From 1982 to 1998, sufficient housing-related finance was mobilised in Zimbabwe to provide every low and middle income urban household with its own starter-home comprising a fully services plot and one room plus wet block ...
Health care organisations around the world are under increasing pressure to
improve the quality of care they provide without increasing cost. The use of
information technology in health care offers an opportunity to ...
Fossil fuels - coal and gas - dominate the power-generating industry. Events such as global climate change and the introduction of new technologies can alter the fuel mix used by power plants. How the future of electricity ...
It is increasingly being accepted that entrepreneurship support offers a new model
for poverty alleviation and the ensuring of job creation and economic growth.
There is also an observable causal relationship between ...
This research was conducted with the aim of finding out why medical waste that
is often found illegally disposed of and who is responsible for it. Such waste poses
a danger to people, animals and the environment. The ...
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that medium-sized South African companies
consider important in the acquisition of an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution.
Through an extensive literature ...
The purpose of this research was to uncover how IT organisations respond in the context of climate change as a result of their traditionl data center approaches, as illustrated by EDS' UK operation in a case study. The ...
This study looks at the nature of the selection and admissions policies in place in the faculty of humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. Data was collected qualitatively using semi-structured interviews and ...
Investors always try to protect their investments under different market conditions
(Schinasi and Smith 2000) by finding trends and predicting the future of the
market. Investors use different investment strategies. Value ...
Historical research has found a larger than expected premium between equity returns and bond returns. This large premium in observed returns is much larger than the expected premium derived from risk/return equilibrium ...
This report investigated the linkages between three important components of the financial
market in South Africa, namely equity risk premium, inflation and market volatility. While
research has revealed strong relationships ...
News media executives are facing many challenges and their future success depends on their ability to understand the ideological consequences of these challenges. The changing pattern (through technology, capital, ownership, ...
In recent years, the cellular industry has seen a massive growth in terms of
providing cell phone services to people in different parts of the world including
South Africa. This technology has made the world a smaller ...
ADSL is an important broadband technology for South Africa that has the ability to
have a significant positive impact on the socio-economic environment of the country.
As ADSL uses existing network infrastructure, it ...
In accordance with the principles of redress and affirmative action, the postapartheid
South African government has identified the need for transformation of
the arts and culture dispensation. The ongoing exploitation ...
The discipline of executive coaching in South Africa has emerged as a growing leadership development trend over the past 15 years. Organisations, whilst investing in executive coaching as a developmental tool, have begun ...
The combination of highly mobile talent workers and the turbulent economy places more responsibility on organisations to be proactive in managing their human capital through an effective talent management system. The ability ...
In 2003, a decision was taken by African Heads of State and Government to establish
the Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a voluntary initiative, which had as goal to enable
member states to assess and assist each other in ...
Early in the new millennium, the post-apartheid South African government invested in the emerging biotechnology and health biotechnology sector to start addressing the country’s health and development challenges. The ...