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Lewis, Colin A. "The Johannesburg project." The Ringing World, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012355.
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Colin Lewis was Professor of Geography at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa from 1989 until his retirement at the end of 2007. In 1990, with the strong support of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Dr Derek Henderson, he instigated the Certificate in Change Ringing (Church Bell Ringing) in the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology - the first such course to be offered in Africa. Since that date he has lectured in the basic theory, and taught the practice of change ringing. He is the Ringing Master of the Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, South Africa.
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Guillaume, Philippe. "Johannesburg : géographies de l'exclusion." Reims, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000REIML004.
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Witek, Joseph F. "Johannesburg: Africa's World City?" Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366646542.
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Vanderhoven, Dave. "Seeing informal political respresentation : Lessons from Johannesburg." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522374.
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Schlapobersky, Paul Harry 1966. "Hardness in motion : retrieving Johannesburg after Apartheid." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70353.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-92).
This thesis seeks to engage with the city of Johannesburg on terms that break decisively with the linear-historical methods that have been used to both catalogue and decipher the city up to the present. The city is, itself, in its second incarnation - that of the post-apartheid, post-gold mining metropolis - and the fact of this historic overturning demands reappraisal of what Johannesburg is, and more importantly, what it can become. Its complexities stand in stark opposition to an apparent banality that arises from the ease with which it is visually apprehended. Words form a core of this thesis, used not only in their capacity to reveal through what they say, but through the possibilities created in the spaces between unrelated and related texts (what they do not say). The thesis has thus been concerned with the juxtaposition of words - fiction and non· fiction - as well as their mapping and diagramming, in order to foster new conceptualizations of a city whose blatancy is simultaneously its lifeblood and its problem. The generative words in this context have been those of the thirteen fictions written specifically for the thesis. These stand as a representation of the creative act that is here seen as being fundamental to the re-imagining of Johannesburg; to get beyond the image/face of the city in order to view the human substrata. Additionally, two architectural "provocations" are offered as vehicles for ways in which the city can begin to be re ·imagined . Both of these projects engage with the idea of "absorption" (removal from contingency, to focus on transcendental endeavors), and the notion of the architectural project as a generator, not specifically for what it is, but for what it represents. These architectural projects are, within the context of t he thesis, Brecht's "fragile instruments".
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Snyman, Hendrik Andries. "Investigating momentum on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6613.
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Thesis (MScEng (Industrial Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Applying the Industrial Engineering systems approach, this dissertation utilised the theories and propositions of previous studies to argue (model) the cause of financial herd behaviour and the subsequent momentum effect. From this, a hypothesis was postulated to test: whether momentum is a common attribute amongst top performing shares, whether technical analysis indicators can better identify the phenomenon, and whether the return from these shares would justify momentum as a viable investment strategy. A unique experiment derived from previous academic studies was adapted to explore the degree of the momentum phenomenon. This was done by ranking shares according to both technical analysis as well as pure price performance momentum criteria. Returns were translated as a rank in relation to the market as a whole, thereby minimising any effects that different market periods could have on a momentum return relationship. The degree of the relationship was evaluated by applying the alternative Spearman Rank Order Correlation Co-efficient in conjunction with a permutation test to determine the statistical significance of any trends. The viability of the phenomenon as an investment strategy was gauged by comparing annualised average returns against both the market capitalisation weighted JSE All Share Index as well as against an un-weighted representation of the market. The results revealed a seemingly unambiguous co-dependence between momentum and return with statistically significant trends being ever present. Applying the maximum taxes and trading costs revealed that the highest ranked momentum shares did indeed outperform both market benchmarks from the period of January 1990 to August 2009, suggesting the validity of the philosophy as an investment strategy. The outcome of the study in part rejected the null hypothesis, as technical indicators were unable to identify future top performing shares better, with price performance momentum measures delivering the superior returns. Future studies may include optimising the various technical indicators towards the JSE rather than using generic settings. Other interesting topics could include combining momentum with other investment strategies to investigate synergy and further pinpointing the source of the phenomenon. Over the past number of years, tighter controls and monitoring of investments has resulted in the documentation of the individual number of shareholders who are buying and selling shares. Utilising this data over the next number of years, an experiment could attempt to relate the number of individual investors trading in a particular share to herd behaviour and the subsequent momentum effect.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verhandeling, binne die bedryfsingenieursstelsels benadering, gebruik teorieë en voorstelle van vorige studies om die gevolge van finansiële gedrag en die gevolglike momentum effek te bespreek. Uit die analise is ‘n voorstel saamgestel om die volgende te toets:Is momentum ‘n algemene verskynsel by aandele wat goed presteer, en kan tegniese analitiese indikatore die verskynsel beter verklaar, en dui die opbrengs van die aandele daarop dat momentum ‘n bruikbare beleggingsstrategie is. ‘n Unieke eksperiment uit vorige studies is aangepas om die aard van die momentum verskynsel te ondersoek. Dit was gedoen deur aandele volgens beide tegniese analise asook suiwer prestasie momentum kriteria te klassifiseer. Opbrengste is met die hele mark in konteks geplaas om sodoende enige impak van verskillende mark tye op die momentum opbrengs verhouding te elimineer. Die verband is opgestel deur die alternatiewe “Spearman Rank Order Correlation koëffisiënt” saam met permutasie toetse te gebruik om die statistiese belangrikheid van enige neigings uit te wys. Die geldigheid van die verskynsel as ‘n beleggingsstrategie is gemeet deur jaarlikse gemiddelde opbrengste teen beide die markkapitalisasie geweeg teen die JSE Alle Aandele Indeks sowel as ‘n ongeweegde verteenwoordiging van die mark te bepaal. Die resultate dui op ‘n interafhanklikheid tussen momentum en opbrengste met statistiese neigings altyd teenwoordig. Deur die maksimum belasting en verhandelingskoste toe te pas wys dit dat die hoogste momentum uitgewyste aandele die markriglyne uitpresteer het van Januarie 1990 tot Augustus 2009 wat die geldigheid van die benadering as ‘n beleggingsstrategie bevestig. Die studie verwerp die nul hipotese gedeeltelik in die sin dat dit nie toekomstige top presterende aandele kan uitwys nie, maar aan die ander kant gee prysprestasie momentum meting wel buitegewone opbrengs. Toekomstige studies mag die optimisering van verskeie tegniese indikatore van die JSE insluit, ‘n kombinasie van momentum met ander beleggingsstrategieë gebruik, en verder die bron van die verskynsel vas pen. Oor die afgelope aantal jare het beter beheer en die monitoring van beleggings die dokumentasie van individuele aandeelhouers moontlik gemaak. Hieride data sou kon gebruik word as ‘n toets om die korrelasie tussendie aantal aandeelhouers wat ‘n spesifieke aandeel verhandel en tropgedrag te bepaal en om dit te gebruik om die momentum effek beter te verklaar.
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Moodley, Tashinee. "Fundamental momentum on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22778.
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Financial market anomalies are constant subjects of debate because of their devotion form the foundational financial theories. Fama and French (2008) referred to the momentum effect as the premier anomaly. Thus, this study sought to apply the concept of momentum to examine three investment strategies. The first strategy was price momentum, an existing investment strategy but which was used as a comparison to the returns of the second and third strategies. The second strategy applied momentum to return on equity, operating cash flow and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, whilst the third strategy combined stocks with momentum in both stock price and respective fundamental variable.Using a non-probability sampling method, a total of 109 stock listed on the JSE over the period 1999-2010 were tested. Momentum in stock price and respective fundamentals was used to rank stocks into quintiles. The viability of each investment strategy was measured by comparing its average and risk adjusted returns to the market.The results revealed that fundamental momentum can beat market returns, with the highest amount of significant differences found using momentum in return on equity. The combination strategy also reported results of beating the market, with the higest amount of significant differences found using the 12 month fundamental momentum combined with 6 month price momentum.Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Bowler, W. Matthew. "Market timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10268.
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Includes bibliographical references.The concept of market timing is hardly new. Theoretical work on the predictability of return stretches back for over a century, with substantial empirical work emerging from the 1960s onwards. This study aims to extend the literature by focusing on whether it is possible for an investor, utilising quantitative analytical techniques with available information, to utilise market timing to outperform the JSE ALSI.
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Munthree, Preshane. "A Mixed use development for Newtown, Johannesburg." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2003. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-12012003-115339.
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Katende, Kalambayi. "Stokvels as vehicles of wealth accumulation amongst migrants in Johannesburg." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/8209.
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Saving clubs or stokvels have been around in many parts of the World, under different names, for many years and they have been instrumental in teaching people how to save. This research sets to investigate the possible use of stokvels as vehicles, channels or conduits for wealth accumulation among migrant population living in the inner city of Johannesburg. Participants’ contributions and the extent this translates into wealth accumulation among members were critically examined. Furthermore, the study explored whether gender plays any role in terms of stokvels membership and the reasons thereof. The hypothesis of this research was that incomes from stokvels contribute to wealth accumulation of migrants in the inner city of Johannesburg. This study used both quantitative and qualitative research methods to address the research questions and gather relevant data. The use of a mixed approach was adopted as it allows a deeper exploration of the different research objectives and questions of the study. Thematic content analysis was used to analyse the data. The findings of this study have revealed that there is a positive relationship between membership to stokvels and wealth accumulation. Moreover, trust and social capital were found to be pivotal in ensuring success of these groups in terms of who should be accepted into the group. However, many other factors, such as the level of education, the length of stay in South Africa and the marital status of participants could have an impact on wealth status of participants.
