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Geochemistry and Hydrogeology: GLG 312

  • Authors: Zhao, B , Madyibi, L , Huizenga, J
  • Date: 2009-06
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17876 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011005
  • Description: Geochemistry and Hydrogeology: GLG 312, main examination June 2009.
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  • Date Issued: 2009-06

Global leadership competencies in the industrial development zones in South Africa

  • Authors: Dweba, Zandisile Moses https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0001-1095
  • Date: 2009-06
  • Subjects: Leadership -- South Africa , Industrialization
  • Language: English
  • Type: Doctoral theses , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/24046 , vital:62312
  • Description: In the literature reviewed a lack in leadership competencies to deal with globalisation and global trends within the South African organisation context (Fontyn, 2001; Tizard, 2001; Kriek, 2002) was identified which led to questions being raised on the prevalence of these essential global leadership competencies within South African transnational and global organisations. Realising the need for the development of an outwardly focused and globally competitive leadership model this study sought to investigate:  The key generic leadership competencies relevant to globalisation  The specific relevant leadership competencies and their prevalence within the industrial development zones  Whether or not the surveyed individual competencies were significant and had an impact on global leadership competencies that rendered leaders capable of operating in a global environment. A multi-method research plan was followed in order to consolidate existing knowledge on global leadership competencies and then to expand upon that knowledge. The approach was preferred due to the lack of leadership competency research within Industrial Development Zones. The study consisted of a qualitative study leading to the assessment of the current state of knowledge and understanding of the global leadership competencies. This phase was aimed at stimulating a debate on the topic in preparation for the quantitative phase which investigated the prevalence of these global leadership competencies within the Industrial Development Zones. Through the literature review, fifteen global leadership competencies were identified and these formed the basis for the questionnaire used for data collection. This list of global leadership competencies should, however, not be seen as an exhaustive list as opinions varied on leadership competencies relevant to globalisation (Msomi, 2001; Rossouw & Bews, 2002). iv In the findings of this study:  The respondents largely confirmed the prevalence of the global leadership competencies in the Industrial Development Zones.  While there existed high internal consistency of the variables measured, the demonstration of the competencies by leaders in the Industrial Development Zones, as perceived by the respondents, was found to be largely insignificant and as such had no impact on global leadership competencies and the ability of the zones‟ leaders to operate in a global environment. The recommendations that ensue should, in view of the limitations cited, be implemented with caution as their generalisability might be limited. , Thesis (PhD) -- Faculty of Management and Commerce, 2009
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Marketing of Agricultural Products: AGE 121

  • Authors: Pote, P P T , Bester, B
  • Date: 2009-06
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17664 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010054
  • Description: Marketing of Agricultural Products: AGE 121, supplementary examination June 2009.
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Taxation: ATV 311E & ATA 311E

  • Authors: Stevens, N , Krug, L
  • Date: 2009-06
  • Subjects: Tax accounting
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17407 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1009771
  • Description: Examination on Taxation: ATV 311E & ATA 311E - June Exams 2009
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Classical Sociological Theory: SOC 212

  • Authors: Duma, V , Nyawahsa, T
  • Date: 2009-05
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17966 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010537
  • Description: Classical Sociological Theory: SOC 212, examination May/June 2009.
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  • Date Issued: 2009-05

Agricultural Development Planning: AGE 321

  • Authors: Obi, A , Kundhlande, G
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17670 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010063
  • Description: Agricultural Development Planning: AGE 321, degree examination November 2009.
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  • Date Issued: 2009-02

Agricultural Extension & Rural Development: AGX 321

Agricultural Extension and Human Development: AGX 321

  • Authors: Lategan, F S , Stevens, J B
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Subjects: Agricultural extension work -- Study and teaching
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17677 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010072
  • Description: Agricultural Extension and Human Development: AGX 321, supplementary degree examination February 2009.
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Applied Extension and Rural Development: AGX 322

  • Authors: Lategan, F S , Stevens, J B
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17679 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010080
  • Description: Applied Extension and Rural Development: AGX 322, supplementary degree exmaination February 2009
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  • Date Issued: 2009-02

Citizenship, social capital and HIV/AIDS: a sociological analysis derived from the experience of the Umkhanyakhude district community, Kwazulu-Nata

