Nak'umiza Umukhana Aloba
- Sizangi, Watoya, not specified, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Sizangi, Watoya , not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-05
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Gishu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229376 , vital:49666 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2261 , XYZ5445a
- Description: Topical song with Siilili lute and Kengele bell
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-05
- Authors: Sizangi, Watoya , not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-05
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Gishu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229376 , vital:49666 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2261 , XYZ5445a
- Description: Topical song with Siilili lute and Kengele bell
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-05
Wabomba baseza ni Mahero
- Sizangi, Watoya, Gishu men, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Sizangi, Watoya , Gishu men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda City not specified f-ug
- Language: Gishu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298207 , vital:57676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2010-XYZ5445b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
- Authors: Sizangi, Watoya , Gishu men , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950
- Subjects: Folk Music , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda City not specified f-ug
- Language: Gishu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/298207 , vital:57676 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , TP2010-XYZ5445b
- Description: Indigenous music
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950
Wabomba baseza ni Mahero
- Sizangi, Watoya, not specified, Tracey, Hugh
- Authors: Sizangi, Watoya , not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-05
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Gishu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229385 , vital:49667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2261 , XYZ5445b
- Description: Topical song with Siilili lute and Kengele bell
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-05
- Authors: Sizangi, Watoya , not specified , Tracey, Hugh
- Date: 1950-09-05
- Subjects: Popular music--Africa , Field recordings , Africa, Sub-Saharan , Africa Uganda Mbale f-ug
- Language: Gishu
- Type: sound recordings , field recordings , sound recording-musical
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229385 , vital:49667 , International Library of African Music, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , Hugh Tracey Commercial Records, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa , CR2261 , XYZ5445b
- Description: Topical song with Siilili lute and Kengele bell
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1950-09-05
Academic Practice & Reasoning: APR 122F
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, N
- Date: 2011-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18275 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011271
- Description: Academic Practice & Reasoning: APR 122F, examination November 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-11
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, N
- Date: 2011-11
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18275 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011271
- Description: Academic Practice & Reasoning: APR 122F, examination November 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-11
Academic Practice and Reasoning: APR 122
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, B
- Date: 2012-02
- Subjects: English
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18235 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011227
- Description: Academic Practice and Reasoning: APR 122, degree examination February 2012.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012-02
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, B
- Date: 2012-02
- Subjects: English
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18235 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011227
- Description: Academic Practice and Reasoning: APR 122, degree examination February 2012.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2012-02
Management and Commerce Foundation: APR 111 F
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, B
- Date: 2011-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18263 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011259
- Description: Management and Commerce Foundation: APR 111 F, supplementary examination July 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-07
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, B
- Date: 2011-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18263 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011259
- Description: Management and Commerce Foundation: APR 111 F, supplementary examination July 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-07
Academic Practice and Reasoning: APR 122F
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, N
- Date: 2011-02
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18227 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011218
- Description: Academic Practice and Reasoning: APR 122F, Supplementary examination February 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-02
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Makwela, N
- Date: 2011-02
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18227 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011218
- Description: Academic Practice and Reasoning: APR 122F, Supplementary examination February 2011.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2011-02
Academic Management and Reasoning: APR 111F
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Ndhlovu, K
- Date: 2010-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18256 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011250
- Description: Academic Management and Reasoning: APR 111F, Supplementary examination July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-07
