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African nations lag behind in school enrolment rates. This article examines the national characteristics that explain variation in indicators of entry into first grade and primary school enrolment rates. Pooled cross-country time series analysis for the period 1980–1997 for 29 sub-Sahara African nations is used. Overall, the results strongly suggest that the major determinants of both indicators of primary education in sub-Saharan Africa are: government expenditure on education, percent...
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Where a convicted person has exhausted all recognised legal procedures pertaining to appeal and review and further evidence has since become available which materially affects the conviction, such a person can apply to be pardoned by the President, in which circumstances section 327 of the Criminal Procedure Act empowers the President to enact such pardon. After evaluating this procedure, it can be said that it adequately provides for the admissibility of newly discovered evidence, but that...
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Ability to update skills constitutes a key element in the process of improving adults' performance. Professional skills are usually updated through engagement in active learning by connecting prior experiences to new ones and also sharing information with others through reflection and hands-on activities. Such learning processes can be achieved through experiential learning. Experiential learning can lead to creation of retrievable knowledge, which can be applied to their daily professional...
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(2003). Supporting African American Preschool Teachers' Use of Developmentally and Culturally Appropriate Practices. Multicultural Perspectives: Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 39-42.
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The authors conducted 2 studies to examine the relationship between loneliness and psychosocial variables among people from Angola and Portugal. In the 1st study, the participants were 129 college students from Angola and 122 from Portugal, and in the 2nd study participants were 105 nuns from Angola and 74 from Portugal. The following instruments were administered to all participants in both studies: the Revised UCLA Loneliness Scale (D. Russell, L. Peplau, & C. Cutrona, 1980), the...
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We have examined trends in marine pollution research in South Africa over the past 40 years, based on analyses of the primary literature. There has been a striking decline in the quantity of research outputs in the past two decades. New initiatives are needed to rebuild a research culture in this discipline.
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International Review of MissionVolume 92, Issue 366 p. 356-369 CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND THE TRAINING FOR POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN EASTERN NIGERIA Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka, Nicholas Ibeawuchi Omenka Rev. Fr Dr Nicholas Omenka is Head of the Department of Religious Studies at Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria. He is the author of The School in the Service of Evangelization: The Catholic Educational Impact in Eastern Nigeria, 1886 – 1950, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989, and deputy editor of the...
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The study examines the consequences of alternative public responses to drought shocks. It does so by drawing on household data from resettlement areas of rural Zimbabwe from 1992–93 to 1995–96 and the estimation of four behavioral relations: the determinants of crop income; the determinants of investment in livestock; the determinants of investment in agricultural capital stock; and the determinants of private transfers. This information is used to construct a series of simulations in which...
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This article argues that education for transformative leadership in a southern African context needs to nurture an understanding of the relationship between spirituality and charisma. This argument is based on a review of some literature pertaining to transformative learning, transformative leadership, and African value systems. The article explores the relationship between transformative leadership and transformative learning and education theories, and relates them to a specific southern...
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This article reviews the author's acquaintance with the literature of economic development, with particular reference to Africa, over the last 50 years. The belief that this development is propelled by the supply of capital, effectively of international aid, is criticized, and emphasis put instead on the effective demand for capital. This demand has been low in Africa; hence much capital investment has been of low or no productivity, and aid has generally failed to fulfil expectations. Aid...
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This paper presents an argument that language-use in multilingual mathematics classrooms in South Africa is as much a function of politics as it is of cognition and communication. It draws from a wider study focusing on language practices in intermediate multilingual mathematics classrooms in South Africa. In the study the notion of cultural models (Gee, 1999) is used as an analytic tool to describe and explain the language practices in a multilingual Grade 4 mathematics classroom where...
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Transport for learners in rural areas remains an often-overlooked crisis in South Africa. While the shortage of schools and classrooms is a well-recognised problem, the transport problems that the combination of shortages of schools and the low-density settlements in many rural areas causes are often overlooked, yet they remain enormous. While reliable estimates are difficult to find, it is estimated that approximately 750,000 or more than 10% of learners in South Africa walk more than an...
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LEARNING FROM MAURITIUS ABOUT SLAVERY AND IDENTITY History, Memory and Identity. Edited By VIJAYALAKSHMI TEELOCK and EDWARD A. ALPERS. Mauritius: Nelson Mandela Centre for African Culture and the University of Mauritius, 2001. Pp. vii+236. No price given (ISBN 99903-904-3-6). - Volume 44 Issue 2
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Research in earth structure, earthquake and mine seismology, and seismic hazard evaluation in South Africa is summarized for the last four years. Improvements to the South African National Seismograph Network (SANSN) include the gradual replacement of short-period by broad-band instruments. New regional travel-time curves for P and S waves, and models of the structure of the crust and mantle beneath southern Africa to depths of 800 km, have been constructed by South African seismologists...