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Building corporate resilience : based on a case study of Spier Holding's search for a lower carbon future

Pahwa-Gajjar, Sumetee (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A study of the sustainability journey of Spier Holdings, a well known wine and leisure business in South Africa, offers a unique opportunity for interrogating corporate drivers for a lower carbon future. ...
Socioeconomic implications of global oil depletion for South Africa : vulnerabilities, impacts and transition to sustainability

Wakeford, Jeremy J. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Oil is the quintessential resource in the modern industrial economy. It accounts for a third of world primary energy, fuels 95% of global transport systems, sustains a highly mechanised agribusiness and ...
Impact of commodity markets on economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ocran, Matthew Kofi (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Commodity issues have assumed renewed importance in debates about the attainment of the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals for Sub-Saharan Africa and objectives of the New Partnership for Africa’s ...
A NEPAD leadership development strategy : the SADC case

Ntsike, Austeria Letholetseng (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The overall aim of this study is to shape the future of the SADC through the New Partnerships for Africa’s Development leadership development strategy (NEPAD LDS), including a social responsiveness ...
Technology assessment of renewable energy sustainability in South Africa

Musango, Josephine Kaviti (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technology assessment has changed in nature over the last four decades. It changed from an analytical tool for technology evaluation, which depends heavily on quantitative and qualitative modelling ...
Establishing viable and sustainable rural economic development programmes in a competitive global economy : analysis of marula commercialisation in South Africa

Mahlait, Vuyo F. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The historical significance of the socio-political changes in South Africa since 1994 cannot be disputed. The challenge is to place the redress agenda within a macro-framework geared to promote competitiveness ...
Critical success factors for public-private partnerships in South Africa

Minnie, Johan A. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a popular instrument for public service delivery. It is important that public managers will be able to recognize when a PPP would be an appropriate service delivery ...
Complexity and leadership : conceptual and competency implications

Ronn, Harald (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Globalisation, rapid changes in technology, and demographic trends are all important factors that contribute to conditions that require adaptive capacity in military organisations. The context of a ...
A scorecard for monitoring and evaluation of governance of special schools in the Western Cape

Jonas, Patrick Thando (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Conflicts and dysfunctionality in public schools is often the cause of poor school performance and learner outcomes. This often is a direct result of poor school governance. Studies have previously ...
An analysis of the evolving military futures debate : explaining alternative military futures for the South African National Defence Force

Vrey, Francois (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Twenty-first century armed forces increasingly have to operate amidst unprecedented uncertainty and complexity cascading onto the military domain. Not only are their roles and implicitly their whole ...
Leadership and democratisation : the case of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and Kim Dae-Jung in South Korea

Jeong, Young-Yun (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the late 1940s, South Africa and South Korea were ruled by authoritarian governments, which oppressed the people’s freedom and rights. The governments created the deeply divided societies that ...
Beleidstelselanalise van militêre opleiding in die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag

Coetzee, Abraham Johannes Albertus (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2003-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: POLICY SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF MILITARY TRAINING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL DEFENCE FORCE Borders in a global economy market exist only to determine the sovereignty of nations. Modern military interventions ...
Child poverty and the performance of the child support grant in South Africa

Streak, Judith Christine (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: One of the cruelest legacies of the apartheid era in South Africa was that it created a situation in which a very large proportion of children in the African and Coloured populations live in households ...
Improving the systematic evaluation of local economic development results in South African local government

Rabie, Babette (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Evidence-based policy making and results-based management aim to improve the performance of organisations, policies and programmes by enabling the accurate measurement of progress and results required ...
Restoring and holding on to beauty : the role of aesthetic relational values in sustainable development

Swartz, Moshe E. Ncilashe (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Unless Africans and their leaders make a concerted effort to rid themselves of the harmful legacy of colonial spirituality by adopting new motives for living, entering into new relationships with themselves ...
Critical perspectives on post-apartheid housing praxis through the developmental statecraft looking glass

Khan, Firoz (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The principal question this study aims to answer is why and how a left-of-centre government not hobbled by heavy external leverage, with developmental state precedents, potentially positive macroeconomic ...
Integrated water demand management for local water governance

Du Plessis, J. A. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010-12)

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Financial literacy as core competency of South African military officers : a measurement instrument

Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Bernard J. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since 1994, education and training in South Africa has experienced various changes, driven mainly by the Green Paper on Skills Development and the White Paper on Education which set objectives and ...
Development of military leadership : a proposed model for the South African National Defence Force

Erasmus, Willem Driesse (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The result of this research is an alternative model for leadership character development in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). The SANDF reflects the racial and cultural diversity of ...
Anti-corruption strategies in the South African public sector : perspectives on the contributions of complexity thinking and ICTs

Habtemichael, Faniel Sahle (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

Among the multitude of problems that contemporary South Africa is faced with, is corruption. Corruption in contemporary South Africa has spread to a systemic level, as evidenced through national and international ...

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