The overarching objective of this thesis is to determine causes of food insecurity in southern
Africa, and how it can best be addressed. This objective is addressed through a number of
research questions and methods at ...
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The following dissertation aims to analyse and explore the significance of consumption
and consumerism, from both a personal and global perspective, by viewing society
through the prism of what it chooses to ...
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Gregory Maqoma, a leading South African contemporary choreographer, mixes elements
to create work that is unpredictable and difficult to pin down. His hybrid form of dance
contradicts essentialised representations ...
"One may make one's own history", said Marx, "but not in the circumstances of one's own choosing". The argument in this paper is that, the production of particular versions of history may be inversely related to their ...
The thesis attempts to identify human skeletal remains of Later Stone Age (LSA) hunter-gatherers
on sites associated with Early Iron Age (EIA) farmers in east central and north western parts of
Botswana and to identify ...
Foraging behaviour describes the mechanisms and decisions animals use to maximise energy gain. Baboons are a successful and widespread primate species in Africa, largely because of their ability to modify their broad ...
Animals living in cold environments show physiological, morphological and behavioural adaptations to low temperatures. The African ice rat, Otomys sloggetti robertsi, which is endemic to the southern African Drakensberg ...
Foraging is an essential part of an animal’s everyday life, during which it has to balance out many costs and rewards while making decisions on where, what, when and how to forage. The aim of my study was to investigate ...
This study focuses on forced labour and rural resistance in the tobacco producing farms in Nampula Province during the period 1961-1975. Key changes in the period include the introduction of new incentives to produce raw ...
This exploratory qualitative research systematically analyses the coping experiences of a group of refugee women from Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), rsiding in the western Tanzanian region ...
Due to the volatile nature of the world economies, investing is crucial in ensuring an individual is prepared for future
financial necessities. This research proposes an application, which employs computational intelligent ...
The research problem consisted of unveiling the current forecasting practices in terms
of techniques, processes, resources/functions in the manufacturing sector in Mauritius.
The methodology consisted of sending a ...
The forecasting ability of the macroeconomic factors upon South African commercial
property return is investigated in this research. Such research is still very novel in South
Africa and only Brooks and Tsolacos (2003) ...
The research investigated the application of the Neural Network (NN) technique in forecasting the All Share Index (ALSI) on the JSE Securities Exchange market.
The ALSI was regressed with some of the market drivers: the ...
The weak form of Efficient Market hypothesis (EMH) states that it is impossible to forecast the future
price of an asset based on the information contained in the historical prices of an asset. This means
that the market ...
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The topmost atom layers of any surface often play very crucial roles regarding
the surface properties, in addition to facilitating the interaction of materials
with their external environment. They form substrates ...