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African Journal of Public Affairs Volume 9, Number 5 (2017)
Recent Submissions
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The failure of development in Africa, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, since the beginning of the post-independence era, has resulted in intense discourse both in academia and in the public domains. The blame game between ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)Under the nuance environment of a shift from government to governance, the liberationist-democratic dispensation together with the constitutional guarantees of property ownership meant that multiple actors, inclusive of ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article argues that brown environmental problems have been given scant attention in urban planning and governance in favour of profit-making and industrial development efforts in South Africa, at the expense of ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)In postcolonial and post-apartheid contemporary Africa, ethics, accountability and democracy are usually divorced. This article argues that the three are inseparable; and, where they are divorced, the consequences can ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The apartheid government had consciously entrenched a governance system in which local communities did not have a voice in their local development agenda. During the apartheid era, the national government held command ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)After a plethora of legislative and policy frameworks have been passed to integrate traditional leadership system into the modern liberal democratic system in South Africa, incompatibilities of the two became increasingly ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The article demonstrates that decentralisation has been eulogised as a participatory means to development, which enhances good governance and democracy. Developing countries have embarked on various public sector ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article examines the effect of governance on the degree to which clean audits have been achieved in South African municipalities. Its pertinence lies in the context of two endemic public management performance ...
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Governance of corporate social responsibility and return on assets in the South African mining firms (African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)Governance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) remains a permanent subject in the sustainability development debates despite its long history. This article examines issues of governance by establishing the relationship ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article presents a wide range of factors that arguably underwrite South Africa’s higher education institutions’ governance crisis. It highlights overcrowding, infrastructure deficiencies in the form of inadequate ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The inextricable interdependence of internal and external environments of public institutions implies that institutional decisions that are taken by managers have impacts on governance in both directions. This article ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The shift from government to governance, which was expected to be inclusionary and empowering to multiple actors, has not been unproblematic, especially for developing countries that have experimented with liberationist ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article argues that governance of South Africa’s higher learning institutions through stakeholder engagement is a complex phenomenon, rendered protracted by the wide-ranging diversity of interests and, more often ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article focuses on the governance of the interface of student organisations with public higher education institutions in South Africa. It appraises relations between institutional leaders and student organisations, ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)The political landscape within the South African government has changed with the inception of democracy in 1994, affecting institutional arrangements such as the creation of the third sphere of government, denoted ...
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(African Consortium of Public Administration, 2017)This article asserts that the concept of governance is inherently complex, and its practice elusive, for both developing and developed countries alike. Whereas democratisation experiments enforced a shift from government ...