ABSTRACT This thesis examined how literature presents the (in)significance of the African boy child as an unheard voice in the selected feminist critical discourses of three literary works - Mariama Ba’s (1979) So Long a Letter, Tsitsi Dangarembga’s (1989) Nervous Conditions and Neshani Andreas’s The Purple Violet of Oshantuu (2001). The presentation of the boy child in African feminist writing is an area which has not been given much attention in gender writing. The thrust in this rese...
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ABSTRACT Media representation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) disease has greatly influenced how the disease and those who are affected by it are perceived in the society, thus often causing stigma towards those infected and affected. This dissertation therefore investigated to what extent stigma is present in print media reporting on HIV & AIDS in Namibia. This is because controlling the spread and managing HIV & AIDS in the country has be...
ABSTRACT This study was undertaken, firstly to explore and describe women inclusion and participation in executive and commanding positions in the Namibian Defence Force (NDF), and secondly made recommendations on how they (women) could be empowerment to participate fully in power positions. Using descriptive and exploratory methods with both quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection, interpretation and analysis, the study discovered, despite Government interventions with gende...
ABSTRACT This research study is an analysis of literary representation of stigmas and myths associated with death in the two selected novels, namely: The Purple Violet of Oshaantu by Neshani Andreas and The Other Presence by Francis Sifiso Nyathi. The two novels analysed in this research project were selected because they both emphasised on the theme of death. The thesis used The Social Dominance Theory to analyse the impacts that stigmas and myths associated with death usually have on the vi...
ABSTRACT Energy (electricity) is the backbone of an economy. However, Namibia is facing a serious deficit as far as energy generation is concerned. Globally, electricity is generated from different sources, essentially to make up for the shortage of resources which is in short supply like dams for hydro power and reactors for nuclear power. Being a developing country, Namibia is not in a financial position to have an independent electricity generation capacity to meet his demand. The Khomas R...
Abstract This research was carried out to determine the community‟s insight of the Namibian Defence Force under the title “Community Insights of the Namibian Defence Force: An Investigative Study of the Khomas Region”. The research carried out a theoretical study in the concerned area and the study used the qualitative research methodology and interview questions were used as a research instrument for collecting data and the responses collected were analysed qualitatively. The main resu...
Abstract The main aim of this study was to investigate potentially pathogenic community-associated staphylococci in school children. Objectives were: To determine the prevalence of nasal Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) in school children from the Mariental District; to characterize the bacteria in terms of their antibiograms and drug resistance patterns; to screen bacterial isolates for their ability to produce enterotoxins and produce biofilms as potential v...
Abstract The present study investigated the use of the English Language in multilingual contexts. It focussed on communication between English speaking expatriate and local doctors from public and private hospitals with their Namibian and non-Namibian patients. The study’s aims were firstly, to determine the multilingual communicative resources and needs in the selected public health centres and private practices in Windhoek Khomas region. Secondly, the study sought to determine how communi...
ABSTRACT The language of car advertising is viewed as unique and completely different from everyday language. The rhetorical elements and unusual linguistic arrangement of words make the language of car advertisement special and unique. This study seeks to examine the rhetorical devices in selected car advertisements, to examine the language used in car advertisements, and to explore rhetorical structure and strategies in selected car advertisements. This is a desk study, whose research was d...
ABSTRACT The study was carried out to gauge the public’s perception of the Namibian Defence Force under the title “Public Perceptions of the Namibian Defence Force: An Explanatory Study of the Khomas Region”. The objectives of the study were to identify the roles played by the Namibian Defence Force in promoting public trust and the challenges it faced in promoting this trust; to assess the perceptions and knowledge of the people in the Khomas Region regarding the roles of the Namibian ...
Abstract The study explored how fiction represents atrocities and the resilient tactics devised by people who experienced trauma during the 20th century Herero Genocide as presented in the two selected Namibian novels in English. The purpose of the study was to explore how traumatic avenues are chronicled in fiction through the two selected novels and to investigate how fiction portrays trauma and resilience in a Namibian context. The study further examined the coping and resilient strategies...
Abstract: The ability of organisations to be innovative and to empower their employees would lead to the organisation gaining that competitive edge. The process would start with managers feeling empowered and committed to the organisation (Bhatnagar, 2005). Thomas and Velthouse (1990) defined psychological empowerment as a set of four cognitions reflecting an employee’s orientation to his/her role in terms of meaning competence, self-determination and impact. Job satisfaction is defined as ...
ABSTRACT This thesis is a result of a study carried out to determine the extent to which the 2011 floods affected basic human security needs in the Oshoopala informal settlement in the Oshana region of northern Namibia. Northern Namibia experienced severe floods in the seasons 2007-2008, 2009-2010 and 2011. The contemporary human security concept has been broadened to encompass issues such as natural disasters that include floods, drought and disease because of their impact on human survival ...
ABSTRACT This study is an exploration of the representation of Afropolitanism in Taiye Selasi’s debut novel Ghana must go (2013), and Chimamanda Adichie’s novel Americanah (2013). The purpose of the study was to explore Afropolitanism using Selasi’s (2005) essay Who is an Afropolitan? as a benchmark. Selasi blends the words Africa and cosmopolitan in her essay, Who is an Afropolitan? which discusses the fashion, dance style, and nationality of the Afropolitan, but not themes in literatu...