The article reports on mentoring programmes as a way to enhance protégés so that they can adapt in their new roles. Since 1995, efforts have been made to overcome the skewed human resource patterns at high skills levels in South Africa through the repeal of old legislation and the introduction of various other legislations. Beyond the legislative regiment the success of human resource transformation is highly dependent on the implementation of effective mentoring programmes. Whi ...

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2021-Jun-21 08:53:35

It is against the background of poor or lack of leadership which led to strikes and demonstrations at local government level that the article examines the potential impact of employing Emotional Intelligence (EI) to enhance well balanced leaders. Considering various challenges confronting local municipal leaders (councillors and Mayors), the article argues that these calibre of leaders require more than conventional management skills, but also need to be emotionally intelligent. Often municip ...

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2021-Jun-21 08:39:26

The implementation of the Taxi Recapitalisation Policy (TRP) was articulated by the South African government since 1999 with the purpose of formalising and regulating the South African minibus taxi industry and its estimated time implementation in 2005. The South African minibus taxi industry is labelled badly as a result of violence, un-roadworthy and unsafe taxi vehicles. The industry is also unregulated and informal. The violence that has dominated the industry has unfortunately overshadow ...

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2021-Jun-21 08:27:02

Electricity serves as one of the most critical functions in the development and prosperity of a nation. It is the pivotal axis upon which economies turn, and human existence is made bearable. With regards to both the former and the latter pronouncements, it can be noted that the availability of reliable and affordable sources of electricity are pre-requisite for industrialization, technological innovation, maintaining a reasonable cost of living, stable inflationary outlook and so on. Any mod ...

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2021-Jun-21 08:23:50

South Africa is faced with a variety of development challenges, one of which relates to crime. In response to the persistent and unacceptable high rates of crime, among other challenges, the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030 was published in August 2012. Regarding safety and security within South Africa's human settlements, the NDP 2030 provides strategies for crime reduction and prevention. However, the NDP 2030 accords negligible attention to the Crime Prevention through Environmenta ...

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2021-Jun-21 08:18:58

This article examines the significance of political and community oversight in the effective delivery of public services, and specifically the role of such oversight in reinforcing and strengthening good governance. Though a relatively new term, 'good governance' has become part of the accepted development and democratic common sense. It is argued in this article that good governance is an essential precondition for both public and private institutions if they are to improve the lives ...

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2021-Jun-21 08:15:37

In a bid to effectively and efficiently meet the ever changing citizens' wants and needs, governments around the world are increasingly searching for the best mechanisms to improve the extent to which public office holders can be effectively held accountable and responsible for their actions. In the absence of a comprehensive public accountability framework, achieving effective public accountability still remains increasingly a challenge for most South Africa's government departments. ...

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2021-Jun-21 08:09:27

This article measures the expectations of citizens against local government's legislative mandate to deliver services to citizens within the context of the Molemole and Blouberg Municipalities in Limpopo. In doing so, it aims to contribute the discourse on governance from the perspective of the governed. The qualitative study utilized purposive sampling and collected data using unstructured questionnaires; individual and focus group interviews, observation and participatory tools. The key ...

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2021-Jun-21 07:50:31

This article indicates that though few studies exists on youth and service delivery protest in South Africa, it appears not many has addressed the role of the youth and their perception about protests associated with service delivery particularly in Mpumalanga, a province noted for high incidence of service delivery protests in the past few years. To fill this gap, this study examines the perceptions of young men and women based in Wesselton and Siyathemba townships (Mpumalanga Province) on s ...

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2021-Jun-21 07:28:43

The aim of this article is to examine public perceptions of community engagement with local government, on the one hand, and public perceptions of service delivery on the other. It does so through an analysis of data from a qualitative study comprising in-depth focus groups with local residents from four areas in the Cape Town Metro. In this article, we explore the diversity of views and motivations among residents regarding the need for engagement with local government. We consider a possibl ...

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2021-Jun-21 07:20:33

The purpose of this article is to develop a framework for tracking poverty reduction interventions implemented at local municipality level. The study is based on Kathleen Eisenhardt's framework that describes a method for building theories from case study research. Firstly, the study identifies a specific poverty reduction strategy known as the Premier's Flagship Programme that was developed with the aim of halving the level of poverty in KwaZulu-Natal by 2014. The Premier's Flags ...

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2021-Jun-21 07:13:22

In a mediator's strategies during international mediation to peacefully settle conflicts, it is traditionally held that the mediation process is conducted in secret and the content deemed to be private. Very little information is shared with the mass media and only on 'on a need to know' basis (Bloomfield & Moulton, 1997:63; Galtung, 2000:162). This author argues that when too much secrecy exists, journalists are bound to make up stories or post biased press releases from eith ...

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2021-Jun-21 07:05:30

I penned this editorial essay with a sense of vindication. For, the South African Association of Public Administration and Management's (SAAPAM) commitment to cognitive justice is not in vain. Its dividends in various strategic areas that define our scholarship agenda are now beginning to show. That generation of scholars that for many years, in the field of public administration, has been destined to the periphery, rediscovered its consciousness and mustered the courage to, against all o ...

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2021-Jun-21 06:59:20