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Entrepreneurship education and training at the Further Education and Training (FET) level in South Africa
(Education Association of South Africa, 2007)We assessed the levels of entrepreneurship education and training at the Further Education and Training (FET) level in a South African context. We are of the opinion that entrepreneurship education and training (of ... -
Entrepreneurship gaps framework model: An early-stage business diagnostic tool
(AOSIS OpenJournals Publishing, 2020)Background: In South Africa, entrepreneurship literature demonstrates that three out of four businesses collapse within 3 years of their inception. A plethora of research effort identifies factors such as the lack of finance ... -
Epidemiological comparison of the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria, February 2020-April 2021
(MDPI, 2021)Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), also known as Smart Transportation, is an infusion of information and communication technologies into transportation. ITS are a key component of smart cities, which have seen ... -
Equitable access to land for social justice in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2021-11)This report analyses the trajectory of land reform in South Africa and its implications for equitable access to land. The report combines insights from empirical research and inclusive dialogues to analyse the extent to ... -
Eroding the middle ground: the shift in foreign policy underpinning South African nuclear diplomacy
(Routledge, 2009)In international relations states labelled as ‘middle powers’ are often responsible for crafting a middle way to bridge conflicting international interests. They typically favour multilateralism and cooperative international ... -
Establishing an economically and biologically sustainable and viable inland fisheries sector in South Africa – pitfalls of path dependence
(Water Research Commission, 2022)Small-scale fisheries play a significant role in livelihoods and food and nutrition security for millions of people around the world. However, these benefits are under threat, especially in developing countries such as ... -
Ethics and international security in the information age
(Taylor & Francis, 2003)According to Moore’s Law, every 18 months technology is developed reducing electronic systems to half their previous size.1 The resultant impact upon the field of information and communication has been revolutionary and ... -
Evaluating Family as an Instrument for Policy in Human Capabilities
(macrothink Institute, 2021)The capabilities" approach has overtime offers instructive insights into the improvement of human capabilities in various fields such as behavioural change, social inequalities, poverty, unemployment, and education. To ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Farm tenure
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)Farm dwellers are among the poorest South Africans. Most have access to residential land only. A minority has access to grazing land for their livestock or to arable land for cultivation, in return for which they may be ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Final Report
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)Land dispossession was a key feature of racism under colonial rule and apartheid in South Africa. More than 3.5 million people were forcibly removed in the period 1960 to 1983 alone, through homeland consolidation, removals ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Joint ventures
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)Joint ventures (JVs) are an increasingly common feature of the process of land and agrarian reform in South Africa. They involve black people who currently have land rights or who are land reform beneficiaries and will be ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land redistribution
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)Land dispossession during the colonial era and the decades of apartheid rule produced a highly unequal pattern of land ownership and widespread rural poverty in South Africa. When a democratically elected government came ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Land use and livelihoods
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)This paper addresses how land reform can contribute to enhancing land-based livelihoods. South African agriculture is often characterised as being divided into two types: freehold tenure/ commercial agriculture vs. ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Municipal commonage
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)This paper compares the performance of the Municipal Commonage Programme of the Department of Land Affairs (DLA) with the objectives stated in the White Paper on South African Land Policy (DLA 1997). This paper will review ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural restitution
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)During the negotiated transition to democracy, many South Africans expected that liberation would bring the return of land they had been dispossessed of under colonialism and apartheid, but the terms on which the transition ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Rural settlement
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)The primary focus of South Africa is land reform programme is the acquisition of land and tenure security. The policies and strategies attached to this programme have provided many people with land. However, access to land ... -
Evaluating land and agrarian reform in South Africa : Support for agricultural development
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2003)In South Africa, land reform has to be more than securing land rights and transferring a certain number of hectares to black people. Broadly speaking, it has to take into account the uneven spatial development patterns ... -
Evaluating outcomes from stakeholders’ perception: Evidence from an irrigation project in Nigeria
(University for Development Studies, Ghana, 2016)The need for the appreciation of values and knowledge diversity has contributed to the increasing relevance of stakeholder participation in the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of development projects. Using mixed methods ... -
Evaluating social housing intervention strategies in a South African municipality
(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2013)According to the Department of Human Settlement Annual Report (2010:5) accelerating the delivery of housing opportunities by 2014 by providing proper basic services and land tenure to households currently living in informal ... -
Evaluating the benefits of cloud computing in small, medium and micro-sized enterprises (smmes)
(Elsevier, 2021)Cloud computing is becoming an essential tool in lowering Information Technology (IT) costs amongst Small, Medium and Micro-sized Enterprises (SMMEs). As such amongst a myriad of challenges, SMMEs are faced with a general ...