Projects

In general South African historiography has been marked by constant emphasis on apartheid, black resistance and formal Afrikaner politics has. Important as these may be, it has led historians to neglect...

This book project concerns the 1963-64 trial of Neville Alexander and ten other members of the National Liberation Front (NLF). Neglected in the scholarly literature, the NLF was distinctive in two respects....

The trilogy is a young adult dystopian speculative fiction designed to sensitize African and global adults, to the need to engage politically and personally in order to take their destiny into their own...

The current ‘sixth extinction’ event represents a major crisis for conservation as well as for global society more generally. But how to interpret this event in relation to the highly uneven patterns...

This research is a part of a larger project: a book on a philosophical account of human freedom, drawing strongly on the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. The first part of the book will cover the metaphysics...

The modern society is reliant on digital communication, at present experiencing an immense expansion, but the communication should also be secure. Based on global needs, there have been significant efforts...

The focus of this research is combining Bayesian statistics, in particular Bayesian data analysis, with utility theory. From utility theory we select the work from Kahneman and Tversky, i.e., Cumulative...

The project aims to unpack the multiple ways that photographs depicting the sea can be utilised for formal experimentation and disruption in history writing. It engages with the photographic collections...

African countries rank low in almost all development indicators. People in many parts of the continent face a preindustrial, agrarian lifestyle with low incomes, low education levels, and high fertility...

Unlike Hepatitis B, there is no vaccine available for protection against Hepatitis C virus (HCV).  Multi transfused patients eg patients with sickle cell disease and thalassaemia were at particular risk...

This is a team project within the Crossing Borders theme. Coordinators: Hans Lindahl (Tilburg) and Louise Du Toit (Stellenbosch) Description: There is widespread agreement that the enormous growth of cross-border...

Throughout history, the power of music to enhance productivity at work has been exploited. In less technologically advanced societies, group singing (performed principally to serve as reference points...