2024-03-28T13:20:49Zhttps://uir.unisa.ac.za/oai/requestoai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/303882023-08-16T10:26:24Zcom_10500_132com_10500_131com_10500_130com_10500_506col_10500_2908col_10500_507
Mphaga, Tendani
2023-08-04T10:46:59Z
2023-08-04T10:46:59Z
2023-03-03
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30388
The main aim of the study was to investigate the occurrence and removal of microplastics in wastewater treatment processes in Ekurhuleni and Midvaal in South Africa. The amount of microplastics and chemical composition discharged into the river pose a threat to aquatic systems and human health. The wastewater samples were collected using 24 h autosamplers between 2021 December to 2022 September. The in-situ measurements for pH and temperature were conducted using an advanced digital HACH HQ40d multi-meter. The analysis for chemical oxygen demand (COD) and suspended solids (SS) was done through colorimetric and gravimetric methods. Analysis for heavy metals was done using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The polarized light microscopy (POM) was used to generate high-resolution images and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) identified polymers and functional groups. The quantification of microplastics was done through image J 1.53 K to determine the microplastics particles (MPs) counts and removal efficiencies. The mass of microplastics was obtained and the loading rate was estimated based on the flow rate. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to establish the relationships between physicochemical water quality, metals and MPs concentrations and loading. The chemical oxygen demand (COD) and SS showed a small positive correlation with r-value ranging between 0.1-0.3. Temperature and pH showed a negative correlation with MPs concentration. Toxic metals and non-metallic parameters monitored in the influent and effluent of WWTWs also did not correlate significantly, only chloride, Fe, S and SO42− showed a smaller correlation at r=0.1-0.3. The MPs vary between 0.01-0.02 mm in the influent and 0.01-0.05 mm in the effluent. The microplastics identified across four seasons were dominated by angular fibres (white), fragments (blue, black and red films (translucent) with concentrations ranging between 145-180 MPs/L in summer, 399-401 MP/L in autumn, 119-798 MPs/L in winter and 152-402 MPs/L in spring. The highest concentrations and loading were observed at WWTW B. The FTIR analysis showed presence of polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyacrylamide (PAM), polymethyl methacrylate (PPM), polymethyl methacrylate (ABS), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene carbonate (PPC) and thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPV) polymers while the spectra represent functional groups such as saturated aliphatic, alcohol and hydroxyl compounds, carbonyl and alkenes. The scanning electron microscopy/energy dispersive x-ray (SEM/EDX) analysis resulted in carbon and oxygen ranging between 52-73.46% and 15.9-26% with the composition of MPs additives such as Cr, Ca, Fe, Al, Na, Mg, Zn, Cl, P, S and silicone. Continuous monitoring and regulations of MPs is required to minimize microplastics pollution and adverse impact in the environment.
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An assessment of the occurrence and removal options of microplastics in wastewater treatment processes at the City Ekurhuleni and Midvaal in South Africa
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/25132018-11-17T13:05:16Zcom_10500_14515com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14525col_10500_507
Vorback, Alta Maria
2009-08-25T11:04:10Z
2009-08-25T11:04:10Z
2009-08-25T11:04:10Z
Vorback, Alta Maria (2009) Bewusmaking as fokus in opleidingsriglyne vir vrywillige beraders, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2513>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2513
Across the world children are affected by factors such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, divorce and loss. More organisations are getting involved in the training of voluntary counsellors. Although these counsellors have the necessary theoretical knowledge they still experience problems in working effectively with these children. Possible reasons for this are these counsellors' own unfinished issues and loss. Within this study the focus is on creating awareness for counsellors within training situations from a Gestalt approach.
As part of the fulfilment of the literature study an empirical study has been done. A qualitative study with a small portion of quantitative research has been done with the implementation of a training programme for voluntary counsellors. Various mediums were used to create heightened self-awareness with regard to various topics. Training guidelines are than given for creating awareness within training situations for voluntary counsellors.
Dwarsoor die wereld word kinders beinvloed deur faktore soos armoede, HIV/VIGS,
egskeiding en verlies. Al meer organisasies, soos Philippi Trust Namibia, raak
betrokke in die opleiding van vrywillige beraders, ten einde bekostigbare dienste vir
hierdie kinders daar te stel. Alhoewel hierdie beraders oor voldoende teoretiese
kennis beskik, ervaar hulle steeds probleme om effektief met kinders te werk.
Moontlike redes is vrywillige beraders se eie onvoltooidhede en verlies. Binne hierdie
studie word op die bewusmaking van beraders binne opleidingsituasies gefokus ten
einde selfbelewing daar te stel.
'n Literatuurstudie is gedoen waartydens
aspekte bekom is:
teoretiese perspektief op die volgende
> Bewustheid en die vrywillige berader vanuit die Gestalt-benadering.
> Riglyne binne opleidingsituasies vir verhoogde bewustheidsbelewing.
Deur bogenoemde teoretiese perspektief word die eerste navorsingsdoelwit van die
studie beantwoord.
Ter aanvulling van die literatuurstudie is empiriese ondersoek ondermeem.
Kwalitatiewe studie met kleiner komponent van kwantitatiewe navorsing is voltooi
deur die implementering van 'n program vir vrywillige beraders. Die program het oor
vyf dae geskied. Verskeie mediums is gebruik om selfbelewing rondom spesifieke
onderwerpe te verhoog.
Deur bogenoemde empiriese ondersoek word die tweede doelwit van die studie
beantwoord.
Na aanleiding van die studie word opleidingsriglyne vir die verhoging van bewustheid
binne opleidingsituasies vir vrywillige beraders daargestel.
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Groups
Philippi Trust Namibia
Voluntary counsellor
The self
Contact
Gestalt approach
Mediums in play therapy
Awareness
Bewustheid
Spelterapiemediums
Gestalt-benadering
Kontakmaking
Die self
Vrywillige berader
Groepe
Bewusmaking as fokus in opleidingsriglyne vir vrywillige beraders
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/262282020-02-24T10:26:00Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Tewodros Gobena Yirorsha
2020-01-17T06:29:28Z
2020-01-17T06:29:28Z
2019-08
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26228
The aim of this study was to assess the suitability of International Financial Reporting
Standards (IFRS) adoption in Ethiopia. To this effect, the study focused on examining
the key factors that would influence IFRS adoption in the context of Ethiopia, namely
economic growth, economic openness, capital market development, level of
accounting education as well as legal systems and government policies.
The study used a mixed-method approach, which involved a survey and content
analysis. While the survey was the primary research approach in this study, the
secondary data analysis was used to obtain additional evidence to corroborate the
information gathered through the survey. Descriptive statistics was used to analyse
and interpret the data. The study results show that the aforementioned factors
examined were not conducive to adopting IFRS, and thus IFRS was not regarded as
suitable in Ethiopia at the time of this study. The study also revealed an absence of a
single set of accounting standards in Ethiopia.
Die doel van hierdie studie was om die geskiktheid van Internasionale Finansiële
Verslagdoeningstandaarde-aanneming (IFRS-aanneming) in Ethiopië te assesseer.
Die studie het derhalwe daarop gefokus om die sleutelfaktore te ondersoek wat die
IFRS-aanneming in die konteks van Ethiopië sal beïnvloed, naamlik ekonomiese
groei, ekonomiese oopheid, kapitaalmarkontwikkeling, vlak van rekeningkundeopvoeding,
asook regstelsels en regeringsbeleide.
Die studie het ’n gemengdemetodebenadering gebruik, wat ’n ondersoek en
inhoudsontleding ingesluit het. Hoewel die ondersoek die primêre
navorsingsbenadering in hierdie studie was, is die sekondêre ontleding gebruik om
bykomende bewyse te bekom om die inligting wat deur middel van die ondersoek
ingesamel is, te bevestig. Beskrywende statistiek is gebruik om die data te ontleed en
te interpreteer. Die resultate van die studie dui daarop dat die bogenoemde faktore
wat ondersoek is, nie bevorderlik is om die IFRS aan te neem nie en derhalwe is die
IFRS as nie geskik vir Ethiopië ten tye van hierdie studie beskou nie. Die studie het
ook ’n afwesigheid van ’n enkele stel rekeningkundige standaarde in Ethiopië aan die
lig gebring.
Maikaelelo a thutopatlisiso eno e ne e le go sekaseka go tshwanelega ga go amogelwa
ga Seemo sa Tlhagiso ya Dipegelo Tsa Ditšhelete sa Boditšhabatšhaba (IFRS) kwa
Ethiopia. Go fitlhelela seno, thutopatlisiso e totile go tlhatlhoba dintlha tsa botlhokwa
tse di tlaa susumetsang go amogelwa ga IFRS mo bokaong jwa Ethiopia, e leng kgolo
ya ikonomi, go bulega ga ikonomi, tlhabololo ya mmaraka wa matlotlo, seelo sa thuto
ya palotlotlo gammogo le dithulaganyo tsa semolao le dipholisi tsa puso.
Thutopatlisiso e dirisitse molebo wa mekgwa e e tswakaneng, o o akareditseng
tshekatsheko ya diteng. Le fa tshekatsheko e ne e le molebo wa ntlha wa patlisiso
mo thutopatlisisong eno, go dirisitswe tshekatsheko ya bobedi ya data go bona bosupi
jwa tlaleletso go tshegetsa tshedimosetso e e kokoantsweng ka tshekatsheko. Go
dirisitswe dipalopalo tse di tlhalosang go sekaseka le go ranola data. Dipoelo tsa
thutopatlisiso di bontsha gore dintlha tse di tlhagisitsweng fa pele tse di tlhatlhobilweng
di ne di sa siamela go amogela IFRS mme ka jalo IFRS ga e a tsewa e tshwanelegile
go ka dirisiwa kwa Ethiopia ka nako ya thutopatlisiso eno. Gape thutopatlisiso e
senotse gore ga go na le fa e le peelo e le nngwe ya palotlotlo kwa Ethiopia.
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Financial reporting
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
Adoption of IFRS
Ethiopia
Accounting practices
Economic growth
External economic openness
Capital market development
Accounting education
Legal systems
Government policies
Finansiele verslagdoening
Internasionale Finansiele Verslagdoeningstandaarde (IFRS)
Aanneming van IFRS
Rekeningkundepraktyke
Ekonomiese groei
Eksterne ekonomiese oopheid
Kapitaalmarkontwikkeling
Rekeningkunde-opvoeding
Regstelsels
Regeringsbeleide
Tlhagiso ya dipegelo tsa ditšhelete
Seemo sa Tlhagiso ya Dipegelo Tsa Ditšhelete sa Boditšhabatšhaba (IFRS)
Kamogelo ya IFRS
Ethiopia
Ditiragatso tsa palotlotlo
Kgolo ya ikonomi
Go bulega ga ikonomi ya kwa ntle
Tlhabololo ya mebaraka ya matlotlo
Thuto ya palotlotlo
Dithulaganyo tsa semolao
Dipholisi tsa puso
Financial reporting practices in Ethiopia
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/246122018-11-17T13:06:43Zcom_10500_24440com_10500_23854com_10500_460com_10500_128col_10500_24450
Thornton, DM
Steenkamp, AL
2018-08-14T18:01:51Z
2018-08-14T18:01:51Z
1995
Thornton, D.M. & Steenkamp, A.L. (1995) A quality assurance reference model for object-orientation. Papers Delivered at the SAICSIT 95 Research and Development Symposium (South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists), Film Auditorium, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 25-26 May1995, edited by A.L. Steenkamp (UNISA) (ISBN 0-86981-909-7)
0-86981-909-7
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24612
Software quality assurance for object-oriented information systems development is the issue dealt with here. A Quality Assurance Reference Model is proposed based on the Revised Spiral Life Cycle Model. The Quality Assurance Reference Model associates quality criteria, quality factors and metrics into a matrix framework that may be used to achieve quality assurance for all cycles of the Revised Spiral Model.
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Software quality assurance
Object-orientation
Spiral life cycle model
Quality criteria
Quality factors
Metrics
Quality assurance tasks
A quality assurance reference model for object-orientation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/212132018-11-17T13:04:09Zcom_10500_14512com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14520col_10500_507
Muditambi, Nathaniel Nndavhelesen
2016-09-15T12:18:11Z
2016-09-15T12:18:11Z
2015-11
Muditambi, Nathaniel Nndavhelesen (2015) Knowledge and attitudes of HIV positive women on exclusive breastfeeding in Mopani District (Greater Letaba Sub-District), South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21213>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21213
The study was conducted to determine the knowledge and to describe attitudes of HIV positive women on exclusive breastfeeding in Mopani District (the Greater Letaba Sub-District, Limpopo), South Africa. A quantitative, exploratory and descriptive design was adopted in this study to describe the knowledge and attitudes of HIV positive women on exclusive breastfeeding. The researcher used a self-developed structured questionnaire to collect data. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to describe data. The SPSS software version 21.0 was used to analyse data and this were displayed in tables and figures. A total of 123 participants were included in the study. The study concluded that HIV positive women have good knowledge and positive attitude on exclusive breastfeeding.
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Antiretroviral therapy
Attitude
Elimination of mother-to-child transmission
Exclusive breastfeeding
Formula feeding
HIV/AIDS
HIV positive women
Infant feeding
Knowledge
Malnutrition
Mix-feeding
Mother-to-child transmission
Knowledge and attitudes of HIV positive women on exclusive breastfeeding in Mopani District (Greater Letaba Sub-District), South Africa
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/70492022-05-13T04:59:30Zcom_10500_4090com_10500_1com_10500_3752col_10500_4220col_10500_3753
Tonsing, Detlev
2012-10-31T13:46:45Z
2012-10-31T13:46:45Z
2012-10
South African Science and Religion Forum Series
9781868887187
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/7049
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Science
Theology
Science and theology : presuppositions, presumptions, prejudgements
Book chapter
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/271022021-02-15T12:30:23Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_434com_10500_44com_10500_1col_10500_3753col_10500_435
Oliver, Erna
2021-02-15T08:28:49Z
2021-02-15T08:28:49Z
2016
Oliver, Erna. "Theology: Still a queen of science in the post-modern era." In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi [Online], 50.1 (2016): 7 pages. Web. 15 Feb. 2021
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27102
Theology is just as relevant today as it was in the time of Aquinas who called theology ‘the
queen of science’ although the knowledge-driven network society does not seem to be in
agreement. By using the tools provided by the fourth revolution in the development of society,
theology can, as part of the academic world of higher education that is supposed to lead
society, strengthen ties with the past, seek explanations and solutions to current problems and
produce guidelines for future investigation through multi- and interdisciplinary discourse.
Theology can and should influence people to become positive change agents, re-shape the way
in which the message of salvation is brought to the world in order to stay relevant in changing
circumstances and be on the forefront of progressive transformation in society. This should be
achieved through constant dialogue with other academic disciplines, the Church as institution
and with society in general.
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Theology; queen of science; development of universities; fourth revolution
Theology: still a queen of science in the post-modern era
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/307862024-02-01T06:36:31Zcom_10500_20930col_10500_20931
Reyes-García, Victoria
García-Del-Amo, David
Porcuna-Ferrer, Anna
Schlingmann, Anna
Abazeri, Mariam
Attoh, Emmanuel M. N. A. N.
Vieira da Cunha Ávila, Julia
Ayanlade, Ayansina
Babai, Daniel
Benyei, Petra
Calvet-Mir, Laura
Carmona, Rosario
Caviedes, Julián
Chah, Jane
Chakauya, Rumbidzayi
Cuní-Sanchez, Aida
Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro
Galappaththi, Eranga K.
Gerkey, Drew
Graham, Sonia
Guillerminet, Théo
Huanca, Tomás
Ibarra, José T.
Junqueira, André B.
Li, Xiaoyue
López-Maldonado, Yolanda
Mattalia, Giulia
Samakov, Aibek
Schunko, Christoph
Seidler, Reinmar
Sharakhmatova, Victoria
Singh, Priyatma
Tofighi-Niaki, Adrien
Torrents-Ticó, Miquel
2024-02-01T06:36:30Z
2024-02-01T06:36:30Z
2024-01-08
Sustainable Earth Reviews. 2024 Jan 08;7(1):1
https://doi.org/10.1186/s42055-023-00063-6
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30786
Abstract
Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge and needs receive inadequate attention in climate research and policy. Here, we discuss three key findings of a collaborative research consortium arising from the Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts project. First, reports of environmental change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities provide holistic, relational, placed-based, culturally-grounded and multi-causal understandings of change, largely focused on processes and elements that are relevant to local livelihoods and cultures. These reports demonstrate that the impacts of climate change intersect with and exacerbate historical effects of socioeconomic and political marginalization. Second, drawing on rich bodies of inter-generational knowledge, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have developed context-specific responses to environmental change grounded in local resources and strategies that often absorb the impacts of multiple drivers of change. Indigenous Peoples and local communities adjust in diverse ways to impacts on their livelihoods, but the adoption of responses often comes at a significant cost due to economic, political, and socio-cultural barriers operating at societal, community, household, and individual levels. Finally, divergent understandings of change challenge generalizations in research examining the human dimensions of climate change. Evidence from Indigenous and local knowledge systems is context-dependent and not always aligned with scientific evidence. Exploring divergent understandings of the concept of change derived from different knowledge systems can yield new insights which may help prioritize research and policy actions to address local needs and priorities.
Science highlights
→Place-based communities provide holistic, culturally-grounded, and multi-causal reports of change.
→Place-based communities rely on local means to adapt to change, but implementing responses incurs costs.
→Local reports of change reveal grounded needs and interests that could guide research and policy action.
Policy and practice recommendations
→Recognize Indigenous Peoples and local communities as legitimate custodians of climate change knowledge.
→Uphold Indigenous Peoples’ rights to participate in climate change decision-making.
→Adjust research to ensure that funding, timing and data ownership align with local needs and interests.
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The Author(s)
Local studies provide a global perspective of the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples and local communities
Journal Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/258382019-10-14T09:50:53Zcom_10500_132com_10500_131com_10500_130col_10500_2786
Sibanda, Timothy
Selvarajan, Ramganesh
Tekere, Memory
2019-10-10T13:07:36Z
2019-10-10T13:07:36Z
2018-10
Sibanda, T., Selvarajan, R. & Tekere, M. International Microbiology (2019) 22: 181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10123-018-00038-0
1618-1905
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10123-018-00038-0
This study aimed to analyze the bacterial diversity in carwash effluents and to determine their potential for use in microbial degradation of environmental contaminants. Nine carwash effluent samples were collected for physicochemical and bacterial community diversity analysis using multi-digital probes and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing respectively. The pH of all effluent samples was neutral to slightly alkaline. Oil and grease concentrations ranged from 15.3 to 49.7 mg/L. 16S gene amplicon sequencing of the nine samples produced 45,934-sequence reads, which translated to 13 bacterial phyla, 26 classes, and 43 genera. The most dominant phyla were Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, and Fusobacteria. Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) showed that the distribution of the phyla Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Acidobacteria, and Verrucomicrobia was influenced by the presence of oil and grease, total petroleum hydrocarbons-gasoline range organics (GRO-TPH), and metals species (Pb, Cu, and Zn). The dominant bacterial genera found in the present study were previously proven to biodegrade hydrocarbons, and their presence in carwash effluents could bode well for in situ natural bioremediation of these contaminated sites.
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Carwash
Bacteria
Diversity
Pyrosequencing
Canonical correspondence analysis
Targeted 16S rRNA amplicon analysis reveals the diversity of bacterial communities in carwash effluents
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/281062021-10-01T12:09:40Zcom_10500_2722com_10500_172com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2723col_10500_507
Mphaphuli, Murembiwa Julia
2021-10-01T11:51:19Z
2021-10-01T11:51:19Z
2021-01
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28106
This study delves on the problem of Vhavenḓa traditional songs and economic emancipation as well as ways of discovering the empowerment and promotion of business of musical artistry in relation to the economy. This will eventually improve the lives of Vhavenḓa cultural performers economically. The population of the study involved people who participated in the data collection process by means of questionnaires and interviews pertaining to Tshivenḓa traditional songs. This study mainly utilised the qualitative research method because the focus was on understanding, describing and explaining the social phenomenon being Vhavenḓa traditional songs and economic emancipation. With this method, participants expressed their perceptions with regard to the issue under investigation.
A number of non-probability techniques were used. First and foremost, purposive sampling was used in order to enable the researcher to choose respondents who have knowledge in Tshivenḓa cultural songs. In other words, the researcher used her judgement to select participants. Secondly, snowball sampling was utilised where several people were selected and then asked to recruit other people who meet the requirements. Thirdly, convenience sampling, which is also known as accidental sampling, was used in the study. This sampling was based on festivals of traditional songs in towns, soccer matches and bus stops. This is considered a quick technique used in situations where there was no prior arrangement of interview with interviewees or participants. Finally, quota sampling was also used where the researcher chose groups of cultural performers and solicited information from them.
This study is based on traditional songs and economic empowerment. Consequently, the data gathered was in relation to the economic development of Vhavenḓa cultural song performers and the promotion of traditional songs in the African language. The researcher used questionnaires and interviews as data collection instruments in order to obtain information about thoughts, feelings, attitudes, beliefs, values and perceptions of groups
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of respondents, namely cultural song performers, cultural leaders, elders, scholars and SABC radio broadcasters.
In this study, economic empowerment and globalisation theories were used. The globalisation theory is rooted in spoken and written business discourse. This study looked at ways of promoting the business of cultural songs and places where businesses of these songs can be conducted. The researcher used two main methods of analytical comparison namely method of agreement and method of difference. With the method of agreement, the researcher looked at common outcomes of participants. In contrast, the method of difference examined the areas which are different amongst participants. Findings of this study indicate that Tshivenḓa cultural songs lack business empowerment to be able to compete with other cultural song performers such as Europeans, amaZulu and amaXhosa who earn a living through singing and dancing.
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Community
Culture
Folklore
Folktale
Traditional songs
Business discourse
Singing
Melody
Economy
Business and Empowerment
Traditional songs and economic empowerment : a critical language awareness perspective with special reference to Tshivenda
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/263672020-11-17T09:33:15Zcom_10500_2916com_10500_2910com_10500_128com_10500_506col_10500_2922col_10500_507
Mlati, Malavi Clifford
2020-04-14T05:28:15Z
2020-04-14T05:28:15Z
2019-10
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26367
Real-Time Rollover prevention of Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) is very paramount to its reliability and survivability mostly when operating on unknown and rough terrains like mines or other planets.Therefore this research presents the method of real-time rollover prevention of UGVs making use of Adaptive control techniques based on Recursive least Squares (RLS) estimation of unknown parameters, in order to enable the UGVs to adapt to unknown hush terrains thereby increasing their reliability and survivability.
The adaptation is achieved by using indirect adaptive control technique where the controller parameters are computed in real time based on the online estimation of the plant’s (UGV) parameters (Rollover index and Roll Angle) and desired UGV’s performance in order to appropriately adjust the UGV speed and suspension actuators to counter-act the vehicle rollover.
A great challenge of indirect adaptive control system is online parameter identification, where in this case the RLS based estimator is used to estimate the vehicles rollover index and Roll Angle from lateral acceleration measurements and height of the centre of gravity of the UGV. RLS is suitable for online parameter identification due to its nature of updating parameter estimate at each sample time.
The performance of the adaptive control algorithms and techniques is evaluated using Matlab Simulink® system model with the UGV Model built using SimMechanics physical modelling platform and the whole system runs within Simulink environment to emulate real world application.
The simulation results of the proposed adaptive control algorithm based on RLS estimation, show that the adaptive control algorithm does prevent or minimize the likely hood of vehicle rollover in real time.
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Adaptive control system
Unmanned ground vehicle
Roll angle
Rollover index
Recursive least squares
Lateral acceleration
Parameter estimation
Unmanned ground vehicles: adaptive control system for real-time rollover prevention
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/255902019-07-19T01:00:58Zcom_10500_6421com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6433col_10500_507
Mmako, Emanuel Tebogo
2019-07-18T11:55:37Z
2019-07-18T11:55:37Z
2018-11-15
Mmako, Emanuel Tebogo (2018) Capacity building for effective school financial management : ensuring value for money, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25590>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25590
Schools today are entrusted with the duty of managing their funds in such a way that that the educational outcomes of the primary beneficiaries of these funds are maximised. This places more responsibility on the school governing bodies as the legal custodians of these funds, at local level, which need to be used economically, effectively and efficiently. To achieve this, school governing bodies need capacity in the form of appropriate skills and knowledge needed to connect school funding to educational outcomes. This study focuses on how capacity building for school governing body can contribute to value for money in school financial management. It sought to examine possible impediments to effective financial management, which result from the existing gaps in the current capacity building programmes and the financial management frameworks and procedures relating to school financial management. A qualitative research methodology involving in-depth interviews with members of governing bodies and Circuit officials was followed to examine the problem and possible improvement strategies. Themes that emerged from the data include, comprehensiveness, duration and frequency of the training programme, competency of training facilitators, monitoring, assessment and evaluation and other follow-up modalities, presentation style of the training facilitators, internal records and audited financial statements, the involvement of senior officials in school financial management, and the effectiveness of financial management. Findings suggested that, training of SGBs in financial management is inadequate, training facilitators lack requisite skills, the duration of the training for SGBs is short, the training programme is not provided frequently, the training programme’s presentation style is ineffective, mismatch between internal records and audited financial statements, lack of support and monitoring by circuit officials in the schools’ financial management, questionable conduct of external auditors, and ineffective cluster approach by SGBs.
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Financial accountability
Capacity building
Empowerment
Value for money
Capacity building for effective school financial management : ensuring value for money
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/37642018-11-17T13:05:34Zcom_10500_3072col_10500_3154
Prinsloo, Paul
2010-11-05T08:51:55Z
2010-11-05T08:51:55Z
2010-11-05T08:51:55Z
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3764
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ODL Communique
Open Distance Learning
ODL Communique 37
Other
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Hay, Francis Anthony Mirko
2015-04-24T10:08:29Z
2015-04-24T10:08:29Z
2014-01
Hay, Francis Anthony Mirko (2014) Trade in Mesopotamia from the early dynastic period to the early Achaemenid period with emphasis on the finance of such trade, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18530>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18530
This dissertation considered trade and trade finance in Mesopotamia over a
period of 2000 years commencing with Sumeria and ending with Achaemenid
Persia, taking in Ur III and Assyria. A range of financial instruments was
selected together with important business transactions, for instance,
agricultural finance, specifically the brewing industry and the working capital
requirements of merchants and money lenders. The role of women in private
enterprise was examined, including their role in retail finance. The great
estates of temple and palace had a substantial impact on finance and trade
throughout the periods. Their interaction with merchants and money lenders
was important to the study. I used reductionism to facilitate analysis of
complex products highlighting the essentials of finance namely, borrowing,
lending and return. The study concludes that, during the era under
consideration, the evolution and enhancement of the financial instruments and
products developed in self-generated, incremental and progressive steps.
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Achaemenid Persia
Antichretic
Assyria
Babylon
Brewing
Bronze Age
Economy
Finance
Lending
Loan
Merchant
Negotiable
Mesopotamia
Money
Money lender
Palace
Promissory note
Rate of interest
Temple
Trade
Trade finance
Women in finance
Trade in Mesopotamia from the early dynastic period to the early Achaemenid period with emphasis on the finance of such trade
Dissertation
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Ehlers, Valerie Janet, 1948-
2013-06-06T07:54:54Z
2013-06-06T07:54:54Z
2009
Ehlers, V.J. (2009)The 2009 RCN International Nursing Research Conference : celebrating 50 years of nursing research : looking back, moving forward : report : conference attended in Cardiff, Wales : 24-27 March 2009. Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery 11(1) pp. 137-139
1682-5055
http://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC19311
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/9824
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN), a trade union organisation for nurses and midwives from the United Kingdom (UK) hosts an annual International Nursing Research Conference at different venues throughout the UK. The theme for the 2009 conference was ''Celebrating 50 years of nursing research: looking back, moving forward''. This conference, hosted in the Cardiff city hall 24-27 March 2009, was attended by 420 delegates from 22 countries. A keynote address was presented every morning. During the course of the conference six symposia, 60 posters, and more than 200 concurrent papers were presented. Specific issues were also addressed by specialist panels during early morning breakfast sessions, lunch time sessions and late afternoon sessions. It became quite a challenge to decide which sessions to attend every day, with so many concurrent events going on at the same time.
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Copyright of an article will be assigned to the AJNM if the article is published. Copyright covers
the exclusive right to reproduce
© 2009 AJNM
Nursing research
Health studies
Conference reports
The 2009 RCN International Nursing Research Conference : celebrating 50 years of nursing research : looking back, moving forward : report : conference attended in Cardiff, Wales : 24-27 March 2009
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/279332021-09-08T09:13:07Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Mgolozeli, Sibongiseni
2021-09-08T09:01:58Z
2021-09-08T09:01:58Z
2021-07
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/27933
The current research work was conducted to understand the dynamics of nutrients from
the organic-inorganic (algae, agri-mat, grass and lime ammonium nitrate) amendments
into soil through mineralization, their movement thereafter from the soil to the crop. In
addition, the effect of organic materials on some soil physical and chemical properties
and crop productivity was investigated through a series of different but interconnected
laboratory, glasshouse and field experiments. The first experiment was carried out
through a 2-month incubation study to investigate nutrient release (mineralization)
capacity of inorganic-organic treatment combinations and organic amendments alone on
sandy loam and loam soil. The objective of the incubation study was to determine the
nitrogen-mineralization rate of different organic mulching materials singularly and when
combined with lime-ammonium nitrate under two soil types. The incubation study was
conducted in the laboratory at Agricultural Research Council – Soil, Climate and Water in
Arcadia, Pretoria. The experiment consisted of sandy loam and loam soil, each treated
with the following seven treatments T1 = control, T2 = 5g of dry algae per 100g of soil, T3
= 5g of ground agri-mat per 100g of soil, T4 = 5g of ground grass per 100g of soil, T5 =
75kgN.ha-1 using Lime Ammonium Nitrate (LAN) + 2.5g of dry algae per 100g of soil
(50%NF + 50%DA), T6 = 75kgN.ha-1 using LAN + 2.5g of ground agri-mat per 100g of
soil (50%NF + 50%GA), T7 = 50%NF + 50%GG. Each treatment was replicated three
times and the experiment was laid out in a completely randomized design. Three
experimental units per treatment were drawn at 0, 3, 7, 15, 30, 45, and 60 days for
mineral-N (NH4
+
-N and NO3
-
-N) content determination. The results from the incubation
study indicates that all the treatments where organic amendments were added had higher
mineralization rates compared to the treatments where organic amendments were
applied singularly. The highest amounts of Nitrate-N (619 mg.kg-1
) and Ammonium-N
(507.9 mg.kg-1
) were both recorded in the 50% dry algae (DA) and 50% compound
fertilizer treatment combination at day 15 under sandy loam soils.
