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"We examine existing and future marriages concluded out of community of property and profit and loss with specific reference to the tension between contractual freedom and the constitutional commitment to substantive gender equality. We find that developments in legislation and case law have progressively qualified the strict enforcement of matrimonial property agreements to address historical and ongoing economic inequalities between spouses."

"The central argument is that these young people may never have been fully 'inside' the faith community in the first place. When children are excluded from the Eucharistic table, and when the Eucharist itself occupies a peripheral rather than central place in weekly worship, the ecclesial practice communicates a theology of 'partial belonging' that undermines formation from its very foundation."

"Generational cohorts were specifically compared in terms of cultural belonging, festival motivations, perceived cultural, linguistic, social and economic festival contributions, behavioural intentions, and participation and expenditure behaviour. The study integrates generational cohort theory with cultural identity theory."

"For deep space travel and the colonisation of Mars, we need to make assumptions about both the human and the Earth, and, by implication, about the Sky and the immortals. Thus, by planning and plotting existence on Mars, we must act as if we know the planet entirely and it has revealed itself without any concealment."

"The research was conducted at the above-mentioned Innibos National Arts Festival, one of South Africa’s largest Afrikaans arts festivals, hosted annually in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. Since its establishment in 2004 the festival has grown into a major cultural and tourism attraction, drawing approximately 100 000 visitors each year."

"Consequently, regional organisations and international partners have become increasingly involved through multinational military interventions and security cooperation. The transnational nature of these conflicts illustrates both the necessity of regional responses and the limitations of purely domestic policy approaches."

"This [...] has shifted the understanding of Coloured identity away from externally imposed classification towards a more dynamic, negotiated and context-dependent expression of identity. Within this changing socio-political landscape, social media discourse provides a context in which identity is negotiated and evaluated through everyday interaction."

"The findings demonstrate that autobiographical storytelling provides an effective means of personalising tourism education while supporting curriculum decolonisation."

"Kaaps was relegated to the periphery, frequently caricatured, and stereotyped in mainstream media as a non-standard 'joke language' or a dialect reserved solely for comedic relief and low-status interactions."

"Critical thinking is often context- and discipline-specific; therefore, it is important to consider what it entails within particular fields and how it can best be developed in students. This need is especially evident in the accounting profession, where accountants are required to apply sophisticated problem-solving and decision-making skills in increasingly complex business environments."

"Although Naudé’s fiction has attracted scholarly attention for its engagement with transnationalism, migration, queer identity, cosmopolitanism and alternative forms of kinship, friendship itself has not yet received sustained critical consideration as an autonomous object of literary analysis."

"The article takes as its point of departure the modern experience of division (Entzweiung) emerging in the wake of the Enlightenment. Modernity is characterised by a series of fundamental dualisms: between faith and reason, subject and object, finite and infinite." 

"The study treats platform readiness as more than a collection of isolated technical skills. A capability is the broader capacity to combine knowledge, judgement, technique and responsibility in changing situations."

"A single detail in one of the most important works of Leo Theron (1926–2010), one of the greatest figures in South African glass art, is used to introduce a discussion of a complex dialogue between Roman Catholic and Reformed aesthetic traditions in modernist sacred art, with a focus on glass art."

"I maintain that these cases collectively reaffirm a principle that may be described as 'documentary orthodoxy', signifying the duty to allege and disclose the document upon which the causa rests and which establishes the standing of the party bringing the suit."

"Rich deposits of critical minerals, expanding markets, growing political influence in multilateral organisations, and strategic geographical positioning have elevated Africa’s importance within contemporary international politics. Although the US, China and Russia employ different instruments of foreign policy, each seeks to expand its influence while responding to the activities of the others."

"The article concludes that Die wêreld van Charlie Oeng presents narrative world-making as a practice requiring both imaginative engagement and critical self-awareness. Fiction does not provide unmediated access to the world of the other, but it does create the possibility of understanding both other persons and the past while remaining conscious of the provisional, interpretative and mediated character of all acts of representation."

"Affective and social strategies are both indirect strategies that support the interpreting-learning process without necessarily involving interpreting. We propose that language-learning research can enrich interpreting as both fields foreground learner-centeredness and focus on independent learning."

"By positioning Heidevolk within the broader context of heavy metal – specifically the Viking and pagan metal subgenres – the study highlights the group’s unique approach of utilising their native Dutch language and local history from the Low Countries to explore Germanic heritage, rather than relying on generic Scandinavian Viking tropes."

"[This article] argues that while consent occupies an important place within POPIA’s normative framework, its practical ability to protect data subjects is significantly constrained by both cognitive limitations and the socio-technical realities of contemporary South African digital life."