  • Authors: Nyawasha, Tawanda Sydesky https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4854-9989
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Subjects: Social capital (Sociology) , AIDS (Disease) -- Social aspects -- South Africa , AIDS (Disease) -- South Africa
  • Language: English
  • Type: Master's theses , text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/26208 , vital:64965
  • Description: This thesis is a multi-level analysis that seeks to examine the utility of applying the concept of social capital in dealing with a complexity of challenges and problems caused by HIV/AIDS in areas of social marginality. It examines social capital in the context of rurality and how its usage can successfully mediate on the effects of all structural factors fuelling the HIV/AIDS epidemic including poverty and social marginality. It does this against the background of scholarly research findings on the relevance of community or neighbourhood social structure in resolving a host of issues affecting its citizens. The study establishes that the ‘public benefit’ of social capital lies in resource connectivity, meso-level interactions and reciprocal transactions useful for HIV/AIDS prevention. Social capital is therefore identified in this study as civic engagement, neigbourliness, voluntary association or civic membership and collective action. The central thesis or argument advanced by this study is that community or village level interactions and associations among people and groups can greatly influence community cohesion and action towards HIV/AIDS prevention, avoidance and mitigation. In its pursuit of a deeper enquiry and understanding of the most often misunderstood concept or rather elusive in both the social science and public health lexicon, the thesis identifies the major sources of social capital as voluntary civic membership or associations in community groups, local village or community assemblages, exchanges of HIV/AIDS specific information, public discussions and other social spaces useful in helping community citizens to get an awareness of HIV/AIDS thereby making them adopt an HIV/AIDS protective behaviour. In this thesis, community or village-level social capital is seen as having a significant effect on household and HIV/AIDS. The study establishes that the prevalence of norms of ‘civicness’ and the vibrancy of horizontal ties at the community or village level generates the needed stocks of social capital for poverty reduction and HIV/AIDS mitigation.Building on Habermas’s(1992) theories of the ‘public sphere’ and ‘communicative action’ andthe Freirian(1996) discourse of ‘dialogue and praxis’, the study highlights the need for social for communication and dialogue in order to break the silence around HIV/AIDS in rural societies. Deliberative discussions or community conversations are suggested to build a critical awareness and consciousness on HIV/AIDS within the community or village context. In this study, quantifiable evidence tends to suggest that there is a strong correlation between lack of HIV/AIDS specific knowledge and HIV/ AIDS vulnerability. The study underscores the need forpublic communication on HIV/AIDS through community-level dialogues and conversations.Community dialogues and conversations are suggested to be active forms of interaction generating significant levels of social capital in the form of public knowledge on HIV/AIDS. This form of public knowledge is perceived as generating action oriented towards HIV/AIDS prevention and fostering the adoption of safer behavioural practices. The thesis also highlights the often muted link or correlation between human capital in the form of education and social capital. In several instances, the study has proven that human capital and education in particular helps in the creation of high stocks of social capital that can be applied to counteract both household and village level HIV/AIDS. The research further establishes the need for citizenship education which is more contextual and calls for critical enquiry, reflection and thinking on the part of all citizens or villagers. All in all, the research extends the existing knowledge on collective efficacy, village or neighbourhood advantage, associational or group membership, village governance and HIV/AIDS in the developing economies. It sheds more light on how village-level processes, interactions and exchanges within the ‘public sphere’ can be streamlined to deal with issues of marginality and rural HIV/AIDS. These study findings on social capital contribute to the ongoing debate about social capital, its relevance and applicability, in solving public health issues and challenges in developing societies. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2009
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Health and Society: SHS 227E

  • Authors: Jaffray, Penny , Ngcebetsha, Thembeka
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17936 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010506
  • Description: Health and Society: SHS 227E, supplementary examination February 2009.
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  • Date Issued: 2009-02

History of Music: MUS 121

  • Authors: Botha, Henry , Bleibinger, Bernhard , Ncozana, Jonathan
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:18113 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010970
  • Description: History of Music: MUS 121, degree examination February 2009.
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Industrial Sociology 2 (Labour Process Studies): ILP 221E

  • Authors: Ali Abdullahi , Wilson Akpan
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17935 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010505
  • Description: Supplementary examination on Industrial Sociology 2; Labour Process Studies: ILP221E.
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  • Date Issued: 2009-02

