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The role of mentorship in the retention of graduate interns.
No full textThe objective of the research was to determine whether mentorship, as part
of a graduate internship programme, contributed to the retention of graduate
interns in a South African Information Communication and Technology (ICT) company. A Mentorship role survey and Retention survey were administered among a purposive selected sample of graduate interns (N=79)
and mentors (N=39). Results showed that mentorship was statistically
significantly related to the graduate intern’s intention to quit the graduate
internship programme. Results further showed a practically significant relationship between the opportunity to apply mentorship skills and the mentor’s intention to employ the graduate intern upon completion of the
programme
Celebrating black American women's lives: An analysis of Alice Walker's selected texts.
No full textFrom the American Revolution to the present, African American female writers have not
only articulated the physical horrors of the female slave, but have also celebrated the
black American women’s lives through their works. For Walker, African American women
have suffered a triple oppression of gender, race and class. Thus, using the selected
texts, this paper will show Walker’s preoccupation with the black American woman,
especially the way she is marginalised and subjugated by both the colonial and slave
system and her black male counterpart. As an African-American woman, Walker also
celebrates the lives of the American black women by giving a voice to the oppressed
and voiceless. In her narratives, she criticises both racist and sexist hegemony. This
article will show how the women in the selected texts have played a myriad of roles in
their search for self-definition and spiritual redemption. In The colour purple, The third
life of Grange Copeland, and also in Walker’s essays, In search of our mother’s gardens, she argues that the black women have been notable for standing against oppression and have made significant contributions in the making of the American nation. Hence, this article intends to show that despite being oppressed, African-American women have never succumbed to victimhood. It seeks to examine how Alice Walker celebrates the black-American women’s search for identity and fulfilment through a harmonious coexistence with their men-folk. The article will conclude that Walker transcends binary oppositions to explore the oppressions, the insanities, the loyalties and triumphs of black women’. Through self-expression, her women characters undergo some form of transformation and hence celebrate a sense of wholeness embedded in a viable past
Rethinking survival: Metaphors of hope and peaceful conflict resolution methods during crisis times.
No full textThis paper examines the role of imaginative literature in offering insights into various peace-oriented conflict resolution methods. Through a critical analysis of three short stories set in a dystopian Zimbabwean context of extreme difficulties, the paper argues that hope is ubiquitous and fictions of our time offer subtle and strategic pointers to probable solutions. Through the presentation of the lived experiences of ordinary citizens, the short stories analysed ultimately point to a realisable vision of the future which has pointers which are suggestive of life beyond survival
Welcome remarks by Prof. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, on the occasion of the Cheque Handover by the National Disability Council of Namibia to CED, 18 July 2013, Windhoek.
No full textNational Disability Council of Namibia Cheque Handover (2013 Jul. 18 : Windhoek
Speech by Prof. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, on the occasion of the MTC Bursary Awards ceremony, 27 May 2013, Windhoek.
No full textMTC Bursary Awards Ceremony (2013 May 27 : Windhoek, Namibia
Investigating the determinants of a rural community's income generating projects in the Kavango region from 2005 to 2010.
No full textThesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of International Business in the Harold Pupkewitz Graduate School of Business at the NUSTThis empirical study is aimed at describing the success determinants of the rural Community Income Generating Project in the Kavango Region funded by the Kavango Regional Council and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare between 2005 and 2010.
This descriptive non-experimental study collected and analyzed quantitative primary
data both textual and numerical using a structured survey design.
The annual Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study authored by Xavier et al. (2012), which provides a broad array of data on societal attitudes, participation levels of individuals at different stages of the entrepreneurship process and the characteristics of entrepreneurs and their businesses enabled entrepreneurial
comparisons within and across national and geographic regions with entrepreneurial
determinants and factors at rural level particularly with regards to community income
generating projects in Kavango region.
There is empirical evidence that most of the beneficiaries funded through this
programme are falling short in terms of basic but critical entrepreneurial
competencies such as business attitudes, academic competencies, diversification of
products and/or services, low commitment levels and entrepreneurial skills. The study further reveals that there are shortfalls in terms of the current trainings being provided and the inadequate support from the funding institutions in terms of continued coaching and mentoring.
Key recommendations suggest introducing coaching and mentoring programmes and
the introduction of minimum entrepreneurial requirements in the funding of community income generating projects.Supervisor: Prof. Grafton Whyt
A feast for the imagination: An exploration of narrative elements of the text and hypertext of 'Song of Ice and Fire' by George R. R. Martin.
No full textFantasy novel as a sub-genre of children’s literature has crossed over to the adult world
resulting in the rapid growth of adult fantasy fiction in the last ten years. George R.R.
Martins’ A Song of Ice and Fire, consisting of five volumes at present, is one example
of extremely popular adult fantasy fiction which has sold more than fifteen million copies
all over the world. But what is more remarkable is that A Song of Ice and Fire has
spawned a TV series called A Game of Thrones, as well as a comic book adaptation, a
card game, a board game, a role playing game and two video games. In other words, A
Song of Ice and Fire is available for consumption both as text and hypertext.
My paper sets out to investigate the text and hypertext of A Song and Ice and Fire with
a view to gaining a greater insight into the narrative elements common to both genres
of text and hypertext, making use of Conceptual Blending theory which offers a general
model of meaning construction in which a small set of partially compositional processes
operate in analogy, metaphor, counterfactuals and many other semantic and pragmatic
phenomena. In this theory, understanding meaning involves the construction of blended
cognitive models that include some structure from the input models as well as emergent
structures that arise through the process of blendin
Becoming a regional gateway by developing logistics hubs: A blessing or a curse?
No full textMany developing countries wish to become the “gateway” to a region or part of a continent. One strategy involves encouraging logistics cluster development. These support global supply chains and enable the growth of the host country through the resulting trade as well as providing direct and indirect employment opportunities during the build and subsequent operation of the hub.
Namibia has a desire to become the gateway to southern Africa and the SADC region. This paper builds on research on Caribbean cluster potential (Lambourdiere et al, 2012), and Namibian logistics (Jenkins et al, 2012) to identify the potential benefits, drawbacks and risks of such a strategy
Using discussion forums to mediate in higher education: A literature review through an activity theory lens.
No full textThe diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education has brought along impediments in the education system where higher institutions of learning are not exempted. The adoption of ICT tools to mediate learning that is not informed by pedagogical and learning theory might not produced the desired results in any given context. Mediating learning with discussion forums is perceived to be one of the simplest ways to use ICTs in education, but the outcomes are not always rewarding. Indisputably, a discussion forum has a potential to transform learning, but contextual factors might influence the effectiveness of a tool, especially when the selection of the tool is not informed by underlying theoretical principles of learning. This paper demonstrates how Activity Theory is applied as a lens to describe, substantiate and understand how discussion forums have been used in Higher Education contexts, with the intent to evaluate and understand how mediating learning with an ICT tool - discussion forums in this case - should be based on underlying theoretical principles of learning, taking into account contextual factors that might influence the use of a tool. It transpires from the three case studies analysed in this paper that instructors need guidance to effectively use and monitor discussion forums, or ICT tools in general, hence implying how underlying theoretical principles of learning could be a determining factor to the success of a tool
Welcoming remarks by Prof. Tjama Tjivikua, Vice Chancellor, NUST, on the occasion of the launching of a knowledge and service portal with local rural nodes: A pilot project in Omaheke, 28 February 2013, NUST, Windhoek.
No full textLaunch of the Knowledge and Service Portal with Local Rural Nodes (2013 Feb. 25: NUST