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Van, der Bijl Wouter Jan. "Special dividends on Johannesburg Stock Exchange : 1999-2011." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95682.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.Ever since listed companies have been allowed to buy back shares (since the Companies Amendment Act was introduced in 1999), a major question has been whether companies with extra cash should pay out dividends or buy back shares. The larger research project for the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) will evaluate this question by comparing the rand value of dividends paid to shareholders to the rand value of share buybacks and comparing the rand value of special dividends to the rand value of share buybacks. The research described in this report was conducted as part of the bigger research project on dividends and aimed to produce a provisional list of special dividends paid from 1999 to 2011 for all companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The list comprises only special dividends paid from earnings, hence the term „provisional list‟. The bigger research project to produce a comprehensive list of special dividends will include the following additional steps: 1. Determining payments from earnings and share premium. 2. Determining payments from earnings, share premium and special designated dividends (SDD). 3. Determining payments from earnings, share premium, SDD and statistically evaluated dividends. The present research showed that using databases alone would not yield viable data for research purposes. The researcher started to gather data from two databases and afterwards had to evaluate the Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) announcements to eliminate the discrepancies. Furthermore, the physical financial statements gave valuable information to produce the provisional list. The correct method to determine the true rand amounts for dividends is firstly to consult the annual financial reports and secondly to retrieve the SENS announcements. Then the entry can be verified by multiplying the dividend per share by the number of shares on the record date. This rand value can be found in the financial statements in the statement of changes in equity. The dividends paid out of share premium are easy to identify, as the entry will be specifically stated in the statement of changes in equity. The determination of special dividends is rather difficult, because the rand amount of special dividends are hardly ever published as such in the statement of changes in equity. The conclusion reached by the researcher is that the only method to obtain the correct entries for any financial evaluation is to consult the audited financial statements. Databases can be useful in obtaining some information; however, the only reliable resource to retrieve the final information is from financial statements.
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Chisadza, Charity-Ann. "Solid waste management (SWM) in Johannesburg : alternative futures." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97464.
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Thesis (MDF)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Johannesburg generates in excess of 1 500 000 tonnes of general waste annually and has on average 10 years’ lifespan remaining on its four landfill sites. As a signatory to the Polokwane Declaration, the City of Johannesburg has recognised the need for new interventions to divert waste from landfills by various methods, such as separation at source; alternative treatment methods and the conversion of waste to energy. Progress has, however, been slow and this research aims to investigate alternative waste management techniques that can be applied in the City of Johannesburg to fast track the realisation of these targets. Using scenario planning techniques, the research considers implications for policy and management decisions in realising the best possible future in the area of waste management in Johannesburg. The scenario process was used to develop the following scenarios for waste management in Johannesburg: Long walk to freedom. Waste collection coverage includes pockets of the community where waste collections services are less than optimal. The residents of the city, particularly in these underserviced areas, are also not very knowledgeable of the impact that the waste generated within their communities can have on the environment and what alternatives there are to manage this. Pick it up. The City provides full services to a society that functions in relative oblivion of the implications of their behaviour on the environment. It is assumed to be the role of government to “pick up” after communities and dispose of waste. This scenario is oblivious of the waste hierarchy and the role communities could play in minimising waste. Wishing on a star. The city continues to have under-serviced areas, public awareness is high and this fuels correct behaviour and a mind-set shift with regard to waste management. Working together we can do more. The City optimises its service provision to cover all areas while also ensuring maximum public awareness and behaviour change with regard to waste management.
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Basson, Nellis. "The Johannesburg Gas Works - Restoring Significance through Restitution." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63624.
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Cities keep expanding as people move towards more desired locations on the outskirts, resulting in abandoned, dead nodes within the city centre. These buildings are left to deteriorate, especially those of heritage and cultural importance. Designed with a very specific function in mind, industrial architecture is mostly removed from society, hidden behind infrastructure. The process and economics are what drives the architecture.
But what happens when this industry fails, or become of no value to mankind? What is left behind except for the scarred ecology? This architecture that was specifically designed for this mono-functional purpose? Decay sets in: what was once a producer becomes no more than a relic - socially abandoned because it was never social to begin with.
The growth in technology as well as the realization that many of the ways in which old industries used to function has had an immense negative effect on the environment. A calling for new, better ways of doing things were needed; though it has left our city landscapes scattered with industrial objects, from mine dumps to power plants, abandoned and without purpose.
There is an ethical responsibility that should address this and to reactivate these areas by re-appropriating these nodes by making them into desired locations for businesses as well as residents. The challenge being in finding an appropriate use for such nodes that will help the city flourish.
Re-appropriating such architecture will put a new focus and livelihood on it, as well as its surrounding precinct. By utilizing and re-appropriating the architecture, it will eliminate, or at least lessen, the chances of it becoming another abandoned monument.
This dissertation will highlight and investigate the importance of industrial architecture as an object of heritage for South Africa. This will be done by looking at the manner in which the architecture at the Johannesburg Gas Works can be re-purposed and re-imagined in contributing to an ever-evolving city and its people, by giving the existing structures a new purpose. There is therefore a need to keep the heritage of the Gas Works alive because the architecture, and the site as such, has become obsolete to the purpose it was built for.Mini Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2018.
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De, Beer Elaine. "The Interior boundary : spilling out into Braamfontein, Johannesburg." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31578.
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The façade as boundary is studied in an attempt to create a public ground floor where boundaries start functioning as thresholds. It could be argued that the boundary [potential threshold] becomes the introduction to the interior space. The study will explore the effect of an interior application on its surrounding urban context and whether an interior intervention can add a positive contribution to the neighbourhood regeneration. The perceived limit of interior design will be extended to include the boundary as an integral part of the design. The project will address the lack of communication between the interior and the exterior context. The boundary will be considered the end of exterior space and the start of interior space. The theory is applied to a site located in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.Dissertation MInt (Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Boshoff, Brian Charles. "Conceptualizing Sustainability: the Case of Johannesburg and Water." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39338.
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Johannesburg, South Africa has stated ambitions of becoming a “sustainable city” and a “world-class African city.” Many factors may contribute to the realization of these aims. One is a “sustainable” water supply, since water is fundamental to life and to economic activity. But South Africa (SA) is a “water-stressed” country, indeed, globally, it is one of the twenty most water-deficient countries and Gauteng province (where Johannesburg is located) may run out of water by 2015.
Many demand and supply factors conspire to affect adversely the “sustainability” of water and any “sustainable development” trajectory in SA. Accordingly, I survey the literature on “sustainability” and “sustainable development” (S/SD) to see if it might offer some way out of SA's water dilemma. This is a vast, complex and contested body of literature, but overall, S/SD appears to be “common cause.“ But this does not necessarily mean that S/SD concepts are either well understood or integrated, especially as applied to the water sector in SA. I suggest that a comprehensive understanding of what might be contemplated by S/SD concepts as regards the water sector is lacking, so I seek to determine how the concepts of S/SD “play out,“ how they can be translated and understood, and what import selected S/SD concepts may have in terms of the water sector in Johannesburg.
This is accomplished by means of a broad literature review and by conducting interviews with mostly senior personnel in Johannesburg who are responsible for water and sustainability public policy and issues in Johannesburg and in SA.
This research describes several major ramifications of water and sustainability in Johannesburg and contributes empirically, by examining the intersection of S/SD, water and Johannesburg and theoretically, by developing a heuristic model (HM), so that understanding of S/SD (especially as it relates to water in SA) can be crystallized and provide a platform for further debate, contestation, interpretation and implementation. The lexicon emerging from the HM will help leaders to balance the competing claims and tensions during conception and implementation of relevant water policies. The model depicts the interplay of sustainability premises with actual conditions in an important developing nation.Ph. D.
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Eloff, F. N. "Momentum trading strategy on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8557.
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Includes bibliographical references.This research report documents an example of evidence of investor overreaction in the marketplace, with overreaction to short-term information found to be exploitable via price corrections in order to generate market-beating returns. An efficient market should render any consistent abnormal returns unattainable. Hence any technical analysis allowing an investor to obtain such returns would indicate a degree of market inefficiency. Three signal generation strategies are employed to test for momentum and price corrections in the market, namely using a stock's price and moving average, ranking stocks based on prior returns, and allocating stocks as overbought and oversold. The strategies are employed on data comprising the top 60 stocks on the JSE as at August 2012. The period tested runs from January 1998 to August 2012. Signal generation by means of price and moving average encompasses trade signals being generated by a stock's price moving above or below a variable moving average. Returns to this strategy tend to be maximized when employing a short-term (20-day) moving average, with an annualised above market return of 14,9 achievable. Using the returns of a stock in an immediately preceding formation period as a ranking criterion to classify stocks into a portfolio is found to be a superior method to generate trading signals. A portfolio of the best performing stocks in a preceding period ("the winner portfolio") is found to be able to outperform the market. Given a minimum formation period of 50 days, price continuation is achieved after holding the portfolio for at least 30 days, with annualized market excess returns greater than 10 achieved at longer formation and holding periods. A portfolio of the worst performing stocks in the same period ("the loser portfolio") is able to outperform the winner portfolio, and is capable of achieving returns of 20 in excess of the market, given a formation period as low as 10 days, while closing the investment position after no more than 10 days.
