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The discovery and characterization of antiprotozoal compounds from South African medicinal plants by a HPLC-based activity profiling technique.
(2015-09-08)A total of 507 plant extracts from 174 South African plant species, selected based on their traditional uses against parasitic diseases, mainly against malaria were screened against Plasmodium falciprum, Trypanosoma ... -
A discrete Fourier transform based on Simpson's rule.
(2015-01-05)Fourier transforms are mathematical operations which play a vital role in the analysis of mathematical models for problems originating from a broad spectrum of elds. In this thesis, we formulate a discrete transform ... -
Discriminating wetland vegetation species in an African savanna using hyperspectral data.
(2010)Wetland vegetation is of fundamental ecological importance and is used as one of the vital bio-indicators for early signs of physical or chemical degradation in wetland systems. Wetland vegetation is being threatened by ... -
Discrimination and the law with particular reference to recruitment strategies and policies as adopted by various countries.
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Discriminatory use of police stop-and search powers in London, UK.
(Vathek Publishing., 2013-12-17)Black Londoners have complained over the years of being overpoliced and harassed by police officers. The history of such contentious encounters between members of the Black community and the police service dates back ... -
Discursive constructions of gender-based violence and safe sex practices among female residence students at UKZN.
(2009)Gender-based violence and the risk of HIV infection are some of the social problems facing women in South Africa. The emergence of gender-based violence as a prominent challenge facing the University of KwaZulu-Natal ... -
Discursive contructions of threat and the implications for social identity in a sample of African foreigners living in Pietermaritzburg.
(2010)Drawing on seventeen group interviews with African foreign nationals living in Pietermaritzburg, this thesis explores how a minority group talks about their experiences of threat and prejudice within the South African ... -
Discursive representations of gender based violence in a synod resolution of the Anglican diocese of Natal of October 2013.
(2015)Following the gang rape and murder of Anene Booysen in Bredasdorp near Cape Town on the 2nd of February 2013, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa through the provincial Dean, Bishop Rubin Phillip released a media statement ... -
A discursive study of male adolescent sexual offenders in a treatment programme at Childline, KZN.
(1998)This discursive study, investigates the role of discourse in the creation of denial and the unconscious in adolescent sexual offenders. It also attempts to illustrate that the denial expressed by the adolescent sexual ... -
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A discussion of access to credit in South Africa with specific reference to reckless lending and over-indebted consumers.
(2014)Access to credit is very important as it allows consumers to buy goods that they cannot necessarily buy with one month’s salary. Having access to credit also allows consumers to start small businesses. This not only benefits ... -
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A discussion of the concept of the 'place of effective management' in the context of South African law, using internationally established principles of corporate residency from the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia as guidelines to formulating this concept in South African law.
(2002)The aim of this dissertation is to carry out the following: • Discuss the concept of residency in South Africa and the evolution to the residence basis of taxation in South Africa. • Examine the Organisation for Economic ... -
A discussion on the duty of care, skill and diligence to be exercised by a director in light of the Companies Act 71 of 2008, as well as the common law and an overview of the business judgement rule : a company law perspective.
The duty of care, skill and diligence is a duty on a director that has been considered both internationally as well as locally. It is a duty that has come under the microscope, and is thus of importance to consider in a ... -
A discussion surrounding restraint of trade in employment law.
(2017)This dissertation seeks to critically examine the restraint of trade doctrine in South African law. Section 22 of the Constitution, 1996 guarantees every citizen the right to not only choose a trade, profession, or occupation, ... -
Disillusionment with the market driven economic system in a period of global economic downturn.
(2011)This study also showed how inter-connected the world is because the global financial crisis started in one part of the world but affected every country worldwide. The global financial crisis made it necessary to revisit ... -
The disobedient naïve psychologist : deviating from predicted attributions in a social context.
(2009)Classical attribution theorists developed models of causal attribution that reflected their belief that people were primarily interested in attribution accuracy. These models did not consider contextual factors such as ... -
Dispersion in slowly moving fluids.
(1970)This work is concerned with the characterization of slowly moving fluids and was carried out on the flow of water through a narrow sedimentation tank. Dispersion in the type of flow structure involved is caused mainly by ... -
Displacement and adjustment : Ethiopian environmental migrants in Durban, South Africa.
(2016-01-25)Notwithstanding earlier scholarly and scientific disagreements, in the 21st century the evidence for climate-induced environmental change is compelling, with little room for doubt, debate or dissent. There are serious ... -
Disruptive or merely alternative? A case study of a South African gay church.
(Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa., 2011)The main aim of this article is to engage with how a South African church through its discursive practices, continues to live out the conviction set out in Germond and de Gruchy's 1997 book "Aliens in the Household of ...
