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Lucwaningo lolujulile ngetaga elulwimini LweSiswati / A Critical Analysis of Siswati ProverbsMthethwa, Nandi Cedrol January 2019 (has links)
PhD (IsiSwati) / MER Mathivha Centre for African Languages, Arts and Culture / Lolu lucwaningo lolutsintsa taga elulwimini lweSiswati. Lucwaningo lwesekelwe luhlatiyombhalo (textual analysis) nelwetingcikitsi (themes) lolubuka lwati ngalokubanti lucuketse tingcikitsi, sisekelo semaciniso emisuka, kubaluleka, lwati lwendzabuko, kwehlukaniseka kwemasiko nekuhleleka kwetaga. Taga letitsintsa tilwane, titfo temtimba, kutfukutsela, budlelwano, inhlonipho, inkhutsalo, buphuya, inhlakanipho nemikhuba yenchubo yesintfu. Taga tibukwa ngekususelwa etinganekwaneni, etibongweni, etinanatelweni, emahubeni, etishweni nasetiphicaphicwaneni. Tinongo tenkhulumo letifana nesifanisongco, sifaniso nesihabiso tihlatiywa macondzana netaga. Lucwaningo lukhutsata kusebenta kwetaga emimangweni leyehlukene nasesiveni jikelele. / NRF
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Knowledge and practices of health care workers on medical waste disposal in Mapulaneng Hospital in the Ehlanzeni District of South AfricaMakhura, Ramadimetja Rosina January 2016 (has links)
Thesis (MPH.) -- University of Limpopo, 2016. / Background: Health care workers produce various types of waste in the course of rendering health care services. Each classification of waste must be disposed according to the prescribed guidelines. Improper disposal of waste may pose a danger to employees, patients and the environment. Health care workers must have adequate knowledge on disposal of medical waste. This study was therefore done to determine the knowledge and practices of health care workers on medical waste disposal.
Objectives: This study aims to determine the knowledge and practices of health care workers on medical waste disposal at a hospital in the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa.
Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional research approach was used at a regional hospital for the Mpumalanga Province in the Bushbuckridge Municipality under the Ehlanzeni District. The study respondents included professional nurses, enrolled nurses, enrolled nursing assistants, medical doctors, dental health and allied health staff. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaires analysed using International Business Management Statistical Package for Social Sciences 22 (IBM SPSS 22).
Results: The results show that a high percentage of health care workers did not have adequate knowledge regarding disposal of medical waste but disposed medical waste appropriately. The results further show that knowledge and practice of health care workers had no association with age, gender and years of experience. There is an association between professional category and knowledge and practice of healthcare workers.
Conclusion: Disposal of medical waste is the responsibility of all health care workers. There should be regular training of all categories of health care workers to improve their knowledge on disposal of medical waste and minimise the risks associated with improper waste management. This will further increase compliance with the guidelines of disposal of medical waste.
Key words: Health care workers, medical waste, knowledge, practice, disposal
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An evaluation of the recruitment and retention strategy of professional nurses in the Mpumalanga Department of Health : a case of Ehlanzeni District, South AfricaChiloane, Goodman Richard January 2017 (has links)
Thesis (MPA.) -- University of Limpopo, 2017 / Recruitment and retention of nurses remain one of the challenges globally and locally as the system is unable to attract new staff and failing to retain existing ones. This study was undertaken to investigate the number of nurses leaving the Mpumalanga Department of Health and whether the available recruitment and retention strategy puts the province into the competitive advantage. The qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection were utilised during the investigations. Both the qualitative and quantitative analysis proved that a number of nurses were leaving the public service influenced by factors such as salary, workload, accommodation for nurses, working conditions and lack of resources. The findings further revealed that the recruitment and retention strategy of the Department was poorly implemented and therefore leaving the province at a risk of losing more professional nurses. The main recommendation in this study was that the Department of Health in Mpumalanga needs to ensure that adequate funds are available for the proper implementation of the recruitment and retention strategy. The proper implementation of the strategy will help in addressing the factors that were discussed and agreed to by other studies to be contributing immensely in nurses’ turnover in the province.