Following the incubation study, a 2-month glasshouse experiment was conducted to study
effect the following five treatments: T1 = control, T2 = 50%DA + 50%CF, T3 = 50%GA +50%CF, T4 = 50%GG + 50%CF, T5 = 150 kgN.ha-1 using LAN (100%CF) on spinach
growth and yield using the same two soil types. All five treatments were replicated three
times for each of the two soil types and the experiment was laid out in a completely
randomized design. The treatments with sole application of organic amendments were
replaced with sole application of nitrogen fertilizer (LAN) in the glasshouse experiment
due to their low mineralization rates as observed in the incubation study. The sole nitrogen
fertilizer treatment in the incubation study was excluded since nitrogen is already in plant
available form in lime ammonium nitrate. The glasshouse experiment was conducted in
a glasshouse at Agricultural Research Council – Vegetable and Ornamental Plants, in
Roodeplaat, Pretoria. The objective of the glasshouse experiment was to determine the
combined effects of different organic mulching materials with lime-ammonium nitrate
(LAN) in comparison to sole application of LAN on spinach growth and yield.
The findings from the glasshouse experiment indicates that the (50%DA + 75 kgN.ha-1
) treatment produced higher values for plant height [34.3 cm (PTA soil) and 41.3 cm (DBN
soil)], leaf length [25 cm (both DBN and PTA soils)], number of leaves [14.7 cm (PTA soil)
and spinach yield [202.06 g.pot-1 (PTA soils) and 72.19 g.pot-1 compared to other
treatments. The glasshouse experiment results might not give precise indication of the
field conditions due to various factors (i.e, glasshouse environment with shorter growing
period, restricted root growth due to pot size, etc). Therefore, two-season (winter and
summer) field experiments were conducted concurrently at two different agro-ecological
zones of South Africa and repeated twice. The objective of the field experiments was to
assess the effect of agri-mat and grass mulch on soil water regime, temperature and crop
yield. The field experiments were conducted in Agricultural Research Council – Vegetable
and Ornamental Plants in Pretoria and in AgroEco Hub, Newlands West, Durban. The
following five mulch treatments were established in each site: i) Full Agri-mat mulch cover
(100%AG), ii) Half agri-mat mulch cover (50%AG), iii) Bare (Control), iv) 6 tons.ha-1 of
grass mulch (6t.GM), and v) 3 tons.ha-1 grass mulch (3t.GM). Each treatment was
replicated three times to make 15 plots per site and both sites were arranged in
randomized complete block design. The objective of these experiments was to determine
the effects of agri-mat and grass mulch on soil water regime, temperature and crop yield
In both sites, maize was planted during the summer season and spinach was planted
during winter.
For each season, the experiments were running concurrently with one-week difference in
planting dates – planting in Pretoria was conducted a week after planting was finished in
Durban. For both seasons, in each site, the experiment was conducted under the same
plots with five mulching treatments that were replicated three times. Soil moisture and
temperature sensors were installed at the beginning in all 15 plots in each site. The results
from the field experiments suggest that mulching with 100% agri-mat treatment can
increase crop yields for better food security by improving soil water and moderate soil
temperature. Alternative to maize or wheat straw as valuable crop residues, smallholder
farmers can adopt agri-mat mulch as a cheap and effective soil cover practice to conserve
moisture in their evaporation prone soil in order to increase crop yield and improve food
security. At the end of the field experiments, soil samples were collected from the plots
where spinach and maize were planted with the objective to assess the effect of agri mats and grass mulch on aggregate size distribution and stability of two different soil
types. Air dried soil aggregates of approximately 10 mm per treatment in triplicates were
selected from both experimental sites (in each plot, which were laid in a Completely
Randomized Block Design) for image scanning and analysis using a Nikon XTH 225L
micro-focus CT X-ray unit. The experiment also adopted the fast wetting method to
determine the aggregate stability of a loam and sandy loam soil, which were under agri mat and grass mulch for two consecutive years.The X-ray CT analysis results show that, due to the higher frequency of storage pores
(0.5-50 µm) and feeding root pores (100 - 200 µm) in the loam soil compared to the sandy
loam soil, the loam soil has better capacity to accommodate more roots and had higher
volumes of water reservoir for plants and microbes. In addition, the 100% agri-mat mulch
treatment improved the water holding capacity of the loam soil by decreasing total macro porosity, making it less porous compared to other treatments. The aggregate stability test
results indicate that the 100% agri-mat mulching cover has a greater stabilizing abilitycompared to all other mulching materials (6t.GM, 3t.GM, 50%AG and Control) in both soil
types. The last experiment was conducted in a laboratory to assess the effectiveness of
agri-mats made with different organic materials in controlling soil water erosion using Mini
Portable Pressure Head Rainfall Simulator. The objective of this laboratory experiment
was to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing different mulching materials on water
infiltration and runoff. Agri-mats water infiltration and runoff test was conducted in a
laboratory at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, in Fuchu city, Tokyo –
Japan. Results shows that when algae were used as an additional organic material during
the fabrication process, agri-mat delayed runoff by absorbing more moisture than it
losses. The agri-mats that were fabricated only with 100% Bagasse had a lower water
infiltration rate compared with agri-mats made with 90% Bagasse and 10% Algae. The
100% dry sugarcane bagasse agri-mat treatment had higher ru-mats noff rate of 16.8
mm. hr-1 compared to mere 1.7 mm. hr-1
recorded under the agri-mat 90% Bagasse and
10% algae during the first 10 minutes of rainfall simulation test. In addition, the agri-mat
made with bagasse only released magnesium at a rate of 105.7 mg. hr-1 compared to 6.6
mg. hr-1 lost from the agri-mat board made with both bagasse and algae.
Agri-mats are a novel and innovative pro-smallholder farming effective mulch technology
that promises to be a cheaper alternative approach to prevent sediment loss and
conserve soil moisture. Agri-mats are fabricated using forestry waste, bagasse, algae,
grasses, etc., thus allowing smallholder farmers to sell crop residues after harvest for
profit generation whilst the soils remain covered with agri-mats. Agri-mats can last on the
field for up to two years or more, depending on the climatic factors (rainfall and
temperatures), soil type and quality of the organic material used during the fabrication
process, before they completely decompose. The findings from this study show that in all
treatment combinations (organic amendments + inorganic fertilizer), the mineralization
rate was significantly higher compared to treatments where only organic amendments
were applied in both soil types. In addition, the inorganic amendments improve the
efficiency of organic fertilizers and vice versa, through a positive interaction on physical,
chemical and biological characteristics of the soil. The findings from the glasshouse
experiment indicates that the inorganic-organic treatment combination (50%DA+50%CF)
can replace full inorganic nitrogen fertilizers without compromising spinach growth, yield
and quality.
The results from the aggregate stability test show that, in reference to the control, all
mulching treatments increased the stability of soil aggregates from unstable to medium
stability after a period of two years for both loam and sandy loam soil. Moreover, this
research study indicates that agri-mats can play a crucial role in building soil structure
that is resistant to soil erosion by improving the stability of soil aggregate and physical
architecture of the soil. The results from agri-mats infiltration and runoff test experiment
indicates that agri-mats allow more water to infiltrate through agri-mats than being lost as
runoff. In addition, the current study shows that adding algae as one of the organic
materials during the fabrication process improve the agri-mat water absorption and
holding capacity and thus reduce nutrient loss through runoff. Field experiments indicates
that the 100% agri-mat mulch treatment can improve crop yields and leaf nutrient quality
for better food security by improving soil water regime and moderating soil temperatures,
irrespective of soil type, agro-ecological zone and type of crop. However, further research
is needed to assess economic viability of agri-mats relative to crop residue costs to ensure
there is science-based evidence for investment/input decision making especially for poor resource smallholder farmers who wants to maximize profits. Moreover, the
recommendations drawn from all future agri-mats research findings should be based on
prevailing site conditions, such as climate and soil type where the research studies were
conducted.
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Agri-mat mulch
Grass mulch
Aggregate stability
Incubation study
Glasshouse experiment
Integrated nutrient management
Conservation Agriculture
Porosity
Soil moisture
Soil temperature
Aeration
Erosion
Runoff
Rainfall simulation
Crop growth
Crop yield
Water infiltration
Crop growth and yield
Soil type
Aggregation
Food security
Agri-mat and grass mulch effects on selected soil physical and chemical properties, runoff, crop growth and yield in South Africa
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/262312020-02-10T09:25:26Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Botha, Noanne
2020-01-17T08:52:33Z
2020-01-17T08:52:33Z
2019-11
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26231
This study involves establishing imperative customer relationship value antecedents and mediators within the business-to-business (B2B) railway industry of Southern Africa and determining whether these relationship value antecedents and mediators will achieve customer retention as an outcome. The goal is to create a conceptual model for the B2B railway industry of Southern Africa, which will be done through reviewing well-established theories and past literature on the topics of relationship marketing, relationship value, and retention within the B2B industry. After an examination of the existing literature, a proposed conceptual model will be developed and tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with a sample of 265 B2B supplier companies operating in the Southern African railway market. The CFA represents the measurement model of this research, which proposes the relationship value antecedents, mediators, and their influence on retention within the B2B railway industry of Southern Africa. Secondly, structural equation modelling (SEM) will be conducted, in order to test relation-ships with latent factors. The results indicate that the factors of service, supplier, relational, and financial performance are important antecedents, and that satisfaction and relationship value are significant mediators of customer retention in the B2B railway industry of Southern Africa.
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Relationship marketing
Relationship value
B2B railway industry
Trust
Satisfaction
Retention
Relationship value antecedents
Relationship value mediators
Customer relationship value in the business-to-business railway market of Southern Africa
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/304552023-08-28T11:41:57Zcom_10500_2915com_10500_2910com_10500_128com_10500_506col_10500_2924col_10500_507
Heri, Sylvie Mauwa
2023-08-28T11:30:13Z
2023-08-28T11:30:13Z
2022-12-19
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30455
Industrialization has resulted in the introduction of xenobiotics into the environment.
These chemicals have polluted soil, water, and air, causing significant health concerns.
White rot fungi possess the capability to produce unique enzymes known as ligninmodifying
enzymes which can degrade not only lignocellulose, but also many
xenobiotics. The aim of the study was to characterize LMEs using various bioassays
and to apply the best performing fungi for an attempted bioremediation of a mixture of
petroleum products. Using molecular characterization, fungal isolates were identified.
These were qualitatively assayed for lignin peroxidase and laccase production.
Enzyme production was quantitatively assayed by UV/Vis spectrophotometry using
corn husk as growth medium; and common assay reagents were compared. Veratryl
alcohol gave the best results for lignin peroxidase while manganese peroxidase
activities were similar when using either 2,6 dimethoxyphenol or malonate/Mn3+. ABTS
was found to be more sensitive than guaiacol for laccase assay. Trametes hirsuta and
Schizophyllum commune were selected as best performing fungi and were used for
the attempted remediation PAHs-contaminated soil. Both isolates degraded petroleum
fractions, particularly naphthalene by up to 100% and 67.47% respectively. Overall,
the study proved the ability of LMEs to degrade xenobiotics.
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Xenobiotic
White rot fungi
Lignin-modifying enzymes
Bioremediation
Lignin peroxidase
Manganese peroxidase
Laccase
Enzyme
Lignocellulose
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Functional characterization of lignin modifying enzymes produced by white rot fungi for their mycoremediation potential of petroleum (xenobiotic) polluted soil
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/170252018-11-17T13:05:24Zcom_10500_14512com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14520col_10500_507
Jooste, K. (Karien), 1957-
2015-01-23T04:24:50Z
2015-01-23T04:24:50Z
1997-06
Jooste, K. (Karien), 1957- (1997) 'n Model vir bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges : 'n bestuursperspektief, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17025>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17025
Bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges in gesondheidsdienste in Suid-Afrika bly 'n voortdurende kwessie en die mate waartoe verpleegbestuur verpleegkundiges bemagtig om outonoom op te tree, is onbekend. Wanneer verpleegkundiges bemagtig is, lei dit tot verbeterde pasientsorg deur middel van verhoogde produktiwiteit en werktevredenheid.
Die wyse waarop bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges meet geskied is nog nie in SuidAfrika in diepte ondersoek nie. Die doel van hierdie studie was om daardie elemente wat vir die verpleegbestuurder noodsaaklik is om verpleegkundiges te kan bemagtig, te identifiseer.
Deur middel van 'n beskrywende, ontdekkende studie wat van 'n vraelys gebruik gemaak het om inligting te bekom, is die nodige elemente gei'soleer. Verpleegbestuurders in gesondheidsdienste in die Gauteng-area het as teikengroep gedien. Definisies van bestuursbemagtiging is geanaliseer ten einde 'n konseptuele raamwerk te
ken saamstel. Ses konsepte het die raamwerk vir hierdie studie gevorm, naamlik:
• die bydrae van bestuurstrukture tot die bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges;
• die rel van magsdeling in die bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges;
• deelnemende besluitneming in die bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges;
• die verpleegbestuurder se vaardighede en verantwoordelikhede in haar daaglikse taakontwerp en bestuur wat tot die bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges bydra;
• motivering- en beloningstrategiee wat tot bemagtiging bydra; en
• eienskappe wat kenmerkend van 'n bemagtigende verpleegbestuurder is.
Uit die ontleding van die data het die volgende belangrike elemente ender andere
na vore gekom:
• Daar behoort gedesentraliseerde verspreiding van mag na die laagste moontlike vlak in die gesondheidsdiens plaas te vind;
• Die voorstelle van verpleegkundiges behoort erken en indien aanvaarbaar, geimplementeer te word;
• Gesag behoort op so n wyse gedelegeer te word dat onafhanklike besluitneming bevorder word;
• Verpleegkundiges se take behoort sodanig ontwerp te word dat onafhanklike optrede in die werkplek bevorder word.
Die bevindinge van hierdie studie het getoon dat verpleegbestuurders positief ingestel is betreffende die bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges. Hulle beskou dit as deel van hulle bestuursfunksie. 'n Uitdaging waarmee die bestuurder van die toekoms te kampe sal he, is die van 'n omvattende begrip vir personeellede en om van beheer
deur middel van streng burokratiese reels, af te sien.
Empowerment of nurses in health services in South Africa remains an ongoing issue, but the extent to which nursing management empowers nurses to act autonomously is not known. When nurses are empowered patient care and nursing services improve through enhanced productivity and job satisfaction.
The way in which nurses could be empowered by management has yet to be addressed by researchers in South Africa. The aim of the present study was to identify those essential elements through which nurse managers can empower nurses. By making use of a descriptive exploratory study, utilizing a questionnaire to acquire the necessary information, the essential elements were isolated. Nurse managers in health services in the Gauteng region formed the target group. Definitions of empowerment in management were analyzed and from this a conceptual framework regarding empowerment was formulated. Six concepts served as the basis
of this study:
• the contribution of management structures, towards the empowerment of nurses;
• the role of power-sharing in the empowerment of nurses;
• participative decision making in the empowerment of nurses;
• the management skills and responsibilities of the nurse manager in her daily task design and management that contribute to the empowerment of nurses;
• motivation and reward strategies that contribute towards empowerment;
• attributes which characterise an empowered nurse manager.
From the analysis of. the data the following important elements among others emerged:
• Decentralization of the distribution of power to the lowest possible level should take place in the health services;
• The suggestions of nurses should be acknowledged and if found acceptable, to be implemented;
• Authority should be delegated in such a way that independent decision making by nurses is enhanced;
• Nurses' tasks should be designed in a way that promote independent performance in the work place.
The findings of this study revealed that nurse managers are favourably disposed towards the empowerment of nurses. They see this as part of their managerial function. A challenge which confronts the manager of the future is that of comprehensively understanding staff members, and setting aside control through bureaucratic behaviour.
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Management structures
Power sharing
Participative decision making;
Management skills and responsibilities
Motivation and reward strategies
Characteristics of an empowered manager
Problem solving
Access to information
Distribution of power
Promotion of team spirit
'n Model vir bemagtiging van verpleegkundiges : 'n bestuursperspektief
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/277602021-08-04T13:01:18Zcom_10500_4663col_10500_27026
Carney, Terrence
2021-08-04T13:01:18Z
2021-08-04T13:01:18Z
2022
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27760
Afrikaans
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/za
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 South Africa
Afrikaans
Taalkunde
Kategorisering
Prototipes
Semantiek
Kategorisering en prototipes
Learning Object
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Ramaboea, Paul Hlabana
2015-01-23T04:24:08Z
2015-01-23T04:24:08Z
1995-11
Ramaboea, Paul Hlabana (1995) The effects of epilepsy on families living in Mamelodi with special reference to the role of the social worker, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15853>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15853
A study of the relevant theoretical concepts and
empirical research was undertaken to explore the role
of the social worker pertaining to the problem of
epilepsy in the black community of Mamelodi.
The sample comprised 40 families in which there was a
person with epilepsy. Data were obtained through an
interview schedule administered by the researcher.
The literature study highlighted the phenomenon
epilepsy, causes of epilepsy/ psychosocial effects of
epilepsy on the epileptic and his family and the
treatment of the epileptic. However/ it became quite
clear that a multi-disciplinary team approach is
vital importance in the treatment of an epileptic
Furthermore/ significant others like traditional healers, faith healers, priests, relatives and friends were identified as some of the important informal support systems.
Although the findings of study cannot be generalised to the entire population they can be of great
significance for further research.
'n Studie van die relevante konsepte asook empiriese
navorsing is gedoen om die rol van die maatskaplike
werker met betrekking tot die probleem van epilepsie in
die swart gemeenskap van Mamelodi te eksploreer.
Die steekproef is saamgestel uit 'n groep van 40
gesinne met 'n epileptikus in hul midde. Inlighting is verkry deur
groep van onderhoudskedule.
Die literatuurstudie beklemtoon die volgende: die
verskynsel van epilepsie, oorsake van epilepsie,
psigososiale gevolge van epilepsie op die per soon met
epilepsie en sy gesin en die behandeling van die
epileptikus. Dit het egter duidelik na vore gekom dat
'n multi-dissiplinere spanbenadering van die uiterste
belang is in die behandeling van die epilepsielyer.
Dit het ook duidelik geword dat betekenisvolle ander
persone soos tradisionele genesers, geloofsgenesers
priesters, familie en vriende van die mees belangrike
steunstelsels is.
Alhoewel bevindinge van die studie nie veralgemeen kan
word en van toepassing gemaak kan word op die bevolking
as geheel nie, kan dit egter van groot belang vir
verdere navorsing wees.
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Epilepsy
Problem-solving approach
Interview schedule
Exploratory study
Interview schedule
Traditional healers
Ancestral spirits
Black community of
Mamelodi
The effects of epilepsy on families living in Mamelodi with special reference to the role of the social worker
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/245992018-11-17T13:06:41Zcom_10500_24440com_10500_23854com_10500_460com_10500_128col_10500_24450
Ikram, IM
2018-08-14T11:41:24Z
2018-08-14T11:41:24Z
1995
Ikram, I.M. (1995) A method to generate occam skeletons from formal specifications. Papers Delivered at the SAICSIT 95 Research and Development Symposium (South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists), Film Auditorium, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 25-26 May1995, edited by A.L. Steenkamp (UNISA) (ISBN 0-86981-909-7)
0-86981-909-7
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24599
We consider the problem of automatically generating parallel programs in the occam language. In particular, we are concerned with the generation of program skeletons, that define just those computations that are common to a number of similar systems leaving empty or 'stub' functions or processes in the code which are to be filled in later in an application-specific manner.
Rather than attempt to solve the problem for arbitrary parallel systems, we focus on data-parallel systems composed of iterative processes. In this paper, we propose an implementation strategy for a cellular automaton. Only uniprocessor occam code is considered.
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A method to generate occam skeletons from formal specifications
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/276822022-05-09T11:18:05Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_4090com_10500_1col_10500_3753col_10500_4091
Bentley, Wessel
2021-07-15T06:15:42Z
2021-07-15T06:15:42Z
2020
Bentley, W., 2020, 'If God is everywhere, is God in a black hole? A Theology-Science discussion on omnipresence', In Acta Theologica Vol. 40, Issue 2. p. 185-199
2309-9089
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27682
This article explores the question of divine omnipresence in light of the recent visual representations of a black hole. It explores the notion of God's omnipresence by considering world views, scientific theory, and the notions of embodiment and incorporeal nature of God's being. The article then suggests an understanding of divine omnipresence against the backdrop of Psalm 139
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Omnipresence
Science and Religion
Worldviews
Incorporeal
Embodiment
Alomteenwoordigheid
Wetenskap en godsdiens
Wêreldsiening
Onliggaamlik
Beliggaming
If God is everywhere, is God in a black hole? : a Theology-Science discussion on omnipresence
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/273102021-05-20T13:33:15Zcom_10500_2722com_10500_172com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2723col_10500_507
Davey, Anthony S.
2021-05-13T09:38:52Z
2021-05-13T09:38:52Z
1973
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27310
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The moods and tenses of the verb in Xhosa
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/287742022-05-05T13:02:46Zcom_10500_27330com_10500_27329col_10500_28773
Dreyer, Elfriede
2022-04-29T13:01:22Z
2022-04-29T13:01:22Z
2021
https://www.elfriededreyer.com/matrix
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28774
In the Matrix series of works, the idea of an ‘other’ space is presented: Simulated, embodied and different to the experienced, physical real.
The idea of a matrix is connected to simulation and illusion, and it is presented here as a construction, space or a place (mostly fictional). On one hand, matrixial space could be virtual space that we inhabit as human cyborgs; on the other hand it could be any other kind of ‘world’, dream or condition; or it could even be utopian space. Sometimes a constructed matrix can become so real that it becomes intertwined with the physical real. It is constituted by relationships, wishes, emotions and connections; it is volatile and can change from moment to moment. New things are constantly birthed there, but it also intersects and interacts with other matrixes and the physical real. And we continue to create matrixes within the matrix of time.
On René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images (La Trahison des images, 1929), the words ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’ (this is not a pipe) are written. The artist sets up play with illusionism through a representation that is not an actual pipe but an image of a pipe; so reality and certainty become questioned. Presenting an illusion of the real is probably art’s most fundamental ontology, since an image is nothing more than an illusion presented in such a way as to disguise its fictive status. Magritte‘s work brings into play the fusion of the real and illusion. Jacques Derrida has gone so far as to argue that both presence and self are illusions (dealt with in my Ceci n’est pas … series). In matrix creation, the boundary between the projective illusion or virtual matrix and the physical real mostly disappears. Jean Baudrillard (The Perfect crime 1996:109) writes the following:
With the Virtual, we enter not only upon the era of the liquidation of the Real and the Referential, but that of the extermination of the Other… . The otherness of death - staved off by unrelenting medical intervention. Of the face and the body - run to earth by plastic surgery. Of the world - dispelled by Virtual Reality. Of everyone - which will one day be abolished by the cloning of individual cells. And, quite simply, of the other, currently undergoing dilution in perpetual communication. If information is the site of the perfect crime against reality, communication is the site of the perfect crime against otherness.
Donna Haraway expresses the view that by “the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs. The cyborg is our ontology; it gives us our politics. The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality, the two joined centers structuring any possibility of historical transformation.” Grounded in the physical real, the concepts of observation, reproduction, invention and representation underlie the drive to create other and artificial reals, including simulations of the real. A matrix has to do with connected worlds in the sense of the physical real inspiring the creation of virtuality or it being created as an attempt to escape the physical real. Several works deal with this notion, such as Two worlds, Connected, Reflected and Matrixes.
Although arguably there are ‘many worlds’, in this body of work the focus is on ‘two’ worlds, a physical real and another constructed or manufactured real, which I call ‘matrix’. Utopia, in essence, is also a fictional matrix, an imagined design in space, time and place. In utopian construction there is a constant pull of the dichotomy between the real and the positing of an alternative reality, a fictional, imagined 'other' world or state, mostly ideal in nature. As entities all forms of alternative reality, including illusion, any matrix has validity only in its relationship to the sensory or physical real. Inherent to matrix construction is the fact that it is created adjacent to another more presiding space. In Good place (2020), utopian space as matrix is presented. The work confirms the utopian dream of a good place as matrix. In No place (2020) the shattered and blurred island imagery speaks to utopia as a construction of place that does not really exist. Pinder argues that utopian views of place are fueled by the imagination and that visions of an ‘other’ place are spaces of hope. Utopian matrixes are connected to the socialisation of place and as the meta-arguments thereof dystopian and heterotopian constructions of space emerge. My concept of matrixial space is also vaguely related to Michel Foucault’s notion of heterotopia, describing non-hegemonic (equal) places that exist simultaneously. Although Foucault defines heterotopia as an approximation of an imaginary utopia – and this is certainly built into my conception of the matrix – it remains fundamentally a parallel space that functions in co-option and anticipation of the other more ‘presiding’ space (the real, mostly).
Distinctive emerald green is evident in most of the works, conceptually representing an ideal or utopian green place of betterment (as in Up there is a green patch and Beyond) but also a neon-green virtual space. A red palette is used hand-in hand with nuances of green in order to reference human flesh and blood (as in Bodies in space), but also fire (as in Matrix of fire and Shifting) as allegory of transformation, process and transition. In the matrix of a virtual world the anchor remains the physical human body and mind: making up visions of other worlds and engaging with virtual worlds.
A real, temporarily occupied space induced by circumstantial conditions – such as being in hospital; waiting at an airport; or waiting for something to pass – could be labelled as an existential matrix. Then the matrix becomes a kind of anteroom, often filled with emotions of anxiety, fear or anticipation. Associated words evoked here include buffer, containment, isolation, liminality and projection. In several of the works on exhibition there are areas of separation, dividing lines or grids as anterooms.
The image of boat recurs, allegoric of human life as a vessel on the sea of life, as in Drifting, Transshipped and Sail, sail away. The latter work deals with the longing for a faraway, different place that is viewed as utopically 'better' than the current place. As a transportation mechanism the boat as matrix is interwoven with the teleology of human carriage and the self-inscripted and self-inflicted autobiography of a proposed ‘good ending’. A boat occupies a liminal position between places, being neither here nor there, and represents human life between birth and death. In Foucault's Of other spaces (1986) he points to the boat as a "heterotopia par excellence", since " … the boat is a floating piece of space, a place without a place, that exists by itself, that is closed in on itself and at the same time is given over to the infinity of the sea." Transshipped speaks to the readjustment to another matrix or rerouting taking place throughout one's life while pursuing our individual teleological 'good endings' that one is hoping for. There are two vessels in this work: one is floating and the other is caught up in a cocoon of transition. Like the 2017 Great Fire event when I lost my home resulting in adjustments and changes, covid-19 also brought about a sense of the fragility of human life and the innate transience of material goods. Shifts in matrix occurred and new ones were created.
Besides a large grid-like matrix occupying the visual space in the video production Life in the matrix and the Time series, imagery of everyday flâneurs is found. Their flânerie takes place non-stop against the backdrop of the rhythm of life. The flâneurs stroll the city with handbags, backpacks and parcels, and there are bicycles, cyclists and musicians. Caught up in a matrix of linear biological time, the strollers engage in individual pursuits of daily ritual. Their bodily walking movements indicate physical life, existing in time and place on an existential stage. The movement of the flâneur in an enclosed or demarcated setting is also applicable to personalised matrix creation in a contemporary sense. Movement and activity take place within the bounded space of a matrix, whether a dream, virtual reality or physical delineated space such as a room or house (as during covid-19 lockdowns). Matrix construction as bordered space is related to utopian construction in the sense of the individual's place within the collective, that is, within a larger whole, similar to flânerie with a specific space.
Although the idea of matrix is not Romantic per se, it does contain reference to transcendence and desire for another reality. The next two Perspex works are quite Romantic in character by suggesting a wish for escape (Sail, sail away) and searching for a ‘better’, idealised place (Up there is a green patch). The irregular formats of the two works suggest random matrix formation. Other works such as Beyond and Winged also have Romantic undertones.
In matrix construction, the concept of time is of utmost importance. It relates to both the idealised and the real worlds since the ideal construct is mostly a response to the historical horizon of the real. Matrixes are inspired by the present real, a situation that brings on a type of time-schizophrenia in which the pull to the future is unrelenting. In the Time works the flâneurs are present again, operating and active in their individual time zones. They are in a matrix of time, but a matrix can also be a twilight zone of memory – good or bad – or a dream or fantasy or a projection of the virtual self in digital space. All of these relate to time.
And so the never-ending cycle of matrix creation continues.
Solo exhibition
Mixed media
Multimedia
Digital art
Video art
Matrix
Other
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/19342018-11-17T13:05:27Zcom_10500_434com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2739col_10500_507
Mashoko, Fannuel
2009-08-25T10:58:13Z
2009-08-25T10:58:13Z
2005-11-30
Mashoko, Fannuel (2005) The need for contextualization in inter-cultural communication of the Gospel, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1934>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1934
This dissertation explores the need for contextualization from a missiological perspective. It seeks to validate the needs for contextualization in the Epworth Community near Harare, Zimbabwe, where a number of cultures are represented. The subject of contextualisation is first explored in a general sense, i.e. relating to how it has been presented in key missiological publications and in different contexts, particularly in Africa and Zimbabwe. The dissertation explores the need for identification in intercultural communication, and also analyses the context of Epworth and the history of the Churches of Christ in Zimbabwe. A chapter on theological reflection surveys the issue of contextualisation in the Old and New Testaments. The study concludes with practical recommendations on how the issues raised in the study can be applied to a field wider than the Epworth Community.
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Epworth
Zimbabwe
Church of Christ
Missiology
Contextualization
Intercultural Communication
Identification
Culture
Pastoral Cycle
Missionary Methods
The need for contextualization in inter-cultural communication of the Gospel
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/231952018-11-17T13:06:51Zcom_10500_6422com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6438col_10500_507
Jacobs, Jacqueline Rose
2017-10-05T10:25:02Z
2017-10-05T10:25:02Z
2016-04
Jacobs, Jacqueline Rose (2016) Strategies to address auditory perceptual deficits in a school of skills in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23195>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23195
The aim of this action research was to investigate how auditory perceptual deficits affect reading in learners with disabilities. The sub-questions were: What auditory perceptual deficits learners’ experience? How do educators assist learners with auditory perceptual deficits? What instructional strategies and classroom management can educators apply to assist learners with auditory perceptual skills? The data collections comprised of an informal oral assessment, observation and anecdotal notes with fifteen participants with barriers to learning, from the English first year class, within a special needs educational setting. Data analysis and validity were supported by triangulation through informal assessment, observation, my critical friend and my own critical reflection. The support of phonologic, memory, and cohesion skills, auditory skills were the reading educational construct and strategies used as intervention in order to identify the efficacy of said interventions. Both bottom-up and top-down support strategies were used in relation to the participants’ individualised educational needs. The research results and discussion included methods to improve reading and listening skills in the classroom environment.
