A thesis or dissertation is a final long essay involving personal research written by a candidate for a higher degree. Generally, a thesis is the final project for the Masters degree and a dissertation leads to a PhD or doctoral degree.
Theses / dissertations can be a valuable source of information, especially for postgraduate students, who need to know what previous research has been done in their field of study, and who want to see examples of theses to help them prepare their own work.
Click the following link:
http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za/xmlui/handle/10413/7700/browse?type=dateissued
Electronic Theses / Dissertations
Theses and dissertations can also be found by using Google Scholar.
Current and Completed Research Covers South African research projects in various disciplines including masters and doctoral theses of SA universities and technikons as well as information on research projects from NGOs, the private sector and government departments.
Nexus - Current and Completed Research Projects is searchable via Current and Completed Research as above. However, you may also go directly to the the Nexus database.
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents.
South African Institutional Repositories / Archives
IRSpace Search for SA and African institutional repositories
OpenSALDRU (Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit at UCT)
South African Genealogy - Family History research in South Africa - SA Genealogy
University of Cape Town Computer Science Research Document Archive
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (WITS) (WIReDSPACE)