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Pan–African Parliament and civil society: towards representing the voices of the people
(Unisa, 2011)The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) plays a major role in the democratisation process and the harmonisation of relations with civil society organisations (CSOs) for socio-economic and political development to be realised in ... -
Paradiplozoon ichthyoxanthon n. sp. (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) from Labeobarbus aeneus (Cyprinidae) in the Vaal River, South Africa
(CUP, 2014)A new species, Paradiplozoon ichthyoxanthon (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) is described from the gills of Labeobarbus aeneus (Cyprinidae) in the Vaal Dam and Vaal River Barrage in the Vaal River, South Africa. This species is ... -
Participation in sport and recreation in a poor community : perceived constraints and opportunities : physical activity and health
(AFAHPER-SDLAM PublicationsSabinetLAM PublicationsSabinetAJOL, 2014)Participation in physical activity and sport has many health benefits and contributes to well-being of individuals. In a broader context it could even bring communities together and improve social cohesion, especially in ... -
Participative management in sport: Coaches views on decision making
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)Implementing participative decision making practices has become increasingly popular amongst organisations. Numerous benefits, including increased morale and job satisfaction, have been associated with the effective ... -
Perceived benefits and barriers to physical exercise : a comparative analysis of first year and senior students at a South African University : physical activity and health
(AFAHPER-SDLAM PublicationsAJOLSabinet, 2014)The purpose of this research was to determine the perception of university undergraduate students regarding the benefits and barriers to physical exercise. A self-administered survey questionnaire was used to collect data ... -
Perceived stress and coping skills of university student–athletes and the relationship with life satisfaction
(LAM Publications; AJOL; Sabinet, 2013)Student-athletes are expected to cope with their studies and participation in sport simultaneously as well as to satisfy the expectations of coaches, teammates, friends, and family. Once student-athletes perceive a situation ... -
Politicisation of performance appraisals
(OASIS Publishing, 2014)Orientation: Employees are a source of competitive advantage for organisations and human resource management seek to promote employee efficiency. One of the tools organisations utilise to achieve this goal is performance ... -
Positive adjustment to poverty: how family communities encourage resilience in traditional African contexts
(SAGE Publications, 2013)In the main, resilience literature explains positive adjustment to adversity in ways that are biased towards western culture. Although studies of resilience among African Americans have reported the importance of kinship, ... -
Post–graduate supervision pratices in South African universities in the era of democracy and educational change 1994–2004
(Unisa, 2011)Supervision might be understood as the provision usually by an academic to a student of either the expert guidance in subject knowledge or genre knowledge in relation to postgraduate thesis development. The Project for ... -
Pragmatism attacking Christianity as weakness – methodologies of targeting
(AOSIS, 2013)The central argument is that methods are designed with aims in mind, and are determined by one’s worldview and/or ontology and/or philosophical anthropology and/or views of scholarship. It is possible, and here shown by ... -
Psychological empowerment, work engagement and turnover intention: the role of leader relations and role clarity in a financial institution
(Elliott & Fitzpatrick & NISC [© 2010 Elliot & Fitzpatrick], 2011)This study investigated the relationship between leader-member exchange, role clarity, psychological empowerment, engagement and turnover intention within a financial institution in South Africa. A cross-sectional survey ... -
Reflections on operational competencies required of educators at public secondary schools
(2013)The primary objective of this study was to identify the operational competencies perceived by educators to be important in teaching at secondary schools. The secondary objective was to investigate the relationship between ... -
The relationship between job satisfaction and job loyalty among municipal sports officers
(LAM PublicationsAJOLSabinet, 2013)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and job loyalty among municipal sports officers in South Africa. With the rise in the popularity of sport in South Africa, municipalities ... -
Reliability in WSN for security: Mathematical approach
(IEEE, 2013)Modern wireless sensor networks require specific and high degree of security due to their limitation and versatility tasks. The absence of permanent infrastructure makes these networks suitable for many civilian applications. ... -
A remarkable woman – the Canaanite woman in Matthew
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Resilience in the face of fragile X syndrome
(Sage publication, 2012)In this article, we communicate transformative findings from a case study on the resilience of a young woman with fragile X syndrome (FXS), a genetic condition involving mental impairment and physical, emotional, and ... -
The return to reading: acquisition, reading research on narrative and the implications for a multilingual pedagogy for higher education in South Africa
(CSSALL (UKZN), 2012)As applied linguists, we still need, given the resurgence of interest and scholarship in multilingualism, to attend to research on developing and changing language pedagogy so that it is informed by cognitive linguistics ... -
Reversions and revisions: displacement, heritage and history in Chenjerai Hove's ancestors
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Ancestors narrates the story of the deaf and the dumb. It stands, at once, as story and history, as allegory and epic, as journey and departure. It is panoply interrogating matriarchy and patriarchy, domination and emergence ... -
Rurality and rural education : Discourses underpinning rurality and rural education research in South African postgraduate education research 1994–2004
(Unisa, 2011)Historically, rurality and rural education have been marginalised bodies of knowledge in South Africa. The post-1994 era has seen an emerging government concern to address the continuing interplay between poverty, HIV/AIDS, ... -
Rurality research and rural education: exploratory and explanatory power
(2012)This article presents analysed data from the first year of the Rural Teacher Education Project (RTEP 2007 - 2009) with a view to illustrating how a generative theory of rurality as education research was developed, and for ...
