Publications
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Engaging Students
(2017)
The book provides a rich, informative picture of the current state of student engagement evaluation, while also highlighting challenges and opportunities for future advances. A particular strength of this publication is ...
Praxis towards sustainable empowering learning environments in South Africa
(2010)
This collection presents some of the best peer-reviewed papers from a conference with the theme “Creating sustainable empowering learning environments through scholarship of engagement”.
Kerk en orde vandag
(2010)
The Case Against Intervention
(2023)
The Case Against Intervention - the fourth venture of the author Quah, Chee Heong, dwells upon contemporary social and economic issues. His previous books Optimal Currency Areas in East Asia, Eccentric Views on Money and ...
A Long Walk to Purgatory
(2023)
A Long Walk to Purgatory is a play that places Dante in the South African context. It works with the idea that dead poets must guide living poets through the afterlife on a journey of poetic reckoning. It is now Dante's ...
Religion and Politics in Swaziland
(2013)
The author offers a candid reflection on the interface between politics and religion in Swaziland by reflecting on the works of Joshua Mzizi. The strength of the book lies in the fact that the author, a public theologian, ...
Southern African Geomorphology
(2013)
This book covers the geomorphology and landscape evolution of South Africa, focusing on arid landscapes, fluvial systems, karst, Quaternary landscapes, macro-scale geomorphic evolution, coastal geomorphology and applied ...
Spirit and Healing in Africa
(2013)
There is a great need for healing in Africa. This need is in itself no different elsewhere in the world, but it is greatly determined by the involvement of religious communities and traditions. Faith communities and religious ...
International Comparative Perspectives on Religion and Education
(2014)
This book scrutinises religion in education in ten countries. It reveals much about the tension between religion and education in secular countries, and the blending between religion and education in religious countries, ...
Multilingualism and the Public Sector in South Africa
(2012)
This book contributes to the discourse on language in South Africa with a specific focus on multilingualism and the public sector.
The Role of Livestock in Developing Communities
(2010)
The book provides critical information and knowledge on the importance of livestock in the global effort to alleviate poverty and promote human health. It describes and evaluates case studies, examines theoretical frameworks, ...
Jihad
(2013)
What are the factors which have made South Africa so appealing to terrorist and radical islamic organisations? What role has South Africa played within global Jihad? This book examines how South Africa has come to play a ...
From Technology Transfer to Intercultural Development
(2012)
The central theme of this book is the intercultural development of technology in a globalising world. Migration, tourism, information and communication technology and international trade stimulate tfhe encounter between ...
The Spirituality of Black Hebrew Pentecostals
(2010)
The spirituality of Black Hebrew Pentecostalism is a rich tradition that has been hidden from the view of scholars. With the new interest in spirituality forming the background to this title, the author attempts to enlighten ...
Afrikaanse Filosofie
(2016)
Knowledge as Enablement
(2015)
Knowledge can and does enable, specifically through engagement between higher education institutions, the third sector (mostly non-profit organisations), public service role players and the communities. The purpose of the ...
The Battle at Mamusa
(2015)
The Battle of Mamusa reflects the grievous event in the Western Transvaal border culture context that contributed profoundly to the dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity. The narrative presented in this work ...
Response-ability in the era of AIDS
(2014)
The aim of this book is to disseminate the results of research, and to inform, inspire and create a platform for debate between practitioners, academics, researchers, trainers and facilitators interested in addressing ...
Transformation and Legitimation in Post-apartheid Universities
(2016)
Two decades after the democratic transition, South African universities are in turmoil. Whilst the old is slowly becoming unhinged, reimagining the new is protracted and contested. The challenges ahead, including a funding ...
Communion Ecclesiology in a Racially Polarised South Africa
(2017)
Communion Ecclesiology by Dr. K.T. Resane explores the concept of a communion ecclesiology in South Africa. The book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the concept in the Bible, in history and in different ...
