Recent Graduates

ALMAZ BEUKES. Queering gender: The life histories of gender counter-normative students at Stellenbosch University

KYLIE BOLTON. Political Fashioning: Aesthetics, art and activism in South Africa 2013-2018

LIZE-MARÉ COMBRINK. Re-Negotiating Space And Place: Intersections Between Migration And Schooling In Kayamandi (Stellenbosch, Western Cape)

CHRISTA SURETHA ENGELBRECHT. An ethnographic study on OutRight Namibia and their work on advancing gender and sexuality diversity in Namibia

ESETHU MONAKALI. Troubling the Line: Exploring the Discursive Construction of Trans Masculinity

JACQUILENE ROUX. How Social Media Democratized Beauty: South African Influencers’ Experiences of the Transformation of Cosmetics and Work in the Beauty Industry

JADE TENNANT. “It’s not a woman’s job”: An exploration of the gendered nature of employment in the South African private security industry

ANNI ROSALEN BEUKES. Social capital for whom? A case study of the implementation and practices of community-led enumerations in Stellenbosch Municipality 2011-2013

MICHAEL PASSETTI. New Jerusalem is my home: Christian restoration and the discipleship programme

MATTHEW WINGFIELD. Tracking the Many Meanings of Activisms and Occupations: An Ethnographic Study of ‘Reclaim the City’, in Woodstock and Green Point, Cape Town

SUNÉ SONIA BUTLER. Knowledge relativity: Carnarvon residents’ and SKA personnel’s conceptions of the SKA’s scientific and development endeavours

KRISTEN HARMSE. Die Son Sien Alles: The Constitution of Community in a Post-Apartheid Tabloid

ANRI JO HENDRICKS. Social researchers’ perceptions of ethics review: the role of scientific domain, methodology and ethical position

VANESSA LEBOHANG MPATLANYANE. New Student Activism after Apartheid: the case of Open Stellenbosch

RENÉ RAAD. Nursing the Stigma: Conflicting Realities of Abortion

CASSEY ALEXANDRE TOI. Motherhood Constructed Online: An exploratory study of South African mommy bloggers

COLLETTE JANSEN VAN RENSBURG. Single Mothers And Family Formation In Suurbraak: A Mixed Methods Study

NEIL KRAMM. Youth and military service: Exploring the effects of military socialisation, reintegration and employment

REINETTE MEIRING. A case study of women’s households, sanitation and care in Zwelitsha, an informal settlement section in Stellenbosch Municipality

MICHELLE MARY MORDAUNT-BEXIGA. “We are all only one pay cheque away from a life like this”: Experiences of unemployment and homelessness at a community shelterin Somerset West, Western Cape

HENRIETTA MONICA SETTLER.  ‘Hair economies’: power and ethics in an ethnographic study of female African hairdressers in Cape Town

SINIKIWE SIMAKANI. “Beeware” Of The Wasp: The Role Of Language In Studying And Managing The European Paper Wasp

MONIQUE VAN DER HOEF. The local, the global, and the self: An ethnographic account of a community Computer Centre in Carnarvon, Northern Cape, and its significance for its users’ sense of self and their place in the world

CHRISTO VISSER. Improving Shacks, Upgrading Settlements: An ethnography of solar power infrastructure in the informal settlement of Enkanini, Stellenbosh

LORRYN GLYNIS WILLIAMS. Decelerating factors that impact on the career progression of women academics at Stellenbosch University

OLUMIDE FREDERICK ADETIBA. The Challenges Of Curbing Corruption In A Democracy: The Case Of The Public Protector And Nkandla

KIM CARLS. The Changing Face of Woodstock: A Study of Inner-City Gentrification

GABRIELA PENELOPÉ CAROLUS. Politics and performance of a literacy intervention in Cape Town: School libraries and the new subjection of volunteerism.