Non Infectious Diseases: AGV 322

  • Authors: Chimonyo, M , Marufu, M C
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Subjects: Livestock -- Diseases
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17518 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1009783
  • Description: Non Infectious Diseases: AGV 322, Supplementary examination February 2009.
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  • Date Issued: 2009-02

Religiosity and sexual risk-taking behaviour among Black female students attending university

  • Authors: Yona, Nombeko
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Subjects: College students -- Sexual behavior , Women college students , Risk-taking (Psychology)
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/25129 , vital:63980
  • Description: The degree to which religious identity acts as a protective buffer against sexual risk - taking in late adolescence and young adults was investigated among 100 Black female university students. Allport and Ross’ Religious Orientation Scale was used to examine the relationship among religiosity, sexual activity and condom use. The results indicated that greater intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity were associated with less sexual activity and condom use. Religious identification therefore protected respondents from sexual risk- taking but sexually active students with high levels of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity were less likely to use condoms. , Thesis (MSoc) -- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2009
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Urban Sociology: SOU 221

  • Authors: Wana, L , Makapela, L S
  • Date: 2009-02
  • Language: English
  • Type: Examination paper
  • Identifier: vital:17937 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1010507
  • Description: Urban Sociology: SOU 221, supplementary examination February/March 2009.
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  • Date Issued: 2009-02

A comparison of open source object-oriented database products

  • Authors: Khayundi, Peter
  • Date: 2009
  • Subjects: Object-oriented databases , Relational databases , Database management , Database selection , Database searching
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc (Computer Science)
  • Identifier: vital:11384 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/254 , Object-oriented databases , Relational databases , Database management , Database selection , Database searching
  • Description: Object oriented databases have been gaining popularity over the years. Their ease of use and the advantages that they offer over relational databases have made them a popular choice amongst database administrators. Their use in previous years was restricted to business and administrative applications, but improvements in technology and the emergence of new, data-intensive applications has led to the increase in the use of object databases. This study investigates four Open Source object-oriented databases on their ability to carry out the standard database operations of storing, querying, updating and deleting database objects. Each of these databases will be timed in order to measure which is capable of performing a particular function faster than the other.
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A critical perspective of national norms and standards of school funding in Eastern Cape East London District

  • Authors: Mamatu, Ntombizonke Lydia
  • Date: 2009
  • Subjects: Education and state -- South Africa , Education -- South Africa -- Finance , School management and organization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Public schools -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Poverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , M Soc Sc (Dev)
  • Identifier: vital:11413 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/303 , Education and state -- South Africa , Education -- South Africa -- Finance , School management and organization -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Public schools -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Poverty -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
  • Description: Education policies remain a contested terrain in both the social and political environments. They are not neutral instruments and are used both to maintain the existing social order and also to promote varying kinds of change or mobility. The South African Schools Act, 1996 (Act 84 of 1996) hereafter SASA, which is the source of all policies that regulate school issues in South Africa promotes democratic methods of school governing and education provisioning that favours the previously disadvantaged groups. The NNSSF is one of the policies of SASA that makes schooling accessible to the poor through school fee exemptions while attempting to close the gap between the rich and the poor through differentiated school funding created according to researched poverty levels and standardized target lists. This has been designed to fulfil one of the essential human rights of man- education that has been entrenched in the Bill of Rights of the Republic of South Africa Constitution, 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) hereafter, Constitution. Thus, the study’s objective is to evaluate the implementation of the NNSSF policy in public schools focussing on school fee exemptions. The extent to which poor parents and learners are given school fee exemptions as they are supposed to according to the policy will be indicators of whether the NNSSF is justly or unjustly implemented in public schools. Learners are the recipients of the right to education. Parents are given the responsibility to fund the education of their children. However, for poor parents to fulfil that they need advice and assistance from the teachers and SGBs to be able to access the school fee exemptions while they have a right to just administrative action and to human dignity in dealing with them. SGBs and teachers have to create a favourable environment for the just implementation of the NNSSF by advising and xiii assisting deserving parents and learners to access school fee exemptions so that the right to education is fulfilled. The duty of in loco parentis and acting in the best interest of the child enforce teachers to do everything possible to ensure that learners access education. EDOs are supposed to guide, monitor and supervise the implementation of the policy while legal bodies should assist parents and learners to demand their right when it is violated through litigation. The study used the method of survey which is quantitative and interviews which are qualitative. Questionnaires and interview schedules were tools used to collect data that was analysed through statistical methods and represented in the form of tables and pie-charts. Various significant findings were made that had a bearing on the implementation of the NNSSF policy in public schools, most important to note is that some learners who have the right to education are aware of this right but do not know how to ensure that it is not violated. Parents are not given the opportunity to decide whether school fees should be charged in their schools. Above that they are not given the advice they need to be able to access school fee exemptions. Some teachers think that by advising and assisting learners and parents they will be buying cheap popularity- showing ignorance. EDOs do not know how schools implement the NNSSF, they are not involved in anyway. Thus the study views the implementation of NNSSF policy in public schools as unjust and recommends that SGBs and teachers need to be educated, guided and monitored by the EDOs on the policy and its implementation. They in turn will have to educate parents and learners so that they are able to access school fee exemptions thereby receiving education – their right.
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A model for user requirements elicitation specific to users in rural areas

