In the year 2019, South Africa had its sixth democratic national and provincial elections. As per the title of the book Election 2019: change and stability in South Africa’s democracy edited by Collet Schultz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall; the book already denotes what it is about. Issues such as social grants, youth empowerment, land reform and etc. are mentioned on the cover of the book to showcase some of the aspects that are included in the book. Although the book ...

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2021-Jun-28 10:17:54

In the year 2019, South Africa had its sixth democratic national and provincial elections. As per the title of the book Election 2019: change and stability in South Africa’s democracy edited by Collet Schultz-Herzenberg and Roger Southall; the book already denotes what it is about. Issues such as social grants, youth empowerment, land reform and etc. are mentioned on the cover of the book to showcase some of the aspects that are included in the book. Although the book ...

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2021-Jun-28 10:12:56

The importance of leadership for driving and sustaining the realisation of national development goals is arguably more heightened now than ever before. While the complex demands of the development agenda are well noted, managerial and positional leadership largely characterise the public service as part of the administrative apparatus of the state. Specific management and leadership development programmes have been implemented to strengthen capabilities of senior managers and prepare middle m ...

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2021-Jun-28 10:06:57

In a developmental state such as South Africa, poverty reduction and eradication are focal areas of the government. Various state-funded social grants have been at the centre of the government policy to cushion the poor from the ravaging effects of poverty. Observably, social grants have been instrumental in reducing poverty in South Africa. Nonetheless, the war waged on poverty has not been smooth since there are some desperately poor citizens who continue to slip through the social protecti ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:58:32

The study investigates whether a relationship exists between procurement planning in local government and the effectiveness of service delivery, a central municipal function. Consequently, development of a municipality's Integrated Development Plan should occur with this end goal in mind. However, the gap between strategy design and its application presents challenges to the attainment of the planned outcomes. Contemporary strategic management literature asserts that a relationship exists ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:54:54

China's engagement with Africa has recently become a subject of much policy and academic debate. Most of the studies on this subject have wrongly assumed a continental posture, but this view does not take into cognisance the unique national interests of China towards each individual African state. Such analyses were also heavily subjected to a North[ern] perspective as expressed through either a liberal or realist contextual lens. Despite this, the discourse on the foreign policy of China ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:51:10

The issue of asset management is not confined to the private sector but includes the public sector as well. The promulgation of the Public Finance Management Act (1999) gave effect to the professionalisation of the asset management function in the public service. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has its cost centres around the globe as missions, fully staffed with diplomats and locally recruited personnel to pursue South Africa's foreign policy. These missions are ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:43:23

In spite of a plethora of benefits derived from the effective implementation of talent management practices, the local sphere of government exhibits a poor track record in this respect. Furthermore, the different views held by scholars and practitioners concerning talent management negatively influence the implementation thereof in practice. Through a qualitative research approach, with a descriptive and explanatory research design, this article reviews a number of talent management theories ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:39:55

The 'rise of the machines' has invaded various sectors of public administration but is most evident in the healthcare industry; data is integral to the current practice of medicine. Healthcare officials are forced to contend with, and adapt to, the changing tides of law and technology while still being under-resourced. With Artificial Intelligence setting the tone for futuristic medicine and law evolving to counteract the gaps created by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the medical i ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:36:13

Public Administration and public administration are about the management of state resources for the benefit of reigning policies as crafted by society through its arrangements on how to rule itself. P/public A/administration is thus meaningless unless it is based on the philosophical foundations through which society imagines its long-term sustainability. The various (South) African 'democratic experiments' have all been designed to advance the interests of 'conquerors' also c ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:27:15

Most of the articles that are in this September 2019 edition of the renowned Journal of Public Administration are a product of the 19th Annual Conference of the South African Association of Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM), which was hosted at the University of Mpumalanga, Mbombela. This watershed conference took place on the 14-17 May 2019, a week after the 2019 general elections in South Africa under the theme of "Public Affair ...

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2021-Jun-28 09:05:28