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Auditory perceptual deficits
Central auditory processing disorders
Special schools
School of skills
Mild intelligence disability
Moderate intelligence disability
Barriers to learning
Strategies to address auditory perceptual deficits in a school of skills in the northern suburbs of Cape Town
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/305552023-11-10T08:38:31Zcom_10500_2734com_10500_37com_10500_25com_10500_506col_10500_2735col_10500_507
Jagunandan, Vidya
2023-10-09T12:49:38Z
2023-10-09T12:49:38Z
2023-01
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30555
The Fourth Industrial Revolution has disrupted our traditional world of work through
the introduction of advanced technology. The way in which workplace diversity in the
form of age, gender, and education of people affect their ability to function in the Fourth
Industrial Revolution era is largely unknown. The study aimed to explore the impact of
Industry 4.0 on the workplace diversity traits of age, gender, and education in the South
African workplace. An interpretivist study using a qualitative methodology was
undertaken. Nineteen in-depth semi-structured interviews and observations were
conducted online and face-to-face at three organisations in the Gauteng province.
The results of the study showed that technology has removed mundane and
repetitive tasks to simplify work and improve time of task completion in the workplace;
however, the integration of robots into the workplace has raised concerns of
increased job losses. The study further indicated that robots will not take over jobs
completely but will require the workforce to be enhanced, thus calling for reskilling
and upskilling of existing and future employees. Job roles will continue to change as
technology is updated. The older generations are resistant to technological changes,
but they should not be alienated because of their vast knowledge and experience.
The younger generations embrace diversity, are flexible, innovative, and competitive.
These characteristics allow for managers to utilise their strengths to drive the
organisational goals and vision. Gender was not a determining factor as to which
gender adapts better to technology. However, more males occupy senior positions in
the three sample organisations as opposed to females, which points to gender
inequality at higher levels in the sample organisations. A formal qualification is a good
foundation to have; however, self-education through informal learning avenues can
assist willing individuals to upskill themselves through online resources. There needs
to be collaboration between the industry and universities to ensure better
employability and training of graduates to convert theoretical knowledge into practical
skills in order to solve real-world problems in the modern workplace.
This study contributed to filling a gap in the literature by combining the Fourth
Industrial Revolution with workplace diversity, focusing on the specific diversity traits
of age, gender, and education. The findings were used to make recommendations to
industry, government and theory. Industries who have employed Industry 4.0
technologies, can utilise this study to benchmark with other organisations to gain
knowledge from different perspectives and to share their knowledge to manage their
employees better. Government needs to encourage innovation, allow for investment
into education and training around Industry 4.0, and update policies and other
requirements as technology changes. The study will facilitate an understanding of
how resources can be used to optimise the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
on major organisations as well as the impact thereof on employees in the
workplace. It is recommended that the organisations focus on the internal resources
and utilise their resources better by means of the resource-based view.
Die Vierde Industriële Revolusie het ons tradisionele wêreld van werk ontwrig deur die
bekendstelling van gevorderde tegnologie. Die manier waarop werkplekdiversiteit in
die vorm van mense se ouderdom, geslag en opvoeding hulle vermoë beïnvloed om
in die era van die Vierde Industriële Revolusie te funksioneer, is grootliks onbekend.
Die studie het ten doel gehad om die impak van Industrie 4.0 op die
werkplekdiversiteitseienskappe van ouderdom, geslag en opvoeding in die Suid Afrikaanse werkplek te verken. ’n Interpretivistiese studie is met behulp van ‘n
kwalitatiewe metodologie onderneem. Negentien diepgaande semi-gestruktureerde
onderhoude en waarnemings is aanlyn en van aangesig tot aangesig gevoer by drie
organisasies in die Gautengprovinsie. Die resultate van die studie het getoon dat
tegnologie alledaagse en herhalende take verwyder het om werk te vereenvoudig en
tyd van taakvoltooiing in die werkplek te verbeter; die integrasie van robotte in die
werkplek het egter kommer oor verhoogde werkverliese laat ontstaan. Die studie het
verder aangedui dat robotte nie werk heeltemal gaan oorneem nie, maar gaan vereis
dat die arbeidsmag verbeter word, wat dus ’n beroep doen op heropleiding en
vaardigheidsverbetering van bestaande en toekomstige werknemers. Werkrolle gaan
aanhoudend verander soos tegnologie verbeter. Die ouer generasies bied weerstand
teen tegnologiese veranderinge, maar hulle moet nie vanweë hulle uitgebreide kennis
en ervaring vervreem word nie. Die jonger generasies aanvaar diversiteit, en hulle is
buigsaam, innoverend en mededingend. Hierdie eienskappe laat bestuurders toe om
hulle sterkpunte te gebruik om die organisasiedoelwitte en -visie te bevorder. Geslag
was nie ’n bepalende faktor van watter geslag beter by tegnologie aanpas nie. Meer
mans beklee egter senior posisies in die drie steekproeforganisasies in teenstelling
met vroue, wat dui op geslagsongelykheid op hoër vlakke in die
steekproeforganisasies. ’n Formele kwalifikasie is ’n goeie grondslag om te hê;
selfopvoeding deur informele leerweë kan egter gewillige individue help om hulle
vaardighede deur middel van aanlyn hulpbronne te verbeter. Daar moet samewerking
wees tussen die bedryf en universiteite om beter indiensneembaarheid en opleiding
van gegradueerdes te verseker om teoretiese kennis in praktiese vaardighede om te
skakel en sodoende werklike probleme in die moderne werkplek op te los.
Hierdie studie vul ’n gaping in die literatuur deur die Vierde Industriële Revolusie met
werkplekdiversiteit te kombineer, met die fokus op die spesifieke
diversiteitseienskappe van ouderdom, geslag en opvoeding. Die bevindinge is gebruik
om aanbevelings vir die bedryf, regering en teorie te maak. Bedrywe wat Industrie 4.0-
tegnologieë gebruik, kan hierdie studie gebruik om saam met ander organisasies
normbepaling te doen om verskillende perspektiewe te verkry en om hulle kennis te
deel om hulle werknemers beter te bestuur. Die regering moet innovasie aanmoedig,
voorsiening maak vir belegging in onderwys en opleiding rondom Industrie 4.0, en
beleide en ander vereistes bywerk soos tegnologie verander. Die studie fasiliteer ’n
begrip van hoe om hulpbronne in te span om die impak van die Vierde Industriële
Revolusie op groot organisasies asook werknemers in die werkplek te optimaliseer.
Daar word aanbeveel dat organisasies moet fokus op interne hulpbronne en dit beter
benut deur middel van die hulpbrongebaseerde siening.
Inguqukazi Yesine Yezorhwebo iyiphazamisile indlela ebekufudulwa kusetyenzwa
ngayo ngenxa yokungenisa ubuchwepheshe obukwizinga eliphezulu. Ifuthe
leyantlukwano ekusebenzeni kwabantu ngokuphathelene nobudala, isini,
nemfundo yabantu alaziwa gokubanzi kweli xesha leNguqukazi Yesine
Yezorhwebo. Esi sifundo sasijolise ekuphandeni ngefuthe leNguqukazi Yesine
Yezorhwebo kwiimpawu zeyantlukwano emsebenzini ngokumalunga nobudala, isini
nemfundo kwiindawo zemisebenzi eMzantsi Afrika. Uphando lwalandela indlela
yophando ngokutolika imeko nangokuzathuza. Iindliwano ndlebe ezilishumi
elinethoba ezingaqingqwanga ngqongqo kunye neengqwalasela zaqhutywa
ngeintanethi nangeendibano zobuso ngobuso kumaqumrhu amathathu kwiphondo
laseGauteng. Iziphumo zesifundo sophando zabonisa ukuba ubuchwepheshe
buyisusile imisetyenzana edikayo nephindaphindayo ukuze umsebenzi ube lula,
kuphuculwe ixesha lokugqiba ekumele kwenziwe emsebenzini. Noxa kunjalo,
ukufakwa kweerobhothi emsebenzini kudale inkxalabo yokuba kungakhula
ukulahlekelwa yimisebenzi. Isifundo sibuye sabonisa ukuba iirobhothi
azizukuyithatha ngokupheleleyo imisebenzi, into efunekayo kukuxhobisa abasebenzi
abakhoyo nabaseza kuqeshwa ngezakhono ezitsha. Iindima zomsebenzi ziza kuthi
gqolo zitshintsha njengokuba ubuchwepheshe buhambela phambili. Abantu abadala
abazithakazeleli iinguqu zobuchwepheshe, kodwa oko akuthethi kuthi mabakheswe
ngoba banolwazi namava abanzi. Abantu abatsha bona bayamkela lula
iyantlukwano, bayithambele inguqu, ba nodla ekuqaleni izinto kwaye bayathanda
ukukhuphisana. Ezi mpawu zivumela ukuba abaphathi basebenzise amandla abo
ekuqhubeleni phambili iinjongo neembono zequmrhu. Isini asibanga luphawu
oluphandwayo kuba asidlali ndima ingako kubuchwepheshe. Kwafumaniseka
ukuba maninzi amadoda ngaphezu kwabafazi kwizikhundla eziphezulu kula
maqumrhu mathathu kwakuphandwa kuwo, nto leyo ibonakalisa ukungalingani
ngokwesini. Imfundo esesikweni sisiseko esomeleleyo, kodwa ukuzifundela
umsebenzi kumaqonga angekho sesikweni kunakho ukumnceda umntu ofuna
ukunyusa umgangatho wakhe njengokufunda kwimithombo yolwazi efumaneka kwi intanethi. Kudingeka intsebenziswano phakathi kwamashishini neeyunivesithi ukuze
kuqinisekiswe ukuqesheka okungcono nokuqeqeshwa kwabafundi abaphumeleleyo
ekuthini baguqule ulwazi olusezincwadini lube lolunokusetyenziswa ngeenjongo zokusombulula iingxaki ezikhoyo kwiindawo zemisebenzi zale mihla.
Esi sifundo sifake igxalaba ekuvaleni isikhewu kuluncwadi ngokudibanisa
Inguqukazi Yesine Yezorhwebo kunye neyantlukwano emsebenzini, kugxininiswa
kwiimpawu zeyantlukwano ezibubudala, isini nemfundo. Okufunyanisiweyo
kwasetyenziselwa ukufaka iingcebiso kumaqumrhu ezoshishino, kurhulumente
nakubaqulunqi beengcingane. Amaqumrhu asebenzisa ubuchwepheshe ekuthiwa
bobeIndustry 4.0, angasisebenzisa esi sifundo ekuzithelekiseni namanye amaqumrhu
ngenjongo yokufumana ulwazi oluvelelwe kwiinkalo ngeenkalo kunye nokwabelana
ngolwazi ngenjongo yokuphucula indlela yokulawula abasebenzi. Urhulumente udinga
ukukhuthaza umdla wokuziqalela, atyale imali emfundweni nakuqeqesho malinga
neIndustry 4.0, kwaye aphucule imigaqo nkqubo nezinye iimfuno njengokuba
ubuchwepheshe buguquguquka. Esi sifundo siza kuququzelela ukuqonda ukuba
imithombo inokusetyenziswa njani ekomelezeni ifuthe leNguqukazi Yesine
Yezorhwebo kumaqumrhu amakhulu nakubasebenzi. Kucetyiswa ukuba amaqumrhu
aqwalasele imithombo yangaphakathi, ayisebenzise ngcono loo mithombo
ngokuyibona ngenkalo yokuqonda esekelwe kwimithombo.
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Fourth Industrial Revolution
Workplace diversity
Diversity traits
Age
Gender
Education
Technology
Vierde Industriële Revolusie
Werkplekdiversiteit
Diversiteitseienskappe
Ouderdom
Tegnologie
Opvoeding
Inguqukazi Yesine Yezorhwebo
Iyantlukwano emsebenzini
Iimpawu zeyantlukwano
Ubudala
Isini
Imfundo
Ubuchwepheshe
An exploratory study into the connection between Industry 4.0 and workplace diversity
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/221352018-11-17T13:06:57Zcom_10500_14512com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14520col_10500_507
Nyangu, Isabel
2017-03-15T12:20:12Z
2017-03-15T12:20:12Z
2016-11
Nyangu, Isabel (2016) Evaluation of antiretroviral therapy program in primary health care settings of Lesotho, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22135>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22135
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antiretroviral therapy program in primary health care settings in Lesotho. Mixed methods research using a convergent parallel mixed methods design was used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data which were analysed during the same phase of the research process. Two groups of participants participated in the study, the registered nurse group was composed of registered nurses/midwives/nurse clinicians involved in ART service provision and the second group was composed of adults aged 18 years and older who were HIV/AIDS positive.
Quantitative data had a compliance rate of 92% and it were analysed using SPSS (23). Qualitative data were analysed using constant comparison analysis and seven themes, fourteen categories and twenty two sub-categories emerged from the data analysis. Findings of the study revealed that the majority of PHC facilities were staffed by registered nurse midwives and nurse clinicians who were qualified, confident, knowledgeable and competent in the execution of duties. Generally there were a large number of patients that sought ART services which were offered on a weekly basis although there was variation in the actual number of days the services were provided. The time patients spent seeking ART services varied across the facilities and ARVs and other drugs were usually available. Challenges in the delivery of ART services included unsatisfactory staffing resulting in the provision of inadequate services and work overload, lack of knowledge of some patients, use of incentives by some partners and too many partners being involved in ART, inadequate documentary evidence and stigma pertaining to the HIV status of individuals. Furthermore, ARVs were reported to make patients feel hungry hence resulting in lack of satisfaction in ART services, ART services were inadequate due to dysfunctional equipment and some patients had been lost due to inability to screen for cancer and there was incomplete monitoring and evaluation of the ART program. However, participants in this study generally showed their acknowledgement of the ART services as they generally improved their health status despite the many challenges that were being faced.
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Antiretroviral therapy
Antiretroviral therapy program
Evaluation
Evaluation of HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS program
Primary health care
Lesotho
Evaluation of antiretroviral therapy program in primary health care settings of Lesotho
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/29582022-05-04T10:31:48Zcom_10500_14512com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14520col_10500_507
Mkhonta, Nkosazana Ruth
2009-11-26T11:45:50Z
2009-11-26T11:45:50Z
2008-11
Mkhonta, Nkosazana Ruth (2008) Guidelines for support of orphaned and vulnerable children being cared for by their grandparents in the informal settlements of Mbabane, Swaziland, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2958>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2958
The AIDS pandemic has generated a large number of orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) in Swaziland, as it affects the reproductive age group. Most of the OVC are being cared for by their grandparents who are old, poor and suffer from degenerating diseases of old age. The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the needs and support available for OVC under the care of grandparents in the informal settlements of Mbabane, Swaziland in order to develop guidelines for their care and support. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive and contextual study was conducted to identify the needs of the OVC and type of support provided by organizations for these children. Data was collected using unstructured and semi-structured interviews.
The study was conducted in three phases each addressing a research objective. In the first phase which was to identify the needs of OVC, twelve grandparents who cared for OVC in the informal settlements participated. For the second phase seven managers of organizations that provide support to OVC in the informal settlements participated. The third phase was the development of guidelines by the researcher and validated by participants and experts. The study highlighted the needs of OVC, the nature of the existing support structure and type of support provided by organizations for these children. The findings revealed that the OVC have developmental support, protection support, psychosocial support and support for survival needs. The themes identified from the analysis of the type of support provided by organizations were developmental, partnership, protection, psychosocial and support for survival needs. The organizations' support was inconsistent and inadequate to meet these needs due to the large number of OVC. Some
of the weaknesses of organizations were indicated as donor dependency and lack of coordination and collaboration among organizations. The study highlighted partnership as fundamental to the successful implementation of the guidelines.
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Grandchildren
Grandparents
Orphaned
Mbabane
Swaziland
Guidelines for support
Guidelines for support of orphaned and vulnerable children being cared for by their grandparents in the informal settlements of Mbabane, Swaziland
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/164752018-11-17T13:05:12Zcom_10500_2734com_10500_37com_10500_25com_10500_506col_10500_2735col_10500_507
Wiggins, Henry Owen
2015-01-23T04:24:31Z
2015-01-23T04:24:31Z
1997-06
Wiggins, Henry Owen (1997) 'n Vervoerlogistieke benadering tot die hervestiging van verspreidingsentra in die lig van deregulasie van padvervoer, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16475>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16475
In the case of an economical activity such as a distribution system, the distribution depot
normally forms the nucleus of the network. The market place that is being served is not static
and with the passing of time, due to the change in demand together with the change in the
product range which is being offered, a tendency develops for the distribution point to move
away from the nucleus of the network, thereby not representing the optimal location anymore.
There is therefore a constant need for companies to determine whether their distribution
system is suitable for their present, as well as their future trading circumstances. This factor
together with the normal endeavour to minimise physical distribution costs, results in the need
for a sophisticated approach to the whole problem of relocating distribution networks.
The aim of this study is therefore to develop a basic model which will set out guidelines for the
relocation of distribution centres.
With the above mentioned in mind, the first step is a study of the theory to highlight and
analyse applicable techniques and methods that could possibly be used in this model. The
accent throughout this section is placed on well known and proven theories and techniques.
The second part of this research focuses on the empirical study that forms the basis for the
building of a relocation model. With the help of practical examples it is shown how to apply
the model and each step is being highlighted and illustrated.
The model that has been designed in this study clearly outlines the steps that enable the user to undertake and optimally apply a relocation study. Its application does not necessarily require
highly trained personnel or complicated programming. It is therefore recommended that this
model be applied in the case of the relocation of distribution centres.
In die geval van ekonomiese aktiwiteite soos 'n distribusiesisteem, vorm die verspreidingsdepot
gewoonlik die kernpunt van die netwerk. Die markplek wat bedien word is egter nie staties nie
en met die verloop van tyd, as gevolg van die verandering in die aanvraag tesame met die
verandering in die produkreeks wat aangebied word, ontstaan daar 'n neiging dat die
oorsponklike verspreidingspunt weg beweeg vanaf die kernpunt van die netwerk en dus nie
meer die optimale liggging verteenwoordig nie. Daar is dus 'n konstante behoefte by
maatskappye om te bepaal of hulle distribusiesisteme geskik is vir hulle huidige, sowel as
toekomstige handelsomstandighede. Hierdie faktor, tesame met die normale strewe na
minimalisering van fisiese distribusiekoste, het tot gevolg dat daar 'n behoefte bestaan aan 'n
gesofistikeerde benadering tot die hele problematiek van vestiging van verspreidingsnetwerke.
Die studie het dus ten doel die ontwikkeling van 'n basiese model wat riglyne daarstel vir die
hervestiging van verspreidingsentra.
Met bogenoemde in gedagte, is daar in die eerste plek 'n teoretiese studie onderneem wat
toepaslike tegnieke en metodes wat moonlik in hierdie model opgeneem kon word, uitgelig en
geanaliseer het. In hierdie gedeelte word die aksent deurentyd op bekende en bewese teoriee
geplaas.
Die tweede gedeelte van die navorsing fokus op die empiriese studie wat met die bou van 'n hervestigingsmodel gepaard gaan. Daar word aangetoon hoe om die model toe te pas en elke
stap word met behulp van praktiese voorbeelde toegelig en verduidelik.
Die model wat hier ontwikkel is le duidelike riglyne neer wat die verbruiker in staat stel om 'n
hervestigingstudie aan te pak en optimaal toe te pas. Die toepassing daarvan vereis nie
noodwendig hoogsopgeleide personeel of ingewikkelde programering nie en word daar
gevolglik aanbeveel dat hierdie model toegepas word in die geval van die hervestiging van
verspreidingsentra.
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'n Vervoerlogistieke benadering tot die hervestiging van verspreidingsentra in die lig van deregulasie van padvervoer
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/300312023-05-16T09:13:02Zcom_10500_14514com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14523col_10500_507
Eshetu, Alemu Jilcha
2023-05-16T08:32:19Z
2023-05-16T08:32:19Z
2022-02
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30031
The overall aim of the present research was to investigate the psychological and social factors underpinning pro-environmental behaviour assessed as reduction of electricity use and disposal of waste materials in the context of university students. In three cross-sectional studies, a total of 800 students, who were conveniently sampled from the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia (i.e., 200 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate), participated in the research. In these studies, we tested the interplay between self-transcendent and self-enhancing values, environmental beliefs, and personal norms in explaining pro-environmental behaviour as predicted by the value-belief-norm theory (Studies 1, 2, and 3) and its conditionality upon social class (Studies 2 and 3), cultural orientations (Study 2), and social norms (Study 3). All three studies provided evidence that the value-belief-norm theory is appropriate to explain a significant proportion of variance in pro-environmental behaviour. Moreover, the results of Study 2 and 3 revealed that the relationships between value orientations and pro-environmental behaviour through environmental beliefs and personal norms are indeed partially conditional upon social class (Study 2 and 3), cultural orientations (Study 2), and social norms (Study 3). The findings of the present research have theoretical, policy, and practical implications, which are relevant for environmental protection interventions in the context of higher education institutions in Ethiopia in general and the University of Addis Ababa, in particular.
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Effects of psychological determinants on pro-environmental behaviour: a study conducted with university students in Ethiopia
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/270452022-06-06T12:00:06Zcom_10500_23650com_10500_3752com_10500_434com_10500_44com_10500_1col_10500_23651col_10500_3753col_10500_435
Oliver, Erna
Rukuni, Rugare
2021-01-20T12:30:57Z
2021-01-20T12:30:57Z
2019
Rukuni, Rugare, & Erna Oliver. "Africanism, Apocalypticism, Jihad and Jesuitism: Prelude to Ethiopianism." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies [Online], 75.3 (2019): 10 pages. Web. 15 Feb. 2021
2072-8050 (Online) ; 0259-9422 (Print)
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27045
https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v75i3.5384
Ethiopianism conceptually shaped modern Africa. Perceivably, this has been deduced from distinguished events in Ethiopian history. This investigation explored Ethiopianism as a derivate of the multifaceted narrative of Ethiopian religious political dynamics. Ethiopianism has arguably been detached from the entirety of the Ethiopian Christian political establishment, being deduced separately from definitive events such as the Battle of Adwa 1896. This research reconnected Ethiopianism to a wholistic religious–political matrix of Ethiopia. Therefore, it offers an alternative interpretation of Ethiopianism, as a derivate of Africanism and Apocalypticism, also correspondingly as a factor of Islamic Jihad and Jesuit Catholicism. The research was accomplished mainly through document analysis and compositely with cultural historiography. This study was a revisionist approach to Ethiopianism as a concept, deriving it from the chronological narrative of Ethiopian Christianity’s religious and political self-definition. Consequently, this realigned Ethiopianism as a derivate of multiple influences. Ethiopianism was possibly a convolution of the Donatist biblical appeal to the nativity, Judaic apocalypticism, Islamic attacks and Jesuit missionary diplomacy. Throughout the narrative of the Ethiopian Christian establishment, autonomy and independence are traceable; in addition, there is an entrenched enculturation of native Christianity and synergy with the political establishment. This formulates a basis for Ethiopianism as an ideology of African magnanimity. Parallel comparisons of Ethiopianism against Donatism and Zionism decode the nationalistic matrix of Ethiopia. Dually encultured native religious practice coupled with theocratic symbiosis of politics and religion fostered resistance from Islamisation and Jesuit Catholicisation. Further enquiry of Ethiopian Christianity as an index of the Ethiopian political establishment, from which Ethiopianism is derived, is qualified.
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© 2019 Rugare Rukuni | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Ethiopianism
Jihad
Africanism
Zionism
Apocalypticism
Jesuits
Religious political self-definition
Ethiopian Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Africanism, Apocalypticism, Jihad and Jesuitism: Prelude to Ethiopianism
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/186642018-11-17T13:06:29Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Nyamilandu, Stephen Evance Macrester Trinta
2015-06-01T08:59:37Z
2015-06-01T08:59:37Z
2015
Nyamilandu, Stephen Evance Macrester Trinta (2015) Myth and the treatment of non-human animals in classical and African cultures : a comparative study, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18664>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18664
This dissertation of limited scope, part of a Course-work Master’s in Ancient Languages and Cultures, consists of five chapters which deal with issues relating to the perception and literary treatment of non-human animals in African and Classical traditional stories involving animal characters. The focus of the research was placed upon arguing that: human characteristics were attributed to animal creatures in the myths/traditional stories from both cultures; both cultures made attempts to explain how certain animals became domesticated and how others remained wild; mythical thinking is not a preserve of one culture, it is rather part of human nature; mythical monsters are present in both cultures and that they have always to be destroyed by man, though not easily; myths served several functions for both cultures, ranging from educational entertainment to socializing purposes, to making attempts to explain ancient man’s environment and its happenings. The study was undertaken in the hope of enabling certain recommendations to be formulated, on the basis of the findings, to effect a better and more informed strategy for teaching Classical Mythology and Classics, in general, in the Mawian/African context.
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Ancient languages
Classical tradional stories
Animal characters
Human characteristics
Myths
Human nature
Teaching strategies
Classical mythology and Classics
Mawian/African context
Myth and the treatment of non-human animals in classical and African cultures : a comparative study
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/1922022-05-27T08:41:06Zcom_10500_3072com_10500_3752com_10500_4672com_10500_4671col_10500_3076col_10500_3753col_10500_4673
Schulze, Salome
2009-05-22T08:57:32Z
2009-05-22T08:57:32Z
2008
Schulze, S. 2008. Academic research at a South African higher education institution: quality issues. South African Journal of Higher Education, 22(3):644-661
1011-3487
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/192
https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC37454
The aim of the research was to critically analyse how a university context influences the quality of academics’ research output. Wenger’s social theory of learning was used as theoretical framework. The investigation involved an ethnographic case study of the
research culture at one college at the institution. Data collection was mainly by means of participant observation, interviews and document analysis. In the light of Wenger’s theory, the findings revealed that certain institutional practices facilitated high-quality research. These included financial incentives, some training programmes and travel opportunities to interact with other researchers. Practices that inhibited the delivery of quality research related to lack of job security, research support and uninterrupted time
as well as excessive institutional control. Training that was disconnected from research
practice did not stimulate quality research.
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Copyright © 2008, Higher Education South Africa (HESA)
Research output
Research quality
Theories of learning
Case studies
Academic research at a South African higher education institution : quality issues
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/38862023-07-18T08:50:18Zcom_10500_132com_10500_131com_10500_130com_10500_506col_10500_2908col_10500_507
Filmalter, Nicolene
2010-12-03T13:24:20Z
2010-12-03T13:24:20Z
2010-02
Filmalter, Nicolene (2010) A vegetation classification and management plan for the Hondekraal section of the Loskopdam Nature Reserve, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3886>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3886
As part of a vegetation survey program for the newly acquired farms incorporated into the Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, the vegetation of the Hondekraal Section was investigated. The study provides an ecological basis for establishing an efficient wildlife management plan for the Reserve. From a TWINSPAN classification, refined by Braun-Blanquet procedures, 12 plant communities, which can be grouped into eight major plant communities, were identified. A classification and description of the major plant communities are presented as well as a management plan. Descriptions of the plant communities include characteristic species as well as prominent and less conspicuous species of the tree, shrub, herb and grass strata. This study proves that the extended land incorporated into the Reserve contributes to the biological diversity of the Reserve.
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Loskopdam
Braun-Blanquet
Floristic composition
Phytosociology
TWINSPAN
JUICE
A vegetation classification and management plan for the Hondekraal section of the Loskopdam Nature Reserve
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/238482018-11-17T13:04:15Zcom_10500_14514com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506com_10500_18562col_10500_14523col_10500_507col_10500_18564
Mokgolo, Manase Morongoa
2018-05-10T12:38:13Z
2018-05-10T12:38:13Z
2017-11
Mokgolo, Manase Morongoa (2017) Workplace bullying : a human resource practitioner perspective, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23848>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23848
Workplace bullying is a sensitive issue and a psychological terror in the workplace, with severe effects on employees’ and organisations’ health, dignity, employee relations, and wellbeing. As a vital link between different constituencies in the organisation, human resource (HR) practitioners face many challenges in their attempt to address and manage workplace bullying, while simultaneously striving to promote employee wellbeing and positive employee relations. This study endeavoured to explore workplace bullying from the point of view of HR practitioners tasked with identifying and dealing with bullying in the workplace, and to develop a substantive theory of workplace bullying from their perspectives. The empirical study, conducted in two tertiary institutions in South Africa, employed grounded theory as a methodological approach with nine HR practitioners selected by non-probability purposive sampling, which is congruent with a grounded theory methodology. Selection criteria were applied to sample participants on the basis of relevance and acceptability. A qualitative, constructivist grounded theory research design was used to explore HR practitioners’ perspectives on workplace bullying with data gathered by means of in-depth interviews and official documents to gain insight and understanding of their experiences of workplace bullying. In-depth interviews were audio-recorded and data transcribed verbatim, analysed and interpreted using grounded theory coding strategies, memo writing and theoretical sampling. Findings were supported by verbatim quotes and a literature review. The study proposes a substantive workplace bullying theory and a conceptual workplace bullying framework to guide organisations and highlight the practical value for empowering the HR practitioners. It addresses the need to manage workplace bullying in the organisation and help management be more knowledgeable about bullying, effectively fostering a zero-tolerance culture. The study revealed that the HR practitioner’s role is torn between a responsibility to the business goals and management, and to support and championing the case of the targets in potential bullying situations. It should contribute to the limited body of knowledge on HR practitioners’ perspectives on workplace bullying within the South African context.
