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Assessing the change in hydro-geochemical properties of fly ash over time when disposed into opencast coal mines in Mpumalanga, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Eskom supplies to 95% of South Africa’s energy needs and it primarily comes from coal combustion at their coal–fired power stations. Large volumes of fly ash are generated at these coal-fired power stations as a by-product ...
Male identified same-sex sexual fetish in South Africa: (re)defining sexual relations between people and things
(2010)
Historical ethnographic and early psychoanalytic epistemologies on 'fetishism' focus primarily on the fetish 'object', whereby the subject of 'fetish practices' was identified, pathologised and/or socioculturally invalidated ...
A history of the organizational development of the seventh-day adventist church amongst the coloured community in South Africa 1887-1997
(2010)
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Africa was planted towards the end of the 19th century. Within less than forty years after its inception, a separate Coloured department developed. This was not to be the last ...
The influence of diversity and the educational climate in shaping clinical competence of oral health students
(2013)
High attrition, low retention and low throughput are major problems facing South African higher education institutions. These problems have been attributed to student under-preparedness as a result of the legacy of apartheid ...
Differentials in school attendance in South Africa: a household situational analysis across the provinces
(2009)
The thesis examines the patterns of school attendance across the nine Provinces of
South Africa. With reference to individuals of eligible age, school attendance is
conceived of three statuses: effective attendance (those ...
Citizen participation and water services delivery in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This study analyses the relationship between the manner of citizens’ engagement with the state and the level of service delivery they experience in their everyday lives, as residents of Khayelitsha. The phenomena of so-called ...
Video annotation wiki for South African sign language
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The SASL project at the University of the Western Cape aims at developing a fully automated translation system between English and South African Sign Language (SASL). Three important aspects of this system require SASL ...
Hydraulic properties of the vadose zone at two typical sites in the Western Cape for the assessment of groundwater vulnerability to pollution
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
Aquifer vulnerability assessment is increasingly becoming a very significant basis in order to fulfill the water demands in South Africa. Knowledge of soil hydraulic properties that consists of the soil water retention and ...
Impacts of degradation on critically endangered Oudtshoorn Gannaveld
(2010)
In the Succulent Karoo biome of South Africa vegetation degradation by overgrazing is a recognized threat to biodiversity. In the eastern Little Karoo region of the Western Cape Province, ostrich farming has degraded large ...
Investigation of factors influencing pharmaceutical services and their relation to quality pharmaceutical service delivery in hospitals of a private health care provider group
(2009)
Efforts to improve the quality of service delivery are an ongoing feature in different
organisations. In the private health care sector, particularly pharmaceutical services in private hospitals, such efforts are important ...