China has experienced phenomenal economic growth in recent history and with that came an insatiable appetite for raw materials including natural resources. China however, has not been immune to the global financial crisis ...
The research problem that this research addresses is to investigate the impact of China’s future demand for raw materials on the global manganese industry.
The general resources boom that the world is experiencing is ...
This dissertation draws on empirical research in the print media to consider the impact
of commercialisation on the content ferried in community newspapers. The central
argument of market driven theories (Badalsty, 1992; ...
In a bid to reflect the role of commercial media in communities, this study examines the
reportage, by two commercially-owned community newspapers, on the township of
Alexandra’s important community development story, ...
This study examines the design, implementation and evaluation of a communication skills training programme for
adherence counsellors in a paediatric HIV clinic. Effective communication is a pre-requisite skill for any ...
As business environments become more complex, with varying degrees of uncertainty, organizations must become more entrepreneurial in order to identify emerging and new opportunities for sustained superior performance. ...
South Africa is estimated to have $2.5-trillion worth of mineral resources. The
development of the assets to extract these resources is critical for the
economic success of the country. Despite the fact that there have ...
The paper describes various laws and regulations that affect access to public information in two African countries, Uganda and South Africa. It offers some recommendations on how to remedy the situation in both countries.
This study investigates the relationship between perceived corporate subculture and affective commitment in a South African financial institution. The impact of corporate culture on affective commitment has been previously ...
The purpose of this research was to determine what economic value was created
following the corporatisation of South African state-owned enterprises into public
companies with the stated aim of maximising shareholder ...
The purpose of this research was to determine whether credit card rewards and other value added benefits have an impact on the lifetime duration and profitability of credit card holders in the High Income segment of the ...
The study inquires whether ratings and rating changes in particular have any
impact on bond prices. In doing so, the price data of a number of corporate vanilla
bonds were investigated over corresponding rating change ...
The scourge of HIV/AIDS continues to worsen in the country in spite of efforts made by
government and other stakeholders to combat this disease. This is reflected by the everincreasing
statistics of new cases of HIV ...
International marketing communication programmes that work in other parts of the world are often of mediocre success only in the Middle East and Africa. Consumers as well as business and government prospects in these regions ...
This study explored the impact of democracy on the leadership and management styles in two previously coloured primary schools in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province of South Africa. The report uses a case study as well as an ...
Introduction: Numerous studies have confirmed the association between the delivered
dose of haemodialysis and patients outcomes. There is thus some evidence regarding the
relationship between dialysis dose and quality ...
Background: South Africa is not exempt from the obesity epidemic and latest figures show that a third of adult men and two-thirds of adult women are either overweight or obese. Concomitant are changes in dietary habits and ...
The replacement of asbestos fibres with cellulose fibres in producing
corrugated fibre reinforced cement sheets by the Hatschek process resulted
in edge cracking for stacked sheets. This was due to the hydrophilic nature ...
ABSTRACT
Using the Terminator trilogy as a case study (spanning the period 1984 to 2004), this
thesis will analyse the impact of digital technologies on live-action film production. The
focus will be on the changing ...
The extended contact hypothesis was tested using a questionnaire completed by 229 first year Psychology students. This theory posits that an individual’s awareness that an in-group member has an outgroup friend can increase ...