Does default risk rule out covered interest arbitrage? by Mampuru, Tebogo

“…This dissertation investigates how the default risk of European banks hampers their ability to exploit the basis in international interest rate markets. One of the reasons deviation from the covered interest parity (CIP) condition persists is the cost borne from the added cost of borrowing due to the default risk of the arbitrageur. …”
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Decent work for all its meaning and content, social dimensions and SADC policy perspectives by Setlojoane, Pheta John

“…The ILO introduced, in one of its recent reports, the concept of decent work for all. …”
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Enhancing the Financing and Implementation of Local Government Capital Budgets: A Case Study of Electricity and Water Infrastructure in Selected Western Cape Municipalities by Booysen, Malcolm Leon

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The Pandemic of Being a Woman: A Qualitative Analysis of the South African Media on GBV at the Time of COVID-19 by Carr, Kajal

“…A decolonial feminist discourse analysis of the media's reporting on Gender Based Violence (GBV) during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic was conducted. One hundred and fifty articles were collected from the Sabinet database. …”
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The effect of financial inclusion on Banks' credit risk: perspective from MENA region by Mohamed Farid, Rami

“…It is without doubt that financial inclusion is one of the sustainable development goals to raise the poor's living standards by availing banking services that are not limited to loan acquisition. …”
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A comparative study of the Morphosyntaz and Phonetics of Town Bemba and Standard Bemba of the Copperbelt Zambia by Kabinga, Moonde

“…The difference is that the former (TB) uses one base language (SB) with heavy borrowing and assimilations from English mainly and a bit from local languages like Nyanja, and Afrikaans; the variety is used by people of different ethnic backgrounds, its commonly used in everyday life among educated and non-educated male and female speakers. …”
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Financing South Africa’s Water Infrastructure - the Critical Macro-Finance Perspective by Leuna-Obioha, Juliet

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A study of some aspects of K.P.D. Maphalla's poetry by Moleleki, Albert Mohlomi

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Exploring pluralism and musical meaning in the compositions of Hans Roosenschoon by Fraser, Melissa Jane

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Roll-over risk in the South African interest rate market by Von Ahlften, Edela

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The deductibility of interest expenditure under the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 by Robinson, Georgina Sarah

“…The essential difficulty encountered in the application of the 'in the production of income' requirement is an evidentiary one. The test requires that the true purpose of the borrowing must be ascertained through the use of objective criteria; and accordingly the onus of adducing such evidence becomes a crucial factor in determining the deductibility of the interest expense. …”
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The political economy of wilkiality: a South African inquiry into knowledge and power on wikipedia by Ovesen, Håvard

“…Arguably it is rather the encyclopedia which impacts upon them by circulating seemingly uncontested representations of their communities, or, alternatively, simply ignoring the communities altogether. In a process I have, borrowing from American political satirist Stephen Colbert, termed wikiality, hegemonic representations have a tendency of becoming true when we act upon them as such. …”
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A decision support system for managing results-based financed mega infrastructure programs by Zahran, Kareem

“…For proper management of received funds, this research introduces a framework for the simulation and optimization of RBF funded programs, that serves as a Decision Support System (DSS) for borrowers while implementing RBF. The Program-For-Results (P4R) mechanism, offered by the World Bank (WB), was used as one of the RBF mechanisms for verifying the developed framework. …”
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The use of financial literacy concepts by entrepreneurs in the small and medium enterprise sector in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa

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Hybridité, animalité et métissage : la littérature francophone contemporaine entre parasitisme et devenir-autre by Marie, Annabelle Corinne

“…Its relationship to French Literature can't be reduced to a purely mimetic one. In spite of (or maybe thanks to) its heavy borrowing from the French canon, it has succeeded in creating a new space of reciprocal exchanges and constant metamorphosis. …”
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Silozi, a mixed language: an analysis of the noun class system and kinship terms by Mbeha, Gustav Nyambe

“…Twelve participants between the ages of 15 and 56 completed the questionnaire. Additionally, one family from each of the research sites was observed and for natural language data. …”
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Eish - when to use -ish-: a study in the verbalization of English lexical items in spoken Xhosa by Madubela, Ndumiso S

“…The study deals with historical treatments of this phenomenon and debates its relevance and applicability to current scholarship on lexical borrowing. To ensure a wide range of data sources I used a corpus derived from interviews with 30 Xhosa speakers in Cape Town, as well as from three media sources: the first is a 1-hour long talk radio programme transcribed from the national Xhosa broadcaster, UMhlobo weNene, the second an interview with a Xhosa-speaking patient on the television programme, Siyayinqoba Beat It. …”
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