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Nash, Peter. "The weekend effect on the Johannesburg stock exchange." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8474.
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Bibliography: leaves 97-100.The study of intraweek share return patterns has received considerable attention in the field of international research. This research has shown that share returns tend to be higher than average on the last trading day of the week and lower than average on the first. This anomaly has come to be known as the Weekend Effect. Explanations proffered for this phenomenon have failed adequately to justify the pattern of returns across the weekdays. These explanations include settlement period delays, dividend effects, measurement error in share prices, institutional features and the tendency for firms to release unfavourable information over the weekend. This study investigates day of the week effects on returns of the All Share Index, Industrial Index and Gold Index on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
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Mkhomi, Moses Sipho. "The role of intergroup conflict in school-based violence in the Johannesburg Central Education District Schools: towards a strategy for peace education implementation." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/2304.
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School-Based Violence (SBV) is prevalent in South Africa and globally. SBV is one of the challenges that the South African education system is facing resulting in a new deep-rooted culture of unsafe and insecure schools. Teachers are expected to teach learners, who display antisocial behaviour. These learners swear, back chat, verbally and physically abuse and show total disrespect for teachers. The presence of such learners has turned schools into battle field. This violence is not exclusively directed to teachers, but learners are also the common victims of bullying in particular. This study therefore sought to investigate how intergroup violence impacts on the schoolbased violence. The concepts, Intergroup Conflict (IC) and gangs/gangsterism were used interchangeably to describe actions of individuals who take part in the social conflict, driven by competition, antagonism and aggression within the school context.
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Matebese, Zolani Loyiso Chukwuemeka Bantu, and Sandra Musengi-Ajulu. "An evaluation of the City of Johannesburg’s Igoli 2002 programme from 2003 to 2010." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012949.
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Integrative Summary: Municipalities are the third level of government and are responsible for delivery of basic services to citizens. They carry the developmental mandate of government and are often the first point of interaction between government and citizens. Being at the front line of service delivery, the issue of fiscal stability of municipalities and their ability to deliver sustainable services is of grave importance (Carter & Ajam 2003). Unfortunately in a South African context most municipalities are not fiscally sustainable (Roos & Stander 2005). In a study of 142 South African municipalities, it was found that poor collection of outstanding debt and irregular or wasteful expenditure were the biggest causes of fiscal stress (Roos & Stander 2005). In fact, in 2004 the difficulties appear to have reached crisis level (Lubbe & Roussouw 2005). The fiscal situation within municipalities was so bad that the South African Local Government Authority (SALGA) implemented a unit specifically to assist municipalities that were at “crisis point” (Roos & Stander, 2005 p. 165). This research report focuses on the evaluation of Igoli 2002 which was a response to fiscal crisis within the City of Johannesburg metropolitan municipality when in 1997 the City of Johannesburg was declared insolvent. The research evaluated the long term sustainability of the Igoli 2002 programme to determine its success in addressing the issues of fiscal stress and crisis facing the municipality. The research also attempted to assess the applicability of international indicators of fiscal stress and crisis to the City of Johannesburg. The research evaluated the Igoli 2002 programme via a financial condition analysis, against international indicators of fiscal stress and crisis and against a logic framework detailing the goals of the programme. The research found that ultimately, the Igoli 2002 intervention implemented by the City of Johannesburg was successful in improving the fiscal position and sustainability of the City. In addition, indicators from predictive models of fiscal stress and crisis were found to be relevant to the City of Johannesburg.
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Kalmer, Harold. "Van plaas tot agterplaas : die uitbeelding van Afrikaners in Johannesburg in drie Hertzogpryswenners, en, 'n Duisend stories oor Johannesburg : 'n stadsroman." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85872.
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Thesis (MA)-- Stellenbosch University, 2013.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die eerste gedeelte van hierdie tesis is ʼn opstel met die titel Van plaas tot agterplaas: Die uitbeelding van Afrikaners in Johannesburg in drie Hertzogpryswenners en die tweede deel is ʼn roman getiteld ʼn Duisend stories oor Johannesburg. Die roman en die opstel hou tematies met mekaar verband. Soos die roman, speel al drie bekroonde werke in Johannesburg af met Afrikaners as sentrale karakters. Die bepaalde historiese konteks waarin elkeen van die drie pryswenners verskyn het, dikteer die invalshoek van die opstel, hoe die werk krities ontvang is, sowel as die rol en waarde wat deur die Afrikaner-instelling daaraan toegeken is. Daar sal verder in die bespreking getoon word watter rol die Hertzogprys in die skepping van die Afrikaner-instelling gespeel het. Die gebruik van die begrip en eienaam “Afrikaner” in hierdie bespreking verwys na die wit, Afrikaanssprekende, Christelike gemeenskap in Suid-Afrika, in die sin dat dit ooreenstem met die (uiters aanvegbare) stelling dat alle wit Afrikaanssprekers saamgevoeg kan word in ʼn organiese “volkseenheid”. Hierdie voorveronderstelling aanvaar ook dat hierdie “Afrikanerdom” tradisionele, konserwatiewe volkswaardes deel, en altyd beskikbaar is vir mobilisering ter wille van gedeelde Afrikaner-belange, soos deur Dan O‟Meara gedefinieer in sy Volkskapitalisme: Class, capital and ideology in the development of Afrikaner nationalism, 1934 – 1948 (1983:6). Hierdie kwessies word, onder meer, deur die polisisteemteorie van die Israeliese kultuurnavorser, Itamar Even-Zohar, asook J.B. Thompson se kritiese teorie van ideologie gedoen. Daar word ook na Jacques Rancière se teorie oor “die verspreiding van die waarneembare” (the distribution of the sensible) verwys. Daar word tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat die Hertzogprys van meet af aan in diens van die Afrikaner-instelling gestaan het en ten spyte van ʼn veranderende ideologiese landskap, ʼn voortgesette rol gespeel het in die daarstelling van die Afrikaner-repertoire. Binne die polisisteemteorie is die “repertoire” die versameling reëls en elemente wat die produksie van tekste bepaal. Die term “instelling” verwys na die faktore wat betrokke is by die instandhouding van die letterkunde as ʼn sosio-kulturele aktiwiteit. Die roman speel af in ʼn klein Johannesburgse hotelletjie, genaamd Mei Villa, in die buurt Belgravia, tydens ʼn uitbarsting van xenofobiese geweld in 2008. Binne ʼn raamverhaalstruktuur fokus die roman op twee karakters, naamlik die ontheemde argitek, Zweig van Niekerk, wat na 40 jaar na Johannesburg terugkeer, asook die hoteleienaar, die bekroonde maar mindere digter, Bosman Hiemstra. Omring deur hotelgaste en personeel met hulle uiteenlopende verhale, soek Zweig van Niekerk tevergeefs na die Johannesburg van sy jeug, terwyl Bosman Hiemstra met ewe min sukses ʼn tweede digbundel probeer skryf. Aan die einde van die boek begin die digter ʼn roman te skryf met sy gas se lewensverhaal as gegewe dalk ook die boek wat die leser pas klaar gelees het.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The first part of this thesis is an essay titled Van plaas tot agterplaas: Die uitbeelding van Afrikaners in Johannesburg in drie Hertzogpryswenners (From farm yard to back yard: The depiction of Afrikaners in Johannesburg in three Hertzog Prize winners) and the second part is a novel called ʼn Duisend stories oor Johannesburg (A thousand tales of Johannesburg). The novel and the essay are thematically linked. Like the novel, the three Hertzog Prize winners takes place in Johannesburg with Afrikaners as central characters. The point of departure of the essay is the historical context in which the three literary works were published, the critical reception thereof and what role and value was attributed to it by the Afrikaner institution. The role played by the Hertzog Prize in the creation of the Afrikaner institution will also be discussed. The term “Afrikaner” in this discussion refers to the white Afrikaans-speaking, Christian community in South Africa, in the sense that it correlates with the (highly debatable) contention that all white Afrikaans-speakers can be combined in an organic “volkseenheid”. This use of the term assumes that “Afrikanerdom” also shares traditional, conservative national values, and is always available for mobilisation in service of shared Afrikaner interests, as defined by Dan O'Meara in his Volkskapitalisme: Class, capital and ideology in the development of Afrikaner nationalism, 1934 – 1948 (1983:6). To examine these issues, the polysystem theory of the Israeli cultural researcher, Itamar Even-Zohar, as well as J.B. Thompson's critical theory of ideology, will be used. Reference is also made to Jacques Rancière's theory around “the distribution of the sensible”. The conclusion is reached that despite a continuously changing ideological landscape, the Hertzog Prize served the interests of the Afrikaner institution from the very start and played an ongoing role in the Afrikaner repertoire. Within the polysystem theory the “repertoire” is the aggregate of rules and elements which determine the production of texts. The term “institution” refers to the factors involved in the maintenance of literature as a socio-cultural activity. The novel is set in a small hotel, Mei Villa, in the Belgravia neighbourhood in Johannesburg during an outbreak of xenophobic violence in 2008. Within the story structure it focuses on two characters, the displaced architect, Zweig van Niekerk, who returns to Johannesburg after 40 years, and the hotel owner and award-winning, but lesser poet, Bosman Hiemstra. Surrounded by other hotel guests and staff with their own stories, Zweig van Niekerk searches in vain for the Johannesburg of his youth, while Bosman Hiemstra attempts with equal lack of success, to write a second book of poetry. At the end of the book the poet starts to write a novel using his guest's life as material; that could be the book that the reader has just completed.
