Globally, it is recognised that the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector plays a key role in the attainment of a country's sustainable economic development goals. In Africa, the Technical and Vocational Education and Training strategy forms a major part of the continent's plans to achieve growth through advancing education. It emphasises equipping the youth, through specialised technical training, with the requisite skills to enter and perform well in the job market. ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:54:32

Gender studies on land-related matters have been a matter of investigation. However, there are limited studies that investigate the involvement or the lack thereof of rural women in the Xolobe rural area in the Eastern Cape. This research looks into issues of land allocation, awareness, legislature, right to land ownership, and the inclusion or exclusion of rural women in matters about land. A quantitative method was used through structured questionnaires to collect data from 308 respondents ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:49:39

South Africa is one of the countries that contributed significantly to the development of the global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 2030 Agenda) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to eradicate poverty, protect the environment and work towards peace and prosperity. In its commitment to contribute to the 17 SDGs, the country has, together with the United Nations, finalised the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for 2020-2025 under the new guidelines ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:46:05

Deliberations at the Commission of Inquiry on State of Capture in South Africa under the then Deputy Chief Justice Zondo laid bare how lack of consequence management as accountability mechanism for good governance was compromised in the South African public sector institutions and entities. Problems with governance and management of state entities such as ESKOM and TRANSNET are compounded by problems of corruption, fraud, and mismanagement of public resources by board members and senior manag ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:41:50

The "public good" differs from the private in its source of mandate, management structure, and funding formula, guided by a provision of basic needs, on which basic survival depends, for all societal sectors. Water, sewage, roads, safety (defence and policing), energy, justice and education, for example, cannot be selectively offered to some and not to others without threatening the very fabric of human well-being. A lack of capacity within the public service delivery sector in deve ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:38:29

The objective of this study was to determine whether a PESTLE analysis and sector factors can be incorporated as building blocks in the conceptual development of a PMMM for the South African power sector. A PESTLE analysis studies the key external factors (political, economic, sociological, technological, legal and environmental) that influence an organisation. A detailed literature review was conducted on the topic and a research design was developed followed with a case study. The research ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:35:02

Inflation brings economic instability and can aggravate the level of poverty for any country if not controlled properly. This study aims to analyse the major determinants that affect inflation in Ethiopia by using secondary data over a 41 year-time series (1980 to 2020). Methodologically, an Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag Model was used to analyse the long-run and short-run determinants of inflation. Findings reveal that in the long run, gross domestic product, broad money supply and terms o ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:18:28

The objective of the study described in this paper is to evaluate the assertion that the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) is expected to increase economic welfare among its member countries. The paper leverages the cross-sectional variation between least developed countries (LDCs) and non-LDCs to analyse output, trade, and welfare effects of the AfCFTA. The analysis employs a sectoral aggregation geared to detect the most salient features of the manufacturing industries in LDC ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:15:21

We study the price, GDP growth, trade, and welfare effects of the African Continental Free Agreement (AfCFTA) for Ghana with a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model based on the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) 10 database. The policy shock consists of complete tariff elimination on all imports from the rest of Africa into Ghana. We create an aggregation of the model consisting of three regions (Ghana, rest of Africa (ROA) and rest of the world (ROW)), six sectors (grain c ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:09:26

The purpose of this research was to examine the basic endemic corporate governance practices that promote efficiency and to recommend a conceptual and legislative framework for the organisation. Microsoft Forms was used to collect information. This study used a pragmatic mixed-methods approach. Descriptive statistics were calculated using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 27. All study components were subjected to exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and the researc ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:04:25

Sharing data electronically with key trading partners is needed to unlock value and boost economic activities in this big data era, especially for organisations such as the Africa Continental Free-Trade Area (AFCFTA). However, the myriad of ethical issues around the data and lack of clear frameworks to share the data is slowing the extraction of value from the data. In this study, the main question addressed is why has extraction of value from the big data remained on the radar of most organi ...

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2024-Mar-07 10:58:38

The assumption of this research is that individuals' financial position affects the technology they opt to use to access information. This is an important consideration since access to information is critical to financial emancipation. The technological divide and financial exclusion seem to go hand-in-hand. The aim of this research is to identify the leading forms of technology that are used to access information in South Africa and to assess whether any of them are income-elastic. The o ...

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2024-Mar-07 10:53:16

The purpose of this systematic literature review paper is to show the role of digital transformation in supply chain management. In achieving this, the study applies innovation theory to explore why digital transformation matters in building a competitive advantage in the supply chain and operations area. The study employs a systematic literature review as search strategy to identify and map relevant articles over a 5-year period using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Fourteen studies select ...

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2024-Mar-07 10:47:26

Africa and its AU economic development structure are meant to be a formidable economic block, on equitable competitive par with the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the European Union (EU) (most appropriately), given its size and potential. A competitive edge for global economics has been a convergence of intra-continental trade and tariffs – marked by free movement of citizens and goods. ...

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2024-Mar-07 10:43:19