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“Back to sender” : re-visiting the belief in witchcraft in post-colonial Zimbabwean Pentecostalism (MDPI, 2022-01-05)This paper is a critical analysis of the witchcraft beliefs in Pentecostalism in post-colonial Zimbabwe. While Pentecostals claim “a complete break from the past”, there have emerged new dimensions that show that the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)This comparative analysis of witchcraft persecutions of children in Nigeria and Tanzania, not only demonstrated the extent to which children are marginalized as a result of this harmful practice, but indicated that, ...
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(Routledge, 2022)The study employed a qualitative approach to explore the cultural beliefs of mental health care users (MHCUs) and caregivers regarding help-seeking behaviour in the rural communities of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-09-27)The use of literature both in and outside the classroom is of the utmost importance and must be taken note of by language teachers. The National Curriculum Statement provides the guidelines for teachers to select texts ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2022)The end of the apartheid era witnessed a move towards the decolonisation of the South African workplace. Individuals with diverse cultures were more readily accepted into the workplace, especially those from indigenous ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-12-15)This study looks into the African belief about the mystical causes of diseases and the tenets of Western germ theory. Despite widespread Western medical practices, African people still strongly believe in the mystical ...
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(Nelson Mandela University, 2022-04)Discrimination according to gender has been in practice in communities globally since time immemorial. This discrimination has infiltrated all spheres of life including the naming, shaming, blaming, and persecution of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012-08-15)From the early 1990s, rates of HIV infection increased dramatically in South Africa and by the early 2000s, AIDS emerged as the main cause of death for adult South Africans. During the first half of the 2000s, the South ...
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(The Author, 2011-05-20)
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-09-12)This dissertation can be summarized as follows: ethnocentrism occurs because there is a lack of insight to the fact that religion is socially taught. Ethnocentrism should not be enforced on our understanding of other ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012)Belief in witchcraft is found across the world and in some societies alleged witches are persecuted and killed. This article explores the rise of false accusations of witchcraft and the resultant killings in South Africa ...
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(Unisa Press, 2015)This article is the result of research findings undertaken in Limpopo Province on the subject of witchcraft beliefs. It is a narration of two villages whose residents were accused of witchcraft and had to be moved to ...
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(HAU Society for Ethnographic Theory, 2020-12)What are the current trends in the study of witchcraft in Africa? Twenty years ago, the “modernity of witchcraft” approach was very influential. Although key texts from that framework are still often cited, its heyday ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This research was prompted by the gruesome killing of elderly women within the very communities they live in. Elderly women are falsely accused due to lack of knowledge and education in these communities. Focus will be on ...
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