Vol. 5 No. 14 (2014): July 2014

Articles

• Assessing the Impact of the European Fiscal Compact on Eurozone Mediterranean States (With A Focus on Malta)

  Philip von Brockdorff, Joseph Falzon

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• Impact of Local Economic Development on Livelihoods in Ba-Phalaborwa, South Africa

  Seduma Matee Piet, Oliver Mtapuri

  18

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• An Assessment of IT Outsourcing Practices in the North-West Provincial Government: South Africa

  Nehemiah Mavetera, Ntebogang Dinah Moroke, Dumisane Mtotoba

  25

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• Evaluation of Millennium Development Goals Process: Case of Albania

  Elena Pici, Jonada Pasmaciu, Eglantina Hysa, Jona Hoxhaj, Mergleda Hodo

  33

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• Thai Employees’ Perception Towards Organizational Crisis Preparedness

  Chaiyaset Promsri

  41

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• The Amazon Rural Economy and the Social Way Cooperative

  Celso Augusto Tôrres do Nascimento, Iraildes Caldas Torres, Diogo Gonzaga Torres Neto

  52

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• The Impact of International Trade on Economic Growth in South Africa: An Econometrics Analysis

  Seipati Mogoe, Itumeleng Pleasure Mongale

  60

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• Empirical Analysis of Balance of Payment Adjustment Mechanisms: Monetary Channel in Nigeria, 1970– 2010

  Julius O. Tijani

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• A Garch Model Test of The Random Walk Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence from The Platinum Market

  Knowledge Chinhamu, Delson Chikobvu

  77

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• The Relationship Between SMEs and Insurance providers in Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Area, South Africa

  Kudakwashe Chodokufa, Norman Chiliya

  84

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• Eliminating Bottlenecks in the South African Conveyancing Environment

  Anthea P Amadi-Echendu, René Pellissier

  97

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• Winners and Losers: A Further Exploration and Reflection on the Influence of External Actors on Community-Based Tourism

  Oliver Mtapuri, Andrea Giampiccoli

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• An Appraisal of IT Portfolio as a Risk Management Tool in the Finance Department NWPG: Factor Analytic Approach

  Nehemiah Mavetera, Ntebogang Moroke, Terrance Seletedi

  113

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• Millennium Development Goals, MDG’S; Case of Kosovo

  Jona Hoxhaj, Dren Bllaci, Mergleda Hodo, Elena Pici, Eglantina Hysa

  123

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• The Position of Psychological Expert Evidence under the Malaysian Evidence Act 1950

  Ramalinggam Rajamanickam, Anita Abdul Rahim

  128

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• Unpacking the Growth of Hotel Chains in Africa: Enterprises and Patterns

  Jayne M. Rogerson

  135

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• Migration and Migrants Entrepreneurial Skills in South Africa: Assets or Liabilities?

  Vivence Kalitanyi, Kobus Visser

  147

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• Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship Theories

  Wilhelmina Smith, Tendai Chimucheka

  160

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• Educational Change and Inclusion: Lessons from A Collaborative Action Research

  TM Makoelle, MP Van Der Merwe

  169

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• Active Learning as a Strategy in Embracing Diversity in Inclusion Classrooms

  Matjhabedi E. Mazibuko

  180

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• Investigating the Management of Practice Teaching Visits for 3rd Year Level Student Teachers by Limpopo University Supervisors: A Perspective of Student Teachers

  NS Modiba, MW Maruma

  188

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• Violence in South African Schools: Perceptions of Communities about a Persistent Problem

  Miranda N. Mgijima

  198

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• The Teaching of Doppler Effect at Grade 12- Teacher’s Content Knowledge

  M.S. Mosabala

  207

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• Heutagogy, Africanisation and Learning: Experiences from an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Program at the University of South Africa

  Vuyisile Msila

  214

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• The Challenges of Value Re-Orientation in Nigeria’s Tertiary Education System

  Solomon J. Anzene

  221

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• Ethnicity and Entrepreneurial Motive Differences: A South African Case Study

