Browsing TD: 2017 Volume 13 No 1 by Issue Date
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Geography versus institutions and sub-Saharan aid
(2017)This article sets out to review two opposing viewpoints in the literature, namely long-standing geographic versus institutionalist perspectives and their opposing predictions for development of poor countries, particularly ... -
Public lies, private looting and the forced closure of Grootvlei Gold Mine, South Africa
(2017)Mine closure and acid mine drainage (AMD) are major interrelated challenges facing South Africa’s Witwatersrand gold mines. As a result of mining, the East, West and Central Rand compartments of the Witwatersrand Basin are ... -
Politics without morality and accountability: the Nkandla case from a deontological perspective
(2017)The Nkandla controversy has long dominated South African politics and has seemingly been endless. This article revisits the Nkandla issue from the perspective that it fails the Kantian categorical imperative (i.e. CI) and ... -
Aligning mathematics with tutoring platform topics
(AOSIS, 2017)Dr Math was a mobile mathematics tutoring service, used by school learners across South Africa. The wealth of historic data available, with regard to the conversations between tutors and learners, may contain valuable ... -
Changing teachers’ practice in the Creative Arts classroom: the case for educational technologies
(2017)The study described in this essay explores the use of educational technology as a resource in the Creative Arts classroom. Many teachers are not qualified to teach Creative Arts. They then tend to rely on curriculum documents ... -
Climate wars and fat wars: a new role for law
(AOSIS, 2017)Public trust in science is eroding because of a number of conflicts. In the sphere of climate science and of nutrition science, a basic methodological difference between scientists has escalated into what can be called ... -
’n Verkenning van Suid-Afrika se veranderende posisie in die wêreldhandelnetwerk 1948–1994
(AOSIS, 2017)An exploration of South Africa’s changing position in the World Trade Network 1948–1994. The World Trade Network (WTN) has been studied as a network in numerous studies. However, countries with smaller economies are usually ... -
The Expanded Public Works Programme: perspectives of direct beneficiaries
(AOSIS, 2017)Scholarship on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa tends to focus on quantitative evaluation to measure the progress made in the implementation of EPWP projects. The number of employment opportunities ... -
Community development workers as agents of change and conduit of authentic public participation: the case of Mpumalanga Province in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2017)This article explores the role of community development workers (CDWs) in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The CDWs are by law expected to regularly communicate, inter alia, government initiatives in a way which ... -
Exploring the epistemology of transdisciplinarity in public policy and administration in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2017)This article seeks to address and direct future research collaboration in public policy and administration from a transdisciplinary perspective in South Africa, by answering three major questions: Firstly, how can public ... -
The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region and the implementation of the Ezulwini Consensus: Challenges and prospects
(AOSIS, 2017)This article is evaluative assessing the implementation of the Ezulwini Consensus by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR). In early April 2012, a mutiny started in the eastern part of the Democratic ... -
Exploring judgement and internal bias of Life Orientation teachers in sexuality teaching
(AOSIS, 2017)There are various challenges in the teaching of sexuality within a South African multicultural context, as there is no uniform knowledge across learner backgrounds. As such, teachings often revert to the teacher’s beliefs, ... -
Transition from growth point policy to liberal urban development in Zimbabwe: the emergence of Ruwa Town, 1980–1991
(AOSIS, 2017)This article traces the transition from growth point policy to liberal development in the emergence of Ruwa Town in Zimbabwe from independence in 1980 to 1990/1991 when the town was declared an urban area under the ... -
The capacity of personnel in disaster risk management in South African municipalities
(AOSIS, 2017)Since 1994, fundamental transformation in South Africa in terms of disaster risk reduction taken place. The transformation process led to the promulgation of the Disaster Management Act (57/2002) (DMA) that introduced a ... -
Learners’ constructions of bullying in a South African school context
(AOSIS, 2017)Drawing on social constructionism as a theoretical paradigm, this article foregrounds learners’ voices to depict the profiles of bullies and bullying victims within a cultural context of one coeducational secondary school ... -
Staff perceptions on pigeon control strategies on the University of South Africa’s Muckleneuk campus
(2017)Pigeons are often considered a nuisance in urban environments, leading to the attempted control or eradication of their populations. This study explored the perceptions of 246 staff members employed on the University of ... -
To blend or not to blend? Consumer attitudes towards mandatory use of ethanol-blended fuel in Zimbabwe
(AOSIS, 2017)Worldwide, the use of bioethanol is proliferating as an alternative to fossil fuels. Consistent with this trend, the Zimbabwean government mandated the blending of unleaded petrol with 10% ethanol. As the use of ethanol-blended ... -
Shifting boundaries of racial space in post-apartheid South Africa: the case of Afrikaner youth in East London
(AOSIS, 2017)South African democracy has brought about changes like freedom of associations, as opposed to apartheid which emphasised separateness of races and cultures. This social change warrants new ways of living among South Africans, ... -
The impact of collaborative strategies on disaster risk reduction in Zimbabwe dairy supply chains in 2016
(AOSIS, 2017)Disasters are on the increase globally with accompanying devastating effects on dairy supply chains. The devastating effects, caused by disasters on economies in various countries such as United States of America, Japan, ...