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Workplace bullying
HR practitioner
Wellbeing
Grounded theory
Substantive theory
Workplace bullying : a human resource practitioner perspective
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/186062019-08-28T07:45:59Zcom_10500_6421com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6433col_10500_507
Thwala, Sipho Moses
2015-05-13T12:43:10Z
2015-05-13T12:43:10Z
2014-10
Thwala, Sipho Moses (2014) Analysis of management constraints in the distribution of qualified mathematics and science teachers in a post-1994 education system of South Africa : a case study of senior secondary schools in the Mpumalanga Province, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18606>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18606
The study analysed the management constraints in the distribution of qualified mathematics and science teachers in a post-1994 education system of South Africa. The study was qualitative and 14 participants were purposively sampled and semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from the identified participants. The interview transcripts were constantly compared and analysed and the data was classified into three main categories of management constraints and patterns: beliefs, experiences on management constraints and strategies for the elimination of management constraints. Turning vision into practice (TVP) framework was used to explain the relationship between its seven pillars of managing teacher recruitment and the links in the development, adoption, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of a teacher deployment system, focusing on mathematics and science. Findings of this study suggest that the current hybrid post establishment model is generic and focuses more on cost curtailment than on the supply of qualified mathematics and science teachers. The shortcomings of the model are exacerbated by the transgressions of the Employment of Educators Act. Contrary to the Employment of Educators Act, entry-level vacancies are not advertised in the province. In addition, the appointment and service conditions of qualified teachers are differential. While teachers from government bursary schemes are appointed immediately on permanent status and without probation, other qualified and long-serving mathematics and science teachers remain on temporary status for almost two years and without fringe benefits. The differential treatment leads to job insecurity and facilitates the exit of these qualified mathematics and science teachers from the profession. Moreover, schools horde and use qualified mathematics and science teachers in subjects they are not qualified to teach. It is recommended that through the suggested TVP framework, the current teacher recruitment and deployment strategies be revisited regularly to ensure effectiveness of teacher usage in mathematics and science. It is further recommended that school principals and other educational leaders should be provided with personnel management skills to ensure maximum effective recruitment and deployment of qualified mathematics and science teachers, particularly to the impoverished schools.
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Management constraints
Change management
Redeployment
School governing body
Mathematics and science
Foreign teachers
Funza Lushaka
Teacher unions
Senior secondary schools
Post establishment
Analysis of management constraints in the distribution of qualified mathematics and science teachers in a post-1994 education system of South Africa : a case study of senior secondary schools in the Mpumalanga Province
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/272302021-04-06T08:31:57Zcom_10500_2981com_10500_2769com_10500_423com_10500_506col_10500_2982col_10500_507
Malatji, Raesetja Martha
2021-04-06T08:27:12Z
2021-04-06T08:27:12Z
2021-01
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27230
Contemporary policing in South Africa is similarly beset by some glaring fault lines that are branded by high levels of criminality, power abuses and misconduct within the police ranks. Though it is difficult to quantify how the related issues are perceived by the majority of South Africans, this widespread challenge effectively diminishes the police’s moral right to hold power within communities. Furthermore, the Constitution of the Republic of South African Act (No. 108 of 1996) places the South African Police Service (SAPS) in the frontline against crime and obliges it to protect and secure the inhabitant of the republic and their property, this reads in accordance with Section 205(3) of this Act. However, this will be effective only if the SAPS management consists of employees who are trained professionals with appropriate proficiency and whose integrity is beyond approach. In the light of growing concern about ethics and morality in South Africa, this study present that it is important to gain a better understanding of the natural progression of moral reasoning that comes with maturity. This can be accomplished by evaluating the South African Police Service’s moral right to hold power in the Mankweng area as this study attempt. This qualitative study adopted phenomenography research design to purposively explore perceptions of 20 community members and 5 SAPS management in the Mankweng area. Data was collected using the face-to-face semi-structured phenomenological interview and the data was analysed and interpreted, with the adoption of Textual Analysis (TA). This study establishes that there is no moral alertness of using outreach, educational skills and awareness campaigns by the local SAPS in collaborations with community members and there is a decrease in the resilience of criminal victimisation within the community; coupled with lack of strength regarding the relationship amongst safety and security stakeholders and lack of information sharing about crime fighting initiatives within the community and the police. For the conclusion and recommendations: police actions and an increase of unappealing practices has raised a number of safety concerns among South African citizens, neighbouring countries and perhaps international community observers as well and it is recommended that collaboratively working on these findings can enhance policing in the communal level.
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Evaluation
Holding of power
Mankweng area
Moral right
SAPS
An evaluation of the South African Police Service’s moral right to hold power in the Mankweng area
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/254402019-05-16T01:00:31Zcom_10500_24440com_10500_23854com_10500_460com_10500_128col_10500_24479
Britz, K
2019-05-15T08:50:23Z
2019-05-15T08:50:23Z
2001
Britz, K. (2001) Implication in three-valued logics of partial information. Hardware, Software and Peopleware: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 25-28 September 200
1-86888-195-4
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25440
In formal logic, both semantic entailment and the conditional connective are used to formalize the intuitive notion of implication. The former is defined in the meta-language of the logic, and the latter in the language of the logic. Their interaction determines to what extent the conditional connective relates to entailment as an implication should. This paper addresses this question for a number of related three-valued logics based on Kleene's strong truth tables, and defines a suitable implication for Partial Logic.
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Paraconsistency
Partial information
Semantic consequence
Three-valued logic
Implication in three-valued logics of partial information
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/195532018-11-17T13:04:13Zcom_10500_399col_10500_19161
International Academy of Language Law. International Conference (3rd : 1992 : Pretoria, South Africa)
2015-10-14T08:38:59Z
2015-10-14T08:38:59Z
1993
0869818368
9780869818367
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19553
en
Language, law and equality : proceedings of the Third International Conference of the International Academy of Language Law (IALL) held in South Africa, April 1992
Book
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/15062018-11-17T13:05:32Zcom_10500_2734com_10500_37com_10500_25com_10500_506col_10500_2735col_10500_507
Taba, Lucas Makomane
2009-08-25T10:53:48Z
2009-08-25T10:53:48Z
2009-08-25T10:53:48Z
Taba, Lucas Makomane (2009) Measuring the successful implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC)
in the South African post office, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1506>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1506
Measuring the success of Activity Based Costing (ABC) is part of a more general challenge of measuring the success of any major change in managerial methods. The past thirteen years have seen accelerated rates of change in the South African Post Office (SAPO). However little is known about `'Measuring the successful implementation of ABC in (SAPO)''.
The objectives of this study is to research the perceptions of staff regarding the successful implementation of ABC, the benefits of ABC implementation and the conditions that affect the potential benefits from the successful implementation of ABC. This will allow organisations and provide them with relevant information that will enable them to make better decisions with regard to measuring the successful implementation of ABC.
To achieve these objectives a questionnaire was prepared and handed out to the finance staff of the SAPO. They were asked to respond to the questionnaire on their experience and their perceptions on the implementation of ABC. 121 questionnaire were returned generating a 38% response rate.
The findings in this study highlighted that top management fails in giving active support to the implementation of ABC and the technical factors were perceived as standing in the way of the successful implementation of ABC. These were training, the high cost of implementing ABC, the lack of software packages, the lack of data requirements and co-operation between departments.
From the finding the recommendation was made were general strategies were suggested for the SAPO for measuring the successful implementation of ABC.
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Environmental effect of ABC
Limitations of ABC
Benefits of ABC
Implementing of ABC
Fundamental of ABC
Activity Based Costing
Measuring the successful implementation of Activity Based Costing (ABC)
in the South African post office
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/297612023-02-01T12:58:45Zcom_10500_132com_10500_131com_10500_130com_10500_506col_10500_2908col_10500_507
Van den Berg, Unine
2023-02-01T12:23:24Z
2023-02-01T12:23:24Z
2021-01
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/29761
The content, nature and characteristics of South African PhDs in environmental
management are unknown. It is not clear what the research themes or trends between
1998 and 2017 were, and if the strategic research themes that are important for South
Africa (included in legislation, policies and plans) were taken into consideration. The
PhDs and the strategic driver documents were compared to establish if there is any
alignment between the two. There is no synthesised document that compares the
current body of knowledge, in the form of PhDs, to that of the key strategic drivers that
South Africa ascribes to, which in turn may guide future research needs and identify
niche research areas. The study aimed to establish the level of alignment between
South African environmental management and science PhD knowledge production
and priority environmental issues in South Africa. The philosophy that underpinned
this research was interpretivism, which involves a researcher to interpreting elements
of a study and focusing on meaning, which mostly only materialises at the end of the
study. The method used for this study was a systematic literature review and content
analysis. The data, in this case completed PhDs, were manually examined, and then,
to ensure objectivity, the text-mining software program, Leximancer, was used for
further analysis. A comparative knowledge map was then generated from the data
analyses as a strategic tool to support knowledge translation to address the future
priority research areas that needs to be addressed. The results of the study indicated
that research mostly focused on biodiversity, habitat and resources, and social
environmental aspects relating to the people of South Africa. Two major issues that did not receive much attention was the waste and greenhouse gas and the green or
low carbon economy, renewable energy themes. In terms of the government
documents, the Biodiversity Act and Air Quality Act were well represented. Many
PhDs addressed aspects in the themes that were identified from the State of the
Environment reports. The aspects identified by a report from Kok and Pietersen from
1999 and the NDP 2030, received less coverage in the completed PhDs. This study
identified research gaps that need to be explored to ensure that PhDs are relevant to
the development goals of South Africa, as stipulated in the strategic environmental
documents. It is recommended that prospective PhD students consider the national
environmental strategic drivers and objectives when considering research themes,
especially the NDP 2030. This will ensure that greater alignment is achieved between the knowledge production of PhD studies and the strategic environmental goals,
legislation, policies and plans for developing the country.
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A comparative knowledge map of PhD research in relation to priority environmental issues in Sout Africa
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/297662023-02-02T09:41:34Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Nzimande, Erick Nkululeko
2023-02-02T09:35:43Z
2023-02-02T09:35:43Z
2022-11
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/29766
Translating culture-specific items between different languages is a nerve wrecking task that often poses a great challenge to the translator. This can be ascribed to the fact that the items to be rendered are unknown or known, but not yet lexicalised in the target language. Translators faced with this challenge often have to make use of different approaches or strategies at their disposal in order to produce a comprehensible and acceptable translation in the target culture. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to determine and compare the approaches adopted by translators of the two English translations of the isiZulu novel Insila kaShaka, by Dr. JL Dube, in their endeavour to overcome the challenge of rendering items carrying cultural connotations. The first translation was produced by Prof. J Boxwell and appeared in 1951, and the second one was done by Mrs TN Nene and Mr RM Kavanagh and was released in 2017. Furthermore, the study seeks to determine whether the time period under which the two translations were produced as well as power relations between the two languages concerned had an influence on the choice of the approach employed by the translators. The study employed the corpus-based method for data analysis and interpretation, and a corpus-query software called ‘ParaConc’ for this purpose. Moreover, the approaches, namely descriptive translation studies, corpus-based translation studies and post-colonial translation theory were used as theoretical underpinnings of the research. The findings revealed that the translator of the first translation adopted the target text-oriented approach in his rendering of the novel while the translators of the second translation, on the other hand, strove to maintain equitable use of the source text-oriented and target text-oriented approach. The results further indicated that time period as well as power relations indeed exerted some influence on the choice of the approach employed by the translators.
Ukuhumusha amagama aphathelene namasiko phakathi kwezilimi ezehlukene kungumsebenzi onzima kakhulu ovame ukumnika inkinga lowo ohumushayo. Lokhu kudalwa ukuthi lawo magama okumele ahunyushwe awaziwa noma awanawo amagama ahambisana nawo kulolo limi okuhunyushelwa kulo. Abahumushi ababhekene nale nkinga kuvame ukuthi basebenzise izindlela noma amasu akhona ukuze bahumushe ngendlela ezwakalayo neyamukelekile ngokosiko lolimi okuhunyushelwa kulo. Ngakho-ke, inhloso yalolu cwaningo ukuthola kanye nokuqhathanisa izindlela ezasetshenziswa abahumushi bezincwadi ezimbili zesiNgisi ezahunyushwa zisuselwa kwinoveli yesiZulu ethi Insila KaShaka, eyabhalwa nguDkt. J.L. Dube, ekulweni nenkinga yoluhumusha amagama amayelama nosiko. Incwadi yokuqala yesiNgisi yahunyushwa nguSlz. J. Boxwell yase ishicilelwa ngonyaka ka-1951, kanti eyesibili yona yahunyushwa nguNkk. T.N. Nene kanye noMnu. R.M. Kavanagh yase ishicilelwa ngonyaka ka-2017. Ucwaningo luphinde futhi lufune ukuthola ukuthi ngabe isikhathi izincwadi zesiNgisi ezahunyushwa ngaso kanye namandla lezi zilimi ezimbili ezazinawo ngesikhathi sokuhumusha kwaba nawo yini umthelela kwindlela abahumushi abayisebenzisa uma behumusha le ncwadi. Lolu cwaningo lusebenzisa indlela yokucwaninga esebenzisa i-corpus, kanti lusebenzisa ubuchwepheshe obubizwa nge-ParaConc okuyibo obusetshenziswa uma kuhlaziywa. Ucwaningo luzoncika kwinjulalwazi i-Descriptive Translation Studies, i-Corpus-based Translation Studies kanye ne-post-colonial translation theory. Imiphumela yocwaningo iveza ukuthi umhumushi wencwadi yesiNgisi yokuqala wasebenzisa indlela evuna ulimi okuhunyushelwa kulo uma ehumusha le noveli, kanti abahumushi bencwadi yesibili bona balwela ukusebenzisa ngokufana indlela evuna ulimi okususelwa kulo kanye naleyo evuna ulimi okuhunyushelwa kulo. Iphinde futhi iveze ukuthi isikhathi izincwadi ezahunyushwa ngaso kanye namandla lezi zilimi ezimbili ezazinawo ngaleso sikhathi ngempela kwaba nomthelela ekukhethweni kwendlela abahumushi abayisebenzisa.
Go fetolela maina a setso magareng ga Dipolelo tsa go fapanafapana ke mosomo wo bothata kudu woo nako le nako o tlisago bothata bjo bogolo go mofetoledi. Se se ka dirwa ke gore maina ao a fiwago ga a tsebje goba a a tsebja fela ga a na tlhaloso mo lelemeng leo go fetolelwago go lona. Bafetoledi bao ba lebanego le bothata bjo gantsi ba somisa ditsela goba maano a go fapanafapana ao ba nago le wona gore ba ntshe phetolelo ya go kwesisega le go amogelwa setsong sa polelo yeo go fetolelwago go yona. Ka fao, maikemisetso a thuto ye ke go laetsa le go bapetsa ditsela tseo di somiswago ke bafetoledi ba diphetolelo tsa Seisemane tse pedi tsa padi ya isiZulu ya go bitswa Insila kaShaka, yeo e ngwetswego ke Dr J.L. Dube, maikemisetso e le go fenya mathata a go fa maina ao a sepelelanago le setso, Phetolelo ya mathomo e tsweleditswe ke Prof. J. Boxwell gomme ya phatlalatswa ka 1951, mola ya bobedi e tsweleditswe ke Mdi T.N. Nene le Mna R.M. Kavanagh gomme yona ya phatlalatswa ka 2017. E bile, thuto ye e nyaka go hwetsa ge e le gore nakong yeo ge diphetolelo tse pedi di tsweletswa le tswalano magareng ga dipolelo tse pedi tse, ge di bile le khuetso mo go kgetheng ga tsela yeo e somiswago ke bafetoledi. Thuto ye e somisa tsela ya khophase go fetleka le go hlatholla data, le lenaneo la khomphutha la go nyakisisa khophase la go bitswa ‘ParaConc’ e somisetswa wona mosomo wo. Ka fao, ditsela, tsa go bitswa ‘Descriptive Translation Studies’, ‘Corpus-based Translation Studies’ le teori ya ‘Post-colonial translation’ di somiswa bjalo ka diteori tse bohlokwa tsa nyakisiso ye. Dikhwetso di tsweleditse gore mofetoledi wa phetolelo ya mathomo o somisitse tsela ya sengwalo sa mothopo ge a fetolela padi mola bafetoledi ba phetolelo ya bobedi, mo le lengwe, ba lekile ka maatla go somisa ka go lekana sengwalo sa mothopo le tsela ya sengwalo seo se lebantswego. Dipoelo di bontshitse le go feta gore nako le ditswalano tse maatla di kgonne go huetsa mo go kgetheng tsela yeo e somiswago ke bafetoledi.
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Insila KaShaka
Corpus
Descriptive translation studies
Corpus-based translation studies
Post-colonial translation theory
Source text
Target text
Corpus-based approach
A critical analysis of the two English translations of the first isizulu novel Insila kaShaka : a corpus-based approach
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/253432019-04-04T13:00:54Zcom_10500_2770com_10500_2769com_10500_423com_10500_506col_10500_2771col_10500_507
Thenga, Godfrey
2019-03-29T05:30:37Z
2019-03-29T05:30:37Z
2018-10
Thenga, Godfrey (2018) A critical analysis of the policing of counterfeit goods in South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25343>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25343
The researcher conducted a critical analysis of the policing of counterfeit crime in South Africa. A pure qualitative research design and approach was adopted. A literature review, interviews and observations were conducted to provide an overview of this problem nationally and internationally.
Interview schedules were designed with pre-determined open-ended questions, which allowed participants to explain their perceptions, opinions and viewpoints on the policing of counterfeit in South Africa. Some of the designed questions were mailed to respondents.
Questions were posed to members of the Specialised Commercial Crime Unit, members of the South African Police Service’s Crime Prevention Unit, members of the Department of Trade and Industry who deal with counterfeit, prosecutors who normally prosecute counterfeit cases, brand owners/holders/representatives, and attorneys who assist in the policing of counterfeit crime.
The findings of this study informed the proposed recommendations for preventative and reactive response mechanisms. These proposed recommendations suggest ways of improving efficiency and effectiveness in policing counterfeit in South Africa.
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Policing of counterfeit and piracy
Modus operandi in committing counterfeit
Intellectual property crime
Organised crime in counterfeit
Use of intelligence led policing
Private public partnership
Misrepresentation to disguise the truth
Money laundering to hide proceeds of crime
Theories of crime and theories of punishment in counterfeiting and piracy
Adjudication of counterfeiting and piracy
Counterfeiting investigation process
Sanctions in counterfeit and piracy
A critical analysis of the policing of counterfeit goods in South Africa
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/308852024-02-26T10:49:38Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_2979com_10500_44com_10500_1col_10500_3753col_10500_5526
Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus
2024-02-26T10:49:38Z
2024-02-26T10:49:38Z
2023
Van Wyngaard, GJ. 2023. Doing Liberation Theology in South Africa. Journal of Systematic Theology, 2(10).
1463-1652
1468-2400
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30885
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Liberation Theology
South Africa
Dutch Reformed Church
Doing Liberation Theology in South Africa
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/281802021-10-15T07:27:02Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_6426com_10500_4671col_10500_3753col_10500_10414
Ntuli, Cynthia Hlekwase Smangele
Gumbo, Mishack Thiza
2021-10-15T07:27:02Z
2021-10-15T07:27:02Z
2019
Perspectives in Education, v37 n2 p53-66 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/2519593X/pie.v37i2.4
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28180
The facilitation of learning by tutors is a worldwide phenomenon that is supported by most open and distance learning (ODL) institutions. It is a strategy employed to achieve academic success. This qualitative intrinsic case study explored the views of tutors at the University of South Africa (Unisa) about the implementation of the Integrated Tutor Model (ITM) which supports student learning. The successes, challenges and impact of the ITM on the tutors' delivery of tutorials are not fully known. Therefore, the findings of this study will highlight the successes, challenges and impact of the ITM which Unisa can use to improve the model. Data were gathered through face-to-face interviews with six tutors who were purposively selected from Unisa's Gauteng region. The findings revealed successes and challenges of the ITM that affect the support that is due to the students via tutorage. These findings explain the application of the ITM that can assist Unisa in strengthening or reviewing both the tutor system and the model
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face-to-face
integrated tutor model
Tutors' Views on the Integrated Tutor Model in Open Distance Learning
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/250932018-11-30T07:09:17Zcom_10500_181com_10500_172com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_183col_10500_507
Asongu, Ndemaze
2018-11-29T09:36:14Z
2018-11-29T09:36:14Z
2018-07
Asongu, Ndemaze (2018) Tuberculosis awareness created through Facebook: a case study approach of TB Proof South Africa’s Facebook page, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25093>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25093
Health promotion is an educational tool that can be used to educate and create awareness of health issues through various media forms. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of TB Proof South Africa‘s Facebook page in creating TB awareness. The literature on TB, social media, health promotional campaigns and health promotional models was reviewed to contextualise this study. A qualitative case study approach was used to collect data from TB Proof South Africa‘s Facebook page. Data was collected using three data collection methods; namely, online ethnographic observation, textual analysis and visual analysis.
The findings indicate that TB Proof South Africa‘s Facebook page creates awareness of TB. Results from this study also suggested collaboration between South African healthcare professionals and traditional health practitioners in the fight against tuberculosis. The study advocates the need for comparative studies to explore the use of other health-related Facebook pages.
Gesondheidsbevordering is ʼn opvoedkundige werktuig wat gebruik kan word om op te voed en bewustheid van gesondheidskwessies deur middel van verskeie mediavorme te skep. Die doel van hierdie studie was om die gebruik van TB Proof South Africa se Facebook-blad in die skepping van TB-bewustheid te verken. Leesstof oor TB, sosiale media, gesondheidsbevorderingsveldtogte en gesondheidsbevorderingsmodelle is beoordeel om hierdie studie te kontekstualiseer. ‘n Kwalitatiewe gevallestudiebenadering is gebruik om data van TB Proof South Africa se Facebook-blad in te samel. Data is ingesamel deur gebruikmaking van drie data-insamelingsmetodes, naamlik aanlyn etnografiese waarneming, teksontleding en visuele ontleding.
Die bevindings dui daarop dat TB Proof South Africa se Facebook-blad bewustheid van TB skep. Resultate van hierdie studie beveel ook samewerking tussen Suid-Afrikaanse gesondheidsorgberoepslui en tradisionele gesondheidspraktisyns in die stryd teen tuberkulose aan. Die studie bepleit die behoefte aan vergelykende studies om die gebruik van ander gesondheidsverwante Facebook-blaaie te verken.
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Tuberculosis (TB)
Awareness
Health promotion
Health communication
Health promotion campaigns
Social media
Facebook
TB Proof South Africa
Healthcare
South Africa
Case study
Tuberkulose (TB)
Bewustheid
Gesondheidsbevordering
Gesondheidskommunikasie
Gesondheidsbevorderingsveldtogte
Sosiale media
Gesondheidsorg
Suid-Afrika
Gevallestudie
Tuberculosis awareness created through Facebook: a case study approach of TB Proof South Africa’s Facebook page
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/271492021-03-03T05:21:34Zcom_10500_6421com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6433col_10500_507
Oyewo, Saheed Adekunle
2021-03-02T05:36:11Z
2021-03-02T05:36:11Z
2021-01
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27149
The study focused on the challenges of teaching at-risk learners at secondary schools. A qualitative investigation based on interviewing and observation was conducted with sixteen teachers teaching at-risk learners. Findings revealed that pre-service teacher training does not prepare teachers adequately to teach learners at risk constructively. Findings also revealed that at-risk learners have no control over themselves due to lack of parental support as parents show no commitment and support for their children’s education. Interventions to counter challenges with teaching at-risk learners relate to applicable preservice teacher training to engage with at-risk learners constructively and continuous in-service teacher training as professional development to empower teachers to engage with at-risk learners appropriately. At-risk learners must value second-chance education opportunities with schools ensuring that a supportive school culture prevails.
The study contributes to the discourse on effective teaching practices to support at-risk learners for acceptable academic attainment.
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Academic attainment
At-risk learner
Commitment
Constructive education
Parental support
Professional development
School culture
Secondary schools
Significant adult
Teacher training
The challenges of teaching at-risk learners at a secondary school in Cape Town
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/267282021-05-06T13:13:03Zcom_10500_5col_10500_26711
Macanda, Makaba
2020-10-22T10:33:19Z
2020-10-22T10:33:19Z
2020-10-21
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26728
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Introducing Unisa Data Repository: Figshare
Presentation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/31952018-11-17T13:05:30Zcom_10500_4675com_10500_4671com_10500_4672com_10500_506col_10500_4676col_10500_4674col_10500_507
Yorke, Lynette Claire
2010-03-19T13:49:54Z
2010-03-19T13:49:54Z
2008-12
Yorke, Lynette Claire (2008) Promotion of inclusive education by the learning support teacher concerning foundation phase numeracy and literacy in Gauteng independent schools, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3195>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3195
Inclusion of learners with diverse needs implies a shift from a medical deficit model to a social systems model. The latter does not view the learner as a problem; instead it considers the environment or society’s response to the individual as barriers to learning. This study focuses on collaborative co-teaching as a key to inclusion. Collaborative co-teaching requires the learning support teacher and the general education teacher to partner in all aspects of instruction. The outcome of collaborative co-teaching includes effective instruction, a cohesive, accepting class community, positive learner development and the professional and personal growth of the learning support teacher and the general education teacher. A literature review provided the background to an empirical inquiry using a qualitative approach. Data was collected from a small sample by interviews, observations and documents and inductively analysed. Recommendations for the improvement of practice were made based on the findings.
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Inclusion
Barriers to learning
Collaborative co-teaching
Foundation phase
Promotion of inclusive education by the learning support teacher concerning foundation phase numeracy and literacy in Gauteng independent schools
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/21212018-11-17T13:04:36Zcom_10500_434com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2739col_10500_507
Beck, Willi, M.Th.
2009-08-25T11:00:36Z
2009-08-25T11:00:36Z
2009-08-25T11:00:36Z
Beck, Willi, M.Th. (2009) Gottesdienst - die Mitte der missionarischen Gemeinde. Zweitgottesdienst - Entwicklung als Baustein für eine zukünftige Sozialgestalt der evangelischen Landeskirche in Württemberg = The church service as the centre of a missional congregation developing a second church service as a building block for a future social form of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg, Germany, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2121>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2121
Zusammenfassung
Im schleichenden Rückgang gemeindlichen Lebens wird eine anhaltende Inkulturationskrise
sichtbar. Der gegenwärtigen Kirche in ihrer milieuverengenden Präsenz gelingt es nicht,
in die vielfältigen sozialen Räume der Bundesrepublik vorzudringen.
Die vorliegende Arbeit ist ein Diskussionsbeitrag zur gemeinsamen Suche nach einer zukünftigen
Sozialgestalt der Kirche in unserer postmodernen Umgebung.
Ausgehend von der zentralen Bedeutung des Gottesdienstes als Mitte der Gemeinde, wird
zunächst dargelegt, dass eine zukünftige Kirchenentwicklung nur vom Gottesdienst her geschehen
kann. Dies gilt vornehmlich dann, wenn er als Aufbau von Gemeinde der Brüder
und Schwestern positioniert wird und nicht als Programmm oder Veranstaltung. Der seit
Anfang der 1990iger Jahre wahrnehmbare Zweitgottesdienstboom könnte ein missionarisch-
strategischer Ansatzpunkt sein, um die soziologisch ausdifferenzierte Bevölkerung zu
erreichen. Plurale Gottesdienstkonzepte als Gemeindepflanzungsansätze werden zu Drehund
Angelpunkten einer zukünftigen, notwendigerweise multioptionalen, kulturrelevanten
Sozialgestalt von Kirche.
In einer Kirche mit vielfältigen Gottesdienstkonzepten wird auch die Frage nach der
christlichen Einheit neu gestellt und als plurale Ausdrucksform diskutiert.
Summary English
The gradual deterioration of congregational life is unveiling an ongoing inculturation crisis.
With its milieu constricting presence, the church is currently not able to enter into the multifaceted
social environments in Germany.
This paper represents a contribution to the discussion concerning our joint search of the
church's future social form in our post-modern society.
Departing from the major significance of the church service as the centre of the congregation,
it is argued that future development of the church can only take place from within the
church service. This is especially true if it is intended as congregational development by the
brothers and sisters, and not as programme or event. The boom of second church services
we have been observing since the beginning of the 1990s could become a missionary-strategic
starting point in order to reach a sociologically diversified population. Plural church service
concepts as a basic approach to church planting become the linchpin of a future, necessarily
multioptional and culturally relevant social form of church.
In a church with manifold church service concepts, the question of Christian unity is being
asked anew and discussed as a plural form of expression.
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Missionary church service
Context
Inculturation
Empirisch-missiologische Zugangswege Mission
Multioptionale Kirche
Zukunftsfähige Sozialgestalt
Einheit des Volkes Gottes
Gemeindeaufbau
Gemeindepflanzung
Gemeinschaft von Brüdern und Schwestern
Missionale Gemeinde
Zweitgottesdienst
Missionarischer Gottesdienst
Kontext
Inkulturation
Mission
Second church service
Missional congregation
Community of brothers and sisters
Church planting
Congregational development
Unity of God's people
Sustainable social form
Multioptional church
Empiric-missionary approach
Gottesdienst - die Mitte der missionarischen Gemeinde. Zweitgottesdienst - Entwicklung als Baustein für eine zukünftige Sozialgestalt der evangelischen Landeskirche in Württemberg = The church service as the centre of a missional congregation developing a second church service as a building block for a future social form of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg, Germany
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/306762023-11-29T06:15:13Zcom_10500_6422com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6438col_10500_507
Khumalo, Christin
2023-11-27T13:55:11Z
2023-11-27T13:55:11Z
2021-02
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30676
The study sought to investigate student teachers’ experiences in implementing inclusive education during teaching practice in Zimbabwean primary schools. The investigation serves as a springboard to establishing a teacher preparation model for preparing student teachers for teaching practice experiences. A mixed-methods concurrent design was employed in the current study and self-designed questionnaires, semi-structured interviews and non-participant observation were used to collect data. Three hundred and seventy-five student teachers, 60 college lecturers and 180 school administrators participated in the study. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM SBSS) version 25 calculated the percentages that were used in the study. The qualitative data were analysed using a thematic approach. The study revealed that student teachers were not given adequate content on inclusive education to prepare them for teaching practice experiences. The study also revealed that student teachers had limitations in applying inclusive pedagogy during teaching practice that included minimum support from mentors, school administrators, SPS/SNE personnel and parents, which resulted in student teachers’ bad experiences. The study further established that stakeholders generally held positive attitudes towards the inclusion of children with mild disabilities rather than children who are deaf, blind and those with emotional and behavioural disabilities as they preferred special schools for such children. These attitudes inhibited student teachers from gaining good teaching practice experiences with diverse children with disabilities. The study finally established that the policies and legislations available in schools exposed student teachers to good teaching practice experiences. Though not clear, policies and legislations made a positive impact on stakeholders’ attitudes towards the inclusion of children with disabilities. Such attitudes were exhibited by the improvement of disability user-friendly infrastructure. The study recommended that the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education have a binding policy on the training for student teachers for teaching practice experiences in implementing inclusive education. It was recommended that teacher trainers review curricula in tandem with the theory of inclusive pedagogy. Finally, the study recommended a teacher preparation model to prepare student teachers for teaching practice experiences.
