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The 2009 South African elections: Implications for the provinces
(Published by the Department of History, University of the Free State, 2010)The 2009 South African elections were somewhat different in terms of the positioning of the ruling party and the nature of the opposition. Against this background the meaning and implications (democratic meaningfulness) ... -
The 2011 local elections campaigns in the Tlokwe municipality, North-West Province: enhancing participatory governance?
(University of the Free State?, 2011)The South African Local Government Municipal Systems Act (Act 32 of 2000) requires participatory governance. Although this Act is not concerned with electoral participation in the first instance, it is argued that it also ... -
The 2011 local government elections: considering policy and legislative responses to local government challenges
(Unisa Press, 2012)Within the context of the 2011 local government elections (hereafter the 2011 elections), this article explores the correlation between the main issues raised by political parties as local government challenges and ... -
The 2012 acid mine drainage (AMD) crisis in Carolina's municipal water supply
(Taylor & Francis & UNISA Press, 2014)There are growing concerns in South Africa about the threat that acid mine drainage (AMD) poses to local natural water resources in many of the country's mining areas. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the toxic ... -
A bildung-psychological investigation into student motives: McKinsey- or von Humboldt-oriented?
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This study examined differential student motives among students from a social sciences bachelor's degree, and whether this difference related to participating in educational programmes for broader intellectual formation ... -
A bilingual English-Sesotho rubric explanation guide for the marking of Sesotho home language creative writing essays
(South African Association for Language Teaching (SAALT), 2017)Creative writing essays in Sesotho Home Language classes are marked using rubrics. Nevertheless, using the same rubric does not necessarily automate a uniform interpretation of the rubric. It is important to clearly define ... -
"A boy, being a victim, nobody really buys that, you know?": dynamics of sexual violence against boys
(Elsevier, 2017)The aim of this study was to present the dynamics of sexual violence against boys. Interviews were conducted with four male victims of sexual abuse between the ages of six and 10, as well as four psychologists employed in ... -
A call for recognition and empowerment of women in ministry in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(The Church History Society Of Southern Africa, 2017)Women were already in ministry in Old and New Testament times, though they were not officially recognised as ministers as they are today. This practice was adopted by the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA). Despite ... -
A case for loyalty-based relational business models: Assessing direct - and mediating effects of the Net Promoter Score (NPS) metric in commercial football consumption decisions
(AJHTL, 2016)Although the Net Promoter Score (NPS) consumer metric as proposed by Reichheld (2003) has been established as a pragmatic commercial revenue indicator in business management, empirical scrutiny of the measure remains ... -
A comparative-philosophical perspective on divine hiddenness in the Hebrew Bible
(OASIS, 2015)This study is concerned with the problem of divine hiddenness as it has taken shape in analytic philosophy of religion over the past two decades. More specifically, the interest lies with providing a comparative-philosophical ... -
A comprehensive philosophical approach to Qohelet's epistemology
(Univ Pretoria Hts, 2015)An increasing number of studies have seen the light over the last few decades concerning the epistemology of the book of Ecclesiastes. The extant research seems to be limited to try to find a suitable philosophical profile ... -
A comprehensive typology of philosophical perspectives on Qohelet
(OASIS, 2015)In this article, the author seeks to provide the first comprehensive typology of philosophical approaches to the book of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes). Six overlapping, yet functionally distinct, meta-philosophical categories ... -
A conceptual study of spirituality in selected writings of Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
(Sage, 2017)Several authors have noted that one of émile Jaques-Dalcroze's aims was to dissolve the mind-body dualism, typical of Cartesianism. However, there has been little research on the spirit-body connection, as it appears in ... -
A context specific framework approach to community based monitoring
(Look Academic Publishers, 2017)This paper aims to outline the development of a generic citizen science framework that can be implemented at educational institutions such as university campuses and schools. The framework was developed as a reflective ... -
A fruitful missional exegesis for a missional hermeneutic and missiology
(AOSIS, 2017)Bosch (1991:497) advocated for a 'third-way' (Bekele 2011:155; Du Plessis 1990:83) in which a deductive and an inductive approach were unified in a creative tension. A fruitful interdependence is achieved by means of the ... -
A GF miniature resource grammar for Tswana: modelling the proper verb
(Springer, 2017)The Grammatical Framework (GF) not only offers state of the art grammar-based machine translation support between an increasing number of languages through its so-called Resource Grammar Library, but is also fast becoming ... -
A group intervention programme for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse
(Stellenbosch University, 2016)This study reports on the core components of the Survivor to Thriver strengths-based group intervention programme for women who experienced childhood sexual abuse. It advocates a balanced approach and draws on an eclectic ... -
A guideline for the strategic implementation of social media messaging within a marketing communication context
(University of Johannesburg, 2016)Marketing communication practitioners lack a guideline for implementing social media strategically. In the light of this, the authors of this article explored the strategic implementation of social media within a marketing ... -
A history of the Waterlit collection (1974-1999): A hard copy research collection on water studies and its digital catalogue
(University of the Free State // Institute for Contemporary History Sabinet, 2015)In the second half of the twentieth century South Africa built up a reputation as one of the foremost countries of the world in terms of water infrastructure development. Dam projects such as the Orange River Scheme and ...
