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A twostep clustering algorithm as applied to crime data of South Africa
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
This study applied a TwoStep cluster analysis on the 29 serious crimes reported at 1119 police stations across South Africa for the 2009/2010 financial year. Due to this high number of variables and observations, it becomes ...
The depletion of narrative resources in the Kenyan trade union movement
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
We discuss in this study the problems of mobilization and effectiveness faced by Kenyan trade unions. In a country with high levels of unemployment and weak labour legislation, it is imperative that the labour movement ...
Is the South African exchange rate volatile? Application of the arch framework
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
This study applies the autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) model to forecast exchange rate volatility in South Africa for the period 1990Q1 to 2014Q2. The ARCH (1) and ARCH (2) models were constructed using ...
The impact of the implementation of an enterprise resource planning system on a typical governmental office
(CSSALL Publishers, 2015)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are part of Information
Systems which organisations depend on when conducting business. An ERP
system offers useful functionality in the smooth running of an organisation.
This ...
Financial guarantees and public debt in South Africa
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
A few years since the worst of the Euro sovereign debt crisis, many nations, from Cyprus to Ireland, including South Africa are re-visiting their public debt management to avert or lessen the impact of similar such happenings ...
Artisanal fisheries in the Ndumo area of the Lower Phongolo River floodplain, South Africa
(AOSIS, 2015)
The aim of this study was to investigate the status of artisanal fisheries in the lower Phongolo River floodplain in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A cross-sectional quantitative survey design was used that included ...
An optimal generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity model for forecasting the South African inflation volatility
(International Foundation for Research & Development, 2015)
In most cases, financial variables are explained by leptokurtic distribution and often fail the assumption of normal distribution. This paper sought to explore the robustness of GARCH–type models in forecasting inflation ...
A qualitative analysis of motives and challenges in professional female soccer
(2015)
This study investigated the motives and challenges experienced by professional female soccer players in South Africa. It used a qualitative research approach in which data was collected from eleven purposively selected ...
Box-Jenkins transfer function framework applied to saving-investment nexus in the South African context
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
This paper studied the relationship between investment and savings in South Africa for the period 1990 quarter 1 to 2014 quarter 3. The unit root test confirmed the non-stationarity of the series prior to first differencing. ...
How applicable is export-led growth and import-led growth hypotheses to South African economy? The VECM and causality approach
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
This paper investigated exports, imports and the economic growth nexus in the context of South Africa. The paper sets out to examine if long-run and causal relationships exist between these variables. Quarterly time series ...