• A GIS-based approach to analyse potable water acccessibility in Langeloop Village in Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga 

  Mathaba, K. M. (2024-01)

  Potable water accessibility is fundamentally a human right, crucial for sustaining life and ensuring the well-being of individuals and communities. However, in rural areas, people struggle to find enough clean water to ...
• A strategy for the improvement of spatial thinking in undergraduate Geography at South African universities 

  Carow, Sanet Patricia (2024-01)

  Spatial thinking allows a person to use space to structure problems, model the real world, and identify and communicate possible solutions to challenges. Research proved a strong correlation between students studying ...
• 'Borrowing' Parks : an analysis of organised events and attachment to Urban Parks, Johannesburg 

  Van Vuuren, Leani (2024-05)

  Since the start of planned park developments, parks have been considered the spatial and social ‘fixes’ to the cultural, political, economic, and environmental challenges of cities. This is even more pronounced in dynamic ...
• Determining the uptake of ICT, GIS, RS, and 4IR technologies in improving food security in the agricultural sector in Gauteng Province, South Africa 

  Mafenya, Khathutshelo (2024-01-27)

  Food insecurity has long been a problem in South Africa, with 6.5 million people (11% of the population) suffering from hunger in 2019. South Africa should, due to rising demands for food in urban areas, notably in Gauteng, ...
• Estimating spatiotemporal variability of maize crop evapotranspiration in the Mooi River catchment, South Africa: a crop coefficient approach using satellite remote sensing-based vegetation indices 

  Olivier, Gerhard (2024-01)

  In an area experiencing semi-arid conditions, such as the Mooi River catchment, it is crucial to ascertain the evapotranspiration rate accurately. Evaluating evapotranspiration is beneficial in areas where the water ...
• An assessment of the classification of limestone rock slopes in surface mining: a case study in South Africa 

  Mkonde, Akhona Amanda (2024)

  Slopes in surface mines are usually designed from the geotechnical data. The important geotechnical parameters include geology, rock strength and groundwater. In designing the most optimum slopes, each geotechnical parameter ...
• Amalgamated municipalities: an investigation into spatial, economic and political transformation of amalgamated municipalities, focusing on Ekurhuleni, South Africa 

  Tshabalala, Sabelo (2024-01)

  Several South African cities are faced with challenges of rapid urbanisation, overpopulation, spatial inequalities, and poor service delivery. Local municipalities have failed to adequately address the challenges manifested ...
• Empowerment of small-scale communal forest growers based on four case studies: opportunities, challenges, and risks - towards a suitable solution 

  Mkwalo, Andile Churchill (2023-07-31)

  The purpose of this study is to assess the challenges, opportunities, and risks of small scale communal forest projects across four communities in South Africa, and through this, to make a contribution to the neglected ...
• A geo-informatics approach to sustainability assessments of floatovoltaic technology in South African agricultural applications 

  Prinsloo, Frederik Christoffel (2022-11)

  South African project engineers recently pioneered the first agricultural floating solar photovoltaic tech nology systems in the Western Cape wine region. This effort prepared our country for an imminent large scale diffusion ...
• (Un)sustainability of rural household food security in Kurfa Chele Woreda, East Hararghe zone, Ethiopia 

  Siyoum Girma Muleta (2022-12)

  This study examined the status and sustainability of food security. It investigated the socio-economic, demographic, institutional and environmental determinants of the un/sustainability of rural household food security ...
• Urban landscape change and its relationality to sense of place : the case study of Swakopmund 

  Pocsi, Antal Faghan (2022-10)

  This dissertation presents Swakopmund, Namibia, as a case study and asks how changes in the landscape brought about by urban development and modernisation influence the sense of place experienced by the resident population. A ...
• Lived experiences and geographical consciousness : a study of five Namibian schools 

  Wepener, Tiani (2022-04)

  In Namibian schools, structured and organised outdoor learning opportunities are not accessible to everyone or equally distributed. All Namibian learners do, however, have access to lived experiences outside of school and ...
• The political economy of peri-urban transformations in Zimbabwe under globalisation - a case study of Harare 

  Mazhindu, Elias (2020-10-15)

  The bulk of urban studies in sub-Saharan Africa has, hitherto, focused on the impacts of structural adjustment programmes on urban productivity and citizen welfare. However, little is known about the dynamics (Mbiba & ...
• A study of light curve variations in eclipsing contact binary stars 

  Jooste, Analize (2022-03)

  The study of light curves of W UMa (W Ursa Majoris type) eclipsing contact binary stars can provide insight into their physical dimensions as well as their evolution. By making use of different data sets, including from ...
• Policy responses to urban environmental problems: the case of solid and liquid waste management in the major urban centres of Tigray National Regional State 

  Gebretsadkan Gebremichael Berhe (2019-07)

  The highly accelerated rates of growth that the cities and towns of the Tigray National Regional State witnessed in the recent past has been followed by a growing problem of urban and peri-urban environmental degradation ...
• Small-scale farmers' perceptions on the causes of land degradation in the Luvuvhu catchment, Limpopo Province, South Africa 

  Nthungeni, Nndwammbi (2020-05)

  Land degradation is currently a major concern in South Africa. However, awareness of the problem and attitude towards it has changed little over the past century. Soil erosion leading to land degradation is continually ...
• A comparative evaluation of water supply perceptions and overall stewardship in Hammaskraal amd Attridgeville 

  Mthimunye, Keitumetse (2020-12)

  This research focused on evaluating and comparing the perceptions, water-use behaviour, water conservation awareness and overall water stewardship of participants residing in Hammanskraal and Atteridgeville who have ...
• A geographical interpretation of the interplay between urban development, conservation, and sense of place of urban greenspace in Rietvlei Nature Reserve, Tshwane, South Africa 

  De Jager, Anna Elizabeth (2020-11)

  In an increasingly changing world, the attributes of human and physical environments are critical in assessing human quality of life (HQoL). The research sources consulted for this thesis point to specific relationships ...
• COVID-19 and the academe in South Africa: Not business as usual 

  Hedding, David; Greve, Michelle; Nel, Werner; Breetzke, Gregory D.; Jansen van Vuuren, Bettine (2020-07-20)

  The famous R.E.M. song laments ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it, I had some time alone, I feel fine…’. Many South Africans would agree that COVID-19 signals the end of the world (or business) as we know it, and ...
• Prospects of sustainable land management amidst interlocking challenges in the Upper Beshillo Catchments, Northeastern Highlands of Ethiopia 

  Asnake Yimam Yesuph (2020-03)

  Land degradation is a great threat to the Beshlo Catchment in Blue Nile Basisn, not merely as an environmental issue, but also a social and economic problem. In Gedalas Watershed (one of the micro catchments of Beshelo), ...

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