published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1981. / Also available in print.

The aim of this study was to explore the role of environmental education in dealing with solid waste in the Central Business District of Thohoyandou. The study was carried out in the Thohoyandou Central Business District (CBD). Two organisations were identified as practising environmental education in Thohoyandou, namely, the Environmental Education Desk (Environmental Affairs) and the Environmental Health Services (Thulamela Municipality). Officers from these organisations were interviewed. Vendors and hawkers in the Thohoyandou Central Business District were asked to complete a questionnaire on the role of environmental education in dealing with solid waste. The literature review in the study included the theoretical perspectives on environmental education and solid waste. From this review that solid waste can have both a positive and negative impact on the local and global environment. Therefore, environmental education that has a role in dealing with solid waste has an important part to play in sustainable development. / Educational Studies / M.Ed.(Environmental Education)

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Por meio da intertextualidade e da narrativa, esta dissertação aborda a relação dos pequenos engraxates ambulantes com a música produzida nas ruas da cidade de São Paulo, durante a primeira metade do século XX. As rodas de batucada organizadas informalmente por estes pequenos trabalhadores nas esquinas, praças e largos, nos momentos de intervalo entre um cliente e outro, eram muitos comuns na paisagem urbana do período. A prática contribuiu na formação de uma geração de sambistas paulistas e na consolidação do samba em São Paulo. Sujeitos ecléticos que se relacionavam com os mais diferentes estratos sociais, os lustradores de sapatos ocupavam as ruas paulistanas desde meados do século XIX e criaram, ao longo do tempo, uma forte imbricação com a cultura musical da cidade. Durante a década de 1940, alguns eram compositores e criticavam, em sambas, a repressão a qual estavam submetidos pelas autoridades, já que era proibido exercer o ofício nas ruas. Outros, se sobressaíram como batuqueiros e, quando adultos, destacaram-se como lideranças das principais escolas de samba de São Paulo. As fontes documentais empregadas na pesquisa são de origem policial, processual, crônicas, reportagens e depoimentos. / By means of a narrative, this current thesis approaches the relations between shoeshine boys and the music produced on the streets of São Paulo during the 1930s and 1940s. The batucada jams, informally organized by those young workers in any corner, square or plaza of the city, during quick breaks in the midst of their labor, were very common in the urban landscape at that time. This custom contributed to the formation of a whole generation of samba musicians that had established the samba music scene in the city of São Paulo. All those young boot polishers were very eclectic fellows, always willing to keep in touch with people from all social classes, by occupying the streets of São Paulo since the middle of the 19th century and then creating a strong relation with the music culture of the city throughout the times. During the 1940s a few of them became music writers well-known for criticizing, through their samba songs, the steady repression they suffered from the police due to their status of illegal workers. Other shoeshine boys became batuqueiros (street drummers) that later would be responsible for leading the most traditional samba schools in São Paulo. The main documentary sources used in the present study were records from police departments, criminal prosecutions, written chronicles, news reporting and oral history.

Por meio da intertextualidade e da narrativa, esta dissertação aborda a relação dos pequenos engraxates ambulantes com a música produzida nas ruas da cidade de São Paulo, durante a primeira metade do século XX. As rodas de batucada organizadas informalmente por estes pequenos trabalhadores nas esquinas, praças e largos, nos momentos de intervalo entre um cliente e outro, eram muitos comuns na paisagem urbana do período. A prática contribuiu na formação de uma geração de sambistas paulistas e na consolidação do samba em São Paulo. Sujeitos ecléticos que se relacionavam com os mais diferentes estratos sociais, os lustradores de sapatos ocupavam as ruas paulistanas desde meados do século XIX e criaram, ao longo do tempo, uma forte imbricação com a cultura musical da cidade. Durante a década de 1940, alguns eram compositores e criticavam, em sambas, a repressão a qual estavam submetidos pelas autoridades, já que era proibido exercer o ofício nas ruas. Outros, se sobressaíram como batuqueiros e, quando adultos, destacaram-se como lideranças das principais escolas de samba de São Paulo. As fontes documentais empregadas na pesquisa são de origem policial, processual, crônicas, reportagens e depoimentos. / By means of a narrative, this current thesis approaches the relations between shoeshine boys and the music produced on the streets of São Paulo during the 1930s and 1940s. The batucada jams, informally organized by those young workers in any corner, square or plaza of the city, during quick breaks in the midst of their labor, were very common in the urban landscape at that time. This custom contributed to the formation of a whole generation of samba musicians that had established the samba music scene in the city of São Paulo. All those young boot polishers were very eclectic fellows, always willing to keep in touch with people from all social classes, by occupying the streets of São Paulo since the middle of the 19th century and then creating a strong relation with the music culture of the city throughout the times. During the 1940s a few of them became music writers well-known for criticizing, through their samba songs, the steady repression they suffered from the police due to their status of illegal workers. Other shoeshine boys became batuqueiros (street drummers) that later would be responsible for leading the most traditional samba schools in São Paulo. The main documentary sources used in the present study were records from police departments, criminal prosecutions, written chronicles, news reporting and oral history.

No abstract available. / Thesis (M.T.R.P.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1995.

The aim of this study was to explore the role of environmental education in dealing with solid waste in the Central Business District of Thohoyandou. The study was carried out in the Thohoyandou Central Business District (CBD). Two organisations were identified as practising environmental education in Thohoyandou, namely, the Environmental Education Desk (Environmental Affairs) and the Environmental Health Services (Thulamela Municipality). Officers from these organisations were interviewed. Vendors and hawkers in the Thohoyandou Central Business District were asked to complete a questionnaire on the role of environmental education in dealing with solid waste. The literature review in the study included the theoretical perspectives on environmental education and solid waste. From this review that solid waste can have both a positive and negative impact on the local and global environment. Therefore, environmental education that has a role in dealing with solid waste has an important part to play in sustainable development. / Educational Studies / M.Ed.(Environmental Education)

Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness / MSCAEC

MSCAGR (Agricultural Economics) / Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness / study aimed to determine factors that influenced the price of tomatoes sold by hawkers on the roadside market. The study also aimed at determining whether any socio-economic characteristics of hawkers who sold tomatoes had significant impact on the price paid my consumers. The study was conducted in the Thulamela local municipality under Vhembe District of Limpopo, South Africa. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select participants for this study. A sample size of 198 hawkers were drawn randomly. Structured questionnaires were administered through face-to-face interview. Descriptive statistics, correlation matrix, multiple linear hedonic regression and stepwise linear regression were used to analyse collected data. With regards socio-economic characteristics, only age was found to have significant impact on the market price received by hawkers. Smooth appearance, rough appearance, round shape, oval shape, and red and yellow colour tomatoes had a significant impact on the average market price. It is therefore recommended that attribute such appearances, colour, shapes and sizes of tomatoes should be considered when selling tomatoes at both retail and farm level. This will result in more purchase of tomatoes that will eventually contribute to increase in household income and reduction in poverty.