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Business modelling for inclusive financial services: How to enhance access to financial services for marginalised youth

Author: Musarurwa, Hillary Jephat Date: 2015 The aim of this research was to develop a business model that will enhance the access to financial services by marginalised youth. In order to develop such a relevant business model it was necessary to understand the needs and challenges being ... Read more
Does Pairs trading work on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange?

Author: Appelbaum, Matthew Date: 2015 In this study it was examined whether Pairs trading is a potentially profitable trading strategy on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Pairs trading is a quantitative based trading strategy, in which shares are paired up based on a historic ... Read more
Exploring the Lived-Experience of business model innovation

Author: Sangham, Mehul Anilrai Date: 2015 Due to increasingly complex and uncertain environments, businesses must deal with multiple competing and often opposing models, what we may call 'ontological relativity'. To deal with this, the practice of innovation management requires a new ... Read more
Export taxes as a trade policy tool in Malawi: the case of timber products

Author: Mkumba, Maxwell Young Date: 2015 The study examines the export tax as a trade policy tool in Malawi, with a specific focus on the timber industry. This study was motivated by the sudden imposition of an export tax on timber trade by the Malawi Government in 2011, as a reactive ... Read more
Fast online predictive compression of radio astronomy data

Author: Hugo, Benjamin Date: 2013 This report investigates the fast, lossless compression of 32-bit single precision floating-point values. High speed compression is critical in the context of the MeerKAT radio telescope currently under construction in Southern Africa ... Read more
A financial economic approach to management information in the wine industry

Author: Du Toit, Chris Date: 2010 Wine is a beverage that accompanies and enhances a wide range of occasions, cuisines and even religious ceremonies in many cultures. It claims health benefits and brings wonderful memories to mind. We all have our own story to tell when it ... Read more
The impact of remittances on GDP in CARICOM

Author: Millington, Faith W E Date: 2015 This study investigates the relationship between remittances and economic growth in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) from 1975 to 2013, where remittances are measured as a share of GDP and economic growth is measured by GDP per capita growth. ... Read more
Improving Searchability of Automatically Transcribed Lectures Through Dynamic Language Modelling

Author: Marquard, Stephen Date: 2012 Recording university lectures through lecture capture systems is increasingly common. However, a single continuous audio recording is often unhelpful for users, who may wish to navigate quickly to a particular part of a lecture, or locate ... Read more
Information management and dissemination of HIV/AIDS information by NGOs in Zimbabwe: An explanatory study

Author: Matizirofa, Lazarus Date: 2005 The HIV/AIDS epidemic has become a serious health, social and economic problem in Zimbabwe. Almost 30 percent of the population had been infected by AIDS (Acquired immune Deficiency Syndrome) by 2004. The epidemic has also affected almost the ... Read more
Integrating social and environmental sustainability into the operations of a multinational gold mining company: A case study of AngloGold Ashanti

Author: Hollesen, Paul Michael Date: 2012 Integrating social and environmental sustainability into the operations of a multinational mining company is increasingly important to its long term viability. Yet, the boundaries of what constitutes responsible social and environmental ... Read more
An investigation of third-year multimedia students' use of the web to supplement and enhance formal course work and skills

Author: Swanepoel, Hannelie Date: 2011 Many studies have shown that, despite, the initial hype about how the world wide web would change learning, young people and, especially, students are not necessarily inclined to use the web for learning, simply because it is available. In ... Read more
Montagu : urban conservation in a small town : the role of voluntary conservation groups and planning law in heritage resource management

Author: Vermeulen, Frederik Saaiman Date: 2011 Conservation in Montagu started in the early 1970s, with the rescuing and restoration of significant buildings and the declaration of 21 National Monuments (now called Provincial Heritage Sites), which safeguarded those buildings when no other ... Read more
Organisational ventriloquism in a project centered organization : a qualitative inquiry into the effects of ritualized mimeticisomorphism within a project centered organization

Author: Steyn, Keegan Date: 2015 The management of projects has been area of intense study for many years, yet few researchers have ventured outside parameters of the mainstream concerns. This research aims to move outside the parameters of mainstream project management ... Read more
Prioritisation of candidate genes for psychiatric disorders

Author: Kalweit, Kerry Date: 2013 The application of genome-wide association studies and next-generation sequencing has had limited success in identifying causal genes for complex diseases. Bipolar disorder is one such disease whose aetiology has not been elucidated despite ... Read more
Towards a new South African geodetic datum

Author: Newling, M Date: 1989 The overall scale and orientation of the South African trigonometrical readjustment will depend both on the traditional distances and azimuths and on TRANSIT Doppler observations. The traditional observations are used to compute the relative ... Read more
Towards innovative approaches for affordable housing in the gap market : a case study of Khayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa

Author: Muhoro, Gloria Nyawira Date: 2015 Post-apartheid South Africa has been criticized for failing to satisfactorily achieve its election promise of redistribution and poverty alleviation. While success has been noted in the provision of affordable housing and subsequently home ... Read more
Trade in healthcare services by a developing country: the case of Botswana

Author: Maiketso, Johnson Tsoro Date: 2015 This research presents an analysis of the health sector in Botswana in the context of a middle income developing country that endeavours to harness benefits from trade in health services. It finds that the health sector is still dominated ... Read more