In the 2018 edition of the Journal of Public Administration (Volume 53, Number 2, page 142-154), Stephen G Bwengye's article was published with a minor typographical error in the title: 'Monitoring the role of local governments in implementing decentralisation policy reforms: An international perspective'. The correct title is, 'Monitoring role of local governments in implementing decentralisation policy reforms: An international perspective'. The two ar ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:28:12

The judicial system has drawn much attention lately to South Africa's political and public life. It has, in the last 13 years at least, provided hope in relation to playing an oversight role on the legislature and the executive. From the day the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to probe atrocities of the past apartheid rule (Klaaren, 2007), jurists have been hard at work as the custodians of the rule of law. Some critics have also begun to question the current rate and ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:25:16

The liberation movements in Africa remain in power largely because of the support of the youth. This is because the youths are in the majority and are the future of any country. Globally, the population of countries is comprised of young people as a majority. It is therefore important to invest in the youth. According to the United Nations (2015:1), the youth population is rapidly growing with 1.2 billion youth in the world. Africa's youth population is expected to continue to grow throug ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:22:13

An effective cultural diversity training programme for South African diplomats could contribute to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16, since it could build an effective, accountable and inclusive public administration to increase public service delivery. Diplomats deployed abroad are expected by their employer to work effectively in a cross-cultural environment. The effects of culture shock on a diplomat deployed abroad should not be underestimated. Therefore, cultu ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:18:18

There have been several debates regarding the increasing number of unemployed graduates in South Africa. This is alarming. It calls for researchers to probe government's role in graduates' employment creation. This problem is exacerbated by a lack of, among other things, appropriate skills and experience required by the labour market. A case study approach was adopted on graduates' employability in KwaZulu-Natal. This study examined perceptions of postgraduate students on work rea ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:15:51

In this article, we seek to briefly explore the concepts of policy uncertainty and policy coherence in relation to more recent (2008 to 2018) economic policies in the country, and the impact thereof on foreign direct investment (FDI). The article explains how policy uncertainty affected countries like Russia, Brazil and India, which are part of the BRICS bloc together with South Africa. It uses unobtrusive techniques to analyse the secondary data available from leading databases of the World ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:11:26

The purpose of this article is to provide ethical and moral good public sector governance from sociological compilation. Its significance is grounded in the global impact that ethical and moral public sector governance can contribute. Ethical actors with varied purposes complicate achievements of good public sector governance while moral agents place it under obligations and duties. State- and society-centric good public sector governance are idealised, and what constitute 'good' in g ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:07:52

This article focuses on the future of public administration scholarship for democracy, for practice, and for academe. As public administration is both local and global, it can be assumed that some trends and issues are unique to a country while some other phenomena are truly global. Thus, the future of public administration for practice and academe in a democratic setting always merits a discussion of both the global and the local elements. The global aspect of the study concerns its nature: ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:05:30

Higher education is becoming more complex regarding local competitiveness, international recognition, education quality, economic growth, and modernisation. This article explores how South African higher education institutions (HEIs), embedded in networks of collective intelligence, can be responsive to local demands while competing in the global knowledge society to improve the South African HE system. It departs from the proposition that HEIs should be aligned with, motivated by, and open t ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:01:06

June 16, known as Youth Day in South Africa, marked 114 days since the first case of Covid-19 in South Africa was reported. This year, this day passed in the stillness of the solstice, shorn of the typical commemorative fanfare of its salience in the history of the liberation struggle. The nation is in a pensive mood. Its trepidation is discernibly intense as it muses its fate. Covid-19 is on the rampage. Its spread is alarming. As the winter season sets in, experts warn of a spike. The metro ...

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2021-Jun-28 13:02:12