Focused on women, this article investigates the qualities and attributes that family-owned businesses desire in a potential successor. This paper is outcome of quantitative data was solicited collected from 120 participants using semi-structured questionnaire. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) software utilised to analyse complemented with elements were drawn qualitative (open-...

The needs of the customers residing in townships are generally met by informal retailers operating spaza and tuck shops. These sell personal household products such as cooking oil, sugar, maize flour, snacks, soap, paraffin, candles, matches, disinfectants, cigarettes, prepaid airtime for mobile phones. However, several factors determine success marketing these to retailers. Therefore, this stu...

This article examines the relationship between public libraries and social change in South Africa during the 1980s. It focuses on libraries in selected townships on the Cape Flats. It concludes that debates about the public library’s success or failure as an instrument of social change cannot overlook the idea of contested space in which the live discussion, debate, and circulation of ideas pre...

BACKGROUND This study examined evolving malaria profiles from January, 2010 to December, 2014 to evaluate achievements and challenges of implementing measures to prevent and control spread of artemisinin resistance in Myanmar. METHODS Using National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) data, a cross-sectional descriptive study of 52 townships in artemisinin-resistant containment areas in Myanmar ...

Spatial analytical techniques and models are often used in epidemiology to identify spatial anomalies (hotspots) in disease regions. These analytical approaches can be used to identify not only the location of such hotspots, but also their spatial patterns. We used spatial autocorrelation methodologies, including Global Moran's I and Local Getis-Ord statistics, to describe and map spatial clust...