This study is located within early childhood education, early childhood intervention and childhood dis/ability studies. The aim of the thesis is to explore the concept of ontoepistemic injustice for autistic children with/in educational and therapeutic settings. Current pedagogies and interventions are embedded in human-centric ontologies that position autistic child as lacking, immature, and often incapacitated epistemologically.

The adult world crucially encompasses children, but research in South African literature has mainly focused on adult worlds, whether white or black. The child, however, is a prominent figure in the poetry and fiction that has tried to capture South African experience in the past, present, and, importantly, implicit projections of the future, through the ways in which children often embody hope for the future. In South Africa, the child is caught up in the politics of the nation through the politics of love and past shame.

Endometriosis is a complex, poorly understood disease that affects approximately 2% to 10% of women globally. Persistent fatigue renders many endometriosis patients unable to engage in daily life, yet has not received much attention in the academic literature and treatment protocols are almost non-existent. Persistent fatigue is a common symptom of other long-term diseases and the evidence for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)-based treatment is strong.

Achieving food security in the face of accelerating food demand, competition for depleting resources, and the failing ability of the environment to buffer increasing anthropogenic impacts is globally accepted as the foremost challenge of the present time. Without doubt, climate change is one among a set of interconnected trends and risks facing agriculture and food systems, especially in the rural settings of developing countries.

Educators world-wide find themselves in the challenging position of educating young adolescents for a future in which exponential knowledge doubling will become a reality. Together with the medical prognosis of a much longer life span for this age group and a radical restructuring of the global economy, the implication is that today’s youth will need the skills to negotiate a much longer career of self-employment through a succession of jobs, often collaborative in nature and mostly Internet-driven.

Cyberspace is expanding at a rapid pace and extends its reach into the functioning of society. The pervasive nature of cyberthreats poses a significant security challenge to governments, businesses, organisations, and individual users. The contribution this study makes to the field of cybersecurity lies in its methodological approach to focusing on South African military officers, which is a hitherto under-researched subject in the South African domain.

This study aims to contribute to the grammatical description of Xitsonga, an often-neglected language in Bantu linguistics. Drawing theoretical insights from comparative Bantu linguistics, such as Hyman’s (2003) Causative-Applicative-Reciprocal-Passive template hereafter abbreviated as CARP and Cocchi’s (2009) grouping criteria of verbal extensions into syntactic and lexical categories, the study’s main focus is on the descriptive analysis of the verbal extensions and their impact on the form and morpho-syntactic structure of Xitsonga.

This study examines the processes through which sacred cultural practices and people were made subjects of ethnological studies. It considers these histories through a renewed examination of the contexts under which the chisungu female initiation ceremony of the Bemba-speaking people of northern Zambia came to be studied, and how the sacred belongings of the ceremony were collected and turned into objects of ethnography in museums.

Wildfires have increasingly become a point of concern, especially with notable incidents like the 2017 Knysna fire. These naturally occurring phenomena, despite their disruptive nature, are crucial for the sustainability of certain ecosystems. At the heart of understanding wild-fires lies the relationship between climate, vegetation, topography, and human land use, with topography standing out as a significant determinant. This thesis delves into the fundamen-tal role of topography, emphasizing its effect on the ignition, propagation, and behaviour of wildfires.

This dissertation investigates acquisition and exhibition histories of parts of the Permanent African Art collection of the Iziko South African National Gallery. The ISANG, which is South Africa’s oldest state art museum, began growing its African art collection in 1967 at the height of the apartheid era. With an institutional life that spans from 1872 to the present, the ISANG has been shaped by legacies of settler colonialism, but also by the imperatives of the post-1994 cultural project of nation building.