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Research Articles (University of Pretoria)
This collection offers open access to the full text of research
articles published by staff, students and affiliates of the
University of Pretoria. These items are identical in content to
their published counterparts. It is linked to the Research
Information System and complements the
Annual
Research Report.
Access to the full text of UP theses and dissertations is
available at
UP Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Information and guidelines for authors/ submitters available at
http://www.ais.up.ac.za/openup/index.htm.
For inquiries regarding this collection or items in the collection, please
contact : Hendriette Jansen van Vuuren
Tel.:
+27 12 420 4712
Recent Submissions
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Moyo-Chilufya, Maureen; Mgutshini, Tennyson; Musekiwa, Alfred; Hongoro, Charles
(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2024-12-01)
SETTING: In sub-Saharan Africa, the syndemic of HIV
and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) poses a significant
challenge. To address this, leading global think tanks
like the WHO advocate for integrated HIV/NCD care ...
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Le Roux, Ilana
(Unisa Press, 2024-12)
Discussions on the use, regulation, and development of assisted reproductive and reprogenetic technologies are dominated by a rights discourse, primarily paying attention to how these technologies can give effect to or ...
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Marema, Tumelo
(Unisa Press, 2024-12)
Violence and oppression in the form of conquest and colonialism, racism, patriarchy, heteronormativity and in terms of class are all inevitable effects of Western culture. This is due to the reason that Western culture is ...
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Manyonganise, Molly
(Africa Journals, 2024-03)
From its onset in Zimbabwe, COVID-19 disrupted the mental health of many Zimbabweans. Its quick transmission and viciousness caused fear and panic as people tried to ensure their safety from infection. When lockdown was ...
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Esterhuizen, Elizabeth; Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969-
(Africa Journals, 2024-05)
The book of Isaiah is one of the world’s oldest surviving resistance literature. Isaiah 13
describes God who collects an army for the battle against Babylon which will lead to Babylon’s
utter desolation and destruction. ...
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Adeboye, Godwin Oriyomi; Sukdaven, Maniraj
(Africa Journals, 2024-10)
Using Haleem’s hypothesis on the context of revelation and Wright’s progressive revelation theory
as theoretical frameworks, this paper examines the theological differences in Muhammad’s
messages in Mecca and Medina and ...
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Lombaard, Christoffel Johannes Stephanus
(Africa Journals, 2024-01)
This contribution is a slightly edited invited presentation at the Society for Biblical Literature annual international conference at the University of Pretoria, 3-7 July 2023, at a panel discussion titled “The role of ...
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Olajide, Michael D.
(Africa Journals, 2024-10)
The Apostle Paul has been an iconic theologian of the church. As a diverse society and a
platform where there is expectation for excellence and orderliness, it is imperative for the
church to be led by Christ-like, morally ...
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Mokoena, Katleho Karabo
(Africa Journals, 2024-01)
South Africa is one of the most violent countries in the world with different types of violence
associated with crime, gender-based violence, and sexual violence amongst others. While the
South African Police Service ...
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Olajide, Grace O.
(Africa Journals, 2024-10)
Prophecy, prophet(s) and prophesying were usual religious and spiritual phenomena in ancient Israel which do pose challenges for the contemporary church. Sending of divine messages or revelation to the covenant people ...
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Kuhlengisa, Impi Rungano; Masiya, Tyanai; Lubinga, Stellah N.; Maramura, Tafadzwa Clementine
(EnPress Publisher, 2024-11-25)
PURPOSE : This study examined the variations in the adoption of the National Framework for Municipal Indigent Policies in different municipal categories across South Africa. The goal was to contribute towards the strengthening ...
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Manyonganise, Molly
(MDPI, 2024-01-16)
African Pentecostalism remains the fastest growing form of Christianity on the African continent. Scholarship on Zimbabwean Pentecostalism has noted how the emergence of New Pentecostal Movements (NPMs), specifically ...
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Öhlmann, Philipp; Sonntag, Ekkardt A.
(MDPI, 2024-12-04)
Religious leaders are highly influential actors in many societies across the globe. In the singular global crisis brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic, their perspective on the pandemic itself but also the post-pandemic ...
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Potgieter, Annette
(MDPI, 2024-03-21)
Paul often uses metaphors as a method of persuasion. In Rom 8, Paul’s use of kinship metaphors such as “sonship” and being “heirs” is particularly ubiquitous. Paul writes to an audience situated in Rome where they would ...
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Smit, Peter-Ben A.
(MDPI, 2024-08-05)
Paul refers to peace twice in Phil. 4:7 and 4:9. This paper argues that the peace of God is a prefiguration of the eschatological peace to come in God’s world. It is be proposed that as Philippians is dealing with a social ...
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Yong, Amos; Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus
(MDPI, 2024-07-10)
This article focuses on Pentecostalism and its real and possible contributions to socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. First, we provide an overall historical and theological introduction to Pentecostalism in ...
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Islam, Mohammed Shariful; Heymann, Gerhard
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2025-03)
Seismic surface wave tests are widely used in geotechnical engineering due to their non-
invasive and cost-effective approach in obtaining important soil parameters such as the small
strain shear modulus (G 0) by measuring ...
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Van der Merwe, L.M.; Schliewert, Eva-Christina
(Medpharm Publications, 2025)
BACKGROUND : Colic is a common equine emergency requiring medical or surgical intervention. These interventions can be costly,
making outcomes data and prognostic indicators essential for guiding referral and treatment ...
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Reynolds, Q.G.; Bowman, B.; Erwee, M.W.; Geldenhuys, I.J.; Sandrock, C.; Venter, G.A.; Xakalashe, B.S.; Zietsman, Johannes Hendrik
(South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2025-03)
Understanding the behaviour of plasma arcs is an important part of the design and operation
of direct current electric arc furnace smelting processes, which are used in the industrial
production of many metallurgical ...
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Milanovic, Marija; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Biederman, Lori; Borer, Elizabeth; Catford, Jane A.; Cleland, Elsa; Hagenah, Nicole; Haider, Sylvia; Harpole, W. Stanley; Komatsu, Kimberly; Macdougall, Andrew S.; Roemermann, Christine; Seabloom, Eric W.; Knapp, Sonja; Kuehn, Ingolf
(Wiley, 2025-03)
AIMS : The community composition of native and alien plant species is influenced by the environment (e.g., nutrient addition and changes in temperature or precipitation). A key objective of our study is to understand how ...
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