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Food security at the University of the Western Cape: An exploration of actions and programmes to address student hunger
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Food is a basic human need – for survival, health and productivity. At the national level, South Africa is food secure; however, many households remain food insecure. Hunger among students has been identified as a ... -
Food Security in Zimbabwe: The impact of Structural adjustment programmes, 1980-2000
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This study takes a critical political-economy approach to the analysis of food security in Zimbabwe against the backdrop of Structural Adjustment Programmes implemented between 1980 and 2000. It provides a comparative ... -
Food Security: An evaluation of food choices, household food consumption patterns and health implications: A case study of Khayelitsha in the Western Cape Province of South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Many factors result in a shift in food consumption patterns. These include uncertain food production, unequal food distribution, changing food markets, food inflation and fast urbanization (Cockx et al., 2019). All of the ... -
Foreign direct investment and governance: an empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)This thesis employed a panel data of 36 countries from sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1996-2000 to examine the impact of governance on foreign direct investment flows. Within the governance variable there are six ... -
Foreign training of academic staff and capacity building in higher education institutions in Rwanda
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)During the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, not only physical assets were eroded but more importantly, human capital were destroyed and left the country living hardly on qualified personnel at almost all levels of the economy to ... -
Formal mentorship and entrepreneurial learning: The case of a support programme in the Western Cape clothing sector
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)How entrepreneurs learn to cope and survive in the South African clothing sector, with its high levels of macro-environment turbulence, may engender particular lessons for entrepreneurial learning and related outcomes ... -
Fostering change through effective leadership: a case study of the City of Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)Despite the fact that local government is nothing like it was several decades ago in terms of the numerous reform changes it has undergone, within the South African context we find that many of the elements of bureaucracy ... -
A framework for developing citizen-centric e-government applications in developing countries: The design-reality gap in Uganda
(University of Western Cape, 2020)E-government should be at the heart of service delivery in developing countries if the life of citizens, especially the socially and economically marginalised, is to be improved. Often in developing contexts, citizens have ... -
A framework for e-skills policy-making in South Africa
(UWC, 2013)The development of the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICT) in recent decades represents a material foundation for a networked society and the emergence of new economies (Knowledge Society) ... -
A framework for ethical data use to improve personalised customer experience in the financial industry in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The financial services industry deals daily with vast amounts of data. In this study, the researcher intends to investigate if data is used ethically for the purpose of analytics within this industry. The aim of this ... -
Framing biodiversity conservation discourses in South Africa: emerging realities and conflicting agendas within the Great Limpopo transfrontier conservation area
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)This dissertation explores local people's framing of externally driven biodiversity conservation approaches in the context of transfrontier conservation initiatives. It uses data from the Madimbo corridor, a specific ... -
From pavement entrepreneurs to stock exchange capitalists: the case of the South African black business class
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)The evolution of policy regarding the black bourgeoisie -- Issues in the struggle for black capitalism -- The roles and effects of NAFCOC (National African Federation Chamber of Commerce) and FABCOS (Foundation of Business ... -
From state maintenance grants 'to a new child support system: Building a policy for poverty alleviation with special reference to the financial, social, and developmental impacts.
(University of the Western Cape, 1998)State social security transfers for families existed in South Africa only in the form of state maintenance grants, which paid up to R700 to single parents. The system was not appropriate in the South African context, being ... -
A functional-interpretive approach to information systems security e competencies development in the higher education institution: a comparativ e case of four South African higher education institutions
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)The research reported in this thesis examines the approaches of four (4) HEIs in the Western Cape Province in South Africa to institutional development of IS security ecompetencies across their full staff compliments. It ... -
The fundamental determinants of long run growth in the Cameroonian economy
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)Nearly half a century after independence, the Cameroon economy has experienced little or no growth in per capita incomes in spite of the enormous natural and human potentials of the country and in spite of the huge packages ... -
Fundamental indexation and mean reversion on the Taiwanese equity market
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The equity market has a long memory of indexing. The market portfolio is a capweighted index that weights stocks based on the market capitalisation of the stocks constituting the index and has been upheld by modern portfolio ... -
The future of national flag carriers in developing countries : air Botswana's privatisation struggle
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)The study looked particularly at the operations of national carriers and governments' efforts to sustain the airlines' operations. Evidence has shown that many countries struggle to maintain operations of their flag carriers, ... -
Gender equality in the workplace and how it impacts on the organisation’s operations: A case study of the University of the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study focusses on the impact of gender equality on the workplace and its operations and how it has evolved within the organisation. South Africa, historically, was a patriarchal society and male dominance was the ... -
Gender equity and change management in the diversity equity department at the City of Cape Town.
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)The problem investigated in this study is that gender equity and change management in the City of Cape Town and in particularly the Diversity Equity and Change Management Department, has not been adequately assessed and a ... -
Gender equity in parliament: a study of the institutional constraints that women members of parliament experience in the South Africa parliament that hamper their effective participation
(University of Western Cape, 2004)South Africa has undergone a process of dramatic change since the first democratic elections of 1994, notably so in the area of gender equity in public life. The struggles and demands of women during the constitutional ...