Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is the commitment of businesses to contribute to sustainable economic development, working with employees, their families, the local community and society at large to improve their quality of life. The concept is based on a business organization’s configuration of social responsibility principles, social responsiveness processes, policies, programs, and observable outcomes relating to the firm’s societal relationships.

This dissertation lays out a terrain for food-based practice in the Fine Arts, where food is both subject and method of inquiry, and where food-based art practice is central to challenging dominant narratives, subverting visual economies, and foregrounding embodied and multisensorial dimensions that remain under-theorised in the visual arts.

Background: Intensive Interaction is a social communication intervention for persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. The goal of Intensive Interaction is to establish human connectedness and improve communication. The aim of this thesis was to determine the effect of Intensive Interaction on preverbal communication and cortical brain activity.

The focus of the study was to formulate a framework for managing socio-emotional development in the context of school violence.This enquiry was guided by the principles of the Transformative paradigm and PALAR methodology; the following aims and objectives: Identifying the need for an Afro-sensed framework for managing socio-emotional development; finding out the components of an Afro-sensed framework; exploring plausible conducive conditions for the implementation of an Afrosensed framework as well as outlining the best practices in managing socio-emotional development.

This study uses the case of selected commercial apple farmers and farm workers from the Langkloof Valley to determine whether a profit-driven trading arrangement, such as a global apple value chain, can produce inclusive developmental outcomes. Mainstream global commodity chain (GCC) and global value chain (GVC) discourse, which is mainly inspired by a neoliberal approach to development, presents global chains (GCs) as ideal conduits for facilitating economic and social upgrading for suppliers/producers and their employees from developing countries such as South Africa.

South Africa has the largest number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive people in the world, the third-highest rate of Tuberculosis (TB) infections, and the secondhighest rate of Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB) globally, with up to 60% of HIV-positive healthcare users (HCUs) infected with TB as a co-infection. Both HIV/AIDS and TB require strict medicines adherence for disease management or treatment respectively; however, this is

The post-apartheid era in South Africa created an environment where people of different socio-economic and racial orientations can work together on an equal basis. Thus, citizens come to the work environment with diverse socio-cultural values, which influence their perceptions of communication within any given organisational context. The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) training environment comprises diverse socio-cultural aspects including race, language, class and gender, where recruits are trained in one environment despite their socio-cultural differences.