There comes a time in the life of an organisation when the necessity for self-reflection can no longer be postponed. In the case of former national liberation movements, this time unfortunately comes when an existential crisis has already taken hold. This crisis is characterised by the haemorrhaging of electoral support, a qualitative and quantitative decline in the organisation's membership and internal divisions that tear the organisation asunder. While all former national liberation mo ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:35:37

The COVID-19 pandemic re-emphasised health protocols in combatting a pandemic, including the wearing of masks. This is an integrated approach (Exploratory, Persuasive and Policy Memorandum), as the impact of mask wearing remains medically speculative, lacking constitutional clarity and largely unmeasured. The science on the efficacy of face masks is also not pervasive. Globally, governments and health authorities contemplated Public Policy and disaster management protocols instead of health l ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:29:55

The National School of Government (NSG) is a government training academy that offers training interventions directly or through partnerships with local and international higher education institutions. The NSG's programmes are aligned with public sector policy frameworks and national priorities and respond to the learning needs of public servants and public sector institutions. Historically, most of these programmes have been offered through face-to-face training in a classroom situation, ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:26:32

A technocratic system of governance is often assumed to enhance the universal over the particular and to flout the prevalence of demographic complexity. In homogenous political economies, universality enhances the embeddedness of democratic values. However, in societies marred by demographic variation, it might contribute to preferential access at the expense of the majority or even the 'greater good,' both in terms of the extractive and distributive regimes of the local state's r ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:22:42

When COVID-19 hit South Africa’s shores, municipalities had to think on their feet, adapt and find alternative ways of performing their constitutional functions. Transparency in local government procurement is pivotal as it enables communities to monitor the delivery of public services and hold municipal authorities accountable. The issue of transparency was heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, where local government was at the forefront of providing the much-needed basic services s ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:18:51

The South African local government is constitutionally mandated to deliver and prioritise the provision of basic, reliable, quality services to households. Currently, all South African municipalities are in serious distress pertaining to effective provision of services. The inability of local municipalities to deliver services is found to be a constitutional breach, which makes local communities express their dissatisfaction regarding delivery. Often, local communities demonstrate their dissa ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:15:12

The South African government has long sought the idea of becoming a capable, developmental, and ethical state as the ultimate ambition to meet the country's developmental targets as reflected in the National Development Plan. However, the country has not been able to materialise the capable developmental state aspirations because of the overwhelming capacity deficits in the local government system to adequately deliver social and economic development services to the millions of South Afri ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:11:52

This article assesses the performance of coalition governments in the metropolitan cities of Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg and Tshwane from 2016 to 2021. Coalition governments are constitutionally possible and are further anchored by a proportional representation system of elections. The 2016 local government elections yielded 27 hung municipalities nationally. This signalled an unprecedented loss of all three Gauteng-based metros by the African National Congress (ANC) and with it, a possible decl ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:08:03

The article aims to analyse corruption in public institutions, focusing on the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) headquarters of Harare in Zimbabwe as a case study. The study argues that corrupt business conducted by public officers has created problems such as administrative inefficiency, a social atmosphere of tension, dishonesty within public institutions and a food security crisis. The research is grounded on the qualitative approach and interviews and document analysis were used as research in ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:04:30

As in many Sub-Sahara African countries, urban land administration in Ethiopia is characterised by governance challenges. Yet scholarly attention to the principles of good governance implementation and the quantification of the factors affecting urban land governance is inadequate. This study examines the determinants of customer satisfaction in urban land governance in Mekelle City, Ethiopia. The study employs a pragmatic research design and combines both quantitative and qualitative approac ...

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2024-Mar-04 10:01:19

A tempestuous economic environment pushed South African Airways to the brink, compelling it to enter into a bankruptcy protection arrangement with the government. The situation got exacerbated by the advent of the novel coronavirus, which forced the airline to ground all its local, regional and international flights to retard, contain, and manage infections as well as flattening curves of new ones. This inevitable move culminated in the collapse of ticket sales income, a shutdown and a possib ...

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2024-Mar-04 09:57:48

This article employs Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) perpetuates and reproduces the socio-economic status quo of neoliberalism through the Mining Charter. It specifically examines how the Charter reduces the political processes of transformation and empowerment to the managerial practices of technical scoreboards, targets, and auditing processes as well as economic participation at the microcosmic level. This article argues th ...

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2024-Mar-04 09:53:55

Orthodox logic proposes that small, medium, and micro enterprises are critical for growth, development and the transformation of society towards an inclusive economy, particularly in developing countries. The article provides input to the South African context in terms of addressing pertinent problems of multi-dimensions of poverty that encompass inequality, income, and unemployment at the municipal level. The case of the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), which deals with a broad spectru ...

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2024-Mar-04 09:44:55

The novel corona virus (Covid-19) reportedly originated in China towards the end of 2019. It immediately became uncontrollably out of hand in early 2020 as more and more people were infected across the world. Shortly thereafter, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it to be a pandemic – underscoring the seriousness of the virus. With this declaration, countries across the world were urged by the WHO to impose mandatory lockdowns in the quest to manage the spread of the virus. Th ...

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2024-Mar-04 09:37:30