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Ryninks, Guy J. "Globalization--South Africa--Johannesburg." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19943.
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A research report submitted by the Wits School of Arts, Film and Television
Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of
the requirements for the degree of Masters in Film and Television.
Johannesburg 2015In our modern contemporary time period the vast and rapid expansion of globalisation is stronger than ever, resulting in the shifting of how identities are currently being formed. In Johannesburg there has been major shifts in the socio-political realities of our nation, coupled with globalisation there is a noticeable shift in way identities are formed in our present fractured environment. These shifts are important to acknowledge as South Africa is in the process of changing its image towards of an all encompassing equal state, and so It is imperative to study how these shifts are impacting on identity formation. There are multiple difficulties in a study such as this, initiating a study on a subject/s that is itself incomplete fails to produce finite answers or outcomes. Rather many varying results are produced and compiling this information proves challenging when attempting to comprehend these findings. It is my aim to understand not only how identities are being formed within the rejuvenating city, but also how the rejuvenation of the city is impacting on the formation of identities. Because of the long-established fractured nature of Johannesburg there has been a fracturing of identities that continues even in the face of the changes that are occurring. However with the changes meant to curb these fractures I question if these fractures are in fact diminishing, remaining the same or is there actually a noticeable change occurring. Initially I consider the history of South Africa as this has evidently impacted on the city, my research is it then focused on Johannesburg, as this is the environment I live in and have formed my own identity in. I also investigate how through the use of auto-ethnography I am able to practice ‘self-expression’ staged upon my personal view of Johannesburg and the fractures I encounter. Because I use auto-ethnography as my autobiographical filming technique I have exclusive control over the film and this proved challenging as I was positioning myself in the film as a form of subjectivity. This created a problem in how I was intending to represent myself along with the fractured landscape of Johannesburg. My outcome is a self-subjective representation of myself positioned into my environment represented as my personal view. I focus on the fractures I experience within my own environment the suburbs and that of the city, also the fracture between these two spaces and the continuing fracture in my own identity and relationship with the city. My research will allow for an avenue of self-representation on a very personal and idiosyncratic level as to encourage the city to be represented as it is experienced and perceived by its inhabitants. However my production can be seen as being specific to a similar case, that being of my own, but this practice allows for the use of auto-ethnography to represent our own individual perspectives and the subjectification of ourselves as inhabitants of the city from a personal perspective rather than a generalised and broad perspective.
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Cripps, Elizabeth Ann. "Provisioning Johannesburg, 1886-1906." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5966.
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The rapidity of Johannesburg’s growth after the discovery of payable gold in 1886 created a provisioning challenge. Lacking water transport it was dependent on animal-drawn transport until the railways arrived from coastal ports. The local near-subsistence agricultural economy was supplemented by imported foodstuffs, readily available following the industrialisation of food production, processing and distribution in the Atlantic world and the transformation of transport and communication systems by steam, steel and electricity. Improvements in food preservation techniques: canning, refrigeration and freezing also contributed. From 1895 natural disasters ˗ droughts, locust attacks, rinderpest, East Coast fever ˗ and the man-made disaster of the South African War, reduced local supplies and by the time the ZAR became a British colony in 1902 almost all food had to be imported. By 1906, though still an import economy, meat and grain supplies had recovered, and commercial agriculture was responding to the market.History
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Mukansi, Murimisi Demmy. "Lung cancer in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8810.
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Research report in partial fulfillment for the degree of MMed (Pulmonology), faculty of Health Sciences, University of the WitwatersrandIntroduction: cancer remains the most common malignancy, with an estimated 1.04 million new cases each year worldwide, accounting for 12.8% of new cancer cases. Of these cases, 58% occur in the developing world. Lung cancer is the most common cancer among men, with an incidence of approximately 37.5 new cases per million. The incidence is lower in women, at 1.08 cases per million population. Lung cancer is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. There is evidence in the literature of racial and gender differences in the distribution of lung cancer. However data from South Africa is sparse. Aim: The primary objective of this study was to investigate whether differences existed in demographic and histological features of lung cancer when comparing black versus white patients with cancer of the lung in Johannesburg Methods: A retrospective case record review of 817 patients presenting to the pulmonology units of the three hospitals, between January 1992 and December 1998, was undertaken. Demographic, clinical, laboratory and histological features were captured and analyzed, using the GraphPad InStat 3.10 program for Windows. The histological cell types of lung cancer were characterized using the 1981 WHO classification. Results: A total of 817 patients with lung cancer were enrolled in the study. The age group of the total sample ranged between 26-92 years with a mean±SEM of 61.0±0.04 years. There were 574 (70.3%) male patients versus 222 (27.2%) female patients. The remaining 21 (2.6%) patients had no data recorded with respect to their gender. The racial stratification of these patients in decreasing order of frequency was whites 441 (54.0%), blacks 337 (41.3%), mixed race 24 (3.0%) and Indians 15 (1.8%). The study group consisted of the 778 black and white patients. The black patients were younger (mean ±SEM, 57.3±0.5years) than the white patients (mean ±SEM, 64.0±9.9) irrespective of gender (p <0.001). Overall 632 patients were smokers, either current or ex-smokers. The amount of cigarettes consumed was significantly higher in white patients compared to black patients (mean pack years for white patients was 52.7 ± 27.1 versus 21.7± 14.3 pack years for black patients (p <0.001)). This difference was irrespective of gender. The mode of diagnosis in the 778 lung cancer patients was bronchoscopy in the majority 479 (54.0%), followed by sputum cytology in 152 (18.3%) and fine needle aspiration in 105 (12.7%). Tissue biopsy was utilized to diagnose 23 (2.7%) of the lung cancers. In some cases more than a single modality of diagnosis was utilized. The radiological features of the 778 lung cancer patients varied. The majority had a mass on chest radiograph; a lung mass in 357 (46.5%) patients, a hilar mass in 166 (21.6%), and a mediastinal mass in 18 (0.3%) patients. Pleural effusions were found in 82 (10.7%), lung atelectasis in 78 (10.2%), an infiltrate in 29 (3.8%) and consolidation in 25 (3.3%). Histological cell types of lung cancer in the 778 patients consisted of the following, in descending order of frequency; squamous cell carcinoma in 341 (43.8%), adenocarcinoma in 167 (21.5%), small cell carcinoma in 129 (16.6%) and large cell carcinoma in 68 (8.7%) of the cases. Other histological cell types accounted for 73 (9.4%) of the patients. Small cell carcinoma was overall more common amongst white patients especially males and in black patients it was exclusively in females (p<0.0005). However the black female patients tended to have more small cell carcinoma (40 (45.5%)), compared to the white female patients who had more squamous cell carcinoma (54 (45.0%)) in the majority. There was a small proportion of patients considered to be operable with intent to cure -74 (9.5%). This was a poor operability rate compared to an expected operability rate of 15-20%. This rate was as distressing when divided along racial lines; 29 (8.6%) of black patients and 45 (10.2%) of white patients being considered operable. Discussion: The demographics of the study group were different. The black patients tended to be significantly younger and smoked less cigarettes compared to the white patients. There was a significantly greater number of male patients with lung cancer than female patients. This difference was irrespective of race. The ranked frequency of histological subtypes was similar in both race groups. However, the black female had more small cell carcinoma, compared to white females with a preponderance of squamous cell carcinoma. The operability of all lung cancer patients, irrespective of gender and race, was dismal at 9.5%, compared to the standard norm of 15-25% operability rate. This is worrying when one considers the fact that surgery is the means to a cure. It either suggests there is a delay in seeking medical care and/or the lack of medical resources to permit screening and early diagnosis of the malignancy. Conclusions: This study did not demonstrate any ranked frequency differences in histological cell type distribution between black and white patients. Squamous cell carcinoma was the most common histological cell type regardless of race. Small cell carcinoma was significantly more common among white patients, especially the males while among the black patients it was exclusively found in the females. Black patients with lung cancer tended to present at an earlier age. Black females were less likely to develop lung cancer when compared with the white females. The black patients smoked fewer cigarettes than the white patients irrespective of gender. The operability of our patients, in the study, was poor in all race groups.
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Hart, Timothy. "The factorial ecology of Johannesburg." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16737.
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Joynt, Frances. "Centre spread: public library in inner city Johannesburg." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5726.
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Roets, Wilna. "Terrain suitability analysis for the proposed rapid-rail link between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Johannesburg International Airport." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2014.
