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Integrating quality management principles into policies and procedures for water and sanitation provision in the Cape Town Metro

- Madliwa, Nokhanyo

Authors: Madliwa, Nokhanyo
Date: 2020
Subjects: Total quality management local government Quality assurance
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , DPA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/18882 , vital:42995
Description: The study aims to find a way of improving water and sanitation services through the standardisation of policies and procedures in Reticulation, Waste Water and Bulk Water. It further aims to develop and test an IQM-based model that improves policy and procedure standardisation for the provision of quality water and sanitation services at municipality level. The researcher regards effective IQMS as one of the possible mechanisms that can contribute to the improvement of standardised policies and procedures in quality water and sanitation provision. This study examined the effects of IQM on the standardisation of policies and procedures for the provision of quality water and sanitation services in the Utility Department of the Cape Town Metro, especially in Reticulation, Waste Water and Bulk Water. The study saw a possible link between the effectiveness of IQM and the effective provisioning of quality water and sanitation. The mixed method approach was used. Quantitative and qualitative methods were both used in order to support each other during data analysis. Furthermore, the mixed method was adopted to provide an interpretative and analytical balance towards a clearer understanding of the phenomena under study. The quantitative phase was completed first, followed by the qualitative phase to explain the results even further. For the quantitative method, survey data was gathered. The quantitative method was used for historical numerical data purposes when explaining the survey results. Survey data was analysed using statistical analysis. The qualitative method utilised interviews, providing clarity and thick descriptions of the findings, where quantitative methods did not. This research found that the three branches of the Utility Department in the Cape Town Metro under study did not fully comply with the IQMS as shown by the results of the hypothesis testing. In other words, there is partial compliance with ISO 140001, ISO 9001 & OHSAS 18001 in relation to the standardisation of policy and procedure design and development (DD), implementation (IP), examination (EP), review (RP) and assessment (AP). This means that components of IQMS were not fully applied to the standardisation of policies and procedures for the provision of water and sanitation services. The partial standardisation of policy and procedure vi design and development accounted for the lack of the following: Firstly, improvement in the management of infrastructure, secondly in monitoring and evaluation for quality water and sanitation services. The partial standardisation of policy and procedure implementation accounted for the lack of improvement in the corrective measures, technical knowledge and public health knowledge for quality water and sanitation services. The partial standardisation of policy and procedure examination accounted for the lack of improvement in the corrective measures, management of infrastructure; and monitoring and evaluation for quality water and sanitation services. The partial standardisation of policy and procedure review accounted for the lack of improvement in the corrective measures, management of infrastructure; monitoring and evaluation, technical knowledge and public health knowledge for quality water and sanitation services. Last but not least, the partial standardisation of policy and procedure assessment accounted for the lack of improvement in the corrective measures, and technical knowledge for quality water and sanitation services
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Date Issued: 2020

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Examining teachers' role in the promotion of child-friendly environments in Zimbabwean secondary schools : implications for teacher professional development

- Zendah, Ketiwe

Authors: Zendah, Ketiwe
Date: 2017
Subjects: Education, Secondary -- Zimbabwe Teachers -- Professional relationships School management and organization -- Zimbabwe
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/4937 , vital:28810
Description: Hostile school environments are a cause of concern and a perennial international educational problem. The UNICEF’s Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) approach is an international intervention meant to safeguard learners against hostile school environments. The CFS approach mandates schools to offer learners environments and conditions that uphold children’s rights and enhance their development to full potential. The purpose of this mixed methods research study, employing a concurrent triangulation design, was to explore the role of teachers in the promotion of CFS environments. Holsti’s (1970) role theory formed the theoretical framework of this study. The research questions focused on teachers’ understanding of the CFS concept, support offered, strategies employed, challenges encountered, and the implications for teacher professional development. The data collection methods were questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and document analysis with school heads, teachers and learners in the seven government urban secondary schools in Mutare district of Manicaland province in Zimbabwe. Quantitative and qualitative data were independently analysed and merged at the interpretation stage through triangulation of results. Major findings reveal that teachers have poor understanding of the CFS concept, are offered moderate support, occasionally employ viable strategies, and are hindered by various factors in the process of promoting CFS environments. The study’s implications for teacher professional development are rooted in identifying sustainable approaches that adequately equip teachers with relevant information, skills and attitudes that ensure the promotion of CFS environments.
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Date Issued: 2017

