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Linking fiscal decentralization and local financial governance: a case of district level decentralization in the Amhara region, Ethiopia
(University of Western Cape, 2014)
The prime aim of this thesis is to examine the link between fiscal decentralization and local financial governance in fiscally empowered woreda administrations (districts) of the Amhara region in Ethiopia. Local financial ...
African military intervention in African conflicts: an analysis of military intervention in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesotho
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
The dissertation examines three military interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa which took place in the mid and late 1990s in Rwanda, the DRC and Lesotho. These interventions took place despite high expectations of international ...
Government housing rectification programme and practice in South Africa: A case study of three selected Eastern Cape communities
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
In 1994, democratic South Africa adopted the Reconstruction and Development
Programme (RDP). The construction of houses for the poor was framed as a
fundamental measure of restoring the dignity of the poor and as a victory ...
Municipal budget oversight by multiple principals: A case study of the Western Cape province
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The transformation of local government in South Africa has established a complex model of multiple principals exercising municipal budget oversight on municipal managers. However, earlier research has not sufficiently ...
From pavement entrepreneurs to stock exchange capitalists: the case of the South African black business class
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
The evolution of policy regarding the black bourgeoisie -- Issues in the struggle for black capitalism -- The roles and effects of NAFCOC (National African Federation Chamber of Commerce) and FABCOS (Foundation of Business ...
The political economy of South African foreign direct investment in Mozambique: a case study of Mozal and its implications for development in Mozambique and Southern Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The MOZAL aluminium smelter in Maputo is the largest-ever foreign direct investment in Mozambique. South Africa's state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) owns 24% shares in MOZAL and the Development Bank of ...
Urban Housing Policy in Zimbabwe and its Institutional Structures: Reflecting on the Housing Challenge in Harare, 1980-2020.
(2021)
This thesis is a contextual analysis and reflection of the urban housing policy making process in
post-independence Zimbabwe, buttressed by empirical research. The focus of the thesis is on
understanding the nature and ...
In the Best Interest of the Child: Food Choices and Body Mass Index of Adult and Children Living in Urban Peripheral Townships in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The increase in overweight and obesity worldwide is described as a global health epidemic. A great proportion of this epidemic is now found in low- and middle-income countries with higher levels of prevalence, particularly ...
Social media, protest and citizen participation in local government: A comparison between the City of Cape Town and Johannesburg metropolitan municipalities: 2010 to 2017
(University of Western Cape, 2022)
This study’s central focus is to assess how various classes of people in in distinct localities across Cape Town and Johannesburg use social media in citizen participation concerning municipal governance processes. While ...
Mechanisms for facilitating trust and sense of belonging as aspects of social cohesion in local government: Exploratory case studies of the City of Cape Town and the City of Ekurhuleni
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
More than twenty-five years after the end of the apartheid system of government and its
statutory segregation, South African communities continue to reflect high levels of racial and
social divisions. The prevalence of ...