South African business schools SDG integration : MBA curricula, research, and partnerships

Business schools have an important role to play in developing future leaders of business and industry, and more specifically, to encourage the emergence of socially responsible behaviour in companies whilst simultaneously enhancing corporate performance. Unfortunately, business schools are facing criticism regarding the capabilities they claim to impart. Among this criticism are views of business schools failing to impart suitable skills, prepare leaders, or instil norms of ethical behaviour; that business schools have historically inculcated depraved values contributing to the unethical behaviour visible in most corporate boardrooms and public policy formulation. Many are of the view that business schools give too little attention to ethics and values-based leadership, and that more need to be done in terms of ethics and socially responsible leadership and behaviour. In 2007, the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), an UN-supported initiative, was founded to raise the profile of sustainability in schools around the world through Six Principles to which business schools commit to ensure they provide future leaders with the skills needed to balance economic and sustainability goals, while drawing attention to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If South African business schools pursue the objective of building intellectual capital for the country and industries, and providing knowledge relevant to sustainable business management practice, demonstrable commitment to the SDGs in relation thereto should be paramount. The question then beckons to what extent South African Business Schools integrate the SDGs into MBA curriculua, research, and partnerships. By running the information of South African business schools' mission, vision, values, and MBA curricula found in the public domain through the "Linked SDG" application, this paper sets out to answer this question. The application extracts key concepts related to sustainable development from text documents and linking them to the most relevant sustainable development goals, targets, indicators, and series. The aim of the investigation is to highlight the SDGs with limited foci by SA business schools, and to propose recommendations for improving SA business schools SDG Integration into MBA curriculum, research, and partnerships

On the syntax of the se-construction in Afrikaans

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Are the rights of the disabled a reality in South Africa? Part two

For a long time the rights of disabled persons have been ignored not only in South Africa, but also in the rest of the world. There are many disabled persons who can participate on an equal level with able-bodied persons, but on the other hand there are many disabled persons who are unable to do so due to the nature and severity of their disabilities. Discrimination against disabled persons lead to the exclusion of them to function in a normal way in the community and the denial of their rights and to function freely in society. Legislation can assist in the prevention of discrimination against such persons and also in their upliftment

Dying to starve: A comparative analysis of legal aspects relating to consent in force-feeding of both minor and adult anorexic patients

The authors explore the legal complexities surrounding the force-feeding of anorexic patients. Due to the myriad of difficulties relating to anorexia nervosa, treatment is intricate. The aim of this exposition is to clarify legal issues of consent and self-determination, with regard to both adult and minor patients. In addition, the distinction between ‘irrational’ and ‘incompetent’ refusal will be discussed, with the authors maintaining that the ‘irrational’ refusal of an adult patient should be respected by the law. To come to an informed conclusion, the authors will first analyse the medical and psychological aspects of anorexia nervosa. Secondly, the South African position as shaped by the Mental Health Care Act, the Children’s Act and the National Health Act will be contrasted with the position in Great Britain in order to determine the international perspective and its contrast, or not, to South African law

Numerical study of buoyancy-driven natural ventilation in a simple three-storey atrium building

AbstractA simple three-storey atrium building was modeled to investigate the development of buoyancy-driven natural ventilation airflows induced by solar radiation and by the heat sources present on each floor of the building using a validated Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model. The Reynolds Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) modeling approach with the SST-k-ω turbulence model and the Discrete Transfer Radiation Model (DTRM) was used for the numerical solution. The steady-state governing equations were solved using a commercial CFD solver FLUENT©. The air flow patterns, temperature distributions and the ventilation flow rates as predicted by the CFD model for this case study are presented in this paper. The ventilation flow rates were compared in non-dimensional form with the analytical design curves found in literature developed through the use of an analytical approach for a simple geometry atrium building. It was found that the CFD predictions agreed with the general trends described by the analytical model. The effect of solar intensity on the buoyancy-driven ventilation flow rates and the temperature distributions during the day-light hours and at different geographical locations was also investigated

Are the rights of the disabled a reality in South Africa? Part One

For a long time the rights of disabled persons have been ignored not only in South Africa, but also in the rest of the world. There are many disabled persons who can participate on an equal level with able-bodied persons, but on the other hand, there are many disabled persons who are unable to do so due to the nature and severity of their disabilities. Discrimination against disabled persons leads to exclusion from functioning in a normal way in the community and the denial of the right to function freely in society. Legislation can assist in the prevention of discrimination against such persons and also in their upliftment

The protection of personal and medical data - a call for confidentiality

Personal data and privacy are increasingly being threatened by a boom in technological development - the replacement of conventional networks of communication with the perfected combination of computer and telecommunications. The subsequent high degree of transparency has the potential to damage the individual's right to 'informational self-determination'. The most common ways of unlawfully entering a computer data system, the reasons why an individual's information is treated as confidential and the ethical issues involved, international and local statutory instruments that protect such personal information, and ways to stop the outflow of personal information are discussed