BERENICE GWENDOLINE KRIEL. The Adam Tas student association and the tension between Afrikaans identity and transformation at Stellenbosch University

CONSTANCE KHOLEKA MPUTA. Evaluating the implementation of Employment Equity in a Pharmaceutical Company: A Case Study

FREDRICK MUBITA. The Training, Role and Challenges of Female Peacekeepers: Experiences of Peacekeepers from the Zambia Police Service and the Zambia Army.

PROF. ROB PATTMAN. Teenage mothers’ experiences of motherhood- schooling, stigma and learned responsibility: a case study of teenage mothers of school going age in a peri-urban area in Kwa-Zulu Natal.

ADRIAAN STEFANUS STEYN. A new laager for a “new” South Africa: Afrikaans film and the imagined boundaries of Afrikanerdom 

MENÁN VAN HEERDEN. Afrikaaps: A Celebratory Protest Against The Racialised Hegemony Of ‘Pure’ Afrikaans

DILLON TIMOTHY WADEMAN. Caregivers, care work and the limits of healthcare: An ethnographic exploration into practices of community-based HIV prevention, treatment and care in a resource-limited setting in South Africa

ANNE WILTSHIRE. Negotiating labour insecurity: A case study of temporary off-farm workers in the deciduous fruit sector in Ceres.

LOXTON C. Veranderende verhoudings tussen boere en plaaswerkers in post-apartheid Suid-Afrika: paternalisme en formalisering van die werksplek. MA, 2015. Supervisors: Fakier K, Vorster JH.

ROBERTSON MA. “Real men”, “Proper ladies”, and integration in between: An in-depth, qualitative study of social cohesion and discrimination in terms of race and gender within university residences at Stellenbosch University. MA, 2015. Supervisor: Pattman RW.

SMITH M. Youth perceptions and experiences of military service: Factors influencing recruitment. MA, 2015. Supervisor: Heinecken LPT. (thesis awarded Cum Laude)

YANG Y. Producing Post-Apartheid Space: an ethnography of race, place, and subjectivity in Stellenbosch, South Africa . MA, 2015. Supervisor: Dubbeld, BM.

SEABE DS. Understanding volunteerism in South Africa: a mixed methods approach. MA, 2014. 114 pp. Supervisor: Du Plessis JMJ, Burger R.

VAN ROOI WA. The Weblight-District: a study of how women use the internet to work independently as sex workers, their investments in this kind of work, and the challenges this poses. MA, 2014. 135 pp. Supervisor: Pattman RW. (thesis awarded Cum Laude)

WATT, K. Valuing precarious commodities: an ethnography of trade in three charity shops in Cape Metropolitan Area. MA, 2014. 163 pp. Supervisor: Dubbeld BM. (thesis awarded Cum Laude)

ZAGGI HY. Contraceptive knowledge and practices among students in federal polytechnic Kaduna, Nigeria: an exploratory study. MA, 2014. 163 pp. Supervisor: Walker CW.

BASSON I. A Review of Methodological Trends in South African Sociology, 1990-2009. MPhil, 2013. 103 pp. Supervisor: Prozesky HE. (thesis awarded Cum Laude)

BECKETT SE. Environmental concern, Race and Socio-Economic Status in Post Apartheid South Africa, 1996-2006. MA, 2013. 117 pp. Supervisor: Prozesky HE, co-supervisor Vorster JH

DE WINNAAR M. Good in theory but not in practice: Exploring perspectives on Inclusive Education. MA, 2013. 122 pp. Supervisor: Du Plessis JMJ.

HUGO NM. Imagining “Whiteness”: An ethnographic exploration into fantasy and experience of young women seeking muzungu companions in Kampala, Uganda. MA, 2013. 123 pp. Supervisor: Pattman RW. (thesis awarded Cum Laude)

JERAM R. Interpreting the effects of collegiality and collaboration mathematics teachers’ efficacy in a school based professional development programme: A case study. MPhil, 20123. 127 pp. Supervisor: Hill LB.