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Ndhlovu, K
- Date: 2010-07
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18256 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011250
- Description: Academic Management and Reasoning: APR 111F, Supplementary examination July 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-07
Academic Practices and Reasoning: APR 111F
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Ndhlovu, K
- Date: 2010-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18269 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011265
- Description: Academic Practices and Reasoning: APR 111F, examination June 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-06
- Authors: Siziba, L P , Ndhlovu, K
- Date: 2010-06
- Language: English
- Type: Examination paper
- Identifier: vital:18269 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1011265
- Description: Academic Practices and Reasoning: APR 111F, examination June 2010.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2010-06
A strategic approach towards the successful implementation of corporate governance of Information and Communication Technology in the Kwazulu-Natal Department of Social Development
- Authors: Siziba, Makabongwe Johnson
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Corporate governance -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Management Information technology -- Management -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MPhil
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/49617 , vital:41741
- Description: Information is a critical asset in any organisation and its management, including the associated technological channels, requires the attention of decision-makers to ensure that information assets are utilised for the intended purposes. Therefore, decision-makers need to have appropriate governance oversight on technology that produces information and information itself. Over the years, the governance of ICT has been adopted in the public sector given the fact that state funding received from tax collections is utilised to invest in IT solutions with the intention of expediting service delivery and increase productivity. The purpose of this treatise was to identify the root causes of why the department is not implementing Corporate Governance of ICT successfully despite the fact that most good controls do exist. The research revealed that there is insufficient budget to implement ICT projects coupled with inadequate ICT staff to implement ICT strategy. Furthermore, it cited a lack of ICT governance skills with ICT Strategic Committee members who are tasked with pioneering ICT governance. This weakness relates directly to other identified weaknesses such as end-user resistance to adopt ICT projects and a lack of project management function in the department.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
- Authors: Siziba, Makabongwe Johnson
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: Corporate governance -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal -- Management Information technology -- Management -- South Africa -- KwaZulu-Natal
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MPhil
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/49617 , vital:41741
- Description: Information is a critical asset in any organisation and its management, including the associated technological channels, requires the attention of decision-makers to ensure that information assets are utilised for the intended purposes. Therefore, decision-makers need to have appropriate governance oversight on technology that produces information and information itself. Over the years, the governance of ICT has been adopted in the public sector given the fact that state funding received from tax collections is utilised to invest in IT solutions with the intention of expediting service delivery and increase productivity. The purpose of this treatise was to identify the root causes of why the department is not implementing Corporate Governance of ICT successfully despite the fact that most good controls do exist. The research revealed that there is insufficient budget to implement ICT projects coupled with inadequate ICT staff to implement ICT strategy. Furthermore, it cited a lack of ICT governance skills with ICT Strategic Committee members who are tasked with pioneering ICT governance. This weakness relates directly to other identified weaknesses such as end-user resistance to adopt ICT projects and a lack of project management function in the department.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2020
A rehabilitation centre for Soweto designing the social reintegration of ex-convicts
- Authors: Siziba, Billy
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Rehabilitation centers -- South Africa -- Soweto -- Designs and plans
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MArch
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/39087 , vital:35041
- Description: The aim of this study is to design a rehabilitation centre for parolees which will address the issues pertaining to the re-integration of ex-inmates into society reducing the chances of recidivism. It challenges the current methods and strategies implemented in correctional facilities in South Africa, their insufficiencies in rehabilitating criminals and preparing them for a return to society. A new solution to this social problem of crime and recidivism Is explored through this architectural thesis. This is achieved through providing an infrastructure with consistent methodologies that cater for unit operations using boot-camp rehabilitation, healthcare and vocational training provided all as a collaborative effort with the correctional services, municipal healthcare services and private N.G.O’s. An adaptive approach both in the program and architecture contributes to the objective of meaningful social re-integration. The research methodology implemented is a qualitative investigation, through the Interpretation of contemporary situations, various site visits, Interpretative sketches of existing structures, Technical analysis from firms. Interpretive and case study research is also used, as a background to the research body.
