7,130 research outputs found
Developing a monitoring and evaluation system for the ceasefire gang violence programme in Hanover Park, Cape Town
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.This study is a formative evaluation of the Ceasefire gang violence programme in Hanover Park, Cape Town, South Africa. The primary audience of this evaluation is the Ceasefire programme management. The Ceasefire programme is a project of the City of Cape Town's Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading Unit (VPUU). The Ceasefire programme is run by the First Community Resource Centre (FCRC) in Hanover Park. The main aim of this evaluation is to develop a results-based monitoring and evaluation system for the Ceasefire programme
Evaluation of a pilot crime prevention project in the Western Cape
No full textBibliography: leaves 137-141.The non-governmental organisation U Managing Conflict (UMAC) is responsible for the implementation of a local crime prevention initiative in the Western Cape. The pilot project involves establishing community safety forums (CSFs) consisting of representation from government departments, communities and civil society. The CSFs project has two primary goals. The first is to facilitate information sharing and co-operation between relevant local stakeholders, and the second is to ensure that role players participate in multi-agency crime prevention planning and project initiation
"Speaking with one voice": the Somali Retailers' Association - rights and xenophobia in Cape Town's townships
No full textIn the wake of extreme xenophobic violence, which swept South Africa in 2008, a group of Somali refugees resident in Cape Town formed the Somali Retailers’ Association (SRA) as a mutual support network made up of those who were targeted by xenophobes most: Somalis involved in informal sector trade in the townships. This study investigates the networks of targeted populations, analysing how this Association helps to mitigate the impact of xenophobia on the lives of its members
The prospect of providing low-income medium density housing in developing countries : problems and opportunities with special reference to Cape Town, South Africa
No full textIncludes bibliography.It is thus proposed in this thesis that low-income medium-density developments, located appropriately in inner city areas to kick-start settlements that are integrated, compact and promote mixed land uses, as well as aspiring towards sustainable urban development, are needed in the cities of developing countries. A typical example of such a housing development is Springfield Terrace Woodstock, Cape Town. This pilot project, demonstrating how the provision oflow-income medium-density housing (in the fonn of three- to four-storey walk-up blocks of flats) can be provided in central Cape Town and how these benefit from the existing bulk infrastructure. It further demonstrates how this housing type could be located and utilised to encourage a shift away from low-density to medium-density housing, particularly with regard to lowincome earners
The effectiveness of teacher librarians in primary schools : the experience of the Melani school libraries in the Eastern Cape
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 100-108)In 2002, a pilot project established school libraries in eleven primary schools in Melani, Fort Beaufort District. The role players in this initiative were South African Partners (an American Non Governmental Organization), the Eastern Cape Department of Education, the University of Fort Hare and the Library and Information Science Association of South Africa (LlASA). Each school nominated one teacher to receive teacher librarianship training to manage and sustain the school libraries. The aim of the project was to develop a model that would lead to the establishment and development of school libraries in other areas of the Eastern Cape. This research project sought to investigate the effectiveness of teacher librarians in primary schools reflecting on the experience of the Melani cluster of schools. The aim was to assess the effects the school libraries have had on teaching and learning. The qualitative and quantitative study involved 110 primary learners, 39 educators, 11 teacher librarians, and an official from the Provincial Department of Education
Assessing demand for green electricity products amongst upper-middle income Western Cape households a contingent valuation study
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibligraphical references.The study presented in this paper examines the demand for green electricity products amongst upper-middle income Western Cape households. A social cost-benefit analysis to inform electricity investment planning requires the environmental benefit of using green electricity to be expressed in monetary terms. Since existing markets trade in electricity as a homogenous good, market data is of little use in this regard, and non-market valuation approaches are required. This study seeks to answer three key questions: To what extent would upper-middle income households in the Western Cape Province be willing to purchase premium-priced green electricity products? What is the maximum amount that a typical upper-middle income Western Cape household would be willing to pay for such a green electricity product? And: What are the demographic and attitudinal characteristics of adopting households and their members? To answer these questions the contingent valuation methodology was employed, using primary data from a survey (n=464) conducted in Cape Town during April and May of 2012. This survey sought to assess WTP using a hypothetical market, and gathered data on eleven demographic and attitudinal factors selected as possible determinants of WTP on the basis of a literature review
Spatial mismatch in Cape Town : business location and the impacts on workers
