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Microfinance and poverty alleviation: a study of three savings and credit associations, Caprivi region, Namibia
(2013)
According to Professor Muhammed Yunus, Nobel Prize winner in 2006 and the founder of the internationally acclaimed Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, microfinance is a viable solution to poverty alleviation among the poorest ...
Characterising the Prevalence and Mode of CXCR4 Usage in HIV-1 Group M Subtype C
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Determination of CXCR4-usage patterns is essential in establishing suitability
of CCR5 antagonist prescription in HIV-1 infected individuals to
prevent treatment failure. Previous studies have suggested a switch ...
Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology using Supercomputer Simulations by Daniel Cunnama
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Numerical simulations play a crucial role in testing current cosmological models of
the formation and evolution of the cosmic structure observed in the modern Universe.
Simulations of the collapse of both baryonic and ...
The transformation and reshaping of South African languages via cell-phone messaging: sms speak as a local practice
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
South Africa is a diverse, multilingual country with a majority of its youth owning or using cellular phone technologies. The cell phone interaction between multilingual individuals from different linguistic and cultural ...
Devolution for development, conflict resolution, and limiting central power: an analysis of the constitution of Kenya 2010
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
State practice and literature suggest that devolution of power can address the main challenges of underdevelopment, internal conflict and abuse of centralised power in developing states. However, this thesis advances the ...
The significance of article 24(2) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for the right to primary education of children with disabilities: a comparative study of Kenya and South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the latest human rights treaty at the UN level. The process leading to the adoption called attention to the plight of persons with disabilities, and ...
Integrating imago relationship therapy (irt) into a biblical theological approach to marriage counselling
(2013)
As a minister who is deeply involved in Christian counselling I am constantly reminded just how many problems marriages are facing today. There is no question that the failure of this fundamental relationship has unquantifiable ...
A multilevel analysis of learner and school contextual factors associated with educational quality
(2013)
The South African schools act, (number 5, 1996), asserts that all learners have a
right to access both basic and quality education without discrimination of any sort.
Since the implementation of the Millennium Development ...