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.

This study intended to provide an analysis of the language use in the multilingual setting of banks in the Free State Province. The study further determined the status of African languages in the banking sector in relation to perceptions about the use of African languages when transacting and communicating in the banks. The study also highlighted the importance of language planning and policy in the banks.

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Minorities’ land rights in Africa have been very complex because of the different socio economic and political dynamics which influence these rights. The different construction and implementation of minorities’ land rights by different communities in different circumstances have not only led to violent land disputes, but also to their denial, restriction and challenges in many African states. This study is situated within the scholarship on land and minorities.

Within the climate mitigation discourse, renewable energy technology is understood as vital to reduce coal energy reliance. This discourse which is deeply anthropocentric in its approach understands ‘green’ energy transitions largely as reliant on reductionist techno-scientific ‘solutions’ and green economic growth rationalisation. If energy transitions are not engaged with critically, ongoing injustice and extractive relationships are likely to be perpetuated.