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Theses and Dissertations (Anthropology, Archaeology and Development Studies)
Recent Submissions
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Pistorius, Julius Cornelius
(University of Pretoria, 1989)
English: In a regional survey in an area around Loolekop which represents the central
carbonatite pipe of the Palabora Igneous Complex, about fifty historical known
sites were identified and divided into three groups ...
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Barnard, Chanté
(University of Pretoria, 2024-07-29)
Southern African trade has primarily been examined through farmer archaeological sequences. One reason for this approach is that trade opportunities along the East African coastline, and the subsequent appearance of trade ...
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Malungane, Makhanana
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market (JFPM) is the largest fresh produce market in Africa, in terms of volume and turnover, and plays a central role in making fresh produce accessible across Gauteng and surrounding areas ...
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Blackbeard, Jeanie
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-21)
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Afrikaans women in South Africa harnessed the power of Boererate not only as a healing tradition but as a living, adaptive agent with the ability to connect people and subtly reshape ...
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Pentz, Justin
(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-31)
The Later Stone Age of the middle Limpopo Valley is known through several excavated shelters and subsequent lithic analyses. Scholars have argued that it demonstrates a series of changes that appear linked to shifts in the ...
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Lwakatare, Brenda
(University of Pretoria, 2024-03-31)
Street vending business plays a significant role in Dar es Salaam City's informal economy, providing livelihoods and local food accessibility. However, the government still views street vendors as a nuisance to the city ...
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Magale, Eric Gwandega
(University of Pretoria, 2024-01-22)
Financial inclusion emerged around the mid-2000s as a developmental strategy that proposed the tailoring of financial services of different kinds to the poor as a means of tackling poverty and inequality. This thesis ...
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Kuhlase, Siphesihle
(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-25)
Interactions between foragers and farmers in southern Africa has been extensively researched. Their social relations of these two groups, included the introduction of new settlement and subsistence patterns, as well as ...
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Madwatte, Gwaha A.
(University of Pretoria, 2023-11-27)
This dissertation explores healthcare workers’ praxis of biomedical ethics in a healthcare system that has been ravaged by structural challenges evidenced by poor management, shortages of biomedical supplies, staff, and ...
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De Beer, Frederik Coenraad
(University of Pretoria, 1979-05)
The Bakoni ba Dikgale seceded from the Bakoni ba Matlala
shortly after 1700 and established themselves in the
present tribal area, 50 km North-East of Pietersburg,
where they came into contact with Venda and Ndebele
groups ...
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Maphosa, Keneuoe
(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-26)
In the global landscape of informal cross-border trade, Basotho women emerge as a distinctive and dynamic force, defying traditional gender norms and shaping the economic landscape of the Southern African region within ...
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Chibwe, Lydia T.
(University of Pretoria, 2023-08-31)
The issue of migration has remained one of the most pressing contemporary issues facing nation-states. To this extent it has become a topic of global, humanitarian, foreign and domestic affairs with some calling for open ...
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Karuma, Praise Gamuchirai
(University of Pretoria, 2023-09-10)
The study focused on how gender influences the socio-ecological resilience of women to climate change in selected Post-Fasttrack Resettlement Farms (PFTRFs) in Zvimba East District. The study analyses the level of women’s ...
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Setuke, Tshiamo Caroline
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-12)
This dissertation explores and analyzes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women street traders in the Marabastad area of Pretoria. The research for this dissertation was conducted from a socio-economic perspective as ...
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Sagandira, Tabitha
(University of Pretoria, 2023-11)
This study discusses South Africa's commitment to combat the scourge of human trafficking, a pervasive global crime with profound economic and social repercussions. The illicit trade in humans not only results in remittance ...
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Hopf, Tyron Denis
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Livestock were a key social and economic component of agropastoral Middle Iron-Age societies
who occupied Middle Limpopo River valley between during the early second millennium CE.
This period witnessed rapid developments ...
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Pillay, Indira
(University of Pretoria, 2023-06-20)
The tragic deaths that resulted from the closure of the Life Esidimeni mental health facility in Gauteng, South Africa, questioned many facets of mental health care, patients’ rights, and the agents of power in health care. ...
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Hahlani, Stephen
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12-11)
This thesis is an account of Mbare Musika Fresh Produce Market, in Harare, Zimbabwe, since
1930. The study is a response to the dominant notion in literature and media that Mbare
Musika is disorganised and chaotic. It ...
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Muzeza, Kundai
(University of Pretoria, 2023-08)
Historically in Africa, migration has been a male dominated phenomenon. However, over the past few decades there has been a change of trend in the migration predicament, with an unprecedented number of women joining the ...
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Khuzwayo, Fanelesbonge
(University of Pretoria, 2023-12)
The study investigates informal social networks’ role, contribution, and significance to street traders within the Pretoria Central Business District (CBD). This locale was considered ideal for this study because the City ...
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