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Flood vulnerability and economic valuation of small and medium-sized enterprise owners to enhance sustainability
(OASIS, 2022)Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in supporting Indonesia’s economic growth and provide employment for people. Nevertheless, SMEs are most vulnerable when there is a flood. Small and medium ... -
Flood vulnerability level analysis as a hydrological disaster mitigation effort in Krueng Jreue Sub-Watershed, Aceh Besar, Indonesia
(OASIS, 2019)The flood phenomenon in the Krueng Jreue Sub-Watershed, Aceh Besar, Indonesia, in recent years indicates biophysical damage to the land. Floods are influenced by factors from biophysical conditions of the land and high ... -
Flooding and its impacts on Nkondo community in Rundu, Kavango east region of Namibia, 1950s
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)This is a study on flooding and its impact on the Nkondo community in Rundu, in the Kavango area of Namibia. It draws from archival sources at the National Archives of Namibia. Whilst archival documents provide an idea of ... -
Flooding and poverty: two interrelated social problems impacting rural development in Tsholotsho district of Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe
(OASIS, 2018)Flooding and poverty are the two social problems that have coexisted within the rural communities of Tsholotsho district. As a result, both problems have negatively affected and disrupted the everyday pattern of lives of ... -
Flooding, flood risks and coping strategies in urban informal residential areas: the case of Keko Machungwa, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2012)This article presents findings from a study carried out in Keko Machungwa informal settlement in Dar es Salaam under the auspices of the Disaster Management Training Centre of Ardhi University, Tanzania. The settlement has ... -
Following the footsteps: Urbanisation of Wa Municipality and its synergism in risk accumulation, uncertainties and complexities in urban Ghana
(OASIS, 2019)Global demographic characteristics have witnessed a significant shift with more than half of the world’s population crossing the rural–urban threshold in 2008. In Ghana, the 2010 census report revealed 50.9% urban population. ... -
Food security, wheat production and policy in South Africa: reflections on food sustainability and challenges for a market economy
(AOSIS, 2018)The traditional concept of security has broadened over the past decades. Food security in South Africa is an imperative for human and non-human survival. In the contemporary political economy, there is a real nexus between ... -
A fool’s errand? Black Consciousness and the 1970s debate over the “Indian” in the Natal Indian Congress
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)Bantu Stephen Biko, born in Tarkastad in the Eastern Cape was murdered by the South African apartheid regime in September 1977, aged 31. The year 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of his birth. Biko remains iconic, but a ... -
For neither king nor swastika? Malan’s Afrikaner nationalism and De Valera’s Irish nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)The debate on supposed fascist influences on Afrikaner nationalists, particularly the mainstream National Party (NP), as opposed to more extremist groups, has mostly centred around alleged links or parallels with Nazi ... -
"For the Sake of the Children": South African Family Relocation Disputes
(2011)Decisions by primary caregiving parents to relocate after divorce, thereby disrupting the non–primary caregivers’ right of contact with children or, where both parents have joint care, the denial of the other’s parental ... -
Forceful arrests: an overview of section 49 of the criminal procedure act 51 of 1977 and its recent amendments
(2012)The debate concerning the use of violence by the police force is an endless one. Section 49 of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 serves as a framework for the use of violence by police officers during arrests in South ... -
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)The conditions prevailing in the world, where fast growing populations are coupled with rapidly expanding urbanization and a general increase in poverty levels, are greatly aggravating the disaster risks and vulnerabilities ... -
Forfeiture of Patrimonial Benefits and the Dissolution of Marriage through Death : Monyepao v Ledwaba (1368/18) [2020] ZASCA 54 (27 May
(PER/PELJ, 2022)Section 9 of the Divorce Act 70 of 1979 provides for the forfeiture of patrimonial benefits when a decree of divorce is granted on the ground of the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage. This case note discusses the ... -
"Forgetting the past" for "citizenship": barter and resentment in Martinique (1848 - 1946)
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The forgotten Effendi: Ottoman Muslim theologian, Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi, and the real story of the Bo-Kaap Museum, c.1894-1978
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article attempts to re-present the religious and educational activities of a forgotten Muslim scholar, Mahmud Fakih Effendi, in Cape history. The subject of the article is related to this Ottoman scholar, as well ... -
Formal regulation of third party litigation funding agreements? A South African perspective
(PER/PELJ, 2018)In South Africa third party litigation funding agreement as a tool that provides access to justice is not legislated with regard to non-lawyers. This article is based on research conducted to determine whether regulating ... -
Formal segregation and population distribution in Port Elizabeth.
(Afdeling Plaaslike en Streekgeskiedenisnavorsing van die lnstituut vir Geskiedenisnavorsing, RGN / Division for Local and Regional History Research, Institute for Historical Research, HSRC, 1988)• Opsomming: Port Elizabeth se bevolkingsverspreiding is ingrypend beïnvloed deur die verskillende segregasiebeleide wat sedert die koloniale tydperk daar toegepas is. Toenemende grade van skeiding het mettertyd opmerklik ...