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Research Articles (School of Public Management and Administration (SPMA)): Recent submissions
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-12)Since 1994 the South African state has been governed through an Alliance of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Whilst each of ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-12)Section 152 (1) of South Africa’s Constitution states that one of the aims of local government is to ensure sustainable service provision to communities. Section 152 (2) states that municipalities must strive, within ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-12)The South African post-apartheid government attempted to integrate traditional authorities and local government. The concept is to promote co-operative and inclusive government among rural communities and contemporary ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-12)Curriculum change aimed at improving the education system in order to promote quality education is generally regarded as a positive move in a country that has undergone a political transition. This is the case because ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-09)Governments could previously regulate foreign goods coming into their local market through using subsidies or quotas. In some African countries and with the Nepadisation agenda in place, import levies were and in some ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-09)The conceptual context and operational architecture of South Africa’s constitutional regime remains a terrain for political contest. The public discourse on the nationalisation of the mining industry is embedded in the ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-09)To foster economic development in Africa, countries of different regions on the continent need to integrate their systems of local government in order to provide improved public services to their respective communities. ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-09)Democracy demands regular free and fair elections, transparency and public accountability. Public administration is subject to the democratic ideals of society and in the case of South Africa it has been the premise on ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-09)Participation of civil society in the implementation of public policy has been a consistent thrust of the transformation agenda of the South African democratic government. The whole thrust has been that people need to ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-09)Decentralised local government is arguably the most direct mechanism of ensuring that the local leaders are accountable to the citizens, in form of downward accountability. Civil society participation is thus seen as a ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-09)This article examines an issue that is currently of particular importance in South Africa. The South African Government has just allocated R9 billion to address unemployment. A number of policies address unemployment in ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-06)Human resource management is regarded as one of the fundamental components of the discipline of Public Administration. The employees of an institution are considered to be the most important assets that an institution ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-06)The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, provides for the establishment of three spheres of government, constituted as national, provincial and local. These spheres are distinctive, interdependent and ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-06)The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a vast country endowed with huge natural and mineral resources. However, for decades, the country has been through coups d’état, civil wars, rebellions, political turmoil and ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-06)Women are given specific opportunities to benefit from the Government’s land reform policies. Specifically, women contribute to their own sustainable development when accessing and developing land. The article describes ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-06)Rising debt deficits and debt service burdens combined with complex challenges in health care, social security, education, crime and infrastructure threaten economic and social breakdown as unemployment and poverty rises. ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-06)Policies can address poverty, but policies are not a guarantee to eradicate poverty. Many factors figure into the poverty policy scene. Government’ sunderstanding of poverty, the particular type of poverty and the environment ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2011-06)The importance of this debate sets out to explore and examine current arguments for and against the developmental state in Africa and globally. A fundamental case for the developmental state is the pursuit of an interventionist ...
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(Institute for Strategic Studies, University of Pretoria, 2010-11)Given the scale and severity of AIDS in South Africa, and (until recently) the highly contested policy environment of a government in denial about the casuality of HIV and AIDS, bilateral and multilateral overseas development ...
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(Unisa Press, 2010)The South African government makes extensive use of a procurement policy to provide goods and services to its citizens. In this article, the use by the government of the preferential procurement policy to deliver low-cost ...
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