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Williams, Donald M.; Bentley, Wessel(Theologia Viatorum, 2020)
Being the church in Africa requires a continuous self-assessment by Christian denominations,
asking whether it is sufficiently contextualised both in its doctrines and practices. This selfcritique
is essential so as to ...
Bentley, Wessel; Williams, Donald M.(Studia Historiae Ecclesisaticae, 2020)
The doctrine and practices of ordination in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) trace their origins from the Wesleyan Methodist Church. These initially adopted ordination practices proved to be culturally ...
The corporate income tax (CIT) systems in place in developing countries can potentially be contributors or impediments to their economic development. This is especially relevant in the SADC region that has a set agenda ...
In this paper we examine the causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Botswana during the period 1980-2016. We disaggregate energy consumption into six components, namely: total energy consumption, ...
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between financial development, income inequality and CO2 emissions in a step-wise fashion, using data from 39 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries during the period 2004-2014. ...
This study investigates the relationship between public debt and economic growth in 10 European Countries in the presence of cross-sectional dependency. Using a panel ARDL approach, the results show that public debt and ...
This study investigates the short- and long-run determinants of gold price movements in financial markets by taking into account multiple structural breakpoints using an ARDL-based error correction approach. The study used ...
This review evaluates whether pregnancy is a risk factor for COVID-19 by looking at the expression of immune markers such as immune cells and cytokines in order to have a better understanding on the pathophysiology of the ...
The famous R.E.M. song laments ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it, I had some time alone, I feel fine…’. Many South Africans would agree that COVID-19 signals the end of the world (or business) as we know it, and ...
This article emanates from one of the assignments that was given to the students who were registered for the Honours programme in 2018 (NQF Level Eight). They were 12 registered students. To assess students' readiness for ...
This chapter examines adult educator development in terms of initial and
in-service training and conditions of work in South Africa, Botswana and
Namibia. It considers existing modes for building the capacity of ...
In this article I re-examine the tenets of the transformative paradigm as explained
by Mertens in various publications. Mertens suggests that the transformative
paradigm (as she names it) encapsulates the positions of ...
In this article we offer a discussion around our
academic-practitioner involvements with one another
and with a targeted community, in relation to a particular
project. In the title of the article, we have hyphenated ...
The death of a loved one and the repatriation of the remains have become the double pain
experienced by many Zimbabweans in South Africa. The double pain is caused by the
cultural demand for burial to be conducted at the ...
Romm, Norma R.A.(Institute for Qualitative Research and Center for Digital Systems (Free University of Berlin), 2020-01-02)
In this article I discuss a number of ethical issues surrounding the USA-commissioned
Belmont report (NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN SUBJECTS OF BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH, 1979), using as one of ...
In this article I provide an account of my use (in a particular context) of a ‘post qualitative inquiry’ approach, with my recognition that ways of approaching issues to be explored with participants, and the method of ...
Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon(Taylor and Francis, 2020-07-29)
Pentecostal prophecy is one of the major themes of the
theology and practice of religion among the prophets of
New Prophetic Churches in South Africa and a major factor
to the growth and expansion of Pentecostalism in ...
Zimu-Biyela, Acquinatta Nomusa(University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2020-07-16)
This article reports on a study which explored the information literacy (IL) skills of first-year students at the Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) at a pre-library orientation and instruction phase. The study ...
Young, Jacobus(Association of Southern African Schools and Departments of Public Administration and Management (ASSADPAM), 2019)
Operational risk management forms a crucial part of management and since the early 1990s this practice has escalated rapidly due to various reasons, such as an increase in the regulatory requirements and risk-related ...