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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 ... -
Dissident president? : Thabo Mbeki, critical discourse analysis and the struggle to define HIV and AIDS in South Africa, 1998-2003.
(2003)This dissertation is an examination of presidential communication, focusing primarily on how Mbeki promoted a fringe group of researchers (the Virodene researchers) and a discredited scientific position (the AIDS dissidents). ... -
Dissipative gravitating systems.
(2011)In this thesis we investigate the effect of shear on radiating stars undergoing gravitational collapse. The interior spacetime is described by the most general spherically symmetric line element in the absence of rotation. ... -
Distance measures in graphs and subgraphs.
(1996)In this thesis we investigate how the modification of a graph affects various distance measures. The questions considered arise in the study of how the efficiency of communications networks is affected by the loss of ... -
Distances in and between graphs.
(1991)Aspects of the fundamental concept of distance are investigated in this dissertation. Two major topics are discussed; the first considers metrics which give a measure of the extent to which two given graphs are removed from ... -
Distant decentralised office parks : a case study of the La Lucia Ridge Office Estate.
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The distinction between malingering and mental illness in black forensic patients
(1997)One of the main problems facing the psychiatrist in forensic psychiatry is the distinction between malingering and mental illness especially in Zulu speaking patients. This study identified twenty items from the literature ... -
Distinguishing between psychogenic and organically-based seizures : the search for critical psychological variables.
(2006)Differentiating between organic epilepsy and psychogenic pseudoseizures is a difficult task even for experienced practitioners . Both disorders present in a similar manner and at present there are no clinical signs that ... -
Distortion of incentives for farm households in KwaZulu.
(2015-03-10)KwaZulu is a less developed region of South Africa. Low agricultural incomes have contributed to widespread poverty in the region. Despite intense population pressure on the land, arable resources are underutilized. ... -
Distributed cognition in interpersonal dialogue.
(2003)The study of cognition has suggested different views of what a system needs to perform computations. A strong computationalist approach aims at producing and preserving true statements through syntactic recombinations of ... -
Distributed control synthesis for manufacturing systems using customers' decision behaviour for mass customisation.
(2013)The mass customisation manufacturing (MCM) paradigm has created a problem in manufacturing control implementation, as each individual customer has the potential to disrupt the operations of production. The aim of this ... -
A distributed knowledge-based support system for strategic management.
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A distributed sediment delivery ratio concept for sediment yield modelling.
(2004)Identifying areas of the hillslope that are most sensitive to soil erosion and contribute significantly to sediment yield is a primary concern in environmental protection and conservation. Therefore the ability to predict ...