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M.A.The proposal to build the Gautrain rapid-rail link between Pretoria, Johannesburg and Johannesburg International Airport was approved in June 2000 by the Gauteng Provincial Government. It was noted that this particular development could have serious environmental implications for the area involved. The aim of this research is therefore to identify the most suitable terrain in order to optimise the rail route alignment with minimal environmental impact. This will be accomplished by undertaking a terrain suitability analysis. The different high-speed railway types are discussed and their impact on the environment is considered, culminating in an evaluation of the background and status of the proposed Gautrain rapid-rail link. The different approaches to terrain evaluation are discussed in order to draw conclusions relative to the methodology used in this research. Subsequently the activity approach as described by Mitchell (1991) and Hugo et al (1997) was chosen as the methodology to use for this research and the terrain within the study area was classified according to its suitability for the development of the Gautrain rapid-rail link. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was utilised to aid in the terrain suitability analysis. As a result of the analysis an optimised route is proposed and compared to the rail routes already proposed for the Gautrain rapid-rail link. It is imperative that a terrain suitability analysis should form part of the preliminary phase of any environmental management cycle as portrayed in Fuggle & Rabie (1998), in order to identify suitable terrain for the development in question; the rapid-rail link route should be no exception.
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Kitenge, Mutombo. "Arrival architecture: migrants, urban migration, Johannesburg." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/10611.
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This thesis is an exploration of how a predominant migrant community can help with the integration process of newly arriving migrants.
As the world grows into an urban village more and more people migrate in search of a good lifestyle and economic empowerment.
Different suburbs find themselves hosting a particular group of migrants, who in turn transform the community to suit their needs. a rich urban precinct is born where the migrant is central to the community facilities. The question of homing, integration and bridging between a space of home to the new community becomes more and more problematic and needs to be addressed in order to welcome migrants, and guard against issues of Xenophobia and separations between the arriving migrant and the existing community.
As a result an integration facility that the migrant can arrive and learn about the community will help the community in embracing the arriving migrant and the diversity that he brings with him, so as to minimize the conception of “them” and “us”.
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Kok, Tatum Tahnee. "Exploring high streets in suburban Johannesburg." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20997.
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Traditionally the high street serviced residents in the local suburb. The proliferation of entertainment and leisure activities on the high street in suburban Johannesburg has appealed to people in the broader region. These social spaces within the suburb provide a simultaneous interaction of individuals who can carry out their daily activities of shopping, dining and socializing and essentially has contributed to these high streets being successful destination points.
Patrons, the foot traffic of the high street, sustain businesses on the high street. Some business owners neglect to implement city by-laws and comply with licensing regulations often perpetuating unfavourable circumstances for residents in the suburb. Noise, petty crime and parking constraints detract from the street's allure. Alternatively, some residents enjoy easy access to the street's activities.
Using a mixed method research approach, this research reveals some of the perceptions, regulations and tensions regarding the prominence of entertainment and leisure activities on the high street. Three case studies (7th Street in Melville, 4th Avenue in Parkhurst and Rockey/Raleigh Street in Greater Yeoville) are explored to evaluate the role of entertainment and leisure on the suburban high street.
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De, Villiers Sarah. "Idea bank: Watt street,Wynberg, Johannesburg." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/17845.
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What if you could spend an idea to earn money?
Detected through an anthropological lens, rather than a strictly economical one; the context of this thesis inherits a feverishly
fluctuating South African economy. It is pitted against often contradictory and interchanging consciousness of opportunity
in the so-called formalised and informalised markets; and within the flaring gap that exists between the two. This gap
finds spatiality in South African post-Apartheid cities, in which physical buffers to dense marginalised communities remain
visible; as in the particular case of Johannesburg.
Investigations into the spatial orders of postmodern ‘money institutions’ (including the bank, shopping mall and casino)
show that the urban phenomena of emergent ‘money borders’ also echoes itself in its architecture. Through historical
analysis, the capitalist construct displays itself increasingly as a closed protected entity. Underneath the exquisitely woven
Persian rug of privatised space, trapdoors to dubious and illicit spots often exist, In this space, it is all smoke and
mirrors. The rules can be broken for the desires of those inside, and keep out the supposed risks of those who are
not. Its detachedness is reconstructed through the theoretical perspectives of Michel Foucault and Georg Simmel; this
examination providing grasp for spatial tools which, if altered, could recalibrate the way in which privatised spaces open
and close themselves to the public.
How can a reassembly of spatial and psychological thresholds in financial institutions assist in making capital more
accessible to the idea-bearer? The results of this research propose reworked syntax of physical legibilities which make
entry, participation and exit in financial systems understandable and therefore more possible. An idea trading floor (idea
bank) is designated as the principal programme; where the possibility of intersection of capital, presented by an investor
meeting an innovator with an idea is available, in a stripped down form. Beginning with the shell of the capitalist epitome
‘free market’ stock trading floor, a new re-mastered hybrid is born. Usually fascinatingly chaotic, these spaces are viscerally
experiential but also remain inaccessible to many parts of society. What if we could sell stocks for entrepreneurial ideas, in a
physical, space-folded, compact trading floor, partly quotidian like that of a supermarket, and partly fantastical and alluring?
Fertile ground for such a transaction point is identified at an intersection in Wynberg, Johannesburg; which currently lies
suspended along a highly-trafficked pedestrian movement route between Alexandra and Sandton, and is earmarked for
a future transport interchange. Space-folding techniques underline the conceptual arrangement of the architecture; with
the superimposition of idea bank with micro-factories and gathering spaces. These programmes are vertically punctured
by a circulation vein to the proposed bus terminal below the site, revealing the processes of seed capital generation for a
passing commuter or visitor: In addition, through spatially centralising the idea; creativity and the possibility for change;
rather than money as an end in itself; this thesis speculates cause-led spatial practice rather than a profit-led one.
Ultimately, if capital has a wall around it (literally and fi guratively), perhaps architecture could put a door in it; in doing so
making cognizant the presence of the wall; and therefore the possibly to transverse through it.
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Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku. "Migration, gender and urbanisation in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2693.
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This thesis interrogates the dynamics of urbanisation, gender and migration in
contemporary Johannesburg through the voices and images of migrant women
from the rest of the African continent, now living in Johannesburg. By revealing
the lives of a population group that is often hidden from view, it provides details
of women’s migration to Johannesburg, and their everyday encounters in the
host city. Using these experiences, it sheds light on contemporary migration and
urbanisation processes on the continent, expanding our knowledge of the contours
of power that shape urban life in Johannesburg and elsewhere.
Using the metaphor of the “border” or “borderlands” this thesis explores
how women negotiate, cross and remain “in between” the multiple physical,
social and imagined borders they encounter in the city. It finds that analyses that
read the city through class relationships and capital accumulation do not give
adequate weight to the multiple identities and forms of solidarity that exist in
cities. Women’s narratives reveal that while their class is an important identity,
other identities such as ethnicity, nationality and gender also powerfully shape
solidarity and modes of belonging in the city. Moreover, state-centric governance
frameworks that have dominated urban policy and scholarly work on the
continent are often blinded to the ways in which urban dweller’s actions shift our
understanding of the nature and character of state power. Women’s encounters
with the state reveal the multiple regimes of power that constitute the city, and the
ways in which these subvert, fragment, and yet at times reinforce state power in
unpredictable ways.
The epistemological approach and findings of this research bring to the
fore broader questions around the paradigmatic lenses used to read, interpret and
understand African cities. Dominant paradigms tend to draw on western models
of cities in ways that undermine African cities’ empirical realities and theoretical
potential. For as long as scholars and policy makers fail to see African urbanity in
its own terms rather than in relation to how cities elsewhere have evolved, we will
continue to miss critical socio-political and economic dynamics that are shaping
urbanisation in the twenty first century.Sociology
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Dlamini, Gabby S. "Swazi migrants in Johannesburg: quiet living." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18370.
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A Thesis Submitted for the fulfilment of a Bachelor of Arts Master’s Degree in Social Anthropology 2014
University Of Witwatersrand JohannesburgThis study will explore how Swazi skilled migrants become insiders when they move to Johannesburg. It will focus on the bureaucratic and social mechanisms they employ to facilitate this process. As an under researched group skilled Swazi migrants remain relatively unknown. The study looks at the functions of blending in and distinctiveness; which encompass the social and bureaucratic mechanisms that manage the negative perceptions and attitudes towards foreigners. The study pays some attention to the historical and contemporary factors that Swazi migrants encounter and how they deal with them. There are two main theoretical frameworks that base the study; the documentation of migrants and the ideas of foreignness in South Africa. Documentation is examined from a legal/bureaucratic and symbolic understanding. Foreignness is examined as both advantageous and disadvantageous. This brings forth issues of contradiction and dichotomies in migrancy and how these can be understood. Lastly it considers citizenship and belonging. By examining how Swazi migrants validate their South African citizenship in cases where citizenship has been obtained illegally or without due process.
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Chisenga, Rumbidzai. "The role of Johannesburg universities in the emergence of an information and communication technology (ICT) cluster in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2014.
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Thesis (M.M. (Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Business Administration, 2013.The Information and Communication Technology sector in Gauteng contributes significantly towards the gross domestic product (GDP) of the South African economy. Studies identified the emergence of a technology cluster in Johannesburg in the late 1990s but highlighted that this cluster was notably weak in terms of research and development (Voyer 1997; Hodge, 1998). This study seeks to describe the role of Johannesburg universities in the emergence of an information and communication technology (ICT) cluster in Johannesburg. The mixed methodology was followed in the study. Data was collected by using questionnaires and conducting interviews to obtain quantitative and qualitative data. Respondents included school/department/centre heads and lecturers at the two Johannesburg universities: the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg. The key findings of this study are: There is disparate activity in supporting Johannesburg-based ICT ventures through collaborative and contract research with Johannesburg ICT companies; amongst the schools, departments or centres that participated in the survey. There are isolated activities related to the incubation and commercialisation of spin off ICT ventures, in the university units represented by the respondents. There is some research-related collaboration and no commercialisation-related collaboration with the other Johannesburg university amongst the university units represented by the respondents. This study contributes to the body of knowledge on the evaluation of university-industry linkages; and the relevance of academic entrepreneurship to cluster development.
