The contribution of service industries to national and regional economic development is subject to increasing debate. For centuries, manufacturing has been seen as the catalyst for growth and services as subordinate because ...

Banks own and occupy a number of building infrastructures in South Africa and beyond its borders. Most of these buildings accommodate hundreds of employees and attract customers who travel from varying locations and distances ...

At the dawn of South Africas democracy, access to resources, employment opportunities and well-paid jobs were starkly divided along racial and traditional gender lines. Women in general, and black women in particular, were ...

It is widely accepted that humans are fundamentally social animals that have an inherent desire to belong. This need is thought to commonly apply to both women and men from two-parent and single-parent families (Walsh ...

The desire to address climate change, both from mitigation and adaptation perspectives remains a central matter when considering green building.

The green building approach differs from the conventional approach in that all the linkages in the value chain must systematically consider sustainability matters in the entire life cycle of the building process.

This study investigated how psychological distress and the proxies for social position combine to influence the risk of both underweight and overweight in South Africans aged 15 years and older. This was a cross-sectional ...

This paper investigates the indirect effects of lifestyle risk factors associated with non-communicable diseases on labour force participation in South Africa utilising data from the National Income Dynamics Study. Endogenous ...

Programs like Siyazondla Homestead Gardens, Siyakhula and Massive Food Production Program were introduced by the provincial government of the Eastern Cape Province with the aim of improving household food production, ...

Equity in health financing remains significant in the universal health coverage discourse. The way a health system is financed, apart from determining whether people have access to needed health services, also has implications ...