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Geography versus institutions and sub-Saharan aid
(2017)
This article sets out to review two opposing viewpoints in the literature, namely long-standing geographic versus institutionalist perspectives and their opposing predictions for development of poor countries, particularly ...
Public lies, private looting and the forced closure of Grootvlei Gold Mine, South Africa
(2017)
Mine closure and acid mine drainage (AMD) are major interrelated challenges facing South Africa’s Witwatersrand gold mines. As a result of mining, the East, West and Central Rand compartments of the Witwatersrand Basin are ...
Climate wars and fat wars: a new role for law
(AOSIS, 2017)
Public trust in science is eroding because of a number of conflicts. In the sphere of climate science and of nutrition science, a basic methodological difference between scientists has escalated into what can be called ...
’n Verkenning van Suid-Afrika se veranderende posisie in die wêreldhandelnetwerk 1948–1994
(AOSIS, 2017)
An exploration of South Africa’s changing position in the World Trade Network 1948–1994. The World Trade Network (WTN) has been studied as a network in numerous studies. However, countries with smaller economies are usually ...
The Expanded Public Works Programme: perspectives of direct beneficiaries
(AOSIS, 2017)
Scholarship on the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) in South Africa tends to focus on quantitative evaluation to measure the progress made in the implementation of EPWP projects. The number of employment opportunities ...
Community development workers as agents of change and conduit of authentic public participation: the case of Mpumalanga Province in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2017)
This article explores the role of community development workers (CDWs) in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The CDWs are by law expected to regularly communicate, inter alia, government initiatives in a way which ...
Changing teachers’ practice in the Creative Arts classroom: the case for educational technologies
(2017)
The study described in this essay explores the use of educational technology as a resource in the Creative Arts classroom. Many teachers are not qualified to teach Creative Arts. They then tend to rely on curriculum documents ...
After Izimbizo, what next? A participatory development communication approach to analysing feedback by the Limpopo Provincial Government to its citizens
(2017)
The new democracy in South Africa advocates for a community participatory approach in matters of governance using the Imbizo (plural, Izimbizo) among other channels. Existent studies on Imbizo indicate that the major ...
The impact of collaborative strategies on disaster risk reduction in Zimbabwe dairy supply chains in 2016
(AOSIS, 2017)
Disasters are on the increase globally with accompanying devastating effects on dairy supply chains. The devastating effects, caused by disasters on economies in various countries such as United States of America, Japan, ...
Exploring judgement and internal bias of Life Orientation teachers in sexuality teaching
(AOSIS, 2017)
There are various challenges in the teaching of sexuality within a South African multicultural context, as there is no uniform knowledge across learner backgrounds. As such, teachings often revert to the teacher’s beliefs, ...