Publications
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Of the same breath
(2017)
Of the Same Breath opens the door to a better understanding of why and how the animals and places of southern Africa have been given the names they have today. The vast reaches of the information provided in this book have ...
Multilingualism and the Public Sector in South Africa
(2012)
This book contributes to the discourse on language in South Africa with a specific focus on multilingualism and the public sector.
Spirit and Healing in Africa
(2013)
There is a great need for healing in Africa. This need is in itself no different elsewhere in the world, but it is greatly determined by the involvement of religious communities and traditions. Faith communities and religious ...
Companies Act No 31 of 1909
(2019)
The 1909 Companies Act was known as the “Transvaal Act”. After South Africa was established as a Union, each province had its own Companies Act. There is no indication that the 1909 Act was amended on provincial level. ...
The Case Against Intervention
(2023)
The Case Against Intervention - the fourth venture of the author Quah, Chee Heong, dwells upon contemporary social and economic issues. His previous books Optimal Currency Areas in East Asia, Eccentric Views on Money and ...
Engaging Students
(2017)
The book provides a rich, informative picture of the current state of student engagement evaluation, while also highlighting challenges and opportunities for future advances. A particular strength of this publication is ...
Praxis towards sustainable empowering learning environments in South Africa
(2010)
This collection presents some of the best peer-reviewed papers from a conference with the theme “Creating sustainable empowering learning environments through scholarship of engagement”.
The Spirituality of Black Hebrew Pentecostals
(2010)
The spirituality of Black Hebrew Pentecostalism is a rich tradition that has been hidden from the view of scholars. With the new interest in spirituality forming the background to this title, the author attempts to enlighten ...
A Long Walk to Purgatory
(2023)
A Long Walk to Purgatory is a play that places Dante in the South African context. It works with the idea that dead poets must guide living poets through the afterlife on a journey of poetic reckoning. It is now Dante's ...
From Technology Transfer to Intercultural Development
(2012)
The central theme of this book is the intercultural development of technology in a globalising world. Migration, tourism, information and communication technology and international trade stimulate tfhe encounter between ...
Transformation and Legitimation in Post-apartheid Universities
(2016)
Two decades after the democratic transition, South African universities are in turmoil. Whilst the old is slowly becoming unhinged, reimagining the new is protracted and contested. The challenges ahead, including a funding ...
Voices past and present
(2020)
The preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source ...
Southern African Geomorphology
(2013)
This book covers the geomorphology and landscape evolution of South Africa, focusing on arid landscapes, fluvial systems, karst, Quaternary landscapes, macro-scale geomorphic evolution, coastal geomorphology and applied ...
Knowledge as Enablement
(2015)
Knowledge can and does enable, specifically through engagement between higher education institutions, the third sector (mostly non-profit organisations), public service role players and the communities. The purpose of the ...
Modelling as Research Methodology
(2010)
Modelling as Research Methodology is written for the scientist and student researching the (expected) functioning of systems under specified conditions. As such, it represents an introduction to the use of modelling in ...
The Role of Livestock in Developing Communities
(2010)
The book provides critical information and knowledge on the importance of livestock in the global effort to alleviate poverty and promote human health. It describes and evaluates case studies, examines theoretical frameworks, ...
The Battle at Mamusa
(2015)
The Battle of Mamusa reflects the grievous event in the Western Transvaal border culture context that contributed profoundly to the dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity. The narrative presented in this work ...
Academic Libraries in Africa
(2023)
This book offers an interesting overview of academic libraries and the communities they serve in Africa. The book explores the work of academic libraries from a number of different countries primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Linguistics for legal interpretation
(2023)
Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both ...
Research on the Letter to the Galatians: 2000-2020. Volume 1
(2023)
This book confirms that research on the Letter to the Galatians is flourishing. Although it is true that much of what is being published is not new and that well-known arguments and insights have often been repeated, it ...
Adrianus van Selms
(2024)
Adrianus van Selms (1906-1984) was a Dutch pastor (1930-1938) who became senior lecturer and professor in Semitic languages at the University of Pretoria (1938-1972) and lecturer in Biblical archaeology (1938-1962) at the ...
Proud to be Deaf
(2025)
This thought-provoking book details the history of Catholic ministry to the Deaf community in South Africa over 120 years. This history provides a backdrop to Deaf people’s emerging understanding of themselves as a people ...