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Disability
Student teachers
Teaching practice
Inclusive education
Inclusive pedagogy
Children with disabilities
Teacher preparation
Primary schools
Zimbabwe
Student teachers’ experiences in implementing inclusive education during teaching practice in Zimbabwean primary schools
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/163022018-11-17T13:06:29Zcom_10500_2750com_10500_2749com_10500_423com_10500_506com_10500_18562col_10500_2751col_10500_507col_10500_18564
Van Heerden, Cornelia Maritha
2015-01-23T04:24:24Z
2015-01-23T04:24:24Z
1996-11
Van Heerden, Cornelia Maritha (1996) Invloed van die grondwet op die bewyslas in die lasterreg, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16302>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16302
Die siviele lasterreg word gekenmerk deur verdeeldheid aangaande bewyspligtigheid. 'n
Unieke situasie doen horn voor: weerlegbare regsvermoedens van onregmatigheid en animus
iniuriandi word opgevolg deur verskeie regsverdigingsgronde. Bykomend hiertoe stel die
Grondwet die vereiste van konstitusionele regverdiging vir beperkings op fundamentele regte.
'n Oorsig oor die regspraak in sowel die voorgrondwetlike - as na-grondwetlike bedeling, dui
op 'n versuim deur die howe om behoorlik aandag te skenk aan die bewyspligtigheidsgevolge
van die regverskynsels wat hulself in die lasterreg voordoen.
In hierdie verhandeling word bewyspligtigheid in lastersake krities ondersoek om vas te stel of
dit die reg korrek weerspieel en om 'n werkbare bewyslasformule vir lasteraksies in 'n
konstitusionele litigasie te vind. Daar word voorgestel dat die probleem opgelos word deur 'n
tweefase-benadering: Die eiser moet in die eerste fase die omvang van sy reg bewys en dat
daarop inbreuk gemaak is. In die tweede fase moet die verweerder sy regverdigingsgronde
bewys, asook dat dit konstitusioneel regverdigbaar is.
The civil law of defamation is marked by discord regarding onus of proof. A unique situation
evidences itself: rebuttable presumptions of law concerning unlawfulness and animus iniuriandi
are followed by various grounds of justification. In addition thereto the Constitution sets the
requirement of constitutional justification for limitations on fundamental rights.
An overview of case law in the pre-constitutional as well as the post-constitutional
dispensation, indicates a failure by the courts to pay proper attention to the evidentiary
consequences of the legal phenomena found in the law of defamation.
In this dissertation onus of proof in defamation cases is critically examined to ascertain whether
it reflects the law correctly and to find a workable "onus of proof" -formula for defamation
cases in a constitutional dispensation. It is suggested that the problem be solved by a two stage
approach: in the first phase, the plaintiff must prove the extent of his right and the
encroachment thereof . In the second phase the defendant must prove his grounds of
justification and show that they are constitutionally justifiable.
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Onus of proof
Defamation
Unlawfulness
Animus iniuriandi
Grounds of justification
Evidentiary consequences
Constitution
Constitutionally justifiable
Two stage approach
Limitations on fundamental rights
Invloed van die grondwet op die bewyslas in die lasterreg
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/267452020-10-29T04:56:12Zcom_10500_6421com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6433col_10500_507
Yoseph Woubalem Wereta
2020-10-27T08:37:36Z
2020-10-27T08:37:36Z
2019-12
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26745
This study focused on investigating the significance of peace education to manage institutional conflict at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. As conflict is inevitable in all settings, the need for looking at diversified ways of mitigating conflict is paramount and mandatory. Higher education should serve communities and nations in generating solutions on one hand and as well generating educated human power equipped with basic knowledge, skills and required attitude, on the other hand. The situation observed in the study area of AAU and other universities is a concern because the level and magnitude of conflict being experienced in university campuses is increasing. Taking this into consideration, the study employed a qualitative inquiry and collected data from students, academic staff from a variety of departments, the student administration wing student, the Institute of Peace and Security Studies and support staff. The findings of the study tried to identify the nature and cause of conflict. Moreover, it collected data regarding the measures currently taken by the university and as well investigated to what extent peace education can serve as an instrument to manage institutional conflict in AAU. Most of the conflict types were found to be dysfunctional, which involves the affective domain based on the feelings and emotions of the conflicting parties, mainly students to each other. It was injected by ethnic conflict and almost no dialogue is held to resolve the conflicts among them. On the other hand, turbulent situations in the society are enacted at the university, with students entering into conflict demanding their ethnic groups’ democratic and human rights. When conflicts arise, conflict resolving mechanisms are traditional with the university resorting to the use of the external police force with dire consequences such as imprisonment, detainment and even death. The study thus investigated and revealed the potential of peace education as an innovative solution to resolve conflict collaboratively thus satisfying all parties.
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Conflict
Conflict management
Conflict resolution
Higher education
Peace
Peace education
Peace education for managing institutional conflict : a case study of Addis Ababa University
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/265552020-07-27T08:26:13Zcom_10500_6418com_10500_4671com_10500_506com_10500_18562col_10500_6435col_10500_507col_10500_18564
Lethole, Tshiwela Maria
2020-07-20T11:44:52Z
2020-07-20T11:44:52Z
2019
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26555
Within the last decade, the level of teenage pregnancy in Southern Africa has been on the increase and as a result, is being seen as a major social problem. This study, which is a dissertation of limited scope, investigates the teaching and learning challenges of teenage mother learners at secondary schools in the Vhembe District in Limpopo. This study is classified as qualitative research within a case study design. A convenience sampling method was applied in order to select teachers and teenage mother learners for participation in the study resulting in five teachers and five teenage mother learners participating in the study Participants were interviewed using in-depth interviews. Participant observation and document analysis were other research methodologies included in the data collection process. Participant observation assisted in gathering data in relation to how mother learners interacted with teachers and other peers in class and in the school environment and document analysis was conducted by means of perusing formal records, such as attendance registers, class tests and examination results, medical records, and involvement in extramural activities. Qualitative data analysis was used in order to analyse data collected which resulted in themes and sub-themes emerging. The findings revealed that teenage pregnancy has a detrimental effect on girls’ schooling with school attendance and absenteeism affecting performance resulting in poor results and even drop out. Additional factors such as lack of financial support, physical and emotional support from family and friends as well as stigmatisation, discrimination and exclusion have a negative effect on learning. Teachers tend to lack the necessary knowledge and skills in dealing with teenage mother learners and are not supported with counselling programmes. Recommendations suggest that teachers are equipped with special skills to deal with teenage mother learners and that learners at school are made more aware of the dangers of early pregnancy and its effects on their education through various programmes.
Ngudo iyi, ya desithesheni ya tshikoupu tsho pimiwaho, i khou ṱoḓisisa nga ha khaedu dza u funza na u guda kha vhagudi vha vhana vha re vho mme zwikoloni zwa sekondari Masipalani wa Tshiṱiriki tsha Vhembe, Limpopo. Ngudo iyi yo khethekanywa sa ṱhoḓisiso ya khwaḽithathivi. Kha pulane na nzudzanyo ya ṱhoḓisiso, ngudo iyi yo itwa zwikoloni zwa sekondari kha Masipala wa Tshiṱiriki tsha Vhembe, tshine tsha wanala kha vundu ḽa Limpopo.
Kuitele kwa vhukhethatsumbonanguludzwa kwo teaho kwo shumiswa u itela u nanga vhadededzi na vhagudi vha vhana vha re vho mme u itela u dzhenelela kha inthaviwu. U dzhenelela nga u tou sedza na u saukanya ḽiṅwalo o vha maṅwe maitele a ṱhoḓisiso o katelwaho kha kuitele kwa u kuvhanganya data. Vhadededzi na vhagudi vha vhana vha re vho mme vho inthaviwiwa hu tshi khou shumiswa inthaviwu dzo fhelelaho. Ṱhoḓisiso ya khwaḽithethivi kha u dzhenelela nga vhusedzi yo itwa u itela u kuvhanganya data zwi tshi elana na uri vhagudi vha vhana vha re vho mme vha shumisana hani na vhadededzi na dziṅwe thangana dza murole kiḽasini na kha vhupo ha tshikolo
Tsha u fhedzisela. U saukanywa ha ḽiṅwalo ho itwa nga nḓila ya u ṱola rekhodo dza fomaḽa, dzi ngaho ridzhisiṱara ya maḓele tshikoloni, mulingo wa kiḽasini na mvelelo dza mulingo, rekhodo dza mutakalo, na u dzhenelela kha nyitelwannḓa na thandela dza mveledziso ya tshitshavha. Vhadededzi vhaṱanu na vhagudi vha vhana vha re vho mme vhaṱanu vho dzhenelela kha ngudo iyi. Musaukanyo wa data wa khwaḽithithathivi wo shumiswa u itela u saukanya data yo kuvhanganyiwaho nga tshifhinga tsha inthaviwu dzo fhelelaho na data ya u sedza ya mudzheneli
Nyakišišo ye, yeo e lego disetheišene ya sekoupu se se lekantšwego, e nyakišiša ditlhohlo tša go ruta le go ithuta tša baswa ba baithuti ba e lego bommago bana dikolong tša sekontari ka Mmasepaleng wa Selete sa Vhembe, Limpopo. Nyakišišo ye e hlophilwe bjalo ka nyakišišo ya khwalithethifi. Ka gare ga peakanyo ya kheisesetati, nyakišišo ye e dirilwe dikolong tša sekontari ka gare ga Mmasepala wa Selete sa Vhembe, wo o lego profentsheng ya Limpopo. Mokgwa wa maleba wa go dira sampole o dirišitšwe go kgetha barutiši le baswa ba baithuti ba e lego bommago bana go kgathatema dipoledišanong. Tlhokomelo ya mokgathatema le tshekatsheko ya tokomane e be e le mekgwa ye mengwe ya dinyakišišo ye e akareditšwego ka gare ga tshepetšo ya kgoboketšo ya datha. Barutiši le baswa ba baithuti ba e lego bommago bana ba boledišane ka go šomiša dipoledišano tše di tseneletšego. Nyakišišo ya khwalithethifi ka gare ga tlhokomelo ya mokgathatema e dirilwe go kgoboketša datha mabapi le ka fao baswa ba baithuti ba e lego bommago bana ba bego ba amana le barutiši le dithaka tša bona ka phapošing le ka tikologong ya sekolo. Sa mafelelo, tshekatsheko ya tokomane e dirilwe ka go šomiša direkote tša semmušo go hlahloba, go swana le diretšistara ya batlasekolong, diteko tša ka phapošing le dipoelo tša tlhahlobo, direkote tša kalafo, le kgathotema dipapading tsa sekolo le diprotšeke tša tlhabollo ya setšhaba. Barutiši ba bahlano le baswa ba baithuti ba e lego bommago bana ba bahlano ba kgathile tema ka nyakišišong ye. Tshekatsheko ya datha ya khwalithethifi e šomišitšwe go sekaseka datha ye e kgobokeditšwego nakong ya dipoledišano tše di tseneletšeng le datha ya tlhokomelo ya mokgathatema.
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Teenage mother learners
Teaching and learning process
Challenges in teaching teenage mother learners
Challenges of teenage mother learners
The teaching and learning challenges of teenage mother learners at secondary schools in Vhembe, Limpopo
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/296622022-12-02T10:45:50Zcom_10500_3163com_10500_2726com_10500_130com_10500_506col_10500_3164col_10500_507
Molele, Piet Khashane
2022-12-02T10:39:16Z
2022-12-02T10:39:16Z
2022-03-17
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/29662
Inhibition of in vitro mycelial growth against six mycotoxigenic fungal pathogens in vitro of six medicinal plants leaves extracts to check potential of anti-mycotoxigenic activity . Organic extract from Strychnos mitis exhibited a noteworthy antifungal activity yielding lowest minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) value of 0.01 mg/ml against three Furasium species (Furasium vercitilloides, Furasium oxysporum and Furasium graminareum) and a further MIC value of 0.08 mg/ml against Aspergillus parasiticus, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus ochraceous at 24 hr incubation period. At both 24 and 48 hr incubation period, aqueous extract from Mystroxylon aethiopicum yielded MIC value of 0.02 mg/ml against A. parasiticus while aqueous extract from Spirostachys africana exhibited MIC values of 0.04 and 0.02 mg/ml against F. vercitilloides and F. graminareum at 48 hr respectively. In the mycelial growth inhibition (MGI) studies, the extracts showed varying degree of inhibition in a dose dependent manner. M. aethiopicum showed the highest mycelial growth percentage inhibition of 44.38 against Fusarium verticiloides in a three-day incubation period. Furthermore, the organic extracts were also evaluated for cytotoxicity effects against both African green monkey (Vero) and Bovine dermis (skin) cell lines using the MTT (3-[4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) assay. Organic extract from S. africana exhibited the lowest lethal concentration (LC50) value of 0.10 mg/ml against both cell lines used in the study, while S. mitis exhibited the highest selectivity index (SI) value of 88.0 against F. graminareum. In the antioxidants assays, only extracts from S. africana and M. aethiopicum exhibited a noteworthy activity against 2,2-Diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), 2-2′-Azino-di-[3-ethylbenzthiazoline sulfonate (ABTS) and chelation of iron.The extracts, with potent biological activity, were also subjected to Gas-chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis to identify the presence and prevalence of phytocompounds. M. aethiopicum extract exhibited the presence of tetradecane (15.74%) and heptadecane (14.96%), while S. africana yielded n-hexadecanoic acid (12.14%) and nonadecane,2-methyl (12.14%). These results suggest that bio-compounds from plants can be further explored in vivo and used to develop a bio-fungicide with less side effects compared to synthetic fungicides. Elsewhere, tetradecane, heptadecane and n-decanoic acid were reported to inhibit the mycelial growth inhibition of various mycotoxigenic fungal strains.
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Anti-fungal, anti-mycotoxigenic activity and phytochemical spectra of selected South African plants
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/229422018-11-17T13:06:50Zcom_10500_14516com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14524col_10500_507
Hanlon, Brooke Catherine June
2017-07-26T12:30:35Z
2017-07-26T12:30:35Z
2017-05
Hanlon, Brooke Catherine June (2017) A sociological investigation of gender and non-gender specific career choices by young adults in saint John, Canada, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22942>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22942
This study examined the gender socialisation process among ten recent high school
graduates and the reasoning behind their chosen career paths. Three institutions: the
family, school, and media, were examined to explore how these institutions could possibly
have affected the participants’ career choices. This was accomplished through qualitative
research by conducting in-depth interviews among five nursing students (three females
and two males) and five engineering students (three females and two males) who were 18
or 19 years of age. The interviews revealed that the participants were aware of current
gender stereotypes and had experienced gender socialisation through bedroom décor
and/or parental roles. The interviews further revealed ‘influencers’ (such as one’s peer
group or a close relative) as a significant factor leading males into nursing and females
into engineering. Participants within each program revealed differences in personal
definitions of success and thoughts on work-family balance.
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Sociology
Socialisation
Institutions
Young adults
Gender
Career choices
STEM careers
Nursing
Engineering
Canada
A sociological investigation of gender and non-gender specific career choices by young adults in Saint John, Canada
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/49432023-03-01T08:34:12Zcom_10500_2767com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2768col_10500_507
Tayler, Judith Anne
2011-10-24T06:30:55Z
2011-10-24T06:30:55Z
2010-11
Tayler, Judith Anne (2010) With her shoulder to the wheel: the public life of Erika Theron (1907-1990), University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4943>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4943
This thesis is a biographical study of Erika Theron (1907-1990), an Afrikaner woman who played a significant role in many aspects of public life in South Africa in a critical time in the country‘s history. The study seeks to give recognition to her achievements, which have received scant attention in a historiography with a masculine bias. At the same time it examines her changing role from collaborator to critic of the apartheid system.
Certain defining features of Theron‘s life have been highlighted. First, Theron grew up in a staunchly Afrikaner nationalist, service-oriented family which encouraged loyalty to her own people and civic responsibility. Second, she was unusual among Afrikaner women of her generation, in that she was highly educated, independent and ready to assume leadership roles. She became a pioneer in a number of fields, attaining high professional rank and holding important public offices – frequently as the first woman to do so in the country.
The thesis focuses on five areas of Theron‘s public life. After returning from post-graduate studies abroad, she worked with Hendrik Verwoerd in the campaign to uplift poor whites, particularly the rehabilitation and re-integration of the Afrikaner poor. She thereafter commenced a long career as a social work academic, which included a number of milestones for her new discipline, for the profession of social work and for the advancement of women in academia. From the 1950s she served on the town council of Stellenbosch, including terms as deputy mayor and mayor. She played an important role in historic conservation but was also instrumental in the rigorous institution of apartheid structures in the town during the early days of National Party rule. In the early 1970s she served as chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into Coloured Affairs which influenced her personal views on the country‘s race policies. She became a public critic of many aspects of the apartheid system and vocal advocate for coloured rights.
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Biography
Afrikaner nationalism
Afrikaner dissidents
Afrikaner women (twentieth century)
Welfare
Social work education
Poor white rehabilitation
Apartheid and local government
Policy relating to the coloured population
Architectural conservation (Stellenbosch)
With her shoulder to the wheel : the public life of Erika Theron (1907-1990)
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/252232019-01-30T01:00:25Zcom_10500_2734com_10500_37com_10500_25com_10500_21637com_10500_21636com_10500_506col_10500_2735col_10500_21673col_10500_507
Van Schalkwyk, Riaan Dirkse
2019-01-29T05:42:03Z
2019-01-29T05:42:03Z
2018-07
Van Schalkwyk, Riaan Dirkse (2018) A total quality service framework for private higher education in South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25223>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25223
The primary purpose of this study was to develop an industry-specific total quality service framework (as a potential basis for an established total quality service model) for private higher education institutions in South Africa. The framework (as a tool) will contribute to the need to manage service quality of these institutions on a holistic and strategic basis. Service quality is a challenge for any enterprise, especially for those in the service industry. It is of particular concern for private higher education institutions and one of their key challenges due to the increasingly competitive, marketing-oriented and highly regulated environment. In this environment, these institutions have to function, survive and compete, not only with one another, but also with public institutions of higher education. Competition is on the increase, and private higher education institutions need to find new ways to compete if they wish to survive in this dynamic service industry environment. The offering of excellent service quality could add to the long-term sustainability of private institutions and it could therefore also be the differentiating factor for success.
The literature review for this study suggested that service quality can only be improved by identifying industry-specific service quality dimensions as a basis for the development of industry-specific frameworks and models. Using a mixed methods research approach (exploratory sequential mixed methods research design), this research was conducted on six private higher education institutes with 13 sites of delivery. Stage 1 of the study consisted of the qualitative exploration of total quality service dimensions from a top management perspective by means of semi-structured in-depth interviews following a conversational mode. A thematic analysis approach was applied during the data analysis. The validity and reliability of the data were tested via different strategies of trustworthiness. The instrument development stage was added as an intermediate stage of the research study. The developed instrument was informed and complemented by literature as well as the qualitative findings. Stage 2 of the research study consisted of the quantitative exploration of the importance of total quality service dimensions from the perspective of the internal (lecturers) and external (students) customers. The questionnaire was distributed via e-mail to all specified students and lecturers of selected private higher education institutions in the sampling frame. Data analysis included an exploratory factor analysis approach, which was followed by a confirmatory factor analysis. A conceptual measurement model was presented consisting of five 26 dimensions (variables) represented by five primary constructs. Both the internal and composite reliability scores were strong and the confirmatory factor analysis yielded a model with good fit. The modified conceptual model demonstrated evidence of unidimensionality and construct validity. The final step in the data analysis process represented thematic analysis of responses to the only open-ended question in the questionnaire, which yielded additional service quality dimensions.
The application of the exploratory sequential mixed methods research design thus culminated in the final total quality service framework, which consists of selected top management perspectives (qualitative stage), the conceptual measurement model (quantitative stage) and the additional service quality dimensions identified from the open-ended question analysis. The current study was a pioneering effort that bridged a significant gap with the development of the first total quality service framework for private higher education institutions in South Africa. The framework provides the first building blocks towards a comprehensive total quality service model for measuring, managing and continuous improvement of total quality service in private higher education in South Africa.
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A total quality service framework for private higher education in South Africa
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/168172018-11-17T13:05:20Zcom_10500_429com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2787col_10500_507
Fugitt, Stephen Mark
2015-01-23T04:24:43Z
2015-01-23T04:24:43Z
2000-11
Fugitt, Stephen Mark (2000) Biblical Philistines : origins and identity, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16817>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16817
en
Biblical Philistines : origins and identity
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/237262018-11-17T13:06:43Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Kgokolo, Samuel Maphalle
2018-04-10T06:38:41Z
2018-04-10T06:38:41Z
2017-12
Kgokolo, Samuel Maphalle (2017) Optimization of purification and characterisation of over-expressed rotavirus capsid protein VP6, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23726>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23726
Rotavirus is responsible for the death of many children annually, and current
vaccines have lower efficiency in developing countries. A reverse translated
consensus gene sequence of the rotavirus VP6 cloned into a pET-28a(+) plasmid
was used to transform BL21 and KRX Escherichia coli cells. Optimal expression of
soluble protein was induced in KRX cells by adding 0.05% L-rhamnose and 0.0001
M IPTG, with an incubation temperature of 25ºC for 6 h. VP6 was purified by
combining anion exchange chromatography followed by affinity chromatography.
Far-UV circular dichroism and intrinsic fluorescence were used as probes to assess
the native structure of VP6 and structural in the presence of a denaturant, high
sodium chloride concentrations and varying temperatures. The 0.2 M sodium
chloride had an impact on the VP6’s tertiary structure and also influenced the
proteins conformational changes as detected during thermal unfolding to 90ºC.
Although treatment with 3 M urea showed tertiary structural changes no secondary
structural loss occurred due to the presence of a denaturant.
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Chromatography
Circular dichroism
Escherichia coli
Fluorescence
Plasmid
Protein conformation
Protein expression
Purification
Rotavirus
VP6
Optimization of purification and characterisation of over-expressed rotavirus capsid protein VP6
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/2422019-03-07T13:04:55Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_4672com_10500_4671col_10500_3753col_10500_4673
Steyn, G.M.
2009-06-17T12:12:31Z
2009-06-17T12:12:31Z
2000
Steyn, G.M. 2000. 'Applying principles of total quality management to a learning process: a case study'. South African Journal of Higher Education 14(1):174-184
1011-3487
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/242
en
total quality management (TQM)
case studies
Applying principles of total quality management to a learning process: a case study
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/244602018-11-17T13:06:47Zcom_10500_2989com_10500_2749com_10500_423com_10500_506col_10500_2990col_10500_507
Ndethiu, Maureen K.
2018-07-10T09:25:55Z
2018-07-10T09:25:55Z
2018-02
Ndethiu, Maureen K. (2018) Environmental justice in Kenya : a critical analysis, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24460>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24460
Environmental justice, a new but rapidly developing concept in international environmental law, arose in the United States of America during the Environmental Justice Movement of the late 1970s and 1980s. It starkly highlighted injustices faced by people of colour and low-income communities as regards racially skewed environmental legal protection and allocation of environmental risks. The movement radically changed the meaning of ‘environment’ from its conventional green overtones to include issues of social justice at the core of environmental thinking. I critically examine the concept of environmental justice in the Kenyan context by highlighting the injustices, and the formulation and application of laws and policies that significantly impact on environmental regulation and equitable distribution of social services.
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Modern environmentalism
International environmental law
Environmental principles
Anthropocentrism
Sustainable development
Environmental justice
United States of America (USA)
Vulnerable and marginalised persons
Human rights
Environmental justice in Kenya : a critical analysis
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/247702018-11-17T13:06:53Zcom_10500_24440com_10500_23854com_10500_460com_10500_128col_10500_24479
Nirenstein, S
Blake, E
Winberg, S
Mason, A
2018-08-23T10:50:25Z
2018-08-23T10:50:25Z
2001
Nirenstein, S., Blake, E., Winberg, S. & Mason, A. (2001) Hierarchical level of detail optimization for constant frame rate rendering of radiosity scenes. Hardware, Software and Peopleware: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 25-28 September 2001
1-86888-195-4
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24770
The predictive hierarchical level of detail optimization algorithm of Mason and Blake is experimentally evaluated in the form of a practical application to hierarchical radiosity. In a novel approach the recursively subdivided patch hierarchy generated by a perceptually refined hierarchical radiosity algorithm is treated as a hierarchical level of detail scene
description. In this way we use the Mason-Blake algorithm to successfully maintain constant frame rates during the interactive rendering of the radiosity-generated scene. We establish that the algorithm is capable of maintaining uniform frame rendering times, but that the execution time of the optimization algorithm itself is significant and is strongly dependent on frame-to-frame coherence and the granularity of the level of detail description. To compensate we develop techniques which effectively reduce and limit the algorithm execution time: We restrict the execution times of the algorithm to guard
against pathological situations and propose simplification transforms that increase the granularity of the scene description, at minimal cost to visual quality. We demonstrate that using these techniques the algorithm is capable of maintaining interactive frame rates for scenes of arbitrary complexity. Furthermore we provide guidelines for the appropriate use of predictive level of detail optimization algorithms derived from our practical experience.
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Rendering
Hierarchical level of detail
Hierarchical radiosity
Hierarchical level of detail optimization for constant frame rate rendering of radiosity scenes
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/257382019-09-03T11:27:18Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Berhanu Mekonnen Yimer
2019-09-03T11:18:31Z
2019-09-03T11:18:31Z
2018-12
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25738
The purpose of this study was to investigate and improve reflective teaching in the Ethiopian Secondary School Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs). This study used a mixed methods research approach that employed a concurrent triangulation design. For data collection, the study utilized a structured questionnaire, a semi-structured individual and group interviews. The data collection instruments were utilized to solicit pre-service teachers’, teacher educators’, and cooperating teachers’ (mentors’) views on reflections and how reflective teaching in the pre-service teacher secondary school teacher education framework is being implemented. The study particularly aimed to investigate how the pre-service teachers view reflective teaching, identify the hindrances for effective reflective teaching practice, and discover strategies that could be used to improve the practice. Prominent reflective scholars’ theories and outlooks on reflective practice were reviewed and used to guide the study.
The responses of the stakeholders on the nature and implementation of reflective practices were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. For the quantitative data analyses, both the descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were employed. On the other hand, narration was used to analyze the qualitative data. Triangulation of the study was observed by presenting and interpreting the qualitative data with reference of the quantitative data. The research questions were answered as the researcher analyzed the responses that the pre-service teachers hold to the reflective teaching, as well as the method, situation and issues of the reflective teaching practice in the pre- service teacher education curriculum framework.
The study uncovered that secondary schools’ pre-service teachers in the existing teacher education programme were practicing few reflective teaching tools. The findings indicated that the pre-service teachers hold fair insights of reflective teaching, yet they felt less capable of doing reflective teaching critically. The findings indicated that the pre-service teacher education programme faced a number of barriers to effective reflective teaching practice. The findings also raised concerns over writing journals, instructional technology, teaching portfolios, and action research projects for reflective teaching in the pre-service teacher education programme. The study has identified key strategies that may be useful for the Ministry of Education, teacher educators, cooperating teachers, and teacher education institutions who are responsive for reflective teachers in Ethiopia.
Maikemišetšo a thuto ye e be e le go nyakišiša le go hlabolla thuto ya taetšo go Dihlongwa tša Thuto ya Borutiši Dikolong tša Ethiopia (TEI). Thuto ye e šomišwa mokgwa wa diphatišišo wa mekgwahlakantšho yeo e šomišago tlhamo ya go šoma mmogo ka ditsela tša go hlama khutlotharo. Go kgoboketša ya datha, thuto ye e šomišitše letlakalapotšišo la sebopego sa go ikgetha, dipoledišano tša mošomo la motho le sehlopha seo se hlamegilego gannyane. Didirišwa tša kgoboketša ya datha di šomišitšwe go hwetša barutiši ba pele ga kabo ya tirelo, barutiši ba go ruta, le barutiši ba go šomišana (baeletši’) ditaetšo le mmono ka ga ka fao thuto ya taetšo e phethagatšwago ka go tlhako ya thuto ya barutiši ba thuto ya sekolo se se phagamego. Thuto gabotse e nepile go nyakišiša ka fao barutiši ba ditirelo tša go thoma ba bonago thuto ya taetšo, go hlaola ditšhitišo tša tiragatšo ya maswanedi ya go ruta ka mokgwa wa ditaetšo le go lemoga maanotšhomo ao a ka kgonago go tlhabolla tiragatšo. Diteori tša baithuti ba maemo ba go diriša ditaetšo le mmono mo go tiragatšo ya taetšo di lebeletšweleswa le go šomišwa go hlahla thuto ye.
Dikarabo tša baamegi go mohuta le phethagatšo ya tiragalo ya taetšo di lekotšwe ka dipalopalo le boleng. Go dikahlaahlo tša datha ya dipalopalo, bobedi dipalopalo tša go hlalosa le tša tšhupetšo di šomišitšwe. Ka letsogong le lengwe, tlhaloso e šomišitšwe go ahlaahla datha ya boleng. Go dira gore thuto e tšwe dikhutlotharo e lebeletšwe ka go ruta le go tlhathollela ka datha ya boleng go lebeletšwe datha ya dipalopalo. Dipotšišo tša diphatišišo di arabilwe bjalo ka ge monyakišiši a lekotše dikarabo tša barutiši ba pele ga tirelo go tliša thuto ya taetšo go tee le mokgwa, maemo le ditaba ka ga tshepedišo ya thuto ya taetšo ka go tlhako ya kharikhulamo ya thuto ya barutiši bja pele ga tirelo.
Thuto e utullotše go re barutiši ba sekolo se se phagamego sa pele ga tirelo ka go lenaneo le le lego gona la thuto ya barutiši ba be ba diriša didirišwa tše nnyane tša taetšo ya thuto. Dipoelo di laeditše gore barutiši ba pele ga kabo ya tirelo ba bile le pono ka ga thuto ya taetšo, eupša ba be ba sa kwe ba kgona go ruta ka mokgwa wa taetšo. Dipoelo di laeditše go re lenaneo la thuto ya barutiši bja pele ga kabo ya tirelo ba lebane le ditšhitišo tše mmalwa go tshepedišo ya maleba ya thuto ya taetšo. Dipoelo gape di tlišitše kamego ka ga go ngwala ditšenale, thekenolotši ya go ruta, diphotefolio tša go ruta le diprotšeke tša tiro ya diphatišišo go fihlelela thuto ya taetšo ka go lenaneo la thuto ya tirelo ya go ruta. Thuto e hlaotše maanotšhomo a motheo ao a ka bago le mohola go Kgoro ya Thuto, barutiši, barutiši bja bašomišane le dihlongwa tša thuto ya barutiši tšeo di ikemišeditšego go hlahla barutiši ba go ikarabela go taetšo mo Ethiopia.
