Through a thematic content analysis, this dissertation analyses how Mariama
Bâ in So long a letter (1979) and Ken Bugul in Riwan ou le chemin de sable (1999)
perceive the image of African women. This work is focused as ...
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Introduction
Laboratory fume hoods are mechanical devices used to extract harmful vapours from
indoor workplaces in order to prevent human exposure thereto. Laboratory fume hoods
are considered an engineering ...
Leachate emitted by landfilled municipal solid waste may cause many and cumulative
adverse effects ranging from health problems to environmental impacts. South Africa is
one of the few countries in the developing world ...
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The burning of selected indigenous plants and the inhalation of the smoke liberated from
them has been a widely accepted and practised form of administration in traditional healing
therapy dating back to as far ...
BACKGROUND: Maternal health services have been an area of focus all over the
world due to its impact on the mothers and newborn infant. The millennium
development goals 4 and 5 have been formulated to focus on maternal ...
Disputes between workers and their employers continue to take place in the
country and elsewhere in the world. These disputes cause disruption in
workplaces. The disputes are evident in the different sectors - in small ...
The Government of Botswana has, since 1972, implemented several programmes of
labour intensive work as a complementary effort to alleviate high levels of
unemployment, poverty and rural under-development. This research ...
This paper questions the applicability of neoclassical
theory to the South African labour market and it adopts an
alternative approach, namely, segmented labour market theory.
Segmented labour market (SLM) theory has ...
This research focused on challenges faced by SATAWU in responding to climate change. Climate change is a reality that will have negative effects in the world, the workers and the poor will be mostly affected. It is anticipated ...
Towards the end of August 1951, the manager of Transvaal Gold Mining
Estates (TGME) wrote to Rand Mines asking for advice on a 'very
embarrassing matter'. The problem he faced was one of difficulty in
obtaining continued ...
The core question of this thesis is why working time in South African gold mining has been so stable and addresses the significance of this fact. The working or labour time of miners and mineworkers is shown to have been ...
Filiation is the name given to that realm of nature or "life" that defines what is
historically given to us by birth or circumstance. Affiliation represents the process
whereby filiative ties are broken and new ones ...
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to examine the role of the media in the pornification
of society and the subsequent rise of laddism and raunch culture. By pornification
I refer to the proliferation of the ...
It is evident that the population of the South African Republic
did not constitute a single homogenous group, devoid of variation
in wealth, education and life-style. The diversity of Afrikaner
society has frequently ...
This thesis is an examination of the ways in which people in Barkly East, a small
town in the Eastern Cape, attribute feelings of belonging to the land they own and
work. In a country such as South Africa, where the ...