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Emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Manzungu, Emmanuel; Jonker, Lewis; Madaka, Egness; Naka, Zandile; Sithole, Ellen; Dzingirai, Vupenyu (Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)

This paper compares and contrasts emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both countries represent transitional societies that are facing challenges of providing clean ...

Emotion, voice and agency: exploring the written discourses of some township women in South Africa

Dyers, Charlyn; Williams, Meggan; Barthus, Tatum (Taylor & Francis, 2012)

This paper is an analysis of the discourses and attitudes that emerged from a set of daily journals kept by a particular group of township women during a training course for domestic workers in South Africa. The principal ...

An empirical analysis of energy consumption and economic growth in India: are they causally related?

Ramakrishna, Gollagari; Rena, Ravinder (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, 2013)

In this paper an attempt is made to present the energy scenario of India in terms of energy consumption, energy security and energy efficiency. Growth trends and the changes in growth trends of these variables have been ...

The employment history of day labourers in South Africa and the income they earn - a case study of day labourers in Pretoria

Blaauw, Phillip (Derick); Louw, Huma; Schenck, Catherina (Rinie) (University of Pretoria, 2006)

Introduction: With the opening up of the South African economy, following its successful democratisation and adherence to a strict programme of trade liberalisation, the number of highly-skilled (professionals, managers ...

Endangered Antarctic microbial communities

Cowan, Donald A.; Ah Tow, Lemese (Annual Reviews, 2004)

The Antarctic continent harbors a range of specialized and sometimes highly localized microbial biotopes. These include biotopes associated with desiccated mineral soils, rich ornithogenic soils, glacial and sea ice, ...

Enforced informalisation: the case of liquor retailers in South Africa

Charman, Andrew; Petersen, Leif; Piper, Laurence (Taylor & Francis, 2013)

After a decade of unsuccessful efforts to migrate informal businesses to South Africa’s formal economy there remains little understanding of the dynamics in this sector, especially as regards micro-enterprises. International ...

Engaging ICTs as a “Tool” for eHealth prioritization on human development and poverty reduction in the African region

Agbele, Kehinde K.; Adesina, Ademola Olusola; Ekong, Daniel; Seluwa, Dele (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Inc., 2011)

The association connecting information and communication technologies (ICTs) and well-being or poverty remains vague and research today has resulted to divergent conclusions. This paper defines ICTs as “tools” that ...

Engaging meaningfully with government on socio-economic rights : A focus on the right to housing

Chenwi, Lilian; Tissington, Kate (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)

To make sure that service delivery is effective and has a positive impact on people’s quality of life, it is important to have meaningful engagement between communities and the government. South Africa’s Constitution makes ...

English: Language of hope or broken dream?

Clifford, Marian; Kerfoot, Caroline (Oxford University Press, 1992)

In this chapter, the ESL approaches adopted by seven different literacy organisations in South Africa are described and analysed. The approaches are identified in relation to developments in the field of applied linguistics ...

Ensuring the security and privacy of information in mobile health-care communication systems

Adesina, Ademola Olusola; Agbele, Kehinde K.; Februarie, Ronald; Abidoye, Ademola P.; Nyongesa, Henry O. (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2011)

The sensitivity of health-care information and its accessibility via the Internet and mobile technology systems is a cause for concern in these modern times. The privacy, integrity and confidentiality of a patient’s data ...

Enterprise responsibility for sexual harassment in the workplace: comparing Dutch and South African law

Du Toit, Darcy (Kluwer Law International, 2008)

Introduction: Sexual harassment in the workplace is generally deplored, destructive of working relationships and unlawful. Despite this it is widespread and possibly on the increase. In Spain, according to a 2006 survey, ...

Erfregtelike onwaardigheid: Enige lesse te leer vir die Suid-Afrikaanse reg uit die Nederlandse reg?

du Toit, Francois (Juta, 2012)

The regulation of unworthiness to inherit in Book 4 of the (new) Dutch Civil Code (2003) occasioned numerous interpretation and application challenges to Dutch courts, notaries and inheritance scholars. These challenges ...

Eroding the middle ground: the shift in foreign policy underpinning South African nuclear diplomacy

Leith, Rian; Pretorius, Joelien (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 ...

Eschatology in South African literature from the struggle period (1960-1994)

Conradie, Ernst (University of Kwazulu-Natal School of Theology, 2000)

On the background of the current sense of despair concerning the environmental crisis, this article follows the basic intuition that a Christian environmental praxis can only be empowered on the basis of an adequate ...

Estimating the burden of disease attributable to excess body weight in South Africa in 2000

Joubert, Jane; Puoane, Thandi (South African Medical Association, 2007)

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the burden of disease attributable to excess body weight using the body mass index (BMI), by age and sex, in South Africa in 2000. DESIGN: World Health Organization comparative risk assessment ...

Estimation of recharge using a revised CRD method

Xu, Yongxin; van Tonder, Gerrit J. (Water Research Commission, 2001)

The cumulative rainfall departure (CRD) method, based on the water-balance principle, is often used for mimicking of water level fluctuations. Because of its simplicity and minimal requirement of spatial data, the CRD ...

Estimation of the coherence time of stochastic oscillations from modest samples

Koen, Chris (Oxford University Press, 2012)

‘Quasi-periodic’ or ‘solar-like’ oscillations can be described by three parameters – a characteristic frequency, a coherence time (or ‘quality factor’) and the variance of the random driving process. This paper is concerned ...

Ethics and mono-disciplinarity: positivism, informed consent and informed participation

Hersh, Marion A.; Tucker, William D. (Elsevier, 2005)

There are a number of pressures on researchers in academia and industry to behave unethically or compromise their ethical standards, for instance in order to obtain funding or publish frequently. In this paper a case study ...

Ethics @ http://www.kewl.uwc.ac.za : The potential for e-learning to democratise the social work curriculum

Bozalek, Vivienne (Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, 2007)

This article describes the design and implementation of a module on Advanced Social Work Ethics using a blended learning approach and relying substantially on e-learning as a pedagogical tool. The design is contextualised ...

E-tools and the globalised world of learning and communication

Stoltenkamp, Juliet; Mapuva, Jephias (Contemporary Educational Technology, 2010)

The utilization of the knowledge economy in the information age has been promoted by various tools developed both for communication and marketing purposes. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have proved ...

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