Eleven years into the South African democracy there are still huge challenges facing South African public schools, especially with regard to the notions of equity and redress. Increasingly historically advantaged and disadvantaged South African schools are entering into partnerships in an attempts to address the challenges facing them. This study focused on one such a partnership between two primary schools in an attempt to ascertain whether partnerships can in fact improve the situation.

The aim of this study was to investigate vicarious trauma experienced by caregivers working with children in residential care, who were victims of sexual abuse or assault. The objectives of the study were to determine the occurrence of vicarious trauma among caregivers working with victims of sexual abuse or assault / to describe the experiences of caregivers working with children who were victims of sexual abuse / to describe the caregiver's experience of staff support within the facility.

The Outreach Project of the University of the Western Cape has since 1982 through various computer supported services been assisting grade 12 mathematics learners and educators at previously disadvantaged Western Cape high schools. This thesis described and appraised the MICSES2000 program of the Outreach Program, the latest innovative computer enhancing service to schools, with respect to its implementation, perceived and achieved programs by participating educators.

The premise of this research was focused on ascertaining how variables such as work environment, pay, supervision, co-workers and promotion impacts on job satisfaction of civil servants at an institution residing under the Department of Health in the Western Cape.

Eleven years into the South African democracy there are still huge challenges facing South African public schools, especially with regard to the notions of equity and redress. Increasingly historically advantaged and disadvantaged South African schools are entering into partnerships in an attempts to address the challenges facing them. This study focused on one such a partnership between two primary schools in an attempt to ascertain whether partnerships can in fact improve the situation.

<p>Collection development in academic libraries is going through technology-driven changes relating to the new information technologies ,e.g. -Electronic databases, the Internet and CD-ROM's, joint published materials and audio-visual resources. Libraries are also facing declining budgets and spiralling costs. This research project looked closely at what collection development is and the impact it has on service rendering to undergraduates at the University of the Western Cape. It is also aimed at establishing if the librarians that formulate these policies understand what they (Collection Development Policies) are, and what they should entail.</p>

<p>Aggressive and violent behaviour in inpatient mental health facilities is found worldwide and is a frequent and serious clinical and nursing care problem. Despite the importance of international research findings and recommendations, it appears that patients perceptions of the possible contributing factors toward aggressive and violent behaviour in mental health facilities is an area of enquiry that has not been widely explored in South Africa in general, or in the Western Cape, in particular. It is against this background that this study endeavoured to investigate the external and situational contributing to patients aggressive and violent behaviour in mental health facilities in Cape Town, as seen from patients perspectives.</p>

<p>Information and communication technology (ICT) is foreign to a number of public libraries and those libraries that have a technology infrastructure in place, suffer from an under-utilization of the technology, owing to a shortage of skills that are critical to boost the library into the global information society. It is important that staff in public libraries have the necessary skills and positive attitude to use the technology offered to them. The main objective of this study was to determine the use of ICT's in Nyanga, Brown's Farm and Crossroads public libraries and make recommendations towards effective use of ICT in the above-mentioned public libraries.</p>

