Author:Wolgast, JackieDate:2018Poverty remains, despite efforts by the advanced economies to address it, a constant challenge in the world, particularly in Africa. The African continent has been riddled with poverty for decades. The factors that lead to and sustain poverty ...Read more
Author:Fourie, GerhardDate:2018Africa, as a continent, requires rapid development in order to catapult the continent into developed status. As decision-makers on the continent acknowledge this, ambitious development goals have been put in place. This research study analysed ...Read more
Author:Verryn, AnnetteDate:2015This thesis investigates the level of sustainability of two microfinance institutions (MFIs): Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and Capitec Bank of South Africa. Data from 2004 to 2013 is used in this study employing internationally accepted ...Read more
Author:Gebbie, TimDate:1999The questions I ask myself are generally all along the lines of "so where did all this structure come from?". I hoped that work in the CMB and its cosmological implications would give me insight into this. It is an adventure that is still ...Read more
Author:Paton, Hugh MDate:1975An initial analysis into the present problems which will affect the future growth of the Western Cape resulted in the conclusion that the situation of the Coloured population is the factor most urgently requiring positive planning resolutions. ...Read more
Author:Havenga, ChristineDate:2018This dissertation contributes to the conversation about gated communities, which has become the fastest growing development sector in the post-apartheid South African city. It is a controversial form of development, due to the country’s history ...Read more
Author:Ruhlig, Vanessa JaneDate:2018The rapid post-Independence development of the city of Windhoek, Namibia; and the ensuing destruction of a substantial number of German colonial buildings in the capital city, prompted speculation as to why these buildings are inadequately ...Read more
Author:Hancock, CarolineDate:2018The primary aim of this study was to determine who claims the corbelled buildings in the
Karoo as their heritage and why. Through the use of vernacular architecture and heritage
identification theory, interviews and research it is clear ...Read more
Author:Setlhodi, MapasekaDate:2019The incidence of unemployment falls most harshly on youth, who are generally low skilled and often have no experience of formal sector employment; with just 24.4 percent of young people being active in the labour market. In an attempt to ...Read more
Author:Pitcher, Sorrel ClaireDate:2018Current literature about marginalised youth centres adult knowledges and perpetuates narratives of risk. Additionally, very little is known about young transgender persons within the South African context. Therefore, by making use of Photovoice ...Read more
Author:Musaya, LillyDate:2018Beekeeping is an important industry in South Africa yet it is in decline. The South African government and development agencies see the increasing production deficits in the industry as a business opportunity for income generation for ...Read more
Author:Adebulehin, Aderinsola MichelleDate:2017Given South Africa’s racialized history of access to education, redress efforts targeted at achieving
equity in access to universities for students from across racial backgrounds have been well underway
for over two decades now. More recently, ...Read more
Author:Mbatha, ThembelaniDate:2016That the history of modernity is characterised by a narrative blindness, wherein the historical and ontological significance of the Black subject is often unjustly overlooked in favour of a Western historiography, is a point that has and ...Read more
Author:Bussière, Elsa Marion SylvieDate:2018Most of the conservation issues which ecologists are called on to help resolve are essentially about ecological communities. Camera trapping technology has led to a surge in the collection of large ecological datasets, which provides an ...Read more
Author:Bradlow, EdnaDate:1966In studying the Cape Government’s rule in Basutoland certain complementary themes arise, which though they are all germane to the problem, have had to be handled very briefly. The two main protagonists were the Cape Government and the Basuto. ...Read more
Author:Cowell, CarlyDate:2018Loss of biodiversity is a global conservation crisis. Environmental change is rapid and biodiversity loss is happening at rates never experienced before. Conservationists must deal with an ever growing responsibility to conserve biodiversity ...Read more
Author:Woodborne, M WDate:1987This study describes the geology and late Quaternary history of the inner shelf just north of the Buffels River off Namaqualand. In this area the inner· shelf is only 2km to 3.5km wide. An "inner-shelf platform" slopes gently (1°) out to -40m. ...Read more
Author:Hambidge, JoanDate:2000This thesis argues that gender is a construct or a choice. The different gender positions (feminisms, masculinities, homosexualities et al.) are read against modem literary theory. When applicable a particular theory is tested from a creative ...Read more
Author:Zhang, YingwenDate:2013QCD Sum Rules is one of the most successful quantum field theory frameworks to extract hadronic information
from QCD analytically. This technique is based on the Operator Product Expansion (OPE) and
Cauchy's Theorem in the complex energy ...Read more
Author:Harris, ThomasDate:2018International human rights law instruments are not prescriptive regarding the procedure for processing refugees by an individual state. However, they do provide an extensive set of rights, and it is these rights that form the focus of this ...Read more