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69).The south east and cape flats regions of Cape Town is home to abundant supplies of cheap and available unskilled labour. With the awareness that Cape Town may be slowly following the developmental path of Johannesburg and many other cities of the world, as decentralization, suburbanization, and the overall processes of economic 'tertiarisation' and urban transformation encompass the entire structure and culture of the city, we wonder about how the cities unskilled workforces are faring. Development has focused on the north of the city while the south east has been bypassed, causing residents to have to travel far out to find jobs and work. There is a clear spatial mismatch between places of work and places of residence for the workers of the South east, and overcoming this disconnection is challenged further by an inefficient and expensive public transport service, upon which they are fully dependent. By way of the interviews with businesses from various industrial areas in Cape Town, this thesis shows that many owners and management do not place much importance on where their workers, in particular unskilled and semi-skilled manual workers live and how they travel. It seems that when choosing a location for their businesses, size, price, and availability may limit owners' options of location choice and interviews reveal that owners may be responding to rather than driving development. Findings reveal that unskilled manual workers typically reside in the south east, while business owners, management and other white collar workers typically live in the northern and southern suburbs, as well as other central areas. Furthermore, transport patterns were evaluated and it is clear that the unskilled workers rely heavily on public transport while higher skilled occupational groups either have their own car, or are part of lift-clubs. The problem of a spatial mismatch is clearly skewed towards workers of the south east who rely on public transport, by intensifying the burdens of commuting times and costs. A further finding is that many businesses resort to highly informal methods of recruitment, such as word-of-mouth and internal referral techniques, revealing the significance of social networks in gaining access to job opportunities. This is especially important for workers trying to find employment in areas outside of the traditional economic nodes as it is expensive to commute to those areas regularly in search of employment. Having access to those businesses through employed family members, neighbours and relatives, is therefore critical
Women in sacred spaces : an analysis of traditional Islam and Judaism in the communities of Cape Town
No full textBibliography: leaves 139-155.The New Constitution protects Muslims and Jews as part of the minority religions in a pluralistic South Africa just like the rights of women are procured in the public and private arenas. Multiplicity usually exacerbates a more interactive relationship between divergent faiths thereby bringing into sharp focus the strained association of local Muslims and Jews considering the escalating violence in Palestine/Israel. This study firstly attempts to examine the status of traditional Muslim and Jewish women autonomously in the sacred spaces of the mosque, synagogue and home to highlight the customary gendered issues in the related spaces. These gendered sacred spaces are managed via ritual activity detennined in traditional law, which is rooted in genderized cosmogonies and myths founded in theology consequently exhibiting the interplay between theology and law. The study also endeavors to analyze the position of traditional Muslim and Jewish women reciprocally in the public and private sacred terrains of Cape Town to underline gendered similarities. These commonalities akin to genderized sacred spaces could serve as a forum for bridging the local Muslim-Jewish divide by stimulating discourse among intellectuals; community organizations negotiating public and private matters; and individual members of the respective religious traditions. Gendered resemblances could additionally amplifY the debate of women's rights in the public and private sacred domains to evoke an equitable understanding of each other (in the binaries of Muslims and Jews as well as men and women)
Rhizobia diversity and their effect on the distribution of indigenous legumes in the Cape Floristic Region
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.The Cape Floristic Region (CFR) includes a broad variety of bed rocks and soils are a mosaic of sandstone and shale substrates that give rise to a variety of soil types mainly sandstone, aeolian sands, shale, granite and limestone thereby creating heterogeneity in edaphic conditions. Species composition of plant communities in the CFR is predominantly associated with the parent rock, and the resultant overlying soil. The combination of edaphic and topographical variations, local climate gradients and frequent fires is undoubtedly important in promoting species diversity in the region. The family Fabaceae is the second largest family to Asteraceae in the CFR. It is currently comprised of about 760 species, in 37 genera belonging to 18 tribes. Most of these legumes are in symbiotic association with rhizobia that nodulate and fix nitrogen in the nutrient poor soils...It was, therefore, hypothesized that rhizobia isolates from indigenous legumes of the CFR will cluster phylogenically according to soil types and that the distribution of rhizobia limited that of their compatible host
Identifying the dead : eighteenth century mortuary practices at Cobern Street, Cape Town
No full textSummary in English.A unique opportunity to study historic burial practices in Cape Town arose in 1994 when construction activities at Cobern Street, Green Point revealed an eighteenth century burial ground. Subsequent salvage excavations unearthed approximately 65 burials and scattered skeletal material (both historical and precolonial) representing a total of 121 individuals. A variety of cultural material was found with the burials. The following is a summary of the excavation activities, and a detailed description of the burial patterns and grave goods unearthed at the site. An attempt is made to construct a cultural identity for the Cobern Street burials, and to determine what, if anything, burial practices have to contribute to our understanding of eighteenth century colonial society. The burial patterns were divided into four analytical categories, covering a spectrum ranging from the Later Stone Age to the end of the eighteenth century. The artefacts are divided into six groups; Later Stone Age artefacts, coffin hardware, burial items, clothing accessories, personal items (excluding clothing residues), and intrusive items. Burial items and artefacts are considered against the spatial layout of the site to determine that Cobern Street was used as used as an informal cemetery by lower class members of Colonial Cape society, primarily during the eighteenth century
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