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- Date Issued: 2017
- Authors: Siziba, Billy
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Rehabilitation centers -- South Africa -- Soweto -- Designs and plans
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MArch
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/39087 , vital:35041
- Description: The aim of this study is to design a rehabilitation centre for parolees which will address the issues pertaining to the re-integration of ex-inmates into society reducing the chances of recidivism. It challenges the current methods and strategies implemented in correctional facilities in South Africa, their insufficiencies in rehabilitating criminals and preparing them for a return to society. A new solution to this social problem of crime and recidivism Is explored through this architectural thesis. This is achieved through providing an infrastructure with consistent methodologies that cater for unit operations using boot-camp rehabilitation, healthcare and vocational training provided all as a collaborative effort with the correctional services, municipal healthcare services and private N.G.O’s. An adaptive approach both in the program and architecture contributes to the objective of meaningful social re-integration. The research methodology implemented is a qualitative investigation, through the Interpretation of contemporary situations, various site visits, Interpretative sketches of existing structures, Technical analysis from firms. Interpretive and case study research is also used, as a background to the research body.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Time series models for paired comparisons
- Authors: Sjolander, Morne Rowan
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Paired comparisons (Statistics)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:10577 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1012858
- Description: The method of paired comparisons is seen as a technique used to rank a set of objects with respect to an abstract or immeasurable property. To do this, the objects get to be compared two at a time. The results are input into a model, resulting in numbers known as weights being assigned to the objects. The weights are then used to rank the objects. The method of paired comparisons was first used for psychometric investigations. Various other applications of the method are also present, for example economic applications, and applications in sports statistics. This study involves taking paired comparison models and making them time-dependent. Not much research has been done in this area. Three new time series models for paired comparisons are created. Simulations are done to support the evidence obtained, and theoretical as well as practical examples are given to illustrate the results and to verify the efficiency of the new models. A literature study is given on the method of paired comparisons, as well as on the areas in which we apply our models. Our first two time series models for paired comparisons are the Linear-Trend Bradley- Terry Model and the Sinusoidal Bradley-Terry Model. We use the maximum likelihood approach to solve these models. We test our models using exact and randomly simulated data for various time periods and various numbers of objects. We adapt the Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model and received our third time series model for paired comparisons, the Log Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model. The daily maximum and minimum temperatures were received for Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Coega for 2005 until 2009. To evaluate the performance of the Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model and the Sinusoidal Bradley-Terry Model on estimating missing temperature data, we artificially remove observations of temperature from Coega’s temperature dataset for 2006 until 2008, and use various forms of these models to estimate the missing data points. The exchange rates for 2005 until 2008 between the following currencies: the Rand, Dollar, Euro, Pound and Yen, were obtained and various forms of our Log Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model are used to forecast the exchange rate for one day ahead for each month in 2006 until 2008. One of the features of this study is that we apply our time series models for paired comparisons to areas which comprise non-standard paired comparisons; and we want to encourage the use of the method of paired comparisons in a broader sense than what it is traditionally used for. The results of this study can be used in various other areas, like for example, in sports statistics, to rank the strength of sports players and predict their future scores; in Physics, to calculate weather risks of electricity generation, particularly risks related to nuclear power plants, and so forth, as well as in many other areas. It is hoped that this research will open the door to much more research in combining time series analysis with the method of paired comparisons.
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- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Sjolander, Morne Rowan
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Paired comparisons (Statistics)
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:10577 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1012858
- Description: The method of paired comparisons is seen as a technique used to rank a set of objects with respect to an abstract or immeasurable property. To do this, the objects get to be compared two at a time. The results are input into a model, resulting in numbers known as weights being assigned to the objects. The weights are then used to rank the objects. The method of paired comparisons was first used for psychometric investigations. Various other applications of the method are also present, for example economic applications, and applications in sports statistics. This study involves taking paired comparison models and making them time-dependent. Not much research has been done in this area. Three new time series models for paired comparisons are created. Simulations are done to support the evidence obtained, and theoretical as well as practical examples are given to illustrate the results and to verify the efficiency of the new models. A literature study is given on the method of paired comparisons, as well as on the areas in which we apply our models. Our first two time series models for paired comparisons are the Linear-Trend Bradley- Terry Model and the Sinusoidal Bradley-Terry Model. We use the maximum likelihood approach to solve these models. We test our models using exact and randomly simulated data for various time periods and various numbers of objects. We adapt the Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model and received our third time series model for paired comparisons, the Log Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model. The daily maximum and minimum temperatures were received for Port Elizabeth, Uitenhage and Coega for 2005 until 2009. To evaluate the performance of the Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model and the Sinusoidal Bradley-Terry Model on estimating missing temperature data, we artificially remove observations of temperature from Coega’s temperature dataset for 2006 until 2008, and use various forms of these models to estimate the missing data points. The exchange rates for 2005 until 2008 between the following currencies: the Rand, Dollar, Euro, Pound and Yen, were obtained and various forms of our Log Linear-Trend Bradley-Terry Model are used to forecast the exchange rate for one day ahead for each month in 2006 until 2008. One of the features of this study is that we apply our time series models for paired comparisons to areas which comprise non-standard paired comparisons; and we want to encourage the use of the method of paired comparisons in a broader sense than what it is traditionally used for. The results of this study can be used in various other areas, like for example, in sports statistics, to rank the strength of sports players and predict their future scores; in Physics, to calculate weather risks of electricity generation, particularly risks related to nuclear power plants, and so forth, as well as in many other areas. It is hoped that this research will open the door to much more research in combining time series analysis with the method of paired comparisons.
