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Formalised postgraduate writing support centres are a relatively new phenomenon at the majority of South African universities and have not yet been researched intensively. This article, which forms part of a mandated study, ...
Die Hexe (“The Witch”) included in the Hulthem codex, is a Medieval Dutch farce which comically addresses the issue of witchcraft. Researchers see the text either as an explicit warning against the dangers of witchcraft ...
Sedert die demokratiese verkiesing in 1994 en die bevordering van nege addisionele
inheemse tale tot die status van ampstaal in die Handves van Regte soos vervat in
die interim Grondwet1 en die latere 1996-Grondwet,2 ...
Due to the fact that Afrikaans is such a young language with a young literary tradition, the Afrikaans classroom has no real equivalent to older texts like Chaucer or Shakespeare. The absence of these types of texts from ...
Early Hollywood films made use of certain codes and signifiers to imply aspects
that were banned by boards of censors after the Great Depression. By using
these codes filmmakers were able to say secretly much more than ...
National libraries (NLs) play an important role not only in the preservation of
the national heritage but also in the provision of information to a country’s
population. It is therefore very important that, with the ...
The need for sustainable evaluation of the research process and performance in Nigerian
universities cannot be overemphasised. This research used bibliometric analysis, with
publication output as a major indicator to ...
The world of law requires a thorough knowledge and command of language at all times.
It happens quite often that a legal dispute revolves around language and the use thereof. One such example is the case of Commissioner ...
This paper proposes an IS theory of reciprocal change. The research problem addressed in the paper is the absence of an IS theory that explains the reciprocity of change within IS. The questions that the paper answers is, ...
The Maintenance Act 23 of 1963 moved the burden of maintenance enforcement from the then Supreme Courts to maintenance courts The aim of the Act was to create a procedure by means of which an aggrieved party could obtain ...
On 1 July 2007 section 17 of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005 came into operation. It lowered the age of majority from 21 years to 18 years and brought our law into alignment with the notion in international human rights law ...
In a hate speech case a court might have to determine whether a person’s words
were hurtful or harmful. Would it be possible to determine whether words are hurtful
or harmful by using linguistics? This article offers a ...
One of the most important functions of a court of law is to interpret statutes. The interpretation of statutes can be a difficult task, especially when a court has been given the
responsibility to address words or phrases ...
The South African judicial system has a variety of ways to determine the ordinary meaning of words, ranging from preceding court cases and academic publications to expert witnesses. However, one of the main resources in ...
Cronje, Christo J.; Wingard, Christa H.; Kiyanga, Bendriba Patrick Lutimbanya(2016)
Sustainability reporting is a type of reporting concerning how entities deal with environmental, social, economic and corporate governance issues. This form of corporate reporting has become a primary form of corporate ...
Since the 1990s the SADC region has closely followed declining trends that occurred in the industrialised world in terms of corporate tax rates. The main purpose of this paper is to find appropriate explanations behind ...
Taxpayer behaviour has in South Africa moved to the forefront of the investigation of revenue collection with regular tax awareness campaigns being launched by the South African Revenue Service (SARS). Issues relating to ...
The paper attempts to elaborate on the revenue-raising capabilities (economic efficiency and viability) of a value-added tax (VAT) system, particularly in developing countries. The analysis concentrates on the effect of a ...
This article analyses experiences in the developing world with reference to lessons learned from developed regions. The first section provides a theoretical background, analysing the meaning of commodity tax. The second ...