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Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa

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- Thomas, Adèle

Authors: Thomas, Adèle
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5975 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012984
Description: An exchange programme involving students and academics from Egoli University in Johannesburg and the University of Athens provides the conduit for the smuggling of Venetian Grossi coins discovered on the Cycladic island of Naxos. Thirty-five year old Delancey James, a Professor of Ethics at Egoli University, stumbles upon events associated with the murder of a post-graduate student. Through her investigation, she uncovers a web of intrigue that links the coin smuggling to corruption at the highest levels of the University, and, in the process, her life is placed in mortal danger.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Good-Gooder-Goodest

- Majola, Fundile Lawrence

Authors: Majola, Fundile Lawrence
Date: 2014
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Xhosa fiction -- 21st century , Short stories, South African -- 21st century , Short stories, Xhosa -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language: English , Xhosa
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5982 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015657
Description: My stories are set in the townships, and move with the vigorous rhythms and jagged structures of township life. Some of them are written in English and others in isiXhosa. Some of the dialogue is township slang, a mixture of languages; and pure isiXhosa. The stories follow no particular pattern and are arranged according to any form of chronology, and different voices, at times as a man/boy and in others as a girl. The characters are not related each story perfectly stands for itself. Some of the stories hark back to the days of apartheid and are seen through the eyes of a child confused by the humiliations of his elders. , Amabali am asekelwe ezilokishini yaye ahambelana neemeko ezimaxongo zokuphila zasezilokishini apho yaye amanye asukela kwixesha lengcinezelo yesizwe esimnyama. Imiba echatshazelwa kula mabali iquka intlupheko, intiyo kwakunye nokuphilisana koluntu ezilokishini, phantsi kwezo meko. Amabali la ndizame ukuwenza alandele indlela yokubalisa yhenkwenkwana enguSkhumba, ethi ibone iqwalasele iimeko zokuphila zabantu bohlanga lwayo. Ingqokelela esisiqendu sokuqala yona ibhalwe ze yangeniswa ngesiNgesi. , This thesis is presented in two parts: English and isiXhosa.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Grieving forests

- Bila, Freddy Vonani

Authors: Bila, Freddy Vonani
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Poetry , South African poetry (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African poetry (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5997 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020880
Description: This is a collection of village narrative poems mainly set in rural Limpopo that searches into the complexity of the past and how historical events impact on the present. Although the poems are imagined along the Marxist dialectic, they’re fresh imaginative creations featuring a strong element of surprise, spiritual mysticism, experimenting with form, delving into unknown poetic avenues, creating new music, exploring new sounds and taking risks. The long and intense poem, Ancestral wealth, which is a tribute to the poet’s father, reflects on death and its impact through the effective application of various stylistic elements and poetic devices, thus immortalising the life of a rural South African. Overall the poems, including retrospective and experimental ones, condemn the free market economic system and all that it seems to necessitate: the degradation of ecology, indifference to human suffering and the alienation of vulnerable social groups.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Kaffirmeid and other stories

- Madingwane, June

Authors: Madingwane, June
Date: 2014
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Short stories, South African -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5983 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015659
Description: These stories are about people’s experiences in relationships and how they overcome and resolve problems with their partners. Some explore myths and unexplained occurrences that raise many questions.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Kedibone

- Mokae, Sabata Paul

Authors: Mokae, Sabata Paul
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:6000 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020883
Description: A young woman from a rural village near Kimberley is killed by her husband in a fit of jealousy. Her illiterate mother is summoned to the hospital to authorize the removal of vital organs – eyes, liver, kidney and heart – for organ donation. But some members of the family feel that their child should not be buried with parts of her body missing. Thus begins a story that changes the lives of many people, both black and white, over the following twenty years.
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Date Issued: 2014

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My grandmother breaks her hip

