Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v4i1.1047
Themba Zitha, Darry Penceliah
Contemporary business continues to leverage the opportunities of internet connectivity for marketing, sales, and visibility. Digital payment plays an imperative role in online shopping transactions. With the evolution of online shopping, there has been a paradigm shift from traditional payment methods to a faster digital payment method. This paper assesses millennials’ perceptions of digital payments for online shopping. A cross-sectional study was undertaken using a quantitative method. Three hundred and ninety-three millennials completed a self-administered questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were utilised to summarise and analyse the results. Respondents used different types of digital payments for online shopping, namely, credit card, debit card, micropayment, digital wallet, PayPal, Bitcoin, and in-app purchase. Some of the challenges pertaining to digital payment methods are security, privacy, and trust issues. There is a dire need to develop various interventions and strategies such as standardisation of the browser and device support to educate consumers, integrate more banks, develop synergy with credit card companies, reduce fees for low-risk transactions, make digital payment easier, and personalise the digital payment process and its value chain to make digital payments more secure and safe for effective transaction and online payments.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v5i1.1248
Priscilla Musariwa, Faith Tinonetsana
Youth entrepreneurship is considered an important factor in economic growth, job creation, and poverty alleviation. Although youth entrepreneurship is considered a key to addressing unemployment, the youth unemployment rate remains worrisome in developing countries. This paper assessed the entrepreneurship training in universities as a means of reducing youth unemployment. Youth unemployment is an impediment to inclusive economic development, limits the earning potential and future prospects of a new generation of South Africans, stymies business growth, threatens social cohesion, and puts pressure on government resources. Data was collected from the Durban University of Technology students in Durban. A qualitative approach was adopted in which semi structured interviews were used to obtain an understanding of the importance of universities in reducing the rate of unemployment in South Africa. In addition, nonprobability sampling, specifically purposive was used in the study to select the Durban University of Technology’s benefiting students from the Durban Entrepreneurship Centre. The data collected was coded and analysed using thematic analysis. The findings revealed that universities play a crucial role in supporting youth entrepreneurship in South Africa, which has led to a reduction in the rate of unemployment in South Africa. Findings were categorised into themes. Universities’ effort to reduce unemployment has yielded positive results, however, both the students and the universities are faced with a number of challenges. It is recommended that universities work together with the government to design strategies that help to reduce unemployment in South Africa.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v5i1.1051
Sudhika Palhad, S. Onwubu, Rasmi Singh, Rookmoney Thakur, Surendra Thakur, G. Mkhize
Digital work, otherwise referred to as 'gig' work, is heralded as a useful strategy that could help bridge the unemployment rate in South Africa by connecting job seekers and business organisations across the global spectrum. The purpose of this paper was to explore the benefits and challenges of the gig economy on SMMEs in South Africa. In this study, an interpretive research paradigm was followed to explore the benefits and challenges of the gig economy in the SMMEs in South Africa. Semi-structured focus group interviews were conducted with 20 participants, consisting of thirteen gig workers (n=13) and seven business organization employees (n=7). The data collected were thematically analysed with the aid of NVivo v12 software (QSR International Pty Ltd, 2015). The participants held the view that the gig economy can promote business growth and economic inclusion, and help organisations better manage their resources. While gig work offers some advantages, the participants highlighted concerns surrounding the lack of clear policy, occupational vulnerability, precarity, platform-based work, and the risks of gig work. The study suggests that gig work is critical to advancing the growth of Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in South Africa.
数字工作，也被称为“零工”工作，被认为是一种有用的策略，可以通过连接全球范围内的求职者和商业组织，帮助解决南非的失业率问题。本文的目的是探讨南非零工经济对中小企业的好处和挑战。本研究采用解释性研究范式，探讨了南非中小企业零工经济的好处和挑战。对20名参与者进行了半结构化的焦点小组访谈，其中包括13名零工(n=13)和7名商业组织员工(n=7)。收集的数据在NVivo v12软件(QSR International Pty Ltd, 2015)的帮助下进行了主题分析。与会者认为，零工经济可以促进商业增长和经济包容，帮助组织更好地管理资源。虽然零工有一些优势，但与会者强调了缺乏明确政策、职业脆弱性、不稳定性、基于平台的工作以及零工的风险等问题。研究表明，零工对于促进南非中小微企业的发展至关重要。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v4i1.1053
T. Petrus
Perhaps the most significant global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is that it has catalysed accelerated innovation and change across various sectors. Businesses have had to pivot and innovate to survive in the “new normal”, medical and health care industries have had to adapt rapidly in order to stay ahead of the growing global health crisis brought on by the pandemic, and governments have had to think out of the box to manage the political, social and economic challenges engendered by Covid-19. Amidst all of this, the Higher Education sector has also been forced to adapt to the challenges of the pandemic. In the South African context, innovation in higher education has focused mostly on teaching and learning, specifically the accelerated shift from traditional face-to-face teaching to the use of online learning platforms. However, what has been neglected is innovation in knowledge production and research. This article explores the role of academic researcher coaching as a support mechanism to enhance innovation and knowledge production through postgraduate academic research. It is argued that academic researcher coaching will become an increasingly valuable tool to provide holistic support to researchers, and that complements the traditional research supervisor role.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v4i1.1008
D. Moodley