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An exploration of perceptions, adaptive capacity and food security in the Ngqushwa local municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa

- Mazinyo, Sonwabo Perez

Authors: Mazinyo, Sonwabo Perez
Date: 2015
Subjects: Food security -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Climatic changes -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , DPhil
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19043 , vital:40107
Description: Approximately sixty percent of Africans depend on rainfed agriculture for their livelihoods. South Africa is evidenced to be susceptible to inclement climate which impacts on rural livelihoods as well as on farming systems. While South Africa is considered to be food sufficient, it is estimated that approximately 35percent of the population is vulnerable to food insecurity. Therefore with the application of surveys and interviews this study investigates the factors influencing household, subsistence and small-scale farmer perceptions of vulnerability to climate variability as well as the determinants of adaptive capacity. A sample of 308 households is surveyed and four focus group discussions are administered in Ngqushwa Local Municipality as a case study. Furthermore, the study also focuses on the biophysical changes or factors (scientific analysis of the prevailing climatic regimes–rainfall trends); the interrogation of the impact of food systems on both food prices as well as its implications on food sovereignty. The study also interrogates the relationship between crop yield and rainfall data over a 30-year period. Therefore the study adopts a mixed method approach to ensure triangulation. The study finds that rural communities are able to perceive climate variability and its related changes as well as its negative impact on crop production, food access and availability. The perceived rainfall trends also corroborate this Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient reveals that there is a strong correlation between crop yields and rainfall (r = 0.69). Meteorological analyses also show that the rainfall trend has been significantly variable over 112 years (1900 - 2011) with several dry spells threatening the subsistence and small-scale farmers’ sustainable livelihoods. The food systems pose threats to food safety, food security and historical food sovereignty for the rural community of Ngqushwa Local Municipality. Adaptive capacity is greatly impaired by the lack of co-ordination of adaptation strategies, which communally benefit the majority of the farming respondents in the study area. Therefore vulnerability to climate variability impacts on the ability of the respondents to achieve food security. The study also finds that there is perceived competition between the farmers and wild life for the natural resources. The respondents’ perception is that climate variability and change is responsible for such competition. The study recommends that the national, provincial and local governments must foster a new food production model that is not based on the agro-business model and its attendant technologies but on one that is based on robust agro-ecological farming techniques which enhance adaptive capacity; which foster food safety; which promote food sovereignty; and which reduce vulnerability in a sustainable manner. Given the extent of climate variability in the study area the restoration of the NLM weather station infrastructure can also aid the farmers in taking advantage of a robust early warning system for better estimation of climate trends which enhance crop production.
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Date Issued: 2015

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An exploration of perceptions, adaptive capacity and food security in the Ngqushwa local municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa

- Mazinyo, Sonwabo Perez, Zhou, Leocadia

Authors: Mazinyo, Sonwabo Perez , Zhou, Leocadia
Date: 2015
Subjects: Food security -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Climatic changes -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , DPhil
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10353/19032 , vital:40106
Description: Approximately sixty percent of Africans depend on rainfed agriculture for their livelihoods. South Africa is evidenced to be susceptible to inclement climate which impacts on rural livelihoods as well as on farming systems. While South Africa is considered to be food sufficient, it is estimated that approximately 35% of the population is vulnerable to food insecurity. Therefore with the application of surveys and interviews this study investigates the factors influencing household, subsistence and small-scale farmer perceptions of vulnerability to climate variability as well as the determinants of adaptive capacity. A sample of 308 households is surveyed and four focus group discussions are administered in Ngqushwa Local Municipality as a case study. Furthermore, the study also focuses on the biophysical changes or factors (scientific analysis of the prevailing climatic regimes–rainfall trends); the interrogation of the impact of food systems on both food prices as well as its implications on food sovereignty. The study also interrogates the relationship between crop yield and rainfall data over a 30-year period. Therefore the study adopts a mixed method approach to ensure triangulation. The study finds that rural communities are able to perceive climate variability and its related changes as well as its negative impact on crop production, food access and availability. The perceived rainfall trends also corroborate this Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient reveals that there is a strong correlation between crop yields and rainfall (r = 0.69). Meteorological analyses also show that the rainfall trend has been significantly variable over 112 years (1900 - 2011) with several dry spells threatening the subsistence and small-scale farmers’ sustainable livelihoods. The food systems pose threats to food safety, food security and historical food sovereignty for the rural community of Ngqushwa Local Municipality. Adaptive capacity is greatly impaired by the lack of co-ordination of adaptation strategies, which communally benefit the majority of the farming respondents in the study area. Therefore vulnerability to climate variability impacts on the ability of the respondents to achieve food security. The study also finds that there is perceived competition between the farmers and wild life for the natural resources. The respondents’ perception is that climate variability and change is responsible for such competition. The study recommends that the national, provincial and local governments must foster a new food production model that is not based on the agro-business model and its attendant technologies but on one that is based on robust agro-ecological farming techniques which enhance adaptive capacity; which foster food safety; which promote food sovereignty; and which reduce vulnerability in a sustainable manner. Given the extent of climate variability in the study area the restoration of the NLM weather station infrastructure can also aid the farmers in taking advantage of a robust early warning system for better estimation of climate trends which enhance crop production.
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Date Issued: 2015

