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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 pharmacy students’ knowledge and skills in reproductive, maternal, new-born and child health care at a South African university
(Springer Nature, 2021)Maternal and child mortality is a global concern and one of South Africa’s quadruple burdens of disease. As easily accessible frontline healthcare workers, pharmacists play an important role in the continuum of maternal ... -
Evaluating SMS parsing using automated testing software
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Inc., 2012)Mobile phones are ubiquitous with millions of users acquiring them every day for personal, business and social usage or communication. Its enormous pervasiveness has created a great advantage for its use as a technological ... -
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 ... -
Evaluating the commitment of South Africa to the principles of separation of powers
(Springer International Publishing., 2022)Background: Historically, the concentration of unchecked power in the hands of a single individual or group of people has mostly resulted in suppression and oppression of other peoples’ rights. In constitutional democracies, ... -
Evaluating the community land record system in Monwabisi park informal settlement in the context of hybrid governance and organisational culture
(MPDI, 2020)The study examined the effectiveness of a community-operated land record system (CRS), a product of an evolutionary information system planning approach under hybrid governance arrangements in Monwabisi Park informal ... -
Evaluating the construct validity of the KIDSCREEN-52 Quality of Life questionnaire in a South African context
(Psychological Society of South Africa, 2012)The absence of a suitable measure to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and adolescents in South Africa, led to the use of the KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire which was developed and standardised in ... -
Evaluating the effect of ward-based outreach teams on primary healthcare performance in North West Province, South Africa: A plausibility design using routine data
(Health & Medical Publishing Group, 2018)Background: North West Province (NWP), South Africa, was an early adopter of the primary healthcare (PHC) ward-based outreach team (WBOT) strategy and has made considerable progress in implementing it. Given the interest ... -
Evaluating the factor structure of the General Self-Efficacy Scale
(SAGE Publications, 2016)Although the Sherer General Self-Efficacy Scale has often been used in clinical, personality, and organisational research, one of the major issues surrounding this instrument is that of an appropriate factor structure. In ... -
Evaluating the impact of land use and land cover change on unprotected wetland ecosystems in the arid-tropical areas of South Africa using the Landsat dataset and support vector machine
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)The study explored the impact of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) change dynamics in relation to the condition and status of an unprotected wetland located in the arid-tropical parts of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. ... -
Evaluating the jurisprudence of the African Commission on evidence obtained through human rights violations
(University of Pretoria, 2020)The normative framework of the African Commission, which regulates the admission of evidence obtained through human rights violations, is largely based on a number of instruments. These include the Tunisian Resolution, the ... -
Evaluating the relevance of the “Real Access” criteria as a framework for rural HCI research
(ACM, 2006)Developing ICT software that is useful and usable in a rural context poses many problems. One of the major difficulties is understanding the real needs of the target users and the constraints imposed by the rural environment. ...