  Akwasi Arko-Achemfuor, Dennis Yao Dzansi

  228

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• Novice Students and Computer Programming: Toward Constructivist Pedagogy

  Jacqui Chetty, Glenda Barlow-Jones

  240

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• Driving Industry Growth through Academic Excellence: A Study on the Strategic Contribution of University-Industry Knowledge Transfer in Revamping Manufacturing SMEs in Developing Economies

  Fanny Saruchera, Marian Tukuta, Gladys R. Ndoda, Mike N. Sikwila

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• Brand Endorsements: An Exploratory Study into the Effectiveness of Using Video Game Characters as Brand Endorsers

  Jake Shelton, Norman Chiliya

  260

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• A South African Distance Learning Case Study: Reducing Distance through Mobile Technology

  Patrick Nkhangweleni Mafenya

  276

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• Race and Inclusion in South African Education: Analysis of Black-African Learners’ Perceptions in Previously Advantaged White Schools

  TM Makoelle

  283

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• Reflections on the Readiness of the University of South Africa Eastern Cape Region for the Deployment of E-Learning

  Thunyelwa Holomisa, Luyanda Dube

  290

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• Rethinking Space and Academic Identity Construction in A Higher Education Context: An Application of Mouzelis’s Typology

  Nomanesi Madikizela-Madiya

  298

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• An Analysis of A Sample of South African University Students’ Reflections on Nelson Mandela as a Motivator of Learning

  J.A. Abongdia, G. Galloway, K.J. Mammen

  304

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• Making Teaching through Technology Possible Amidst the Challenges of Rural Impoverishment: A Case Study

  Maura Mbunyuza- De Heer Menlah

  312

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• Polyphony and Polygraphy: African First-Language Speakers As Learner-Writers at a Private School in South Africa

  Muchativugwa Liberty Hove

  319

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• Investigating Mathematics Trainee Teachers’ Conceptions of Proof Writing in Algebra: A Case of One College of Education in Zambia

  Kenneth M. Likando, Mapula G. Ngoepe

  331

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• ‘Windows’ on Teachers’ Beliefs and Attitudes about School ICT Policy Statements

  T. Vandeyar

  339

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• Assessment of the Reliability and Validity of Student-Lecturer Evaluation Questionnaire: A Case of North West University

  Volition Tlhalitshi Montshiwa, Ntebogang Dinah Moroke

  352

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• Assessment in a Transforming Higher Learning Institution: A Case for Open-Book Examinations

  Vuyisile Msila

  365

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• Inclusion or Exclusion Ramifications of Teenage Pregnancy: A Comparative Analysis of Namibia and South African Schools Pregnancy Policies

  N Mashishi, T Makoelle

  374

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• Understanding HIV/AIDS and STIs as Related to Sexually Risky Behaviour by Higher Education Institutions Students: A Literature Review

  Matjhabedi E. Mazibuko, Nkgopole Nkune

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• Commercial English Language Proficiency: A Case of Exit Level Commercial Major Subject Students in the School of Education at the University of Limpopo, South Africa

  Maruma Mamalatswa Kgetja, Modiba N. Solomon, Gwaidepi Caleb, Musara Mazanai

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• Multi-Campus Colleges in South Africa: Challenging Capabilities of Principals in Managing Institutional Transformation

  Miranda N. Mgijima

  394

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• Understanding Teachers’ and their Learners’ Perceptions about Museums Visits in South Africa

  M.S. Mosabala

  404

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• An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Self-Service Technology in a University Enviroment: The Case of University of the Witwatersrand

  Yandisa Ngcwabe, Norman Chiliya

  413

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• Increasing Undergraduate Throughput and Success Rate through Mobile Technologies: A South African Distance Learning Case Study

  Patrick Nkhangweleni Mafenya

  428

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• Academic Staff Perceptions of Service Quality Improvement in Ethiopian Public Higher Education Institutions