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Trespassing beyond the borders Harriet Ward as writer and commentator on the Eastern Cape frontier

- Letcher, Valerie Helen

Authors: Letcher, Valerie Helen
Date: 1996
Subjects: Ward, Harriet, 1808-1872 Women authors, South African -- 19th century -- Biography -- History and criticism Frontier and pioneer life -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
Language: English
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: vital:2240 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002283
Description: The aim of this thesis is to provide an introduction to the work of writer and journalist Harriet Ward, resident in the Eastern Cape from 1842 to 1848. She was a prolific correspondent to various periodicals published both in South Africa and in London. It would be true to say, to judge from the evidence, that she fulfilled a need felt by the British public for information on life and events in South Africa, and that she became the trusted guide of the middle-class reader. Her range covers reports from the frontiers of war, journalistic articles, memoirs, short stories, novels, autobiography, and editions of other writers' work. After the publication of her articles on the Seventh Frontier War (1846-7), she was recognised and respected as a commentator on the situation at the Eastern Cape, an unusual role for a woman at this time. She was also amongst the foremost victorian women writers published from the early eighteen forties until the end of the eighteen-fifties. Harriet Ward has left a vivid historical and sociological account of the Cape frontier, and her observations and judgements provide a hitherto virtually unknown perspective on an important part of South African history and letters. What makes her even more interesting, as this study seeks to show, is that she was far from conventional in her response to her new environment, both as as a woman and as a representative of a colonialist power. The record she has left of her thoughts on the people, landscape and situations of the time has the capacity to surprise the post-colonial literary critic and historian. Her struggle to find a discursive mode in which to express her consciousness of the oppression, patriarchal and colonial, of the marginalised, whether woman, indigene, Afrikaner, or creole, reveals a significantly transgressive or subversive response to the issues of the day. In re-discovering Harriet Ward, we are forced to reassess our assumptions regarding the period of colonial history to which she was a witness.
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Date Issued: 1996

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Sport und Soziologie : Die Dimensionen der Sozialen Elemente der Sport-Soziologie in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, mit besonderem Blick auf Südafrika

- Gilbert, Christa Luise

Authors: Gilbert, Christa Luise
Date: 1973
Subjects: Sports -- Sociological aspects Sports -- South Africa Sports -- Social aspects -- South Africa
Language: German
Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
Identifier: vital:5149 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1012094
Description: Kein anderer als Schiller bringt mit seinen Worten das tiefe Empfinden fur das Spiel so vernehmlich zum Ausdruck und die unternommene Studie der Sport- Soziologie so greifbar nahe. Den der Mensch im Spiel und in seinem menschlichen Verhalten durch das Spiel fugt die beabsichtigte Studie zum neuen Konzept des modernen Sportes zussammen und begründet das fundamentale Suchen menschlicher Bedürfnisse des Erlebens durch den Sport - manifestiert weiterhin durch die Worte von Caillois: "Sage mir, was Du spielst - und ich will Dir sagen, wer Du bist" Intro., p. 1.
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Date Issued: 1973

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