May 21, 2021 Information resources on Mining. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997 along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international
May 11, 2018 The impact of re-industrialization on economic growth and employment in South Africa. Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2017. The South African economy has an enormous task of addressing the triple challenges of high unemployment, poverty and inequality. There is a growing concern that sluggish economic performance and these
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies Collection 2018 ... observed the accidents death rate for mining and quarrying industry in South Africa at one death per 300 workers was exceeding double the worldwide fatality rate resulting from occupational hazards. Virchow (2015) opined that the mining and
4.3.2.2 Negative effects of mining to people’s lives 59 4.3.2.3 Negative impacts of mining observed by respondents 60 4.3.2.4 Accidents reported during sand and gravel mining 62 4.3.3 Solutions and rehabilitation to sand and gravel mining 63 4.3.3.1 Solutions at community level 64
Illegal mining's effect on the sustainability of a South-African Gold mine. Gold mining is one of the cornerstones of the South-African economy, to an extent that the South-African gold mining industry was directly responsible for the establishment of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) in 1887. Despite its importance to the economy, the gold
1 SUSTAINABLE MINING IN SOUTH AFRICA . 1 INTRODUCTION Mining is one of South Africa’s biggest industries.1 It has played a vital role in the economy for over a hundred years. In 2015 the mining industry contributed R286 billion towards South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product2 representing 7.1% of overall GDP.3 Mining directly
The basic essence of mining law in most African countries is similar, being a state licencing system, but each country has its own local laws, customs, practices and guidelines. LEX Africa is the first and largest African legal alliance with a long history of assisting clients across the continent. It is hoped
Founded in 1963, the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh is the only such academic unit in Scotland dedicated to the study of Africa.. Drawing on a proud history of links between Scotland and Africa, from the missionaries who played a major role in southern Africa to the African leaders, such as Julius Nyerere, who studied at Edinburgh, the Centre of African
ARTISANAL AND SMALL-SCALE GOLD MINING AND HEALTH 2 1.1 SCOPE AND PURPOSE An early version of this report served as a background document for a WHO technical consultation on artisanal and small-scale gold mining and health, which took place on 1-2 October 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland. The overarching goals of this meeting were to:
The research entailed an exploration of the design of job descriptions (JDs) in the South African Police Service (SAPS). A JD represents an official document that defines general duties, tasks, and related job responsibilities. ... The role of traffic
Organisation of African Unity into the African Union, the creation of NEPAD, to structural reforms within regional economic communities with the example of the 2001 restructuring of SADC, empirical evidence shows that little change has occurred at the operational level
ii. Mining is an international business and South Africa has to compete against developed and developing countries to attract both foreign and local investment. Many mining projects in South Africa have tended to be unusually large and long term, requiring massive capital and entailing a high degree of risk. iii
This dissertation provides an overview of the Mining Towns Programme and its evolution, identify some of the major pitfalls and assumptions of the programme, and propose an alternative. It also provides and reflects a sustained critique of the approach of the state in the creation of human settlements and the provision of housing in mining towns
Mining is a chief contributor to economic growth and social development in a number of EBRD’s countries of operations (COOs) that are resource-rich, such as Russia, Ukraine, and Mongolia, with local communities often benefiting significantly from mining activities
In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) mining countries grew, by 1.3 percent annually, more than non-mining/oil coun-tries from 2001 to 2010 and 1 percent more from 2007 to 2011. Mineral-dependent low-income and lower-middle-income countries’ HDI performance outperformed that of their income cohorts for all peri
Transformation of the mining sector is imperative in South Africa as it is the backbone of the economy and informs all aspects of competitiveness in the global arena. In addition, it attracts foreign investment. The Mining Charter is an agent of transformation in the mining sector
The advantages and attraction of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) include the following: By creating ETDs students can use more innovative approaches, as well as print on paper, including audio, video, hypertext, multimedia and hypermedia. Access to graduate research information is enhanced by making it available to researchers on the
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Small-scale mining entrepreneurs are confronted with a variety of challenges during both the start-up and growth phase of their businesses not only in South Africa, but all over the world. Most small-scale mining entrepreneurs are not able to take advantage of the opportunities that are available to them
African, UK and US own the mines and control an average of about 70% shares in these mines with the Ghana government holding 10% free share in each mine with an option to acquire additional 20%. In addition, some of the mining companies in the country have their investments promoted and guaranteed and protected by the World Bank
Please address your enquiries concerning the MSc in African Studies to: [email protected] Dissertation Titles. MSc African Studies students are required to write a dissertation of not more than 15,000 words. Past dissertations are available for consultation in the Terence Ranger Reading Room at the African Studies Centre
The impact of coal mining on the environment and community quality of life: a case study investigation of the impacts and conflicts associated with coal mining in the Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Department of Chemical Engineering
Mining Law and Policy: A comparative analysis of South Africa and Zimbabwe’s mining laws and policy regimes TADIOS MUZOROZA A research dissertation submitted to the Centre for Human Rights Law Faculty, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the LLM in International Trade & Investment Law degree
Using the case studies of Botswana, South Africa, and Zambia, this dissertation interrogates the applicability of the developmental state paradigm to mining developmentalism in Southern Africa. Since the advent of neoliberal Washington Consensus policies and the rise of the resource curse theory beginning in the 1980s, African states have been discouraged from pursuing
By using mining developmentalism in Southern Africa to interrogate orthodox law and development approaches to the developmental state, this dissertation concludes that a rights- based approach to conceptualizing the developmental state—and more specifically, the mining