This article analyses the fraud prevention plans concept, including why fraud prevention plans are designed and how to make them effective. First, it addresses fraud and corruption, identifying what they involve in regard to government interventions against fraud and corruption within the South African public service. Second, it identifies and describes the legislative and regulatory framework for preventing and detecting fraud. Third, it focuses on aspects such as fraud and risk preparedness ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:22:14

This article focuses on the application of the concept of strategic human resources management (SHRM) to the overall strategy at Thulamela Municipality. Strategic human resources management is concerned with the contributions human resources strategies make to institutional effectiveness and the way these human strategies are applied. Important features underlying SHRM are fit, competitive edge and performance, which reflects the interactive role of practices and their relationship to the att ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:18:00

Effective research and development requires new forms of collaboration based on opportunities offered by willing stakeholders, and by the globalisation of scientific knowledge. The objective of the study that led to this article was to assess the research capacity of the Limpopo (Provincial) Department of Agriculture (LDA) in South Africa and to propose considerations for an effective collaboration model. The considerations were based on lessons from a crop-livestock collaboration project for ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:12:53

Informal economies occur worldwide and are indicative of the development process of a country. The purpose of the study is to look at informal markets and to debate whether informal markets can improve the social well-being of traders. Based on a selection of cases of informal markets worldwide and fieldwork done in a market in Thohoyandou, South Africa, the resourceful value of social capital is re-examined. Rising unemployment and poverty are major challenges for local governments in South ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:10:35

Socially responsible actions of businesses are beneficial to local municipalities, public and private organisations, consumers as well as society as a whole. Previously community organisations had focused on the social responsibility of larger corporations, and SMEs while neglecting micro-businesses. These micro-businesses occupy a strategic economic position in the country that cannot be ignored. However, their social responsibility in the community has not been studied as there is little da ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:08:18

Namibia is a unitary state with three levels of government: national, regional and local. Government comprises twenty ministries that provide services and supervise national development within the specific sectors it has created. One such ministry is Health and Social Services (MOHSS). The overall aim of the MOHSS is to provide primary health care services to the Namibian people focusing on the prevention and cure of disease in an efficient and effective manner. Although Namibia has an elabor ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:05:40

Cooperation between municipalities and traditional leaders is a challenge. This contributes to lack of service delivery. Local government is a democratically elected institution that has legitimate powers to handle issues relating to the delivery of services, which involves public monies. Traditional leaders' responsibilities should, therefore, solely be for issues of tradition and custom, as they are custodians of culture and tradition. This, however, is not sufficient to traditional lea ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:03:24

The South African local government legislation provides for community participation in Integrated development planning. However, the concept of community participation suffers from conceptual imprecision and to some extent, theoretical underdevelopment. This article is an explication of how community participation can be made real in integrated development planning. Adopting participatory development as a theoretical framework and extensive literature review as a method, the article argues th ...

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2021-Jun-22 09:01:06

The principle of community participation entails that those who are affected by a decision have a right to be involved in the decision-making process. The implication of this is that the public's contribution can influence decisions taken as well as outcomes of those decisions. This study was conducted in Langa (Joe Slovo) community in Cape Town, Western Cape Province. Langa (Joe Slovo) is the largest informal settlement in South Africa and has been the focal point of one of Government ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:58:47

Government relies heavily on public officials to successfully implement public financial management policies designed to respond to various challenges facing our country. The public financial management system (PFM) plays a major role in providing support and direction to public institutions. National Treasury plays a major role in addressing the PFM skills shortage facing national, provincial and local institutions. South Africa's shortage of skills is felt sharply in PFM. With the growi ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:56:14

The Performance Management System (PMS) was introduced in the South African public service with the intention of monitoring, reviewing, assessing, and developing underperformers, and recognising, as well as rewarding, good performance. This article was undertaken as an attempt to investigate whether the PMS of the Department of Co-operative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs (COGHSTA) contributes to the improvement of performance for departmental productivity. A qualitative ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:53:52

The South African Government has set gender equity targets for the inclusion of women in senior management services (SMS) in the public service. This article explores the extent to which the gender equity goal of 50% women in SMS level has advanced women's equality in the public service and in the household. The results show that it would be challenging for the South African Government to achieve its ambitious goal of 50% women in SMS within the foreseeable future. It reveals that women i ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:51:05

At the inception of democracy in 1994 equal representation became a key foundation of public service reform in South Africa. This article evaluates how the theory of representative bureaucracy can be used to analyse the South African public service. In doing this, it uses the Personnel and Salary Information System (PERSAL) data from 2000-2012 to examine the extent to which women have been represented in the management echelon (salary level 9-16) of the public service, and measured against af ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:48:38

This article tackles the socio-cultural challenges facing private and public sector organisations in relation to multi-cultural inclusivity in South Africa. Firstly, it raises the concern that in many of our organisations, indigenous Africans are the cultural "other" even though they invariably constitute the bulk of the workforce. It argues that a work environment in which the majority is made up of indigenous Africans should logically have a predominantly indigenous African organi ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:46:07

The post-1994 democratic government of the Republic of South Africa is faced with immense socio-economic challenges that emanate from decades of a discriminatory system of government, both under British colonialism and the infamous Nationalist Party's apartheid system. This article is based on a study undertaken to assess the transformation and modernisation of public service delivery in South Africa with specific reference to the Department of Public Service and Administration as the dep ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:43:34

The purpose of this article is to provide a conceptual framework for good governance against the background of an environment of empowered employees and clientele publics. The dawn of the new political order in the Republic of South Africa entailed a democratic culture and good governance in the delivery of public goods. That is, the apartheid national governance was to be replaced with a new democratic Grand National Narrative paradigm. The old life-negating and dehumanising attributes of th ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:40:24

All governments on the globe including Africa's have adopted some form of policy for providing fair administrative government that would benefit the citizens. In democratic countries in Africa, the policies adopted are indeed made by the legislative authority, implemented by the executive and corrected by the courts of law in the country in cases of disputes among states and citizens, and citizens and citizens. This article uses a literature analysis to argue that while the making of poli ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:37:15

Good governance continues to be a thematic focus of scholarly and policy discourses, largely with little analysis of its originative historical foundation. This eschews the profundity of the concept in theorising the state. In this article good governance is considered with these questions in mind: What is good governance and how did it evolve to arrive at its current form and usage? What is the character of its conceptual problematique in the broader contemporary development discourse? In co ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:34:04

Any lapse in the politics and administration of the state is attributed to a lack of good governance, which is sometimes the consequence of not knowing what it means. At the time of putting together this edition Limpopo provincial government had just regained consciousness from the lapse. This follows the intervention by the national government, where five (5) departments had to be placed under tutelage. In other words, governance in Limpopo had collapsed and the national government had to in ...

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2021-Jun-22 08:29:32