KOMAKECH G. A Conceptual Model for a Programme Monitoring and Evaluation Information System. MPhil, 2013. 131 pp. Supervisor: Mouton J.

PRINCE L-L.  Above gender: doing drag, performing authentically, and defying the norms of gender through performance in Cape Town. MA, 2013. 94 pp. Supervisor: McDougall K.

SCHROEDER LA. “Who will I be now?”: The lived experience of adolescent sibling bereavement within the school context. MA, 2013. 117 pp. Supervisor: Vorster JH. Co-supervisor: Somhlaba NZ.

SWANEPOEL J. Custodians of the Cape Peninsula: A Historical and Contemporary Ethnography of Urban Conservation in Cape Town.  MA, 2013. 120 pp. Supervisor: Robins SL. (thesis awarded cum laude)

SWARTZ E. Women and the management of household food security in Paternoster. MA, 2013. 103 pp. Supervisor: Walker CJ.

WALTERS H. Treatment through empowerment? The production of “Responsibilised” HIV-positive patients in two HIV/AIDS clinics in the Cape Winelands. MA, 2013. 139 pp. Supervisor: Robins SL. (thesis awarded cum laude)

DU TOIT, D. “From Employing-a-Maid to Hiring a Maid Brigade: Transformations in Domestic Work and Outsourced Housecleaning Services in Gauteng, South Africa” Supervised by Lindy Heinecken

GOGA, S. “Clothing and becoming Muslim in post-apartheid Johannesburg: the politics of middle class women’s distinction” Supervised by Bernard Dubbeld

HART, T.G.B. “Adoption, Adaption and Rejection: Ethnography of a South African agricultural intervention” Supervised by Steven Robins and Kees van der Waal

IBANGA SANGA, P. The capital city of Kinshasa: The adaption of traditional institutions after independence.Supervised Prof Simon Bekker.

LESTER, C. Commissions of inquiry into state violence in the South African mining sector and state power. Supervised Dr Bernard Dubbeld.

LIRU, P. The influence of Climate change on the Livelihoods of women involved in rural agriculture in Kenya. Supervised Prof Lindy Heinecken.

MANYANI, A. The emergence, conceptual and institutional development of Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) research. Co-supervised by Lloyd Hill.

MANYANI, C. From Livestock to Game Farming: An exploration of farmers’ understandings of land use changes, sustainable agricultural and biodiversity conversation in the Ubuntu Local Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. Supervised by Cherryl Walker.

MCARTHUR, T. “Coloured Masculinities and Schooling” Supervised by Rob Pattman

MEDJO, M. L’influence de l’ethnicite dans le commerce frontalier: Le cas la ville de kye-ossi au cameroun. Supervised by Simon Bekker.

MEYER, T. Social closure: perspectives on career advancement of women lawyers in South Africa. Supervised by Khayaat Fakier.

MOGASHOA, M. Understandings of land and it’s ‘multiple meanings’ in South Africa’s land programme: A case study of the Sydney-on-Vaal land claim in Northern Cape Province. Supervised by Cherryl Walker.

MUTARU, S. Naming the Witch, Housing the Witch and Living with Witchcraft: An Ethnography of Ordinary Lives in Northern Ghana’s Witch Camps. Supervised by Ilana van Wyk.

NUWAMANYA, A. Partitioned Ethnicities and the Peripherality of Borderland Areas: The Batuku Pastoralists on the Uganda DRC Border. Supervised by Steven Robins.

SARUCHERA, M.  Smallholder Farmers’ Understandings of and Responses to Climate Change in Malawi: A Case Study of Mphunga Group Village, Salima District. Supervised by Cherryl Walker.

TERBLANCHE, R.  Ongediertes: A critical qualitative study of the political ecology of black-backed jackal and its management around the Square Kilometre Array core site. Supervised by Cherryl Walker.

VAN DEN BERG, W. Men doing care work home: Exploring men’s participation in shared childcare. Supervised by Khayaat Fakier and Rob Pattman.

