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Performance determinants of non-life insurance firms: a systematic review of the literature

  • Authors: Zinyoro, Tafadzwanash , Aziakpono, Meshach J
  • Date: 2024
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/469919 , vital:77307 , https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2024.2345045
  • Description: The performance of non-life insurers is essential to the economy because of their role in mitigating the risks firms and households face. This study provides a comprehensive overview of studies examining factors affecting non-life insurers’ performance. Based on 235 studies published between 1990 and 2021, the review demonstrates that firm-level factors such as size, organisational form, diversification, capital structure, risk, reinsurance, corporate governance, distribution system, and group affiliation, and external factors such as market structure, macroeconomic, financial, and institutional development are the major determinants of non-life insurers’ performance. Although the empirical evidence on the effect of these factors is generally mixed, firm size, capitalisation, risk, macroeconomic conditions, and, to some extent, corporate governance and market structure issues show a clear relationship with insurer performance. One of the implications of this study is that there may be a need for increased solvency surveillance, especially for smaller insurers, which appear to have a higher risk of insolvency than their larger counterparts.
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  • Date Issued: 2024

How to engage with coal mines through Catchment Management Forums

  • Authors: Munnik, Victor , Holleman, Helen , Wolff, Margaret G , Palmer, Carolyn G
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , report
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437882 , vital:73419 , ISBN 978-1 4312-0990-3 , https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/SP 122-18 web.pdf
  • Description: This book was written for the catchment management forum (CMF) in the Upper Komati Forum (UKF), and they share their experience in order to help other CMFs understand the damage coal mining does to our water resources. This booklet should be used with How to think and act in ways that make Adaptive IWRM practically possible and How to establish and run a Catchment Management Forum.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

The Zulu girl and other poems

  • Authors: Ngidi, Sandile Brian
  • Date: 2019
  • Subjects: Xhosa poetry
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/92748 , vital:30744
  • Description: My thesis is a collection of English poems that converse with Mazisi Kunene’s literary corpus. I draw from both Kunene’s early works, which followed the pioneering work of the Zulu poet BW Vilakazi, and his socio‐political later work, which is at once Pan African in scope and intent yet deeply rooted in a Zulu socio‐linguistic milieu. Like Kunene, I aim to create a poetics of exile by working between languages, writing in Zulu and then translating into English to express my alienation in South Africa and what it means to be exiled from language and culture and speak a foreign language with your mother tongue. Here, I also take influence from the rich, evocative imagery in Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish's poetry of exile and the quest for a lost homeland, as well as Brazilian poet Adela Prado’s wit and direct speech. I also engage popular contemporary forms of expression and use poetry to question some themes in the popular music genre maskandi, especially its rhetoric on identity, class and gender politics.
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  • Date Issued: 2019

A cohort analysis of subjective wellbeing and ageing: heading towards a midlife crisis

  • Authors: Otterbach, Steffen , Sousa-Poza, Alfonso , Moller, Valerie
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Aging -- Social aspects Gerontology
  • Language: English
  • Type: Book , Text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/65401 , vital:28782 , ISBN 978086810641
  • Description: In this paper, we analyse how different domains of subjective wellbeing evolve within seven years in three different cohorts born 10 years apart. On average, general life satisfaction – as well as satisfaction with leisure time, social contacts and friends, and family – declines substantially between the ages of 15 and 44, with the most significant decrease taking place at a young age (early 20s). Nevertheless, trajectories among the three cohorts differ markedly, indicating that, ceteris paribus, responses on subjective wellbeing differ greatly between cohorts born just a decade apart. The results further indicate that the two older cohorts assess family life and social contacts more favourably than the youngest cohort.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

Synthesis, in vitro cytotoxicity and trypanocidal evaluation of novel 1, 3, 6-substituted non-fluoroquinolones

