Chairperson, Mfene Family, Members of University Management, Nehawu, Members of the SRC, Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen. ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:39:07

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, various changes were made globally and nationally that affected how we live our everyday life. These included restricted economic activities, limited travel, and the restructuring of work where frontline staff became critical. The COVID-19 epidemic exposed societal inequalities that threatened both livelihoods and life expectancy. ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:35:37

The medium-term policy statement (MTPS), November 2021, of the South African Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, suggested that through improved systems of revenue collection, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) collected an additional R50 billion during the 2020/2021 financial year. The Commissioner of SARS, Edward Kieswetter, suggested that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) methods improved tax revenue collection and saved SARS an additional R30 billion in illic ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:32:19

In democracies, public participation is regarded as a basic principle; governments derive their power from the citizens, so they must respond to citizen's needs. Principles of democracy envisage the process of decentralisation as a critical instrument that deepens democracy and affords the public decision-making powers. In Zimbabwe, the political party controlling the central state is different from that which controls the local government structures of most of the major cities. With a po ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:09:42

This article investigates challenges to public policy implementation, specifically focusing on the Free State Province. Implementation challenges identified were linked to the 5-C protocol and the extended 7-C protocol of successful policy implementation, as originally identified by Najam (1995), thereby, bridging the gap between practice ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:05:17

Public Administration as an academic discipline, a scientific field of inquiry, is over a century old, whereas public administration as an area that is operational can be traced from the earliest periods of human history. The contemporary discipline of Public Administration has not really found its feet in bringing to the fore the contributions made by African indigenous learnings and practices of public administration. Such is expected, as the roots of Public Administration are inclined towa ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:01:54

The article reports on an empirical exploration of public service medical schemes governance, its variations and the dire financial repercussions and financial security for the members of such schemes in South Africa. Given the class-based 'dual nature' of the medical scheme terrain in South Africa through the existence of 'open' and 'restricted' schemes (the latter dominated by public-service ones), existing violations of good governance take a wide variety of forms a ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:55:40

Poor service delivery is a major challenge confronting many municipal authorities around the world. The challenge is even worse in developing nations, mainly because municipal authorities, like any other organisations in developing countries, are susceptible to the stress of mismanagement, economic downturns or stagnation, and resource constraints, among other factors. As a result, many municipalities struggle to improve their service delivery levels. Using a systematic review of literature, ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:51:07

Organisations need to ensure that the appropriate people are in place with the required values, skills and competencies that are necessary to bring about change and accomplish goals to drive organisational strategy forward. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of organisational strategy, recruitment strategy and organisational culture on succession planning in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) in South Africa. The study is located within a ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:47:41

The strained relationship between the Department of Social Development (DSD) and Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs) in South Africa poses a risk to their ability to collaborate to deliver government's constitutional obligations to meet people's social and welfare needs. A more collaborative approach between governments and civil society to address social development challenges is supported by contemporary approaches to Public Administration and Management. Renowned sociologist Peter Evan ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:43:26

While much has been written about the instrumental roles of Intergovernmental Relations (IGR) in the promotion of co-operative government between the national, provincial and local spheres of government in South Africa, limited attention has been paid to the intergovernmental management of environmental changes between provincial governments and municipalities in the local sphere of government. As a result, critical linkages, challenges and opportunities, as well as synergies between the two ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:38:34

Climate change has become a pressing environmental problem across the world. The inherent global nature of climate change has led to the domination of international negotiations and national commitments as the major mitigation tools. However, literature provides concrete evidence that national governments have failed to circumvent the continuing greenhouse gases (GHG) and mitigate climate change. As such, there is a rapidly growing awareness that the ultimate success is dependent upon the inf ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:32:26

Regulatory agencies (RAs) play a crucial role within the public governance system by offering specialised regulatory functions on behalf of government. There is a growing public awareness concerning their capacity to fulfill their analogous fiduciary duties conscientiously to safeguard public interests. This study examines corporate governance failures within RAs when fulfilling their regulatory functions. In-depth discussions were used to understand the causes and effects of non-compliance w ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:26:55

Climate change has become a pressing environmental problem across the world. The inherent global nature of climate change has led to the domination of international negotiations and national commitments as the major mitigation tools. However, literature provides concrete evidence that national governments have failed to circumvent the continuing greenhouse gases (GHG) and mitigate climate change. As such, there is a rapidly growing awareness that the ultimate success is dependent upon the inf ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:18:36