Ernesto "Che" Guevara is quite possibly one of the most recognised faces of our time. The image of the Argentine born Cuban revolutionary, with his scraggly beard, the beret adorned with a star, the undeniably handsome face and instant gaze has been used to sell t-shirts, handbags, coffee mugs and everything under the sun. Che has been commercialised, reduced into a consumer product for a world whose moral values he vehemently opposed. It is both ironic and confounding that this Com ...

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2021-Jun-28 08:53:00

In the context of South Africa, public participation is a critical and most essential tool that is used to foster good governance, accountability and transparency that inevitably leads to better and efficient service delivery. It is in this context, therefore, that a 'true' public participation becomes a cornerstone, and a significant pillar of democracy. Inclusivity and participation by the citizens became a major intervention in a post-apartheid South Africa, where all the people we ...

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2021-Jun-28 08:39:33

This study attempts to identify the factors that affect the functionality of ward committees in heterogeneous communities in Cape Town. It examines two socio-economically heterogeneous wards, each of which contains distinct populations with different and sometimes opposing needs. Interviews conducted with ward committee members, Community-Based Organisation representatives, and community leaders led to the conclusion that three factors - political parties, human and social capital, and instit ...

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2021-Jun-28 08:28:03

The evolved waves of reform in Public Administration as discipline, as well as the internal undercurrents between Public Administration and Political Science, resulted in, among others, varying philosophical points of departure among scholars, as well as the positioning of Public Administration in different faculties at national universities. Subsequently, the following research question was formulated: Is the discipline in its philosophical and teleological bedrock more suitable to a faculty ...

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2021-Jun-28 08:18:56

Elections in South Africa may create complexity, especially in cases where an outright victory by any political party cannot be determined, be it at the provincial or local government level. In such cases, the electorate power is seemingly usurped by the so-called 'kingmaker', as it becomes the arbiter as to who governs. This conceptual paper focuses on the South African local government elections held in 2016, where the kingmaker(s) became instrumental in changing the aspirations of ...

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2021-Jun-28 08:09:24

In Africa, administrative culture as a useful concept to comprehend how public administration operates is dwarfed by two other cultural concepts, namely: organisational culture from an industrial psychology perspective and political culture from a political studies perspective. To some extent, the lack of understanding of the concept of administrative culture in African governments promotes grand and petty corruption, maladministration, mistrust, irregularities and instability. The main purpo ...

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2021-Jun-28 08:00:46

This paper reports on a study that focused on women and social protection in South Africa post-1994. Drawing on public management theories, the study sought to understand the social protection programmes that the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) provincial government has in place, how they are structured and delivered, and whether they are sustainable and strategically aligned to promote women empowerment. The study was qualitative and employed a documentary review of policies, plans and reports of the Pr ...

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2021-Jun-28 07:55:25

This paper is twofold. On the one hand, it provides an overview on how migrants contribute to the socio-economic growth of the host country while, on the other hand, it provides an in-depth analysis on how the South African government and others should use these migrants to fulfil the skills shortage in order to build their economy. While the study relied mostly on a literature review as the principal source of data analysis, it also applied quantitative data in order to support the informati ...

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2021-Jun-28 07:46:56

The primary objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of the newly introduced online application and learner admission system as a service delivery improvement e-government initiative in the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) in South African public schools, and the extent to which the GDE customers are ready to adopt the innovation. We review the implementation of the online application system in the Sedibeng West District for admission of 2017 Grade 1 and 8 ...

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2021-Jun-28 07:42:14

The paper discusses leadership roles and mandates of the different institutions involved in collaborations for e-Government in South Africa. These are two of eighteen critical success factors found in research by the author. The purpose of the paper is to provide details of the nature and form of challenges pertaining to these factors and to provide proposed solutions from eleven practitioner respondents from both the public and private sector. This was a qualitative study that utilised in-de ...

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2021-Jun-28 07:31:39

As a speedy and cost-effective panacea for addressing the huge housing backlog and service delivery crisis that has plagued South Africa for years, innovative building technologies (IBT) were evolved. This is expedient as the government lacks the wherewithal to meet the housing need that is expected to cost R800 billion by 2020. Also, IBT have gained popularity because of their potential to receptively respond to the high-tech demands of the imminent fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) housing ...

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2021-Jun-28 07:25:32

In his seminal work, Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, American sociologist Peter B. Evans contends that the state has an important role to play in the development of nations. Evans argues that while the bureaucracy requires autonomy from society, a degree of embeddedness is required in order that development can be achieved. The state and its agencies, therefore, cannot effectively involve itself in economic matters without the contribution of non-state actors, and nec ...

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2021-Jun-28 07:21:41

In his editorial titled Lies, damn lies, in the Journal of Public Administration, Maserumule (2017) aptly offers clarity about the misguided conflation of editorial and a preface. He said, unlike the preface that simply provides the summation of the papers in a particular journal edition, the editorial extends this by advancing an editor's professional opinion on any matter of public interest. Maserumule's view that editors should voice their informed opinions is a constant reminder t ...

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2021-Jun-28 07:16:51