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Morpho-physiological characterisation of bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea L) landraces collected in Mpumalanga ProvinceMagongwa, Selwana Michael 09 1900 (has links)
MSCAGR (Plant Production) / Department of Plant Production / See the attached abstract below
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Exploring gender division of labour within households: the case of Schoemansdal Village in Nkomazi Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South AfricaShabangu, Busi Florence 18 May 2018 (has links)
MGS / Institute for Gender and Youth Studies / One of the most pressing issues contributing to the persistence of gender inequality is the gendered division of domestic labour. Women still carry out more domestic labour than men. Housework is shared quite unequally among most married couples. Work performed directly in the service of families including housework and childcare is often unacknowledged all over the world because of cultural assumptions that a wife or mother should work in the privacy of the home. This study adds extra depth to the doing gender approach by testing whether or not couple negotiate specific conjugal and parent roles in terms of the division of household labour. This study therefore seeks to discuss numerous variables that impact the division of household labour between men and women. This study suggests that patriarchal power structures seem to take a powerful and effective impact on the South African marriage institution, especially in the black communities. The study was therefore conducted in Schoemansdal village situated in Nkomazi region, Mpumalanga Province. To explore issues behind gender division of labour within households. The study embarked on a qualitative research design to collect and analyze the data. Samples of married men and married women were selected in this study. The findings of the study are as follows: Women do a disproportionate share of the housework, even when the women work and the men don‟t, and even when the women want to share the housework more equally. When men aren‟t working, they don‟t see domestic labour as a means of contributing. In fact, they double down and do less of it, since it challenges their masculinity. But when men earn more, women who are almost all working too, feel obliged to contribute in some way to maintaining the household, generally by cooking and cleaning. / NRF
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Challenges of Service Delivery in South Africa: A case of Gert Sibande District MunicipalityMukhari, Sello 16 May 2019 (has links)
PhD (African Studies) / Department of Development Studies / Protests for basic services in South Africa are a relatively new phenomenon.
Noticeably, they now happen almost on a daily basis. The manner in which
they manifest is at times worrisome. Under the new political dispensation after
1994, South Africa has seen an unprecedented mushrooming of protests for
services. Like other provinces across the country, Mpumalanga Province was
also hit by the protests for services between 2004 and 2010. Since 2008, Gert
Sibande District Municipality has experienced more intensified protests for
service delivery, wherein communities were mobilized and marched to various
local municipalities demanding improved services by these municipalities.
The study aimed to establish some of the sources of these protests, their
trends and their impact with the view to propose some solutions. To achieve
this goal, the study used document analysis and empirical data obtained
through interviews. Firstly, the study provides a historical background and
overview of the three municipalities which fall under Gert Sibande District
Municipality, namely: Msukaligwa, Mkhondo and Dr. Pixley Ka Isaka Seme. It
further investigates the causes of violent protests for services in these
municipalities. Attention is given to various pieces of legislation that establishes
Local Government in South Africa. The socio-economic conditions of the three
municipalities are also examined.
The key findings from the interviews that were conducted pointed out factors
that gave rise to the violent protests at the three municipalities. Amongst them
was that the protests were politically motivated. Some were caused by lack of
resource allocation and lack of human capacity to deliver services, lack of the
political will by both the political and government representatives to deliver on
their mandate, as well as the criminal elements that hijacked the protests. It is
the mandate of government to deliver quality services to the people
uninterrupted as prescribed by the Constitution. This will minimise the ongoing
protest for services in the country. / NRF
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The ethnobotanical investigation of the Mapulana of Ehlanzeni District Municipality, Mpumalanga Province, South AfricaMashile, Shalom Pabalelo 20 September 2019 (has links)
PhD (Botany) / Department of Botany / Ethnobotanical information still needs documentation as this will assist in the preservation of information for future generation. It becomes most important, particularly when considering the neglected ethnic subgroups. From fourteen villages in the Ehlanzeni district; elders, community adults and youth were selected by means of snow balling technique and a semi-structured questionnaire was used to interview them. Data was analysed by calculating the use value of selected plant species on common ailments. Hundred and forty-eight plants were observed as being utilized by Mapulana as food (fruits and African leafy vegetables), fuelwood, medicine and the making of utensils. The majority of the recorded plant species (54%) were native while 46% were naturalized. The majority of plants (37%) were utilized as medicine only, while food contributed only 19 percent usage, followed by medicine (13%), fuelwood (4%) and utensils (1%). A total of hundred and six plant species were identified as medicine treating 50 different ailments. Roots and leaves were the highly preferred plant and herb parts collected.
