The electricity crisis, or power outages, has been a global phenomenon for decades and South Africa is part of this crisis. The SA economy has been impacted immensely by its effects, resulting in industry shutdowns, a steep decline in productivity, unemployment, negative healthcare impacts and an education crisis, to name but a few. In 2022 there was more loadshedding than in all the previous years together. The intention of this paper is to shed light on the devastating impact of loadsheddin ...

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2024-Mar-08 09:16:43

Various media houses recently reported on a reply to a parliamentary question by the Minister for Public Service and Administration (DPSA) on the number of senior managers without three-year university degrees or equivalent qualifications. This number initially stood at over 2 500 officials but has since decreased to about 1 800. The DPSA has acknowledged that the decrease is a result of human resources units in national and provincial departments updating information on the payroll system. R ...

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2024-Mar-07 13:05:32

Indigenous knowledge, diverse narratives, and the heritage of marginalised communities in the institutions of memory, such as cultural archives, are inadequate. The lack of diversification and inclusion of the archive results in a risk of information loss and inconsistency in the archive. It is unclear how social media can effectively be used to digitise cultural activities and the history of marginalised indigenous communities. The study aimed to explore how the Hlubi nation can use social m ...

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2024-Mar-07 13:03:08

This paper analyses the impact of financial literacy on the sustainability of female entrepreneurship in the cosmetic industry in Namibia. The objective of the study is to highlight the financial literacy challenges faced at the domestic industry level and at the regional, and continental levels. In the process of doing that, it is expected that solutions to the financial literacy challenges confronting female entrepreneurship can be found and adapted at the same levels to ensure the success ...

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2024-Mar-07 13:00:27

This study explores factors influencing the advancement of women into managerial positions at a steel manufacturing company based in Gauteng, South Africa. It further examines the level of gender-balanced leadership in the organisations, the pros and cons of having women in leadership positions, and ascertains existing strategies put in place to pave the way for women leadership in the organisation. Primary data was sourced from a steel manufacturing company in Gauteng Province through a stru ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:58:03

This paper investigates the role of stakeholders (SMMEs' suppliers and employees) in SMMEs' success in the study area, Umhlathuze Local Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal. The study employed a descriptive research design; as a result, it adopted a quantitative research approach in collecting and analysing data. The study used a simple random sampling method to reduce bias when collecting data. The study randomly took a sample of 80 respondents from formal and informal SMMEs who were owners/m ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:54:44

In 2015, South Africa, along with other United Nations (UN) member states, adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve the SDGs, the South African government requires relevant capacity and skills to enhance existing policy and strategy, implement and support programmes, and monitor and report on progress. This paper focuses on SDG 4 (specifically Targets 4.3, 4.4, and 4.7), which aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunit ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:52:01

Social cohesion and economic transformation are among the foremost ideals of long-term development locally and beyond. Images of a high standard of living, and quality, inclusive and equitable education are painted throughout aspirations of national development, a thriving Africa, and sustainable development globally. The significance of people in these development agendas is appropriately emphasised, for without humanity and human development no progress is possible. Furthermore, the contrib ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:49:34

The South African public service has a workforce whose full potential has not yet been unleashed. Decolonising human resource management (HRM) is a means to unlock institutional knowledge and capabilities that can contribute to its effectiveness. This article employs a desktop review, and a qualitative lens to explore the extent to which decolonising HRM may enhance the capabilities of the public service to deliver better services. The findings reveal that decolonisation is the process by whi ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:47:05

The primary objective of this paper is to explore the implementation challenges in human resources management and employment equity with special reference to the University of Limpopo, South Africa. The study used a mixed-methods approach, and self-administered questionnaires were employed to collect data from 42 randomly selected heads of departments. Face-to-face interviews were also conducted with nine (9) human resource officials and labour inspectors who were selected using purposive sam ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:43:43

Discipline management in the public sector enhances excellence and commitment to work. If properly administered, employees can improve their performance and service delivery to the public. Poor management of discipline in the public sector draws criticism from the public. Public service managers are expected to uphold ethical standards while dealing with disciplinary cases. However, in some instances managers are influenced or experience interference as they administer discipline. This causes ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:37:31

Management of solid waste is not only a South African challenge but a global challenge. Separation of waste at source is a vital process in ensuring effective waste management at all levels. This article aims to investigate the effects of waste separation at source in the Thembisile Hani Local Municipality, in Kwaggafontein, Mpumalanga Province. This study was based on a pragmatic research paradigm, mixed-methods research design, qualitative and quantitative research approaches, and the Theor ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:34:49

Service delivery remains a challenge even after 29 years of South Africa's democracy. The introduction of a Service Delivery Improvement Programme (SDIP) was motivated by the need to enhance service delivery across government. The article focuses on an implementation assessment of this SDIP. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the evaluation that targeted selected departments and officials. Four main categories of the assessment criteria used were relevance, effectiveness, e ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:26:12

P/public A/administration1 has been subjected to extensive definitions, descriptions, explanations and theorisation over the years and since its acceptance as a distinct field of study. These have been based mainly on reproducing euro-western epistemologies and ontologies, thus privileging findings, conclusions, and consensuses of the academic-media-complexes dominant in those societies' contexts ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:19:52

Since the dawn of the democratic dispensation in the early 1990s, the South African government has continued to face difficulties in the provision of basic but essential services to its constituencies. Despite the successful restructuring of local government as a non-racial and democratic sphere of government closer to local people, the provision of services remains one of the ongoing challenges faced by the post-apartheid government. The lack of basic services was further exposed when the So ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:14:18

The public service will never be the same again at least in respect of the working arrangements. This may be a likely common view among analysts and public service practitioners, among others, who witnessed the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the public service, especially between 2020 and 2022. These are the years in which alternative work arrangements of working remotely, scheduled office rotation, and a combination of both (blended) were implemented as an obligatory means in publi ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:10:45

This paper comments on the South African government's responses towards addressing street children's COVID-19 intervention needs during the hard lockdown period. It draws from the literature and empirical insights from an ongoing qualitative PhD study investigating the family structure and its dynamics in the street children phenomenon in the North West Province, South Africa. Findings reveal that street children faced many challenges during COVID-19, including a lack of access to COV ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:08:14

The electricity crisis, or power outages, has been a global phenomenon for decades and South Africa is part of this crisis. The SA economy has been impacted immensely by its effects, resulting in industry shutdowns, a steep decline in productivity, unemployment, negative healthcare impacts and an education crisis, to name but a few. In 2022 there was more loadshedding than in all the previous years together. The intention of this paper is to shed light on the devastating impact of loadsheddin ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:05:58

To respond to the climate change crisis and to stave off its devastating impact, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that by 2030 the anthropogenic gas emissions would need to significantly decrease to limit global warming (Bosca & Gillespie, 2018;  ...

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2024-Mar-07 12:03:29