D. Tech. Marketing, Logistics and Sport Management / Difficulties in implementing and promoting school sport programmes using the sport policy guidelines in South Africa (White Paper), and interviews with employees at the Department of Basic Education in the Tshwaga region, motivated the researcher to undertake this study. The importance of motivating children to participate in sport, and the need to provide a platform and resources for children, teachers and parents to be involved in school sport were discussed. This study explored and described those factors that influence the level of participation of children in sports at both primary and secondary township schools in the City of Tshwane. The aim of the study was to develop a framework for learners' participation in sport at public township schools.

M. Tech. Public Management / The issue of public participation in local government is important for the delivery of services to communities. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and other legislation relating to public participation such as the Municipal Systems Act, 2000 (Act 32 of 2000,) encourage the participation by communities in the affairs of the municipality. In this study, public participation perspectives are outlined on an international level and in South African local government. The area of the study is the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, which is situated in the Gauteng Province. The study seeks to assess the impact that public participation has on enhancing service delivery in the City of Tshwane. Furthermore, the study seeks to achieve its purpose by establishing the extent to which public participation enhances service delivery in the City of Tshwane.

Thesis (MMed.(Paed.-Faculty of Health Sciences))--University of Pretoria, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references.

The current trend in business is that the more rapidly customers are able to receive the services they require; the better the organisation can perform. However, customers’ needs are becoming progressively more complex due to the increased number of communication channels and ubiquitous business information. Serving today’s informed customers with traditional business methods have proven to be too difficult for organisations that are too rigid to change. Determining how to support business stakeholders effectively and efficiently, ranging from clients to shareholders can seem daunting; yet it does not have to be. The major objective of this study was to use a balanced scorecard (BSC) to improve an organisation’s financial perspective. A case study of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Polokwane campus in South Africa was used to inform the study. This study was motivated by the fact that, as much as the BSC is widely being used to align organisations’ operations to its mission and objectives, many organisations in the developing world still use traditional financial performance measurement systems. Another motivation for the study resulted from the fact that despite the strategic positioning of the TUT Polokwane campus in Limpopo province, the campus is still failing to attract potential students and high-calibre staff. The study modified the BSC for non-profit organisations (Kaplan & Norton, 2001) to come up with a conceptual framework that suits the TUT Polokwane campus environment. Secondary and primary data were used. Secondary data was obtained by reviewing relevant documentation that contributed to identifying key performance measures. These measures were used to develop the instrument for collecting primary data. Primary data was analysed quantitatively. The results of the study showed that many of the questionnaire items were good. Three of the six hypothesised relationships between the six constructs and the improvement of the financial perspective were fully supported, while the other three were partially supported. Relevant modifications were made to the measuring items and consequently, the BSC. The modified BSC that was a result of this study can be used as a reference framework by universities that wish to implement it within their settings. To the management of the TUT Polokwane campus this study will serve as a standard to set the business operations congruent to the university’s mission and vision. This study recommends that future research should consider using longitudinal surveys since users’ perception and customer needs change as the business environment changes. The study also emphasised the need for continuous review and modification of the resultant BSC that will be introduced at the campus in order to cope with the ever-increasing changes in business and technological developments. / Dissertation (MCom)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Business Management / unrestricted

The overall purpose of this study was to investigate the transformation of a South African region, with the city of Pretoria at its core, from pre-historical times up to 1 994, and with consideration of the prospects for the immediate future, in terms of the dynamic nature of South African society. The names Tshwane, Pretoria and Phelindaba in the title of the study refer to the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial eras in the historiography of the region and symbolize the notion of transformation. The aim was to contextualize, exemplify and understand structure-agency interaction, with particular emphasis on the territorial outcomes of the interrelationship between identity and place. The approach of the study was area specialization, based on the principles of contemporary locality and regional studies, and combining a structurationist ontology with the epistemology of postmodernism. Chapter 1 introduces the purpose, theme, theoretical framework, sphere, subject field, approach and methodology of the study. After defining the study area and describing its natural environment, the chapter discusses the operational paradigm and the research process of this study. Chapter 2 describes the occupation of land, the control of resources and the organization and transformation of society in the Bankenveld up to 1840 in relation to the limitations and possibilities of a dynamic natural environment. A time-space schema integrating human-environment interaction in the study area over two million years of human occupation is presented. Chapter 3 describes the development of a colonial land policy set against the formation of a new colonial society in the Pretoria District after 1840. Further, it details the findings of a reconstruction of territoriality, based on an identity-in-land. These findings are at variance with established views on land occupation in the Pretoria District as at 19 June 1913, and at the same time lend support for the current post-apartheid land reform programme. The focus in Chapter 4 is on the development of a racial land distribution policy in tandem with the evolution of a Euro-colonial segregationist ideology in South Africa. The objective was to conduct an audit of land occupation in the Pretoria area between 1 91 0 and 1 940. This quantitative analysis provides the basis for a critical evaluation of historical land policies and their influence on contemporary land reform policies. Chapter 5 presents an analysis of the development of the apartheid spatial planning strategy in terms of the micro-environment of public urban amenities, the mesoenvironment of urban planning and the macro-environment of homeland formation against the background of the evolution of the apartheid racial ideology from 1 940 to 1990. It further traces the desegregation of public amenities and the demarcation of new provinces during the period of negotiations for a political settlement in South Africa between 1 990 and 1 994, and considers prospects for spatial development in the study area. Chapter 6, the final chapter, reflects on the conceptual framework, approach, and aim of the study in an attempt to understand fully the particularities of the Pretoria region within the larger national context and within the context of an integrated human-earth in a fully theorized and integrated way. / Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 1998. / gm2014 / Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology / Unrestricted

