Gender inequality is one of the hardest issues in our society to tackle. Women continue to be paid less for the same work done by men and experience the highest forms of exploitation. This research will focus on how the ...
The Department of Social Development introduced the Community Shepherds life skills Project at two schools in the Ficksburg community, in the Thabo Mofutsanyane district of the Free State in 2007 due to the high rate of ...
This paper discusses non-military options for confronting international terrorism. It
investigates the non-military discourse contained in United Nations and United States
policy documents. It then compares the principles ...
This study involves a review of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
legislation associated with the filling station industry. This is in order to
determine if the South African EIA decision-making processes ...
The 20th century saw a movement from the Industrial Revolution to what we could call the Communication Revolution, and perhaps a newer revolution in the past 20 years, which we could characterise as the Information ...
Many economists have observed that the financial system has a positive and monotonic
effect on economic growth. In this study we reaffirm the finance-growth nexus. We adopt
a three-tier approach for the study’s methodology ...
Notwithstanding growth on transfer payments allocated to Section 21
schools over the last five years, the SGBs are riddled with weak controls,
financial mismanagement and poor accountability for such resources.
The ...
The aim of this study is to investigate the financial bootstrapping techniques used by unfunded SMEs in South Africa. Qualitative research was conducted to look at the challenges that entrepreneurs face in their attempt ...
The purpose of this research was to identify factors which influence the
decision to use financial derivatives in the South African mining industry and
then to establish their importance to the industry.
The research ...
This paper aims to make an empirical contribution to the discussion of the role of banks and to find out if banking is a declining industry. It takes into account that the role of banks is declining in the United States ...
Crude oil is, without doubt, the most important physical commodity as it provides
mankind the energy for transportation, industrial and residential use. As a result, it
is not surprising that crude oil is the world’s ...
South Africa is characterized by high levels of illiteracy in general as well
as high levels of financial literacy in particular. The lack of financial
literacy, among other things, results in people (especially the poor) ...
The South African Schools Act, Act 84 of 1996, states that the school principals are
responsible for managing personnel and finance and should therefore plan, control and
budget properly (Section 3). S/He is responsible ...
As local legislation and market saturation curtail their growth and profitability, South Africa financial services companies are looking for new markets in Sub Saharan Africa at an astounding rate.
This research looks at ...
The study assessed the extent to which Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
in Tanzania utilise debt financing to finance their operations and identified the
factors affecting the utilisation of debt financing.
This study ...
When the Kenyan government abolished primary school fees in 2003, it was hoped that low enrolment and high dropout rates would be reversed. However, soon after its introduction, the classrooms were overflowing with new ...
Tertiary education is expensive for the individual, the family, the institution and the country.
The aim of this study was to find models that could predict academic success, which is seen
in this study as the completion ...