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Venter, Christiaan Lourens. "Gemeenskapspolisiëring en ontwikkeling met verwysing na Brixton, Johannesburg." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7333.
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Constantinou, Demitri. "Injuries at Johannesburg high school rugby festivals." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15296.
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Thesis (M.Sc.(Emergency Medicine))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2014.Aim. The aim of the study was to analyse the prevalence and type of injuries over two years of a Johannesburg High School rugby festival by assessing the injuries (number, anatomical sites, types and severity), to compare the injuries between the two years and to compare the injuries between the three days of the festival. Methods. The study design was a retrospective, descriptive and observational study. The study population was the participating rugby players at the two rugby festivals in 2010 and 2011. Medical records of rugby related injuries in schoolboy participants were used for capturing injury data. Results. A total of 626 players participated (322 and 304 in 2010 and 2011 respectively) of which there were a total of 100 injury data sets analysed. The injury rate per player in year one was 16.8%, and 15.2% in year two. There was no statistical difference (P = 0.6526) in the injury numbers between the two years. The injury profiles between the respective days between the two years were not statistically different. Most injuries were to the head/face, with the majority being concussion related. The next commonest injuries were to the neck area. Most injured players had not had previous similar injuries. Tackles were the commonest mechanism of injuries. Twenty four percent of injuries were deemed severe enough to stop the players from continuing play. Few required referral for investigations or specialist physician care and most were managed with simple first aid at the primary care level. Conclusion. The nature and mechanisms were in keeping with numerous local and international studies of schoolboy rugby players, but with a lower injury frequency. Providing medical services at rugby events such as these festivals is a requirement and adequate standardised record keeping is recommended to increase knowledge and monitor trends as the dynamic nature of the game of schoolboy rugby continues to develop and change.
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Tshabalala, Xolani. "Negotiating movement: everyday immigration policing in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7941.
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Volumes of cross-border migration into South Africa have substantially increased in
recent years, and so have state efforts to regulate them. This has meant that as migrants go
about their day-to-day activities, they have had to endure closer scrutiny from state police
officials who enforce immigration laws deep within South Africa, away from the country’s
borders. Students of political economy may question how the resulting interaction between
migrants and state officials at the street level impacts on state construction in the developing
world.
This research is a result of about four months of (non-)participant observation
conducted with police officials in inner-city Johannesburg. Additional data was obtained
from official documents as well as semi-structured and informal interviews with both police
officials and migrants.
The findings from this research suggest that in the case of South Africa, it may be
premature to posit a state that has been ‘cannibalized’ by society, as some may suggest. State
officials consistently and sometimes overzealously profile, interrogate and arrest suspected
undocumented migrants. Migrants are themselves aware and wary of imminent arrest and
possible deportation should they move around without their permits. For state officials, this
has sometimes even entailed the use of seemingly excessive means to enforce immigration
law and to protect the state’s monopoly over regulating movement.
Nonetheless, such efforts by the state exist within other informal, non-state and
culturally embedded logics of interaction so commonly practiced by many societies the world
over. On the one hand, these represent centuries old logics of negotiation, gift-giving and
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networking. On the other, such logics are being reinvented to include bribery, extortion,
predatory authority and other forms of exchange between migrants and state officials.
The successive and sometimes simultaneous appeal to these different registers on both
sides of the ‘point of enforcement’ in the course of immigration policing constantly shifts, redraws
and blurs the boundaries between the formal and the informal, the legitimate and the
illegitimate, and between the state and society. Both the political science and anthropological
readers must face up to these everyday realities of the South African state.
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Lategan, Zendre. "Remember to forget : archives for architecture : Johannesburg." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/15895.
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Thesis (M. Arch. (Professional))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, School of Architecture & Planning, 2013.The built environment of Johannesburg has gone through numerous changes in its relatively short history. Traces of past events are visible, but the full stories are unknown and there is an absence of memory on both an institutional and a social level. Through their interwoven relationship with time, buildings become references for memories. And as a collection of artefacts (buildings), each with its own narrative, the city can be seen as an archive of its own past. This project investigates the relationship between memory and architecture through narratives of the built environment. The project aims to show that the rich history of everyday spaces, and the public participation that occurs therein, create associations and memories of place and the city. The proposal is for the Hubert Davies site in the historically rich area of Ferreirasdorp to be converted into an Archive for the Built Environment of Johannesburg. An alternative approach to heritage is suggested – a commemorative architecture that is neither monument nor spectacle. The programme would ensure the conservation of the site while also facilitating access to the history of the city through public participation and use. Through its adaptive re-use the archive’s site and programme enable it to play an important role in reminding the city of where it comes from.
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Kalil, Abdalraof Benaessa. "Caries experience of preschool children in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24219.
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A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Dentistry.
School of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Johannesburg, 2017.Introduction Although the prevalence of dental caries experience among the children in the world has decreased significantly in the last fifty years, dental caries is one of the most predominant chronic childhood diseases worldwide, and it is a public health problem, both for individual children and families who choose to deal with young children suffering from a toothache. Aims and objectives The purpose of this study was to determine caries experience and associated factors contributing to the condition among preschool children in Johannesburg. The objectives were to determine the dmft status, the pufa index of the children and to compare the prevalence of caries between age-groups. Furthermore, the association between demographic characteristics and the caries experience was assessed. Methodology A cross-sectional study was carried out at six sites in Johannesburg on children aged 2-5 years. Data was collected by means of a parental questionnaire covering demographic information and oral dietary habits. This was followed by an oral examination using two indices: Decayed Missing Filled Teeth (dmft) and Pulp Exposure Ulceration Fistula Abscess (pufa). Results Two hundred and twenty-two preschool children aged 2- 5 years participated in this study (n= 222): girls (n= 125) (56%), slightly outnumbering boys (n= 97) (44%). The mean dmft at 2, 3, 4 and 5 years was 0.96, 1.93, 3.44 and 3.38 respectively. The prevalence of dental caries of the children was 47.74% with a mean dmft of 2.41 (SD ± 3.60). The mean age of the children in the study was 3.5 years (SD ± 1.01 years). The results showed statistically significant difference among the age groups. The 4 and 5-year olds had higher levels of dmft than the 2 and 3 year olds (P < 0.001). There were no significant differences (P = 0.3566) in the mean dmft between the boys and girls in the study. There were negligible pufa scores, only 2.2% of the children had pufa scores. The largest contribution was the abscesses. The average dmft value for the children in Berea/Yeoville area was significantly higher (3.8; SD± 4.2) than the one for the children in OR Tambo Diepsloot immunization clinic (1.5; SD± 2.8), (P < 0.001). Household size and parental education had no significant influence on the dmft. Conclusion The prevalence of dental caries was found to be high among 2 to 5-year-old preschool children in Johannesburg, and the mean dmft was directly proportional to the age.
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Cutler, Gabrielle Elisheva. "Memory, meaning and hybrid culture of Johannesburg." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25991.
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Research Report submitted to the School of Architecture and
Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfillment of the
requirements for the Masters of Architecture (Professional).
Submitted on 7 February 2018.The project centres around ideas of memory in architecture, spatial politics, and the history of Johannesburg. It ivestigates the many historical layers of the city and those individuals, whose lives are marbled into those layers. As a representation of this narrative, the project explores the area of New Doornfontein. This area’s - east of the inner city - history and dense built fabric, act as a microcosm of a larger narrative of Johannesburg. Currently, the area is of mixed use, with an emphasis on activities alinged with Ellis Park (located north of the railway) and manufacturing. The proposed site is located south of the railway, at what used to be known as, ‘Mvuyana Yard’. Between the late 1800s and the Slums Removal Act of 1930, yards such as this could be found in residential suburbs at the edge of the city. Yards were spaces usually located at the back of residential properties. Small rooms - usually built from corrugated sheeting, timber, and sometimes brickwork - housed dense numbers of residents. The rooms were rented to races that would otherwise be segregated and living in designated areas, owing to the Natives’ Land Act. The rooms shared amenities and an outside space used for cooking and socializing. Based on the dense, ill-serviced living conditions the yards became known as “Urban Native Slumyards”. New Doornfontein housed six main yards, with the built fabric of none remaining, except that of Number 24 Lower Ross Street. This address housed a Pastor’s House and the African National Church, both built in 1922. Adjacent to this site, was the Central News Agency (CNA) compound, where workers would stay and delivery horses were stabled. Inclusive of these three premises, the project consolidates seven erven as the entire proposed site. The yards were, despite all intentions and efforts, the site of trans-cultural exchange. Despite its origins as a cultural adaptation, a form of cultural hybrid was born, giving way to new forms of identity and experience. Theories related to post-colonial hybridity support this societal phenomenon. Consequently, the society that arises from a mixture of ethnic groups forms a social new fabric. Examples of such adaptations manifest in linguistics, such as Fanakalo, as well as music, dance, and culture. This was the culture of the yards.This was the culture of Johannesburg. The atmosphere and historical recall of this period is well captured in Modikwe Dikobe’s (1973) novel; “The Marabi Dance”. The structure of his writing is similar to the proposed design approach. The story of the part can reflects the story of the whole. Dikobe’s spatial descriptions duly capture a built environment that only partially exists in present day New Doornfontein. The proposed design is a museum, a place for remembering, testifying, empowering, and performing. The project becomes relevant for the current community in New Doornfontein, who risk displacement due to the rapid gentrification of the area. Further, New Doornfontein’s built fabric is changing, and an awareness of this type of architectural erasure is necessary before the area’s heritage is disregarded. Ultimately, this project aims to integrate users and uses while interrogating the intentions of the site’s existing buildings. It is representative of the historic citizen of Johannesburg, while appropriating memory in present-day. Johannesburg is a hybrid city, representing a collective memory of its people.
