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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Free State Province"”.
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Food security in the free state province: Meaning making as democratic agency
… In it, I tell the stories of people in the Free State Province, South Africa, who face food insecurity within abundance, and their critical consciousness and agency as they struggle to survive in their democracy. Poverty is a rawness...Poverty is struggle... Poverty is shame...these were …
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Identifying the factors that affect the provision of water to households in the Free State Province
… probability of water supply disruptions in the Free State Province. It also used a survey questionnaire to assess the perceptions of senior municipality officials involved in the water division with regards to the causes of frequent water disruptions. The study found out that poor maintenance, …
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Barriers to MSMEs growth and performance in the Free State Province: a focus on DFI funded enterprises
… the performance of MSMEs funded by the Free State provincial DFI. This dissertation collected primary data through structured questionnaire from 50 MSME owners to analyse the effect of financial literacy, digital literacy, human capital, post-funding support and MSMEs financial …
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The effect of antiretroviral treatment on HIV associated tuberculosis incidence and outcomes in the Free State Province, South Africa.
Of people co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) globally, 79% are in Sub-Saharan Africa. While scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is reducing mortality in the region, there is little direct evidence of the magnitude of its effect on mortality in people coinfected with TB, or on TB …
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Risk factors influencing informal contractors’ operations in the construction industry in selected local municipalities of the Free State Province, South Africa
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Management Sciences specialising in Business Administration in the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Investigating the nutritional and social determinants of favorable fetal growth conditions (FFGC) in pregnant women living in the Free State Province, South Africa
… and birth outcomes of pregnant women in the Free State Province, SA. Secondly, to create a model that explored the relationships between these factors and determine if the model was valid for women with and without HIV. Third, to create a conceptual framework for the drivers of favorable …
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Factors associated with Nevirapine adherence in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the Free State province of South Africa and discrepancies between service records and cord-blood surveillance
… coverage in the resource-limited setting of the Free State province. Adherence to treatment as well as accuracy of clinic records so as to inform better service implementation were measured. A total of 1572 mother-infant pairs were included in a cross-sectional survey carried out in rural …
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The historic built environment and a sense of place : Jagersfontein : a mining town in the Free State , South Africa
… case, a historic diamond mining town in the Free State Province of South Africa, dating to 1869, with a rich and diverse history. The research was conducted employing a multi-paradigmatic approach grounded in Phenomenology and Psychometrics.
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An effective student-teaching practice program
This study was conducted in the north Eastern Free State Province of South Africa. It investigated the teaching practice component of teacher education and compared its findings to the characteristics of effective teaching recommended in the research literature. The sample was randomly drawn from …
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Measuring PMTCT effectivenss through HIV free survival in children under 2 years
… prevalence of HIV was greater than 30% in the Free State province in South Africa and PMTCT services were widely available at the time the guidelines recommended nevirapine in labour and to the child postpartum. Aim: The aim was to determine the effectiveness of the PMTCT program in the Free …
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Support systems in the learning and teaching of mathematics
… black residential area, situated in the Free State Province of South Africa. The subjects were grade 7 learners and their parents. Learners frequently fail mathematics, and this challenged the researcher to investigate possible causes in order to suggest solutions which could be used to …
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Possible factors contributing to the lack of success in learning English in Qwaqwa, South Africa : a case study
… a second language in the Qwaqwa district of the Free State province of South Africa. A second purpose of the study was to seek an explanation as to why certain schools in the Qwaqwa district perform better, on average, than other schools, given that the students often share a similar …
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An investigation into the nature and prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions among women attending a community clinic, and the effectiveness of an intervention programme for these patients
… a clinic in a poorly resourced area of the Free State Province in South Africa. To inform the development of an appropriate intervention, several sub-studies were undertaken. Systematic reviews on the use of exercise and health education in adults were undertaken, one on the impact of these …
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The effectiveness of PMTCT in the Free State - An anonymously linked cord blood survey
[ Background ] PMTCT has become freely available in many African countries however the impact of these interventions at the population level has not been widely estimated. [ Aim ] The aim of this study was to estimate the proportion of HIV infected/exposed mother and infant pairs who received the …
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A Regional Approach to Rock Art Interpretation
… on a least studied area; Phuthaditjchaba in the Free State province; and with the principal interest being on therianthrope animal motifs to assist in defining and interpreting southern Africa’s regional variation of the rock art. The use and validity of rock art interpretive studies on a …
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Women's access to land and housing post-1994 in the informal settlements at Ficksburg in the Free State South Africa
… to formal housing and land in Ficksburg in the Free State province of South Africa. The study sought to substantiate the hypothesis that inequalities within South African societies have been aggravated by gender dynamics and conservative macro-economic development agendas in post-apartheid South …
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Factors associated with maternal mortality in South Africa (2003-2008)
… in 2003 to 195 per 100 000 live births in 2008. Free State province had the lowest maternal mortality ratio and the Western Cape province had the highest ratio. Northern Cape had the same levels of maternal mortality as Western Cape in 2003 - 2004, but increased at a faster rate afterwads. By …
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Molecular detection and characterization of Bartonella in small mammals from southern Africa
… urban, peri-urban and rural settings, from three provinces (Free State, Gauteng and Western Cape) in South Africa. Molecular estimates of Bartonella infection rates were determined through multi-gene screening of DNA extracted from clinical samples, primarily heart and spleen. PCR assays targeting …
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The political economy of wilkiality: a South African inquiry into knowledge and power on wikipedia
… entries on Cape Town and various places in the Free State province as case studies, this dissertation demonstrates through critical discourse analysis that there is a systematic marginalisation, underrepresentation, and decontextualisation of 'black' working class communities and spaces, which …
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Composition and microstructure of concrete mixtures subjected to biogenic acid corrosion and their role in corrosion prediction of concrete outfall sewers
… Virginia Experimental Sewer (VES) in Virginia, Free State Province, while the other site was a manhole within the Langa Pump Station in Cape Town, Western Cape Province. The VES consists of 900 mm diameter by 300 mm long concrete pipe samples made from both PC- and CAC-based (plain and blended) …
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