- Bamjee, Saaleha

Authors: Bamjee, Saaleha
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Poetry , South African poetry (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African poetry (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5998 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020881
Description: A collection of narrative and confessional poems. The poems are mostly short, cinematic, physical, imagistic: moments in time. They explore the poet’s own life, body, memories, and family relationships, and the tensions between power, duty, love and faith. Several poems concern the navigation of meaning and belonging in a time when international urban culture often clashes with tradition.
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Date Issued: 2014

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One leg at a time

- Vivier, Lincky Elmé

Authors: Vivier, Lincky Elmé
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Poetry , South African poetry (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African poetry (English) -- 21st century , English language -- Writing
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5974 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012945
Description: This collection of poems explores the boundaries between certainty and uncertainty, between the desire for meaning and the destabilisation of meaning. The content encompasses everyday life, love and loss, and the ambiguities are reflected in the forms used, so that, for instance, the linear continuity of narrative and the musicality of the lyric may be juxtaposed with the fragmented and imagistic leaps of the associative poem.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Road to redemption

- Singh, Anirood

Authors: Singh, Anirood
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Detective and mystery stories, South African (English)
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5977 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013035
Description: Lurching from day-today in the months before South Africa becomes a republic, booze-befuddled Indian private investigator Rohit Biswas does not ponder how he can secure his daughter's future after he became a widower and lost his job as police detective when he killed a man who fatally stabbed his wife. Salvation appears when a rich client hires the PI to find evidence proving his son did not rape and murder a white socialite. Fighting against seeming impossible odds in colonial-apartheid Durban and a sanctions-busting conspiracy, Biswas secures his client's acquittal. In the process he defies karma and redeems himself.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Saligia

- Strydom, Gideon Louwrens

Authors: Strydom, Gideon Louwrens
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , Afrikaans fiction -- Study and teaching (Higher) , Afrikaans fiction -- 21st century
Language: Afrikaans
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:6001 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1020884
Description: When her life starts falling apart, a journalist and writer heads for a small rural town. Here the strange and wonderful tales about a local woman ignite her curiosity. As the town's secrets unravel she finds the truth behind all the fantasies. And in fighting her own demons she makes an unusual connection to this woman. She soon realises that this connection holds the key to her own salvation. Or her downfall.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Sarkaiym

- Sutherns, Michael Courtney

Authors: Sutherns, Michael Courtney
Date: 2014
Subjects: Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher) , South African fiction (English) -- 21st century
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5976 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012998
Description: The kingdom of Sansland situated on the Azanian Peninsula has been ruled by Sorricians, the sky people, ever since they landed on terra firma centuries ago. The indigenous population are forced to engage directly in the social and economic perpetuation of their own domination beneath the Sorrician heel. Until revolution flares in the antipodes, and soon, even the gods themselves seem to take an interest in the inevitable course of events. But all is not what it seems. The revolution appears to proceed too rapidly. The kingdom’s trade infrastructure collapses too easily. The Sorrician rulers are inexplicably and unrealistically confident in their ability to repel an attack on the capital. It will take a man of conscience, a regular soldier and a boy priest to restore appearances back to reality.
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Date Issued: 2014

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Secrets I keep

- Thurgood, Mikaila Rae

Authors: Thurgood, Mikaila Rae
Date: 2014
Subjects: South African fiction (English) -- 21st century , Creative writing (Higher education) -- Research -- South Africa , Creative writing -- Fiction , South African fiction (English) -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
Identifier: vital:5981 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1015638
Description: My mother had many failings. Her inability to cook. Her inability to work. Her inability to love. But her two biggest failings...those were the ones that had the potential to ruin my entire life, to ruin my brother’s life, to tear a family apart. More than anything, it was her inability to act. Claire is a young woman working in Johannesburg as a PA. She has few friends barring her au pair flatmate Beth and work colleague Marge. Her nights are spent trying to overcome the trauma of her past to find sexual fulfilment in a shallow world of one night stands. Whether she can set herself on a path towards a more normal life comes down to one crucial thing – forgiveness.
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Date Issued: 2014

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