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There is no national minimum. A quantitative sample comes from a power analysis; a qualitative one comes from a defended sampling logic. How to produce a number your supervisor, your ethics committee and your examiner will all accept.

Three questions decide your test: what job it must do, how many groups are involved, and what kind of outcome you measured. The full decision table for comparison, correlation and regression — plus the Likert question South African faculties argue…

Two products hide under one search: the ghostwriter that ends degrees, and the writing system that finishes them. What an AI dissertation writer legitimately does under South African university rules — and how to use one honestly.

“References do not follow the faculty guide. Correct throughout.” The four-pass audit that fixes a mismatched reference list in one evening — and the tool that makes the rescue unnecessary next time.

85,6% of households can reach the internet somehow — but only 20,6% have fixed access at home. The Stats SA GHS 2025 connectivity figures, by province and metro, and what they mean for anyone writing a dissertation on mobile data.

Seven steps from a defensible search to an argued gap statement — including the South African source layer generic guides skip, the synthesis matrix that prevents summary-listing, and a worked Harvard example.

No consumer checker can predict your faculty’s Turnitin score — Turnitin’s student-paper repository is the reason. What each tool actually checks, what a pre-check cannot see, and how to use one safely before submission.

Only 33% of the 2018 entering cohort graduated in regulation time and 62% within two extra years. CHE VitalStats 2023 cohort data on dropout and throughput — undergraduate, Honours and master’s — with every caveat stated.

At most South African universities there is no public defence — external examiners assess your dissertation in writing. Who examines it, whether a viva applies, pass marks, distinctions, and what happens when examiners disagree.