This study looks at how short message services (SMS’s) was used at the Public Broadcaster to control decision making during the period November 2008 and April 2009. The main argument of this thesis is: 1. How did mobile ...

It is known that infectious agents elicit different responses in different individuals which strengthens the view that susceptibility and resistance to infectious diseases has a genetic component. These differences in ...

In the capitalist democracy, universities have been increasingly controlled by the state, which rewards generative, rather than disseminative practice. Universities have attempted to maximise income generation by increasing ...

In 1854 friction over labour practices, land appropriation and inland trade routes led to the simultaneous murder of three groups of Dutch settlers, or Trekkers by the Kekana Ndebele. The Trekkers mounted a retaliatory ...

Conflict between baboons and humans is a common occurrence in many places where baboons exist in close proximity to cultivated land. This study examines patterns of raiding by baboons, farmer retaliation, and potential ...

This thesis explores the relationship between social capital/civil society and good governance/economic development both conceptually and empirically through case studies in the urban, rural, and peri-urban South Africa. ...

This work is an investigation of the relationships between waged labour and social citizenship during the first decade of post-apartheid democracy in South Africa. In particular, I look at the ways in which changing forms ...

ABSTRACT The present study has concentrated on the relationship between language variation and social structure of society. It has taken into account language usage of speakers and their social background, namely social ...

Knowledge of HIV has for the most part not halted its advance, yet HIV prevention interventions still overwhelmingly rely on increasing people‟s levels of HIV knowledge with the expectation that they will act rationally ...

Positive affective states guide the proximate performance of the appetitive and consummatory components of behaviours, such as foraging, that ultimately increase an animal’s fitness. Accordingly, promoting foraging in ...