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"This article explores the factors that contribute to continuous high performance in mathematics at top-performing secondary schools in the Motheo education district of the Free State, South Africa. This study aims to identify the key elements behind these schools’ success, offering potential insights for improving mathematics education more broadly."

"To address the gap regarding a reliance on CAPS guidelines, a reflective teaching practice should be implemented, in which teachers become self-directed learners and model the process for their learners, thereby promoting the development of learners’ critical thinking skills."

"Although different forms of abjection emerge in Bloedfamilie, the narrator’s attempt to revolt against her mother is the most prominent. Aspects like the bodily, sexuality, violence and disease are encapsulated in the narrator’s association of her mother with the abject."

"The rapidly changing 21st century requires learners to develop a set of life skills during education and training in order to be successful in future careers."

The annual Literature, Heritage and Ecology Conference hosted by Amazwi South African Museum of Literature aims to foster cooperation and interaction between the humanities and the sciences and so help mitigate the social-ecological crises we face today.

"Grové explores the potential for creating a uniquely South African musical expression and critically reflects on the use of indigenous music in Western compositions. His perspectives highlight the complex relationship between racial segregation policies and the practice of musical primitivism, providing insights into how apartheid ideology influenced art music composition."

"By emphasizing the relation between wine/intoxication and love in Sufi poetry, the 15th century Persian Sufi poet Jāmī offers a deep perspective on the poetic function of metaphoric imagery in Sufi poetry."

"Continued efforts are required to strengthen national monitoring mechanisms, and improve coordination with implementation to ensure the full inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society."

"Freedom and thinking are not separable entities, but co-responsible for bringing about a purposive reality. Freedom is a key concept throughout the course of German Idealism, binding causal reality to unconditional reason."

"Thus, the horse and the client’s space-time unite on a collective unconscious level due to the constellation of the psychoid archetype. The difference in space and time, and between matter and psyche, disappears [...] the client experiences equine-assisted psychotherapy synchronicity as a numinous moment because the supernatural is experienced."

"The ongoing tension over land ownership and the division between black and white in South African contemporary reality is transcended in the fictional framework of the novel but is shifted to the realm of myth with the animal as the guiding figure."

"Several wildlife species in South Africa fall prey to wildlife crime daily. Therefore, the importance of combatting wildlife crime on national soil is increasingly emphasised."

"Wildlife crime is recognised as one of the most significant environmental crimes of our time. Environmental crimes arise from the deliberate violation of international and national environmental laws and regulations."

"To begin to address the gaps identified in the aforementioned Afrikaans language textbooks, I designed and presented an original lesson series to role players involved in the teaching and learning of Afrikaans in order to determine what contribution the inclusion of Kaapse Afrikaans idioms in a lesson series could make to the democratisation of Afrikaans."

"This article, by nature an in-depth literature study, searches for deeper understanding of the phenomenon assessing the competence of student teachers as assessors using appropriate standards and criteria."

"Furthermore, it is claimed that each poet addresses postcolonial feminist issues in the South African context in a unique and individual voice, which is a significant step towards the process of the decolonisation of Afrikaans literature [...]."

"This article is part of a group of Bruinafrikaans (BA) studies, with the primary objective of determining and describing the acoustic quality of its vowels and determining the possibility of a homogeneous nature of this significant variety of Afrikaans."

"The ongoing reliance on myths such as the monster and angel myths only perpetuates stereotypical, fixed and problematic ideas of femininity and women in society."

"The 12 participants used the photovoice technique in the first cycle of participatory action research to share their perceptions and experiences of emotional well-being."

"Orania II has now outgrown its establishment years as an Afrikaner enclave; hence the notion of Orania III as the next step in the town’s development."