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- Date Issued: 2011
SL-model for paired comparisons
- Authors: Sjölander, Morné Rowan
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: Paired comparisons (Statistics) , Mathematical statistics
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:10574 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/605 , Paired comparisons (Statistics) , Mathematical statistics
- Description: The method of paired comparisons can be found all the way back to 1860, where Fechner made the first publication in this method, using it for his psychometric investigations [4]. Thurstone formalised the method by providing a mathematical background to it [9-11] and in 1927 the method’s birth took place with his psychometric publications, one being “a law of comparative judgment” [12-14]. The law of comparative judgment is a set of equations relating the proportion of times any stimulus k is judged greater on a given attribute than any other stimulus j to the scales and discriminal dispersions of the two stimuli on the psychological continuum. The amount of research done for discrete models of paired comparisons is not a lot. This study develops a new discrete model, the SL-model for paired comparisons. Paired comparisons data processing in which objects have an upper limit to their scores was also not yet developed, and making such a model is one of the aims of this report. The SLmodel is thus developed in this context; however, the model easily generalises to not necessarily having an upper limit on scores.
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- Date Issued: 2006
- Authors: Sjölander, Morné Rowan
- Date: 2006
- Subjects: Paired comparisons (Statistics) , Mathematical statistics
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: vital:10574 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/605 , Paired comparisons (Statistics) , Mathematical statistics
- Description: The method of paired comparisons can be found all the way back to 1860, where Fechner made the first publication in this method, using it for his psychometric investigations [4]. Thurstone formalised the method by providing a mathematical background to it [9-11] and in 1927 the method’s birth took place with his psychometric publications, one being “a law of comparative judgment” [12-14]. The law of comparative judgment is a set of equations relating the proportion of times any stimulus k is judged greater on a given attribute than any other stimulus j to the scales and discriminal dispersions of the two stimuli on the psychological continuum. The amount of research done for discrete models of paired comparisons is not a lot. This study develops a new discrete model, the SL-model for paired comparisons. Paired comparisons data processing in which objects have an upper limit to their scores was also not yet developed, and making such a model is one of the aims of this report. The SLmodel is thus developed in this context; however, the model easily generalises to not necessarily having an upper limit on scores.
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- Date Issued: 2006
Operating in turbulent times: an investigation into the characteristics of strategic flexibility exhibited by South African export companies
- Authors: Skae, Frederick Owen
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: Export trading companies -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MCom
- Identifier: vital:1159 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001626
- Description: Broadly stated, the major objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which South African export companies exhibited characteristics of strategic flexibility, which is seen to be the most viable strategic option for a firm operating within a turbulent environment. This entailed:- (1) Determining the degree of environmental turbulence as perceived by South African export companies and identifying the most important elements of the external environment as perceived by these companies. (2) Identifying the nature and strength of the various components of strategic flexibility possessed by South African export companies facing environments of either low, medium or high turbulence. (3) Identifying the nature and strength of the various components of strategic flexibility possessed by South African export companies of different size. In order to elicit this information, 1361 questionnaires were posted to the managing directors of export firms who were members of the South African Foreign Trade Organization. The major findings of this study indicate that:- (1) Political elements of the remote environment contribute most to environmental turbulence. (2) Respondents identified economic elements as being the most important in terms of their potential impact on the long term profitability of the firm. (3) Although at present the majority of the firms surveyed were classified as operatIng in medium levels of turbulence, in the future they perceive the external environment as becoming very turbulent. (4) Generally speaking, the firms surveyed are ill-equipped to operate in a turbulent environment as they displayed signs of inflexibility in certain key aspects of their business. In this regard, particular mention must be made of their decision-making processes, the extent to which they had specialist planners, the techniques used to identify future trends in the environment, the extent to which computer technology was utilised in the firm and their structure. (5) Finally, the results do not generally support the view that a relationship exists between the perceived degree of turbulence in the environment and the extent to which strategic flexibility exists in the firm. Often, however, the size of tne firm was more of a determining factor on the components of strategic flexibility than the degree of turbulence in the environment. In this regard, particular mention must be made of the impact of size on the planning processes of the firm, the techniques used to monitor trends in the environment and the emphasis placed on management development and training.
