Browsing TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa by Title
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Tourists’ willingness to pay to view otters along the Wild Coast, South Africa: a potential for in creased ecotourism
(2005)This article reports on tourists’ willingness to pay to view Cape clawless otters Aonyx capensis along the Eastern Cape Wild Coast, South Africa. We collected data from a survey carried out using a structured, ... -
Towards a social sustainability in higher education: enhancing students’ solidarity and togetherness through collaborative projects in racially diverse learning environments
(2013)One key goal in the mission and vision statement of the University of the Free State is to recruit the best and most diverse students who work in solidarity and togetherness across social and historical divides. This ... -
Towards a unified concept of transdisciplinary research
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Towards strengthening collaboration between district and local municipalities in South Africa: insights from Ehlanzeni District Municipality
(AOSIS, 2019)This article examines the state of collaboration between a district municipality and its local municipalities using Ehlanzeni District Municipality as a case study. This is important because in terms of the Local Government: ... -
Towards the conceptualisation of flow in corporate financial reporting theory
(2015)Developments in science, technology and sophisticated interconnected social networks increase the speed and volatility of the flow of economic-related energies, such as financial and intellectual capital. These developments ... -
Towards transdisciplinary education
(2005)The methodology of transdisciplinarity is founded on three postulates: there are, in Nature and in our knowledge of Nature, different levels of Reality and, correspondingly, different levels of perception; the passage ... -
Town engineers in South Africa before 1910, with reference to water supply
(2013)This article looks at the town engineers in South Africa prior to Union in 1910. It briefly examines the growth in the number of municipalities and town engineers in the country in this period and investigates the ... -
Tracking Gauteng thunderstorms using Crowdsourced Twitter data between Soweto and Pretoria
(2014)Summer thunderstorms in Gauteng are often dramatic, noisy, wet events. They can appear suddenly on exceptionally hot sunny days travelling fast across the province. With such dramatic arrivals, people often flock to ... -
The tragedy of the water commons: the case of the Lower Orange water management area
(2008)In the human environment there is a tendency to refer to resources, such as land and water which do not specifically belong to any single individual, as the ‘commons’. Garret Hardin wrote his famous paper called: “The ... -
Transdisciplinarity: two preliminary issues
(2013)Any discussion about transdisciplinarity presupposes some sort of recognition of the scientific disciplines and some agreement on how they are or should be grouped or classified. This article supplies a demarcation criterion ... -
A transdisciplinary approach to understanding the causes of wicked problems such as the violent conflict in Rwanda
(North-West University, 2012)The paper is presented against a background of many wicked problems that confront us in the world today such as violent crime, conflict that emanates from political power seeking, contests for scarce resources, the ... -
A transdisciplinary exploration: reading peace education and teaching English to speakers of other languages through multiple literacies theory
(AOSIS, 2018)Since the early 1990s peace education has increasingly informed the field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). More recently, this transdisciplinary dialogue has found expression in approaches such ... -
Transdisciplinary relationship between mathematics and accounting
(AOSIS, 2019)Accounting and mathematics are closely related. There is little mathematics content that a profound relationship exists between mathematics and accounting. There is, however, a limited understanding of the nature of this ... -
Transdisciplinary research in the cooperation between intercultural philosophy and empirical sciences
(2007)This article will examine how philosophy and empirical sciences can cooperate in research. It is presupposed that in philosophy and in the empirical sciences different types of discourses are used. This difference causes ... -
Transdisciplinary service-learning for construction management and quantity surveying students
(AOSIS, 2021)The transformation of higher education in South Africa has seen higher education institutions become more responsive to community matters by providing institutional support for service-learning projects. Despite ... -
Transition from growth point policy to liberal urban development in Zimbabwe: the emergence of Ruwa Town, 1980–1991
(AOSIS, 2017)This article traces the transition from growth point policy to liberal development in the emergence of Ruwa Town in Zimbabwe from independence in 1980 to 1990/1991 when the town was declared an urban area under the ... -
Twelve Monkeys, the Kassandra dilemma and innovation diffusion: transdisciplinary lessons for animal and environmental activism
(2014)Animal activists and environmental activists believe that the world and its inhabitants face devastating consequences in the future if behaviour towards and the treatment of animals and the environment do not change. ... -
Ubuomba: Negotiating indigenisation of liturgical music in the Catholic Church in Zambia
(2014)In the early 1950s the Vatican accepted the translation of Catholic hymnals into local Zambian languages and the incorporation of indigenous musical instruments into the liturgical music. This development inspired a group ... -
Uncovering the strengths and weaknesses of outsourcing core business deliverables: the case of selected state-owned enterprises in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)Background: The outsourcing phenomenon is one of the extensive areas of business in the world. It is a practice among both private and public organisations and an important element in business strategy. Consequently, the ... -
Underlying correlates of consumers’ attitudes towards Chinese apparel and relationship with purchase intention in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)The study examined the influence of South African consumers’ attitudes and purchase intention towards Chinese apparel. A survey of South African consumers who had purchase experience of Chinese apparel was conducted to ...