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Acting out the myths : the power of narrative discourse in shaping the Zimbabwe Conflict of Matabeleland, 1980-1987.
(2009)This thesis interrogates the Matabeleland disturbances of 1980-1987 by analysing the conflict narratives promulgated by the ZANU-PF and how these narratives directly impacted the socio-political construction of violence ... -
Adaptive market hypothesis and calendar anomalies in selected African stock markets.
(2019)It takes a theory to beat a theory. However, whether the adaptive market hypothesis (AMH) offers better explanations for stock return behaviour than the popular efficient market hypothesis (EMH) still remains a question ... -
Agricultural cooperatives as strategy for rural development in Rwanda: a case study of COVEPAR.
(2005)When agricultural cooperatives are very well organized and implemented with sufficient means and committed people, then they can help to achieve rural development. COVEPAR- Cooperative for Valorization and Exportation of ... -
An analysis of alternate consumption hypotheses in South Africa.
(1996)The first half of this research is an attempt to provide a solid theoretical foundation of the various theories of the consumption function and the empirical evidence. Both the theoretical foundation and the empirical ... -
An analysis of export support measures with special reference to South Africa, and the impact of the general export incentive scheme.
(1996)South Africa, in common with many other developing countries, embarked on an import substitution policy to promote development and industrialisation. Although initially successful, it was recognised in the late 1960s that ... -
An analysis of money demand stability in Rwanda.
(2005)A stable money demand function and exogeneity of prices is at the core of planning and implementing a monetary policy of monetary targets. This thesis examines both the stability of M2 money demand and price exogeneity in ... -
An analysis of real exchange rate disequilibrium in developing countries, with an empirical focus on South Africa.
(1999)Since the early 1970s, exchange rate fluctuations have characterised the behaviour of the external value of many currencies in both high- and low-income countries. Up-and-down movements in real exchange rates have been ... -
An analysis of the extent, nature and consequences of female part-time employment in post apartheid South Africa.
(2009)International studies of part-time employment have shown that most part-time workers are women, and specifically married women (Rosenfeld and Birkelund 1995; Caputo and Cianni 2001). The ability to work part-time enables ... -
Analysis of the impact of foreign aid on economic growth in COMESA.
(2020)The Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) was officially established in 1994. Its primary objective was to help its member states attain sustainable economic growth and development through regional integration ... -
An analysis of the impact of the motor industry development programme (MIDP) on the development of the South African motor vehicle industry.
(2001)The study aims to research the performance of past and present motor industry policy in South Africa - with special reference to Phase VI of the local content programme and the Motor Industry Development programme ... -
An analysis of the South African equity market and sector return-risk relationship (January 1990-December 2002).
(2004)The research paper is an analysis of the South African equity market and sector return-risk relationship. The following two basic questions, addressed in the research paper, pertain to the South African equity market for ... -
The analytical and empirical appraisal of the Ricardian equivalence with reference to South Africa.
(1998)The Government of National Unity, on coming into power in April, 1994, has endorsed the reconstruction and development programme (RDP) and its broad agenda for the rapid removal of the problems and gross inequality evident ... -
An applied trancendental logarithmic cost function : economies of scale and elasticities of substitution in selected South African manufacturing sectors (1972-1990).
(1995)Moll (1991) has criticised the proposal that demand restructuring should act as the impetus for economic growth in a post-apartheid South Africa on the grounds of, a lack of empirical support. The demand restructuring ... -
Assessed losses : an investigation into the restrictions imposed on a taxpayer, prohibiting the utilisation of the relief from taxation arising from an assessed loss.
(2004)Section 20 of the Income Tax Act, No 58 of 1962 allows a taxpayer that has sustained an assessed loss to carry forward the balance of assessed loss and be set off against income earned in the future years. In addition, the ... -
An assessment of social diversity and economic outcomes : the measurement of social fractionalisation in South Africa.
(2015)Abstract available in print copy. -
An assessment of the implementation of the performance management strategy used by South African breweries in east coast region.
(2018)Performance management is aimed at constant development of employees, wherein their input to the organization is acknowledged, and their future potential and developmental needs are identified. In other words, performance ... -
Attaching monetary values to environmental goods and services : an application of the travel cost method at Midmar.
(2004)Midmar is built on the Umgeni River, KwaZulu-Natal and is 1060m above sea level. The river starts as a small stream in Loteni and has a total catchment area of 906 square kilometres and an annual rainfall of 1016 mm. Midmar ... -
Building human security in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo.
(2010)Armed conflict in Ituri since 1996 to the present day has resulted in the widespread and severe violation of human rights that include massive killings, rape, torture, mutilation and property destruction that has infringed ...