Pricing Strategies Used by Vegetable Street Vendors in Mthatha and Mqanduli, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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O. Jongihlathi, W.T. Shiba, Michael Aliber
Street vending is widely acknowledged as a vital component of the informal economy, providing income opportunities for rural households. Street vendors operate in highly competitive …
Assessing the Impacts of Stakeholders in Aquaculture Enterprise Development in the Western Cape, South Africa
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Bernadette Brown-Webb, Azwihangwisi E. Nesamvuni, Melanie De Bruyn
South African stakeholders, including the government, have made significant efforts to improve the enabling environment for aquaculture development. However, due to socio-economic pressures, the investment …
Dialing into Agricultural Innovation Via Mobile Phones: Experiences of Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Sekyere South, Ghana.
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Enoch Kwame Tham-Agyekum, Patrick Appiah, A. Koomson
Over the last two centuries, traditional methodologies for disseminating technologies to farmers have undergone significant evolution, paving the way for technology-based approaches. The study, therefore, …
Does Section 15 of ESTA Apply to Urgent Relocations and Not Only to Evictions? An Assessment of – A Re Shomeng Holdings Proprietary Limited v Sibeko [2024] ZALCC 7
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Lerato Rudolph Ngwenyama
Owners of land or persons in charge have pursued relocations of occupiers through application for mandatory interdicts under the Extension of Security of Tenure Act …
Properties of Fuzzy Soft Codes and Their Role in Decision-Making
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Masresha Wassie Woldie, Jejaw Demamu Mebrat, Mihret Alamneh Taye
Background Fuzzy soft sets are well-established for decision-making under uncertainty. However, integrating soft set theory with fuzzy codes remains unexplored, as fuzzy soft code sets …
Evaluation of potato zero tillage and mulching technologies under maize cropping system in Imenti South, Meru County, Kenya
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S. Agili, E. Munda, I. Njagi
This study evaluates the performance of potato zero tillage and maize stover mulching technologies under a maize-based cropping system in Imenti South, Meru County, Kenya. …
Opportunities and constraints for youth agripreneurs in potato seed multiplication system: Baseline evidence from youth and non-youth in Nakuru County, Kenya
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J. Malit, E. Kihiu, M. Gatto
This report examines opportunities and constraints facing youth agripreneurs in decentralized potato seed multiplication systems in Nakuru County, Kenya. Based on a baseline survey of …
Comparative Evaluation of Human-Assisted and Semi-Automated Peeling Systems for Roasted Groundnut Seeds
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Dirisu Braimah, P. K. Oke, Olabanji Olayinka Mohammed
This paper investigates human-assisted and semi-automated peeling systems for roasted-seed groundnut peeling machines, highlighting recent technological advances. The machine is designed to reduce manual labour, …
Integrated Geo-Mineral Detector and Conventional Laboratory Assessment of Soil Mineralisation Dynamics from Basalt, Dolomite and Granite Rock Dust
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Oyathelemi Edwin Omozuapo, Ibrahim Rasheed, Akinbile Christopher Oluwakunmi
The effects of dust from basalt, dolomite, and granite at an application rate of 15 t/ha and a particle size of < 63 µm on …
A Reproducible Diffusion MRI Processing Pipeline for Microstructure and Glymphatic Analysis Using Neurodesk Containers v1
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Yakubu Kanyiri Ahmed, Ayebare Vicky, Seth Kyei Kwabena Kukudabi
This protocol describes an accessible and reproducible end-to-end pipeline for diffusion MRI processing and microstructure analysis using containerized tools within the Neurodesk environment on Google …
Sartre, Satire and Transcultural Affinity in Nthikeng Mohlele’s Revolutionaries’ House
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Beverley Jane. Cornelius, Jean Rossmann
Nthikeng Mohlele’s eighth novel, Revolutionaries’ House (2024), emerges in uncanny synchrony with South Africa’s watershed 2024 elections, when the African National Congress – liberation movement …
The Modes of Power and Being in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power
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Lebohang Bidla
This article aims to explore how power and being are interpreted and conceptualised in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power (1974). In the novel, the …
“[O]m die wit staar aan myself te verduidelik”:
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Ihette Senekal
The research focus of this article is the lived reality of the poet–speaker – a South African white woman – in Antjie Krog’s Plunder, specifically …
Arts-Based Assessment for English Literary Studies
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Christopher Wayne Koekemoer
Academic writing remains prevalent in higher education. The academic essay is the dominant mode of assessment in many university disciplines, including literary studies. Many students …
Liturgical Colonisation and African Identity
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Ndidzulafhi Mudau, Talifhani Khomola, Khonani Mukundi Maselesele
This historical analysis contends that Reformed church liturgy served as a methodical tool of cultural colonisation among the Black Reformed churches of Synod Soutpansberg from …
The Imperious Duty to Remember
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Philippe Denis
In December 1994, five months after the conclusion of the genocide against the Tutsi during which up to a million of Tutsi and Hutu trying …
Reclaim and Resist
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Desia Colgan, Jean Moore
Neoliberal discourses about students’ perceived skills deficit persist in higher education worldwide. In South Africa, these are particularly marked, as market discourses overwhelm democratic citizenship …
Emerging trends and resistance patterns of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases producing Enterobacteriaceae: an epidemiological insight from Ibn Tofail hospital in Marrakesh, Morocco
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Fatima Zohra Madich, Mohamed Yassir Errahmani, Loubna Ait Said
INTRODUCTION: The epidemiology of ESBL infection varies widely from one region to another and rapidly evolves across hospital and community boundaries. Therefore, obtaining an updated …
Hearing God in Our Languages
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Mokhele Madise, Dakalo Takalani
This article explores the term-creation process as one of the strategies that significantly contributed to the expansion and development of the Tshivenda language. The term-creation …
The Financial Concerns of South African Households Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards Improved Resilience
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Derek M. Alexander, Nico Van der Merwe, Jaco Fouché
Purpose/Objectives: Through the lens of financial resilience theory, the primary objective of this study is to identify and understand the main financial concerns that South …