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The dangers of positional smugplacency : is a wave of destructive incompetence gathering momentum in the South African workplace?
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch Business School, 2007-08)
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Dealing with corruption in government
(Moneyweb Online, 2010-10-29)Gavin Woods explains the motivation behind the sudden burial of the arms deal saga.
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Dealing with the challenge of generating employment in South Africa : does banking sector efficiency matter?
(The Clute Institute, 2013)In this paper, the authors seek to investigate the nexus between banking sector efficiency and labour employment in South Africa. The Hicks-Moorsteen aggregator functions were used to generate total factor productivity ...
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Debates on industrialisation and economic growth in the Netherlands
(International Institute of Social History, 2014-06-15)With the renewed interest in macro-economic quantifi cation since the 1950s the study of long-term economic growth and development became also an important theme within the discipline of economic history. It developed ...
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Debt capitalisation: investigating the term ‘reduction amount’ in the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The capitalisation of debt in exchange for the issuance of shares is a common occurrence, not only in South Africa, but also internationally. Generally, there are three methods through which debts are ...
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Debt reduction : indicative factors in classification as a donation for income tax purposes
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Debt reduction in business is recognised for the economic relief afforded to the debtor involved. The new debt reduction regime was introduced in the Income Tax Act (section 19 and paragraph 12A of the Eighth Schedule) ...
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Decentralisation for community development - a Rwanda Case study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A community-centred development which can be qualified as authentic development leads to the sustainability of the community. This must be understood as a process of economic, political and social change ...
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Decision support for generator maintenance scheduling in the energy sector
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the world-wide consumption of electricity continually increases, more and more pressure is put on the capabilities of power generating systems to maintain their levels of power provision. The electricity ...
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Decision support for threat detection in maritime surveillance
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The policing and monitoring of South Africa's coastline and economic exclusion zone is made di cult not only by the size of the area of interest, but also by the limited resources available for maritime ...
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A decision support system for scheduling the harvesting and wine making processes at a winery
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technological advances made over the past century have had a major impact on traditional wineries. Software solutions for management issues are widely available and give rise to the prospect of computerized ...
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Decision support with respect to facility location and fleet composition for FoodBank Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: FoodBank South Africa is an non-profit organisation formed to establish a national network of community foodbanks in urban and rural areas of South Africa, with all participants working towards the ...
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Decolonising knowledge : in what sense is an ‘African’ ethic possible?
(2017-04)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : In hierdie intreerede word die aandrang op ‘dekolonisasie van kennis’ bepreek aan die hand van pogings om ʼn inheemse, Afrika-etiek op die grondslag van ubuntu te konstrueer. Die gevolgtrekking is dat ...
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Decoupling : natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2011-05)By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled” from the rate of natural ...
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Decoupling infrastructure services from unsustainable resource use : cases from Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)Please refer to full text to view abstract.
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The deductibility of future expenditure on contract in terms of section 24C
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Section 24C of the Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962 (‘the Act’) provides for a deduction of future expenditure that will be incurred by the taxpayer in the performance of his obligations under a contract ...
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The deductibility of indirect empowerment measures relating to black economic empowerment (BEE) in terms of the income tax act
(2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The requirements of broad-based black economic empowerment (‘BEE’) are set out in the BEE scorecard. When an entity incurs expenditure relating to indirect empowerment measures (i.e. the preferential ...
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Defining and reducing the IT gap by means of comprehensive alignment
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)
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Delft SAPS as an instrument for community development
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was undertaken to determine whether a lack of effective service delivery at the South African Police Service at Delft was due to a lack of community participation and development in Delft. Data ...
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The demand for labour in South Africa : a theoretical and empirical approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Nearly five million South Africans were unemployed in 2002 and creating employment opportunities is a difficult challenge. Before this issue can be tackled, however, it is critical to understand the ...
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Demand-driven programme provisioning at a public FET College in the Western Cape : case study of the West Coast FET College
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Democratic South African government inaugurated in 1994 identified the need for intermediate skills that are required to contribute to the growth of the economy and to reduce the high unemployment ...