The pandemic has compelled Higher Education Institutions around the world to resort to Emergency Remote Learning (ERL). This abrupt ‘pivot to online’ learning has exacerbated existing challenges in Higher Education, particularly in South Africa. This paper interrogates whether the sudden move to ERL has compounded or ameliorated existing academic challenges for students in Higher Education Institutions. The study summarised herein draws on ‘critical humanising pedagogy’, an approach that centres student needs in the teaching and learning process. In employing student experiences and perceptions of ERL, the study adopted a qualitative approach, with specific focus on students from one of SA’s top five universities. A perturbing finding is that teaching and learning under ERL has regressed into impersonal methodologies, devoid of any notion of pedagogy as the science and art of teaching. More unsettling is that ERL has alienated and disengaged students from learning as a collaborative process. The increased transactional distance between students and academics has desensitised the latter to the peculiar challenges students encounter in the virtual classroom. The study recommends Higher Education should consider student difficulties in adapting to online remote learning and find ways of fostering student-centred pedagogy in virtual classrooms.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v5i1.1178
S. Pramjeeth, Dominique Nupen, Jayseema Jagernath
Developing economies such as South Africa face numerous challenges to achieve sustainability within higher education (HE). This study examined the key challenges facing leaders within HE institutions (HEIs) in South Africa, as they aim to contribute significantly towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4 related to quality education. Using a qualitative research design, the study surveyed 75 leaders in various South African HEIs using an online survey platform. The findings revealed two overarching challenges across public and private institutions: an absence of strong leadership and a complex sociopolitical context. Within public institutions, additional challenges related to bureaucracy, outdated curricula, resourcing, and values were noted. Within private institutions, bureaucracy was also observed, as well as the digital divide; curricula and foundation; finance and affordability; inequitable access; lack of resourcing, benefits, and support.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v4i1.1043
Karin Palmér, A. Naicker, U. Kolanisi
Recent global meat consumption trends report an increase in goat meat consumption as a protein source; however, consumption is not popular in South Africa. Despite goat meat being a nutritious and sustainable source, the willingness to consume goat meat as an acceptable protein source among young adults is not known. The study aims to explore factors that may prevent goat meat consumption and determine the potential for goat meat consumption among young adults from a rural and urban university in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. An online meat consumption survey was developed and disseminated through email to students (n=416). Goat meat consumption by young adults was reported to be mainly due to cultural practices. Although most of the participants consumed goat meat, the frequency of consumption was lower than that of chicken, beef and pork. Key barriers to goat meat consumption included a lack of availability, unappealing aroma and allergies. The findings indicated the potential to promote goat meat availability at retail outlets in South Africa, specifically through value-added convenience products. An integrated approach, including consumer education and the increasing availability of goat meat and value-added products, will improve the consumption of this sustainable and nutritious protein source.
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Western-centric studies on opportunity-based entrepreneurship have dominated the literature on female entrepreneurs. Existing research has also tended to focus on the experiences of women in the formal rather than the informal sector. In this article, we examine female necessity entrepreneurs' experiences of learning financial and business skills in the informal street trade in South Africa. The theoretical framework for this research, which was located within a critical feminist paradigm and used a feminist phenomenological design, drew on African feminisms, resilience, and informal learning. Phenomenological, in-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of twelve women in the informal street trade in the Durban area of KwaZulu-Natal, to capture the essence of their experiences of running their businesses. The main findings showed that poor black women, especially those trading without permits in the informal street trade, faced multiple challenges, but were able to learn some of the financial and business skills necessary for survival. However, this learning was reactive, problem-centred, observation based, imitative, and partial. These findings emphasised the need for these entrepreneurs to upgrade their financial and business skills in order for their businesses to remain sustainable. The study recommended various targeted policy initiatives to support female necessity entrepreneurs.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.51415/ajims.v4i1.1030
M. Serekoane, Hellen Agumba, Corlia Janse van Vuuren
Undergraduate programmes should provide students with meaningful learning opportunities to acquire a range of knowledge, skills, and attributes. Within the current, fast, and ever-changing environments of learning, a student’s acquisition of self-reflection, problem-solving and critical thinking skills – and ultimately the ability to undertake an independent academic inquiry – is more evident than ever before. In this article, the authors imagine a shift in the traditional notion of the classroom as a space of knowledge dissemination, to the classroom becoming a space of knowledge creation It is within this space that differences intersect, influence each other, and hybridize in pursuit of inquiry-minded (and meaningful) learning experiences. The authors argue that adopting a reflexive pedagogic approach, underscored by the notion of inquiry-based learning, best aids the development of a student’s required skill set. In the reflexive context, lecturers and students are collaborators in the learning and teaching process through mutual inquiry. Based on Paulo Freire’s notion of critical pedagogy and supported by undergraduate research as a high-impact practice, reflexive pedagogical practices stimulate students’ agency, interest and performance – creating opportunities to establish baseline research skills on undergraduate level. This article is a conceptual exploration positioning inquiry-based learning, through reflexive practices, as part of the undergraduate curriculum at all three levels of undergraduate progression. Progression and the development of inquiry skills are proposed through structured inquiry in the first year, guided inquiry during the second year, and open inquiry at the third-year level.
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