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Conference “Seeking security: Towards a new vision for tenure relations in farming areas”
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2005)Nkuzi Development Association (NDA) in partnership with Social Surveys Africa (SSA) organised a conference on the tenure security of farm dwellers, which was held in Johannesburg from 25–27 October 2005. -
Confessing guilt in the context of climate change: Some South African perspectives
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)This contribution explores the significance but also the immense complexities of Christian discourse on confessing guilt within the context of climate change. It draws especially on South African discourse on confessing ... -
Confidence intervals for the correlation between the gamma-ray burst peak energy and the associated supernova peak brightness
(Oxford University Press, 2009)A strong correlation between the gamma-ray burster peak energy and the peak luminosity of the associated supernova was discovered by Li for four GRBs. Despite the fact that the formal significance level of the correlation ... -
A confirmatory factor analytic study of an authentic leadership measure in Nigeria
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)Authentic leadership has been identified as one of the competencies for effective leaders. Research purpose: The primary goal of the present study was to test, on a Nigerian sample, the psychometric properties of the ... -
Confiscation of proceeds of crime in Vietnam: improving the legal framework
(2021)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Vietnamese laws and practices concerning the confiscation of proceeds of crime, especially in view of Vietnam’s obligations to meet the international standards on ... -
Conflicts of interest are harming maternal and child health: time for scientific journals to end relationships with manufacturers of breast-milk substitutes
(BMJ Global Helah, 2022)The promotion and support of breastfeeding globally is thwarted by the USD $57 billion (and growing) formula industry that engages in overt and covert advertising and promotion as well as extensive political activity ... -
Conformity of removable partial denture designs to agreed principles based on materials used - A preliminary study
(South African Dental Association, 2020)Removable partial denture (RPD) designs may differ based on types of materials used. The aim of the study was to investigate how a sample of non-metal clasp (NMC), acrylic and metal RPD designs complied with biomechanical ... -
Confronting apartheid. A personal history of South Africa, Namibia and Palestine, John Dugard
(Juta, 2021)John Dugard is a household name in the law of South Africa. Perhaps even before that, but certainly since his inaugural lecture was published fully 50 years ago (see 'The judicial process, positivism and civil liberty' ... -
Confronting corruption: past concerns, present challenges and future strategies
(2017)The literature on corruption and anti-corruption has mushroomed over the last decade or so. Of course, all research and writing on the problem of corruption and the fight against it are to be welcomed. Regrettably, however, ... -
Confronting the problem of polycentricity in enforcing the socioeconomic rights in the South African Constitution
(SA Publiekreg = SA Public Law, 2008)The judicial enforcement of the socio-economic rights contained in the South African Constitution (Constitution) has not been without controversy when compared to the judicial enforcement of civil and political rights. ... -
Confronting the state of local government: the 2013 Constitutional Court decisions
(Juta, 2016)In September 2014 the then Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan, divided municipalities into three groups: a third of the municipalities was carrying out their tasks adequately, a third ... -
Connecting bridges across the digital divide
(ACM, 2004)Connecting people across the Digital Divide is as much a social effort as a technological one. We are developing a community-centered approach to learn how interaction techniques can compensate for poor communication across ... -
“Connecting Mind to Pen, to Eyes, to Face, to Arms and Legs”: Toward a Performative and Decolonial Teaching Practice
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)The push to sustain online learning platforms that have been established in the wake of Covid-19 at South African universities raises a number of concerns. Apart from highlighting the stark and ongoing social inequities ... -
Connecting relational wellbeing and participatory action research: Reflections on ‘unlikely’ transformations among women caring for disabled children in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)Participatory action research (PAR) is a form of community-drivenqualitative research which aims to collaboratively take action toimprove participants’lives. This is generally achieved throughcognitive, reflexive learning ... -
Conquering the publishing silences of black academic women
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)Although women fulfil and play meaningful roles in the academic life of universities, their contributions have seldom been acknowledged. The voices of women outside of the dominant western context of knowledge production ... -
Consequences for non-payment of PAYE and VAT compared
(2020)This article shows that, whereas a bilateral legal relationship exists between the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and a vendor in relation to value-added tax (VAT), a tri-partite legal relationship exists among the ... -
Consequences of using a smooth cosmic distance in a lumpy Universe. I.
(American Physical Society, 2022)How do we appropriately fit a model based on an idealised Friedmann-Lemaˆıtre Robertson-Walker spacetime to observations made from a single location in a lumpy Universe? We address this question for surveys that measure ... -
Conservation and ecotourism on privatised land in the Mara, Kenya: The case of conservancy land leases
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2012)This paper investigates private sector investment in conservation and ecotourism through conservancy land leases in the Mara region of Kenya. In a recent and growing tourism development, groups of Maasai landowners are ... -
The conservation status and population decline of the African penguin deconstructed in space and time
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)Understanding changes in abundance is crucial for conservation, but population growth rates often vary over space and time. We use 40 years of count data (1979–2019) and Bayesian state-space models to assess the African ... -
Conservation status and threats for African reptiles
(Elsevier, 2016)The assimilation of information on taxonomy, distribution, basic ecology and conservation status of Africa's reptiles lags far behind that for most other continents. Many regions of mainland Africa are rarely surveyed, ...