The results showed that Sclerocarya birrea subsp. caffra (use value of 0.86) was reported as being used in four different ways; seconded by Cucurbita maxima (use value of 0.58) with two different uses. Numerous medicinal uses were observed from Aloe zebrina (use value 0.38) and Aloe marlothii (use value 0.29). Ailments with Informant Consensus Factor (ICF) were gonorrhea (1.80), stomach cleansing (1.40), chicken and cow diseases (1.19), bad luck (0.88), flu (0.84), and diarrhea (0.80). There were, in addition, many
ailments with low ICF known by the elders and few community adults proving that the elderly are custodians of indigenous knowledge.
Twenty-six line transects of 100m x 10m in size were constructed in determining the population structure of Peltophorum africanum Sond. in Bolla-Tau village. A total of 256 individuals were recorded from the transects. Data was analyzed using IBM Statistical Product and Service solutions (SPSS) statistics version 25 and Microsoft Excel 2013 version. The population structure of P. africanum was found to be bell-shaped. Logarithmic analysis, along with generalized log analysis depicts, that there was significance difference between the plant height and stem circumference. Resprouts of P. africanum individuals were only 18% and a majority of individuals (82%) were harvested. The study revealed that 43.84% of P. africanum individuals had traces of crown damage, as compared to individuals with healthy crowns (35.9%). The rest of the individuals had either light or moderate crown-health status. / NRF
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Perceptions of smallholder and commercial farmers towards the 2018 Agricultural minimum wage : a case study in Bushbuckridge Municipality of Mpumalanga ProvinceKubayi, Future January 2021 (has links)
Thesis (M. Sc. Agriculture (Agricultural Economics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / The President of South Africa signed the National Minimum Wage Act, the amendment
of both the Basic Conditions of Employment Act and Labour Relations Act on Friday, 23
November 2018. These Acts, which were with effect from 1 January 2019, oblige all
employers to pay at least the national minimum wage of R20.00/hr. and the agricultural
sector has been given an exemption to pay 90% respectively of the national minimum
wage (Truter, 2018). Employers in the farming sector are expected to pay at least R18.00
per hour to farm workers. However, farmers are different in terms of their characteristics
and farming capacities, and they hold different perceptions towards the revised 2018
agricultural minimum wage. According to Sechaba (2017), it is believed that there will
always be different views on what constitutes a decent and acceptable minimum wage.
This study investigated the perception of both smallholder and commercial farmers
towards the 2018 agricultural minimum wage in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality of the
Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. The study had three objectives; the first objective
was to identify and describe the socio-economic characteristics of farmers, the second
one was to assess the perception of farmers on the 2018 agricultural minimum wage and
the third one was to analyse socio-economic factors influencing the perception of farmers
towards agricultural minimum wage in Bushbuckridge Municipality. Purposive sampling
was used to collect primary data from 160 smallholder and commercial farmers (Crop and
Livestock) in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality (BLM). For empirical analysis the
Multinomial Logistic Model was applied for data analysis based on information generated
using the Likert scale and the two formulated assumptions; firstly, farmers do not have
negative perceptions towards the 2018 agricultural minimum wage and lastly
socioeconomic factors do not influence farmers’ perception towards the 2018 agricultural
minimum wage. For empirical analysis, Multinomial logistic regression model was run on
spss and the descriptive statistics was used to analyse the perception of famers based
on the rank data from the Likert scale. Results from Multinomial regression analysis
indicated that demographic factors such as number of hectares, household size, age,
farming experience, marital status, and labour productivity were found to be significant
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(at 1, 5 and 10%) in distinguishing between pairs of groups and contribution, which they
make to change the odds of being in one dependent variable group rather than the other.
