The youth development academies in KwaZulu-Natal are an audacious and innovative initiative to provide skills development to young people. They are managed by nonprofit organizations on behalf of government in a community-state partnership model. The government has invested vast amounts of money for the buildings, daily operations and capacity development for the nonprofit organizations' boards. Over time, a plethora of management and governance challenges were identified and these threat ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:50:23

In 2016, about 200 units of the Earth Auger sanitation technology were implemented at Ida farmsteads in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. This study undertook an assessment of user acceptance and institutional satisfaction and concerns about the technology post-implementation. Employing a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods within a case study area of Ida community, survey questionnaires were used to collect data from 45% of the beneficiary households (n=90) ...

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2024-Mar-04 15:17:19

We are told that life precedes death; there is no death without life; death is part of life; or perhaps, conversely, life is part of death. Death is an inevitable certainty of life. What is uncertain is the time of death. When death strikes, no matter at what age the deceased was, it inflicts excruciating pain, so much so that a deathless life becomes our wish. Science explains reasons for mortality, but not to the extent of how to come to terms with death, especially of those whose impact in ...

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2024-Mar-04 14:59:57

The stability of any region or constituency is largely dependent upon the leadership prevailing at the time. Different styles of leadership have been observed, but studies have not adequately assessed the most appropriate leadership style for efficient service delivery at municipalities in South Africa. Although it has been more than twenty years since the adoption of the Constitution of South Africa, some citizens still find themselves without basic services such as electricity, water and sa ...

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2024-Mar-04 14:19:25

The current Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the entrenched inequality in South Africa, which has racial connotations to it. As per the recent statistics, over 50 percent of South Africans are living in poverty in which Africans are the majority, and unemployment rates are on an all-time high at 32.5 percent. Poverty, inequality and unemployment can be traced from the colonial and apartheid epoch that established a Manichean society in South Africa by compartmentalisation of hierarchical society ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:56:06

In 2016, about 200 units of the Earth Auger sanitation technology were implemented at Ida farmsteads in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. This study undertook an assessment of user acceptance and institutional satisfaction and concerns about the technology post-implementation. Employing a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods within a case study area of Ida community, survey questionnaires were used to collect data from 45% of the beneficiary households (n=90) ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:52:42

The advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994 started the process of public sector change and transformation. Influenced by Western ideals, South Africa adopted various strategies aimed at improving public sector service delivery across the spheres of government. Of key interest and among these varied approaches are performance management systems and the experiences that public-sector institutions have had in implementing these systems post-1994. While numerous laws and policies have been i ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:47:36

Smart municipalities refer to urban areas using technology to collect data which is transformed into information, and which in turn directs the efficient use of assets to provide sustainable services to the community (African News Agency, 2018). The municipal services are listed in the South African constitution, and include, among others, the four major trading services, namely, electricity, water, wastewater treatment and solid waste removal, and community services such as safety and securi ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:43:52

This article discusses the nature of the electorates' perceptions towards women leadership and the effects of the perceptions on performance of women candidates in Malawi. It also uncovers the roots of the perceptions that are held towards female leaders. This article draws from empirical evidence generated through a qualitative research design. Zomba is used as a case study and two constituencies, namely, Changalume and Zomba Central constituency were selected. Focus group interviews wit ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:34:04

Timeous completion of large and interconnected public services is becoming an urgent matter necessary to plan and achieve government service delivery goals. The article explores the correlation between the Time Estimation Tool as an Administrative Tool to chart effective public service delivery dates and response to service completion bottlenecks during service delivery execution processes in the Public Sector. Late as well as non-delivery of public services by government departments lead to ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:29:55

The state of local government in South Africa warrants some form of intervention to bring about a revamped public accountability and a sense of responsibility on the part of municipal practitioners. The recent Auditor General's Report (2016/17 AG's Report) identifies a 75 percent increase in irregular expenditure in municipalities, from over R16.2 billion in 2015/16 to nearly R28,4 billion in 2016/17. Furthermore, this report reveals that 86 percent of municipalities did not comply wi ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:24:22

This study examines the role of lending infrastructure in facilitating or constraining access to credit finance by SMEs in South Africa. Empirical literature identified access to financing as critical for the development of SMEs. SMEs are seen as playing an important role in the development of the South African economy. Important as the sector may be, it is faced with many challenges, difficulties in accessing financial credit is prominent. FinMark Trust undertook a study in 2015 wherein, out ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:13:05

This paper contends that the widening gap between developing and developed states has long dominated international relations. The gap has resulted in the continual capital influx from developed to developing states, Africa included. This is said to be alleviating the developing countries' challenges. However, the recipient countries find their political space and sovereignty intruded on by those giving aid. This paper discusses, inter alia, a theory about foreign aid; foreig ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:09:24

Globalisation is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. The progress of globalisation and the parallel challenge of the local electorate encourages the e ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:05:22

Even though Eurocentric intellectuals tend to theorise the worldview through the lens of "Western evolutionary progress rather than de-evolutionary retrogression", this article begs to take an Afrocentric perspective. Coerced to abandon their deeply entrenched indigenous knowledge systems (customary tenure), some indigenous people of South Africa consciously and inadvertently increasingly devolved their land heritage to the suzerain that benefited through oppressive land laws. The p ...

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2024-Mar-04 11:54:51

The stability of any region or constituency is largely dependent upon the leadership prevailing at the time. Different styles of leadership have been observed, but studies have not adequately assessed the most appropriate leadership style for efficient service delivery at municipalities in South Africa. Although it has been more than twenty years since the adoption of the Constitution of South Africa, some citizens still find themselves without basic services such as electricity, water and sa ...

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2024-Mar-04 11:40:33

The 2021 Local Government Elections (LGEs) will be interesting considering the outcomes of both the 2016 (LGEs) and the 2019 General Elections (GEs), which proved that the political landscape of the country is in a continuous state of flux. With specific reference to the 2016 LGEs, political analysts and commentators stopped at nothing in considering them a watershed development in South African politics, granted that they were free and fair with no violence reported. As predicted by many, th ...

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2024-Mar-04 11:36:52

Researchers continue to theorise public private partnerships (PPPs) as an innovative means of unlocking public sector investment gaps, yet their contribution towards improved public service delivery has sustainably remained low mainly because of poor public private partnership (PPP) understanding and application. This study utilises extant conceptual and theoretical studies through content analysis to provide a more concrete understanding of the PPP concept and philosophy for their effective ...

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2024-Mar-04 11:28:23

We are told that life precedes death; there is no death without life; death is part of life; or perhaps, conversely, life is part of death. Death is an inevitable certainty of life. What is uncertain is the time of death. When death strikes, no matter at what age the deceased was, it inflicts excruciating pain, so much so that a deathless life becomes our wish. Science explains reasons for mortality, but not to the extent of how to come to terms with death, especially of those whos ...

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2024-Mar-04 11:08:46

Academics play a key role in determining the future of South African Public Administration scholarship. This key role entails contributing to and questioning scholarly debates to craft knowledge that is suitable for the African continent. Phago (2015:141) identifies various antecedents, mainly critical thinking and reasoning, knowledge production, keeping abreast with disciplinary developments and expertise and specialisation required for adequately contributing to South African Pu ...

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2024-Mar-04 11:06:57