This article assesses the current municipal re-demarcation process in local government, focusing on the Malamulele area, which was previously under Thulamela Municipality. The challenges posed in Collis Chabane Local Municipal (CCLM), established in 2016, are evaluated. It is noted that the existing boundaries of Malamulele and Vuwani areas were demarcated in such a way that the division failed to cater to the needs of the surrounding communities and to follow complex social boundaries. Limit ...

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2024-Mar-04 14:59:59

The purpose was to determine strategic statements' intent, congruence, convergence, emerging themes, alignment to characteristics and allegiance in the public sector. A purposive, archival research was followed using the mixed methods approach. Interviews were held with senior management for qualitative data and questionnaires completed by middle management and operational staff for quantitative data to avoid bias. The focus was strategic planning and management's theoretical framewor ...

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2024-Mar-04 14:55:55

Despite the South African government's significant contribution to and success in ensuring sufficient housing for the achievement of sustainable development goal 11, more work remains to be done to address the housing industry's current challenges. The low-income housing market faces a variety of problems, including the delivery of non-conforming housing. These problems are critical because the ripple effect is noticeable, both socially and economically. This study investig ...

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2024-Mar-04 14:49:05

The delivery of primary health care (PHC), as promulgated by the World Health Organization (WHO), is of fundamental importance. In metro districts in South Africa, PHC service delivery has been a problem for various reasons such as, the history of the country (the apartheid era pre-1994), financial constraints, lack of human resources, physical infrastructure and time constraints. Service delivery in the health sector reported frequently in the media as clinicians embarked on a strike in 2009 ...

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2024-Mar-04 13:09:40

The business environment has undergone substantial changes, which oblige organisations to constantly revise their business models so that they continue to meet customer needs profitably. To date, public value in most parastatals is created by adherence to standards, while changes in the business environment require intrapreneurship to create value effectively and efficiently. High-performing parastatals committed to creating unique solutions for customers are the new normal as these organisat ...

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2024-Mar-04 13:02:04

Governments around the globe use a variety of legal instruments and public procurement policies to acquire and deliver sustainable services to their citizens. As part of public procurement processes, arduous regulatory frameworks are applied by all public institutions. In South Africa, there is no current specific Public Procurement Act to administer public procurement operations, nor a legislated independent Public Procurement Regulator to standardise and guide public procurement procedures. ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:58:36

Little research has been done on research ethics committee administrators' capacity development, leading to a lack of uniform requirements for this role, and few training opportunities. The role may be related to administration, but it is integral to the smooth running of a research ethics committee. This study proposes and validates a capacity development framework for research ethics administrators in South Africa using a Delphi survey with ethics experts to reach consensus. T ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:53:39

Over the past few years, the South African state, in collaboration with private capital, has been facilitating the destruction of the natural environment in the name of "development" (Mahlatsi, 2018). While this has been particularly pronounced in areas such as the Wild Coast, where the state has sought to facilitate mining activities, the ...

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2024-Mar-04 12:45:13