense of belonging amongst young, middle-class, South African feminine bodies within an 'unsafe' place 

  Wiele, Simone Sarah-Jane (University of Pretoria, 2023-10-17)

  The affective dimension of belonging is theorised to involve feelings of being valued, safety, and agency. However, when applied to the lives of young South African women this conceptualisation falters and reveals its ...
• Humanising childbirth in South Africa : the role of indigenous midwives in countering obstetric violence 

  Motsei, Matshilo Tumelo Ntswatswa (University of Pretoria, 2023-11)

  Obstetric violence has increasingly become visible following research, advocacy, and activism by researchers, feminists, birth advocates, and scholars worldwide. This visibility is a result of the courage of women who ...
• Students’ voices in vocational education : a sociological exploration 

  Motsatsi, Patience Makgabaneng (University of Pretoria, 2024-01-30)

  This dissertation offers a comprehensive sociological investigation into students' perspectives in vocational education in Pretoria, South Africa. It seeks to elucidate the underlying reasons guiding students' preference ...
• Beyond periphery : dynamics of indigenous social protection systems in dealing with covariate shocks in Southeastern Nigeria 

  Enworo, Oko Chima (University of Pretoria, 2023-05)

  This study illustrates how indigenous social protection systems deal with covariate shocks in Southeastern Nigeria. It emphasises the dimensions, functions, and potential of these indigenous systems in managing the risks ...
• Sociological analysis of state capacity in the South African social security agency’s special CoVID-19 social relief of distress grant 

  Nkoli, Motsoakgomo Papi (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  South Africa’s national response to the advent of the CoVID-19 pandemic included government’s announcement of the “extraordinary coronavirus budget” of R500 billion that was aimed at cushioning society and the economy from ...
• Constructions of women’s economic empowerment through microfinance in development discourse : a case study of World Vision’s Women’s Self Help Group programme in Eswatini 

  Dlamini, Thandwa Sinenhlanhla (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study focuses on the constructions of women’s economic empowerment in microfinance between World Vision, its partners, and boMake. The study adopts an ethnographic stance and examines the ideologies and governance ...
• The structure of township economy & development : the relationship between informal sector work and precarity in South African townships 

  Mathebula, Pride (University of Pretoria, 2022-11-28)

  In South Africa there is a large number of unemployed people, which in no small part is due to the formal sector’s incapability to create more job opportunities. People are vulnerable to poverty, and as a result, the ...
• South African youth education and career aspirations before and after covid-19 

  Mangwedi, Portia Aifheli (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study explored the experiences and investigated the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the education and career aspirations of young people in South Africa, with particular focus on Soshanguve, a township ...
• Revitalising biopower in the context of COVID-19 : biopolitics against a state of exception 

  Van Wyk, Duncan Trevor (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  When the World Health Organisation (WHO) first declared the Covid-19 crisis a global pandemic, an unprecedented experiment in both the management of population groups and crisis situations followed. Within their attempts ...
• Mapping precarity and social movements in contemporary South Africa 

  Verity, Justin (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The Global South has been a historical site for marginality and precarity, challenging the Global North’s theorisations and assumptions of precarity being a uniquely Northern phenomenon. This dissertation focuses on the ...
• Enhancing active labour market programmes for improved youth livelihoods : a study of unemployed graduate youth in Botswana 

  Setambule, Thato (University of Pretoria, 2022-11)

  This thesis is based on a doctoral study that aimed to explore the livelihood challenges and strategies of unemployed graduate youth in Botswana and the extent to which current active labour market programmes in the country ...
• Young boys at play? Gender relations and township primary school learners’ construction of masculinities in South Africa 

  Chimanzi, Luckmore (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study explores the social construction of masculinity among young boys and its impact on gender relations at two township primary schools in South Africa. Drawing from the conceptual ideas of Critical Studies on Men ...
• Cross-border care practices : experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women engaged in care work in households in South Africa 

  Baison, Precious (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  The aim of this study is to explore the cross-border migration of Zimbabwean women who undertake various types of care work within the domestic sector in South Africa. The study seeks to understand the female labour migration ...
• The emergence of Ina-ethe migration : Mpondo men and continued migrant labour post-apartheid 

  Nomvete, Sandla (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This thesis contributes to an understanding of the continued reliance on mining migrant labour. It explores why men from Mpondoland in Flagstaff and Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape Province continue to leave their homes to ...
• Enkele sosiologiese aspekte van die vryetydsbesteding van manlike kleurlinge 

  Botha, Adam Johannes Jacobus (University of Pretoria, 1967)

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• Conditions for a Successful/Unsuccessful Reintegration Process back to High School : Former Adolescent Mothers’ Recollections/Reflections. 

  Mokoena, Onthatile Mmathabo (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  The following study explores the conditions under which former adolescent mothers were successfully or unsuccessfully reintegrated back into high school before and after giving birth. 12 semi-structured, in-depth, interviews ...
• Post-war Labour Market Reconstruction : The Case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 

  Inaka, Saint José Camille Koto Mondoko (University of Pretoria, 2020-11)

  The Democratic Republic of Congo experienced a merciless war from 1998 to 2002 that seriously affected its labour market, as it did all other aspects of society. The effects on the labour market have aroused various debates. ...
• The Search for Healing and Health in Zambian Eastern Province: A Sociological Investigation of Imbricated Health Systems 

  Bwalya, Wilson (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  In this study, I investigated the search for health and healing in a region of modern Zambia, tracing the imbricated forms of medical knowledge and practices. Drawing on my completed original Honours research project, ...

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