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The duty to effect an appropriate mode of payment to minor pension beneficiaries under scrutiny in death claims
(2009)This note focuses on the payment into a trust arrangement in favour of a minor beneficiary as contemplated in terms of section 37C (2) of the Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956. The aim is to examine the criteria under which the ... -
The Duty to Produce One’s Firearm for Inspection in Terms of the Firearms Control Act: The Right to Silence under Siege?
(PER/PELJ, 2018)The right of the arrested and accused persons to remain silent at pre-trial and during their trial are significant to ensuring a fair trial. The purpose of the right to remain silent is to ensure that the state bears the ... -
Dynamics of agricultural land and the risk to food insecurity in the Niayes region of Diamniadio, West Senegal
(OASIS, 2017)Food security is a serious challenge facing West African countries because most croplands are being degraded. Consequently, agricultural production is being exceeded by rapid population growth. This study relates the ... -
Dynamics of configuring and interpreting the disaster risk script: experiences from Zimbabwe
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)People in Zimbabwe have been faced with disasters in different forms and at various levels. When people experience hazard events and disasters, they perceive these phenomena through lenses that are largely shaped by their ... -
Dynasty building, family networks and social capital: alcohol pachters and the development of a colonial elite at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1760-1790.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)A hallmark of colonisation was extensive social reconfiguration, leading to the development of local elites which differed from the metropolitan and indigenous patterns. Historians of the Cape of Good Hope during the ... -
E-payment instruments and welfare: The case of Zimbabwe
(AOSIS, 2021)The literature shows that electronic payments are key to improving financial inclusion and achieving global development goals such as the United Nation’s (UNs) Sustainable Development Goals. The benefits are premised on ... -
The earliest visits of ANC leaders to the USSR.
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Early history of the Victoria West branch of the Standard Bank of South Africa.
(Afdeling Streekgeskiedenis van die lnstituut vir Geskiedenisnavorsing, RGN / Section for Regional History, Institute for Historical Research, HSRC, 1982)• Opsomming: Die Standard Bank van Suid-Afrika se tweede tak is op 15 April 1863 op Victoria-Wes geopen. Die Bank wat in verskeie geboue gehuisves was voordat die huidige moderne gebou betrek is, deel reeds vir meer ... -
The early printed Books of Hours in the Grey Collection in Cape Town: evidence of an information revolution
(2014)Printed books of hours, the best-seller of the late medieval trade in books, provide evidence of an information revolution equal to that occasioned by the Internet today. The Grey Collection of the National Library in ... -
Early roots of “coloured” poverty: How much can 19th century censuses assist to explain the current situation?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The coloured population comprises almost 10 per cent of the South African population, earning only a slightly smaller proportion of national income. The average income of this group hides, however, startlingly large ... -
Earthquake loss estimation of residential buildings in Bantul regency, Indonesia
(OASIS, 2019)Bantul regency in 2006 had experienced considerable earthquake and suffered many casualties. The factors such as high population density and lack of seismic design of residential buildings in Bantul besides its location ... -
Ecohydrological threats to Colophospermum mopane in southern Zimbabwe
(AOSIS, 2018)Rapid ecohydrological changes in semi-arid landscapes are increasingly threatening humanity’s life-support systems and eroding many of the ecosystem services (ESs) upon which humans occupying such regions depend. Knowing ... -
Ecological vulnerability indicators to drought: case of communal farmers in Eastern Cape, South Africa
(OASIS, 2019)Estimation of ecological drought vulnerability indicators is the important step for drought mitigation management. This article identified and estimated ecological drought vulnerability indicators among communal farmers ... -
Economic migration and the socio-economic impacts on the emigrant’s family: a case of Ward 8, Gweru Rural district, Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2018)Gweru Rural district in the Midlands province of Zimbabwe has witnessed an increasing number of outward migrations of breadwinners, leaving behind a desperate environment for families. This study was motivated by the ... -
Economic nationalism amid ethnic disharmony in postcolonial Zimbabwe (1980-2013): a case of Matabeleland Provinces
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The colonial legacy of uneven economic development in Zimbabwe and the use of such constructs as ‘Mashonaland’, ‘Matabeleland’ and ‘Manicaland’ have remained substantially unaltered under the post-colonial government. Those ... -
Economic remittances from employment in the Second World War and family conflicts, Swaziland, 1941-1950
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)Swaziland was connected to the Allied conduct of the Second World War through colonial ties and about four thousand Swazi men were recruited to serve in the war. Historians are beginning to analyse the different ways in ... -
Economic vulnerability to tropical storms on the southeastern coast of Africa
(OASIS, 2020)Climate change will hit Africa economically hard, not least Southeast Africa. Understanding the impact of extreme climatic events is important for both economic development and climate change policy. Global climatological ... -
Ecosystem services and international water law: towards a more effective determination and implementation of equity?
(2013)Interest in an ecological- or an ecosystem-centred approach to natural resource management is not new, and in the case of water management has been very well emphasised for many decades. Recently however, a new focus has ... -
Edgar, R. 1988. Because they chose the plan of God. The story of the Bulhoek massacre. [Boek resensie]
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Edgerton, R.B. 1988. Like lions they fought: the Zulu War and the last black empire in South Aftica. [Book review]
(Afdeling Plaaslike en Streekgeskiedenisnavorsing van die lnstituut vir Geskiedenisnavorsing, RGN / Division for Local and Regional History Research, Institute for Historical Research, HSRC, 1989)