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- Date Issued: 1989
- Authors: Skae, Frederick Owen
- Date: 1989
- Subjects: Export trading companies -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MCom
- Identifier: vital:1159 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001626
- Description: Broadly stated, the major objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which South African export companies exhibited characteristics of strategic flexibility, which is seen to be the most viable strategic option for a firm operating within a turbulent environment. This entailed:- (1) Determining the degree of environmental turbulence as perceived by South African export companies and identifying the most important elements of the external environment as perceived by these companies. (2) Identifying the nature and strength of the various components of strategic flexibility possessed by South African export companies facing environments of either low, medium or high turbulence. (3) Identifying the nature and strength of the various components of strategic flexibility possessed by South African export companies of different size. In order to elicit this information, 1361 questionnaires were posted to the managing directors of export firms who were members of the South African Foreign Trade Organization. The major findings of this study indicate that:- (1) Political elements of the remote environment contribute most to environmental turbulence. (2) Respondents identified economic elements as being the most important in terms of their potential impact on the long term profitability of the firm. (3) Although at present the majority of the firms surveyed were classified as operatIng in medium levels of turbulence, in the future they perceive the external environment as becoming very turbulent. (4) Generally speaking, the firms surveyed are ill-equipped to operate in a turbulent environment as they displayed signs of inflexibility in certain key aspects of their business. In this regard, particular mention must be made of their decision-making processes, the extent to which they had specialist planners, the techniques used to identify future trends in the environment, the extent to which computer technology was utilised in the firm and their structure. (5) Finally, the results do not generally support the view that a relationship exists between the perceived degree of turbulence in the environment and the extent to which strategic flexibility exists in the firm. Often, however, the size of tne firm was more of a determining factor on the components of strategic flexibility than the degree of turbulence in the environment. In this regard, particular mention must be made of the impact of size on the planning processes of the firm, the techniques used to monitor trends in the environment and the emphasis placed on management development and training.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1989
Be more than a bystander, break the silence on violence: a discursive analysis of student responses to anti-rape poster campaigns
- Authors: Skae, Shannon Lalla Rookh
- Date: 2022-04
- Subjects: Women Violence against South Africa , Women college students Violence against South Africa , Women college students Abuse of South Africa , College students Attitudes , Sex crimes Prevention , Anti-rape movement South Africa , Bystander effect South Africa , Rape culture South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Master's thesis , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/232866 , vital:50033
- Description: University students are a population vulnerable to sex and gender-based violence (SGBV). The use of alcohol is prominent in university life and is argued to contribute significantly to SGBV in South Africa and worldwide. Interventions to reduce SGBV at South African universities are thus a relevant social concern. One increasingly popular approach to addressing SGBV on university campuses is the bystander intervention. The bystander intervention goes to the cause of SGBV by targeting peer acceptance as the primary foundation supporting rape; arguing that witnesses to SGBV can be empowered to interrupt potential SGBV situations. The aim of this thesis was to investigate student responses to anti-rape intervention campaigns of various kinds. Different theories were examined, and this research then proceeded from a social constructionist theoretical perspective, which was relevant as it is about what individuals say, the societies formed, the rules made, the language used to pass on knowledge and the interactions experienced with others and how they all form the reality people inhabit. The study focused on the individual constructions and talk about the posters and the discursive positions he or she took up in relation to them, which is what social constructionism is interested in, as it is concerned with the language and talk people use and how these are molded by society. Forty five student volunteer participants were shown two examples of anti-rape poster campaigns (one using the bystander approach and the other not), and were asked to respond to a structured open-ended questionnaire. Responses to the questionnaire were subjected to Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The analysis revealed the ways in which the constructions of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims in the poster campaigns shaped and limited participant responses and talk about SGBV in different ways, according to which of the two posters were being responded to. Key findings of this study showed that the bystander intervention poster produced more positive change in response to dominant discursive constructions in relation to the SGBV poster than did the non-bystander intervention poster. This means the establishment of the potential for success of the bystander intervention in helping to prevent SGBV in a South African context. , Thesis (MA) -- Humanities, Psychology, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-04
