Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 670
A twostep clustering algorithm as applied to crime data of South Africa
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
This study applied a TwoStep cluster analysis on the 29 serious crimes reported at 1119 police stations across South Africa for the 2009/2010 financial year. Due to this high number of variables and observations, it becomes ...
Implicit personality conceptions of the Nguni cultural-linguistic groups of South Africa
(Sage, 2011)
The present study explored the personality conceptions of the three main Nguni cultural-linguistic groups of South Africa: Swati, Xhosa, and Zulu. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 116 native speakers of Swati, ...
Ontology and epistemology: a transcendental reflection on decision-usefulness as an accounting objectivecounting Objective
(Sabinet, 2011)
As key global accounting regulators, the FASB and the IASB have accorded much importance to the concept of decision-usefulness, especially in the context of the capital providers as a specific user group. However, a vague ...
The significance of festivals to regional economies: measuring the economic value of the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in South Africa
(IT Publishing, 2011)
This paper estimates the economic value of South Africa's longest running national arts festival, the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in the Eastern Cape Province. The Eastern Cape is a middle-income province (6.6% of ...
Leadership competencies for managing diversity
(University of Primorska, 2011)
The new understanding of diversity involves more than increasing the number of different identity groups on the payroll. An important proposal is that the experience of diversity in an organisation results from pervasive ...
Travel behaviour of tourists to a South African holiday resort
(LAM Publishers, 2011)
Travel behaviour refers to the way in which tourists behave according to their attitudes before, during and after travelling. Knowledge regarding travel behaviour can assist in marketing, product planning and development ...
The leisure and sport participation patterns of high school learners in Potchefstroom
(University of Stellenbosch, 2011)
Leisure and sport activities are thought to be developmentally important because it provides opportunities for skill development and the formation of social relationships during adolescence. Added to this the number and ...
A motivation based typology of open-water swimmers
(University of Stellenbosch, 2011)
People travel to destinations for different reasons and the same applies to sporting events. To fulfil the needs of athletes and ensure that the event remains competitive, it is important to understand the needs of different ...
The depletion of narrative resources in the Kenyan trade union movement
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
We discuss in this study the problems of mobilization and effectiveness faced by Kenyan trade unions. In a country with high levels of unemployment and weak labour legislation, it is imperative that the labour movement ...
Is the South African exchange rate volatile? Application of the arch framework
(Virtus Interpress, 2015)
This study applies the autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH) model to forecast exchange rate volatility in South Africa for the period 1990Q1 to 2014Q2. The ARCH (1) and ARCH (2) models were constructed using ...