Selected articles published in scientific journals in the discipline of Public Administration and Management in South Africa appear to have not escaped the influence of ideological thinking. The pre-apartheid writings reflected the dominant thinking of scholars of that era, which were less protest-driven bordering on encouraging the maintenance of the apartheid ideology. The post-apartheid writings reflect the emergence of a confrontational thinking. Voices of deconstruction of what constitut ...

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2021-Jun-21 10:10:30

Scholarship in the developing world, with the public administration scholarship as the proximate abstraction of what maybe general, is not simply different from its predecessors in the developed world. It is more decadent. It generates an almost natural and implicit demand for it to take a stance, generally socio-political, that affects its style in such a way that scholarship itself comes to symbolise a particular paradigmatic orientation that alters its originative historical character. As ...

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2021-Jun-21 10:05:24

Would the question about the theory of public administration ever be settled? It is now more than a century that a search for the theory of public administration has been continuing with no settlement in sight. Does this presuppose that the search for such theory is an exercise in futility? Where did the discourse in the field get it so wrong that it failed to evolve into a consensus on the universally-acceptable theory of public administration? This article examines these questions, which un ...

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2021-Jun-21 10:00:20

The delivery system of public goods and services in the different spheres of government lacks uniformity, standardisation and integration. This lack has contributed to a call for harmonisation of public administration management systems, conditions of services and the universal application of norms and standards across the three spheres of government and organs of state. The Public Administration Management Bill introduced in Parliament is the legislative stepping stone towards putting togeth ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:56:18

This article uses triangulation to understand the development of an effective and efficient public service in South Africa. The creation of democracy in South Africa is not a sufficient condition for development as demonstrated by the challenges the country faces, twenty years after the political settlement. The public service of this country must be grounded in an understanding of the applied political economy of development and fully embrace that this country is a democratic developmental s ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:47:59

This article examines the changing global political economy of higher education, the impacts and implications for universities and government policies, and the strategies that may address these changing conditions. The analysis considers the pursuit of higher education as a priority for public investment, using the U.S. experience as an illustration. Two models for the 21st century University are evaluated: the Entrepreneurial University and the Engaged University. The analysis projects chang ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:44:13

This article provides a descriptive review of activities occurring at universities and professional organisations in the United States of America to assist students and faculty in the international learning that must occur in a globalised world. Findings include a variety of activities that are on-going; faculties are teaching courses abroad, helping develop curricula and organising/attending conferences internationally. Tuition and credit exchanges have been made available for students and s ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:37:18

South Africa has become a major role player internationally in the past two decades. Apart from the role the country has played in politics on the African continent, the country has made significant inroads into being one of the major role players in education and development. In its quest to become a major role player, South Africa and its 23 Universities have to influence and are influenced by other countries. The exchange of students and academics is central to the internationalisation of ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:30:16

It is always important to engage in a discussion on a subject as important as the political economy of development, strategy and sustainable development. This is because the future of prosperity depends on how we handle this important matter as we respond to the exigencies of the contemporary reality. The question of national income and distribution has always been an important aspect of humanity, which, in 1776, Adam Smith cogently packaged into a book, The Wealth of Nations. The impact of t ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:25:09

It is always important to engage in a discussion on a subject as important as the political economy of development, strategy and sustainable development. This is because the future of prosperity depends on how we handle this important matter as we respond to the exigencies of the contemporary reality. The question of national income and distribution has always been an important aspect of humanity, which, in 1776, Adam Smith cogently packaged into a book, The Wealth of Nations. The impact of t ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:18:25

Chairperson of the Public Service Commission, Public Service Commissioners, Honourable Speaker of the House of Assembly, Honourable Chairpersons of Portfolio Committees, Honourable Members of Parliament, Directors-General and Senior Public Service Managers, Esteemed Guests, I am delighted to join you here today to present the keynote address on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Public Service Commission. At the outset, we need to ask ourselves precisely what it is that we are ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:12:38

This editorial essay is based partly on the interview we had with the editor of the Journal of Public Administration, which this September edition marks a year of his editorship. The purpose of the interview was to understand his editorship vision, especially as it relates to what he consistently refers to in his writings as the principal unanswered question of the discipline. What exactly does this question mean? How is the public administration scholarship responding to it? What is the stat ...

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2021-Jun-21 09:07:19