Confronted with a sluggish growth and very high rates of rural unemployment, South Africa has put local beneficiation at the core of its strategy for employment-intensive re-industrialisation. Its industrial policy action ...
The use of multiple-choice items in assessments in the interest of increased efficiency brings associated challenges, notably the phenomenon of guessing. The purpose of this study is to use Rasch measurement theory to ...
Rwanda's has made remarkable all-round progress over the last 25 years. This is usually attributed to a determined national government under single-minded leadership. This paper draws attention to two local drivers of ...
Aquino de Braganca was a close advisor to Samora Machel, former president of Mozambique. Both lost their lives when their plane crashed at Mbuzini in October 1986.
Born in Goa, fluent in French as well as Portuguese, and ...
Henry Selby Msimang was one of the great South Africans of the twentieth century. Born in 1886 in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg, he was a founding member, interpreter and assistant to the Secretary General of the African ...
In many developing countries, there is a continued decline in public participation at the local level which often results in poor service delivery and as a result, a rise in protests. South Africa has experienced a sharp ...
HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of disease burden in sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence has demonstrated that there is substantial local variation in the prevalence of HIV; however, subnational variation has not been ...
Population ageing has become a global concern for most economies due to the implications it has on labor market dynamics and economic development. Ageing results in increased expenditure on health and welfare services, yet ...
Lunga, W.; Bongo, P.P.; van Niekerk, D.; Musarurwa, C.(2019-06-05)
The policy thrust of disaster risk reduction initiatives is in many instances tailored towards able-bodied people. This is at the expense of those challenged in many facets such as physically, mentally and other forms of ...
Voices of Liberation: Archie Mafeje should be understood as an attempt to contextualise Mafeje's work and thinking and adds to gripping intellectual biographies of African intellectuals by African researchers. Mafeje's ...
This chapter contributes to this endeavor by outlining some of the theoretical developments in the approaches to conflict management and outlining the well-rehearsed critique of the dominant approaches. The chapter then ...
Cities are important forces of national socioeconomic development. Individuals in cities often belong to different
socioeconomic statuses depending on their levels of income, education and nature of occupation. Income, ...