• Strategies to manage digital disruption across the hierarchy of South African shopping centres 

  Masebe, Norman; Paradza, Partson; Zulch, Benita (Adonis and Abbey, 2024-12-01)

  This paper investigated the challenges, impacts, and strategies to deal with digital disruption in retail and how these factors manifest across the hierarchy of South African planned shopping centres. This paper sought to ...
• Some implications of the condition of South Africa’s public sector fixed infrastructure 

  Wall, Kevin (University of Free State, 2024-12-10)

  This third article in a planned series on the state of South Africa’s public sector fixed infrastructure examines the implications of its deteriorating condition. The first two articles focused on efforts to monitor ...
• Report cards, and other tracking of South Africa's public sector fixed infrastructure condition 

  Wall, Kevin (University of the Free State, 2024)

  This article is the second of a planned series being published in this Journal describing investigations of the condition of South Africa’s infrastructure, reasons for/contributory factors to this condition, and the ...
• Mining activities and housing price nexus : evidence from South Africa 

  Akinsomi, Omokolade; Bangura, Mustapha; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim (Emerald, 2024-12)

  PURPOSE : Several studies have examined the impact of market fundamentals on house prices. However, the effect of economic sectors on housing prices is limited despite the existence of two-speed economies in some ...
• Predictive accuracy of logit regression for data-scarce developing markets : a Nigeria and South Africa study 

  Oladeji, Jonathan Damilola; Zulch, Benita; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim (MDPI, 2023-09)

  This research examines how much forecasting accuracy can be achieved by modelling the relationships between listed real estate and macroeconomic time series variables using the logit regression model. The example data ...
• Implications of macroeconomic risks on NHFC'S incremental housing finance in South Africa 

  Oladeji, Jonathan Damilola; Zulch, Benita; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim (Emerald, 2023-06)

  PURPOSE – The challenge of accessibility to adequate housing in several countries by a large percentage of citizens has given rise to different housing programs designed to facilitate access to affordable housing. In South ...
• Monitoring the condition of public sector fixed infrastructure in South Africa 

  Wall, K. (University of Free State, 2023-12)

  Infrastructure is designed and built to deliver a service, but how well the infrastructure is operated and maintained is a major determinant of how effectively it is able to deliver that service. Despite this, much of ...
• A comparison of low-cost housing units for varying climatic regions in South Africa : a knowledge management approach 

  Van Tonder, Francine; Rwelamila, P.D. (Emerald, 2024-09)

  PURPOSE – One of the greatest challenges faced by the 1994 post-apartheid government in South Africa is the housing problem that has persisted for almost 30 years into democracy. Innovation in research and practice ...
• Modelling and experimental investigation of a vapor compression system under steady state regime 

  Sanama, Conrad; Xia, Xiaohua (International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, 2022-02)

  The main objective of this work is to establish a detailed modelling technique to predict the refrigerant conditions such as pressure and enthalpy of a Vapor Compression (VC) system. The steady state modelling techniques ...
• A model for integrated tourism infrastructure planning in the South African public sector 

  Wall, K.; Chettiar, Shamilla; Laryea, Samuel (Africa Journals, 2022-10)

  Tourism infrastructure is considered critical for tourism growth and destination competitiveness. Within the complex South African public sector planning system, the responsibility for infrastructure and tourism planning ...
• The 1998 "'mini-constitution' for local government" : a review of the assumptions of the white paper on local government 

  Wall, Kevin (University of the Free State, 2022-12)

  Many South African municipalities suffer service-delivery problems that can usually be ascribed to inadequate management, skills, and budgets. The reasons for these, in turn, invariably include weak economic base, unwise ...
• Addressing the infrastructure maintenance gap while creating employment and transferring skills : an innovative institutional model 

  Wall, Kevin (Routledge, 2023)

  The ‘social franchising’ model for the operation and maintenance of selected water and sanitation infrastructure, the conceptual origins of the model, its subsequent development by desktop research methods, and its piloting ...
• A pragmatic derivative method to assess the condition of a public health built infrastructure portfolio 

  De Jager, Peta; Wall, Kevin (South African Institute of Civil Engineers, 2022-09)

  The 2006, 2011 and 2017 Report Cards on the condition of built environment fixed infrastructure in South Africa were the product of cooperation between the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the South ...
• The right to functioning urban infrastructure – a review 

  Wall, Kevin (University of the Free State, 2021-12)

  A major objective of local government in South Africa, as defined in the Constitution, is to ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner. However, neglect of infrastructure continues to hamper ...
• Are former commercial farmers in Zimbabwe satisfied with the global compensation agreement? 

  Zulch, Benita; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Paradza, Partson (Routledge, 2022)

  Zimbabwe’s new administration indicated its willingness to end the compensation dispute, which lasted for two decades with former commercial farmers (FCFs), by signing the global compensation agreement (GCA). In the ...
• Consistency and fairness of property valuation for compensation for land and improvements in Zimbabwe 

  Paradza, Partson; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Zulch, Benita (Sciendo, 2021-12)

  Property valuation for compensation of expropriated properties in Zimbabwe has been characterised by inconsistencies for decades. Previous studies have noted that displaced people are dissatisfied with the compensation ...
• The role of the project manager in delivering design-build projects 

  Zulch, Benita; Kitshoff, Jean-Pierre (Springer, 2021-07)

  The purpose of this study is to determine the roles and responsibilities of the project manager on Design-Build projects, in the context of projects completed in the Built Environment in the large metropoles of South Africa, ...
• Valuation for compensation of communal properties in Zimbabwe : the case of Chiyadzwa and Tokwe-Mukosi projects 

  Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Paradza, Partson; Zulch, Benita (Emerald, 2022-04)

  PURPOSE : This study aims to examine the statutory provisions as it concerns the practice of valuation for compensation of expropriated communal properties in Zimbabwe. The primary motivation was to have informed policies ...
• South African infrastructure condition – an opinion survey for the SAICE infrastructure report card 

  Rust, F.C.; Wall, Kevin; Smit, M.A.; Arnod, Salim (South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2021-03)

  The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) Infrastructure Report Cards of 2006, 2011 and 2017 reported that much of the South African infrastructure is in a poor condition. To augment the recent 2017 ...
• The influence of tenant diversity on the performance of shopping centres 

  Dlamini, Sizwile Nelisiwe; Cloete, C.E. (Christiaan Ernst) (Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2021-06)

  This study investigated whether a relationship exists between tenant diversity and the return on investment in South African regional and super-regional shopping centres. The Simpson diversity index was used to calculate ...

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