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Proposing Organizational Self Sufficiency Theory
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Mohammad Ali Shafia --- Department of Industrial Engineering, Iran Mammo Muchie --- DST/NRF Research Professor, South Africa Ali Reza Babakhan --- Department of Progress Engineering, IranIt is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the positive impacts of advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) on organizational performance. Many firms from developing countries attempt to import AMTs from foreign suppliers in order to improve their products' qualities, reduce costs and... -
Habitual physical activity levels are positively correlated with CD4 counts in an HIV-positive South African population
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Kirsten Kinsey Joanne McVeigh Ingrid ChantlerIn order to assess the relationship between CD4 cell count, habitual physical activity levels and functional independence in a South African adult population positive for HIV, we administered a questionnaire concerning lifestyle and physical activity. Data collection took place at... -
‘Zimbabwe will never be a colony again’: changing celebratory styles and meanings of independence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Wendy Willems --- Department of Media and Communications, United KingdomAs part of a revival of cultural nationalism, state-led national-day celebrations intensified in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s through the introduction of popular music events alongside the traditional official, militarised ceremony. Independence Day, in particular, provided ZANU-PF with an excellent... -
From ‘One Namibia, one Nation’ towards ‘Unity in Diversity’? Shifting representations of culture and nationhood in Namibian Independence Day celebrations, 1990–2010
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Uusiku Akuupa --- Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Godwin Kornes --- Dept. of Anthropology and African Studies, GermanyIn 2010 Namibia celebrated its twentieth anniversary of independence from South African rule. The main celebrations in the country's capital Windhoek became the stage for an impressively orchestrated demonstration of maturing nationhood, symbolically embracing postcolonial policy concepts such as ‘national... -
National days between commemoration and celebration: remembering 1947 and 1960 in Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Mareike Späth --- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Helihanta Rajaonarison --- Université d'Antananarivo, MadagascarToday Madagascar officially celebrates two national holidays. 29 March is dedicated to the memory of anticolonial resistance in 1947, the commemoration of the dead and the decoration of surviving combatants. 26 June in contrast is celebrated as Madagascar's return to... -
The New (Asian) African: Politics and Creativity in the 1960s
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: M.G. Vassanji --- ,Just before independence, and in the years that followed in the 1960s, attempts were made by a professional Asian elite in the three East African countries to formulate a genuine African identity for the Asians; at the same time, in... -
Factors influencing corporate governance disclosure of companies listed on the Alternative Exchange (AltX) in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Henriëtte Scholtz --- School of Accountancy, South Africa Anna-Retha Smit --- Department of Taxation, South AfricaThis article examines the various factors that influence the level of conformance with corporate governance recommendations for companies listed on the Alternative Exchange (AltX) in South Africa. To achieve this objective, a corporate governance disclosure index was developed by examining... -
‘Zimbabwe will never be a colony again’: changing celebratory styles and meanings of independence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Wendy Willems --- Department of Media and Communications, United KingdomAs part of a revival of cultural nationalism, state-led national-day celebrations intensified in Zimbabwe in the early 2000s through the introduction of popular music events alongside the traditional official, militarised ceremony. Independence Day, in particular, provided ZANU-PF with an excellent... -
From ‘One Namibia, one Nation’ towards ‘Unity in Diversity’? Shifting representations of culture and nationhood in Namibian Independence Day celebrations, 1990–2010
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Michael Uusiku Akuupa --- Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology, South Africa Godwin Kornes --- Dept. of Anthropology and African Studies, GermanyIn 2010 Namibia celebrated its twentieth anniversary of independence from South African rule. The main celebrations in the country's capital Windhoek became the stage for an impressively orchestrated demonstration of maturing nationhood, symbolically embracing postcolonial policy concepts such as ‘national... -
National days between commemoration and celebration: remembering 1947 and 1960 in Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Mareike Späth --- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Helihanta Rajaonarison --- Université d'Antananarivo, MadagascarToday Madagascar officially celebrates two national holidays. 29 March is dedicated to the memory of anticolonial resistance in 1947, the commemoration of the dead and the decoration of surviving combatants. 26 June in contrast is celebrated as Madagascar's return to... -
Audit quality and independence concerns in the South African audit industry: Contrasting views
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Michael Harber --- College of Accounting, University of Cape Town, South Africa Ben Marx --- Department of Accountancy, South AfricaAudit quality in South Africa is perceived by the audit regulator to be deteriorating, with the primary cause being a compromise of auditor independence, mostly as a result of excessively long audit firm tenures. The regulator has responded with mandatory... -
Rhizomic Writing and Reading of a Nation Coming to Birth in Yvonne A. Owuor’s Novel, Dust
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Christopher Odhiambo Joseph --- , KenyaAnchored on Deleueze and Guattari’s notion of rhizome, this article inspects the narrative strategy in Yvonne Owuor’s novel, Dust, in imagining the Kenyan nation, especially in the context of the contested presidential elections of 2007. It subsequently grapples with how... -
Commutation formulae with respect to non-symmetric affine connection
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Dušan J. Simjanović --- Metropolitan University, Serbia Nenad O. Vesić --- Mathematical Institute, SerbiaCommutation formulae with respect to a non-symmetric affine connection are obtained in this paper. The components of commutation formulae in this paper are covariant derivatives of tensors with respect to symmetric and non-symmetric affine connection. -
Further results on the independent Roman domination number of graphs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Quaestiones Mathematicae • Authors: Abel Cabrera Martínez --- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Frank A. Hernández Mira --- Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero, MéxicoLet f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2} be a function on a graph G with vertex set V (G). Let Vi = {v ∈ V (G) : f (v) = i} for every i ∈ {0, 1, 2}... -
Colonial Infrastructure and its Post-Independence Afterlives in Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Felix Mutunga Ndaka --- University of Johannesburg, South AfricaPeter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda (2017a) is constructed around two structures, the Kenya-Uganda Railway and the Jakaranda Hotel. In this article, I argue that the narration of these structures and their survival in independent Kenya enable a revisiting of... -
Determinants of the effective tax rate: Board composition of South African firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Cecileen Greeff --- School of Accountancy, Stellenbosch University, South AfricaMotivation: Numerous international studies have been conducted to determine the effect of board composition on tax aggressiveness, and ultimately the effective tax rate (ETR) of firms, but to the best of the author's knowledge, no similar research from a South... -
Impacts of corporate governance attributes on audit quality in emerging economies: The case of India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Accounting Research • Authors: Reshma Kumari Tiwari --- Tezpur University, India Santi Gopal Maji --- Tezpur University, India