Academic research
LitNet Akademies is LitNet's accredited academic journal. An extended English abstract is published with every article.
Humans, animals and mythmaking in Dwaalpoort (2010) by Alexander Strachan
2025-01-07"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."
Combatting wildlife crime: an analysis of the South African environmental law framework
2025-01-07"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."
Combatting wildlife crime: a legal-theoretical analysis of the activities, related crimes and role players
2025-01-07"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."
Kaaps is not here to cause destruction: The perspective of role players involved in Afrikaans teaching on the inclusion of "Kaapse Afrikaans" (Cape Afrikaans) idioms to advance the restandardisation of Afrikaans
2025-01-03"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."
En route to clear standards and criteria for the assessment of the competence of student teachers as assessors
2025-01-03"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."
The translation of diverse Coloured women voices in Afrikaans poetry: a feminist approach
2024-12-11"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 [...]."
The mid-high front vowel /e/ of Bruinafrikaans
2024-12-09"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 angel and monster myths in Reënboogrant tieners
2024-12-03"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 improvement of emotional well-being of the LSEN teacher: a participatory action research approach
2024-11-20"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 after 60 years: pointers for Orania III from a literature review of Orania II and other sources
2024-11-20"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."
Postcolonial melancholia in Ronelda S Kamfer’s Hammie
2024-11-12"The poetic speaker, a coloured woman, and her community are enveloped in a pervasive melancholia that is passed down from generation to generation and continues to be fed by discrimination based on skin colour and gender that she experiences in the present."
Usefulness of ChatGPT-4V(ision) to analyse aerial photographs, factors which can drive adoption, and implications for Geography classrooms
2024-11-07"The purpose of this research was threefold, namely (a) to determine the usefulness of ChatGPT-4V to analyse aerial photographs, (b) to predict whether it would be adopted, and (c) to discuss the implications for Geography classrooms if ChatGPT-4V were adopted to analyse aerial photographs."
A network science exploration of the effectiveness of Afrikaner home remedies (boererate) with specific reference to the treatment of epilepsy and insomnia
2024-10-25"By applying network analysis to historical remedies like boererate, we can potentially identify promising ingredients and combinations for further investigation and possible integration into modern medicine."
The necessary coherence between happiness, unhappiness, and chance
2024-10-16"If happiness is simply about our good experiences, positive emotions, pleasure and enjoyment, other people and nature become mere objects to be used and consumed, and even destroyed in the case of nature, to obtain this happiness."
Career guidance in South African high schools: catastrophe or opportunity?
2024-10-07"In South Africa, the disparity in access to career guidance services between well-resourced and resource-poor schools remains a significant challenge."
The Africanisation of undergraduate courses in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Business Analysis (BA): A quantitative study of students’ experience
2024-10-07"It has been widely acknowledged that science has traditionally been monopolised by Western paradigms. Various fields in the social sciences have realised that research is necessary to create sensitivity to the need for decolonisation in these fields."
Teachers’ beliefs, teachers’ self-efficacy, teaching quality and instructional clarity: their relationship with South African learners’ mathematics achievement
2024-10-02"Policymakers and stakeholders should consider tailored training sessions for teachers. These programmes can focus on effective preparation techniques, such as optimising curriculum resources and integrating technology to streamline lesson planning."
The online dictionary-using skills and problems of editing students regarding a prototype academic editing dictionary
2024-10-02"These prerequisites and standards therefore make it clear that editors are expected to have good online dictionary-using skills, as well as knowledge about different types of dictionaries, including their structure, functions and use during the editing process."
The African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA): a strategic analysis utilising the ends-ways-means (EWM) model
2024-09-26"A major finding is that actions are useful in preventing conflict in certain situations, but in general are ineffective in creating conditions for peace and security. Diplomatic means do present mixed results in achieving the goal of peace and security."
Abrahamic eschatology and the affirmation of religious identities
2024-09-19"These narratives, embedded in the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, not only offer a vision of hope for the future but also function as powerful tools for mobilising religious communities, particularly in times of crisis."
