Author:Butgereit, LDate:May 2010The National Accessibility Portal (NAP) is a website specifically designed to give South Africans living with disabilities access to important information which may enhance their lives. This information includes lists of schools for children ...Read more
Author:Coetzee, L; Govender, Natasha; Viviers, MIDate:May 2007The National Accessibility Portal initiative is a large initiative aimed at improving the quality of life of people living with disabilities in South Africa. The initiative has several functional components, including the National Accessibility ...Read more
Author:Lück-Vogel, MelanieDate:Sep 2019In this presentation the legacy of the coastal flood and erosion risk assessments conducted from the National Coastal Assessment project and the Coastal Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment is explained and the way forward is lined out.Read more
Author:Manus, N; Wall, KDate:May 2009The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has for a number of years been in the process of formulating the numerous layers of a national water services infrastructure asset management (IAM) strategy. Earlier work included: a "scan" ...Read more
Author:Wall, KDate:May 2009Whereas in a country such as South Africa some public sector authorities are able to practise more or less competent management of their infrastructure assets, government intervention and assistance is needed in respect of many other authorities ...Read more
Author:Hietkamp, SDate:Jun 2006Without legislation pollution is regarded as an “externality” high levels of air and water pollution in Europe resulted increasing industrialisation. Disasters happened e.g. London smog in the 1950 and the first clean air legislation was ...Read more
Author:Pretorius, R; Bezuidenhout, HDate:Oct 2012The aim of this poster is to illustrate the South African National Recordal
Systems (NRS) process whereby Indigenous Knowledge (IK) holder’s
information is captured in a registry, as specified in South Africa’s Indigenous
Knowledge ...Read more
Author:Pretorius, R; Bezuidenhout, HDate:Nov 2011The aim of this poster is to illustrate the South African National Recordal Systems (NRS) process whereby Indigenous Knowledge (IK) holder’s information is captured in a registry, as specified in South Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems ...Read more
Author:Jansen van Vuuren, JCDate:Sep 2010The presentation addresses national security issues and the impact of cyber threats on the average citizen. It classifies cyber threats, analysis national security and provides security tips to safeguard the individual against cyber threats.Read more
Author:Burmeister, OK; Phahlamohlaka, Letlibe J; Al-Saggaf, YDate:Jun 2014There exists a paucity of research on ethical considerations in cyberdefence policies that can provide nation states guidance in mitigating the risks of a cyber attack to their national interests and to preparing for a cyber offence in response ...Read more
Author:Oranje, M; Van Huyssteen, Elsona; Meiklejohn, CDate:Jun 2009What matters from the perspective of the NSDP is whether an area has the potential to grow economically in a sustainable way, create jobs and alleviate poverty. If small towns have such potential, there is nothing that precludes such investment. ...Read more
Author:Snyman-van der Walt, LuanitaDate:Jun 2017The Department of Environmental Affairs and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries commissioned the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to conduct a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) for Aquaculture Development ...Read more
Author:Wall, K; Manus, ADate:May 2007The paper describes the problem statement and context, and scope of the work. The paper also describes progress made thus far with the strategy formulation. However the work will be complete by the time the conference takes place, and the ...Read more
Author:Möller, H; Govender, G; Stumpf, WEDate:Sep 2008The heat treatment cycles that are currently applied to semi-solid processed components are mostly those that are in use for dendritic casting alloys. These heat treatments are not necessarily the optimum treatments for non-dendritic ...Read more
Author:Guduri, BBRDate:Dec 2006The influence of Hildegardia populofolia fabric content, fabric orientation, sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and silane coupling agent treatment on the surface properties of the fabric, mechanical and fracture properties of Hildegardia populifolia- ...Read more
Author:Maharaj, VDate:Oct 2012In this presentation the author outlines the steps taken in developing a South African indigenous plant-based microbicide to prevent HIV infection in women.Read more
Author:De Wit, MP; Swilling, M; Musango, JKDate:11 Aug 2008Cities in developing countries often have to face a multiplicity of external shocks that impact on their operations. These changes include increased rates of migration from the rural poor, natural resource shocks such as droughts, decreased ...Read more
Author:Muronga, Khangwelo; Ruxwana, NkqubelaDate:Jul 2017Naturalistic Driving Studies (NDS) is a research methodology that has the potential to improve existing approaches for collecting data about driver behaviour and performance in normal driving conditions. Analysis of naturalistic driving data ...Read more
Author:Rakitianskaia, AS; Olivier, MS; Cooper, Antony KDate:Aug 2011Online social spaces have become very popular in the past couple of decades. With the great numbers of users in the online environments it becomes obvious that the human factor plays an important role in the social structure of such environments. ...Read more