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  • A revaluation of tolerance and toleration : a Selective Incorporation of Classical Conceptions of Tolerance 
    Knauff, Fritz Theo (University of Pretoria, 2016)
    This dissertation aims to revitalise and revalue a currently disregarded conceptual field of tolerance, and explores the prospect of it - and its respective practice (toleration) - satisfying Nietzsche"s criteria of ...
  • REVEALING LIVES: excavating, mapping and interrogating life histories of women clothing workers from District Six (1940 - present) 
    Sanger, Amanda (University of Pretoria, 2020-08)
    This study is a contribution to the programme of memorializing District Six through the site-specific stories that are shared in research, education, and the co-curated spaces of the District Six Museum. When buildings, ...
  • Revelatory deceptions in selected plays by William Shakespeare 
    De Waal, Marguerite Florence (University of Pretoria, 2017)
    This dissertation is concerned with the paradox of revelatory deception a form of 'lying' which reveals truth instead of concealing it in four Shakespearean plays: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Hamlet, and ...
  • Review of AAC interventions in persons with dementia 
    May, Auriel Adele; Dada, Shakila; Murray, Janice (Wiley, 2019-11)
    BACKGROUND : Communication is an important priority in dementia research. Communication strategies and scaffolds, specifically through augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), offer vital compensatory support for ...
  • A review of hunter-gatherers in Later Stone Age research in southern Africa 
    Forssman, Tim (South African Archaeological Society, 2019)
    Since its inception in academia in 1929 by John Goodwin and Clarence van Riet Lowe, the Later Stone Age (LSA) in southern Africa has seen considerable growth and heated academic debate. Recently, some academics have ...
  • A review of interventions for children and youth with severe disabilities in inclusive education 
    Dada, Shakila; Wilder, Jenny; May, Adele; Klang, Nina; Pillay, Mershen (Taylor and Francis, 2023-11-12)
    Children with severe disabilities are often excluded from educational opportunities due to inter alia attitudinal barriers and a lack of teacher training. This scoping review paper assessed intervention studies focused ...
  • A review of South African perspectives on serial murder 
    Del Fabbro, Giada Alessia (University of Pretoria, 2007-11-12)
    Pistorius (1996) was the first individual to introduce research on serial murder in the South African context with her psychodynamic approach to the phenomenon. Since then, others have followed, namely Labuschagne (1998, ...
  • A Review of South African research in the field of dynamic assessment 
    Murphy, Raegan (University of Pretoria, 2003-06-26)
    Dynamic assessment, which is often characterised by the learning potential approach across the world and in South Africa, is receiving more and more attention from educators and research practitioners alike. The nature of ...
  • Reviewing China and Africa : old interests, new trends - or new interests, old trends? 
    Melber, Henning (Routledge, 2013-09)
    Africa was for a long time considered to be Europe’s backyard. This situation since the turn of the century has changed considerably. With new actors pursuing their own economic interests, mainly representing the growing ...
  • Revisiting core issues in dynamic assessment 
    Murphy, Raegan; Maree, David J.F. (Psychological Society of South Africa, 2009-12)
    Dynamic assessment is currently poised at a juncture where theoretical and practical assessment resolutions are necessitated. Such issues concern theoretical approaches towards psycho-educational assessment. In order to ...
  • Revisiting international relations theory : discourses from Africa 
    Africa, Sandy; Graham, Suzanne (Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, 2019-12)
    African voices and experiences have been erased from the canon of mainstream IR theory, and even in well‐intentioned accounts that take the power dynamics between the developed and underdeveloped world into account. This ...
  • Revisiting the master-signifier, or, Mandela and repression 
    Hook, Derek; Vanheule, Stijn (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2016-01-19)
    The concept of the master-signifier has been subject to a variety of applications in Lacanian forms of political discourse theory and ideology critique. While there is much to be commended in literature of this sort, it ...
  • Revisiting the Political Economy of Land in South Africa : Hernando de Soto, Property and Economic Development, 1860- 1920 
    Harris, Andrew (University of Pretoria, 2020-10-30)
    Land ownership remains an important and contested issue in contemporary South African politics. Drawing inspiration from Hernando de Soto’s work, especially his book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the ...
  • Revisiting the virtue of courage in Aristotle 
    Ladikos, Anastasios; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities (South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2004)
    Aristotle views the courageous man as someone who endures and fears the right things, for the right motive, in the right manner and at the right time, given that a courageous man feels and acts according to the merits of ...
  • Revisiting the Windhoek Old Location 
    Melber, Henning (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2016)
    The Windhoek Old Location refers to what had been the South West African capital’s Main Location for the majority of black and so-called Colored people from the early 20th century until 1960. Their forced removal to the ...
  • Revisiting the ‘Hammarskjöld approach’ 
    Melber, Henning (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, 2015)
    During a debate in the UN Security Council in 2011, the Chinese Permanent Representative Li Baodong demanded that the peacekeeping operations of the organisation ‘should adhere to the Hammarskjöld principles’. On ...
  • 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 ...
  • Revitalizing the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ : a Kenneth Burkean diagnosis of symbolic (dis)orders 
    Bowie, Anneli; Reyburn, Duncan (Routledge, 2021)
    This paper offers a new perspective on the rhetoric of ‘sustainability’ especially within dialogue around ‘design for sustainability’ (DfS) by applying and advancing the work of twentieth-century rhetorical theorist and ...
  • Rewriting and the Gospels 
    Allen, Garrick V. (Sage, 2018-09)
    This article explores the ways in which the New Testament functions as a witness to Jewish literary production, focusing on the concept of rewritten scripture. I argue that Matthew’s relationship to Mark offers insight ...
  • Rhetoric and argument in Chapter VI of Jerome's Vita Malchi Monachi Captivi 
    Botha, Philippus Jacobus; Kritzinger, J.P.K. (Jacobus) (Insitute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2013)
    The authors argue that the density of rhetorical devices in Chapter VI of Jerome’s Vita Malchi Monachi Captivi not only serves as proof of Jerome’s literary competence, but also informs the reader about the real purpose ...