Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-106). / This research attempts to represent and analyze the life-story narratives of a group of five former anti-apartheid combatants. Narratives were collected from a total often, in-depth, life-history interviews with five former-members of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces. The Internal Forces represent a group of ex-combatants who were operating in the Western Cape as a para-military Self Defense Unit (SOU) during the 1986-1994 period of popular township revolt. The first stage of analysis consists of five re-constructed summaries of each of the participant's narratives with a particular focus on common themes running through the experience of childhood to the experience of joining the internal forces.

This qualitative comparative analysis examines the experience of being in an abusive relationship as well as of leaving it from the perspective of domestic violence survivors and their service providers. This work demonstrates the inadequacies of analysing domestic violence as solely an individual problem or merely as a structural issue. Instead, I argue for a comprehensive approach to understanding women’s experiences with intimate family abuse by acknowledging the complexities of how external factors explicitly inform a person’s internal process when navigating an abusive relationship.

Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-104). / These findings seriously question the idea that sport promotes egalitarianism. The data reveals that the legacy of apartheid still means that access to sports such as 6-down touch rugby are available only to areas with particular facilities and to those that can afford it. It is not available for all. Sport itself is not magic-wand through which people naturally find it possible to put behind them societal differences. Differences from greater society are mirrored in sport and this was evident from my data.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-103). / This research is an interdisciplinary, qualitative study of youth identity in two coeducational secondary schools with diverse student populations, in central Cape Town. Combining sociological and psychological perspectives, it seeks to understand how young South Africans are making sense of their place in the world, and in the history of their country, through exploring the way in which identities are being constructed on the site of the individual. It seeks to identify what discursive and imaginative resources young South Africans are drawing upon in the construction of their identities, how the (racialised) discourses from the past are working through them, and how they are negotiating new ways-of-being. Discourse analysis was combined with narrative methods; the former determined the discursive environment in which the students are embedded, and the latter investigated how individuals are positioned within this environment, and how they interact with this positioning. Focus groups in the schools formed the first phase of the research, followed by intensive individual interviews with six key participants. In order to understand the complexity of identity processes, the identity narratives of six individuals are the main focus of this research. Narrative methods were used to interrogate actors' own meanings in the construction of their identities, and a principal concern was to explore how participants understood, and narrated, their own identities. The intersubjective, embodied, and imaginative construction of identities was incorporated into the research. What became apparent was the way in which racialised discourses continue to dominate the post-apartheid landscape. However, racial signifiers are becoming increasingly confused, and students are resisting the positions to which they are being called. These individuals are negotiating their way through complex fields of meaning to generate new identities and ways-of-belonging that subvert former categories.

Includes abstract. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-90). / This thesis examines the discourses twenty three teachers in desegregated classrooms in Cape Town schools adopt toward integration and various constructions of difference. Discourse analysis reveals how the constructions of language, class and culture are being positioned as signifiers for difference, in place of race. Teachers tend either towards 'colour-consciousness 'or 'colour-blindness' in their discourses of race, and many white teachers demonstrate equality approaches toward different learners. Language as a difference is being used as a 'gate-keeper' to resist integration in schools. The construction of the past is problematic among some teachers, with the tendency to evade impacts the past still has on learners today.

Yeasts are unicellular microorganisms that belong to the kingdom of fungi. Yeasts are found in a diverse range of habitats, including soil, sugar-rich surfaces on the fruit and flowers of plants, and on the surface of plants and animals. Yeast plays an important role in soil by participating in nutrient cycles and mineralization processes. In contrast to the various studies investigating soil yeasts in Western countries, there is a dearth of research investigating soil yeasts in Africa and the Middle East. In these projects, we collected 493 soil samples from nine different geographical locations in Cameroon, and 562 soil samples from six geographical locations in Saudi Arabia. I identified yeast isolates by using the culture-based method and the fungal barcode sequence at the ITS region. In addition, the yeast species were analyzed using PCR- fingerprinting to investigate the genetic variation among strains within the same species. In sum, we have isolated and identified a total of 110 yeast isolates from Cameroon as well as a total of 114 yeast isolates from Saudi Arabia. Our results showed that soil samples from different regions in Cameroon had different yeast colonization (0%-56%), with the highest found in northwest Cameroon. The Saudi Arabian yeast isolation was different from those in Cameroon, with less diversity; the isolation rate ranged from 0.7 to 40.2 %, with the highest found in western Saudi Arabia. PCR-fingerprinting results suggested that yeast migration was common among the geographic regions within each country. However, local climatic conditions can significantly impact yeast diversity at the local and continental levels. / Thesis / Master of Science (MSc) / Yeasts are single-celled microorganisms that are widely dispersed in a wide variety of natural and human-related habitats such as plant leaves, flowers, fruits, water, and soil. Yeast is probably one of the earliest domesticated organisms; people have used yeast for fermentation and baking through much of the recorded human history. My project focused on studying yeast diversity in two geographically distinct countries, Cameroon and Saudi Arabia, in the context of environmental factors such as climate conditions and pH. I identified yeast present in soil samples morphologically, sequenced them at the ITS locus, and determined the genetic variation among isolates within individual yeast species using PCR fingerprinting. The analysis revealed differences in yeast species distribution and in yeast genotypic diversity among the analyzed geographic regions. These results suggest that Cameroon and Saudi Arabia contain significant novel yeast diversity.

No / Affirmative action policies in South Africa and other countries have been designed to address inequity and discrimination, and to manage a wide range of diversity in all spheres of life, particularly after the end of apartheid in 1994. Years after implementing affirmative action in South Africa, perceptions of its impact or even benefit seem to vary from person to person. This article presents the findings from a study utilizing different data sources including document review, interviews, and a consensus workshop on the perceptions of the impact of affirmative action in South Africa. It is part of a larger European Commission–funded comparative study of positive action measures across countries in North America, the European Union, and South Africa. Participants were drawn from different public and private organizational sectors, racial groups, genders, age groups, and people with disabilities. The analyzed data provided insight into how society might be perceiving and reacting to the operation of affirmative action in South Africa.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Oregon State University, 1998. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-82). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D., Biology)--University of Idaho, 2009. / Major professor: Larry J. Forney. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online (PDF file) by subscription or by purchasing the individual file.