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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Sociology) by Issue Date
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Van der Walt, T.J.
(University of Pretoria, 1966)
No abstract available.
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Botha, Adam Johannes Jacobus
(University of Pretoria, 1967)
No abstract available
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Smit, Henry B.
(University of Pretoria, 1971)
Please read the abstract in the dissertation.
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Yeboah, Seth Kwasi
(University of Pretoria, 1997)
This thesis discusses how a variety of factors like socio-economic status and educational levels of family/parents affect Std 8 pupils' school performance in twelve selected secondary schools in Thohoyandou, Venda in the ...
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Iturralde, Diego
(University of Pretoria, 2004-03-03)
This study is about the perceptions, feelings, attitudes and knowledge of people towards government with regard to service delivery and participation with communities in order to accelerate social development. Government's ...
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Tshifhumulo, Rendani
(University of Pretoria, 2005)
Statistics reveal that there are large numbers of women, including those in marital unions or partnerships, who are enduring violence and abuse. Most of this abuse is at the hands of intimate partners and loved ones. ...
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Mona, Themba M.; Dr M de Waal
(University of Pretoria, 2005-02-01)
Women, like men, have always worked though their work tended to differ significantly from that of men. This resulted from the different socialisation processes of males and females, hierarchical structures, male dominance ...
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Nkau, Dikeledi Johanna
(University of Pretoria, 2005-03-02)
The focus of this study is female migrants who moved from Zimbabwe to South Africa in the 1990s. The main purpose of the study is to explore the reasons for this move and the consequences of their migration. More specifically, ...
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Moloi, Thomas Setefane
(University of Pretoria, 2005-03-05)
Tuberculosis is one of the major health tragedies facing South Africa. It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of the population of the country are infected with the tuberculosis bacterium and 160 000 South Africans from ...
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Nkomezi, Alfred Rwumbuguza
(University of Pretoria, 2006)
This study focused on examining how the local community of the district of Nyarugenge is, through the decentralization policy, participating in the development of the district. It investigated the extent to which the ...
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Mabunda, Moises Eugenio
(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-12)
This study analyses the practice implemented by the government of Mozambique immediately after independence, from 1975 to 1985, of placing secondary school teachers around the country. Such practice consisted of putting ...
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Serwadda-Luwaga, James
(University of Pretoria, 2006-10-17)
The objective of the research is two-fold. Firstly, the research aims to arrive at a meaningful estimate of child labour in South Africa, and secondly, to establish a link between child labour and scholastic retardation. ...
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Joubert, Janetta Debora
(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-02)
Demographic and epidemiological change has resulted globally in changes in population and individual health, which, in turn, have resulted in changing care needs. Demographic change in South Africa, mainly through a ...
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Badenhorst, Ronel
(University of Pretoria, 2006-12-08)
The right of women to exert a choice regarding their reproductive behaviour is a fundamental right within the context reproductive rights. Reproductive rights and health encompass the exertion of individual choice but also ...
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Bomela, Nolunkcwe Jennifer
(University of Pretoria, 2007)
This study highlights the importance of national factors in explaining the wide variations in child malnutrition that exists among population groups in the three Central Asian Republics under study, and as an avenue through ...
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Sham, Brenda
(University of Pretoria, 2007-08-02)
Leadership in South Africa have been gIven the major responsibility of having to transform and renew their organisation in order that they may now compete in the global economy and that they are furthermore aligned to the ...
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Kamlongera, Alinane Priscilla; Prof K Naidoo
(University of Pretoria, 2007-09-19)
Malawian women participate in state politics – but not to the extent that they could. Formal state politics is represented as a masculine domain, and only a small minority of women find space within this sphere. In seeking ...
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Tshose, Seeta Patience
(University of Pretoria, 2007-10-04)
Please read the abstract in the 00front of this document
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Kironji, Edward
(University of Pretoria, 2008-04-10)
This study commences with an overview of the concept “quality of life” as perceived from a developmental point of view. The study focuses on the current measures of the improvements in quality of life which operate at ...
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Indongo, Irja Nelago Kandiwapa
(University of Pretoria, 2008-04-18)
The present study examines social, demographic and behavioural factors that influence contraceptive use and method choice among young Namibian women. The study also explores ways to improve the accessibility of health ...