Browsing Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences by Issue Date

Prescribed asset requirements as a second best solution: the South African experience

Hardien, Adenaan (University of the Western Cape, 1998)

This paper explores the feasibility and desirability of the South African Government imposing a policy of prescribed asset requirements on contractual savings. This would serve as a short-term measure to secure finance for ...

Employment policies and practice in the public service: The case for affirmative action

Mdintsi, Pindile Reginald (University of Western Cape, 1998)

South Africa IS apartheid legacy of racial and class inequalities demands drastic and purposeful intervention. This is necessary because, blacks and women have, for decades, been discriminated against on the basis of ...

Transformation of the Public Service under Fiscal and Constitutional Constraints: An Analysis of the Relationship between Human Resource Development and Representativeness.

Sidloyi, Sizwe C (University of the Western Cape, 1998)

The essence of the study is to examine progress in the transformation of public service under fiscal and constitutional contraints. The thesis focuses on the implementation of affirmative action and human resource ...

The new South African parliamentary committee system: its' role and effectiveness

Fisher, Hilton (University of the Western Cape, 1998)

This study will focus on the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa with particular reference to the role and effectiveness of the new parliamentary committee. The committee system has been re-modelled. The historical ...

Co-management of marine resources as an instrument to facilitate conflict resolution in HAWSTON

Murugan, Poobalan (University of Western Cape, 1998)

The living marine resources of South Africa belong to the people of the country. With a steady growth of the human population and the subsequent increased demand for food, it is imperative that the resources of our waters ...

From state maintenance grants 'to a new child support system: Building a policy for poverty alleviation with special reference to the financial, social, and developmental impacts.

Haarmann, Dirk (University of the Western Cape, 1998)

State social security transfers for families existed in South Africa only in the form of state maintenance grants, which paid up to R700 to single parents. The system was not appropriate in the South African context, being ...

The centralisation of government departments in Northern Province, 1994-1998.

Mukheli, Azwidowi (University of the Western Cape, 1998)

This study is an investigation of how the policy of centralising government departments of the former homelands affected various stakeholders in the province. There is general concern from the people of this former homelands ...

The usefulness of the value added statement in South Africa

Van Staden, Christiaan Johan (University of the Western Cape, 1998)

The value added statement is published by about 200 of the 400 companies listed in the industrial sector on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. This is the highest incidence of publication of such statements reported to date. ...

An analysis of the affirmative action policies and strategies of Oostenberg Municipality

Rhoda, James George Phillip (University of Western Cape, 1999)

Local authorities in the Western Cape have all initiated affirmative action policies to address past discrimination and ethnic inequalities, however ineffectual they may have been up to now. The debate arises; what kind ...

The role of training in the human resource department of the south African parliament

Siswana, Batandwa (University of the Western Cape, 1999)

Training in the South African public service is a highly needed factor, especially in the process of transformation. In the "rationalisation" of the public service, training cannot be conducted in isolation. At the same ...

The structural adjustment programme a food security in Mozambique - a case study production incentives in the traditional agricultural sector

Ubisse, Armindo Elias (University of the Western Cape, 1999)

Mozambique has inherited from colonialism a backward agricultural sector based mainly in plantations of export crops, dominated by white settlers and a handful of foreign companies. Production of food crops, especially ...

Productivity in the South African Public Section: Analysis of current issues and future prospects

Layman, Timothy Paul (University of the Western Cape, 1999)

This study examined the issues and concerns for improving productivity in the public sector in South Africa, aligned in particular with the processes of its fundamental transformation, and the aims and objectives of the ...

"The community of Blue downs in the Oostenberg municipality".

Harmse, Jacobus J.P. (University of the Western Cape, 2000)

This research study focuses on the community of Blue Downs and their associated problems. The study furthermore provides some insight on the history of Local Government, the past policies of the Government of the day with ...

Integrating traditional leaders and contemporary local governance in South Africa: A case study of the Northern Province

Fankomo, Felix Christopher (University of the Western Cape, 2000)

Integration of indigenous leaders into modem political structures and process of local government has been a source of contention for several decades on the African continent. This study describes, analyses and assesses ...

Competition policy and its effects on growth in South Africa

Mohamed, Khalid (University of Western Cape, 2000)

This paper aims to critically evaluate the New Competition Act of South Africa and further suggests that this form of government policy tends to harm the economy more than the benefits it reciprocates. The first chapter ...

Challenges of policing in the new millennium: a case of Nyanga SAPS

Ngadlela, Mqondisi Abner (University of the Western Cape, 2000)

The Beginning of the paradigm shift in policing in the South African Police was first seen in 1993 when the concept of Community Policing was first introduced. The South African Police Service that was formed through the ...

Affirmative action policies and strategies impacting on management positions in the provincial administration: Western Cape - 1995 to 1999: a critical assessment

Rockman, Paul A (University of the Western Cape, 2000)

The South African society is in a period of transformation that constantly challenges economic, social, and even psychological paradigms. Affirmative Action forms an integral part of the process of redistribution and ...