Die doel van hierdie studie was om besinnende onderrig aan Ethiopiese opleidingsinstellings vir hoërskoolonderwysers te ondersoek en te verbeter. Verskeie metodes en ‘n triangulasieontwerp is in hierdie studie gevolg. Data is deur middel van ‘n gestruktureerde vraelys en halfgestruktureerde individuele en groeponderhoude ingesamel. Studenteonderwysers, onderwyseropvoeders en medewerker-onderwysers (mentors) se siening van hoe besinnende onderrig in die raamwerk van hoërskoolonderwysers se opleiding neerslag vind, is verkry. Daar is in die besonder op studenteonderwysers se opvattings oor besinnende onderrig gekonsentreer. Struikelblokke in die weg van doeltreffende besinnende onderrigpraktyk en strategieë om dit uit die weg te ruim, is aangetoon. Die teorieë en gesigspunte van vooraanstaande kenners van besinnende onderrigpraktyk is bestudeer, en het rigting aan hierdie studie verleen.
Belanghebbers se reaksie op die aard en inwerkingstelling van besinnende praktyke is kwantitatief en kwalitatief ontleed. Sowel die beskrywende as die afgeleide statistiek is in die ontleding van die kwantitatiewe data gebruik. Die kwalitatiewe data, daarteenoor, is met behulp van vertellings ontleed. Die kwalitatiewe data is met verwysing na die kwantitatiewe data vertolk te einde reg te laat geskied aan die triangulasie van die studie. Die navorsingsvrae is beantwoord namate die navorser die reaksie van studenteonderwysers op besinnende onderwys ontleed het asook die metode en situasie daarvan, en die probleme daarmee in die kurrikulum van studenteonderwysers.
Daar is bevind dat weinig studente wat as hoërskoolonderwysers opgelei word, die tegnieke van besinnende onderwys toepas. Volgens die bevindings weet studente wel van besinnende onderwys, maar voel dat hulle nie tot kritiese besinnende onderwys in staat is nie. Daar was ʼn hele paar struikelblokke in die onderwysersopleidingprogram vir besinnende onderwyspraktyk. Die bevindings is kommerwekkend wat betref die skryf van joernale, onderrigtegnologie, onderwysportefeuljes en aksienavorsingsprojekte vir doeltreffende onderwys in die onderwysersopleidingsprogram. Verskeie strategieë is aangetoon wat van nut kan wees vir die ministerie van Onderwys, die opleiers van onderwysers, medewerker-onderwysers en instellings wat onderwysers oplei om sensitiewe, besinnende onderwysers in Ethiopië te word.
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Teacher Education
Reflective teaching
Reflective practice
Teacher education institutions
Pre-service teachers
Teacher educators
Cooperating teachers (mentors)
Thuto ya barutiši
Thuto ya taetšo
Tiro ya taetšo
Dihlongwa tša thuto ya barutiši ya godimo (diTEI)
Barutiši ba ditirelo tša motheo
Barutiši ba go ruta
Barutiši ba go šomišana (baeletši)
Onderwyseronderrig
Besinnende onderwys
Besinnende praktyk
Onderwyseropleidinginstellings (OOI’s)
Studenteonderwysers
Onderwyseropvoeders
Medewerkeronderwysers (mentors)
Investigating and improving reflective teaching in Ethiopian secondary school teacher education institutions
Thesis
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Bosch, Sonja E.
2016-09-30T13:12:09Z
2016-09-30T13:12:09Z
2007
BSonja Bosch (2007) African languages — is the writing on the
screen?, Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 25:2, 169-181, DOI:
10.2989/16073610709486455
1607-3614
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21566
http://dx.doi.org/10.2989/16073610709486455
The trends emerging in the natural language processing (NLP) of African languages spoken in South Africa, are explored in order to determine whether research in and development of such NLP is keeping abreast of international developments. This is done by investigating the past, present and future of NLP of African languages, keeping especially the multidisciplinary nature of the field and the role of the linguist in mind. A Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) report of 1986, expressed concern about the backlog in South Africa regarding NLP, and called for dynamic action. As computational power increased and became less expensive, more interest began to be shown in NLP in South Africa. Pockets of expertise that have developed at various institutions over the past 20 years are discussed and the importance of cooperation in the field, across disciplines, is illustrated in this paper.
In order to facilitate coordinated action and prevent the duplication of language resources and the development of basic enabling technologies, the implementation of the concept of the Basic Language Resource Kit (BLARK) is recommended, while a new project, which aims to create a platform for WordNet development for African languages, is cited as prime example of international collaboration.
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African languages – is the writing on the screen?
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/180462018-11-17T13:05:18Zcom_10500_14514com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14523col_10500_507
Foulis, Christa
2015-01-23T04:24:42Z
2015-01-23T04:24:42Z
2000-11
Foulis, Christa (2000) Predicting the outcome of mild closed head injury using the Glasgow Coma Scale-Extended, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18046>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18046
Measures routinely used to assess the severity and outcome of closed
head injury, that is the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and the duration of
post-traumatic amnesia (PTA), are of limited use in the case of mild
closed head injury (MCHI). The present study investigated the
sensitivity of a proposed alternative measure, the Glasgow Coma
Scale-Extended (GCS-E), which is a combination of GCS and PTA
measures. Twenty subjects who sustai1ed MCHI were assessed with a
brief battery of neuropsychological tesrs, six months after the injury.
Correlations between the neuropsych1 logical measures and GCS,
duration of PTA and the GCS-E were not significant, possibly because
of methodological limitations. Although statistical methods do not
support the notion that the GCS-E is mere sensitive than currently
used measures in detecting the consequem es of MCHI, some support
is obtained from qualitative observations.
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Predicting the outcome of mild closed head injury using the Glasgow Coma Scale-Extended
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/177822018-11-17T13:06:25Zcom_10500_6425com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6441col_10500_507
Van Wyk, Louis Johannes Jacobus
2015-01-23T04:24:27Z
2015-01-23T04:24:27Z
1996-06
Van Wyk, Louis Johannes Jacobus (1996) Riglyne vir 'n hulpverleningsprogram aan 'n gesin met 'n breinbeseerde kind, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17782>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17782
In this study an instrument is suggested for implementation by the Educational Psychologist to design a support programme, aimed at handling family members' stress where a child has sustained a brain injury. Attention was paid to the phenomenon "brain injured child" to ascertain demands and needs (physical, cognitive, psychological and emotional). Specific note was taken of the toll on each family member in their observance, experience, assistance and giving· meaning to the child. Reference was made to existing support programmes for such family
members from the acute care phase to the final acceptance and readjustment of the family. With this study the need for a continuous support programme and the contents of such a programme was addressed. Using these guidelines the Educational Psychologist will be able to prepare the family for the stress possibilities in dealing with the brain injured child.
Met hierdie studie is 'n instrument daargestel vir die ontwerp van 'n hulpverleningsprogram vir gebruik deur die Opvoedkundige Sielkundige. Hierdie hulpprogram het as doel, die hantering van stres, deur die gesin van 'n kind, wat 'n breinbesering opgedoen het. In die studie is aandag gegee aan die tipiese gedrag wat oor die
algemeen van 'n breinbeseerde kind verwag kan word. Daar is ook gepoog om te bepaal hoe elke lid van die gesin die breinbeseerde kind beleef, aan hom betekenis gee, en hom probeer help ten opsigte van die eise (fisiek en emosioneel) wat hy stel. Verder is daar gekyk na bestaande hulpverlening (gerig op die hantering van stres) aan die gesinslede van 'n breinbeseerde kind vanaf die akute versorgingsfase tot en met die aanpassing en herorganisering van die gesin. Met hierdie studie is 'n behoefte aan 'n kontinue hulpverleningsprogram
en die inhoud van so 'n program by gesinslede aangespreek. Aan die hand van die riglyne sal die Opvoedkundige Sielkundige 'n gesin kan voorberei op die stres wat hulle ten opsigte van die hantering van 'n breinbeseerde kind te wagte kan wees.
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Family counselling
Family therapy
Mental health counselling
Family stress
Social support
Brain injury
Family and help
Resources and stress
Psychosocial stress
Stressful life events
Coping
Post-traumatic stress
Riglyne vir 'n hulpverleningsprogram aan 'n gesin met 'n breinbeseerde kind
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/277272022-05-26T07:40:43Zcom_10500_23650com_10500_3752com_10500_173com_10500_172com_10500_1col_10500_23651col_10500_3753col_10500_176
Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo
2021-07-29T06:12:12Z
2021-07-29T06:12:12Z
2018
Alexander, Josephine Olufunmilayo 2018. Adébáyò, Ayòbámi Stay with me. Imbizo, 8, 2, 1-7
2078-9785
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27727
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© Unisa Press 2018
Book Review
Ayòbámi Adébáyò
Stay With Me
Imbizo Journal
Nigeria
Yoruba Cultural Beliefs on Marriage, child bearing and Naming
Adébáyò, Ayòbámi Stay with me
Other
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/5862018-11-17T13:05:05Zcom_10500_2979com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2980col_10500_507
Grobbelaar, Maryna Susanna
2009-08-25T10:44:57Z
2009-08-25T10:44:57Z
2001-11
Grobbelaar, Maryna Susanna (2001) Stories of mothers with differently abled children, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/586>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/586
A group of eight mothers of differently abled children undertook a research journey, reflecting on the sorrow
and pain, as well as the hope and humour of our lives. Narrative pastoral practices guided our
conversations, and prophetic and political challenges our actions to bring about change in our lived reality.
Reflective and summarising letters after each group meeting played a central part In the research. The
letters were structured to make visible the "taken-for-granted truths", which informed us about who and
what we are. The alternative stories of preferred mothering practices that emerged during and between
sessions were centralised in the letters. The group compiled letters of appeal to the faith community,
doctors, nursing staff, therapists and teachers in order to make them more sensitive towards differently
abled people and their families.
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Motherhood
Mother blaming
Differently abled
Participatory research
Abieism
Narrative pastoral practices
Witnessing
Doing hope
Participatory ethical care
Prophetic ministry
Practical theology as a form of political theology
Stories of mothers with differently abled children
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/119612020-07-31T09:49:46Zcom_10500_2585com_10500_172com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2802col_10500_507
Chaterera, Forget
2013-10-30T06:54:55Z
2013-10-30T06:54:55Z
2013-06
Chaterera, Forget (2013) Records survey and the management of public records in Zimbabwe, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11961>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11961
The study investigated the role of records surveys in the management of public records
in Zimbabwe. The goal was to determine how far records surveys were going in
enhancing sound records management practices, thereby improving public service
delivery, accountability and good governance. Through interviews, questionnaires and
document review it was revealed that records surveys were struggling to attain their
intended goal of nurturing sound records management practices in public registries. The
lack of ideal mission statements, registry manuals, written disaster management plans,
vital records protection programmes, adequate records management training, records
retention and disposal schedules, top management support, financial constraints and
unclear archival legislation were cited as some of the challenges affecting records and
information management surveys from nurturing acceptable records management
practices. A closer working relationship between the National Archives and public
records management units was recommended.
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Records surveys
Public records management
Effective public service delivery
Accountability
Good governance
Retention and disposal schedule
Records procedures manual
Records surveys and the management of public records in Zimbabwe
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/291312022-07-20T09:02:38Zcom_10500_19909com_10500_506col_10500_19912col_10500_507
Shaningwa, Simon F.
2022-07-20T08:31:18Z
2022-07-20T08:31:18Z
2021
Shaningwa, S.F. 2021. The use and perceived value of strategic management tools in the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN). MBA Research Report. Midrand: Unisa's Graduate School of Business Leadership.
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/29131
This study analysed the use and perceived value of strategic management tools in
the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN). For the past decades, managers have
tried to improve the operational effectiveness of their organizations by utilizing
strategic management tools in decision-making. Therefore, the utilization of the
strategic tools assists the managers in improving various organizational outcomes
such as market share, and revenue. The study was conducted at the Development
Bank of Namibia in Windhoek. The target population was the departmental
managers and executives from the Development Bank of Namibia, and 10
participants were used in this study. The study used a qualitative research
methodology, and telephonic in-depth interviews was used as a method of collecting
data. This study persuaded the main objective of determining the use and perceived
value of strategic management tools in the Development Bank of Namibia, and the
study found out that the strategic tools are very important, useful and they are
effective in carrying out what they are intended to. Therefore, the strategic
management tools positively affect the performance of DBN. For that reason, the
strategic management tools were found to be vital in achieving the Bank’s desired
goals and objectives.
In addition, the strategic management tools are useful in helping, and supporting
managers make better decisions and achieve the desired goals. Strategic tools play
a significant role in the development of organizational relationships and networks.
The study also found that SWOT analysis, Balanced Score Card, annual strategic
sessions, and strategic analysis are the strategic planning tools that are used in
DBN, and the managers and executives are satisfied with the strategic planning
process, and the process is effective, inclusive, and transparent. Therefore, all the
employees are involved in the planning process. In addition, the employees are kept
up-to-date with the strategies that are being implemented through their Head of
Department, and this allows the employees to be sensitized to the strategies that are
being implemented. The study recommends that future studies be conducted on a
different sector such as the information technology sector as this can provide insight
on the implementation of reliable techniques for control and risks that can help
financial institutions to reach geographically distant and diversified markets, and
similar studies should be carried out on the rest of the employees in order to gain
insight on the use and perceived value of strategic management tools from all
individuals’ perspectives.
strategic management tools
Development Bank of Namibia
The use and perceived value of strategic management tools in the Development Bank of Namibia (DBN)
Research Report
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Phenyane, Rapula Ronny
2022-05-30T12:23:02Z
2022-05-30T12:23:02Z
2021-11
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28917
The original two-variable integrodifferential equation for few-body systems is mod ified by introducing boundary conditions in the radial and angular domains. The
accuracy of the adiabatic approximation in solving this two-variable modified few body integrodifferential equation is investigated. In this approximation the inte grodifferential equation is decoupled into two single-variable equations for the ra dial motion and angular motion. The two equations are solved using the Lagrange-mesh methods. Ground-state energies of systems of particles interacting through
realistic nucleon-nucleon and alpha-alpha interacting potentials and constituted by
various numbers of particles are considered. The ground-state energies obtained
are compared with those from the solution of the original two-variable integrodifferential equation as well as those obtain by other methods reported in the literature.
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Adiabatic approximation
Boundary conditions
Faddeev approach
Ground state energy
Integrodifferential equations
Hyperspherical harmonics
Lagrange-mesh method
Eigenvalue problem
The adiabatic solution of the few-body integrodifferential equation
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/304142023-08-18T06:44:42Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Molotsi, Nkele Julia
2023-08-18T06:28:45Z
2023-08-18T06:28:45Z
2003-02
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30414
The interest of this study was to research and investigate how the impact of informal
settlement environment on learning strategies for grade seven learners in South Africa,
their application or non-application of the learning strategies when learning affect their
school performance in Technology as a learning area.
This research is based on literature study related to previous research about learning
strategies and home environment of informal settlements. Children are our most precious
assets. They need to be secure and well nourished. Children must have opportunities to
learn and develop within a family, school and community. They need self - actualisation
to realise their potential, to instil positive self-esteem and to be respected and recognised.
Social needs such as, to be loved, accepted, cared for and for belongingness, protection
and peace of mind, physical needs like shelter, rest, food, water and oxygen (fresh air) are
also a pre-requisite to a healthy mind and body.
Acquisition of all the needs stated above would enable a child to achieve better results at
school. The learning strategies used in the study have been given and defined for this
study, focus was on elaboration study of complex learning tasks with special reference
given on summarising, paraphrasing and self-questioning.
From findings, which were based on observations conducted, it was clear that most
learners struggled to apply learning strategies in their learning. Some also had it tough by
mere identifying them, some though responded very well after given few examples which
indicates that, with proper guidance, children can master using and identifying learning
strategies whilst learning. Those who managed to use learning strategies correctly
performed well, which indicates that mastering of learning strategies increases the leaners
schools achievement.
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The impact of informal settlement environment on learning strategies for grade seven learners in South Africa
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/25712017-03-06T14:36:08Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_431com_10500_44com_10500_1col_10500_3753col_10500_432
Clasquin-Johnson, Michel
2009-08-26T08:36:49Z
2009-08-26T08:36:49Z
2009-08-26T08:36:49Z
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2571
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Religion
Christianity
Religion - the nature of the beast
Other
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Tembon, Mbamuku-Nduku Fayez
2012-11-26T12:35:04Z
2012-11-26T12:35:04Z
2012-10
Tembon, Mbamuku-Nduku Fayez (2012) An evaluation of the gaps and barriers that exist between the national waste management policy and its implementation in formal and informal urban areas in the Ekurhuleni Municipality, South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8110>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8110
Waste management is a global challenge due to high waste generation resulting from high industrialization, urbanization and challenges relating to the efficient implementation of waste management policies acts and standards. Although South Africa has established a number of good waste management policies and related acts and standards, most municipalities still find it challenging to efficiently implement waste management strategies. Ekurhuleni Municipality is facing challenges with the implementation of effective waste management strategies and compliance to the National Environmental Management Waste Act (2008), (NEMWA) (Act No 59 of 2008). An evaluation of the gaps that exist between NEMWA and the local implementation in the formal and informal parts of the Ekurhuleni Municipality was undertaken in this study. Data on the waste management scenario as collected through questionnaires, interviews and observations revealed that differences relating to the poor establishment of an integrated approach to waste management exist between NEMWA and the local implementation of the act. This was realized through the fact that there is limited community education on waste management, no waste recycling facilities in some residences, irregular and insufficient collection of waste and non compliance with tariff payments for most informal residents and some formal residents. Differences also exist in the waste management strategies between the formal and informal areas of the municipality primarily due to the fact that the informal settlements are mostly unplanned and considered illegal. According to this study, informal residents are not billed for waste management services and as such most of them do not pay for waste management services. To that end, waste is not efficiently managed due to municipal financial constraints. Waste management challenges in Ekurhuleni Municipality are also attributed to lack of or insufficient knowledge regarding sustainable waste management practices and its benefits amongst the waste generators and some waste management employees.
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University of South Africa
Integrated waste management
National Environmental Management Act
Informal settlements
Waste management policies
Waste management
Waste disposal
Landfill
An evaluation of the gaps and barriers in implementing the national waste management policy and its implementation in formal and informal urban areas in Ekurhuleni Municipality, South Africa
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/181352018-11-17T13:05:32Zcom_10500_4675com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_4676col_10500_507
Martin, Clive James
2015-01-23T04:25:06Z
2015-01-23T04:25:06Z
1994-11
Martin, Clive James (1994) The feasibility of Montessorian education in the primary school : an historico-educational exposition, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18135>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18135
Maria Montessori's work was initiated in 1898 as a result of her
becoming acutely aware of deficient children's learning patterns,
while working at the Psychiatric clinic of the University of
Rome. The principles which dominate the system, however, did not
·'"spring in full panoply from Montessori. Indeed, her inspiration
came largely from early and mid-nineteenth century writings of
two French physicians, Itard and Seguin, who were Also involved
in the teaching of deficient children. Extending on the ideas of
these two educator-physicians, as well as the ideas of Froebe!,
Montessori innovatively brought the child's senses into contact
with carefully selected didactic apparatus in a carefully
structured and ordered environment.
According to Montessori, the liberty of the child is a
prerequisite for self-education and forms the first major pillar
of her didactic theory, and thus becomes the focus of the first
chapter dealing with her didactic approach (chapter three) •
Montessori believed that the function of education was to assist
growth and if the individual child was given the liberty of
movement within a prepared environment, a sense of competence
would be achieved and the learning of the child would come about
almost spontaneously. The principles of individuality and the
training of the senses comprise the other two pillars, and form
the basis for chapter four and five respectively. The principle
of individuality is rooted in the belief that each child has a
uniqueness which cannot be ignored without irretrievable damage
to his personality.
The current educational situation in South Africa, reveals a
diversity of educational problems as a result of different ethnic
and cultural groups all being thrust into a common educational
system. The insidious pressures of conformity to a single
standard of education must of necessity lead to a compromise of
'"standards. The exposure of educational deficiencies inherent in
such a move is characterised by learning impediments and
deficiencies in the educational scenario. Research has therefore
been undertaken in an attempt to extract those aspects that could
provide meaningful pedagogic assistance to meet a present
educational need.
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Montessori
Individual education
Child liberty
Prepared environment
Sensitive periods
Scientific pedagogy
Sense training
Developmental periods
Didactic apparatus
Non-intervention
Spontaneous development
Natural orderliness
The feasibility of Montessorian education in the primary school : an historico-educational exposition
Thesis
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Hlatshwayo, Bafana Gilbert
2015-01-23T04:24:48Z
2015-01-23T04:24:48Z
1997-11
Hlatshwayo, Bafana Gilbert (1997) Understanding Christian conversion in a black township parish, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16954>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16954
This is a hermeneutical study of an attempt to inculturate a Redemptorist parish mission in
a black township parish. The purpose of Redemptorist parish mission is conversion and
renewal. This study is influenced by -
- the spirit of St. Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787)
founder of the Redemptorists
- Vatican II (1962-1965) and by
- the African Synod (1994);
and it uses the systemic stage model of Rambo and the spiral model of Costas, as a
framework to understand conversion. The conversion experiences of ten parishioners of St.
Peter's parish are used as data for the study. A theological reflection on the ten conversions
confirmed the following: that cultural context is important for understanding conversion;
that conversion is both a distinct moment and a continuous process; that it is imperative to
understand conversion from the perspective of the convert him/herself. For 'mission preaching' to effect genuine conversion it must be inculturated.
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Christian conversion
Township parish
Redemptorist mission
African culture
Apartheid
Sacraments of initiation
St. Alphonsus Liguori
Inculturation
Sodalities
Lewis Rambo
Orlando Costas
Understanding Christian conversion in a black township parish
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/245092018-11-17T13:04:15Zcom_10500_24440com_10500_23854com_10500_460com_10500_128col_10500_24446
Ehlers, EM
Von Solms, SH
2018-07-31T13:13:52Z
2018-07-31T13:13:52Z
1987
Ehlers, E.M. & Von Solms, S.H. (1987) The representation of chemical structures by random context structure grammars. Proceedings of the 4th South African Computer Symposium, Holiday Inn, Pretoria, 1-3 July 1987, edited by P. Kritzinger (UCT).
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/24509
A representation of chemical molecules by Random Context Structure Grammars is proposed. Random Context Structure Grammars generate three-dimensional digital structures. Random Context Structure Grammars and Random Context Structure Automata are introduced and discussed briefly.
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The representation of chemical structures by random context structure grammars
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/309062024-02-29T08:41:42Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_14513com_10500_13602com_10500_1col_10500_3753col_10500_14521
Meissner, Richard
2024-02-29T08:41:42Z
2024-02-29T08:41:42Z
2022-05-23
Ideology matters in unravelling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Meissner, R. 2022 In: The conversation
2201-5639
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30906
en
Ideology
Ukraine
Russia
War
Ideology matters in unravelling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Technical Report
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Khoury, Maroun Clive
2015-01-23T04:24:52Z
2015-01-23T04:24:52Z
2002-09
Khoury, Maroun Clive (2002) Products of diagonalizable matrices, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17081>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17081
Chapter 1 reviews better-known factorization theorems of a square
matrix. For example, a square matrix over a field can be expressed
as a product of two symmetric matrices; thus square matrices over
real numbers can be factorized into two diagonalizable matrices.
Factorizing matrices over complex numbers into Hermitian matrices
is discussed. The chapter concludes with theorems that enable one to
prescribe the eigenvalues of the factors of a square matrix, with
some degree of freedom. Chapter 2 proves that a square matrix over
arbitrary fields (with one exception) can be expressed as a product
of two diagonalizable matrices. The next two chapters consider
decomposition of singular matrices into Idempotent matrices, and of
nonsingular matrices into Involutions. Chapter 5 studies
factorization of a complex matrix into Positive-(semi)definite
matrices, emphasizing the least number of such factors required.
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Diagonalizable factorization of matrices
Hermitian factorization of matrices
Prescribing the eigenvalues of the factors of a square matrix
Idempotent factorization of matrices
Factorization of matrices into Involutions
Positive-definite
and Positive-semidefinite factors
Products of diagonalizable matrices
Dissertation
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2012-12-11T12:03:35Z
2012-12-11T12:03:35Z
2012-12-11
UNI\M\142
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/8288
Mouth organ
Organ
Aerophones
Sheng
Chinese
China
Mouth organ.
Other
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Botha, Audrey
2009-05-08T11:07:33Z
2009-05-08T11:07:33Z
2005-11-30
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/161
Male stereotyping together with perception of women as inferior is hindering
recognition of women in senior managerial positions.
Through pervious studies regarding female leadership, conducted all over the world,
the theme of women being treated differently than males is fundamentally central to
all the conclusions. Not many studies relating to this topic have been conducted in
South Africa and yet we are in the forefront when it comes to identifying the need to
develop women into positions where they can add value on various levels. Some of
the issues have even been captured in legislation.
However, despite government’s intervention, it is crucial that women take ownership
of their own destiny. Unless women can prove that they can add value in the
positions that they are appointed, they will not be seen as leaders.
To be a successful leader an individual must have certain skills and traits. Some of
these can be developed over time, however the individual must first admit that there
is a need and identify the area in which personal growth must take place, before a
plan can be implemented. Once this point has been reached, a self-management
plan can be developed by the individual to align his / her objectives. There are
various components to the self-management plan and such a plan cannot always be
duplicated, but the focus areas can overlap. If an individual can identify a mentor and
enter into a mentoring program, it can give such an individual a huge advantage.
Internal and external factors play a role in the development and implementation of a
self-management plan. The problem is that one does not always have much control
over these elements. Some of these elements include the corporate culture of the
organisation in which females functions and the manner in which a female is able to
balance work-life.
This study determined that males and females agree that female managers add as
much value as male managers. Further to the above, it has become evident that
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males have different perceptions relating to the issues of how women are
experiencing the work environment and the implementation of policies that relate to
employment equity. The impact of perception must not be excluded since it can have
the effect that people distinguish between leadership skills and traits on different
levels. Unless female leaders can make male leaders realise that they experience
the work environment and the implementation of policies that relate to employment
equity differently than the manner in which males perceive it, they will not be able to
get males to change the situation, since males believe that there are nothing wrong
with the current situation. This brings one back to the change in culture and the issue
that as a result of male dominance in the work place, it is also the males that
determine the current culture.
It is therefore important for females to take responsibility of the situation and where
necessary change the perceptions of males to ensure that as women they are not
hindered from receiving the recognition that they deserve.
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Management
Leadership
Affirmative action
Female leadership
Self-management
The role of self-management in female leadership
Research Report
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Sibindi, Mkhululi
2019-09-18T12:46:41Z
2019-09-18T12:46:41Z
2019-07
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25771
This study critically explores the link between internationalisation theories and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) – a linkage which is well documented in the literature. Numerous studies have established that the internationalisation process recognises both firm- and market-specific aspects, which greatly determine the direction of outward FDI in terms of volume and pattern. In this interaction, path dependency is determined by the intensity of overlapping aspects or linkages, from firm-level heterogeneity and host market aspects that direct investment patterns in terms of the latter, to the volumes of firm-level adjustments. Firm-level heterogeneity comprises those traits, which enable an individual firm to make an investment decision, select a market-entry strategy and create the competitive advantages that will sustain its investments. Macro-level or country-specific aspects encompass those traits or characteristics of host markets, which encourage FDI on the part of multinational enterprises (MNEs).
Most studies overlook the path dependency of country- and firm-specific aspects, which are crucial to the internationalisation processes of international business, economics and trade. Academic studies either focus on macro- or micro-level aspects, without paying specific attention to the path dependency of expansion strategies. The present study attempts to fill these gaps in the existing body of knowledge, by investigating international business in these contexts.
The rationale for undertaking this study was two-fold: first, FDI holds proven benefits for host markets, which include economic growth, industry spillover, human capital development and transitory tacit knowledge. From a firm-level perspective, outward FDI largely enhances the capacity of MNEs, prompting an increase in asset accumulation, market share and human capital development, the more efficient utilisation of resources and return on equity. In this study, an argument is presented for measuring the variables of both firm- and market-specific aspects, since most existing studies in this genre focus either on micro- or macro-level determinants, or totally overlook the importance of linkages.
Second, no documented research has investigated the path dependency of expansion strategies, especially in Africa. Crucially, the importance of path dependency of South
Africa’s outward investment has not been documented either. Further, existing evidence on the role the path dependency of expansion strategies plays in outward FDI are scarce, with even fewer studies following a sectorial approach. This study attempts to fill these academic research gaps by reflecting both firm- and market-level data from various sources for the period 1995–2015, using panel dynamic regression models.
The study found that the linkages between firm heterogeneity (firm-level evidence) and market-level aspects create a path dependency of expansion strategies. MNEs adopt either joint ventures or wholly owned subsidiaries (or both) as market-entry strategies, but the decision is informed by the intensity of those firm heterogeneity aspects that allow them to exploit opportunities and mitigate risk in host markets. Notably, the intensity of path dependency seemingly varies from one industrial segment to the next.
The impulse response approach delivered evidence that one standard deviation shock of firm-specific variables led to a moderate improvement in firm-level capacities in the short run, but a significant improvement in the long run. The same result was recorded for market-level aspects, with the intensity of the results varying from one industry to the next. The causality test attempted to explore the causal relationship between the study variables in both firm- and market-level aspects. Empirical evidence from the study indicates that the size of the firm and its capacity to utilise its resources efficiently, influence their investment in host markets. As regards market-specific aspects, the size of the economy, levels of industry and trade openness were found to have a causal effect on the inflow of FDI in host markets. The intensity of causal aspects was also found to vary from one industry to the next, due to variations in firm-level heterogeneity and their linkage in terms of aspects related to the host market. In sum, this study complements existing material on the subject of international business.
Iingcamango zezokwamazwe ngamazwe kunye notyalo-mali oluthe ngqo lwangaphandle: Umcimbi weenkampani zoMzantsi Afrika ezinamazwe ngamazwe
Olu phononongo luphicotha ikhonkco phakathi kweengcingane zamazwe ngamazwe kunye notyalo-mali ngokuthe ngqo oluphuma ngaphandle kumazwe asemzini (i-FDI) –indibaniselo ebhalwe kakuhle kwimiqulu yoncwadi. Izifundo ezininzi ezenziweyo ziye zaqinisekisa ukuba inkqubo yamazwe ngamazwe iyazamkela zombini inkampani- kunye nemiba ekhethekileyo yemarike, ezihlola kakhulukazi imikhombandlela (izikhokelo) ye-FDI yangaphandle ngokomthamo kunye nephatheni.
Kule ntsebenziswano, indlela yokuxhomekeka ifunyanwa ngobungakanani bezinto ezisebenzelelanayo/ezingenanayo okanye izenzo zokuhlangana, ukusuka kwiintlobo-ntlobo zamanqanaba enkampani kunye neemfuno zabasingathe imicimbi yeendawo zokuthengisa (iimarike) iimpahla ezilawula iiphatheni zotyalo-imali ngokweyokugqibela, kwimilinganiselo yokulungelelaniswa kwenqanaba lwenkampani.
