Supply Chain Management (SCM) is increasingly becoming a subject of interest, with books and journal articles written to add to the surging body of knowledge about it. This book is one of those. It is well-written; its chapters are logically arranged for a coherent discussion. It seeks to enable readers to understand how SCM impacts on all areas and processes of an organisation, and how improvements can be made in the various processes through the application of the practices it discusses. Th ...

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2021-Jun-23 12:18:12

Launched at a high profile panel discussion at the University of South Africa's School of Business Leadership (SBL), Making It Happen - World Bank Group's publication - is a well-organised narrative on the making of the post-apartheid state, focusing on institution building for democratic governance. Lurking in this is transformational leadership as a strategic imperative for institutional reforms. In other words, the publication is about institutional reforms as much as it is about l ...

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2021-Jun-23 12:14:40

The article deals with the implementation of a performance management development system in the public sector. The focus is on the Provincial Planning and Treasury Department in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. A number of organisations are continuously searching for methods that can be used to improve performance. One such method entails implementing a performance management programme. However, despite a growing body of research that supports the positive impact that effective performance man ...

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2021-Jun-23 12:10:58

The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa calls for equality for every citizen in the country. However, 22 years into democracy, there are perceived injustices in the public service at all levels of government. This is laden with a plethora of interpretations as shown by the introduction of South Africa's Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Affirmative Action, where previously disadvantaged people are now employed by the government, in most cases, ...

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2021-Jun-23 12:07:42

High and sustained economic growth, high employment, the equitable distribution of income and sustainable economic development are among the fundamental macro-economic objectives that countries should pursue in order to realise economic progress and the betterment of the standard of living. With respect to these macro-economic fundamentals, South Africa is considered to be a developmental state in terms of world standards and macroeconomic characteristics. South Africa is endowed with natural ...

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2021-Jun-23 11:19:04

This article examines the privatisation and restructuring of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and explores whether these pursuits contribute towards enhancing the capacity of the state in addressing the socio-economic inequities: reducing poverty and unemployment and extending public services to the poor in communities. At the behest of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), the ANC assumed neoliberal macro-economic policies such as the Growth Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) ...

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2021-Jun-23 11:15:47

The sub-national level of government in Namibia experiences governance problems that result in poor service delivery. There is a need to strengthen governance to fast track the provision of basic services to improve the social welfare of the people. Good governance is considered fundamental to effective service delivery to the people. The article argues that the governance principle of public participation is especially critical for improving service delivery at the sub national level. Also o ...

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2021-Jun-23 11:12:41

Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa, the highest peak yet, with 218 service delivery protests, was recorded in 2014. The notion exists that, unless participation by members of communities is enhanced by local government and introduced in intergovernmental relations forums in South Africa, this scourge would not be mitigated. Community participation in municipalities should possess deliberative qualities. The achievement of these qualities should been sured through monitoring. To theor ...

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2021-Jun-23 11:08:37

Audit committees have developed from a fairly marginal area of public sector activities to a publicly prominent specialism accorded considerable priority and greatly increased legislative recognition. This can be attributed to a myriad of developments such as the King I, King II and King III Reports, as well as the enactment of pieces of legislation such as the Public Finance Management Act. It is due to these developments that the measurement or assessment of the effectiveness of the audit c ...

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2021-Jun-23 11:05:14

Research and educational interventions that are directed at enhancing capacities for the exercise of legislative oversight have been elements of wider neglect by universities. As a consequence, capacity initiatives are driven by legislature officials who invariably have a limited understanding of the complexities and limits of educational interventions. To counter an instrumental orientation to the development of legislator capacity, this article draws on the lessons derived from a university ...

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2021-Jun-23 11:01:35

This article seeks to operationalise "Afrocentricity" as an alternative theoretical lens to decipher intra-African relations (Asante, 2003). Using largely qualitative and secondary data, the article primarily examines the bilateral relations between South Africa (SA) and Swaziland, thus addressing Pretoria's foreign policy position on Mbabane. The country's reaction to crises in Swaziland, since the dawn of democracy in 1994, has reflected the competing values inherent in it ...

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2021-Jun-23 10:57:41

The last decades have witnessed a headlong rush by most major universities in the world to become identified in someway with public policy analysis as a field of focus. The academic landscape is now dotted with new professional schools, departments and institutes specifically created to deal with this subject as well as with long-established academic units that have undergone programme reorientation. Degrees with specialisations in public policy are now offered at undergraduate, masters and d ...

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2021-Jun-23 10:54:35

How does one theme an editorial for the edition that deals with a wide range of issues in the broader field of public affairs? It is a challenge for the editors to knit the discourse in different articles that comprise an edition of a journal into a coherent summary. However, the profundity of the discourse in a journal lies in the diversity of articles that comprise it. The articles that comprise this June edition of the Journal of Public Administration are diverse in their themes, hence an ...

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2021-Jun-23 10:51:24