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It is increasingly acknowledged that adapting to climate change is important in developing countries, where the majority of people depend on agriculture and natural resources for their livelihoods, and their capacity to adapt to change is low. These people are especially vulnerable to climate change. This vulnerability was addressed together with options to adapt in a context of sustainable development at a two-week training course on climate adaptation. The course was developed and...
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Disability is the Cinderella of the historically disadvantaged groups targeted by affirmative action (AA) in South Africa. The Employment Equity Act identifies people with disabilities as one of the targets of the act. Government set the numerical goal as 2 per cent – a goal not yet achieved. Within the achievements so far, the trends noted for the general population of working age hold for the disabled population of working age. Proportionately, more disabled men are employed than disabled...
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In this review we will focus on the way in which profound forces - either positively or negatively - affect and shape our preferences for and interpretation of values, as well as conditions that are beneficial for the re-direction of value-systems. In hierdie ondersoek sal gefokus word op die wyse waarop bepaalde diepliggende kragte die interpretasie van norme - hetsy positief of negatief - beinvloed, asook op kondisies wat bevorderlik is vir die her-orientering van waarde-sisteme.
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Although the impact of climate change is global, these consequences are not evenly distributed. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Working Group II Report makes it clear that Africa is one of the continents most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. During the twentieth century alone, the African continent has seen an average warming of 0,5 degrees. Climate variability and change will have a significant effect on the following: access to and demand...
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This study describes the findings of a pilot study of an online support service via mobile technology using chat facilities at a Higher Education Institution in South Africa. The online support service, accessible via cell phone chat and computer chat facility, augmented a face-to-face counseling service in a Student Affairs Department at a medium size university. The participants were 729 first year students who were part of a voluntary self-select peer support program, (34% male, 66%...
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This essay centres on my recent experience of teaching Shakespeare’s King Lear in a final-year undergraduate course on Renaissance Literature at Rhodes University, South Africa. I focus on what I consider to be the most important challenge in teaching the literature of the early modern period: facilitating my students’ critical thinking about the connections between culture, politics, gender and representation, not only in relation to one text, but towards their understanding of the global...
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This paper reports on African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO), an innovative web based open access project that facilitates the communication of research on African higher education that is otherwise invisible. In addition, the paper demonstrates the functionality of the AHERO website, to show how and why authors may deposit their papers; and provides a report of the methods used to populate the archive, how AHERO deals with copyright and the progress that has been made thus far....
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The informal sector in Botswana, just like in many other developing countries, has evolved out of the existing economic conditions where the formal sector has not been able to generate enough employment opportunities. The sector has thus played a significant role in creating employment opportunities for this section of the population, therefore contributing to poverty reduction as well. As is the case with other developing economies however, the educational system in Botswana has not been...
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III ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI TABLE OF CONTENTS VII LIST OF TABLES XI CHAPTER 1 1 BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE 1 1.
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In 1787, the Sierra Leone colony was founded as a “province of freedom” by British philanthropists and abolitionists to settle down former slaves from England, in addition to a number of African-American blacks who fought on the British side in the American War for Independence. The first settlers were joined by the 1790's by new African-American settlers, Nova Scotians and Maroons, as well as freed slaves who had been liberated by the British navy since 1808. The Sierra Leone colony became...
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edited by Frances Vavrus and Lesley Bartlett, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 263 pp., US$85.00, ISBN 978‐0‐230‐61597‐7 This book advances vertical case study research as the means to understan...