Iintlobo-ntlobo zamanqanaba enkampani ziquka ezo mpawu, ezenza inkampani nganye yenze isigqibo sotyalo-mali, ikhethe isicwangciso sokungeniswa kwimarike kwaye siyile amathuba amahle okhuphiswano aya kugcina utyalo-mali. Inqanaba eliphezulu okanye iinkalo ezithile zelizwe zibandakanya ezo zimo okanye iimpawu zeemarike ezamkelekileyo, ezikhuthaza i-FDI kwiinkampani zamazwe ngamazwe (i-MNEs).
Uninzi lwezifundo aziyiniki ngqalelo indlela yokuxhomekeka yelizwe kwimicimbi ekhethekileyo nebalulekileyo yenkampani kwiinkqubo zangokwamazwe oshishino lwamazwe ngamazwe, uqoqosho norhwebo. Uphando lwemfundo ephakamileyo lugxininisa kwiinkcukacha ezikwinqanaba eliphezulu okanye eliphantsi ngokunganiki ngqalelo kwindlela yokuxhomekeka yeendlela zokwandisa. Uphononongo lwangoku luzama ukuvala izikhewu/izikroba kulwazi olukhoyo., ngokuphanda ishishini lwamazwe ngamazwe kule meko.
Ingqiqo ekwenzeni olu phando yahlulwe kubini: okokuqala, i-FDI inenzuzo eqinisekisiweyo kwabasingethe iimarike, ezibandakanya ukukhula koqoqosho, ukuchuma kwamashishini, ukuphuhliswa kwezakhono zabantu kunye nolwazi oludlulileyo lwezakhono. Ngakwicala lenqanaba lenkampani, i-FDI yangaphandle iphakamisa amandla e-MNE, ikhawulezisa ukunyusa uqokelelo lwempahla, isabelo semarike kunye nophuhliso lwabantu, ukusetyenziswa ngokufanelekileyo kwezixhobo kunye nokubuyela kubulungisa bokulingana.
Kolu phononongo, impikiswano inikezelwe ukulinganisa iinguqu zombini yenkampani- kunye nemimiselo ethile yemarike, njengoko olunye uphando oluninzi olwenziweyo kolu hlobo lugxininisa koonobangela abakwizinga elisezantsi okanye eliphezulu, okanye kunganikwa ngqalelo tu kukubaluleka kwezenzo zokudibana / zokunxibelelana.
Okwesibini, akukho phando lubhaliweyo oluphande indlela yokuxhomekeka kweendlela zokwandisa, ngakumbi e-Afrika. Ngokusesikweni, ukubaluleka kwendlela yokuxhomekeka yotyalo-mali lwangaphandle eMzantsi Afrika alukaze nalo lubhalwe phantsi.
Ukongezelela, ubungqina obukhoyo kwindima yendlela yokuxhomekeka yeendlela zokwandisa kwi-FDI yangaphandle zinqabile, kwakunye nezifundo ezimbalwa ezilandela indlela yamacandelo. Olu phononongo luzama ukuzalisa izikroba zophando zemfundo ephakamileyo ngokuzibonakalisa zombini inkampani- kunye nedatha yamanqanaba emarike avela kwimithombo eyahlukeneyo yexesha lowe-1995-2015, usebenzisa iimodeli zepaneli ezinamandla zokubuy’umva.
Uphononongo lufumanise ukuba ukudibana phakathi kweentlobo-ntlobo zenkampani (ubungqina bezinga lenkampani) kunye nemilinganiselo yezinga lemarike zidala indlela yoxhomekeko yeendlela zokukhula. Ii-MNE zamkela intsebenziswano ngokuhlangeneyo okanye bazibambele ngokwabo ngokupheleleyo (okanye zombini) njengeendlela zokungena kwimarike, kodwa isigqibo siphenjelelwa bubungakanani beentlobo-ntlobo zemicimbi yenkampani evumela ukuba baxhaphaze amathuba kwaye banciphise umngcipheko kwiimarike zenkampani. Ngokuphawulekayo, ubukhulu bokuxhomekeka wendlela yokuxhomekeka kukhangeleka kusahluka ukusuka kwicandelo elinye lozoshishino ukuya kwelinye elilandelayo.
Indlela yokuphendula ngokungxama inikezele ubungqina bokuba ukuphazamiseka okusesikweni kwizinto eziguquguqukayo zenkampani ezikhethekileyo zikhokelele ekuphuculeni okusezingeni eliphakathi kwinqanaba kubungakanani benqanaba lenkampani ngexeshana, kodwa ukuphuculwa okubonakalayo nokubalulekileyo ekuhambeni kwexesha. Isiphumo esifanayo sabhalwa phantsi kwiinkalo zemarike, nobukhulu beziphumo zohluka ukusuka kwelinye ishishini ukuya kwelinye. Uvavanyo lwamaxesha athile luzame ukuphonononga ubudlelwane bamaxesha athile phakathi kwezifundo zezinto eziguquguqukayo kwiinkalo zombini inkampani –kunye nenqanaba lemarike/ neemeko zemarike.
Ubungqina bamava obuvela kuphando lubonisa ukuba ubungakanani benkampani kunye namandla okusebenzisa uvimba wezixhobo ngokufanelekileyo, ziphembelela utyalo-mali kwiimarike zenkampani. Ngokubhekiselele kwimimandla ethile yemarike, ubungakanani boqoqosho, amazinga oshishino kunye nokuvuleka kwezorhwebo kufunyaniswe ukuba kunefuthe elenzekayo ngamaxesha athile ekungeneni kwe-FDI kubasingathi beemarike.
Ubungakanani bemicimbi eyenzeka ngamaxesha athile yafunyanwa kwakhona ukuba yohlukile ukusuka kwelinye ishishini ukuya kwelinye, ngenxa yeenguqu kwiintlobo-ntlobo zeamanqanaba enkampani kunye nokudibana kwabo ngokwemiba enxulumene nabasingethe imarike. Kafutshane esi sifundo, sigcwalisa izixhobo ezikhoyo kwisihloko sezoshishino lamazwe ngamazwe.
Diteori tša peyomaemong a boditšhabatšhaba le peeletšothwii ye e tšwago dinageng tša ka ntle: Seemo sa mabapi le difeme tša ka Afrika Borwa tše di tšwago dinageng di šele
Dinyakišišo tše di utolla ka tsinkelo kgokagano gareng ga diteori tša peyomaemong a boditšhabatšhaba le peeletšothwii ye e tšwago dinageng tša ka ntle (FDI) – e lego kgokagano yeo go ngwadilwego ka yona kudu ka dingwalweng. Dinyakišišo tše mmalwa di utollotše gore tshepedišo ya go bea maemong a boditšhabatšhaba e lemoga bobedi dilo tša difeme le tše di amanago le difeme, tšeo di laolago kudu fao FDI ya dinaga tša ka ntle e lebilego gona mabapi le bontši le mokgwa. Ka tirišanong ye, go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo go laolwa ke bontši bja dilo tšeo di dirwago ka nako e tee goba dikamano, go tloga go go farologanya ditšweletšwa ka femeng le dilo tša mmaraka wa ka nageng tšeo di laolago mekgwa ya dipeeletšo mabapi le go ya ka mmaraka wa ka nageng, go ya go mehuta ye mentši ya dipeakanyo tša ka femeng. Go farologanya ditšweletšwa ka femeng go bopilwe ke diphetogo tše, tšeo di kgontšhago feme ye itšego go tšea sephetho sa mabapi le peeletšo, go kgetha maano a go tsena ka mmarakeng le go hlama menyetla ye mekaone yeo e tlago tšwetša pele peeletšo ya yona. Dikokwane tša ekonomi ye kgolo goba tša ka nageng di akaretša diphetogo tšeo goba dipharologantšhi tša mebaraka ya ka nageng, tšeo di hlohleletšago FDI ka karolong ya dikgwebo tša dinaga tša ka ntle (di-MNE).
Dinyakišišo tše ntši di hlokomologile go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo ga naga le ga dilo tša ka femeng ye itšego, tšeo di lego bohlokwa go tshepedišo ya peyomaemong a boditšhabatšhaba ya dikgwebo tša boditšhabatšhaba, diekonomi le kgwebišano. Dinyakišišo tša dirutegi di ka be di lebeletše kudu dilo tša ekonomi ye kgolo goba tša ye nnyane, ka ntle le go lebiša šedi ye kgolo go go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo a boditšhabatšhaba ga maano a katološo. Dinyakišišo tše di leka go tlatša dikgoba tše ka tsebo ye e lego gona, ka go nyakišiša dikgwebo tša boditšhabatšhaba ka maemong a.
Maikemišetšo a go dira dinyakišišo tše e bile a mabedi: sa mathomo, FDI e na le dikholego tšeo di tiišeditšwego go mebaraka ya ka dinageng, tšeo di akaretšago kgolo ya ekonomi, khuetšano ya diintasteri, tlhabollo ya bokgoni bja bašomi le phetišetšo ya tsebo ye e lego nyanyeng. Go ya ka maemong a difeme, FDI ye e tšwago dinageng tša ka ntle e godiša bokgoni bja di- MNE, ya hlohleletša koketšego ya khwetšo ya dithoto, ya kabelano ya mmaraka le ya tlhabollo ya bokgoni bja bašomi, tšhomišo ye kaone kudu ya methopo le go hwetša poelo go dikabelano. Ka mo dinyakišišong tše, go lagišwa ntlha ya go ela diphapano tša bobedi dilo tša ka femeng le tša ka mmarakeng, ka ge bontši bja dinyakišišo tše di lego gona ka mo lekaleng le la dinyakišišo di lebeletše kudu tšeo di laolago ekonomi ye nnyane goba ye kgolo goba tšeo di hlokomologago ka botlalo bohlokwa bja dikgokagano.
Sa bobedi, ga go dinyakišišo tšeo di ngwadilwego tšeo di nyakišišitšego go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo ga maano a katološo, kudukudu ka Afrika. Se bohlokwa ke gore, bohlokwa bja go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo ga peeletšo ya Afrika Borwa ya dinaga tša ka ntle ga se gwa ngwalwa le ge go le bjale. Godimo ga fao, bohlatse bjo bo lego gona ka ga mošomo wa go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo fao go ralokago ka ga maano a katološo ka go FDI ya dinaga tša ka ntle e se bjo bontši, gomme go na le dinyakišišo tše mmalwa go latela mokgwa wo o lebeletšego makala. Dinyakišišo tše di leka go tlatša dikgoba tše tša dinyakišišo tša dirutegi ka go laetša tshedimošo ya bobedi ka maemong a difeme le ka mebarakeng go tšwa methopong ya mehutahuta go tloga ka mengwaga ya 1995–2015, ka go šomiša mekgwa ya kakanyo ya dikamano ye e fetogago.
Dinyakišišo di hweditše gore dikamano gareng ga go farologanya ditšweletšwa (bohlatse bja ka maemong a difeme) le dilo tša maemo a ka mmarakeng di hlola go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo ga maano a katološo. Di-MNE di šomiša masolo a mohlakanelwa goba ikhamphani tša ka fasana tšeo di laolwago ka botlalo (goba ka bobedi) bjalo ka maano a go tsena ka mmarakeng, eupša sephetho se laolwa ke bontši bja dilo tšeo tša go farologanya ditšweletšwa tšeo di di dumelelago go nyaka dibaka le go fokotša kotsi ka mebarakeng ya ka nageng. Seo se lemogilwego ke gore, bontši bja go tšea diphetho go ya ka maemo go bonala go fapane go ya ka karolo ya intasteri go ya go ye nngwe.
Mokgwa wa go arabela kgoketšo wo o hlagišitšwego ka bohlatseng bja gore phapogo ya tlwaelo ya diphapano tša ka femeng e feleleditše ka kaonafalo ya magareng ya bokgoni bja difeme lebakeng le lekopana, eupša ka kaonafalo ye kgolo mo lebakeng le letelele. Dipoelo tše di swanago di begilwe ka go dilo tša maemo a ka mmarakeng, gomme bontši bja dipoelo tša fapana go ya ka diintasteri. Teko ya mathata yeo e bego e leka go utolla kamano ya tšeo di bakago se gareng ga phapano ya dinyakišišo ka go bobedi ka dilo tša ka femeng le tša ka mmarakeng. Bohlatse bja maitemogelo go tšwa ka mo dinyakišišong bo laetša gore bogolo bja feme le bokgoni bja yona bja go šomiša methopo ya yona gabotse ntle le mathata, di huetša peeletšo ya yona ka mebarakeng ya ka nageng. Mabapi le dilo tša ka mmarakeng, bogolo bja ekonomi, maemo a intasteri le go hloka sephiri ka kgwebišanong di bonwe di na le seabe sa go baka seemo go tseneng ga FDI ka mebarakeng ya ka nageng. Bontši bja dilo tše di bakago maemo go hweditšwe gape gore go fapana go ya ka diintasteri, ka lebaka la diphapano ka go farologanyo ya ditšweletšwa ka difemeng le kamano ya tšona mabapi le dilo tšeo di amanago le mmaraka wa ka nageng. Bjalo ka kakaretšo, dinyakišišo tše di tlaleletša dingwalwa tšeo di lego gona ka ga hlogotaba ya dikgwebo tša boditšhabatšhaba.
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Internationalisation theories and outward Foreign Direct Investment: the case of South African multinational firms
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/286392022-03-24T11:40:05Zcom_10500_14512com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14520col_10500_507
Ogundeji, Kolawole Damilare
2022-03-24T11:07:15Z
2022-03-24T11:07:15Z
2021-11
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28639
Background: Wound dressing is a major component of wound management, and it is
documented to consume huge healthcare resources in most countries. In Nigeria, the cost
of wound dressing for an average wound care is unknown and it is borne almost entirely by
the patients as most do not have health insurance coverage. This study examined the
economic burden of wound dressing among inpatients and outpatients in an acute care
episode.
Purpose of the study: The purpose of the study was to develop a costing model to capture
cost implications of wound dressing and hospitalization in order to contribute to the
knowledge gap regarding the cost of wound dressing in Nigeria.
Method: The investigator examined the cost of wound dressing materials, consumables,
lotion used and hospitalization incurred by patients during a minimum of four weeks acute
care episode. A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted. The study was carried out
in three Teaching Hospitals South West Nigeria. The study centres were purposively
selected while the respondents (n= 320: Inpatients-190, Outpatients-130) were selected via
a convenient sampling technique from wards and clinics where wound dressings were
performed. Every patient who had spent not less than four weeks on the ward or who were
discharged or on clinic visits were interviewed. Variables of interest included: frequency of
wound dressing per week, number of dressing packs used per week, cost of dressing pack,
cost of consumables, cost of lotion used, cost of hospitalization, occupation, monthly income,
family size and health insurance coverage. The data was entered into the Statistical Package
for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23 and analyzed by descriptive and chi-square statistics
while modelling cost of wound dressing and hospitalization was done by regression model
analysis at 0.05 level of significance. The results were presented in a frequency table, percentages, mean and standard deviation. 1USD= ₦515, 1ZAR= ₦45- August 2021
Results:
Phase I: Inpatients cost of wound dressing
According to the study findings, the average age of the respondents was 44.95 ±16.12. Two thirds of the men were artisans and traders who had completed at least high school. Over
70% of respondents have a family size of 5 to 10 and more than half earn less than ₦50000
each month.
The majority (79.5%) had no comorbidities and about half (50%) were on daily dressing,
which required 1-5 moderate or major dressing packs per week. Most respondents (85.3 %)
had a hospital stay of less than 11 weeks. Almost all the respondents were not on health
coverage (90.5%).
The cost of wound dressing varies every week and per acute care episode, depending on
the wound type: The average cost of wound dressing per week ranges from ₦9000 to
₦27000, with burn injury dressing costing the most (₦26,783.33). Other wound dressing
costs include ₦13,919.31 for an open wound, ₦13,870 for a pressure injury, ₦12,632.50 for
diabetic foot ulcers, ₦10,867.87 for a surgical wound, ₦10,717.22 for a leg ulcer, and
9,473.04 for a cancer wound.
The average cost of wound dressing per acute care episode was discovered to be between
₦5000 and ₦120000. The average cost of wound dressing per acute care episode for open
wounds, pressure injuries, burn injuries, surgical wounds, leg ulcers, cancer wounds, and
diabetic foot ulcers was ₦119,802.759; ₦110.546.667; ₦107,331.333; ₦89,501.463;
₦70,413.33; ₦67,874.783 and ₦50,350, respectively, according to differential cost per
wound type.
Furthermore, the cost of hospitalization per acute care episode ranges from ₦40000 to
₦178000, with the differential cost of hospitalization per acute care episode by wound type ranging from ₦177,333.33; ₦152,617.07; ₦150.717.24 and ₦120,866.67 for burn injury,
surgical wound, open wound, and leg ulcer, respectively.
Phase II: Outpatients cost of wound dressing:
According to the study findings, the average age of the respondents was 43.03 ± 15.47. The
population of both sexes was roughly the same (males accounted for 53.1%, females
accounted for 46.9%). Most of the respondents were artisans and traders who had completed at least secondary school. The majority (72.3%) had a monthly income of less
than ₦50000, with over 60% having a household size of 5 to 10.
The most common wound aetiology was road traffic accident (34.6%), while the most
common wound type was a leg ulcer (40%). The vast majority are free of comorbidities
(82.3%). Furthermore, 40% of the participants were on wound dressing three times per week.
In addition, over 60% of patients required a moderate dressing pack at each visit.
Almost all of the participants who responded did not have health insurance (90.8%). The
cost of wound dressing varies by wound type and outpatient care episode per week: wound
dressing costs range from ₦3000-₦10000 per week, with costs for burn wounds, open
wounds, and leg ulcers totalling ₦10048, ₦9452, and ₦9272.88, respectively. Apart from the
cost of other expenses during a wound care episode, the cost of wound dressing per care
episode ranges from ₦30000 to ₦160000.
Phase III: Modelling cost of wound dressing and hospitalization
The cost of wound dressing among hospitalized patients is estimated to be ₦54909.36 per
acute care episode, with no contribution from other variables. The cost of wound dressing
differed depending on the wound type, with a parameter estimate of ₦521801.92 for an open
wound, ₦140885.20 for a surgical wound, and ₦332271.98 for a cancer wound.
In addition, without accounting for other variables, the projected cost of hospitalization per
acute care episode for all types of wounds was found to be ₦144693.65. The cost of hospitalization differed depending on the wound type, with a parameter estimate of
₦11830.10 for an open wound, ₦67694.90 for a surgical wound, and ₦26065.44 for a cancer
wound.
Similarly, the cost of wound dressing is estimated to be ₦176109.48 per care episode among
outpatients, with no contribution from other variables. The parameter estimate for the
differential cost of wound dressing per wound type was ₦28847.94 for an open wound,
₦33772.33 for a surgical wound, ₦267751.14 for a leg ulcer, ₦102640.00 for a diabetic foot
ulcer, and ₦390328.72 for a cancer wound.
Conclusion: For average Nigerians who are not registered in a health insurance program,
the expense of wound care and hospitalization is prohibitively expensive. Essentially, a
nursing care costing model for wound dressing and hospitalization was designed to aid
individuals with wounds, hospital management, and health insurance companies in the
design of healthcare finance. Nurses are additionally encouraged to deliver efficient and
effective wound care since patients are paying out of limited resources. This will demonstrate
how nurses contribute to the overall care of patients.
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Nursing care
Wound dressing
Inpatients
Outpatients
Hospitalization
Out of pocket
Modelling
Catastrophic healthcare expenditure
Health insurance coverage
Nigeria
A nursing care costing model for wound dressing in Nigeria
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/296542022-12-02T07:32:53Zcom_10500_6421com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6433col_10500_507
Van Schalkwyk, Suraya
2022-12-02T07:26:18Z
2022-12-02T07:26:18Z
2022-02
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/29654
The school’s ranking determines the state’s funding allocation to public schools on the Resource Targeting List. The funding policy on education equity is characterised by policy prescripts like quintile ranking and exemption policy as tools of redress and access. The South African School’s Act [SASA], Act 84 of 1996 (RSA, 1996b) devolved management of the state’s allocation to school governing bodies (SGBs), who are de facto custodians of school financial management and can raise school fees to supplement the allocation.
Financial management is delegated to the finance sub-committee, which monitors and implements the budget for the skilful use of physical and human resources to optimise the teaching and learning process. However, the unwillingness of parents to pay fees or apply for an exemption, has an impact on the inflow of funds to run the school effectively. The Covid-19 pandemic brought about further reduced fee collections, because of job losses and reduced working hours; disallowing parents from paying fees.
This study utilized a qualitative research methodology with focus-group interviews, and elicited responses from two finance committees in Johannesburg East secondary schools. The findings emphasised the role of private-public partnerships with telecommunication companies, the skilful use of the allocation to acquire learner-teacher support material, and parental involvement as a mitigation strategy for curriculum losses by leaping to digital platforms for learning.
Therefore, the study has the potential for researchers to undertake further research to investigate the challenges experienced by SGBs in implementing funding policy on education equity. Their response, through innovative strategies to adjust to a digital strategy and act in the best interest of learning and teaching in a post-Covid-19 era, is of specific interest.
Ukuhlinzekwa wumbuso ngezimali kwezikole zombuso kulawulwa yindawo yesikole ohlwini lwezikole elibizwa nge-Resource Targeting List. Umgomo wezokuhlinzekwa ngezimali mayelana nokulinganiswa kwemfundo wakhiwe ngemibhalo yomgomo enjenge-quintile ranking kanye nomgomo we-exemption policy okuyizinto ezithathwa njengamathuluzi okulungisa kanye nokutholakala kwezinsiza. UMthetho Olawula iziKole eNingizimu Afrika (SASA, uMthetho 84, wonyaka ka 1996) wadlulisela amandla okuphatha izikole Zombuso kwizikhungo ezilawula izikole (SGBs), okuyizikhungo ezithembekile emsebenzini wezokulawulwa kwezimali, kanti lezi zikhungo zingaqokelelela izikole izimali ngasese, ngenhloso yokugcwaliselela isabelo sezimali sezikole.
Umsebenzi wokuphathwa kwezimali usemahlombe wekomiti elincane lezezimali, okuyikomiti elibheke neliqinisekisa ukusetshenziswa kwesabelo sezimali, isetshenziselwe kwimisebenzi ebonakalayo kanye nakwihlelo lezokuqhashwa kwabasebenzi ngenhloso yokuqinisa uhlelo lokufunda nokufundisa. Yize-kunjalo, isenzo sabazali sokungafisi ukubhadala imali yesikole noma ukufaka isicelo sokungakhokhiswa imali yesikole sekube nomthelela phezu kwezimali ezingenayo ukuba ziqhube ngempumelelo imisebenzi yesikole. Ubhubhane we-Covid-19 sewuholele esimeni sokuncishiswa ngokungeziwe komsebenzi wokuqokelelwa kwezimali zesikole ngenxayezinga lokulahlekelwa yimisebenzi kanye nokuncishiswa kwamahora okusebenza.
Umethodoloji owencike kucwaningo lwekhwalithi (qualitative research methodology), ogxile kwizinhlolovo zeqembu (group interviews) kusetshenziswe ukuveza izimpendulo ezivela kumakomiti amabili ezimali ezikole zamabanga aphezulu esifundazweni saseGauteng. Ulwazi olutholakele lugcizelele indima edlalwa ubudlelwano amaziko amabili azimele nalawo kahulumeni ngokusebenzisana nezinkampani zohlelo lokuxhumana ngocingo, ukusetshenziswa ngobunyoninco kohlelo lokuhlukaniselana imithombo ngenhloso yokuthola ukuxhaswa ngezinsizakufunda ezixhasa uthisha nomfundi kanye nezinga lokuzibandakanya kwabazali njengesu lokunciphisa izinga lokulahlekelwa yisikhathi sohlelo lwemfundo, ngokungena kwizinkundla zedijithali ngenhloso yokufunda. Ngakho-ke, ucwaningo lunika abacwaningi amandla okuqhubeka nolunye ucwaningo olujulile ukuphenyaizinselele ezihlangabezana nezikhungo eziphatha izikole (SGBs) ekusebenziseni umgomo wokuhlinzeka izikole ngezimali ohlelweni lwemfundo elinganayo. Impendulo yabo abacwaningi ngokusebenzisa amasu anamaqhinga amasha okuguqukela kwihlelo lamasu edijithali kanye nokusebenza ngokwezifiso ezingcono zohlelo lokufunda nokufundisa esikhathini esingemuva kobhubhane we-Covid-19 kuyinto efuneka ngendlela ekhethekile.
Ka moo puso e abelang dikolo tsa setshaba matlole ka gona go laolwa ke maemo a sekolo mo Lenaneng la go Tota Ditlamelo. Pholisi ya matlole a tekatekano ya thuto e na le dithebolo tsa pholisi di tshwana le karoganyo ya maemo ya dikarolo (quintile) le pholisi ya kgololo tse e leng didiriswa tsa paakanyo le phitlhelesego. Molao wa Dikolo wa Aforikaborwa (SASA, Molao wa bo84 wa 1996) o fetiseditse tsamaiso ya kabelo ya puso kwa bothating jwa taolo ya dikolo (diSGB), jo e leng batlhokomedi ba tsamaiso ya ditshelete tsa sekolo, mme bo ka oketsa dituelo tsa sekolo go tlaleletsa mo kabelong.
Tiro ya tsamaiso ya ditshelete e neelwa komitipotlana ya ditshelete e e bayang leitlho le go tsenya tirisong tekanyetsokabo gore go dirisiwe ditlamelo tsa dithoto le tsa batho ka bokgoni go tokafatsa tirego ya go ruta le go ithuta. Le gale, go belaela ga batsadi malebana le go duela dituelo gongwe go dira dikopo tsa kgololo go ama kelelo ya matlole a a dirang gore go tsamaisiwe sekolo ka bokgoni. Leroborobo la Covid-19 le okeditse go fokotsega ga dituelo ka ntlha ya ditatlhegelo tsa ditiro le diura tse di fokoditsweng tsa go dira, mme seo se dira gore batsadi ba se ke ba duela dituelo.
Go dirisitswe mokgwa wa patlisiso o o lebelelang mabaka go dirisiwa dikopanopotsolotso tsa ditlhopha tse di totilweng go bona tsibogo go tswa kwa dikomiting tse pedi tsa ditshelete kwa dikolong tsa sekontari tsa Gauteng. Diphitlhelelo di gateletse seabe sa selekane sa maphata a setshaba le a poraefete le ditlamo tsa tlhaeletsano ya megala, tiriso e e bokgoni ya kabelo gore go rekwe matheriale wa tshegetso ya barutwana-barutabana le sesabe sa batsadi jaaka togamaano ya go fokotsa tatlhegelo ya kharikhulamo, ka go tlolela kwa dipolatefomong tsa dijitale tsa go ithuta.
Ka jalo, thutopatlisiso e na le tshono ya gore babatlisisi ba ka tswelela ka patlisiso e nngwe go tlhotlhomisa dikgwetlho tse di itemogelwang ke diSGB malebana le go tsenya tirisong pholisi ya matlole mo tekatekanong ya thuto. Ditsibogo tsa bona ka ditogamaano tsa boitshimololedi go atolosa togamaano ya dijitale le go dira mo dikgatlhegelong tsa go ithuta le go ruta mo pakeng ya morago ga Covid-19 ke tsone di kgatlhegelwang.
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SGBs implementing the NNSSF policy in Johannesburg East District fee-paying public secondary schools
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/36802023-05-30T09:57:55Zcom_10500_177com_10500_172com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_178col_10500_507
Musungu, Gabriel Joseph
2010-10-15T12:29:32Z
2010-10-15T12:29:32Z
2010-07
Musungu, Gabriel Joseph (2010) Elements of cross-cultural music composition : the creation of Esidialo-- a Samia marriage suite, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3680>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3680
Cross – cultural composition has been defined as the creation of a cultural synthesis of the old and new, traditional and foreign into philosophical, artistic, stylistic and aesthetic product that communicates to various audiences. The study adopted a mode of creativity / dynamic approach through the synthesis of traditional Samia marriage music and Western compositional techniques and approaches. To ground the study in the rich cultural traditions of the Samia people of Funyula Division in Western Province of Kenya, an anthropological documentation formed an important part of the study.
The study adopted Absolute Formalism theory by Reimer (1989) based on component relationships in which different parts like harmony, melody, and text rhythm relate to one another to create unity. The study also incorporated Aesthetic Functionalism theory by Akuno (1997) on social functions in which; the contextual meaning of the composition was based. The study used the Accommodation theory on Convergence, Giles and Smith (Giles & St Clair, 1979) to unify the analogous aspects in the two stated theories.
In the study, descriptive and creative designs were used to cater for the music and social context. In the descriptive phase, Samia marriage folk songs were collected from traditional performers, who were also, interviewed using a questionnaire. Purposeful and snowball sampling techniques were used to select twenty folk songs. They were recorded, transcribed and analysed for dominant traditional musical features and compositional promise. In the creative phase, lyrics were identified and reorganised, the prevalent features isolated and used. The result was a compositional inspiration on which the Marriage Suite was based.
The ultimate product of the study was an artistic model framework that could guide the creation of art music using Kenyan traditional music idioms; accomplished through the Marriage Suite.
To safeguard contextual and music fidelity, member checking was consistently maintained during data collection and creative phase. Rhythmic and melodic accuracy of the transcribed songs was ascertained by play backs using FINALE music notation.
Social identity in the composition was taken into account through use of Samia music characteristics that included intervals, solo-responsorial aspects, overlapping entries, parallelism and common rhythmic patterns.
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Cross-cultural composition
Samia traditional composition
Samia marriage folk songs
Afro-classic composition
Esidialo (marriage) composition
Creative work
Contemporary composition
Merger of Samia and western music elements
Composition
Hybrid composition
Samia marriage composition
Elements of cross-cultural music composition : the creation of Esidialo-- a Samia marriage suite
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/158332018-11-17T13:04:56Zcom_10500_4675com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_4676col_10500_507
Prinsloo, Margareth Georgina
2015-01-23T04:24:07Z
2015-01-23T04:24:07Z
1999-11
Prinsloo, Margareth Georgina (1999) Veranderende opvattinge oor die aanvangsonderrig van lees en skryf, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15833>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15833
Die verwerwing van lees- en skryfvaardighede is van wesenlike belang vir die
optimale verwerkliking van die mens se potensiele moontlikhede. 'n Ondersoek
na veranderende opvattinge oar die aanvangsonderrig van lees en skryf is in die
Jig daarvan van belang.