Copies no. 3007841664 and 3007841665 are photocopies of the original. / Thesis (MScAgric)-- University of Stellenbosch, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Buchu (Agathosma betulina and A. crenulata) are grown commercially as an aromatic crop and are endemic to the Western Cape of South Africa. Poor rooting of cuttings have limited the development of superior clones. Under standard mist bed conditions terminal, sub-terminal or basal stem cuttings were taken from March to August. When not treated with an auxin, rooting percentages of between 20 and 25 were obtained. Rooting percentages increased to between 40 and 45 after treatment with 500-1000 ppm indolebutyric acid (lBA). Substituting lBA with naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) did not improve rooting. There was a tendency for cuttings with fewer than four leaf pairs to give lower rooting percentages. Plants of Agathosma betulina x A. crenulata, grown in Paarl, and A. betulina, grown in Piketberg, were used as source plants for making cuttings. Paarl plants were shaded with 80 percent shade and Piketberg plants with 60 or 80 percent shade respectively from February to October 2002. Plants in full sun served as a control. Plants were pruned back initially in February and then two months before samples were taken in March, June, August and October at both locations. New shoots were used as cuttings. Terminal cuttings for rooting and for carbohydrate analyses were collected on four different dates (March, June, August and October). Cuttings were treated with 500 ppm indolebuteric acid (lBA) and placed in misting beds with bottom heating (18-25°C) for a period of three months. Shading reduced rooting of cuttings from the Paarl plants. However, it did not significantly increase rooting of cuttings taken from Piketberg plants. Rooting percentage was the highest in August (43%) for cuttings from sun grown plants in Paarl. No consistent relationship between, respectively, dry mass or carbohydrate content of cuttings and rooting could be established. Terminal current years' growth, taken from Agathosma crenulata x A. betulina (hybrid) softwood cuttings, collected in January 2002, were extracted with methanol and fractioned by thin layer chromatography (Silica gel) in isopropanol: acetic acid: water (4: 1:1 v/v). The chromatographs were divided in ten fractions and were bio-assayed for a rooting co-factor with the mung bean rooting test. Extracts from buchu cuttings showed significant activity at the Rf values of co-factor 3. Co-factors 1,2 and 4 do not seem to be present in significant quantities. However, co-factors with Rf values different from previous reported values were present in significant quantities. No inhibition was found in buchu. In fact, all Rf values stimulated rooting. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Boegoe (Agathosma betulina x A. crenulata) word kommersieël verbon as 'n aromatiese gewas en is endemies tot die Wes-Kaap. Die ontwikelling van superieure klonale materiaal word beperk deur swakbeworteling. Terminale, sub-terminale en basale steggies is gesnyonder standaard misbed toestande van Maart tot Augustus. Beworteling was tussen 20 en 25 persent as geen ouksien gebruik word nie. As indolebottersuur (IBS) gebruik word tussen 500-1000 dpm, verhoog die bewortelingspersentasie tot tussen 40 en 45 persent. Die gebruik van naftaleen asynsuur (NAS) in plaas van IBS het nie beworteling verbeter nie. Daar was a tendens dat steggies wat minder as vier blaarpare gehad het 'n verlaging in bewortelingspersentasies gehad het. Plante van Paarl, A. betulina x A. crenulata, en Piketberg, A. betulina, is gebruik as plantmateriaal vir steggies. Plante in die Paarl was onder 80 persent skadu geplaas en plante in Piketberg onder 60 en 80 persent skadu van Februarie tot Oktober 2002. Plante in vol son was as 'n kontrole gebruik. Plante was eers in Februarie teruggesny en dan weer twee mande voor monsters geneem is. Die monsters is in Maart, Junie, Augustus en Oktober geneem in beide liggings. Terminale steggies is vier keer ingesamel (Maart, Junie, Augustus en Oktober) vir beworteling en koolhidraat analises. Die steggies is met 500 dpm IBS behandel. Daarna is die steggies vir drie maande in die misbed geplaas met bodem-verhitting (18- 25°C). Dit is gevind dat die gebruik van skadu die beworteling in Paarl verminder het alhoewel die beworteling in Piketberg nie beduidend beinvloed is nie. Die hoogste bewortelingspresentasies is waargeneem in Augustus (43%) in Paarl van plante wat in vol son was. Geen verband tussen onderskeidelik die droe massa of koolhidraat inhoud en beworteling kon gevind word nie. Terminale steggies van dieselfte jaar se groei van Agathosma betulina x A. crenulata (hibried) is in Januarie 2002 ingesamel. Die materiaal is geëkstraheer en gefraksioneer deur dunlaag kromatografie in isopropanol: asynsuur: water (4: 1:1 v/v). Die kromograaf is in 10 fraksies verdeel. Die fraksies was bioassaieer VIr beworteling ko-faktore met die mungboontjie bewortelingstoets. Die ekstrakte van boegoe het beduidende aktiwiteit by die Rf waardes van ko-faktor 3 getoon. Ko-faktore 1, 2 en 4 is nie in groot genoeg hoeveelhede waargeneem nie. Ko-faktore, wat nie voorheen gevind is nie, is waargeneem in beduidende hoeveelhede. Geen inhibitors is in boegoe gevind nie en al die getoetste ko-faktore het beworteling gestimuleer.

