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From ideal into practice : an illuminative evaluation of a learnership in the insurance and investment sector.

Sosznianin, Tatiana (2012-02-15)

This study explores what happens as the ideals of a learnership, envisioned in the South African legislation, become real practice in a workplace within the financial services industry. Learnerships are at the centre stage ...

From Ions to Bits – Managing Data in a National Research Centre

Dr. Klump, Jens (2013-03-07)

Managing data in active research projects is a challenging task. The innovative nature of research requires a flexible data infrastructure that is able to adapt to ad-hoc changes. How can this be reconciled with the necessity ...

From liberation to citizenship: identity and innovation in Black South African political thought

Halisi, C.R.D. (1994-07-13)

From mechanics to imagination: Goethe's Faust and Hoffmann's The Sandman as a romantic response to the Enlightenment

Pampallis, Karin (2014-01-21)

The research report utilises the way in which artificial life-forms are portrayed by two writers of the German Romantic as a tool to examine the dialectical relationship between the worldviews of the Enlightenment and the ...

From miracle to mirage: the ANC`S economic policy shift from MERG to GEAR

Nkadimeng, Mphahle Geoffrey (2014-03-19)

The thesis explores the ANC’s economic policy shifts from its initial inclination towards a Keynesian model in the form of the Macroeconomic Research Group (MERG) report to that of a free-market model in the form of Growth, ...

From Ninevite to Comtsotsi: Township gangs, divided communities and urban violence in twentieth century South Africa

Kynoch, Gary (2011-02-14)

Despite the unprecedented level of public concern with violent crime in the "new South Africa", surprisingly little effort has been made to explore the historical roots of urban gangsterism. Since their establishment, the ...

From Odontomes to AIDS

Altini, Mario (2014-02-19)

From plough to entrepreneurship: A history of African entrepreneurs in Evaton 1905-1960s

Khumalo, Vusumusi 'Vusi' Rodney (2014-02-26)

Evaton was distinct from other African freehold settlements in the Reef. There were several aspects that made it unique; these were its economic history and expression that delayed local incorporation into wage labour, ...

From protest to exile - the writings of J. Arthur Maimane

Yudelman, Gillian Carol (2014-07-25)

From Refuge to resistance: Botsabelo, Mafolofolo and Johannes Dinkwanyane: Missionaries and converts under the authority of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, 1860-1876

Delius, P. (2010-09-14)

In the 1870s the Transvaal witnessed an intensification of struggles over land and labour. This development was particularly marked in its eastern districts and was partly stimulated by the impact on the local and ...

From reluctant slavery to a black flood: Black workers, mass production and cultural formation in South Africa's metalworks

Sitas, A. (2011-05-20)

In the first chapter of this thesis the problem of the transition from absolute to relative surplus-value extraction, of the changes in the social relations of production that bring about the mass production of commodities ...

From state to 'independent' regulation: a critical analysis of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa

Hlongwane, Siphiwe Robert (2009-07-01)

Abstract The emergence of independent regulatory authorities (IRAs) in many countries is but one of the many of effects of globalisation in the communications sector. These effects have been such that developing countries ...

From student to teacher: finding mindful ways to grow in the face of stress

Draper-Clarke, Lucy J (2014-11-13)

The severity of stress in the teaching profession is a worldwide phenomenon, and recent concern has focused on the number of student teachers who leave soon after qualifying. The benefits of mindfulness practices have ...

From textual problems to mathematical relationships: case studies of secondary school students and the discourses at play in interpreting word problems

Tobias, Bruce (2011-05-30)

This study uses a discourse analysis from the perspectives of James Paul Gee (2005; 1999) in order to establish a socio-situated view of why grade 10 students often experience difficulties in representing mathematical word ...

From the horse's mouth : demystifying the experiences of living with chronic fatigue syndrome.

Lee, Bronwen (2011-04-14)

There has been an increasing awareness and investigation of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. While there has been extensive debate as to what it is called, what the symptoms include, and how to treat them, the experiences of ...

From the Lago's plan of action (LPA) to the new partnership for Africa's development(NEPAD): The political economy of African regional initiatives

Ikome, Francis Nguendi (2006-02-21)

The thesis examines the design and implementation of African regional economic cooperation initiatives using the Lagos Plan of Action (LPA) and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) as comparative case ...

From the Lome Convention to the Economic Partnership Agreements: an assessment of trade relations between the ECOWAS and the EU

Madela, Mncedisi Innocent (2010-08-27)

Abstract The continuous negotiations between the EU and the ECOWAS on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) started in September 2002, with an aim of completing these negotiations before end of December 2007, which was ...

From the page to the classroom : responses of some rural teachers and learners to textbook material on sensitive topics.

Nonkwelo, Nandipha (2012-07-02)

The research aims to investigate the responses of teachers and learners in a particular rural context to a chapter from a South African English First Additional Language textbook which is currently being developed for ...

From the particularities of practice to the generalisation of theory.

Bhyat, Faizul (2012-02-28)

This thesis has situated the Government’s new integration of education and training policy within post-apartheid South Africa’s wider socio-economic and political context. It has shown, how in its relation to education, ...

From the politics of resistance to the politics of reconstruction: The union and 'ungovernability' in the workplace

Von Holdt, K. (2011-05-26)

South Africa has undergone momentous change over the past decade. The trade union movement in the shape of COSATU has played a central role in that change. During the late 1980s it became the most organised and visible ...

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