Projects

This project investigates the mobilities of black women in Southern Africa. Much of the historiography about migration has centered the experiences of men as migrant workers leaving their homes to work...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide including South Africa. Chemotherapy remains the main method of cancer treatment. Despite advances in chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer, costs,...

Emotion is part of history, in the way we live, and experience it. However in the school subject this is often overlooked in favour of an “objective” approach. In recent decades literature on history...

The proposed project seeks to explore how retraction and recantation take shape in experimental writing of the 20th and 21st Century. Its guiding motif is the palinode: a literary-philosophical form used...

While studies in the global North have focused on ‘green gentrification’ driven by park developments and eco-friendly initiatives, a different phenomenon is unfolding in rapidly urbanizing African...

The project intends to develop sustainable construction materials from waste like recycled plastics and natural fibers, reducing negative environmental impacts and promoting resource efficiency. The utilization...

Human-caused changes are affecting the environment in ways that challenge many organisms, including parasites. Many of these parasites are exposed to the environment (as environmental or “off-host”...

Based on the results of a previously terminated project “Mapping out options for a model legislation on sustainable soil management in Africa”, a model legislation for “sustainable soil management”...

This book-length project is tentatively titled Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond. The nature and process of questioning has been taken for granted as a core aspect of philosophy,...

The future of human society – and indeed, the very meaning of what it is to be human – is inextricably related to mobility. Depending on the circumstances under which it occurs, mobility may foster...

The project is a comparative study of the South African-born, now Australian writer J.M. Coetzee in his post-2000 or Australian phase. The discussion of his millennial writing—novels, essays, sketches,...

Higher education globally is undergoing significant transitions due to increasing levels of diversity amongst student populations. This requires universities to adapt their teaching and learning practices...