The development and validation of the visual screening tool for anxiety disorders and depression in people living with hypertension and/or diabetes by Ogle, Zimbini

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Evaluating the current copyright provisions for the reproduction and dissemination of electronic educational material in distance learning by Lamont, Kim Tracy

“…To understand the fair dealing and fair use provision specifically for distance learning in specific countries, which include South Africa, United Kingdom and United States Methodology: A large literature search was undertaken, which included legislation, published journal articles, websites and magazines to characterise the current state of access to educational material for distance learners in SA, UK and USA. …”
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The effect of the East African community integration process on informal cross-border trade (ICBT) : an analysis of the Customs Union Protocol by Muthee, Karen Wangu

“…The study also analyzes the Customs Union Protocol and highlights opportunities that can be derived from specific articles for the benefit of the informal cross border traders and eventually comes up with policy recommendations to provide a regulatory environment that can accommodate both the formal and informal sector without harming either of the two. …”
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The collapse of a regional institution : the story of the East African Railways within the East African Community, 1967-1977 by Whang, Patrick

“…In addition, with the help of a librarian at the Daily Nation newspaper in Nairobi, I was able to access archived newspaper articles on the EARC dating back to the years of interest. …”
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Intellectual property business protection during a company survival stage : an inside-out approach by Vergara Sandoval, Matias

“…However, despite the ever increasing number of articles addressing each of these rights, little reference is made to their strategic use within the context of a specific company's business development stage or business needs they are aiming to protect. …”
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The Paris Attach - a case for the right to self-defence? by Hözel, Jana

“…Neither under the Draft Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, nor under the Safe Haven-Doctrine or the Unwilling or Unable-Doctrine, whereby the focus of the thesis lies on the last mentioned doctrine. …”
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Transformation in South African rugby: ensuring financial sustainability by Coetzee, Eduard

“…Research indicated what progress has been made in this regard and identified areas where transformation processes can be improved, by reviewing pertinent literature (including historical records, autobiographical accounts, journal articles, and statistical research reports), investigating the programs in place, and through conducting contact interviews with pertinent players, both on and off the field. …”
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Measuring the impact of research outputs from the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) on the scholarly domain and in social media, 1995-2015 by Kerchhoff, Gillian

“…The full list of outputs, once compiled, showed a composition of 54% grey literature published by PLAAS and 46% journal articles and monographs. The results showed that bibliometrics, as a purely quantitative indicator, can be useful in measuring the impact of a body of work on the scholarly domain and in this study indicated high publication and citation rates. …”
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Hospital administration by Kane-Berman, Jocelyne Denise Lamrie

“…In the words of Tenon - The hospital is the conscience of a civilisation whose worth, in the end will be measured not by articles of faith and lofty doctrines but by the way it nurtures life; succours distress, rights injustices and transforms misery, frailty and want into hope, dignity and sufficiency.…”
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Traumatic posterior fracture-dislocation of the hip joint in adults by Selvey, David M

“…In the process I hoped to gain a better understanding of the problem and attempt to define a more concise approach to the injury by consolidating the broad array of articles written on this subject. Then by reviewing our findings in our large series of patients I aimed to discover whether we were encountering similar problems to the surgeons who had preceded us and whether we had made any new discoveries that might positively contribute to the future management of these patients.…”
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The management and outcomes of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia at a South African referral hospital: A prospective observational study by Steinhaus, Nicola

“…A structured literature review is presented of articles pertaining to SAB epidemiology and treatment, with the aim to place this research study in context and identify gaps in research. …”
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Securitisation of the response to rhinoceros poaching in South Africa by Biegus, Olga

“…By analysing laws, strategies, policies, official briefings, independent and academic reports as well as media articles, I construct a timeline of practices that led to securitising the rhinoceros antipoaching strategies. …”
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The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in South Africa: A systematic review by Pheiffer, Carmen

“…Our literature search, which included PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and African Index Medicus, grey literature and references of included studies identified 1782 articles published in South Africa between January 1997 and May 2019. …”
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From drought to desalination: The case of Cape Town by Beerthuis, Sharda

“…By utilizing secondary official city documents, reports and news articles from several credible news platforms, supported by a number of personally conducted semistructured interviews and secondary sourced interviews with City employees, this thesis aims to understand how desalination is constituted as a crisis response. …”
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Perception and Politics: Chinese South Africans in 1980 and 2008 by Suitt, William

“…The Chinese South African community has been featured numerous times over the last half century in articles debating their place in South African society. …”
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Towards “just” energy transitions in unequal societies: an actor-centric analysis of South Africa's evolving electricity sector by Nkata, Zimkita

“…Over an 11-year study period, online newspaper articles are used as a unit of analysis to develop actor categories, these are accompanied by frames (in the form of statements said by the identified actors). …”
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Delineation of the genetic causes of complex epilepsies in South African pediatric patients by Esterhuizen, Alina

“…*These percentages were rounded off to whole numbers in the published articles included in this thesis (i.e., rounded off to 18%, 12% and 5%, respectively).…”
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The Union Government's treatment of the South-West African Mandate (1920-1944) by Pauline Taylor

“…Very little nas been written on South-nest Africa. l'here are books of travel in the Territory, but my thesis is not concerned with this aspect of the country. some articles on the mandate system as a whole, contain a few pages on the general outlines of the Territory's administration, but these usua11y'treat the subject very broadly. …”
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Understanding the role of cybersecurity culture in the gig economy: the case of platform-based food delivery workers in Gauteng by Radebe, Mlungisi

“…Secondary data was acquired via online searches (N=11), web articles on the gig economy, three (N=3) online qualitative surveys, and contextual observations by interacting with food delivery workers at their pick-up sites. …”
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Assessing the contribution of interim relief measures to food security and income of small-scale fishers of Ocean View, Western Cape by Shanyengange, Mekondjo ET

“…Data were collected by means of literature review of research papers, government documents and reports as well as articles in the press. Group discussions and semi-structured interviews were held with Ocean View interim relief permit holders to assess fish consumption patterns, income earned from fishing, fishing nature, participation in management and decision-making to document fisher perceptions on management of resources they harvest. …”
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