Faktore wat aanleiding gegee het tot veranderende opvattinge oar die
aanvangsonderrig van lees en skryf kan kortliks saamgevat word as: die
ontwikkeling van 'n fonetiese alfabet, veranderende opvattinge oar effektiewe
lees- en skryfonderrigmetodes, asook politieke, ekonomiese en samelewingsveranderinge.
Hierdie faktore het tot die verbesondering van die Sumeriese,
antieke Griekse, antieke Romeinse, Nederlandse, Engelse en Suid-Arikaanse
opvoedingspraktyke bygedra. Verskeie onderrigmetodes, onder meer die
alfabetmetode, klankmetode, globale metode, gekombineerde metode en
eklektiese metode is deur eeue heen in hierdie formele opvoedingspraktyke
gebruik vir die aanvangsonderrig van lees en skryf.
Effektiewe aanvangslees- en skryfonderrig bepaal of die leerder sy
taalvaardighede kan benut om 'n positiewe bydrae tot die samelewing te lewer.
The acquisition of reading and writing skills is of cardinal importance for the
optimum realization of man's potential. Research into the changing perspectives
which have led to the development of beginning-teaching of reading and writing
is therefore of great importance.
The following factors have led to changing perspectives: the development of an
alphabet, changing perspectives on the effective teaching of reading and writing
as well as political, economic and societal changes. These factors contributed to
the specific development of the Sumerian, ancient Greek, ancient Roman, Dutch,
English and South African education practices. Various teaching methods inter
alia the alphabet, phonic, global, combined and eclectic methods have been
used in the aforementioned education practices for the beginning-teaching of
reading and writing.
Effective beginning teaching of reading and writing determines whether the
learner will be able to utilize his language skills in order to make a positive
contribution to society.
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Beginning-teaching of reading
Beginning-teaching of writing
Language acquisition
Development of an alphabet
Teaching methods
Alphabet method
Phonic method
Global method
Combined method
Eclectic method
Veranderende opvattinge oor die aanvangsonderrig van lees en skryf
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/309492024-03-14T13:31:05Zcom_10500_14514com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14523col_10500_507
Mbokazi, Bongani
2024-03-14T09:05:57Z
2024-03-14T09:05:57Z
2023-06
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/30949
There has been significant growth and changes in the financial services industry, in general and in operations departments, in particular, over the recent years, due to fourth industrial revolution, technology, competition, client behaviour, financial products and services, digitisation and advent of artificial intelligence. These changes have impact on employees, particularly, middle managers’ well-being given their role and level in the hierarchy of the organizations. The research project focused on developing a well-being model for middle managers in a financial services organisation by establishing the relationship between middle managers’ dispositional attributes (personality types and emotional competencies) and the positive psychological functioning attribute (Spiritual Well-being).
Three hundred and ninety-one (391) participants as a sample of middle managers from the Operations department of a South African financial services organisation with a staff compliment of 621 of middle managers across the country, were randomly selected to represent biographical factors (race, age, gender, and tenure) of middle managers in the department. One hundred and fifty (150) participants returned all three questionnaires (MBTI, ESCQ and SWBQ) and these could subsequently be used for statistical analysis. Of the 150 participants 40 (26.67%) were male and 110 (73.33%) were female, Africans were most represented at 47% of the sample, followed by Coloured category at 27%. The last two categories were White (15%) and Indian (12%).
The research goal was accomplished using a survey design. The statistical association between the three dimensions (personality types, emotional competence, and spiritual well-being) was investigated using a cross-sectional quantitative technique. Multiple regression analyses indicated that the main construct variables that influence participants’ psychological well-being models appear to be their emotional competencies, moderated by personality types, which predict how the middle managers tend to be spiritually well within an organisation. The analysis also showed how age, race and years of service (tenure) tend not to influence how participants express their emotions. The partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) indicated a good fit of the data with the correlation-derived measurement model. Tests for mean differences discovered that participants did not differ significantly in terms of their age, race, and years of service (tenure).
The study made a significant contribution to the bulk of knowledge in the field of Industrial and Organisational Psychology. On a theoretical level, the study deepened the understanding of the individual and cognitive, affective, conative and relations management dimensions of the hypothesised psychological well-being model. On an empirical level, the study developed an empirically tested psychological well-being model that informs well-being practices for individual middle managers and organisational levels. On a practical level, dispositional and well-being practices that inform the dimensions of the psychological well-being model were recommended.
Kube nokukhula okuphawulekayo kanye nezinguquko embonini yezinsizakalo zezezimali, jikelele kanye naseminyangweni yokusebenza, ikakhulukazi, eminyakeni yamuva, ngenxa yenguquko yesine yezimboni, ubuchwepheshe, ukuncintisana, ukuziphatha kwamakhasimende, imikhiqizo yezezimali kanye nezinsizakalo, ukufakwa kwedijithali kanye nokufika kokulingiswa kwezinqubo zobuhlakani bomuntu ngezinhlelo zamakhompiyutha. Lezi zinguquko zinomthelela kubasebenzi, ikakhulukazi, inhlalakahle yabaphathi abaphakathi uma kubhekwa indima yabo kanye nezinga ekuphathweni kwezinhlangano. Le phrojekthi yocwaningo igxile ekuthuthukiseni uhlelo oluyisibonelo sokuphila kahle kubaphathi abasezingeni elimaphakathi enkampanini esiza ngohlinzekomali ngokubheka ubudlelwano phakathi kwesimo sengqondo ekuziphatheni kwabaphathi abasezingeni elimaphakathi (izinhlobo zesimo somuntu kanye nokukwazi ukulawula imizwa) kanye nesimo sokusebenza kahle kwengqondo (ukuphila kahle ngokomoya).
Ababambiqhaza abangamakhulu amathathu namashumi ayisishiyagalolunye nanye (391) njengesampula yabaphathi abaphakathi bomnyango wokuSebenza wenhlangano
yezinsizakalo zezezimali eNingizimu Afrika enabasebenzi abangama-621 babaphathi abaphakathi ezweni lonke, bakhethwa ngokungahleliwe ukuze bamele izici zokuphila (uhlanga, ubudala, ubulili kanye nokuhlala) kwabaphathi abaphakathi emnyangweni.
Abahlanganyeli abayikhulu namashumi amahlanu (150) babuyisele lonke uhlu lwemibuzo emithathu (MBTI, ESCQ kanye ne-SWBQ) futhi lokhu kungase kusetshenziselwe ukuhlaziywa kwezibalo. Kwabahlanganyeli abangu-150 abangu-40 (26.67%) ngabesilisa kanti abangu-110 (73.33%) ngabesifazane, abase-Afrika bamelwe kakhulu ku-47% wesampula, kulandele isigaba samaKhaladi ngama-27%. Izigaba ezimbili zokugcina bekungabaMhlophe (15%) kanye namaNdiya (12%).
Umgomo wocwaningo ufezwe kusetshenziswa umklamo wocwaningo. Ukuhlotshaniswa kwezibalo phakathi kobukhulu obuthathu (izinhlobo zobuntu, ikhono lemizwelo, nokuphila kahle ngokomoya) kwaphenywa kusetshenziswa uhlobo lomklamo wocwaningo lwezinombolo, olungasiwo wokuhlola. Ukuhlaziywa okuningi kokubuyiseleka emuva kukhombisa ukuthi izimo ezinqala zokwakha ezinomthelela ohlelweni oluyisibonelo sokuphila kahle kwengqondo yababambiqhaza zibonakala sengathi zingamakhono abo okukwazi ukulawula imizwa alinganiselwa ngokwezinhlobo zesimo somuntu, okubikezela ukuthi abaphathi abasemazingeni amaphakathi bavame kanjani ukuba kahle ngokomoya enkampanini. Ukuhlaziywa kuphinde kukhombise ukuthi iminyaka yobudala, ubuhlanga kanye neminyaka yokusebenza (isikhathi esihlaliwe emsebenzini) akuvamile ukuba nomthelela endleleni ababambiqhaza abaveza ngayo imizwa yabo. Izindlela ezahlukahlukene zokubheka indlela yokuziphatha (PLS-SEM) zikhombisa ukuhambisana kahle kwemininingo nohlelo oluyisibonelo lokulinganisa oluhlola ukuhambisana. Ukuhlolwa komehluko ojwayelekile kuveza ukuthi ababambiqhaza abahluki kakhulu ngokweminyaka yabo yobudala, ngokobuhlanga kanye nangokweminyaka yokusebenza (isikhathi esihlaliwe emsebenzini). Ucwaningo luphonsa okuningi esivivaneni maqondana nolwazi olunzulu emkhakheni wokuPhila Kahle Ngokwengqondo Emsebenzini Nasenkampanini. Ezingeni lenjulalwazi, ucwaningo luqinisa ukuqonda komuntu ngamunye kanye nezigaba zezilinganiso zokukwazi ukuqonda kahle kwengqondo, zokuthintayo, zokuxhumanisayo kanye nezokuphathwa kobudlelwano nohlelo oluyisibonelo sokuphila kahle ngokwengqondo. Ezingeni locwaningo olufakazelwe, lolu cwaningo lwakha uhlelo oluyisibonelo sokuphila kahle ngokwegqondo esifakazelwe nesinomthelela ezindleleni zokuphatheka kahle kubaphathi abasezingeni elimaphakathi ngabanye kanye nasemazingeni enkampani. Ezingeni lokwenza umsebenzi, kunconywa izindlela zesimo sengqondo nokuphatheka kahle okunomthelela ezigabeni zezilinganiso zokuphila kahle ngokwengqondo.
Intasteri ya ditirelo tša ditšhelete le mafapha a ditshepedišo, a itemogetše phetogo e kgolo mengwageng ye e fetilego ka lebaka la tsogelo ya bone ya intaseteri, theknolotši, phadišano, maitshwaro a bareki, ditšweletšwa le ditirelo tša ditšhelete, tšhomišo ya titšithale le bohlale bja maitirelo. Diphetogo tše di na le khuetšo mo go itekanela gabotse ga bašomi, kudukudu balaodi ba magareng ka lebaka la mošomo le maemo a bona mekgatlong. Maikemišetšo a protšeke ya nyakišišo ke go hlama mmotlolo wa go itekanela ga balaodi ba magareng mokgatlong wa ditirelo tša ditšhelete ka go laetša kamano ya dika tša tshekamelo (dimelo tša batho le bokgoni bja go tšweletša maikutlo) magareng ga balaodi ba magareng le seka se se phosithifi sa go šoma gabotse ga mogopolo (go itekanela semoyeng).
Nyakišišo e šomišitše mokgwa wa go kgetha dikemedi fela go tšwa go balaodi ba magareng ba makgolo a mararo le masomesenyane tee (391) nageng ka bophara bao ba šomago lefapheng la Ditshepedišo la mokgatlo wa ditirelo tša ditšhelete wa Afrika Borwa wo o nago le bašomi ba 621 go balaodi ba magareng. Batšeakarolo ba balaodi ba magareng ba kgethilwe fela go ba dikemedi go ya ka (morafe, mengwaga, bong, le mengwaga ya bona ya tirelo) lefapheng. Batšeakarolo ba lekgolo le masome a mahlano (150) ba tladitše mananeopotšišo a mararo ka moka (MBTI, ESCQ le SWBQ) gomme datha ye e šomišitšwe go sekaseka dipalopalo. Go batšeakarolo ba 150, ba 40 (26.67%) ke banna gomme ba 110 (73.33%) ke basadi, palo ya maAafrika ke (47%), ba latelwa ke morafe wa Makhalate ka (27%). Dihlopha tše pedi tša mafelelo ke Bašweu (15%) le maIndia (12%).
Nyakišišo e šomišitše mokgwa wa tekolo go kgoboketša datha. Kamano ya dipalopalo magareng ga dika tše tharo (dimelo tša batho, bokgoni bja go tšweletša maikutlo le go itekanela semoyeng) go sekasekilwe ka go šomiša mokgwa wa go kgoboketša datha wa khwanthithethifi. Tshekatsheko ya nyakišišo e laetša gore dibariabole tšeo di huetšago go itekanela gabotse mogopolong ga batšeakarolo ke bokgoni bja bona bja go tšweletša maikutlo bjo bo lekanetšwago le dimelo tša bona, le go laetšago go itekanela moyeng ga balaodi ba magareng ka gare ga mokgatlo. Diphihlelelo di laetša gape gore mengwaga, morafe le mengwaga ya tirelo (mošomo) ga e huetše ka moo batšeakarolo ba tšweletšago maikutlo a bona. Mokgwa wa tshekatsheko (PLS-SEM) o laeditše kamano e botse ya datha le mokgwa wa go sekaseka tekanyo wo o šomišitšwego. Diteko tša diphapano tša magareng di utolla gore batšeakarolo aba fapani go ya ka mengwaga ya bona, morafe le mengwaga ya tirelo (mošomo). Nyakišišo ye e tlaleletša go tsebo yeo e lego gona go lefapha la Saekholotši ya Intasteri le ya Mokgatlo. Nyakišišo ya thuto e tlaleletša go botsebi bja dikarolo tša motho tša temogo, maikutlo, go laetša maiteko le taolo ya tswalano ya mmotlolo wa go itekanela mogopolong wo o akantšwego. Phihlelelo ya nyakišišo e tšweletša mmotlolo wo o lekotšwego wa go itekanela gabotse mogopolong wo o hlalošago maitshwaro a go itekanela ga balaodi ba magareng le boemo bja mokgatlo. Nyakišišo e šišinya mekgwa ya maitshwaro le ya go phela gabotse yeo e hlalošago mmotlolo wa go itekanela mogopolong.
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Psychological well-being
Dispositional attributes
Emotional competence
Personality types
Middle managers
Career development
Spiritual well-being
Ukuphila kahle ngokwengqondo
Isimo sengqondo esikahle
Ukukwazi ukulawula imizwa
Izinhlobo zesimo somuntu
Abaphathi abasezingeni elimaphakathi
Ukuthuthukiswa komsebenzi nokuphila kahle ngokomoya
Go itekanela gabotse mogopolong
Dika tša tshekamelo
Bokgoni bja go tšweletša maikutlo
Mehuta ya bomotho
Balaodi ba magareng
Tlhabollo ya mošomo le go ba gabotse semoyeng
The development of well-being model for middle managers in a financial services organisation
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/10502021-04-28T09:06:29Zcom_10500_431com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2953col_10500_507
Snyman, Kevin
2009-08-25T10:49:09Z
2009-08-25T10:49:09Z
2002-11
Snyman, Kevin (2002) Myth, mind, Messiah : exploring the development of the Christian responsibility towards interfaith dialogue from within Ken Wilber's integral hermeneutics, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1050>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1050
Interfaith dialogue is no luxury for Christians living in a pluralistic~ effervescent world of intenningling, multi-religious realities. Many Christians take seriously their responsibility towards interfaith dialogue. However, different Christians understand this responsibility in different ways, which often leads to acrimonious accusations of
unchristian dialogical approaches. The question is whether there is any means of ordering and assessing the Christian responsibility towards other religions in a mutually uplifting and increasingly holistic way? Ken Wilber provides an integral, or All-Quadrant, All-Level hermeneutics that may assist us with an answer. All holonswhich means everything in the "Kosmos" - emerge or arise in holarchical fashion. On one level, it is a whole, on the next transcendent level it is a part of the whole. This
process is infinite and is only ever released in One Taste/salvation/Nirvana/the Kingdom of God, or simply unqualifiable Suchness. Wilber provides an integrated methodology for understanding the process by which holons find their release in One Taste. The holon of Christian responsibility towards interfaith dialogue also emerges
through discreet, recognizable stages. Each stage is integrated into the next higher level. The lower levels are more fundamental since they exist as a part of the higher levels. However, the higher levels are more significant, since they have an increased capacity to explore aspects of dialogue previously hidden. The levels we explore are the mythic rational, the rational and the centauric. 'lbese levels emerge through four
interrelated dimensions or Quadrants: the Upper Left or spiritual/faith dimension of the person entering into dialogue, the Upper Right Quadrant or theology of dialogue that emerges, the Lower Left or communal and interpretive realm, and Lower Right which covers the social organizational patterns with which the person in dialogue chooses to associate him or herself. We define responsibility in tenns of these four
Quadrants: The response or theology (UR) of the person is dependent upon her response-ability, or interior faith development (UL), which is informed by the worldview (LL) of her faith community to whom she feels responsible, with the sociological patterns of her community (LR), to some extent, offers clues as to her stage of development.
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Interfaith dialogue
Integral hermeneutics
Ken Wilber
Christian dialogical responsibility
Transpersonal theology
Interreligious dialogue
Holons
Holistic embrace
Pluralism
Structural-developmental dialogue
Mythic rationalism
Centauric theology
Stages of religious dialogue
AQAL approach
Myth, mind, Messiah : exploring the development of the Christian responsibility towards interfaith dialogue from within Ken Wilber's integral hermeneutics
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/282512021-11-16T16:40:28Zcom_10500_506col_10500_507
Luis, Joao
2021-11-15T16:24:04Z
2021-11-15T16:24:04Z
2020-09
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/28251
This study responds to the question of what approach should the church and theology
undertake to address multiculturalism within the church, and how taken in the missiological
context intercultural training promotes cultural competence in a multicultural church. The
study proves that most churches in South African cities consist of a mixture of people from
different cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. This mixture of people, as seen in this study, is
a result of factors such as globalization, migration, and urbanisation. Multiculturalism in the
church challenges the philosophy of ministry in the church including missions, worship,
preaching and interpersonal relationship of the members.
The study suggests the theological training institutions to consider integrating
intercultural training and missions (ITM) into their curriculum to develop cultural
competencies. ITM, being a theological approach of inclusiveness, enables church leaders
with the ability to work effectively in situations characterized by cultural diversity.
Therefore, ethnography was chosen as an appropriate qualitative research
methodology for this study. Research methods such as participant observation, literature
review and interviews were used to collect the data. Interviews were conducted with pastors
of multicultural churches in cities such as Pretoria, Johannesburg, and Cape Town. The
validity of the findings in this research was established through cross-cultural training
schools and workshops conducted with church leaders from different parts of South Africa
and other countries of Africa.
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Multiculturalism
Intercultural training
Mission
Cross-cultural training
Theology training
Contextual approach
Pastors training
Intercultural competence
Intercultural sensitivity
Cultural competence
South African city churches
Globalization
Migration
Urbanisation
Intercultural training and missions : a contextual approach to multiculturalism in South African city churches
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/278292021-08-20T12:55:45Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_14512com_10500_13602com_10500_1col_10500_3753col_10500_14519
Prinsloo, Carine
2021-08-20T10:07:19Z
2021-08-20T10:07:19Z
2020-11
Prinsloo, C. 2020. "Self-Leadership in a Critical Care Outreach Service for Quality Patient Care." Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery 22(2) https://doi.org/10.25159/2520-5293/7542
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27829
The deterioration of patients in general wards could go unnoticed owing to the intermittent monitoring of vital data. The delayed or missed recognition of deteriorating patients results in serious adverse events in general wards. These challenges have resulted in the development of a critical care outreach service. Australia was the first country to establish critical care outreach services in 1990. In South Africa, critical care outreach services were implemented in 2005 at a private hospital in Pretoria. The researcher has noticed certain phenomena supported by literature such as a hesitancy of nurses working in general wards to escalate a patient to a critical care outreach service, and incorrect interpretation of modified early warning scores and this could cause delays in patients being referred to outreach nurse experts. In this study, nurses’ (professional, staff and auxiliary nurses) experiences in respect of their self-leadership in critical care outreach services were explored. To this end, a qualitative phenomenological research approach was followed. Focus groups were held with the nurses (all nurse categories) working in a South African private hospital that provides critical care outreach services. It is recommended that nurses be granted access to training, workshops and information to provide appropriate nursing care. Nurses should be encouraged to focus on the positive outcomes of providing nursing care and to “applaud themselves mentally” when they have successfully assisted or cared for their patients. Nurses also need to identify and correct negative assumptions about their competence.
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critical care outreach
patient deterioration
quality patient care
self-leadership
Self-Leadership in a Critical Care Outreach Service for Quality Patient Care
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/45052022-05-12T17:03:33Zcom_10500_3752com_10500_4206com_10500_4090com_10500_1col_10500_3753col_10500_4216
Susanto, Johanes Lilik
Theron, Jacgues
2011-07-05T12:47:32Z
2011-07-05T12:47:32Z
2008
Susanto, J.L. & Theron, J. 2008','Compassion on people as a stimulus for the development of the church's healing ministry: lessons from the lives of two Pentecostal pioneers',
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. XXXIV, no. 2, pp. 169-184.
1017-0499
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4505
The church’s healing ministry developed rapidly during the
past century, with more and more churches, as well as individuals,
becoming involved in this ministry. The question of
what the key components of a successful healing ministry are
thus arises. The ministries of two Pentecostal pioneers who
were influential in the establishment and further development
of Pentecostalism in South Africa (Lake during the period 1908
to 1912 and Wigglesworth during 1936), the United States and
other parts of the world are studied in this regard. It is clear
from both their actions and their own reflections on the topic
that a divine compassion on the sick was an essential element
in the development of their respective ministries. The article
concludes by emphasising the importance of this aspect in the
training and equipping of those wishing to enter into similar
ministries.
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Pentecostal pioneers
Compassion on people as a stimulus for the development of the church's healing ministry : lessons from the lives of two Pentecostal pioneers
Article
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/20482018-11-17T13:05:21Zcom_10500_14514com_10500_13602com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_14523col_10500_507
Van Rensburg, Madri Stephani Jansen
2009-08-25T10:59:44Z
2009-08-25T10:59:44Z
2004-11
Van Rensburg, Madri Stephani Jansen (2004) From victim to victory: the experiences of abused women and the salience of the support they encounter, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2048>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2048
This thesis includes four studies investigating the experiences of abused women. According to ecological approaches different systems should be considered when conducting research into abused women and their experiences.
The first study involved women who successfully left an abusive relationship. An ecological approach was used to investigate the experiences of the women in the different phases of their relationship, including the initial attraction to the partner, the development and sustaining of the abuse and her attempts to leave until her final decision to leave permanently. An important finding was the importance of considering and investigating all systems and levels when dealing with abused women, including those who have left and those who are contemplating leaving this relationship.
The second study found that women who experienced physical abuse were often hurt in anatomical locations that were indicative of impulsive violence. The abuser used any object in the heat of the moment to attack the victim and no premeditated planning was evident in the type of injuries sustained. The women further reported that medical practitioners did not investigate the causes of injuries and that they were not referred to social services or organisations dealing with abused women, although they were recognised as suffering from abuse.
The intersection of abuse of women and HIV was the topic of focus of the third study. A review of the records of abused women revealed that many abused women were subjected to risk factors for contracting HIV, with counsellors focussing only on abuse issues. Longitudinal case studies, of women exposed to both conditions, revealed that they lacked social support and were often secondarily victimised by the social welfare systems. An environmental scan found that social and health care services were not accessible to these women.
The final study investigated intervention strategies to combat burnout in workers at an organisation dealing with abused women. The importance and effectiveness of creative exercises and art sessions were determined in combination with debriefing and supervision sessions.
The studies all considered systems that are important in service delivery to abused women. A holistic and systemic investigation and treatment of abused women is shown to be essential, as is the importance of grass roots research.
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Social support
Resilience
Interpersonal violence
Domestic Violence
Battering
Women Abuse
Gender Based Violence
Ecological Approach
From victim to victory: the experiences of abused women and the salience of the support they encounter
Thesis
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/157712018-11-17T13:04:56Zcom_10500_23650com_10500_2767com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_23651col_10500_2768col_10500_507
Phillips, Merran Willis
2015-01-23T04:24:05Z
2015-01-23T04:24:05Z
2002-11
Phillips, Merran Willis (2002) The End Conscription Campaign 1983-1988 : a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15771>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/15771
The apartheid state was vulnerable to the opposition of the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) on
two fronts. From 1967 universal white male conscription was introduced, and progressively
increased until 1984. This indicated the growing threat to the apartheid state from regional
decolonisation which offered bases for the armed liberation movement. From 1977 a policy of
"reformed apartheid" attempted to contain internal black opposition through socio-economic
upliftment, but the failure of this containment intensified the need for military coercion. Minority
conscription created an ongoing manpower challenge, which the ECC exacerbated by making the
costs of conscription explicit, thus encouraging non-compliance and emigration.
Secondly, the National Party used a security discourse to promote unity among whites, offsetting
both its conscription demands and its decreased capacity to win white political support through
socio-economic patronage. After the formation of the Conservative Party in 1982, the state faced
conflicting demands for stability from the right, and for reform from the left. The ECC's opposition
intensified these political differences, and challenged conscription on moral grounds, particularly
the internal deployment of the SADF after 1984.
Through its single-issue focus the ECC was able to sidestep divisions which plagued existing
anti-apartheid opposition, uniting a variety of groups in national campaigns between 1984 and
1988. Since it could not afford to accommodate the ECC's demands, and in view of growing white
acceptance of aspects of the ECC's opposition, the state repressed the ECC to limit its public
impact.
By 1988 - in a climate of growing white discontent around the material and personal costs of
conscription, economic decline, political instability and conscript deaths in Angola - the ECC's
call for alternatives to military conscription encouraged a broader range of anti-conscription
sentiment, prompting the state to ban it.
The End Conscription Campaign 1983-1988 : a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/23342018-11-17T13:04:44Zcom_10500_434com_10500_44com_10500_1com_10500_506col_10500_2739col_10500_507
Mbazumutima, Théodore
2009-08-25T11:02:37Z
2009-08-25T11:02:37Z
2009-08-25T11:02:37Z
Mbazumutima, Théodore (2009) The role of the Anglican Church in ministry to Burundian refugees in Tanzania with particular reference to the notions of hope and homeland, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2334>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2334
One of the consequences of the ethnic hatred between Hutu and Tutsi in Burundi is that around 10% of Burundians were forced to flee to Tanzania for their safety. Three decades after the creation of Ulyankulu Settlement through the joint efforts of the Tanzanian government, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), and the Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service (TCRS) it is assumed that these refugees are fully assimilated and feel at home. However, this dissertation argues that they do not feel at home and consequently long to return to their homeland. This study is an attempt to understand the experience of refugees in Ulyankulu Settlement and the contribution of this experience towards their craving for their homeland. It also explores the role played by Anglican Church in shaping these refugees' experience. Finally the study proposes ways of improving the church's ministry among these refugees.
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Refugees
Ulyankulu
Church leaders
Genocide
Tanzania
Burundi
Refugee settlement
Hope
Homeland
Anglican Church
Tutsi
Hutu
The role of the Anglican Church in ministry to Burundian refugees in Tanzania with particular reference to the notions of hope and homeland
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/142272018-11-17T13:04:29Zcom_10500_107com_10500_37com_10500_25com_10500_506col_10500_108col_10500_507
Du Toit, Alison Jane
2014-10-27T11:35:13Z
2014-10-27T11:35:13Z
2014-06
Du Toit, Alison Jane (2014) Emotional intelligence and leadership in a South African financial services institution, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14227>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14227
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is a relationship between
emotional intelligence and leadership among senior leaders in a South African financial services
organisation. The sample consisted of 973 participants. A convenience sample was used, as the
leaders were part of a strategic organisational initiative and completed measurement instruments as
part of this process. All participants completed the Bar-On EQ-i, in order to measure emotional
intelligence, whereas the leadership data were obtained from an organisation-specific multi-rater
which accessed self-ratings, peer and subordinate ratings as well as manager ratings in
terms of leadership behaviours linked to organisational worldviews of leadership effectiveness. The
results show that there was a statistically significant relationship between emotional intelligence
and leadership among the leaders, but that there was poor predictive strength between these
variables.
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Emotional intelligence
Leadership
Banking institution
Senior leaders
Emotional intelligence and leadership in a South African financial services institution
Dissertation
oai:uir.unisa.ac.za:10500/161472018-11-17T13:05:03Zcom_10500_6418com_10500_4671com_10500_506col_10500_6435col_10500_507
Stylianou, Nitsa
2015-01-23T04:24:19Z
2015-01-23T04:24:19Z
2000-06
Stylianou, Nitsa (2000) Towards the training of psychology tutors : an ecosystemic approach, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16147>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16147
This study explores the training of Psychology tutors at the University of South Africa's
(UNISA) learning centres with a view to providing a paradigm shift in tutor training and
contributing towards new ways of thinking about education and training in South Africa. It
furthermore opens up alternative ways of thinking about the process of facilitation in general.
Although the study focuses on tutor training within the discipline of Psychology, the
outcomes of the study are applicable to tutor training and tutoring in general, and make a valuable
contribution in identifying the basic principles underlying tutor training in other disciplines as
well. An ecosystemic approach encourages the trainer-trainee system to become aware of how
they affect each other's thinking and behaviour. The basic principles underlying the process of
facilitation that emerge in the study, therefore apply equally to the training of tutors and the
tutoring of learners by others. These principles provide guidelines in terms of the processes
involved in tutor development, as well as inform the issues and themes around which the sharing of ideas can be choreographed in the field of tutor training and tutoring.
In conclusion, the information generated in the study focuses specifically on student
support in the form of face-to-face tutorials in the distance education setting, the form of tertiary
education which is most accessible to many historically disadvantaged learners in South Africa
today. More generally, it will make a valuable contribution in the current educational context
in South Africa, where student support is of the utmost importance in striving for equality in
education, and where the focus is on outcomes-based education.
Tutor training
Tutorial programme
Distance education
Open learning
Face-to-face tutorials
Learning centres
Ecosystemic theory
Outcomes-based education
Facilitation
Towards the training of psychology tutors : an ecosystemic approach
Thesis
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Karoly, Viola (2009) A case study of South African commercial mortgage backed securitisation, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1665>
http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1665
Commercial mortgage-backed securitisation (CMBS) is an important development in the South African property finance field. This study explains the characteristics; structure and structuring; advantages, disadvantages and risks; and legal and regulatory aspects of CMBS. Four CMBS programmes have been launched in South Africa to date (August 2006) all of which have been originated by listed Property Loan Stock (PLS) companies. The unique features of the four programmes were examined and the impact on their originators and the listed property sector was analysed. The main participants in the South African CMBS industry were interviewed. CMBS has acted as a catalyst for greater competition between banks resulting in lower interest rates on bank debt and the creation of new property financing products. The introduction of CMBS has benefited not only the four originating PLS companies, but also had a positive impact on the entire listed property sector.
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Single borrower
Case study
Property loan stock company (PLS)
South Africa
Securitisation
Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)
Commercial mortgage-backed securitisation
Structured finance
Property finance
Debt securities
A case study of South African commercial mortgage backed securitisation
Dissertation
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