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Examining the parameters of the powers of the Minister of Local Government to issue policy directives to urban local authorities in Zimbabwe in terms of section 313 of the Urban Councils Act
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This is a desktop based study which will analyse relevant books and chapters in books relating to supervision of local governments by national and other higher level governments. It will also examine legislation, journal ... -
Examining the relationship between socioeconomic status and obesity. A case study of Khayelitsha in the Western Cape province of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Background: Obesity in South Africa is a critical public health issue. Previously considered a problem of the affluent, obesity is now reported among all populations in South Africa regardless of age, race, gender or ... -
Examining the skills gap to effectively manage e-logistics in supply chain management
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The South African economy faces several obstacles, including political unpredictability that may deter investment, a high unemployment rate, inflation, crime, a trade imbalance, and a volatile exchange rate. However, one ... -
Examining the South African competition law enforcement institutional framework: Lessons for Sierra Leone
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Trade liberalisation, free-market system, privatisation and deregulation have become major steps taken by individual countries to accelerate economic growth. This trend has made competition law and its enforcement institutional ... -
Examining the South African labour market outcomes during the coronavirus pandemic of 2019
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The South African labour market is distinguished by dismally significant levels of unemployment and even higher levels of youth unemployment. The COVID-19 pandemic imposes the risk of adding further pressure on South ... -
Examining the use of multiple representations to teach vectors in Grade 10 physical sciences
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The purpose of this paper was to examine the use of the multiple representation approach as a teaching strategy to improve learners understanding of vectors in Grade 10 Physical Sciences. The study also wanted to consider ... -
Examining the use of transitional justice mechanisms to redress gross violations of human rights and international crimes in the northern Uganda conflict
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Uganda and her citizens have endured a troubled, violent, conflict-prone history since independence from the British on 9th October 1962. Conflict in Uganda, just like in many an African country, has its primary root ... -
The exceptions to patent rights under the WTO-TRIPS agreement : where is the right to health guaranteed?
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)Health as the world affirmed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights more than fifty years ago, is a fundamental human right and an indispensable component of development under any economic policy model.2 Poverty in ... -
Exchange rate misalignment and international trade competitiveness : A cointegration analysis for South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2002)Issues pertaining to the misalignment of exchange rate have become central in the analysis of open economy macroeconomics for developing countries. This is at least due to two reasons: first persistent overvaluation of ... -
Exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This mini-thesis examines the speed and magnitude of exchange rate pass-through to domestic prices in South Africa. The shift from fixed exchange rate regimes to a system of floating exchange rates by many countries after ... -
Exclusion by design: A constitutional analysis of admission policies and practices in selected Cape Town schools
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)School admission policies are powerful tools that can sometimes contain provisions that are in conflict with the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and other legislation and policies which regulate education in ... -
Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This project explores the negotiation of shifting racial identities within a transforming post-Apartheid context, in particular, the negotiation of what it means to be ‘coloured’. Twenty-seven years into South Africa’s ... -
Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)This mini-thesis, ‘Exhumation, Reburial and History Making in South Africa’, is concerned with an analysis of the practices of exhumation and reburial through discussing the case studies of the Iron-Age archaeological site ... -
Exogenous caffeic acid alters molecular responses in Salvia hispanica L.
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Salt stress is one of the most important abiotic stresses, resulting in the accumulation of ROS, which amount to great agricultural losses by influencing plant yield and in turn threaten sustainable agriculture and food ... -
Exogenous carbon monoxide and jasmonic acid mitigate salt stress in Sorghum bicolor
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The agricultural sector plays an important role in the world economy. Expanding research is piloting its improved contribution to the economic sector. Despite the economic gain, the increasing population has already put ... -
Exorcising the antiquity spirit of intolerance : possibilities and dilemmas of decriminalizing sodomy laws in Uganda
(UWC, 2007)This dissertation proposes various methods to decriminalize same-sex sexual intercourse as an offense in Uganda. Chapter One introduces the problem of the sodomy laws and how it has recently taken center stage in the ... -
Expanding Entrepreneurial Capabilities Through Business Incubators: A Case Study Of The iDea Hub Nigeria
Entrepreneurship has long been offered as the panacea for poor economic growth and high rate of unemployment. Business incubation is considered an effective means for enhancing entrepreneurial actitivities while engendering ... -
Expanding presumptive male partner management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to Western Cape, South African community retail pharmacies
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)The effect of industrialisation has thrust the pharmaceutical profession into a clinical paradigm where the approcah to pharmaceutical decisions is more disease and patient orientated. Consequently, South African community ... -
Expanding the emotional social screening tool for school readiness (E3SR) for pre-schoolers: An isiXhosa translation, equivalence and validation study
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The development of essential skills regarding the readiness to learn ensures that a child develops adequately and is equipped with competencies needed to deal with emotional, behavioural, and academic challenges. The ...