  • Authors: Beteck, Richard M , Isaacs, Michelle , Khanye, Setshaba D , Hoppe, Heinrich C
  • Date: 2018
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , article
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/123140 , vital:35409 , https://doi.org/10.17159/0379-4350/2018/v71a25
  • Description: Sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) is a neglected tropical disease that affects mostly the poorest communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Toxic side effects associated with the use of current anti-trypanosomal drugs, which in some cases kill faster than the disease itself, necessitate the search for new drugs with better safety margins. To this effect, a small library bearing different substituents at position -1, -3, and -6 of the quinolone nucleus were synthesized and evaluated in vitro against HeLa cell lines and Trypanosoma brucei brucei for cytotoxicity and trypanocidal potentials, respectively. While most of these compounds showed no cytotoxic effect, they exhibited moderate to weak anti-trypanosomal activities. The SAR studies of this series provide new information worth considering in future exploration of the quinolone scaffold in search ofmore potent and safe trypanocidal agents.
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  • Date Issued: 2018

Miscellaneous provisions

  • Authors: Arendse, Jacqueline A , Clegg, David , Williams, Robert C
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/131276 , vital:36548 , https://store.lexisnexis.co.za/products/silke-on-tax-administration-skuZASKUPG1440
  • Description: Miscellaneous provisions pertaining to tax administration are explained in this chapter.
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  • Date Issued: 2016

Black-boxing and the politics of parliamentary oversight in South Africa

  • Authors: Siebörger, Ian , Adendorff, Ralph D
  • Date: 2015
  • Subjects: To be catalogued
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book chapter
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/433497 , vital:72976 , ISBN 978-9027206565 , https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.65
  • Description: We investigate a parliamentary committee meeting overseeing a randomly chosen state-owned entity, in order to track the processes of knowledge production that occur in parliamentary oversight. The entity’s representatives use “epistemological condensation” (Maton 2014:130) to present the information they give to the MPs as incontestable, effectively “black-boxing” it. “Black-boxing” (Latour 1987) is a process which presents knowledge in such a way that very little room is left for questioning it. The committee members also use “epistemological rarefaction” (Maton 2014:130) to open the black box of the presentation and question its contents, challenging the practices of the entity.
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  • Date Issued: 2015

A common framework for lattice-valued uniform spaces and probabilistic uniform limit spaces

  • Authors: Craig, Andrew P K , Jäger, Gunter
  • Date: 2009
  • Language: English
  • Type: Article
  • Identifier: vital:6784 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006927
  • Description: We study a category of lattice-valued uniform convergence spaces where the lattice is enriched by two algebraic operations. This general setting allows us to view the category of lattice-valued uniform spaces as a reflective subcategory of our category, and the category of probabilistic uniform limit spaces as a coreflective subcategory.
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  • Date Issued: 2009

New Unity Movement Bulletin

Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1998

  • Authors: Rhodes University
  • Date: 1998
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: vital:8132 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006777
  • Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies [at] 1820 Settlers National Monument Wednesday, 18 February 1998 at 6:00 p.m. [and] Friday, 17 April 1998 at 10:30 a.m., 18:00 p.m. [and] Saturday, 18 April 1998 at 10:30 a.m. , Rhodes University 1998 Graduation Ceremony City Hall, East London Friday, 8 May 1998 at 18:00 p.m.
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  • Date Issued: 1998

South African Municipal Worker's Union Constitution

  • Authors: SAMWU
  • Date: Mar 1997
  • Subjects: SAMWU
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/111096 , vital:33377
  • Description: The name of the union shall be the SOUTH AFRICAN MUNICIPAL WORKERS UNION. The union shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession capable of entering into contractual and other relations and of suing and being sued in its own name and shall be an organisation not for gain. It shall hold property separate from its members. The liability of members shall be limited to the amount of subscriptions or other monies due to the union at any time in terms of this constitution.
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  • Date Issued: Mar 1997

Profile on Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union

  • Authors: POPCRU
  • Date: Mar 1996
  • Subjects: POPCRU
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134790 , vital:37205
  • Description: Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) was established in November 1989 under the leadership of former Lieutenant Gregory Rockman. Popcru was formed to combat problems within the police force which were caused by the former apartheid regime and the then racist SA Police management. Before the birth of Popcru, the public sector was not covered by any laws. As a result, even police officers, warders and wardresses could not openly express their political opinions, thus it became illegal for them to form a trade union. Since the passing of the Labour Relations Act in 1993, members of the SA Police Service (SAPS), Department of Correctional Services and traffic officers have joined Popcru in great numbers.
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  • Date Issued: Mar 1996

