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One third of children in South Africa at risk of online violence, exploitation and abuse PRETORIA, 08 February 2021 – More than 95 per cent of children in South Africa have access to the Internet regularly, but their risky online behaviour can expose them to online violence, exploitation and abuse, according to the 'SA Kids Online Study ...
The Department of Environmental Affairs (Citation 2014) and Van Wyk (Citation 2015) indicate that 58% of South Africa's GDP is based on trade, and 98% of South Africa's trade volume moves by ship, in addition, the country generates a significant 3.5% of …
The article concludes that for HDSA to gain control in the mining industry in South Africa they need to increase their equity shareholding and mine assets. The article recommends that policy makers concentrate on helping HDSAs acquire equity and mine assets and sort out impediments that lead to the unstable nature of their shareholding ...
African waters are known for the abundance of their fishery resources. Three of the six Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) of Africa rank within the first four most productive LMEs in the world, with the Canary Current, the Benguela Current and the Somali Coastal current ranking 2nd, 3rd and 4th globally [96].Not surprisingly, the fisheries of Africa provide a source of …
Cooperative R&D initiatives in the mining industry enabled South Africa to operate at the technological frontier of mining equipment technology. However, in recent years the sector has been in ...
The mineral wealth of South Africa has been exploited by Homo sapiens for at least 40,000 years and has provided many and varied commodities including gold, platinum and diamonds. This chapter provides a historical perspective on minerals and mining mainly in South Africa, although it does occasionally stray across the borders into neighbouring countries.
These analyses, along with Fanon's (1963) analysis of the bourgeoisie in newly sovereign states perpetuating systems of exploitation are used to interrogate power hierarchies shaping South Africa ...
Among others, the objectives of the Act are to 'promote equitable access to the nation's mineral and petroleum resources to all the people of South Africa' and to 'substantially and meaningfully expand opportunities for historically disadvantaged persons, including women, to enter the mineral and petroleum industries and to benefit from the ...
Waste heaps from South Africa's 130-year-old gold industry have altered the landscape around Johannesburg [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters] ... According to a 2013 study by North-West University in South ...
Globally, mining and combustion of fossil fuels, especially coal, have resulted in various environmental problems. The adverse effects of these industries on human health, agriculture and the general ecosystem, and how …
This paper examines unregulated gold-mining activities prevalent at disused mines and decommissioned shafts at operating mines in post-apartheid South Africa. This kind of mining is deemed illegal by the government since it …
This chapter focuses on undocumented migrants who travel to South Africa in search of better lives and work in the abandoned gold mines and tailings ponds of Gauteng …
these activities and results could make a powerful contribution to South Africa's econ-omic take-off such as trade and transport activities by sea, namely, port activities and industries, fishing and exploitation of fishery and aquaculture resources, mining, oil and gas resources, exploitation of renewable marine and hydraulic energies ...
This chapter examines human trafficking in the South African context. It is acknowledged that South Africa is a source, transit as well as destination for human trafficking in Africa (UNICEF 2003).This confirms the assumption previously made that no country can be uniquely identified as a 'source', 'transit' or 'destination' in the human trafficking industry.
exploitation of the indi genous peopl e of South Africa (Hunter & Bun dy in Ramphele 1993:15). Thi s ar ti cle bri e y re e ct s on the Sou th Af ric an migr an t lab our syst em in its
1. Introduction. The relationship between commercial farmers and farm workers in South Africa has been complex and multi-layered since its origins in 'master-slave' relations at the Cape of Good Hope in the seventeenth …
The introduced Pacific oyster C. gigas is the most important commercially marketed oyster globally and in South Africa, and is quite similar in appearance to S. cucullata and S. margaritacea, with which it is often confused.It is characterized by a noniridescent white to off-white shell interior, has at least 1 adductor scar that is purple, and has undulating valve …
Relations. He was a member of the UN Association of South Africa's UWC chapter and is pursuing his MA in International Relations at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. His research interests include geopolitics, mediation, China's economic diplomacy in Africa and data governance in the SADC region. Ndeapo Wolf
From around 1990, such abandoned mines and decommissioned shafts became a source of survival for retrenched South African and immigrant mine workers and undocumented …
In November 2003, the South African press reported that the South Africa n wine industry was at last entering 'the new South Africa'. The industry had long been a by word fo r white power and ...
Rapid economic development witnessed in the BRICS economies, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has brought forth numerous environmental challenges, particularly in the form of increased …
industry makes up 67% of all tourism in South Africa, followed by travel which constitutes 16% of the tourism sector (HSRC, 2005: 16.) "Hospitality is by far the largest subsector in the
The exploitation of children for purposes of prostitution and pornography is a growing industry in South Africa.20 The real extent of the child pornography problem in South Africa is not known, and it is important to emphasise that the full reality will never be known, due to the clandestine nature of the crime.
Nowhere have these injustices been felt more strongly than in the wine industry where workers endured the 'worst working conditions experienced in South Africa' (Brown et al. 2003, 23), whilst the interactions between the wine industry and the natural environment were increasingly problematic. Thus, social, economic, environmental and ...
Middle Stone Age (MSA) shellfish remains were studied for indications of changes in subsistence adaptations. Optimal Foraging Theory was applied to the MSA shellfish assemblages from Blombos Cave and Klasies River, South Africa, to model which shellfish would be most profitable to collect in terms of meat yield and handling costs.
Optimising Africa's finite mineral resource endowments and that is diversified, incorporating both high value metals and lower value industrial minerals at both commercial …
the expanding industry known as 'game farming' in southern Africa. Projects to domesticate antelope, such as at the Galana Ranch in Kenya, have received much publicity, but it is in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesse extentr, Zimbabwe that the industry has undergone the greatest development. This account relies heavily on the South African
various independent and colonised territories in southern Africa (Crush et al. 1991; James 1992). 111 ... (Phillips 2004; Ponte et al. 2007), who argued that the mining industry in South Africa today is resistant to change because black people are co-opted into the mining industry but they are not given influential positions that will
Information was collected from 690 residents in different local mining communities of four provinces in South Africa. The study indicated positive impacts and benefits to the …
Global demand for seaweed and its products has increased exponentially over the last 25 years. Equally, the continent of Africa and its offshore islands have considerable potential for seaweed production to contribute to world demand. Compared with China and the rest of Asia, Africa lags behind in seaweed production and utilisation. However, for red eucheumatoid …
