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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, ...
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 ...
The effects of leadership traits on transformation: a case study of a South African university
(AOSIS, 2017)
This article investigated the effects of leadership traits on transformation in a merged and incorporated higher education institution in South Africa. Few studies have been conducted on leadership traits in universities, ...
Die positiewe invloed van esteties bevredigende geboue en ʼn goed versorgde skoolterrein op die skep van skoolklimaat
(AOSIS, 2017)
The positive influence of aesthetically pleasing buildings and well cared for school grounds on the creation of school climate. In this article the positive effect of beautiful school buildings and well-kept school grounds ...
Using systems thinking to conceptually link the monitoring and evaluation function within development interventions and public policy
(AOSIS, 2017)
The monitoring and evaluation function provides for accountability and to some extent transparency and, therefore, governance. However, this function can only be effective if it is conceptually linked within development ...
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 ...
The San values of conflict prevention and avoidance in Platfontein
(AOSIS, 2017)
The aim of this article is to identify measures that can prevent violent conflict through the maintenance of traditional cultural values that guide conflict avoidance. Moreover, the article focuses on the concepts of ...
Experiences of music listening among rugby players at North-West University
(2017)
This article documents a study that investigated the reasons why a group of student rugby players habitually listen to music as part of their pre-match routine. The investigation followed a hermeneutic phenomenological ...
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 ...