Think: A Review of International Struggles

Up Beat Issue Number 7 1994

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: Aug 1994
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115860 , vital:34247
  • Description: On 9 August every year, the people of South Africa celebrate Women's Day. We do this to remind the government that women should enjoy the same rights and opportunities as men. And we celebrate Women's Day on 9 August for a special reason. On 9 August 1956, 20 000 women from all over South Africa gathered at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Led By Lilian Ngoyi and Helen Joseph, women came to protest. They were angry because the government was trying to force women to carry passes and control their movements. They told the Nationalist Prime Minister, Strijdom, 'You have tampered with the women. You have struck the rock.' The women lost their struggle. But every year we remember their bravery. And every year we pledge ourselves to fight, so that women are treated as equals in our country.
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  • Date Issued: Aug 1994

Up Beat Issue Number 10 1992

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: 1992
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116706 , vital:34427
  • Description: The days are getting longer and warmer. It is almost holiday time. This year, there is no need to sit around feeling bored. There are lots of exciting events for young people in the December holidays. Many youth feel that places like museums and art galleries, aren't for them. But they are for everyone. Learn to paint t-shirts or to do beadwork. Attend a workshop on photography or spend an afternoon learning to be a DJ - mixing and scratching records. Find out about all these exciting holiday events on page 36. Upbeat has also organised Upbeat Days. We've got together with schools and resource centres around the country. There will be clean-ups and plays, beach walks and treasure hunts, food, fun and great prizes to win. Why not write a story for Upbeat during the holidays? Spend a day being a reporter. If we publish your story, you will be R30 richer. Find out how to be an Upbeat reporter on page 7. Here's another holiday idea! Put your feet up and spend the afternoon enjoying reading this issue of Upbeat. Read about Bronwyn, the young local teenage star. Wangari Maathai is a tireless and brave woman from Kenya. Don't miss her story on page 4. Have fun making a mask. Or try and find your way through our mind-boggling maze. Reading and learning is always fun with Upbeat!
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  • Date Issued: 1992

Up Beat Issue Number 4 1992

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: 1992
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116237 , vital:34342
  • Description: Conflict is OK. Violence is not! You can disagree with someone else’s views. But you can’t punch them! Conflict is a normal part of life. We are all different and want different things. As a result we often fight with the people around us - our family, friends and neighbours. You like rap but your boyfriend likes disco. You want to go out but your mom says stay at home. Every day Upbeat receives lots of letters from our readers. Many of the letters are about violence. There are stories about violence in the street and poems pleading for peace. There are letters seeking help in solving battles with boyfriends and parents. Readers tell us frightening tales about violence between gangs at school and students who hold different political views. The problem seems too big to solve. You may think our leaders should sort it out. But we can all do something to help build peace in our country. In this issue we start an exciting new series called ‘Be a peacemaker’. It is about how to tackle conflict without screaming, blaming or punching the person you are fighting with. Learn to be a peacemaker at home, school and in your community. YOU can make a difference. You can’t avoid conflicts in your life. But you can learn to 'fight fair’. Don’t forget! If you have ideas that you want to share or a story to tell - write to us. If you need advice on careers or sex education - let us know. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of advice and information to make you feel better and get you on the move again.
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  • Date Issued: 1992

Up Beat Issue Number 5 1992

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: 1992
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116248 , vital:34343
  • Description: Richard is in Std 9. He sits in the same row as Thabo and Mike. They are his great friends. Every day at break they sneak out the schoolyard to go and smoke dagga. Richard doesn't like smoking. He wants to say no. But he is scared his friends won’t like him if he does. He doesn’t want to risk that. These are his chommies! They all watch soccer together and share secrets about girls. Maybe you find yourself in Richard’s position. You are also too scared to say no to your friends. Try to be brave and stand up for yourself. Tell your friends that you don’t want to smoke, because drugs are harmful. You may be surprised to find that someone else in the group agrees with you. He was just too scared to say so. Or maybe your friends will cut you out. You’ll feel lonely for awhile but others will come to respect you. We all look up to people who make a stand. It is hard to go against your friends. But you must learn to do what’s right for you. Arm yourself with information. Read, listen and learn. Then make your choice. Upbeat is filled with important information to help you make decisions about your life. In this issue read why Prophets of the City say No to drugs. Don’t miss our hot debate on sex education. We’ve got information on AIDS. So tell your friends about it and help stop the disease spreading. We all love listening to music. But do you know how a record is made? Find out all about the recording industry on page 17. That will really impress your friends! When they look surprised and say ‘how do you know all that’, just say you read it in Upbeat. You’ll be a winner at parties.
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  • Date Issued: 1992

