South Africa is one of the most important mining countries in the world, hosting the world's largest reserves of platinum group metals (PGMs). Even though mining is clearly an important activity in South Africa, contributing ...
Increased amounts of pesticide production and application of pesticides for agriculture,
plant protection and animal health has resulted in soil, water and air pollution,
consequently relating a serious risk to the ...
Entrepreneurship has played an important role in economic prosperity and social
stability in many developed countries. Today South Africa as developing country is
faced with massive challenges of high levels of unemployment ...
Sunflower cultivation in South Africa is threatened to a large extent by the fungal parasite,
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, which causes extensive head rot and crop losses of up to 100%.
This is a major problem for commercial ...
Chitosan, derived from the most abundant natural polymer available next to cellulose,
lacks the micrometric properties a pharmaceutical excipient intended for direct
compression has to comprise. Excellent flowability, ...
The purpose of this dissertation was to determine if the cumulative impacts
from point source discharges in the Kromdraai Catchment area sigdicantly
impacting on the fitness of use of the surface water resource.
The ...
The role of entrepreneurship and innovation are becoming increasingly important for businesses to maintain and enhance their competitiveness. This also holds true for agribusinesses in the agricultural sector as an important ...
Women entrepreneurship is increasing rapidly, women are starting their own business
to take control over their personal and professional lives and the role that these women
entrepreneurs play to eradicate poverty and ...
People, processes and teams form the basis of organisational success. Therefore
the understanding and prediction of people and their behaviour- both individual and
in a team - is a critical management activity. Behaviour ...
The presence of seed- and leaf-gall nematodes (SLGN; Subanguina spp.) in seed of Eragrostis spp. grass is currently a matter of great economic concern to the local grass seed industry. The adverse effect of these parasites ...
Sasol Solvent, a division of Sasol Chemical Industries, is a global manufacturer and supplier of a diverse range of solvents, co-monomers and associated products. This division consist of twelve production facilities, of ...
Background. Considering the experience of the Port of Port Elizabeth where waste
volumes discharged from ships dropped drastically at the time when disposal tariffs
had been increased due to a regional crisis, the question ...
ESKOM is moving towards a price structure for electricity which reflects, as far as
possible, the real cost of generation. It is called real time pricing (RTP). ESKOM
developed this cost structure to coax customers to ...
The North-West Province has the fifth highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country and has an estimated HIV prevalence of 22.9%. On the 24th November 1999 cabinet approved a special allocation of funds to finance a National ...
Chiiosan is a natural polysaccharide that is obtained by the partial deacetylation of
chitin, the second most abundant natural polymer. Chiiosan is currently extensively
utilised in various pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical ...
IAS 39 and recorded structured interviews with the respondents. The accounting treatment of commodity derivatives was investigated by utilising nine transaction types which are typically found when producers sell grain to ...