African Explosives Limited (AEL) is involved with the Hybrid Stress Blast Model (HSBM) project in the characterisation of its bulk explosives and part of this involves the collection of unconfined detonation velocities ...

The American Defense Institute for Medical Operations (DIMO) states that deaths associated with disasters have increased by 50 percent each decade and as Alexander (2002) notes, although disasters require special organization, ...

This research report is an account of the results of investigations into the critical analysis of the private sector’s Financial Sector Charter (FSC) and the government’s Community Reinvestment Bill (CRB) in comparing ...

In 2008, 1.8 million children under the age of 15 were living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. The same report estimates that in 2008, there were 390 000 new infections in children below the age of 15 in Sub- Saharan ...

This research report focuses on the impact of environmental management systems (EMS) on the economic performance of business enterprises with respect to the three research variables, namely water, energy and raw materials. ...

The objective of this research was to investigate the IT-assisted HR transformation at a Retail Bank. The research firstly sought to determine the strategic imperatives driving the need to change and reposition the HR ...

International research indicates that the practice of environmental management may lead to profitability and competitive advantage for the firm. But this theory has not been tested in South Africa. This lack of empirical ...

Paediatric rehabilitation is currently becoming an independent sub-discipline of physiotherapy (Helders et al, 2003). South Africa has a population pyramid resembling other developing countries with one-third of the ...

BACKGROUND: Lehurutshe Hospital is a district hospital situated in rural North West Province of South Africa. The Hospital offers basic radiological services such as X-rays of the chest, abdomen, extremities and skull ...

A comparative study was undertaken to assess the reliability of the MVPT-3 when the instructions were translated into Afrikaans and the scores were then compared to the normative data obtained during the standardization ...