The land question has assumed a place of prominence in the public discourse. Following the passing of the motion for land expropriation without compensation that was brought before the National Assembly by South Africa's second largest opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the National Assembly subsequently voted to adopt the Joint Constitutional Review Committee's report, which recommends that the Constitution be amended to allow for this expropriation. While some de ...

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2021-Jun-28 12:54:34

Notwithstanding the efforts of the multi-stakeholders in orphans and vulnerable children care and support in Zimbabwe in the past two decades, the power struggles between the traditional and contemporary leadership have affected its effectiveness and output. Using a phenomenological qualitative approach, the study seeks to examine the roles of traditional leadership in orphans and vulnerable children care and support within the rural communities of Zimbabwe with the intention of integrating i ...

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2021-Jun-28 12:51:49

This comparative cross-sectional quantitative study was aimed at comparing the overall perceptions of male and female professional staff at the Polokwane local municipality regarding their career adaptability. The sample size comprised 282 (149 [52.84 percent] male and 133 [47.16 percent] female) professionals. The items that measured adaptability were reliable and measured in accordance with Cronbach's alpha at 0.9017. Results from structural equation modelling indicate that career adapt ...

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2021-Jun-28 12:48:20

The study assesses the implementation of local economic development (LED) in South African rural areas using as a case study of the Alfred Duma Municipality. The overall objective was to explore the successes, challenges and constraints experienced by the Municipality in the implementation of LED programmes with a view to identifying possible interventions that may assist other South African rural municipalities in general, and Alfred Duma Municipality in particular, in implementing their LED ...

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2021-Jun-28 12:45:54

Successful implementation of Local Economic Developed (LED) remains a key policy issue in Gauteng Province. The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate the roles of the Gauteng Departments of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) and Economic Development (DED) to support the City of Tshwane to implement LED initiatives successfully. The investigation adopted the single case study method, while data was collected by means of semi-structured interviews. The study c ...

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2021-Jun-28 12:42:48

Upon democratisation, the ANC-led government set out to ensure coordination between the three spheres of government. This would be done to ensure that there is a flowing, well set out structure of governance to ensure efficient service delivery. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) is a by-product of this realisation, as per its constitutional mandate, CoGTA is responsible for ensuring that there is coordination, support and effective citizen participation ...

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2021-Jun-28 12:40:21

Evidence suggests that the Zambian government has adapted its developmental local government, Integrated Development Planning process and policy, partly modelled after the South African one. This paper investigates the policy convergence, divergence, synergies, and disparities between these two models to contribute to the improvement of the Zambian Integrated Development Planning process in future. Using a qualitative comparative policy analysis framework, this study analyses primary and seco ...

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2021-Jun-28 10:37:39

Experience based on local governments' efforts made to implement a decentralisation policy suggests that a number of institutional factors influence the performance of local governments (LGs). This article analyses from an international perspective the extent to which the institutional factors influence the performance of LGs. Drawing experiences from developing and developed countries, it is demonstrated that the institutional factors that include the autonomy of LGs in exercising decent ...

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2021-Jun-28 10:34:52

With the end of colonialism and segregationist rule, cities in the south experienced levels of urbanisation associated with much lower levels of per capita income (and consequent economic growth), with agricultural productivity and industrialisation not sufficient to sustain the growth of their cities. In these immense urban agglomerations, which often show a dramatic sprawl accompanied by an explosive population growth, the environmental and social consequences are disastrous. National, regi ...

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2021-Jun-28 10:32:30

Coronavirus (Covid-19) exposes the vulnerability of the global community. It sends nation states into a tailspin. Its consequences on all aspects of humanity are ghastly to contemplate. At the time of writing this, more than 150 countries were affected. Some such as Italy, Iran, Spain and Germany became new epicentres of the disease, outside China where it came from. Africa is set to be hit hard by the rampaging pathogen. This is largely because of her ailing health system. The World Health O ...

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2021-Jun-28 10:29:31