The project is aimed at the depolarization of the polar community of the Metropolitian of Tshwane. This is done through creating a network by means of a media centre. This project is also to adress the transition phase, between formal and informal activity. The full text of this thesis/dissertation is not available online due to errors in the script . Please <a href="mailto:upetd@up.ac.za?subject=UPeTD access required">contact us</a> if you need access. / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Architecture / unrestricted

A few vertically integrated retail chains increasingly dominate South Africa’s agro-food supply chain. M+M Planet Retail (2004) placed the market concentration among retailers to be as high as 96% for the top four chains leaving only 4% to the small competitors. The onset of this trend has led to the demise of a large number of “mom and pop” general dealers in favour of the sleek new stores as they were either priced or bought out of business. Players in the fresh produce market have proved to be resilient to this onslaught. The green grocers and hawkers have survived the “category killers” and appear to be able to face this competition head on. It is this resilience that is of interest to this study. The review of literature revealed a dearth of studies and hence methodology into the nature of the interaction between the three forms of retail. A preliminary survey also revealed the lack of coherent and detailed information, particularly among the greengrocers and hawkers. Thus the established methods of modelling competition analysis, namely the Structure Conduct Performance and the New Empirical Industrial Organisation frameworks, were deemed inappropriate. The study therefore took an exploratory form that relied on measures of central tendency and the perceptions of leading industry practitioners to reveal the nature and magnitude of competition between supermarkets, green grocers and hawkers. The study primarily drew on ‘Porter’s forces’ competition model to structure the investigation. It also employed a chain analysis approach including supply and value chain analysis (VCA) tools to analyse this competition. The study therefore sought to unpack the retail sections of the three chains in terms of identifying role-players; their relationships and interaction; as well as to account for the relative values that different types of fresh produce retailers generated for the final consumer. Besides the contribution to the general body of knowledge about the nature of the system that feeds us, this study provides means for the competing channels to upgrade and improve efficiency. A developmental and empowerment point of view was emphasised in the research, as such, identifying possible measures to upgrade and improve the informal sector was given precedence. The objective was to describe and analyse the competitive environment in which FFV was retailed in the Tshwane through a determination of the competitive and strategic behaviour of retailers and a mapping the flow of value. It was hypothesised that fresh produce retailers competed by varying elements of their marketing mix to suit their niche markets. The investigation was conducted in two phases; a pilot study followed by a survey involving a six-step sampling frame targeting a total of 120 respondents including 15 supermarkets, 30 greengrocers and 75 hawkers. This analysis was limited to the bounds of the Tshwane metropolitan area, South Africa, and focused on six fresh fruits and vegetable lines concurrently traded by supermarkets, greengrocers and hawkers. The main findings of the investigation include that tri-dimensional FFV retail competition was most intense in the middle-income areas of the city. The low income areas were dominated by informal traders while the large supermarkets chains and the large format greengrocers dominated the high income areas. The non-syndicated greengrocers were confined to the middle-income areas where competition was most intense. When the marketing strategies and chain maps were compared it was concluded that the tridimensional competitive environment was facilitated by the existence of multiple niches; the equalising effect of produce market based pricing; the general upgrade in product quality offered by all retailers; characteristics of fresh produce itself as compared to other foodstuffs and the existence of multiple market niches in the sector. Concluding the study were recommendations to improve (upgrade) the marketing performance of each of the three channels. / Dissertation (MSc(Agric) (Agricultural Economics))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development / MSc(Agric) / unrestricted

Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) has become a vital process in combating the spread of HIV/AIDS. Yet little has been published on how students experience the process of VCT. This study sought to describe and understand the experiences of voluntary counselling and testing among four students at Tshwane University of Technology. This research project focussed on students’ experiences when reporting for voluntary counselling and testing. The results were used to make recommendations for strategies to increase the accessibility and uptake of VCT by students. Using a phenomenological approach, tape recorded interviews were conducted with the four students of Tshwane University of Technology (TUT). The data were then categorised into five themes relating to the experience of VCT: emotions, perceptions, actions, thoughts and desires. The results showed that the students were mostly dissatisfied with the VCT clinic’s procedures and the counsellor’s attitudes. Also evident from this study was that counsellors’ professionalism, peer support, and a service that offers both pre- and post-test counselling play a significant role in students’ use of VCT. The findings of this study suggest that the following could be used as strategies to motivate students to utilise VCT services of VCT: (1) increase access and acceptability of VCT for students; (2) ensure access to factual information in the form of counselling; (3) make counselling a priority. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Psychology / unrestricted

Please read the abstract in the dissertation. / Dissertation (MConsumer Science)--University of Pretoria, 2011. / Consumer Science / unrestricted

No abstract available / Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / unrestricted