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The feasibility of electronic voting technologies in Africa: selected case examples
(AOSIS, 2019)The use of electronic voting technologies (EVTs) presents hurdles to election management bodies (EMBs) and other election stakeholders in Africa. The constitutionality and feasibility of such technologies provoke several ... -
Financial management and phenomenology: The role of dialogue, accountability and context in investment decisions
(AOSIS, 2021)In this article, it will be argued that subjective assumptions play a prominent part in the way valuations are conducted and investment decisions are made by financial managers (FMs) from the perspective of agency theory. ... -
The financial sustainability challenges facing the South African non-profit sector
(AOSIS, 2019)Non-profit organisations (NPOs) operating in South Africa are financially weak and the sustainability of their organisations is often at risk. Post-2008, large numbers have ceased to operate, in part, because of the weak ... -
A first generation African community grappling with urbanisation: the views of Platfontein’s San on water and sanitation service delivery
(2014)Since their relocation in 2004 to Platfontein near Kimberley in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province, members of the !Xun and Khwe San, originally from the northern parts of Namibia and southern Angola, became a first ... -
First-year History Education students’ personal narratives of the history of South Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)This article is based on a free writing exercise given to 31 first-year History Education students in which they were, asked to write ‘The history of South Africa according to me’. Using narrative enquiry, the stories of ... -
The ‘firstness’ of male as automatic ordering: gendered discourse in Southern African Business Studies school textbooks
(AOSIS, 2018)There is little contention that gender equity continues to be a challenge in many societies across the Southern African region. Dominant discourses that perpetuate inequality are often reflected in school materials such ... -
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 ... -
Formation of professionalism : a courtship between academic staff and prospective clinical associates
(AOSIS, 2022)Background: The study was conducted to the background of a qualification in medical clinical practice offered at a Faculty of Health Sciences at a university in South Africa. Aim: The aim of the study was to determine ... -
Fostering public accountability in South Africa: A reflection on challenges and successes
(AOSIS, 2016)Accountability and oversight are constitutional requirements in all the spheres of government in the Republic of South Africa and their foundation is in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996. All spheres ... -
Foundation for transdisciplinary education at Cape Peninsula University of Technology
(AOSIS, 2020)South Africa faces a multitude of social, economic and environmental challenges, which require well-considered planning efforts. However, the efficacy of the built environment professions to adequately plan for the current ... -
A framework to evaluate the functionality of mobile applications for music composition
(2014)The functionality of a diverse range of mobile applications for music composition is discussed in this paper. The focus is on generic functionality requirements, the needs of novice and expert users to compose music and ... -
Freshlyground and the possibilities of new identities in post-apartheid South Africa
(North-West University, 2012)Popular music and indeed popular art forms struggle for critical attention in the academy (Larkin, 1992). Relegated to a focus on performance, or to peripheral sub-disciplines such as cultural studies, the study of popular ... -
From apathy to oblivion? The shameful history of heritage resource management in the Vaal Triangle
(2007)The Vaal Triangle is richly endowed with a prehistory that commenced c. 1.5 million years ago, when a succession of Stone Age cultures flourished in the fertile Vaal-Klip valley in the environs of the modern industrial ... -
From disaster relief to disaster risk reduction: a consideration of the evolving international relief mechanism
(2008)Disaster risk reduction is an ever-growing concept and finds its application within various disciplines. This article investigates the development of disaster risk reduction and some of the most important aspects which ... -
From genogram to genograph: using narrative means to contextualize social reality in the counselling session
(2006)This article addresses a process that occurs when applying narrative therapy during a counselling session, namely moving away from the genogram towards the more effective genograph. Narrative therapy implies that we often ... -
From hauntology to a new animism? Nature and culture in Heinz Kimmerle’s intercultural philosophy
(2007)Derrida has proposed a new spectrology in an attempt to deal with the ghost of Marx. Kimmerle shows that Marx has forgotten nature, and enquires about Derrida’s forgetting Marx’s forgetting. With specific reference to ...