It is important for municipalities to continue managing their corporate communications regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic. These oblige municipalities to utilise the fundamental technological advances that are available in the 21st century. With the rapid increase of infections in South Africa, clearly the COVID-19 pandemic does not show signs of disappearing anytime soon. This has led to municipalities and other companies in different sectors reconsidering their traditional ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:03:07

The role of internal audit has undergone major changes since the early 2000s due to the rise of business risks and corporate financial scandals. Internal Audit is now being requested to enhance its value proposition for organisations through demonstrating its effectiveness. Internal Audit effectiveness (IAE) is a relatively new field, especially as it relates to local government in South Africa. This study identifies ten factors that influence IAE in the eThekwini Municipality. Hypotheses wer ...

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2024-Mar-07 11:00:39

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2024-Mar-07 10:51:44

How does one even begin to speak about Professor Hanyane in the past? On Wednesday, 11 May 2022, many seemingly perfect lives came to a piercing, screeching, gut-wrenching standstill when we learned about the passing of our beloved colleague, professor, scholar of note, mentor and friend. Life as we knew it was no longer copacetic; in fact it was far from it. Temporarily, it became a world of confusion, unbelief and horrific sadness. To me, at the time, it felt like my world was spinning, my ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:40:07

The Covid-19 pandemic has placed the importance of human rights firmly in the spotlight, particularly as it has resulted in certain rights’ limitations. As the pandemic is forcing everyone to live and work in different ways, technology and access to technology has become critical. While South Africa is recognised for laws and policies that are progressive, technology has not advanced women, specifically black women, from poverty and dispossession. In this paper, focus is on how technolo ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:37:32

The notion around the priority of arts and culture within the Saldanha Bay Municipal area has been debated for a long time – whether the municipality is lending support to the industry or making resources available to the youth who are interested in the industry. This paper investigated the priority of the arts and culture sector and industry and the development of it within the Saldanha Bay Municipal area. Literature around this topic highlighted public finance as a major source in pri ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:35:12

Service delivery is the core function of municipalities and at the forefront of this function are municipal engineers. Municipal engineers are not only tasked with providing services according to set standards, but also have to balance this with public perception since this sector is highly publicised due to previous corrupt practices which have compromised the integrity of municipal engineering. This research, therefore, seeks to determine whether the use of engineering ethics is ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:29:39

Employee performance in South African public service organisations dropped significantly following the Covid-19 outbreak, as most public employees were asked to work from home to control the spread of the virus. This posed difficulties for most public employees in meeting the desired standard of service delivery to South African citizens. The Ability, Motivation and Opportunity (AMO) theory has been identified by previous scholars as a theory that provides a platform for guiding employees tow ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:26:52

The concept of public value is gaining substantial attention as offering a new paradigm to unravelling the glitches of accountability, trust and operational efficiency in Public Administration and Management. It is recognised as an essential framework to achieve a vibrant public service reform and, particularly, to answer the call to build legitimacy and trust with the incessant demands of the people in the ever-changing modern world. In addition, the issue of an insufficient number of public ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:24:14

State institutions that support constitutional democracy, also known as Chapter 9 Institutions, in South Africa, play a crucial role in many societies, yet there is a scarcity of studies on public awareness about them. Chapter 9 Institutions act as watchdogs and rely on public awareness and the use of services in order to fulfil their mandate. The purpose of the study was to examine public brand awareness about the Office of the Tax Ombudsman (OTO), which has been in existence for over five y ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:19:12

This paper seeks to establish the role of politico-administrative collaboration in the delivery of basic services in a South African local municipality. South Africa constitutes an intergovernmental system that accommodates the collaboration of political and administrative offices. The attainment of democracy, in 1994, has seen South African municipalities publicly promising to achieve the delivery of quality services to local communities through collaboration between elected political leader ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:16:32

Despite having won the African National Congress (ANC) 52nd National Conference in Polokwane, Limpopo, in 2007, the administration of the former President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr. Jacob Zuma, officially assumed power in May 2009. This follows the victory of the ANC in the fourth democratic national election in South Africa. Since then, the Zuma administration experienced various protests ranging from workers' strikes over poor working conditions and deteriorati ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:13:13

This study investigated the nature of and nexus between state-local government relations, governance as well as development in Ogun State, Nigeria. A sample of 213 staff of Abeokuta North Local Government was selected for the quantitative data using the stratified random sampling techniques, while 15 other political stakeholders of Abeokuta North LG were interviewed to yield the qualitative data. The quantitative data was analysed using the SPSS statistics software while the qualitative data ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:10:15

During the 2021 local government elections, the ANC lost electoral power to opposition political parties to govern Tshwane, Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni. In these three metropolitan municipalities, no single party received majority votes to solely constitute a municipal government. These hung municipalities presented an opportunity for political parties to canvass one another in order to form co-governing coalitions. In this article, we argue that the political parties' policy agendas and ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:06:12

The social dimension to sustainability is now widely accepted as important alongside environmental and economic sustainability. Safety and security as one of the aspects of social sustainability has been undertheorized in the built environment fraternity. Research has proven that theories that dominate the field of urban safety come from social sciences, but the motives of this paper are to report and discuss findings from a critical review of local and international literature in the role of ...

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2024-Mar-07 09:02:43

This article has focused on the challenges of creating inclusionary or integrated human settlements in post-apartheid South Africa by analyzing the views of the senior public servants who have played significant roles in policy implementation in the Johannesburg Metropolitan Council between 1994 and 2018. It unravels the intricacies of the strategies pursued by the policymakers in their attempts to re-engineer the greater metropolitan city to accommodate the strategy of creating racially and ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:59:43

Small enterprises face many constraints, particularly with regard to the inability of accessing capital. The enterprise support funding programme is to mitigate the constraints, among which is the establishment of the Black Business Supplier Development Programme (BBSDP) in South Africa. However, the funding programme has effectively attracted no scrutiny since it started operation in 2002. This study seeks to address this omission by assessing the performance and effectiveness of the program ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:53:39

South African municipalities experience numerous challenges that pressure solid waste management practices and their capability to instigate new legitimately compliant techniques that are compatible with policy objectives. The study sought to uncover how solid waste is managed within the informal settlements and, ultimately, suggests possible remedies to enhance waste management plans for local municipalities challenged by the proliferation of informal settlements. Applying a quantitative met ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:42:46

South African municipalities experience numerous challenges that pressure solid waste management practices and their capability to instigate new legitimately compliant techniques that are compatible with policy objectives. The study sought to uncover how solid waste is managed within the informal settlements and, ultimately, suggests possible remedies to enhance waste management plans for local municipalities challenged by the proliferation of informal settlements. Applying a quantitative met ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:39:05

The continuous distraction of rural livelihood activities, loss of lives and the displacement of large numbers of rural populations has brought about the question of the applicability of risk and disaster mitigation and management approach implementation in most developing countries in Southern Africa. The fact that floods are still causing a huge impact every year in Mozambique, Malawi and even South Africa, for example, explains the inadequacy in terms of the ability of these countries to d ...

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2024-Mar-07 08:29:51