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"In order to ensure that preservice teachers are able to write at the correct academic level, many different writing support programmes have been developed by universities all over the world."

"Government is therefore obliged to ensure that the environmental impacts of gas reconnaissance, exploration and production should be considered in a holistic and integrated manner in each phase of its lifecycle."

"Almost immediately, reports showed that the chatbot’s answers were good enough to pass a variety of postgraduate examinations, with the result that lecturers were worried that the chatbot could have a negative impact on academic integrity."

"Although the true nature and extent of wildlife crime is unknown, various species fall victim to wildlife crime and some species are even pushed to the brink of extinction as a result of it."

"In a population-diverse country like South Africa the speech-language therapist (SLT) and the client do not always represent the same language and culture. Clients are therefore often served in their second or even third language. This brings about various challenges, but also rewards ..."

"This article is the third of three that report on research that was undertaken by the first author for a doctoral study. The first article sets out the research methodology for the study. In the second one we provide the theoretical foundation for the design of a gamified application model for pronunciation aimed at foreign language speakers of Afrikaans. In this article we focus on the model on which the gamified pronunciation application can be developed."

"The effect and extent of urbanisation are simultaneously diverse and substantial, captivating the imagination of planners worldwide, specifically in Africa (Dodman, Leck, Rusca and Colenbrander 2017:13)."

"This article is the second of three which reports on research that was undertaken by the first author for a doctorate study. The first article sets out the research methodology for this study. In the third article we focus on the model on which the gamified pronunciation application can be developed. In this article we provide the theoretical foundation for the design of a gamified application model for pronunciation aimed at foreign language speakers of Afrikaans."

"This article is the first of three which reports on research that was undertaken by the first author for a doctorate. It sets out the research methodology for this study. The second article provides a theoretical background of a gamified pronunciation application model for English-speaking students learning Afrikaans as a foreign language. In the third article we focus on the model on which development of the gamified pronunciation application can be based."

"What follows is an attempt to examine closely the living conditions of slaves in the rural Boland district, taking as a point of departure the well-documented period of 1816 to 1834, and presenting a reassessment of traditionally held perspectives, based on a recently constructed Boland slave database by this author."

In 1900 reis die Britse dokter Oliver Glenville na Deelfontein in die Karoo om by ’n Britse veldhospitaal vir offisiere aan te sluit. Daar beland beseerde Britse soldate én Boerekrygers op sy operasietafel. Klara Grootboom, ’n skoonmaker, rig ’n versoek aan hom wat teen sy beginsels indruis, maar dis asof sy hom in ’n vangnet van haar eie het. Meer as ’n honderd jaar later skep ’n opkomende Kaapse kunstenaar ’n uitstalling uit Deelfontein se gegewens en ontdek ’n onverwagse familieband.

"At the heart of Groen’s Christian-historical philosophy therefore lies the belief that true wisdom, justice and morality are exclusively rooted in divine revelation, primarily in the Bible and secondarily in history interpreted in light of this revelation."

"The novel’s depiction of the complex and sensitive medical topic of organ transplants, a field in need of significant legal reform, will hopefully attract the attention of the legislator soon."

"Leptoconops demeilloni, also known as the Still Bay midge, is a notorious bloodsucking pest in the Fynbos biome. The pest is considered to be of economic importance especially to the tourism industry in the coastal town of Still Bay."

"The result of the speed required to keep up with this feedback and oversaturation of our drives is exhaustion and burnout, the psychological by-product of our times."

"[A]lthough Foucault’s references to the Middle Ages in this work again played a crucial analogical and indeed rhetorical role in his critique of modernity, he also expanded the existing body of knowledge on the early Middle Ages, and hence contributed to medieval studies as such."

"Thinking, Blumenberg posits, was a response to a life-threatening situation, experienced as a catastrophe by the early creatures, which occurred because they had wandered from the natural, enclosed habitats they had occupied in the rainforests, into open grasslands."

"The war in Ukraine is the first large-scale conventional war in Europe between two strong powers since the advent of the internet, and both sides have used online platforms to defend their position while trying to undermine the opponent’s position."

"Homoerotic imagery, so prevalent in medieval Sufi poetry, was therefore a natural development in a society influenced by an implicit concept of male masculinity as the normative ideal."

"The article approaches old age as a discourse, one which is not only physically or biologically constructed, but also socially and culturally determined."