With Fintech threatening to change the traditional role of banks, it is seen as both a threat and opportunity. Technology offers South African banks the opportunity to address inherent socio-economic imbalances in the economy. However, the potential systemic risk it poses threatens to aggravate the situation if it not properly regulated. This paper uses a non-posit...

This paper seeks to explain the emergence of South African inclusive agricultural business models in relation to the land reform policy. We demonstrate that in South Africa such policy instruments linking small-scale and large-scale farmers respond to endogenous dynamics linked to the failure of its land reform policy. We study the land reform policy change induced...

Indebtedness threatens a firm's survival if it performs poorly and fails to service its debts. While other empiricists have focused on the effect of long-term debt on firm value, we extend the frontiers by defining financial risk (debt) as total liabilities. We analyse information content of financial risk on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for the 2010-2017 period...

This article seeks to repurpose African humanism (ubuntu) as a catalyst for peace in Africa and the world through the representation of Mphahlele's exilic life in The Wanderers. It endeavours, through an (auto)biographical textual analysis, to outline how, in the apartheid era, racial discrimination in South Africa forced him to wander into exile. It is a pure qual...

De nombreux sites contenant des poteries des types Zhizo, Leopard's Kopje et Khami ont été identifiés autour des bordures sud et est du Sowa Pan, dans l'est du Botswana. Cet article présente les résultats de l'analyse de tessons provenant des trois plus grands sites de ce groupe -- Kaitshàa, Thabadimasego, et Tora Nju -- et d'argile provenant de 39 gisements géolog...

This paper seeks to provide an analysis of obstacles that hinder progress in promoting the functional status of African languages in the South African higher education sector. African languages suffer marginalisation despite the existence of various empowering and restorative legislative provisions and policies. In this study, we argue that African languages have a...

Cet article offre un éclairage sur les études islamiques à Mirriah, République du Niger, dans une période particulière de l'histoire (1974-75), avant l'émergence de certains des courants sous-jacents aux troubles religieux les plus récents en Afrique de l'Ouest. À travers des entretiens avec des érudits locaux, il examine à quel point ces derniers ont participé à u...

This paper attempts to explore and investigate the role of discourse markers (DMs) in the annexes of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Discourse markers are cohesive markers that play an important role in connecting paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases to both previous and following items and therefore reflect the speaker's/writer's intend...

This paper seeks to provide an analysis of obstacles that hinder progress in promoting the functional status of African languages in the South African higher education sector. African languages suffer marginalisation despite the existence of various empowering and restorative legislative provisions and policies. In this study, we argue that African languages have a...

Inclusive businesses are complex partnerships between commercial entities and smallholders/low-income communities, to include the latter in commercial agricultural value chains. IBs offer income opportunities for both partners, but are also regarded as empowering the smallholders/communities. To date, IB inclusiveness has been assessed mainly through basic quantita...

Based on the association between differences in learning contexts and differences in linguistic outcomes as supported by second language acquisition (SLA) research, this study examines the differential effects of particular contextually dependent variables on Spanish learners' English oral communication skills in two different instructional settings (Content and La...

Turkana fishing communities have operated along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya, for well over a century and yet are rarely the subject of in-depth historical or ethnographic research. These communities are regularly situated within broader synchronic considerations of economic adversity and destitution, and it is arguably this propensity that has serv...