Sexuality, Society & Pedagogy
(2014)
Sexuality, Society and Pedagogy problematises some of the prevailing assumptions that frame this area of study. In doing so, it aims to make visible the challenges of teaching sexuality education in South African schools, ...
Regional Innovation: Government policies and the role of Higher Education Institutions
(2016)
“This book provides an excellent analysis of regional innovation policy issues and developments with a wealth of examples, notably from OECD countries. Key policy areas, such as clusters, support services, and higher ...
Modelling as Research Methodology
(2010)
Modelling as Research Methodology is written for the scientist and student researching the (expected) functioning of systems under specified conditions. As such, it represents an introduction to the use of modelling in ...
Voices past and present
(2020)
The preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source ...
South African Christian Experiences
(2020)
Some of the studies in this publication excavate lost or disappearing indigenous toponyms. Those researchers contribute in a very concrete way to the preservation of indigenous toponyms, and thereby also the associated ...
A Passage of Nostalgia
(2020)
Jacobus Kloppers, an eminent composer, organist, pedagogue, and scholar, significantly contributed to musicological and organ teaching in South Africa and Canada and, in the latter context, art music, and liturgical ...
Waste PET-MOF-Cleanwater
(2022)
In counties like South Africa, firstly, the waste PET stream has posed a serious problem to the environment, and the current recycling of waste PET remains as low as 30%. The waste PET recycling industries such as PETCO & ...
Vulnerable responsibility
(2018)
The authors have developed the ethical imagination inviting a sense of “otherness” towards the vulnerable self, rebounding care for the other as a way to understand our everyday neurotic (normal) tendency of small vices ...
Healthcare ethics for Healthcare Practitioners
(2017)
Healthcare ethics cannot be limited in scope to apply only to the patient but needs to apply to the healthcare practitioner as well. The relationship between the patient and the healthcare practitioner has shifted from a ...
Companies Act No 31 of 1909
(2019)
The 1909 Companies Act was known as the “Transvaal Act”. After South Africa was established as a Union, each province had its own Companies Act. There is no indication that the 1909 Act was amended on provincial level. ...
Relating the South African soil taxonomy to the World Reference Base for soil resources
(2020)
The South African Taxonomic soil classification system (SAT) is well established and utilised in South Africa. However, it is not internationally well known and therefore the need arose to provide a tool by which South ...
Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!
(2023)
This authorized biography was made possible through the gracious help of my mother-in-law, Rhoda Kadalie, who provided generous access to her files, letters, photographs, and extensive library of documents. She made time ...
Sinsoekers
(2023)
In hierdie diep persoonlike boek maak bekende Cilliers temas — insluitend die skep van sin, prediking, moderne kuns, kleur, Stellenbosse wyne, en die Karoo — op ’n verrassend nuwe wyse hulle verskyning. Hulle word verbind ...
Futures and Beyond
(2023)
The Futures and Beyond: Creativity and 4IR Virtual Conference was hosted online by UJ Arts & Culture on the 30th and 31st August, 2022. The University of Johannesburg has positioned the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) ...
Poison
(2023)
The Gender Parity and Equality Committee is a team of five delegates from varying constituencies appointed by a legislative body that enacts, ratifies and repeals bills known as the People's Assembly. Their mandate is to ...
Academic Libraries in Africa
(2023)
This book offers an interesting overview of academic libraries and the communities they serve in Africa. The book explores the work of academic libraries from a number of different countries primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Adrianus van Selms
(2024)
Adrianus van Selms (1906-1984) was a Dutch pastor (1930-1938) who became senior lecturer and professor in Semitic languages at the University of Pretoria (1938-1972) and lecturer in Biblical archaeology (1938-1962) at the ...
Improving Health Literacy for People with Low Literacy
(2024)
Health literacy and low health literacy have received increased attention due to their association with poor understanding of health information, and consequently negative health outcomes. Although much research discusses ...
Demystifying the Jewel Called the ILO
(2024)
It is not easy to share what the International Labour Organization (ILO) is about, and what makes it one of the most important institutions in the world, without using jargon that completely loses most people who are not ...