Creating a Development Framework: a Generic Lens for Public Markets’ Analysis and Development in Integration With Their Zone of Influence Revitalization by Ahmed, Nourhan

“…Needless to mention their role in entrepreneurship and their significance for the social development of neighborhoods. Nowadays, local governments are rediscovering the central role of public markets and are putting them under focus to catalyze the urban growth and neighborhoods revitalization by their development. …”
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MODELLING THE ANTECEDENTS THAT INFLUENCE BRAND INNOVATIVENESS, AGE AND PERSONAL INNOVATIVENESS IN SOCIAL COMMERCE SHOPPING BEHAVIOUR by De Freitas, Vanessa Fernandes

“…The conceptual model of the study proposes that the moderating effect of personal innovativeness and age influences the relationship between brand innovativeness and Customer-Based Brand Equity factors, namely brand trust, brand reputation, brand quality, brand credibility and brand loyalty in a social commerce context. The findings of this study aim to find insight regarding purchasing behaviours on local brands by active South African social users. …”
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The race to zero: emission reduction strategies in the sugarcane growing industry in southern Malawi by Cuff, Amy

“…The research offers recommendations to enhance linkages and collaboration between actors which potentially allow for improved emission reduction strategies and consideration of local contexts and national needs, and equitable share of responsibility of the climate agenda.…”
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Collective emergence: An architecture for cultivating entrepreneurial growth in the isolated community of Khalambazo.

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Urban tourism : a comparative tale of two cities, Cape Town and Tshwane

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A multimodal social semiotic exploration of the 'glocal' in EAL by Pearman, Akisha Estelle

“…The third explores how these configurations can inform principles to consider in future video production that are mindful of local contexts within current sociolinguistic dynamics of pluralism (Canagarajah, 2006) and super-diversity (Blommaert and Dong, 2010). …”
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Exploring Child and Youth Development: A Case Study of Development Projects Funded by Independent Power Producers (IPPs) in Sutherland, Northern Cape by Rickerts, Caitlin

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NGO outreach to priority refugee population demographics in Cairo by Petrus, Joelle

“…It furthermore highlights a theory on outreach in the context of humanitarian aid work which includes social capital and the cultural competence attainment models at its base, considers how different aid approaches affect outreach, as well as highlighting relevant policy, law, and urban refugee contexts in Cairo. …”
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The water line : research into the peculiar place of the Namib Desert coast by Pineo, Sarah

“…In considering the landscape and celebrating the natural-human idiosyncrasies of this particular landscape, and a specific site within it, the hope of invoking and advocating for the singularity of local phenomena is attempted through design. Throughout this dissertation the understanding of context and character of place was viewed as a means by which the architectural possibilities of the intricacies, peculiarities and experience of a space and landscape could be questioned. …”
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The churches' response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic: a case study of Christian agencies in the Cape Town area by Schmid, Maria Barbara

“…These were derived from relevant literature as well as a series of informal interviews with local AIDS activists. Finally, some pointers are given as to how the Christian response to HIV/AIDS could be developed on a solid theological foundation in order to offer a service that is more appropriate to the needs, to our African context and to the churches' mission.…”
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Material realities, belief and aspiration in the later 19th century rock engravings of the Williston District of the Karoo by Lupuwana, Vuyiswa Thembelihle

“…This dissertation interrogates the process of culture change and continuity among the 19th century Khoesan in the Karoo who were the descendants of precolonial hunter-gatherer and pastoralist populations. It looks at how local Karoo dwellers experienced and possibly mediated global impacts through 'older' cultural practice and belief. …”
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Health and literacy: a study of literacy practices in a day hospital in the Western Cape by Harries, Jane

“…Uncovering the processes whereby patients were able to recontextualize their experiences of medical literacy and technologies in the context of their material and social realities was one of the key issues explored in this thesis. …”
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The representation of African humanism in the narrative writings of Es'kia Mphahlele by Rafapa, Lesibana Jacobus

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Market solutions to the low-income housing challenge – a case study of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe by Taruvinga, Bridgit Gugulethu

“…This evidence was obtained from five housing schemes, the local authority, central government, financiers and the developers of the housing schemes, and then processed using NVIVO and SPSS. …”
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Responsibility for displacement: Between denial and obfuscation by Øverlid, Veronica

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Sustainability performance analysis and decision-making for minerals beneficiation : a South African iron and steel scrap case study by Chitaka, Takunda Yeukai

“…The export of scrap metal has been identified as a significant concern to some, as it is viewed to come at the expense of local beneficiation, hampering access to affordable and quality scrap for local processors. …”
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Constructing identity in diaspora : Jewish Israeli migrants in Cape Town, South Africa by Frankental, Sally

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The cross border supply of services and the need to harmonise the VAT rules that apply by Brown, Christopher

“…In most cases, where the local recipient is liable for the payment of reverse charge VAT in respect of an imported service, a corresponding input tax credit is available where the service is on-supplied, resulting in a VAT neutral position for the local recipient. …”
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The impact of residential rooftop PV on low-income electricity consumers in Stellenbosch Municipality by Korsten, Nikkie

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