- Authors: Skae, Shannon Lalla Rookh
- Date: 2022-04
- Subjects: Women Violence against South Africa , Women college students Violence against South Africa , Women college students Abuse of South Africa , College students Attitudes , Sex crimes Prevention , Anti-rape movement South Africa , Bystander effect South Africa , Rape culture South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Master's thesis , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/232866 , vital:50033
- Description: University students are a population vulnerable to sex and gender-based violence (SGBV). The use of alcohol is prominent in university life and is argued to contribute significantly to SGBV in South Africa and worldwide. Interventions to reduce SGBV at South African universities are thus a relevant social concern. One increasingly popular approach to addressing SGBV on university campuses is the bystander intervention. The bystander intervention goes to the cause of SGBV by targeting peer acceptance as the primary foundation supporting rape; arguing that witnesses to SGBV can be empowered to interrupt potential SGBV situations. The aim of this thesis was to investigate student responses to anti-rape intervention campaigns of various kinds. Different theories were examined, and this research then proceeded from a social constructionist theoretical perspective, which was relevant as it is about what individuals say, the societies formed, the rules made, the language used to pass on knowledge and the interactions experienced with others and how they all form the reality people inhabit. The study focused on the individual constructions and talk about the posters and the discursive positions he or she took up in relation to them, which is what social constructionism is interested in, as it is concerned with the language and talk people use and how these are molded by society. Forty five student volunteer participants were shown two examples of anti-rape poster campaigns (one using the bystander approach and the other not), and were asked to respond to a structured open-ended questionnaire. Responses to the questionnaire were subjected to Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA). The analysis revealed the ways in which the constructions of sexual violence, perpetrators and victims in the poster campaigns shaped and limited participant responses and talk about SGBV in different ways, according to which of the two posters were being responded to. Key findings of this study showed that the bystander intervention poster produced more positive change in response to dominant discursive constructions in relation to the SGBV poster than did the non-bystander intervention poster. This means the establishment of the potential for success of the bystander intervention in helping to prevent SGBV in a South African context. , Thesis (MA) -- Humanities, Psychology, 2022
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- Date Issued: 2022-04
Teachers’ engagement with learners in inclusive foundation phase classrooms: a case study analysis
- Authors: Skae, Vera Astrid
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Early childhood education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies , Education and state -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/92705 , vital:30722
- Description: Since 2001, South African teachers have been attempting to practise inclusive education in classrooms in ordinary, public schools. Previous research has shown the many challenges South African teachers face in our current educational environment. Strong arguments, however, have been made for more research to be done on actual teacher engagement with learners in our ordinary, public school classrooms, and the extent to which classroom practices are inclusive (Engelbrecht, Nel, Nel & Tlale, 2015, p. 3). This study sought to do an in-depth critical analysis of three foundation phase teachers and their engagement with learners in their classrooms at an Eastern Cape school. The aim was to examine how inclusive education was being enacted by the teacher with learners in real classroom settings, with particular attention paid to ways in which learners experience barriers to learning. A micro-level analysis was conducted in a single unit case study and using a qualitative research approach in an interpretive paradigm. Questionnaires, observations, and semi-structured interviews were conducted in an attempt to gather in-depth data. It was heartening to observe the extent to which inclusive education and practices were being enacted at the school and in the classrooms, and instructive in providing examples of what can work in the South African context. Key findings of this study include the generation of a framework for analysing inclusive classroom practice at the micro level. Criteria were identified as indicators of inclusive education of learners including those experiencing barriers to learning in the classroom. This study builds on and extends what has been developed at the macro and micro level of inclusive education in schools and in the classroom. It found that a number of challenges remain for enabling the implementation of an inclusive education. At the macro level, these include the provision of clear directives for implementation of inclusive education by the appropriate authorities; the provision of well-structured professional teacher training and development programmes in inclusive classroom practices, as well as in barriers to learning and how to address them; and the provision of funding for school and classroom infrastructure and resources. At the micro level, these include the successful implementation by teachers of inclusive classroom practices and the provision of the necessary support for learners experiencing barriers to learning in their classrooms, including expert personnel, resources, and assistive devices.