Thesis (MCom)--Stellenbosch University, 2015. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African health care system is tormented by various challenges ranging from income inequalities, extreme resource scarcities to discrimination and violence. This makes the health care industry a tough work environment for health care personnel to operate in. South Africa has experienced the loss of thousands of nurses over the past decade, either emigrating or leaving the nursing profession altogether (Tshitangano, 2013). Consequently, this trend drew the attention to the well-being of nurses in South Africa. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the level of work engagement among private sector nurses in the Western Cape, together with their levels of job demands, job resources, personal resources, performance and job crafting. This was done using the Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R) of work engagement. The comprehensive JD-R model was tested and the validity of the proposed relationships between the constructs was examined. Moreover, additional paths in the model were proposed and tested. Managerial implications along with practical interventions were derived from the results with the aim to increase nurse well-being and retention. An ex post facto correlational design was used to test the formulated hypotheses in this research study. Quantitative data were collected from 311 nurses employed by a private hospital group by means of non-probability convenience sampling. A self-administered paper copy survey was distributed to hospitals given that they agreed to participate in the research. The survey was voluntary, anonymous and confidential. The survey consisted of five sections and included questions from five existing questionnaires, namely, the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-17) (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003), the Job Demands-Resources Scale (Rothman, Mostert & Strydom, 2006), the Work Design Questionnaire (Morgeson & Humhprey, 2006), the Psychological Capital Self-Rated Version (PsyCap-24) (Luthans, Avolio, Avey & Norman, 2006), and the Job Crafting Scale (Tims, Bakker & Derks, 2012). In order to test the statistical significance of the hypotheses, the data were subjected to Structural Equation modelling and regression analyses. The results indicated that the nurses experienced a high level of work engagement, and elucidated the fact that job resources, job demands, and job crafting aspects of their jobs are in need of industrial psychologist or managerial interventions. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Suid-Afrikaanse gesondheidsisteem word geteister deur verskeie uitdagings wat onder andere inkomste ongelykhede, ekstreme hulpbron skaarshede, diskriminasie en geweld insluit. Dit maak die gesondheidsindustrie ʼn moeilike werksomgewing vir gesondheidspersoneel om in te werk. Suid-Afrika het duisende verpleegsters oor die laaste dekade verloor as gevolg van emigrasie, terwyl ander die professie in geheel verlaat het (Tshitangano, 2013). Gevolglik het hierdie tendens die aandag getrek na die welstand van verpleegsters in Suid-Afrika. Die primêre doel van hierdie studie was om die vlak van werksbetrokkenheid onder ʼn steekproef van privaatsektor verpleegsters in die Wes-Kaap te ondersoek, tesame met hulle vlakke van werkseise, werkshulpbronne, persoonlike hulpbronne, werksprestasie en posverryking. Die Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R) of work engagement is vir hierdie doel ingespan. Die omvattende model tesame met die geldigheid van die voorgestelde verhoudings tussen die konstrukte is getoets. Addisionele verhoudings is ook voorgestel en getoets. Bestuursimplikasies en praktiese intervensies is van die resultate afgelei en word aan bestuurders voorgelê as moontlike oplossings om verpleegsters se welstand en retensie te verhoog. ʼn Ex post facto korrelasie-ontwerp is gebruik om die geformuleerde hipoteses in hierdie studie te toets. Kwantitatiewe data is van 311 verpleegsters ingesamel wat deur ʼn private hospitaalgroep in diens geneem word. Nie-waarskynlikheid gerieflikheidsteekproeftrekking is gebruik om die steekproef te bepaal. ʼn Self-geadministreerde vraelys is ontwikkel en as harde kopie uitgestuur na dié hospitale wat ingestem het om aan die navorsing deel te neem. Die vraelys is vrywillig, anoniem en konfidensieel ingevul en het uit vyf seksies bestaan. Die vyf seksies se vrae is opgemaak uit verskeie bestaande vraelyste, naamlik, die Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES-17) (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2003), die Job Demands-Resources Scale (Rothman, Mostert & Strydom, 2006), die Work Design Questionnaire (Morgeson & Humhprey, 2006), die Psychological Capital Self-Rated Version (PsyCap-24) (Luthans, Avolio, Avey & Norman, 2006), en die Job Crafting Scale (Tims, Bakker & Derks, 2012). Ten einde die statistiese beduidendheid van die hipoteses te toets, is die data deur strukturele vergelykingsmodellering en regressie-ontledings ontleed. Die resultate dui daarop dat die verpleegsters 'n hoë vlak van werksbetrokkenheid ervaar, en dat werkshulpbronne, werkseise en posverrykende aspekte van hulle werk bestuurs- of bedryfsielkundige intervensies verlang.