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Policy options for land reform in South Africa: New institutional mechanisms?
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-10)
Since the 2005 Land Summit, new approaches
to land reform have been on the agenda, yet there remains little clarity on the way forward. The main focus has been on means of accelerating
the redistribution of land through ...
Understanding diversity as a framework for improving student throughput
(Maastricht University, 2007)
INTRODUCTION: Literature suggests that a diverse body of healthcare graduates could extend health service delivery. However, the
literature also indicates that the throughput of minority, working class, and historically ...
Trans-boundary natural resources management in Southern Africa: Local historical and livelihood realities within the Great Limpopo Trans-frontier Conservation Area
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
The end of apartheid rule in South Africa, together with the termination of the civil war in Mozambique and the occupation of Namibia by South Africa in the early 1990s, seemed to herald profound changes in international ...
A short history of time: charting the contribution of social development service delivery to enhance child justice 1996-2006
(University of Stellenbosch, 2007)
By charting the contribution of social development service delivery to enhance child justice in South Africa from 1996 to 2006, this article argues that the contribution of the social development sector to child justice ...
Sequence analysis of an Archaeal virus isolated from a hypersaline lake in Inner Mongolia, China
(BioMed Central, 2007)
Background: We are profoundly ignorant about the diversity of viruses that infect the domain
Archaea. Less than 100 have been identified and described and very few of these have had their
genomic sequences determined. ...
Bjatladi community restitution claim
(PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 2007-08)
This report focuses on the restitution case of the
Bjatladi Communal Property Association (CPA) and the
development and use of the land that has been restored
to it in terms of the restitution programme. It examines ...
Forecasting volatility in sub-Saharan Africa’s commodity markets
(Business Perspectives, 2007)
Using spot prices from eighteen commodities traded by most Sub-Saharan African countries, this paper evaluates the out-of-sample volatility forecasting efficiency of seven models. The models evaluated included random walk, ...
Derrida, the conditional and the unconditional
(Juta Law, 2007)
In his recent book, Law and Sacrifice: Towards a Post-Apartheid Theory of Law, Johan van der Walt gives a clear exposition of the possible impact of inter alia Jacques Derrida's thinking on law. In this article, the book ...
HE0230–4323: an unusual pulsating hot subdwarf star
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
HE 0230−4323 is a known binary, consisting of a subdwarf star and a companion which is not
observable in the optical. Photometric measurements reported in this paper have shown it to be
both a reflection-effect and a ...
Surveying the research landscape to promote children's legal rights in an African context
(Juta Law, 2007)
This article represents an initial attempt to identify research themes and topics of special relevance to the furtherance of children's rights in the African context in order to sharpen and strengthen our capacity to promote ...