  • Authors: Isabirye, Naomi
  • Date: 2009
  • Subjects: Internet marketing , Electronic commerce , Land reform -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Rural poor -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Information resources management
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MCom (Information Systems)
  • Identifier: vital:11130 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/145 , Internet marketing , Electronic commerce , Land reform -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Sustainable development -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Rural poor -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Information resources management
  • Description: Dwesa is a rural town situated in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province that has been selected as a testing site for an e-commerce project to address some of the challenges faced by the community. These challenges include difficulties stemming from poverty, poor access to public services, unemployment and low levels of literacy. The Siyakhula Living Lab project’s aim is to develop an e-commerce platform that will 'connect' the residents with the necessary access to services and markets by providing them with the necessary tools that can help in alleviating some of their challenges. In order for the project to achieve its objectives, a deeper understanding into the needs of the prospective users is required. User requirements elicitation deals with the process of interacting with the prospective users to understand and document their needs. This research aims at evaluating existing requirements elicitation techniques and methodologies in the context of rural information technology implementations. The primary objective is to develop a model for user requirements elicitation in Dwesa. Many requirements elicitation techniques and frameworks exist, but few have been evaluated in the context of rural software implementations. Requirements elicitation techniques should not be applied simply as steps to gather information. Instead this research project proposes a model that can be applied to assimilate the contribution of knowledge regarding the stakeholders, problem and solution characteristics, and other characteristics into the software development process for the effective elicitation of requirements.
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A model to measure the maturuty of smartphone security at software consultancies

  • Authors: Allam, Sean
  • Date: 2009
  • Subjects: Computer networks -- Security measures , Capability maturity model (Computer software) , Smartphones , Wireless Internet , Mobile communication systems , Mobile computing
  • Language: English
  • Type: Thesis , Masters , MCom (Information Systems)
  • Identifier: vital:11135 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/281 , Computer networks -- Security measures , Capability maturity model (Computer software) , Smartphones , Wireless Internet , Mobile communication systems , Mobile computing
  • Description: Smartphones are proliferating into the workplace at an ever-increasing rate, similarly the threats that they pose is increasing. In an era of constant connectivity and availability, information is freed up of constraints of time and place. This research project delves into the risks introduced by smartphones, and through multiple cases studies, a maturity measurement model is formulated. The model is based on recommendations from two leading information security frameworks, the COBIT 4.1 framework and ISO27002 code of practice. Ultimately, a combination of smartphone specific risks are integrated with key control recommendations, in providing a set of key measurable security maturity components. The subjective opinions of case study respondents are considered a key component in achieving a solution. The solution addresses the concerns of not only policy makers, but also the employees subjected to the security policies. Nurturing security awareness into organisational culture through reinforcement and employee acceptance is highlighted in this research project. Software consultancies can use this model to mitigate risks, while harnessing the potential strategic advantages of mobile computing through smartphone devices. In addition, this research project identifies the critical components of a smartphone security solution. As a result, a model is provided for software consultancies due to the intense reliance on information within these types of organisations. The model can be effectively applied to any information intensive organisation.
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