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Challenges surrounding the adjudication of women's rights in relation to customary law and practices in Tanzania
(PER/PELJ, 2019)Women's rights litigation has produced varied outcomes in many African countries. Although courts have looked at the legislation that discriminates against women with different degrees of success, matters such as tradition ... -
Challenges to belief systems in the context of climate change adaptation
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)Recent climate change is unprecedented and its effects increasingly experienced. Climate change is, however, an abstract concept and the study of the idea of climate change as social construct opens up avenues to investigate ... -
Challenges to cosmic ray modeling: from beyond the solar wind termination shock
(Elsevier, 2008)Voyager 1 crossed the solar wind termination shock on December 16, 2004 at a distance of 94 AU from the Sun, to become the first spacecraft to explore the termination shock region and to enter the heliosheath, the final ... -
Challenges to disaster risk reduction: a study of stakeholders’ perspectives in Imizamo Yethu, South Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011)South Africa is a complex and dynamic society, with overwhelming and increasing problems with disaster risk in the vulnerable urban communities in and around its rapidly growing metropolitan centres. The purpose of this ... -
Challenges to low-cost housing delivery in Ratlou local municipality : the study of Makgobistad village
(North-West University (South Africa), 2022)This study examines the challenges affecting low-cost housing delivery in the Ratlou Local Municipality, focusing on Makgobistad village. This study applied a qualitative research approach in which semi-structured interviews ... -
Challenges to political and econimic intergration in Africa : A socio-Legal perspective
(North-West University (South Africa), 2013)This study is concerned with integration efforts on the African continent. This study sets out to investigate the politico-legal and economic impediments to regional and continental integration efforts in Africa. The ... -
Challenges to regional intergration in the SADC region : a legal perspective
(2011)The Southern African Development Community (SADC), formerly known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), is an organization of Southern African states initially formed to reduce economic dependence ... -
Challenges to the efficient implementation of expanded Public Works programme projects in the North West Province
(North-West University (South Africa) Mafikeng Campus, 2016)The purpose of the study was to investigate the challenges to the efficient implementation of the Expanded Public Works Programmes (EPWP) project in the North West Province. The main aim of EPWP is to alleviate poverty and ... -
Challenges to the prohibition on sovereignty in Outer Space - A new frontier for space governance
(PER/PELJ, 2021)The current space arena has changed significantly since the 1950s, when outer space activities commenced. At the time of the adoption of the Outer Space Treaty (and the related General Assembly Resolutions), the outer ... -
Challenges to the role of the executive mayor in financial management at selected local municipalities in the Free State
(North West University, 2013)Local government, as government at grassroot, has, probably undergone transformation more than any institution in post-1994 South Africa. State-of the-art legislation have been passed that have restructured municipalities, ... -
Challenges to the South African corporate leniency policy and cartel enforcement
(Juta Law, 2015)Die voorkoming, opsporing en vervolging van kartelle is ’n prioriteit van mededingingsowerhede wêreldwyd gegewe die negatiewe impak wat sodanige bedrywighede het op pryse en keuse van produkte en die feit dat dit invoering ... -
Challenges to the vision and mission of lifelong learning in Sub–Saharan Africa
(KRE Publishers, 2014)Lifelong learning has become a fashionable term that is being mu ch talk ed about by politicians, occasional reviewers of development policies and academicians who are constantly exploring ways ... -
Challenges with implementation of nutrition interventions aimed at non-communicable diseases among black urban South Africans
(North-West University (South Africa), Potchefstroom Campus, 2018)AIM - To investigate challenges to the implementation of nutrition interventions aimed at chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) at government, community and individual levels in the Langa PURE study site in Cape Town, ... -
Challenging old perceptions: the classification of website advertisements according to South African Contract Law
(Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016)South African law draws a distinction between offers and invitations to treat. Although the intention with which a statement is made is usually cited as a controlling factor in determining its proper classification, there ... -
Challenging prevalent sexual practices amongst black South African teenage girls leading to unwanted pregnancies : a Practical Theological Study
(North-West University (South-Africa), 2019)The focus of the study is to challenge prevalent sexual practices amongst black South African teenage girls leading to unwanted pregnancies. In precolonial times teenage pregnancy and sex before marriage was rare amongst ... -
Challenging the universality of job resources: why, when, and for whom are they beneficial?
(Wiley, 2020)In this paper we introduce the topic of job resources and elaborate on their relevance for research and practice in work psychology. We start out with a brief overview of the historic and current understanding of job ... -
Chandra and HESS observations of the supernova remnant CTB 37B
(EDP Sciences, 2008)We discovered the >100 GeV γ-ray source, HESS J1713−381, apparently associated with the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) CTB37B, using HESS in 2006. In 2007 we performed X-ray follow-up observations with Chandra with ... -
Change and retrenchment : an overview of the causes, process and effects in South Africa
(Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 2003)Retrenchment and unemployment has become a general concern for many South Africans, especially in the age of globalization. This phenomenon, however, is not unique to South Africa. Technological advancement in communication ... -
Change detection in INARCH time series of counts
(Springer, 2016)In the present paper we develop an online procedure for detecting changes in the parameters of integer ARCH models of order one. The test statistic utilizes the notion of the empirical probability generating function. The ... -
Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity
(Nature, 2018)Herbivores alter plant biodiversity (species richness) in many of the world’s ecosystems, but the magnitude and the direction of herbivore effects on biodiversity vary widely within and among ecosystems. One current theory ...