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Els, Veronika Bianca. "Urban ecosystem services in Johannesburg, South Africa." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25219.
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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
of Master of Science, Johannesburg 2018Ecosystem services play a critical role in delivering goods and services to residents in urban areas. These urban ecosystem services are also able to mitigate climate change effects, which is becoming increasingly important in global change scenarios. However, few urban ecosystem services studies, particularly those relating to climate change, have been done in South Africa and Johannesburg. The aim of my study was to assess the current state of ecosystem services in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and their potential to mitigate possible climate change impacts. My objectives were to assess the state of three key urban ecosystem services, namely carbon sequestration, urban temperature regulation and water flow regulation and provision, to assess the distribution of ecosystem services in Johannesburg and the possible risks of their degradation, and to determine whether environmental policy protects and manages ecosystem services in Johannesburg. I selected 20 sites across Johannesburg that support different land use types and calculated the carbon sequestration capacity for each site, each land use type and for the entire Johannesburg area. I performed a variety of water quality tests in sites that contained water bodies. These tests included measuring water temperature, pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, water transparency and flow rate. I also measured air temperatures in spots under trees and in full sunlight at each site to determine the cooling effect of trees. ArcGIS was used to perform Euclidean distance and kernel density functions on land use, land type and natural feature data. This enabled me to assess the location of natural features that provide the three key services in Johannesburg, and therefore the potential degradation risks to these urban ecosystem services. Lastly, I interviewed Johannesburg City Parks about their environmental policies and analysed documents obtained from GDARD regarding what environmental and ecosystem services policies are implemented in Johannesburg. My results showed that, in general, the measured ecosystem services in Johannesburg are in relatively good health, have good service provision and in some cases, have the potential to be improved. The distribution of Johannesburg’s wetlands and protected areas provide no potential for connectivity and thus have limited resilience to disturbances. Rivers and roads have highly dispersed networks across the Johannesburg area, while wetlands, protected areas and rivers occur in close distances to highly urbanised areas. This proximity between natural and built-up features is one of the main risks to ecosystem degradation. Johannesburg’s urban forest has a relatively high carbon storage value of 436 064.9 tonnes (compared to other local and national cities). All the tested water bodies are in good health with regards to the specific tests conducted in this study. Only two of the water bodies (one being the Jukskei river) showed some concerning factors (regarding transparency, dissolved oxygen, and conductivity). Trees and vegetation provide critical cooling abilities in Johannesburg (of around 1 to 2°C), which can mitigate climate change effects (increased temperatures) and can reduce fossil fuel emissions through reduced energy requirements for cooling in buildings. The measured ecosystem services are protected and managed through various national and provincial level policies and some city level general ecosystem protection policies in Johannesburg. The role of these ecosystem services in mitigating and helping cities adapt to climate change effects is very well understood and integrated into policies, particularity at a provincial and national level. With regards to climate change mitigation, the local governing body recognised the importance of trees in terms of carbon storage, but did not recognise their role in local climate cooling. However, the provincial level governing body does recognise the importance of trees in mitigating UHI effects and in general emphasises the importance of ecosystem services more than the Johannesburg city level governing body. National governing bodies need to integrate more ecosystem services into local governing body policies, and work with local authorities in terms of implementing long-term monitoring systems for ecosystems and ecosystem services. Therefore, more communication and collaboration between stakeholders from various disciplines and governing levels needs to occur to promote ecosystem services understanding, protection and management in Johannesburg.
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Sherman, Jessica. "Examining revoicing practices of two Johannesburg teachers." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/11973.
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This study aims to address the need to support the improvement of teaching practices of South African mathematics teachers. Both international and South African literature suggest that orchestrating whole class discussion by using the practice of revoicing, can support learner appropriation of mathematical discourse, and that it is particularly suited to multilingual environments. Given the staying power of traditional style teaching, this study explores revoicing as a feedback practice within this style of Initiate, Respond, Evaluate/ Feedback (IRE/F) format. Two grade 6 mathematics teachers in Johannesburg were interviewed and their lessons were observed, filmed and analysed using a detailed coding instrument. The teachers were found to be giving as much revoicing as non-revoicing feedback to their learners and that revoicing was used in limited ways, mostly different to those suggested in the literature and not always productively. Key categories of revoicing seen in this study were repeating to affirm learners as well as rephrasing into mathematical language and funnelling learners towards correct answers. The contribution of this research to the field has been to expose the different ways in which two South African teachers are already using the practice of revoicing, in order to see the potential for further research and improved practice.
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"The gendered impact of Johannesburg water budget." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/1374.
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M.A.Despite constitutional and legislative measures to promote gender equality, gender inequality pervades the South African political, social and economic sectors. It is imperative that government uses gender sensitive policy instruments to reverse these imbalances. Gender expenditure analyses on national budget votes reveal a perpetuation of gender inequality. This municipal study assesses Johannesburg’s water budget process using an analytical framework of three criteria: representation; participation and benefit accrued to women. It determines that administrative representation of women in Johannesburg Water is nominal, the drafting of the budget remains patriarchal and representation of gender concerns for water provision in the consultation phase is not evident. The participation of women in the consultation and approval phases cannot be quantified. Women benefit minimally as employees and as entrepreneurs. This study determines that there is a potentially significant gendered impact of Johannesburg’s water budget, which motivates for this policy instrument to be gender sensitive.
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Nyikavaranda, Pamela Chiratidzo. "The Itsoseng settlement housing intervention in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/28567.
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Thesis presented in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master of Management (in the field of Public Sector Monitoring and Evaluation) to the Faculty of Commerce, Law, and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, March 2018The purpose of this research was to assess beneficiaries’ perceptions regarding improvements in their safety and residential quality of life following a housing intervention programme in Itsoseng Informal Settlement. Initially, this study interrogated literature to comprehend assessments carried out in various housing interventions. Maslow Hierarchy of Needs, Quality of Life Theory and Max- Neef Human Needs Theory of Development were the theoretical frameworks used to understand how beneficiaries perceived the upgrading programme. Improvement in their residential quality of life is realised through the possibilities that are available to satisfy their crucial needs. For this reason, this research focused on assessing the beneficiaries’ perceptions on their safety and residential quality of life following the upgrade programme. Univariate analysis, bivariate analysis, paired sample t-test statistics and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was utilised to analyse the perceptions of beneficiaries following a housing upgrade. The findings showed a good level of agreement between beneficiaries regarding their safety and residential quality of life, and there were no significant difference in the perceptions of male and female beneficiaries. Open-ended questions gave insight on the need to further improve beneficiaries’ satisfaction, particularly regarding services such as electricity, clinics, schools and safety walls. Pulling all these things together, the study highlighted the need to prioritise the preferences of beneficiaries, complemented by a comprehensive improvement on safety and residential quality of life to ensure user satisfaction. Insights from the findings further highlighted that holistic improvement in housing conditions, safety, basic services, building a good sense of belonging and tenure security is crucial and goes a long way towards enhancing improvement in the residential quality of life. This study facilitated the recommendations on improvement in the design of the houses in order to satisfy human needs rather than just focusing on the physical aspects of the house. This further allowed this study to emphasise that development is about people not objects, and that it is vital to steer the development process.
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Kalideen, Savera. "Outdoor alcohol advertising in Johannesburg residential areas." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/29102.