Up Beat Issue Number 8 1991

  • Authors: SACHED
  • Date: 1991
  • Subjects: SACHED
  • Language: English
  • Type: text
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116633 , vital:34419
  • Description: On 7 August, more than 6 000 teachers from all over the Transvaal gathered in Johannesburg. The teachers wanted the government to know how difficult teaching is when there are no proper facilities. The teachers met at the City Hall to talk about their problems. Then, at one o’clock, everyone left the hall and marched to the Department of Education and Training offices in Braamfontein. Down Rissik Street the teachers marched, right past the Upbeat offices. All you could see were teachers, teachers and more teachers. When they reached the DET offices, they gave the DET a list of their demands. This is what your teachers want. The DET must recognise the teachers’ union, SADTU. The DET must stop making the lives of teachers who belong to the union difficult. All teachers must earn a living wage. There must be smaller classes and more teachers. All schools must be open to all people. Women teachers and girl students must be treated the same as males. All education laws to do with apartheid must go. The DET must confirm the jobs of all teachers on probation.
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  • Date Issued: 1991

Coloured labour relations and political organisation: past developments and a scenario

  • Authors: Natherson, R
  • Date: 1988-11
  • Subjects: Industrial relations -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Type: text , book
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66392 , vital:28944 , ISBN 0797202048
  • Description: The rise and development of ‘Coloured’ labour relations and political organisations form the central theme of this study. These two areas of South African contemporary history have received comparatively little attention for a number of reasons. Not the least of these is the controversial issue of whether or not it is justifiable or accurate to treat ‘Coloureds’ as a separate and identifiable group apart from the black majority. The term ‘Coloured’ as used in the South African context refers to those people often described in other societies as of mixed race, mulattos or half-castes. Within this study the term ‘Coloured with a capital C and hereafter without apostrophes is used to avoid confusion with ‘coloured1 meaning black. Black is used in the general sense of all those people not being White. The impact of organized Coloured politics, however, has been greater than their minority status would suggest, especially in the Cape, and in particular in the Western Cape, where most of the people described as Coloured live. When Coloured political mobilization started in the 1890’s, it centered in Cape Town. The founding of the first successful Coloured political movement, the African Political Organization (APO), marked the start of successful black political mobilization on a national scale in South Africa. Other Coloured organisations which emerged after the APO made important contributions to the tactics and ideologies of Black political leaders. Coloured intellectuals in the 1940’s propagated the principle of non-collaboration with segregatory political institutions, implemented through the tactic of the boycott, a strategy employed to good effect by contemporary Black organisations. This study is divided into three main sections. Chapters 1 and 2 trace the origins of the labour history in which past and present day developments in the industrial relations system can be viewed in relation to the political, industrial and economic systems that have evolved within South Africa since the occupation of the Western Cape by the Dutch in 1652. The initial contact between these Europeans and the indigenous inhabitants of the Cape developed a relationship which determined the pattern of interaction between Black and White South Africans the major traces of which have still remained until today. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 deal with the early history of the Coloured people, their industrial and political organisations prior to the watershed year of South African Industrial Relations, 1979, whereafter a more generalised view is adopted in order to trace the broad trends which have emerged with the new labour dispensation and its industrial enfranchisement of the Black worker. The remaining chapters concentrate on Coloured participation within the Industrial and Political arenas, particularly in the Western Cape, and offer substantiation for the postulate of a new political grouping based on socialist principles and having a similar trend in terms of its origins to that of the British Labour Party at its birth at the turn of this century. It is concluded that this grouping would be a natural home for the ‘stateless’ Coloured, and ideologically and politically would offer coherence and structure to the disparate groupings within the United Democratic Front (UDF) and form the most potential, Western Cape based political party ‘in waiting'. , This occasional paper is based on the technical report which received the Finansbank award for 1987
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  • Date Issued: 1988-11

A short autobiography of Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi

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