WILTSHIRE, A. Social Productive Work. Supervised by Khayaat Fakier and Jan Vorster.

XABA, N.J. “A comparison of Afrikaner empowerment and black economic empowerment: a case study of a South African parastatal” Supervised by Lindy Heinecken

DU TOIT, D. “From Employing-a-Maid to Hiring a Maid Brigade: Transformations in Domestic Work and Outsourced Housecleaning Services in Gauteng, South Africa” Supervised by Lindy Heinecken

IBANGA SANGA, P. The capital city of Kinshasa: The adaption of traditional institutions after independence.Supervised Prof Simon Bekker.

LIRU, P. The influence of Climate change on the Livelihoods of women involved in rural agriculture in Kenya. Supervised Prof Lindy Heinecken.

MANYANI, C. From Livestock to Game Farming: An exploration of farmers’ understandings of land use changes, sustainable agricultural and biodiversity conversation in the Ubuntu Local Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa. Supervised by Cherryl Walker.

MUTARU, S. Naming the Witch, Housing the Witch and Living with Witchcraft: An Ethnography of Ordinary Lives in Northern Ghana’s Witch Camps. Supervised by Ilana van Wyk and Thomas Cousins.

NUWAMANYA, A. Partitioned Ethnicities and the Peripherality of Borderland Areas: The Batuku Pastoralists on the Uganda DRC Border. Supervised by Steven Robins.

SARUCHERA, M. Smallholder Farmers’ Understandings of and Responses to Climate Change in Malawi: A Case Study of Mphunga Group Village, Salima District. Supervised by Cherryl Walker.

TERBLANCHE, R. Ongediertes: A critical qualitative study of the political ecology of black-backed jackal and its management around the Square Kilometre Array core site. Supervised by Cherryl Walker.

XABA, N.J. “A comparison of Afrikaner empowerment and black economic empowerment: a case study of a South African parastatal” Supervised by Lindy Heinecken

CRAFFORD A. Identity in organisations: A methodological study. PhD, 2015. Supervisor: Mouton, J.

INGWANI, E “Land transactions and rural development policy in Domboshavu peri-urban communal area Zimbabwe”  Supervisor: Bekker, S

MANGEZVO PL.  Xenophobia exclusion and masculinities among Zimbabwe male migrants: the case of Cape Town and Stellenbosch. PhD, 2015. Supervisor: Robins SL.

MAYEZA ES. Playing and performing gender: investigating childhood play in gender identity construction among boys and girls in a township school in South Africa. PhD, 2015. Supervisor: Pattman RW.

MDUNYELWA LM. Developmental Local Government: Public Participation as a strategy for sustaining the hostel redevelopment program in hostels in Langa, and Nyanga. PhD, 2015. Supervisor: Bekker SB.

OLIVIER DW.  The physical and social benefits of urban agriculture projects facilitated by non-governmental organisations in Cape Town. PhD, 2015. Supervisor: Heinecken LPT.

HUNGWE E. Land transactions and rural development policy in the Domboshava peri-urban communal area, Zimbabwe. PhD, 2014. 0 pp. Promoter: Bekker SB.

LE ROUX E (LISA). The role of African Christian churches in dealing with sexual violence against women: The case of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Liberia. DPhil, 2014. 239 pp. Promoter: Heinecken LPT, Claassens LJM.

TSIBANI FG. Water services education and training needs of councilors in the Local Government Development Agenda (LGDA). PhD, 2014. 480 pp. Promoter: Groenewald CJ

CROESE S. Post-war state-led development in Angola. The Zango housing project in Luanda: a case study. PhD, 2013. 204 pp. Promoter: Bekker SB.

SIZIBA G. Language and the politics of identity in South Africa: The case of Zimbabwean (Shona and Ndebele speaking) migrants in Johannesburg. PhD, 2013. 286 pp. Promoter: Hill LB.