THE IMPACT OF MATERIAL IRREGULARITY PROVISIONS OF THE PUBLIC AUDIT ACT ON ACCOUNTABILITY, OVERSIGHT AND GOVERNANCE IN THE NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE OF SOUTH AFRICA

The impact of material irregularity provisions of the Public Audit Act on accountability, oversight and governance in the Northern Cape province of South Africa

Background: A lot of research on audit-related services and accountability in the international and African contexts has been conducted.However, none of those empirical investigations have been done in the South African context, focussing specifically, on how the material irregularity (MI) of the recently amended Public Audit Act impacts accountabi

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Tapping the Neglected Resource in Kiswahili Terminology

This paper is about corpus-based computational terminography.It highlights computational techniques and tools for compiling Kiswahili terms in the domain-particular texts written by field experts.At present, a reasonable number of domain-specific texts are available into Kiswahili.However, no efforts have been made so far to collect terms in such t

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Divergent Development of Hexaploid Triticale by a Wheat - Rye -Psathyrostachys huashanica Trigeneric Hybrid Method.

Hexaploid triticale is an important forage crop and a promising energy plant.Some forms were previously reported for developing the hexaploid triticale, such as crossing tetraploid wheat or hexaploid wheat with rye, crossing hexaploid triticale and/or hexaploid wheat with octoploid triticale, and spontaneously appearing in the selfed progenies of o

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