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Director's Secret Profit- Accounting to the Company

Havenga, Michele (Juta, 1991)

The successful acquisition of the Distillers Company (hereafter referred to as 'Distillers') by Guinness (hereafter 'Guinness') during 1986 caused an outrage in Britain. One of the consequences ofthe bid for Distillers ...
Company directors- fiduciary duties, corporate opportunities and confidential information

Havenga, Michele (Juta, 1989)

The recent decision in Sibex Construction (SA) (Pty) Ltd v InjectasealCC 1988(2) SA 54(T) once again focuses attention on the general duty owed by a director to his company not to make personal use ofconfidential ...
Spiritual character traits and leadership in the school workplace: An exploration of the relationship between spirituality and school leadership in some private and religiously affiliated schools in South Africa

Dreyer, Jaco S.; Hermans, Chris A.M. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014)

The South African educational system is in a crisis. This situation places huge demands on school principals and school management teams, and raises many theoretical and empirical questions. Transformational leadership is ...
A Da'wah (Invitation of people towards Islam) movement in Mauritius : a study of the Jamaat-UL-Muslimeen (Assembly of Muslims)

Maniacara, Maaïdah Ammaara Ud-Deen (2014-11)

‘A da’wah movement in Mauritius: A study of the Jamaat-Ul-Muslimeen’ is based on qualitative research and its objective is to examine the socio-cultural factors that may hinder the processes of da’wah in Mauritius. The ...
An investigation of social factors, which interfere with the child's ability to read and write

Ntshudisane, Bernard Levy (2014-02)

The changing of the education system holistically in South Africa as a prerequisite has impacted negatively on the child‘s ability to read and write, which also degraded the country‘s standard as compared to other countries ...
Alcohol use amongst psychiatric in-patients in a mental hospital in Ethiopia

Henok Admassu Guranda (2013-09)

The purpose of this study was to explore alcohol use among psychiatric in-patients in a mental hospital in Ethiopia. A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study design was used. Data were collected through face to ...
The competencies of integrity

Barnard, Antoni (2011)

The study explored the construction of integrity in a South African work context and from the viewpoint of business leaders (n=6, females = 2 males = 4). Three of the business leaders were managing directors, two senior ...
The experiences of neophyte professional nurses allocated in critical care unit in their first year post graduation in Kwa-Zulu Natal

Chiliza, Marilyn Thabisile (2014-06)

The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of neophyte professional nurses working in ICU during their first year post graduation with the aim to discover strategies to support the nurse in ...
Joined-up knowledge for a joined-up world : critical realism, philosophy of meta-reality and the emancipation in/of anthropological spirituality, an exploration of confluence

Schreiber, D. A. (2015)

Seldom are we privileged to witness an international philosophical movement, which in addition to being a philosophical revolution, vindicates the values and concerns of a critical anthropological approach in Spirituality ...
The determinants of board decision quality in South Africa : a case of public entities

Singh, Shamila (2014-11)

Effective corporate governance of boards can become a sustainable competitive advantage for organisations. In the extant literature a number of reasons are cited for dysfunctional boards. Some of the reasons attributed to ...
Utilisation of mobile health in Zimbabwe

Marufu, Chester (2015-02-10)

MHealth is an upcoming area promising to contribute benefits to health service delivery. The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the rate of mHealth utilisation as well as opportunities for mHealth and the ...
Fanon's perspective on intercultural communication in postcolonial South Africa

Sonderling, Stefan (Communitas: Journal for Community Communication & Information Impact, 2014-11-30)

This article develops a Fanonian perspective to understand intercultural communication in postcolonial South Africa. Apartheid’s demise is communicated as a moral victory over evil and South African whites are persuaded ...
Teaching moral values to the youth through Ananse stories among the Akan in Ghana

Akwasi, Arko-Achemfuor (Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies, 2013-09)

The Akan ethnic group have a very rich culture in the areas of language, tradition, chieftaincy and systems of inheritance.
The Bias ratio as a hedge fund fraud indicator: an empirical study under different economic conditions.

Van Dyk, Francois; van Vuuren, Gary; Heymans, Andre (The Clute Institute, 2014-07)

The Sharpe ratio is widely used as a performance evaluation measure for traditional (i.e., long only) investment funds as well as less-conventional funds such as hedge funds. Based on mean-variance theory, the Sharpe ratio ...
The role of the emotional father-son relationship in the self-concept formation of adolescent boys in secondary schools

Pitsoane, Enid Manyaku (2014?)

The study investigated adolescent boys who experienced behavioural problems at school and the possible causes for these phenomena. It was evident that the adolescent boys who experienced behavioural problems were found to ...
The impact of the rights and obligations of nurses on patient care in a critical setting in Gauteng Province

Tsatsane, Meriam Semanki (2014-06)

This study explored and described the impact of the rights and obligations of nurses on the delivery of quality patient care in a clinical setting. Quantitative research approach was utilised. Data was collected using a ...
Pitfalls of national development and reconstruction : an ethical appraisal of socio-economic transformation in post-war Mozambique

Matsinhe, David Mário (2000-06)

Mozambique is undergoing intensive socio-economic reforms to reconstruct war damages and develop the nation. The reforms consist of economic liberalisation through structural adjustment and monetarist economic ...
The depiction of women characters in selected Venda novels

Mawela, Agnes (1994-11)

This study is a comparison of female characters portrayed by different authors in selected Venda novels. Chapter One comprises the aim of the study, approach, life history of authors, comments on their work, a short ...
Proverbs 31:10-31 in a South African context : a bosadi (womanhood) perspective

Masenya, M. J. (Madipoane Joyce) (1996-06)

One of the presuppositions of the present research is that readers and their contexts play a significant role in the interpretation of biblical texts. The key text of this thesis is Proverbs 31: 10-31 and the main readers ...
The application of the polygraph in the criminal justice system.

Martin, Raymond Charles (2001-02)

This dissertation, which is both exploratory and descriptive in nature, initially describes the development of the polygraph against a background of understanding society's rejection of the lying phenomenon. The theoretical ...

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