Author:Motsatsi, Lorato L; Gibberd, Jeremy TDate:May 2019Human settlements and housing are a part of people’s material living conditions and contribute directly to their life choices. Human settlements that are poorly located, constructed and serviced force households to spend a larger proportion ...Read more
Author:Ramukhwatho, FR; Du Plessis, R; Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:Oct 2016Food waste is generated throughout the supply chain including at household level. Household waste contains a fairly large percentage of food in developing countries. This study assesses household food wastage in five selected areas in the ...Read more
Author:Ramukhwatho, FR; Du Plessis, R; Oelofse, Suzanna HHDate:Oct 2014In many developing countries, including those with food shortages a large portion of household waste is estimated to be food. This paper reports on findings of a research study conducted in one of South Africa’s largest townships (Mamelodi) ...Read more
Author:Oelofse, Suzanna HH; Marx Pienaar, NDate:Oct 2016Municipal waste composition studies globally have indicated that significant amounts of food is wasted and disposed while there is potentially significant opportunity to prevent food wastage at household level (Lebersorger and Schneider, ...Read more
Author:Strydom, Wilma F; Godfrey, Linda KDate:Oct 2016In 2010, the CSIR conducted the first national survey on household waste recycling behaviour in South Africa. To assess whether household recycling behaviour has improved over time, the CSIR conducted a second survey in 2015, five years after ...Read more
Author:Goss, H; Busgeeth, K; Le Roux, AlizeDate:01 Sep 2010The National Department of Human Settlements has contracted the CSIR Built Environment Unit in the development of the Human Settlements Atlas (previously Housing Atlas) series. The overall aim of the series is to provide a spatial interpretation ...Read more
Author:Lewis, PDate:Dec 2003This study was commissioned to investigate the current housing situation of mineworkers, and establish whether there is any association between housing and health and safety at workRead more
Author:Shaylor, E; Maponya, G; Wall, K; Ive, O; Baghwan, J; Birkholtz, WDate:Jul 2013Studies undertaken by the CSIR and WRC have found that the concept of social franchising partnerships for the routine maintenance of infrastructure could alleviate and address many challenges in the management of water services. On-going ...Read more
Author:Varzinczak, IJDate:Jun 2009Logical theories in reasoning about actions may also evolve and knowledge engineers need revision tools to incorporate new incoming laws about the dynamic environment. Researchers here fill this gap by providing an algorithmic approach for ...Read more
Author:Morris, CFDate:2009ICTs have been identified as the catalyst to assist developing countries bridge the development chasm thus alleviating the effects of poverty. However, Africa is littered with ICT projects that have failed or struggle to survive. The key ...Read more
Author:Maserumule, R; Colvin, C; Woodborne, SDate:Nov 2008Groundwater is a relatively small component of South Africa's water resources accounting for approximately 15% percent of South Africa's water consumption (DWAF 2002). Unfortunately, this statistic is overshadowed by the fact that close to ...Read more
Author:Butgereit, LDate:May 2009In a world where school books, pencils and paper have to compete with cell phones, IPODs, and MP3 players for pupils' attention, Dr Math entices pupils to practice basic mathematics skills by providing games and competitions using Mxit over ...Read more
Author:Schutte, PC; Edwards, A; Milanzi, LADate:Mar 2012Mining operations are frequently associated with difficult working conditions and high levels of workplace stress. Workplace stress can be defined as the harmful physical and emotional responses that oc-cur when the psychological and/or ...Read more
Author:Watermeyer, R; Wall, K; Pirie, GDate:Mar 2013The National Planning Commission, chaired by the Minister in The Presidency for National Planning, was mandated to take a broad, cross-cutting, independent and critical view of South Africa in order to help define the South Africa its people ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:May 2015The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how an evidence-based implementation framework was developed through the implementation of an ICT4D project in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The framework was developed over ...Read more
Author:Strydom, WilmaDate:Oct 2016In 2015 the CSIR conducted the second national survey on household waste recycling behaviour in South Africa. Focussing on the self-reported recycling quantities of the 1500 targeted households in towns & rural areas, the results show that ...Read more
Author:Wall, KDate:Feb 2010Water and wastewater utilities are the engines of the economic well being of cities
Problems associated with water and sanitation service provision in lower and middle income countries are increasing, not shrinking. The potential contribution ...Read more