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Ethnicity permeates every aspect of national life and has also been held responsible for the numerous problems that have plagued South Africa's unity. This study examined the impact of ethnicity on national unity. The study made use of two objectives, which sought to investigate the effect of ethnicity on national unity and the influence of government on national unity. The objectives of the study raised two research questions and a survey research design was adopted in the study. The study's population is the South African elite. Fifty elites were unintentionally chosen to participate in the study via an in-depth interview. The study revealed that both ethnicity and government policies affect national unity. The study concluded that for a country to have permanent peace, the government must have some measures in place to ensure the understanding of one voice and the opinions of all ethnic groups. The study recommends that there should be an education campaign for the general public about how different ethnic groups can live in harmony to strengthen national unity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globally, research on exchange rate regimes have mainly centred on their influences on international trade flows, foreign direct investment, and economic growth while the empirical nexus between exchange rate regimes and international tourists' inflow has been scarcely explored in South Africa. The country has consistently witnessed an increasing inflow of tourists since the 1990s to date, hence, the importance of international tourism inflow in South Africa cannot be overemphasised as it has implications on the economy, employment generation, and as a source of revenue. Also, the nexus between the exchange rate regime and international tourism inflow in South Africa has not garnered sufficient empirical attention. Therefore, this research investigates the impact of the exchange rate regime on international tourists' inflow in South Africa over the period 1990 to 2020. Secondary data on the international tourists' receipt, GDP income per capita, inflation rate, and exchange rate were derived from the World Bank Development Indicators while the binary variable is used as a measure of the exchange rate regime. The collected data was analysed using the ordinary least squares (OLS). Findings from the study reveal that the existing floating exchange rate regime supports the international tourists' inflow, but its significant impact as a major driver of inflow is yet to be felt in South Africa. The study, however, established that per capita GDP and domestic exchange rate depreciation significantly promote international tourists' inflow in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Photojournalism uses images to tell stories and report events, while fine-art photography aims to express creative ideas and messages also through images. Although both fields express sociopolitical and religious ideas and reflect the past through pictures, they differ in approach. Photojournalism portrays events as they are using pictorial representations, without imputing the opinion of the journalist; fine art projects such events also pictorially, but from the vision of the artist. Thus both photojournalism and fine-art photography use photographs as a medium of expression. However, while photojournalism fosters a deep appreciation of works of art by projecting artistic images via communication media, which ultimately informs the psyche of the audience, fine-art photography expresses the emotions and viewpoints of the artist through photographs. This study, therefore, uses documentary evidence to determine the interface between photojournalism and fine-art photography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19 has interrupted every facet of life, especially education. The persistent need to develop and carry out a different instructive and evaluation systems to in-class teaching and learning brought about web based teaching. The rising question is “how ready are lecturers and students to change and adapt to the new system (online) of teaching, learning and assessment landscape”? The study adopted a content analysis method for data collection from existing literature to validate evidence how covid-19 affects teaching, learning and assessment system in higher institutions of learning. the paper concluded that online learning and teaching have become no choice alternative for teachers and students despite the challenges posed. Both teachers and students have to adapt to various online platforms that are available in order to keep education system moving. The paper recommended among other thigs, that universities across the globe should come-up with strategies to design academic curriculum for post Covid-19; universities should approach government for financial in order to strengthen their information communication technology (ICT) structure; training in the use of information technology (IT) should be encourage among academic staff and students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19 has become a major issue of academic and social discourses. Lives, livelihoods, communities and businesses have been seriously disrupted by its dramatic spread across the globe. Statistics reveal that 55 countries are affected in Africa and South Africa is the most affected with 1.55million out of 4.32million cases in Africa, as at April 8, 2021. The pandemic has prompted a number of responses from governments, individuals, business organisations and Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) to inventive and reduce the impact on public health and economic challenges. Although some of these were taken as part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities, their contributions appeared to go beyond their traditional CSR efforts. This paper seeks to establish the extent of Coca-Cola and Mobile Telephone Network’s (MTN) responses to the challenges of the pandemic in Nigeria and South Africa. Data used were extracted from grey literature and online search to examine the two companies’ corporate social responsibility in health emergency situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The growing sophistication of security issues in many rural Igbo societies requires that a new approach to security provision and communication be reintroduced. Today, kidnapping, rape, robbery, theft of antiquity, attack by Fulani herdsmen, etc have become major challenges in Nigeria, and the rural communities appear to bear much of the brunt. Although, some of these communities maintain some level of integrity and peace, with respect to the security of their lives and property, the gradual change in the modus operandi of miscreants have challenged the serenity of the societies and sometimes overwhelmed the threshold of existing communication and security provisions. Consequently, there is a need to revisit the traditional forms of communication and security provisions with a view to determining how to curb this menace. This paper examines the security provisions and modes of communication in rural Igbo societies. It uses face-to-face interviews and literary sources to aver that the integration of modern and traditional modes of communication will provide a solution to the nagging security challenges that currently befall many traditional Igbo societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]