  Solomon Lemma Lodesso, EJ Van Niekerk, CA Jansen, H Muller

  435

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• Virtual Narrative and Computer Games

  Y. Shaev, E. Samoylova

  447

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• Non–Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment by People Living with HIV/AIDS in Black Communities in South Africa: Socio-Cultural Challenges

  J.G. Kheswa

  450

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• Exploring Selected Cultures in Mitigating an Array of Social Vices in South Africa. A Literature Review

  Simon M. Kang’ethe, Thanduxolo Nomngcoyiya

  458

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• The Novice Voyage: Challenges Experienced by Social Workers in their First Year of Full Employment

  Victor C. Huni, Victor Chikadzi

  465

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• Musharraf’s Democracy and 2008 Elections in Pakistan

  Zahoor Ahmed, Manzoor Khan Afridi

  474

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• South Africa Urgently Needs a ‘Social Compact / Dialogue’: Are There any Historical Lessons to Learn from Irish System of Social Compacts?

  Abel. Gwaindepi

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• ‘Facts are Tenacious’-Interweaving Power Pedagogy in Social Capital Theory to Galvanise Participatory Development: A Critique

  Fikile Vilakazi, Mulugeta F. Dinbabo

  492

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• The Panacea and Perfidy of Culture As A Platform of Behaviour Change with Examples from Botswana and South Africa

  S. M Kang’ethe

  504

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• Using the ‘Whisper Test’ to Identify Hearing Loss in Young Children

  N.M. Nel, C.S. Gous-Kemp, H. Muller, J.M.C Motitswe, L.D.N. Tlale, F.D. Mahlo

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• Rethinking Participatory Development: A Case for Communicative Ethics

  Igbanoi L Osikhena, Victor Chikadzi

  521

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• Physical Fighting and Social Correlates among In-School Adolescents in the Caribbean

  Karl Peltzer, Supa Pengpid

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• The Place of African Traditional Religion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the Advent of Christianity

  Mbangu Anicet Muyingi

  539

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• Poor South African Migrant Women and their Children’s Education: Is there Hope After All?

  Vuyisile Msila

  546

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• Pitting Non-Relative Cluster Foster Care Placements Against the Best Interests of the Child

  S. M Kang’ethe, Kausi Nyasha

  554

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• Controlled Democracy and Political Opposition in Pakistan: A Case Study of Musharraf Era

  Zahoor Ahmed, Manzoor Khan Afridi

  560

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• Measuring Presidential Power: A Review of Contemporary Methods

  Oleg Zaznaev

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• Civil Society Activisms in Democratic Governance Spaces: Entrenchment of Social Justice and Transformation in Post-Colonial Education Context

  J Nyoni, S Matlabe

  574

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• The Socio-Economic Effect of Early Marriage in North Western Nigeria

  Gimba Victor Kyari, Joseph Ayodele

  582

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• A Case for Definition: Key Features Guiding the Conception of Social Enterprise in South Africa

  Victor Chikadzi

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• Dynamics Associated with the State of Cohabitation with Examples from a Few Countries of the Developing World. A Literature Review

  S. M Kang’ethe, Itai Mafa

  601

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• An Investigation of Effectiveness of Rehabilitation in the Correctional Centre, Eastern Cape. A Phenomenological Study

  J.G. Kheswa, T. Lobi

  610

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• Adolescents’ Moral Issues and Counselling Intervention on the Family Psycho-Socio Security Problems

  Beatrice O. Ajidahun

  620

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• Lexical Cohesion, Word Choice and Synonymy in Academic Writing

  Leonard Danglli, Griselda Abazaj

  628

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• The Role of SALGA in Training Municipal Councillors for Development: Using the “Knowledgeable” Experts

  Mokoko Sebola

  633

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• Urban Development Planning for Sustainability: Urbanization and Informal Settlements in a Democratic South Africa

  Loretta Muzondi

  641

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• Cultural Tourism and Sustainability in Nigeria

  Elizabeth Ifeyinwa Benson

  649

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