Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is said to have spill over effects such as skills transfer and employment creation. In 2011, FDI inflows into South Africa declined to -0.12% of GDP and 43.6% less in the first quarter of ...

Online tourism is a rapidly growing feature of one of the largest global industries. The purpose of the study was to investigate perceptions regarding the impact of the Internet on the tourism industry, and specifically ...

South Africa is a water-scarce country (Otieno and Ochieng, 2004; Wassung, 2010). The current sanitation system mostly used in South African urban areas depends on extensive use of water in a form of flush toilets. The ...

Most children born HIV positive live longer and have more healthy lives since the advent of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART), together with the accessibility of Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARV) to persons living with HIV. However, ...

This study seeks to understand how the general assumptions, perceptions, and representations of Nigerian immigrants shape marriages between Nigerian men and South African women in Johannesburg. It looks at the impact of ...

In this study the heat transfer and frictional pressure drop performance characteristics of plate heat exchangers (PHE’s) used as refrigerant liquid overfeed evaporators were investigated. PHE’s have been gaining new ...

This research report is an ex post facto study of the students from the General College of Science in the University of the Witwatersrand who chose to do Engineering Sciences in the College and who then progressed to second ...

Until recently, car-carriers in South Africa operated under abnormal load permits allowing a finite relaxation of legal height and length limits. This practice is being phased out, and exemption will only be granted if ...

South Africa has since the end of apartheid struggled with the issue of poor public sector performance. Performance contracting for public servants, introduced to improve the public sector’s performance, has not borne ...

Unit trust investment looks cosy and attractive from the surface, but a detailed understanding of unit trust and its performance can be daunting. Having discussed the evolution of mutual funds in the US and other industrial ...