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- Date Issued: 2019
- Authors: Skae, Vera Astrid
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: Early childhood education -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Case studies , Education and state -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MEd
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/92705 , vital:30722
- Description: Since 2001, South African teachers have been attempting to practise inclusive education in classrooms in ordinary, public schools. Previous research has shown the many challenges South African teachers face in our current educational environment. Strong arguments, however, have been made for more research to be done on actual teacher engagement with learners in our ordinary, public school classrooms, and the extent to which classroom practices are inclusive (Engelbrecht, Nel, Nel & Tlale, 2015, p. 3). This study sought to do an in-depth critical analysis of three foundation phase teachers and their engagement with learners in their classrooms at an Eastern Cape school. The aim was to examine how inclusive education was being enacted by the teacher with learners in real classroom settings, with particular attention paid to ways in which learners experience barriers to learning. A micro-level analysis was conducted in a single unit case study and using a qualitative research approach in an interpretive paradigm. Questionnaires, observations, and semi-structured interviews were conducted in an attempt to gather in-depth data. It was heartening to observe the extent to which inclusive education and practices were being enacted at the school and in the classrooms, and instructive in providing examples of what can work in the South African context. Key findings of this study include the generation of a framework for analysing inclusive classroom practice at the micro level. Criteria were identified as indicators of inclusive education of learners including those experiencing barriers to learning in the classroom. This study builds on and extends what has been developed at the macro and micro level of inclusive education in schools and in the classroom. It found that a number of challenges remain for enabling the implementation of an inclusive education. At the macro level, these include the provision of clear directives for implementation of inclusive education by the appropriate authorities; the provision of well-structured professional teacher training and development programmes in inclusive classroom practices, as well as in barriers to learning and how to address them; and the provision of funding for school and classroom infrastructure and resources. At the micro level, these include the successful implementation by teachers of inclusive classroom practices and the provision of the necessary support for learners experiencing barriers to learning in their classrooms, including expert personnel, resources, and assistive devices.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Protea lepidocarpodendron
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Protea lepidocarpodendron -- South Africa -- Photographs , Proteaceae -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75327 , vital:30404
- Description: Caption: "Protea lepidocarpodendron. Right hand peg shows where Orange-breasted Sunbird inserts beak. Other show where Promerops insert bill."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 19uu
- Subjects: Protea lepidocarpodendron -- South Africa -- Photographs , Proteaceae -- South Africa -- Photographs
- Language: English
- Type: mixed material , photographs , landscape photographs
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/75327 , vital:30404
- Description: Caption: "Protea lepidocarpodendron. Right hand peg shows where Orange-breasted Sunbird inserts beak. Other show where Promerops insert bill."
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- Date Issued: 19uu
Noorsveld, 30 km south of Jansenville
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1998-04-24
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Euphorbia ferox -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12654 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014061
- Description: In good season. Compare growth-height with height of fence-pole. Euphorbia ferox.
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- Date Issued: 1998-04-24
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 1998-04-24
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Euphorbia ferox -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12654 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014061
- Description: In good season. Compare growth-height with height of fence-pole. Euphorbia ferox.
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- Date Issued: 1998-04-24
Kraggakamma, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 199u
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Chrysanthemoides monilifera -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12677 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014379
- Description: A large specimen of Chrysanthemoides monilifera, Bitou, at roadside in full flower.
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- Date Issued: 199u
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 199u
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Chrysanthemoides monilifera -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:12677 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1014379
- Description: A large specimen of Chrysanthemoides monilifera, Bitou, at roadside in full flower.
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- Date Issued: 199u
8 Walton Road, Port Elizabeth
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 2000-06-11
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016905
- Description: Garden at 8 Walton Road, Port Elizabeth
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 2000-06-11
- Authors: Skead, C J (Cuthbert John)
- Date: 2000-06-11
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , Gardens -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Type: still image
- Identifier: vital:13393 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1016905
- Description: Garden at 8 Walton Road, Port Elizabeth
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- Date Issued: 2000-06-11