About 48.8% sampled farmers in Bushbuckridge Local Municipality showed negative
perceptions towards the 2018 agricultural minimum wage and were not likely to comply
with the 2018 agricultural minimum wage legislation in a sense that they had not been
paying the prescribed agricultural minimum wage to farm workers. Those who had
positive perceptions and were willing to comply were only 15.0% and those who were
uncertain on whether to comply or not comply with the 2018 agricultural minimum wage
were 36.2%. Therefore, it can be concluded from results that smallholder and commercial
farmers perceive the agricultural minimum wage differently and with majority of them not
willing to comply or pay the prescribed amount. Additionally, several factors influences
the perception on whether farmers were likely to comply or not to comply by paying the
prescribed minimum wage to farm workers, based on the 2018 agricultural minimum
wage. Variables: number of hectares, household size, age, experience, marital status and
minimum wage were found to be significant (at different significant levels 1, 5 and 10%)
in determining whether farmers were more likely or less likely to comply and pay the 2018
agricultural minimum wage. These variables plays a key role in determining farmers’
decision to comply or not to comply with the 2018 agricultural minimum wage.
However, gender, minimum wage for farmers, distance to market, access to
mechanisation, co-operative membership, access to news, pensioner and educational
status were found to be insignificant (at different significant levels 1%, 5% and 10%) at
determining whether farmers were likely to comply or not comply with the 2018
agricultural minimum wage. Thus, it is recommended that farmers, regardless of their
production scale should be consulted and given a fair platform to articulate their views
during the process of policy formulation. Policy makers and government should refrain
from using a blanket approach when formulating a policy and taking into consideration
the issue of disparities in the agricultural sector, subsectors, regions and operational scale
of farmers when discussing the agricultural minimum wage policy.
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Factors contributing to health seeking behaviour of patients at Sister Mashiteng Clinic, Nkangala District of Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, Mpumalanga ProvinceMaseko, Nonhlanhla January 2019 (has links)
Thesis (M. A. (Nursing Science)) -- University of Limpopo, 2019 / Introduction: Health seeking behaviours are explained as a dynamic interaction of cognitive, behavioural and effective elements, focusing on the attitudes and beliefs of individuals preceded by a decision-making process that is governed by individual or community norms within the primary health level context to explain and predict health behaviours. Aim: The purpose of this study was to describe factors contributing to health seeking behaviour of patients at Sister Mashiteng Clinic, Nkangala District of Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, Mpumalanga Province. Methodology: A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was followed in this study. A non- probability purposive sampling was used to select 15 patients who voluntarily agreed to participate in this study. The researcher conducted semi-structured, one-on-one interviews which were tape recorded and transcribed. Data collection was done and analysed using the Tesch’s inductive, descriptive coding technique. Results: Four themes emerged, namely, explanations related to the factors contributing to health seeking behaviour; reasons towards missing scheduled appointments behaviours; views about health seeking behaviours related to services provided at the clinics; related/existing health believes amongst patients. To ensure the trustworthiness of the research data, Lincoln and Guba’s framework, as outlined by Polit and Beck (2010), was adhered to throughout the study. Conclusion: Findings of the study revealed that the factors contributing to health seeking behaviour in Steve Tshwete clinics are behaviours that were linked to prescribed treatment, test and treat during consultation in the clinic, socio-economic background, behaviours of missing scheduled appoints or treatment, health seeking behaviour due to avoidance of running out of treatment, lack of reliable transport blamed for health seeking, patients trust of private doctors and family influence.
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An investigation of how progressed learners are supported through the learning process : the case of Manyeleti Circuit, Mpumalanga Province, South AfricaNyathi, Promise January 2022 (has links)
Thesis (M.A. (Education)) -- University of Limpopo, 2022
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