The post-apartheid era in South Africa created an environment where people of different socio-economic and racial orientations can work together on an equal basis. Thus, citizens come to the work environment with diverse socio-cultural values, which influence their perceptions of communication within any given organisational context. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) training environment comprises diverse socio-cultural aspects including race, language, class and gender, where recruits are trained in one environment despite their socio-cultural differences.

The heterogeneous student body of universities has led to a need for urgent transformation of different aspects of higher education. In South Africa, this transformation agenda places an emphasis on the curriculum and teaching and learning methods, including the integral role of language, especially following the #FeesMustFall movement. This transformation seeks to align curricula and teaching methods with the diverse student body.

Water supply systems play a crucial role in distributing and providing water for domestic, irrigation and industrial use. Water supply systems have existed for centuries. Right from antiquity, ancient civilisations across the globe developed intricate water supply systems, such as aqueducts, qanats, canals, furrows and terraces for irrigation and drinking water supply. The beginning of the second half of the 19th century witnessed the introduction of centralised water supply systems, such as dams, taps, reservoirs, water treatment systems and pipelines.

This study is located within early childhood education, early childhood intervention and childhood dis/ability studies. The aim of the thesis is to explore the concept of ontoepistemic injustice for autistic children with/in educational and therapeutic settings. Current pedagogies and interventions are embedded in human-centric ontologies that position autistic child as lacking, immature, and often incapacitated epistemologically.

Background: Women have an increased risk of mental health disorders during pregnancy, especially after giving birth, and these disorders are associated with increased maternal morbidity and mortality, and adverse child health outcomes. Traditional healers (THs) are an important source of psychiatric support to pregnant women in many parts of the world. The aim of this study was to develop guidelines to be used by THs in the provision of maternal mental health care services at Vhembe District in Limpopo Province.

The adult world crucially encompasses children, but research in South African literature has mainly focused on adult worlds, whether white or black. The child, however, is a prominent figure in the poetry and fiction that has tried to capture South African experience in the past, present, and, importantly, implicit projections of the future, through the ways in which children often embody hope for the future. In South Africa, the child is caught up in the politics of the nation through the politics of love and past shame.

Women's leadership has historically received little attention from academics. Information on male traditional leaders has historically dominated traditional leadership and leadership in general. Among the Vhavenda, women only participate, to a certain extent, in traditional leadership roles, for there have always been obstacles for them to overcome; men dominate in leadership roles, particularly in traditional settings. Patriarchal barriers, which are still regarded as inviolable in many societies on the African continent, could be the cause of this.

South African higher education institutions (HEIs) are working towards transforming the education system that was exclusionary to previously disadvantaged groups, such as students with disabilities.

This study investigated the forms, meanings, and contours of contemporary urban culture, space, and identity in the South African port city and municipality of eThekwini/Durban. The production and representation of urban culture, identity and space were examined regarding media representations of the city and lived experiences of purposively selected participants, cultural actors, and practitioners who live and work in the city.

Early alcohol consumption has become a growing problem in South Africa, where 67% of adolescents from the ages of 11 to 18 have reported drinking alcohol at least once in their lifetime. Underage drinking is associated with numerous consequences for the physical and social development of adolescents. Schools are the ideal setting to educate adolescents about alcohol prevention; however, school-based alcohol prevention interventions implemented by the South African government and non-governmental organisations are evidently ineffective in curbing underage drinking.