Household and community effects of contract farming after the fast track land reform programme: a case study of Mazowe tobacco farmers by Moyo, Moses

“…The contracts provided partial resources with the farmer needing to provide supplementary inputs and services. Prices were determined by market forces and were deemed unfair by farmers. …”
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The ecological sustainability of potato production in the sandveld region of the Western Cape: nutrient and water use efficiencies by Kayes, Malcolm Jeremy

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Study of Capital and Operation Costs for Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plants by Mohamed, Habiba Mahdy

“…In contrast, site-specific elements like civil works and intake systems were handled using user inputs and simple regression models based on available cost data. …”
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Living in Nyanga: an exploratory study on resilience among violence-affected male youth from a community in Cape Town by Dikeni, Viwe

“…Not many studies have considered the resilience of people in violent communities, particularly young people. This study aims to understand the resiliency factors of the youth of Nyanga who are not involved in crime and violence. …”
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Integrating bio-based resource recovery and treatment into municipal solid waste management in developing countries: a focus on anaerobic digestion by Munganga, Gracia

“…Finally, this dissertation aims to make sound recommendations from the data generated, building a preliminary source of knowledge for waste management officials and independent entrepreneurs.…”
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An optimizing control strategy for milling circuit operation by Hart, Jarrod Rex

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Biologically inspired goal directed navigation for mobile robots by Amayo, Paul Omondi

“…This project involved an investigation into low-cost navigation of mobile robots with the aim of creating and adaptive navigation system inspired by behaviour seen in animals. …”
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The impact of agriculture finance on small and medium agribusiness in Zambia: the case of Zambia National Farmers' Union - Lima Credit Scheme by Muyangwa, Nambwenga

“…The aim of the study is to assess the Impact of Agricultural Finance on Small and Medium Agribusiness in Zambia focusing on Lima Credit Scheme of the Zambia National Farmers Union (ZNFU) in sampled districts. …”
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A life cycle assessment of ethanol produced from sugarcane molasses by Theka, Edward

“…The goal of the study was to produce a comprehensive inventory of all the energy and material inputs and outputs involved in the production of the 1 kl (1000 litres) of bio-ethanol, using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). …”
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Environmental and social dimensions of fuel ethanol production in Cradock, South Africa, in the context of the wider biofuels debate by Nasterlack, Tobias

“…The present dissertation aims to determine the magnitude and relevance of concerns highlighted in the global biofuels debate for fuel ethanol production at the proposed Cradock plant. …”
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Translanguaging as leverage for developing inclusive communication in superdiversity contexts of inner-city schools

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Use of temperature sensitive microchip transponders to monitor body temperature and pyrexia in Thoroughbred foals

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The shift towards consulting psychology in South Africa : implications for training by Thomas, Paul N.

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The evaluation of innovation for inclusive development projects by Botha, Louisa

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Non-isothermal reaction of iron ore-coal mixtures

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Implications of the new air quality bill on the management of H2S emissions from Sasol’s operations in Secunda, South Africa

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Wind Engineering Science and its role in optimising the design of the built environment by Goliger, Adam Mikolaj W.

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Fertile ground: enhancing local food production in Delft, South Africa by Pieters, Frans

“…This dissertation, situated in Delft, on the eastern edge of Cape Town, aims to improve livelihoods by establishing a productive urban agricultural operation that will create jobs, supply healthy food and reestablish farming as a lucrative business in an impoverished community. …”
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Deep Learning-Based Change Detection in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery by Badawy, Hazem

“…TrCD-Net utilizes a transformer encoder to model long-range spatial dependencies and ensure consistency across temporal inputs, followed by a unified decoder with a semantic integration module that promotes spatial precision and refined feature fusion. …”
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Detection of HTTPS malware traffic without decryption by Nyathi, Miranda

“…The selected features were inputs into the two supervised classifiers: logistic regression and random forest. …”
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