Submitted in Accordance with the Requirement for the Degree of in the Department of Atthe
TOWARDS CULTURE CARE NURSING EDUCATION: A STUDY OF T.G. MASHABA'S TRANSCULTURAL THEMES BY THOKOZANIP.MHLONGO submitted in accordance with the requirement for the degree of DOCTOR OF LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY in the Department of ADVANCED NURSING SCIENCES atthe UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: PROFESSOR HIL BRINK JOINT-PROMOTER: PROFESSOR JB HLONGWANE JUNE 1998 ii DECLARATION I declare that TOWARDS CULTURE CARE NURSING EDUCATION: A STUDY OF T.G. MASHABA'S TRANSCULTURAL THEMES is my work and all the sources that I have used or quoted have been indicated and acknowledged by means of complete references. Thokozani P. Mh iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am eternally grateful to the Almighty God for giving me life and the ability to pursue my academic dream. I wish to extend my sincere gratitude and appreciation to Professors HIL Brink and JB Hlongwane, my promoters, for their wise guidance and consistent encouragement. If it was not for their help, this thesis would still have been in the form of notes. Nikhule nize nikhokhobe! I am greatly indebted to my beloved relatives for sustaining my zeal and to my beloved family - [bonke oMakhedama nabo bonke abaNtwana - abaseZulwini (Odidini), kwaPhindangene, naseNkombabantu] -for their love, understanding and support. All my friends - at UNISA:Doctor, Rua, Professors CT and DBZ, Ursula, Olive, Nita, Dirk, Sonya, Mavis, Anneli, Margo, Susan, Sarie, Kathy, Laetitia, Olga; UNIZUL: ~ursing Department staff, especially Dr Zungu and Mrs Mhlongo; UNITRA: Sizwe, Sokhela, Thembeka; KZN Nursing Department staff: Lulu, Mrs. Memela, Hlongwane, Nxumalo, Moleko, Cele; and IOWA, USA: Paula, Meridean, Toni, Pat, Mary, Kathleen, Keela, Fran, Colleen, Marita, and Pam - have been more than I expected.
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