African Union and Agenda 2063
(2025)
Since its official launch on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa, the African Union (AU) has taken on the complex mantle of promoting peace, governance, development, and continental integration—building on the legacy of ...
Aristotle in Africa
(2025)
How best to bring the genius of African traditional philosophy into dialogue with the European and global traditions of thought? The philosophy of Aristotle – ‘baptised’ by medieval Christian philosopher Thomas Aquinas – ...
Uniting Africa
(2025)
The primary aim of this book is to reach a better understanding of Africa’s eff orts to incrementally advance Pan-Africanism, and its consolidating eff orts to attain socio-economic inclusive growth, political stability, ...
African Women in Governance
(2025)
African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder's Participation presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key concepts and investigate the limits and potential of financial inclusion ...
Sound me Out
(2025)
To encounter Sound Me Out: A Lifetime of Music and Memories is to experience the extraordinary journey of a woman who has shaped the soundscape of South Africa. Jeanne’s story unfolds not only as a chronicle of personal ...
Design Thinking 101
(2025)
In the rapidly evolving landscape of the 21st century, the challenges we face are multifaceted and complex. Traditional methods of problem-solving, while effective in certain contexts, often fall short in addressing the ...
Development in the Anthropocene
(2025)
The pith of this book is interventions to collaboratively better the lives of low-income households with their development on a local scale. These interventions are co-created with communities. Successful interventions to ...
Universiteit Stellenbosch en die onverkwiklike taalstryd (2003-2017)
(2018)
Hierdie ontleding van die taalstryd op die kampus van die Universiteit Stellenbosch strek vanaf 2003 tot Maart 2018 en put uit ’n verskeidenheid hoofstroom media, maar veral vanuit Afrikaanse dagblaaie – Die Burger, Volksblad ...
Moedertaalonderrig en taalaktivisme in Suid-Afrika
(2016)
Uiters belangrike narratief oor skooltaalvoorkeur het hom tussen 2006 en 2010 in Suid-Afrika afgespeel. Hierdie gebeurtenisse het diep in die Suid-Afrikaanse onderwys- en taalwêreld ingesny, en ook in die buiteland ...
Politics and higher education in East Africa from the 1920s to 1970
(2012)
The main objective of this book is to establish the salient reasons why higher education was developed in East Africa and specifically why the Federal University of East Africa was constituted. The book will identify the ...
Jesus Christus, Seun van God, ís ons Versoening
(2017)
In Jesus Christus, Seun van God, is ons versoening: ’n Missionêre Christologie beklemtoon Pieter Verster die unieke betekenis van Jesus Christus as Seun van God en die implikasies van hierdie belydenis vir die sending. ...
Making sense of Jesus
(2017)
Making sense of Jesus is comprised of twelve chapters of a Christological nature, which are the result of a multidisciplinary theological research project. The aim of this book is to ascertain how, in the current cultural ...
Transforming Theological Knowledge
(2013)
A number of outstanding public intellectuals such as Jonathan Jansen, Crain Soudien and Lis Lange have been invited to present papers to clarify the conceptual challenge and what this might entail for theology. Well-known ...
Global Initiatives and Higher Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
(2022)
The Fourth industrial Revolution (4IR) is forcing higher education (HE) into a new era where it must either actively and positively contribute to innovation, sustainability, and development or become obsolete and redundant. ...
Books & Bones & Other Things
(2018)
Books tell stories about our lifeworld. In this book Jan Coetzee invites us to critically inquire into the aims, the content, and the context of the stories contained in a collection of old books from an old world. Without ...
Law, Language and the Multilingual State
(2013)
The theme of the conference, “Language, Law and the Multilingual State”, was determined to investigate the state-juridical challenges facing multilingual societies. Several related issues were addressed, such as minority ...
Churches in the mirror
(2020)
Ecclesiology is the study of the church and has two focal points; the one is the historical and doctrinal perspective on the church, and the other is the church as situated in a local context in the sense of the local ...
Konstruksieveiligheid Sakboekie vir Suid-Afrika
(2020)
Construction is one of the oldest activities known to mankind, yet it is an industry where the health, safety and wellbeing of people are often at risk. While South African construction safety laws and regulations are ...