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A research report submitted to the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health, 2018Introduction Alcohol use is associated with many health-related and social problems, such as injuries and violence, as well as increased risk of HIV infection. Alcohol consumption among South African youth aged 15 to 24 years is high. One driver of increased consumption among young people is alcohol advertising. The WHO Global Strategy on Alcohol (2010) recommends evidence-based best-practice interventions to reduce alcohol-related harm. The Global Strategy calls for a regulation in the content and volume of marketing and restricting or banning promotions in connection with activities such as festivals or competitions that target young people, and the regulation of media-based direct and indirect marketing. There is very little published information on the extent and characteristics of outdoor alcohol advertising in South Africa. This study aimed to describe the number, location, characteristics and content of outdoor alcohol advertising and branding found in central Johannesburg and to compare the characteristics and content of adverts in lower and higher socioeconomic status areas. Methodology A cross-sectional study was conducted to identify and analyse all outdoor alcohol advertisements in a five-kilometre radius in central Johannesburg in 2014. Photographs of each alcohol advertisement were taken and the Global Positioning System (GPS) location, type and other characteristics were recorded on a coding sheet. The content of the advertisements based on the photographs was captured using a content coding sheet and linked to the GPS coordinates. Using income information from the City of Johannesburg in 2013, lower and higher economic status areas were defined. Descriptive analysis of the content and characteristics of the outdoor advertisements was conducted. The characteristics and content of advertisements in the higher and lower socioeconomic status areas were compared. Results There were 346 alcohol advertisements identified in this study. The most commonly advertised alcohol was for beer (71.1%) followed by cider (12%) and whiskey (5.6%). About 4.1 % of the adverts were for liqueurs and 2% were for cognac. Vodka and champagne made up less than 2% each of the adverts. Most of the alcohol advertisements and branding (66.8%) were found in the lower socioeconomic status areas of Hillbrow and Berea with just over one-third of all alcohol advertisements (33%) found in all other areas of the study area in Johannesburg. Nearly half of the alcohol adverts were posters (41.0%) followed by adverts painted on blackboards (19.7%). Most alcohol advertisements were located outside bars, taverns and liquor vendors (75.4%). Full advertisements which showed the product and a message about the product as well as a picture of other things such as cars, people and scenery made up 65.3% of all advertisements. Advertising in lower socioeconomic status areas were characterised by displaying the price of the alcohol and were sometimes hand-painted rather than being professionally made. Conclusion The study found differences in the number, characteristics and content of outdoor alcohol advertisements in central Johannesburg, South Africa. There were more advertisements in the lower socioeconomic status areas than in the higher socioeconomic suburbs. There are no restrictions on outdoor alcohol advertising in South Africa, which has led to the proliferation of outdoor alcohol advertising There is a need for a policy on alcohol advertising, which also includes regulation and monitoring of all alcohol advertisements, including outdoor alcohol advertising . More research is also required to show the impact of alcohol advertising on consumption in South Africa as most of the available evidence on this association is from outside the country. A convention similar to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is required as there is currently no global mechanism to regulate and govern alcohol advertising and marketing.
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Munthree, Preshane. "A mixed use Ddevelopment for Newtown, Johannesburg." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29995.
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A building in the heart of Newtown, Johannesburg that incorporates a mix of uses appropriate to its context.Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2005.
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Lamprecht, Aloise. "A history of the Johannesburg Art Gallery." Diss., 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/58788.
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"To write a history of the Museum is to give account of the evolution
of two concepts: that of the Museum and that of Time."
The "history" of the Johannesburg Art Gallery, in Afrikaans
"Johannesburgse Kunsmuseum" starts way back when the concept "museum"
from the Greek "museion", Latin "museum", was first applied to a
collection of works of Art. The Italian Renaissance was responsible
for that. Prior to that, the concept museum like the one in
Alexandria, founded by Ptolemy Philadelphus (Ptolemy Soter) did not
include works of art.
In the same way the word "gallery" is derived from the Italian
"galleria" and was first used in the time of the Renaissance to mean
"a succession of splendid rooms, like the galleria Palatina in the
Pitti Palace" in which works of art were displayed. By the end of
the 16th century the word "gallery" was firmly established in the
English language to denote a venue for housing or exhibiting paintings
and sculpture.
The concept "museum/gallery" is thus rooted in Time, i.e. in History
and is a manifestation of man's desire to preserve and display, for
whatever reason, that which gives him spiritual sustenance.
But as man is the product of the age in which he lives, what he
conceives as beautiful or worth preserving will depend on the society
in which he finds himself. His taste will reflect his social, economic
and political environment and that is something which is never static.
It will thus follow that what one generation deems worthy of
preserving might not necessarily be valued by subsequent generations.Diploma (Arts)--University of Pretoria, 1991.
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Mhlari, Lethabo Patience. "Intercultural communication in the Johannesburg Public Library." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/7551.
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M.Inf.South African libraries are enterprises where diversity is fast becoming the norm. Many South African Librarians work in libraries where the need to educate staff to respect human cultures in all their variety has been identified as a significant institution goal. Acquiring knowledge and understanding of culture factors is the key to successful communication across cultures. This study concentrates on how library managers should communicate with employees in an inter-cultural environment as well as how employees should communicate amongst themselves. Communication barriers between employees in libraries have been discussed and it was concluded that a mastery of communication skills which includes an understanding and appreciation of cultural differences is vital for South African libraries of all colours and cultures. How to go about creating a multicultural library was discussed and it was emphasised that library managers should take positive and measurable actions to transform their libraries into multicultural enterprises. The empirical study done at the Johannesburg Public Library indicated that Black South Africans would like White South Africans to learn at least one Black language in order to facilitate communication. Although not one White South African interviewed in this study spoke a Black language, they experienced a certain degree of difficulty in understanding or interpreting a Black's English or Afrikaans. With regard to non-verbal communication, eye contact was equally important to both groups. Being on time was definitely more important to Blacks than Whites. In terms of vocal quality, Whites found Blacks to speak too loudly and were inclined to shout. In terms of world views, 80% of Blacks followed an Afrocentric world view and 90% of the Whites followed a Eurocentric world view. The majority of Blacks favoured intuitive thinking, 30% confirmed that analytical thinking was the only way to think so as to arrive at a logical deduction. The question on stereotypes pointed to Blacks mainly thinking of Whites as independent. Guidelines for effective inter-cultural communication in South African libraries are provided.
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Zeelie, Desmond Grant. "Managing bullying in primary schools in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/2198.
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M.Ed.Afknouery (bullying) is ’n wêreldwye verskynsel en die gevolge raak die afknouer, sy slagoffer en die hele gemeenskap. Hierdie navorsingstudie toon dat afknouery ’n werklikheid en ’n algemene verskynsel ook in óns skole is. Die insette van die skoolhoofde en leerlinge van die Verre Noord Laerskole, van Johannesburg-Oos D9, is gebruik om die omvang van afknouery in hierdie skole te bepaal asook die effektiwiteit van bestaande voorkomende maatreëls. Daar is gefokus op die verskillende vorms van afknouery, die oorsake en gevolge daarvan, die omvang van die probleem en die karaktereienskappe van “bullebakke”en hulle slagoffers. Skole se gedragskodes is onder die soeklig geplaas en voorkomende maatreëls en maniere van ingryping is bespreek. ’n Kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetode is gevolg om ’n diepgaande insig te kry in die skoolhoofde en leerders se menings en ervarings aangaande bogenoemde aspekte. Fokusgroep onderhoude is gebruik om inligting te bekom en die volgende kategorieë is geidentifiseer: • Die omvang van afknouery • Die formulering en implementering van ’n beleid teen afknouery • Strategiese ingrypingsaksie Die bevindings van die navorsing het aan die lig gebring dat die omvang van afknouery in Johannesburg-Oos D9, Verre Noord Laerskole, ernstige afmetings aanneem. Beleidsformulering teen afknouery en die implementering van sulke maatreëls is gebrekkig en te min ondersteuning bestaan vir die ontwikkeling van sodanige maatreëls en/of strategiese ingrypingsprogramme om die probleem aan te spreek. Daar word dus aanbeveel dat hierdie saak dringend en ernstig aandag ontvang en dat skole betrokke raak by voorkomende beleidsvorming en ingrypaksies. Die bekamping van hierdie euwel het ’n noodsaaklikheid geword wat nie langer verontagsaam durf word nie. Om die bestaan van afknouery te ignoreer, is om dit goed te keur!
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Philips, Gina. "Parents perception of paediatric chiropractic in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/4326.
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M.Tech.Objectives: To gain statistics on the perception parents in Johannesburg have regarding paediatric chiropractic and to educate the public as to the value of paediatric chiropractic in infants and children and increase the number of paediatric patients presenting to chiropractic practices. Methods: One-hundred-and-fifty questionnaires were completed by willing participants attending various antenatal classes throughout Johannesburg. Thereafter, a brief educational talk on paediatric chiropractic was given to all participants and information brochures were distributed. Results: A total of 34.50% of the participants had been previously treated by a chiropractor, with only 12.80% having been treated during their pregnancy and a further 15.70% who intended to receive chiropractic treatment while they were pregnant. Throughout the various age groups majority (54.20%- 56.30%) of the participants felt that might consult a chiropractor for the treatment of a child, although very little was known about the paediatric conditions that may be treated by chiropractors. Majority of the participants felt that chiropractic treatment of paediatrics and during pregnancy was completely safe. Conclusions: Although the participants were not entirely opposed to paediatric chiropractic (the treatment of children and pregnant mothers) they had very little knowledge regarding the topic of paediatric chiropractic, the conditions it may be successful in treating and the health benefits for children who receive chiropractic treatment. Majority of the participants were interested in furthering their knowledge regarding the topic of paediatric chiropractic.
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Strydom, Susanna Maria. "Ruimtelike analise van oopruimte voorsiening in Johannesburg." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/14913.
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M.A. (Geography)The provision of open space m cities is important in creating a pleasant atmosphere, in dividing incompatible land zones and m providing recreation facilities. Researchers on this topic agree that with rapid population growth and urbanization it is necessary that, in future, city planning should be done to enhance the quality of life of city dwellers ...
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Hunt, Emma. "Urban space in South African literature: Johannesburg." 2005. http://link.library.utoronto.ca/eir/EIRdetail.cfm?Resources__ID=742167&T=F.
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